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Lead US President Donald Trump announced an increase in tariffs on South Korean imports from 15% to 25%, declaring Seoul had failed to implement a trade deal reached last October. The move, made via a social media post, targets a range of products including automobiles, lumber and pharmaceuticals and says it applies to “all other … Read more

Lead China this weekend removed one of the People’s Liberation Army’s most senior officers, 75-year-old General Zhang Youxia, along with General Liu Zhenli, prompting an unprecedented shrinkage of the Central Military Commission (CMC). The CMC, normally a body of around seven members that directs China’s armed forces, now lists only President Xi Jinping and General … Read more

Lead Apple’s next Pro iPhone line is set for its most visible screen change in years, sources say, with a notably smaller Dynamic Island and brighter displays hinted across the 2026 iPhone 18 family. Leaks posted and aggregated on Jan. 26, 2026 indicate the Dynamic Island cutout on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max … Read more

In the weeks after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, multiple national polls found a broad public backlash against ICE tactics and the Trump administration’s immigration approach. Surveys conducted in the first half of January show a majority of voters saying ICE enforcement has … Read more

On Saturday, Jan. 24, Nicki Minaj confirmed she will appear alongside former President Donald Trump at a summit set for Wednesday at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The event, according to the announcement Minaj reposted on X, will feature Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the main speakers and is billed to introduce … Read more

Lead Three people—Jacqui Furneaux, Angela Tilley and Ed Stewart—describe how abrupt, traumatic and unconventional turning points remade their lives. Their stories span decades and settings: Jacqui left Bristol at 49 and spent seven years travelling across Asia; Angela’s ordeal began at 16 and gradually produced agoraphobia before a practical solution reopened her world; Ed was … Read more

Lead A private Bombardier Challenger 600 jet linked to Houston law firm Arnold & Itkin crashed in the Bangor, Maine area after attempting to depart for France on Sunday evening, and officials say all six people on board are presumed dead. The aircraft had arrived earlier in Maine after departing Hobby Airport in Houston, according … Read more

Lead Google is adding a Gemini-powered scheduling tool to Google Calendar that proposes meeting slots based on attendees’ marked availability. The new “Suggested times” option analyzes calendar entries and potential conflicts when an organizer creates an event, returning a shortlist of candidate time slots. If several invitees decline, the organizer can open the event to … Read more

Lead: In October Neil Young reiterated his decision to remove his recordings from Amazon and said he will not make them available while the company remains under Jeff Bezos’s ownership. This week Young made a separate move by offering free access to his complete catalog and archival material to residents of Greenland via the Neil … Read more

Researchers reported on Jan. 26, 2026, that cuttlefish produce skin patterns that encode the orientation of light waves—polarization—that are invisible to human eyes but visible to polarization-sensitive animals. The finding, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led in part by Arata Nakayama of National Taiwan Normal University and documented … Read more

Lead: A large UK study of nearly 125,000 women, including roughly 11,000 who had MRI scans, found that menopause is associated with loss of grey matter in brain areas commonly affected in Alzheimer’s disease. Published in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers report reductions in regions tied to memory, spatial navigation and emotion regulation. Hormone replacement … Read more

Lead As of Jan. 26, 2026, weather teams are flagging the potential for a powerful coastal storm to affect Massachusetts late this week into the weekend. Forecast models place the system several days away from formation — roughly 5–6 days out — and emphasize that multiple scenarios remain plausible. If the pieces align, the event … Read more

Lead: USA TODAY Co., the parent company of the Detroit Free Press, announced on Jan. 26, 2026, that it has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and expects to complete the deal by the end of January. The companies say The News will continue to publish separately … Read more

Lead On Jan. 26, 2026, after federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old intensive-care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a sharp split opened between Silicon Valley’s corporate leaders and many of their employees. While several top executives attended a Washington screening tied to the Trump White House, engineers, investors and other tech workers mobilized online … Read more

Lead New research published in Annals of Internal Medicine finds that nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s databases that were updated at least monthly at the start of 2025 stopped receiving timely updates by October. At the beginning of 2025 the CDC maintained 82 monthly-updated systems; by late October 38 had … Read more