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Lead: On Jan. 17, during Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update at Studio 8H, co-anchor Colin Jost joked about his wife Scarlett Johansson after reports said Zoe Saldaña had become the highest-grossing actress of all time. The on-air gag showed a bar graph of box-office totals and briefly adjusted Johansson’s displayed total when Jost quipped about … Read more

Lead: The PlayStation 3, first released in 2006 as the seventh-generation PlayStation and the first console to support Blu-ray, is now roughly two decades old. If your PS3 still powers on, it can be more than a retro games shelf — it can stream, serve, emulate or be cannibalized for parts. Some options are simple … Read more

January 18, 2026 — European and US futures fell and haven assets strengthened after President Donald Trump proposed new tariffs on eight countries that opposed his proposed acquisition of Greenland, a move that rattled global markets and weighed on risk sentiment into the next trading day. The announcement coincided with a weaker dollar against most … Read more

Lead: On 7 January 2026 in Minneapolis, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News the US Department of Justice is “not investigating” the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent, Jonathan Ross. The killing — recorded on at least five phones, including one held by the agent — took place less than … Read more

On Jan. 18, 2026, authorities in Guatemala said gang-linked reprisals following a prison crackdown left police officers dead and dozens of hostages involved in a multi-site crisis across the country. Security forces entered Renovacion I maximum-security prison in Escuintla at dawn and said they freed nine hostages while detaining an alleged Barrio 18 leader. In … Read more

Lead Quarterback C.J. Stroud entered the 2025-26 NFL postseason as a leading young signal-caller and a relatively reliable ball‑handler for the Houston Texans. Over 14 regular-season games he was credited with 10 turnovers (eight interceptions and two fumbles), helping Houston close the year on a nine‑game winning streak. In the wild‑card round at Pittsburgh and … Read more

On Jan. 18, 2026, U.S. federal authorities quietly started seeking volunteers to travel to Minneapolis for short-term duty, according to people familiar with the outreach. The bureau sent messages in recent days to agents across the country inviting temporary transfers to the city but did not specify duties. Those messages, the people said, made no … Read more

In the late evening of Sunday, Jan. 18, a high-speed train derailed near Adamuz, in southern Spain, and its trailing cars struck an oncoming high-speed service, killing at least 21 people and injuring at least 73, officials said. The collision occurred at about 7:45 p.m. local time on the main high-speed line linking southern Andalucía … Read more

On Sunday morning, Jan. 18, 2026, a warming fire from a homeless encampment ignited the exterior wall of the Red Robin restaurant in Portland’s Lloyd District on Northeast Grand Avenue, Portland Fire & Rescue said. Fire crews opened the restaurant wall and extinguished the blaze before it could spread through the building. A cleaning crew … Read more

Jan. 18, 2026 — The NFC divisional game at Soldier Field between the Chicago Bears and the Los Angeles Rams reached overtime after a 17-17 tie in regulation. Chicago, playing at home and seeking its first conference championship-game berth since 2010, exchanged momentum with Los Angeles throughout the night; the winner will travel to Seattle … Read more

Lead: Deadly wildfires tore through central and southern Chile on Sunday, killing at least 18 people, scorching roughly 8,500 hectares (21,000 acres) and destroying hundreds of homes as a persistent heat wave worsened fire behavior. President Gabriel Boric declared a state of catastrophe for the Biobío and Ñuble regions, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) south … Read more

Lead: Two minutes of in-engine footage from ZeniMax Online Studio’s cancelled MMO, Project Blackbird, surfaced online on January 18, 2026. Insider Gaming says the clip is authentic and was an internal Unreal Engine 4 lighting demonstration. Microsoft cancelled Blackbird in July 2025 amid a wave of layoffs and studio restructuring. The cancellation previously led to … Read more

President Donald Trump announced plans to sign an executive order intended to block other football broadcasts from airing opposite the annual Army–Navy Game, saying the measure would preserve what he called one of the nation’s most treasured sporting traditions. The declaration, posted on Truth Social on Jan. 17, 2026, signals an unusually direct White House … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 18, 2026, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem denied on CBS’s Face the Nation that federal agents had used pepper spray or similar chemical agents against protesters in Minnesota, then revised her remarks after being shown video evidence. A federal judge in Minnesota had issued an injunction finding chemical agents were used at … Read more

Light snow moved through New York City on Saturday afternoon, producing isolated slick spots and up to about an inch of accumulation in some neighborhoods, mostly north and northwest of Manhattan. The National Weather Service meteorologist Jay Engle flagged the lighter band that moved through Saturday and warned a stronger system is expected to arrive … Read more