Sources: Former Auburn QB Deuce Knight Signs With Ole Miss

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Lead: Former Auburn quarterback Deuce Knight signed with Ole Miss on Sunday, multiple sources told ESPN, adding a possible starter to the No. 6 Rebels’ quarterback room as the school appeals a denied eligibility waiver for starter Trinidad Chambliss. Knight, a 6-foot-4, 217-pound native of Lucedale, Mississippi and a top Class of 2025 dual-threat recruit, … Read more

Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Leads for Fourth Weekend With $21 Million as ‘Primate’ Debuts to $11 Million – Variety

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James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash held the No. 1 spot for a fourth straight weekend, earning an estimated $21.3 million from 3,700 theaters between Friday and Sunday and lifting its domestic total to $342.6 million and its global cume to $1.23 billion. Newcomer Primate opened strongly in second place with about $11.3 million from … Read more

‘We hope they will give us heat’: Kyiv endures bitter winter as Russian strikes target energy

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On Sunday, January 11, 2026, Ukrainian authorities raced to restore power and heating after a week of intense Russian strikes left tens of thousands without service amid daytime lows near -10C (14F). Kyiv officials said heating was back in roughly 85% of apartment blocks a day after the capital experienced a near-total outage of electricity, … Read more

Administration Reimposes 7‑Day Notice for Congressional Visits to ICE Facilities

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Lead On Jan. 8, the Department of Homeland Security issued a policy requiring members of Congress to provide seven days’ notice before visiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention sites, and filed the rule in federal court the following day. The move reinstates a restriction that a Washington, D.C., federal judge blocked in December after finding … Read more

Sen. Rand Paul warns bombing Iran ‘not the answer’ to protests against regime

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Lead On Jan. 11, 2026, Republican Sen. Rand Paul told ABC News that U.S. military strikes on Iran would likely produce unintended consequences and are not the right response to protests inside the country. Speaking on This Week, Paul said threats to bomb Iran—made this week by President Donald Trump if Tehran killed protesters—risk strengthening … Read more

Google’s AI Inbox Could Be a Glimpse of Gmail’s Future

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Lead This week Google unveiled an experimental “AI Inbox” for Gmail that replaces the conventional chronological message list with an AI-curated set of to-dos and topical summaries drawn from a user’s mail. The feature is currently limited to a small group of “trusted testers” and works only with consumer Gmail accounts, not Workspace. In short … Read more

Peter Thiel Donates $3 Million to Oppose Proposed California Wealth Tax

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Venture capitalist Peter Thiel gave $3 million on Dec. 29 to a committee aligned with business groups seeking to block a proposed California ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires. The contribution, disclosed publicly in January 2026, went to Californians Against Higher Taxes, a committee run by the California Business Roundtable. Organizers … Read more

BRICS Naval Drills Near South Africa: Why They Matter and Why India Sat Out

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Lead The weeklong “Will for Peace 2026” naval exercises began on 9 January 2026 off Simon’s Town, South Africa, with warships from China, Russia, Iran and South Africa taking part. Organizers say the drills focus on rescue, maritime strike and technical exchanges and are intended to reassure shipping lanes amid rising global maritime tensions. India … Read more

Monumental tomb discovered in Turkey might be of royal from King Midas’ kingdom

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Lead: Archaeologists have uncovered a monumental tumulus at Karaağaç in northwestern Turkey that dates to the late eighth century B.C. The burial mound, rising more than 100 feet (30 m) above the surrounding plain and crowned by an internal wooden-chamber tomb, contained high-quality grave goods dated to about 740–690 B.C. Excavators say the architecture and … Read more

How ICE Raids in Minnesota Tie to a Years-Old Feeding Our Future Fraud

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Lead: In early January, the Department of Homeland Security surged more than 2,000 agents into the Twin Cities as part of what officials called the largest DHS operation ever, citing immigration enforcement and fraud investigations. The deployment followed renewed attention to a multi-year fraud probe tied to Feeding Our Future, a Minneapolis nonprofit accused of … Read more

Donald Trump won’t take Greenland by force, Lord Mandelson says – BBC

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Lead Lord Mandelson told the BBC that he does not expect US President Donald Trump to mount a military seizure of Greenland, arguing advisers would warn that such a move would harm US interests and Nato cohesion. The comments came after renewed public focus on Greenland this weekend, following Trump’s remarks that the US should … Read more

Bride and Groom Killed by Gas Explosion in Islamabad

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Lead: A gas-cylinder explosion at a house in Islamabad at 07:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Sunday killed eight people, including a newlywed couple, and injured more than a dozen, police said. The couple had been sleeping in the home after their wedding celebration the previous day when the blast caused the roof to collapse … Read more