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Lead Dozens of Washington restaurants, bars and chefs were named semifinalists for the 2026 James Beard Awards, the foundation’s annual recognition of U.S. culinary achievement. The list, announced this spring, includes nominees from across the Seattle region and Southwest Washington. Finalists will be revealed on March 31, and the awards ceremony is scheduled for June … Read more

Early on Saturday, Kyiv endured one of its heaviest missile assaults in months as air-raid sirens and explosions ripped through the capital just hours after Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. delegations opened trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi. Reporters sheltering overnight described the barrage as “very, very massive,” while city residents faced renewed power outages and disruptions … Read more

Lead Speculation intensified on Jan. 23–24, 2026 that Japanese authorities might prepare to buy yen to stop its recent slide, potentially with rare U.S. coordination. On Friday, the yen jumped as much as 1.75% to 155.63 per dollar, its strongest intraday level of the year. The move marked the largest one-day rally since August and … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 24, 2026, Delta Air Lines announced additional schedule changes tied to Winter Storm Fern that will affect Atlanta and parts of the U.S. Northeast this weekend. The carrier warned of cancellations and encouraged customers traveling in affected areas to move flights before or after the storm; ice is expected in Atlanta on … Read more

Lead: An El Paso County autopsy has ruled that the Jan. 3 death of 55-year-old Cuban immigrant Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana, an ICE tent facility near El Paso, was a homicide. The deputy medical examiner determined the cause as “asphyxia due to neck and torso compression.” Campos, who was in ICE custody … Read more

Lead: At the Sundance Film Festival premiere in Park City, Aidan Zamiri’s The Moment debuted as a self-aware mockumentary centering Charli XCX as a fictionalized pop star navigating the fallout of 2024’s “brat summer.” The film, screened at the Eccles Theatre in the festival’s Premieres strand, stages a collision between arena-level ambition and shrinking creative … Read more

On January 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said federal officers made multiple arrests in Minnesota as part of Operation Metro Surge, detaining individuals it described as some of the ‘worst of the worst.’ DHS named convicted pedophiles, sexual predators and drug traffickers among those taken into custody and called on state and … Read more

Lead: On January 23 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga defeated Joe Gacy and Dexter Lumis to win the WWE Tag Team Championship on WWE SmackDown. The victory ended the Wyatt Sicks’ near-200-day reign, which began when Gacy and Lumis recaptured the belts in July from the Street Profits. The decisive sequence … Read more

Lead At a T-Mobile Arena media event in Las Vegas ahead of UFC 324 on Saturday, Britain s Paddy Pimblett said he expects to stop Justin Gaethje early, insisting his unpredictable style makes him a tougher matchup than Khabib Nurmagomedov. Gaethje, a former interim titleholder, accused Pimblett of overconfidence and said he will need to … Read more

In a recent segment of NFL Media’s ‘The Insiders,’ Tom Pelissero provided an update on the Atlanta Falcons’ ongoing search for a general manager while colleagues Ian Rapoport and Judy Battista joined the discussion. The episode also devoted significant time to Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula’s post-firing press conference after the dismissal of head coach … Read more

Lead On January 22, 2026, Capital One agreed to buy fintech Brex for $5.15 billion in cash and stock, a deal disclosed first by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by Capital One roughly 30 minutes later. The purchase price is under half of Brex’s $12.3 billion private valuation from its 2022 Series D-2 round, … Read more

Chinese state media reported on January 24, 2026 that Zhang Youxia, a top general and Politburo member, is under formal investigation by party authorities in a move that deepens an unprecedented review of senior military leadership. Zhang, who has served as vice chairman of the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission since 2017, is accused of … Read more

Lead As delegations from the United States, Russia and Ukraine met in Abu Dhabi in January 2026 for their first trilateral talks since the full-scale invasion, all sides identified one remaining sticking point: territory. The contested area is the Donbas — the coal- and industry-rich eastern region comprising Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky … Read more

Rheumatoid arthritis affects more than 18 million people globally, including nearly 1.5 million in the United States, and has no known cure. Recent research has identified a preclinical window—often three to five years or longer before swollen joints appear—during which blood autoantibodies like rheumatoid factor and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) can be detected. Investigators are … Read more

Renée Fleming announced she will not perform at upcoming Kennedy Center concerts after stepping down as an artistic adviser on Jan. 23, 2026. Her withdrawal comes amid a high-profile reshaping of the center’s leadership that critics link to President Trump’s influence. Fleming said she values the Kennedy Center’s bipartisan support and expressed hope the institution … Read more