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Lead: The New York Mets agreed Friday morning with free agent infielder Bo Bichette on a three-year contract worth $126 million, sources reported. The deal carries a $42 million annual value, includes full no-trade protection and gives Bichette opt-outs after both the first and second seasons with $5 million paid if he exercises either one. … Read more

Lead Taylor Sheridan’s new family drama The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell, will debut on Paramount+ on March 14, with the first season running six episodes. Paramount+ has also circulated first-look images from the series, which follows the Clyburn family as they move from Manhattan to the Madison River valley in central Montana. … Read more

Lead: Since September, the Trump administration struck agreements with 16 major pharmaceutical companies intended to secure lower prices for some Americans. On Sept. 30 Pfizer’s chief executive joined the White House announcement; the full terms of the deals have not been released. Despite those pacts, pharmaceutical companies raised list prices on a wide set of … Read more

Shares of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk climbed more than 5% on Friday after early U.S. prescription data suggested an encouraging start for Wegovy’s new oral formulation. The pill began commercial availability on Jan. 5 following U.S. approval in late December, and preliminary datasets for the week ending Jan. 9 show thousands of prescriptions filled. Analysts … Read more

Lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held roughly 73,000 people in custody as of Thursday, January 2026, the largest detainee population in the agency’s 23-year history. Internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) figures obtained by CBS News show an 84% increase from the same time in 2025, when the population was below 40,000. The … Read more

Lead NASA will resume active attempts to contact the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, MAVEN, on Jan. 16 after a solar conjunction paused communications. The orbiter went silent after passing behind Mars on Dec. 6 and has not responded since, despite repeated contact efforts and imaging tries from the surface. Telemetry before the blackout … Read more

On January 15, 2026, U.S. equity benchmarks traded unevenly as President Donald Trump’s comments about a potential Federal Reserve succession roiled markets. The S&P 500 ticked up about 0.2% intraday but remained set for a small weekly loss, while the Dow held near flat and the Nasdaq rose roughly 0.2%. Traders reacted after Trump said … Read more

Lead: On 16 January 2026, President Donald Trump renewed public pressure for U.S. control of Greenland, saying he might impose tariffs on countries that do not support Washington’s claim. The remarks came as an 11-member bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation visited Copenhagen to defuse tensions with Denmark and Greenland. Trump framed Greenland as essential to U.S. … Read more

Novo Nordisk launched an oral version of its GLP-1 drug Wegovy early this month and recorded 3,071 U.S. prescriptions in the first four days of commercial availability, according to Barclays analysts as reported by Reuters. The figure reflects prescribing activity during the initial commercial rollout in the United States and was disclosed to the market … Read more

Lead: Verizon says it will issue a $20 credit after a widespread service outage on Wednesday that generated more than 1.5 million reports on Downdetector and lasted for hours. The carrier initially announced the credit on X, then clarified customers can redeem it through the myVerizon app or via customer service. Engadget editors began receiving … Read more

Kyle Tucker, widely regarded as the top available position player in this winter’s free-agent class, agreed to a four-year, $240 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, league sources told The Athletic and The New York Times. The contract includes opt-outs after the second and third seasons and $30 million in deferred payments—$10 … Read more

Lead: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado presented her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to U.S. President Donald Trump after a White House meeting on January 15, 2026, in Washington, D.C. The gesture — framed by Machado as a public expression of gratitude for U.S. support following a January 3 operation that removed President Nicolás … Read more

Lead On Wednesday afternoon in a wood‑panelled parliamentary room, Robert Jenrick sat with Kemi Badenoch and other shadow cabinet colleagues discussing foreign policy; he appeared upbeat. Within 24 hours a draft of a secret defection speech, leaked from inside Jenrick’s Commons office at about 17:00 GMT, prompted Badenoch to suspend and sack him from the … Read more

Lead On Friday morning Cumberland County District Attorney Jacqueline Sartoris withdrew a planned joint news conference with Portland Mayor Mark Dion after the Maine Judicial Branch advised caution, citing court-security concerns. The event, set for 10 a.m. at the Cumberland County Courthouse, was intended to address reports of possible U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) … Read more

Lead: Ashley St Clair, who has said she is the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, filed a lawsuit in New York on Thursday accusing xAI of producing and distributing sexually explicit deepfakes of her via the Grok AI tool on X. The complaint alleges Grok generated non‑consensual images — including edits from a … Read more