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Lead: Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) has begun a trial production run of the Afeela 1 sedan at Honda’s East Liberty, Ohio plant, the company announced in mid‑2026. The initial batch is described as a preparatory run ahead of mass production, with customer deliveries slated to start in mid‑2026 and a Signature trim priced at $102,900. … Read more

Lead At CES 2026 in Las Vegas on 5 January, LEGO introduced a 2×4 “smart brick” that embeds code to light up, make sounds and interact with other pieces. The company demonstrated the brick triggering quacks from a LEGO duck and mood sounds from a minifigure struck in a demo, and said the technology senses … Read more

On Dec. 30, 2025, investigators say dentist Spencer Tepe, 37, and his wife Monique, 39, were found shot to death in their Near East Side home in downtown Columbus. Police believe the fatal shootings occurred between roughly 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.; officers discovered the couple later that morning during a welfare check. Surveillance footage … Read more

Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby reacted to the team’s decision to dismiss coach Pete Carroll on Monday during the latest episode of the Let’s Go! podcast. Crosby said he learned of the move while at the team facility and watching it appear on television, calling the moment “kind of gloomy.” He praised Carroll’s long coaching … Read more

Lead Tony Dokoupil’s arrival as anchor of the CBS Evening News was marked by a hastened on‑air debut and an official first broadcast on Jan. 5 that together drew sharp questions about editorial judgment and newsroom direction. The former morning co‑anchor, who has been with CBS since 2019, opened his tenure with segments that foregrounded … Read more

James Cameron’s Avatar saga has taken another major commercial step after the latest instalment, Fire and Ash, opened globally to around $340m and, following its third weekend, passed $1bn in ticket sales. That pattern of a modest debut followed by sustained box-office growth has repeatedly rescued the franchise from premature write-offs and now makes the … Read more

New York — President Donald Trump has signaled eagerness for U.S. companies to tap Venezuela’s vast petroleum reserves now that Caracas’s political landscape has shifted. Industry leaders and analysts contacted by reporters say private-sector decisionmakers are far more cautious, citing uncertain politics, degraded infrastructure and the financial scale required to revive operations. Executives warn that … Read more

Lead: At CES, Dell announced it is restoring the XPS brand with two new notebooks, the XPS 14 and XPS 16, returning a marquee name it retired last year. The move follows a 2025 rebranding that simplified Dell’s PC names and coincided with a decline in the company’s PC market share. The new models aim … Read more

Lead Derek Hough and his wife Hayley Erbert announced the arrival of their first child in a joint Instagram post on Jan. 5. The couple revealed their daughter’s name and birth date—December 29, 2025—alongside a black-and-white photo of the dancers cradling their newborn’s tiny feet. In the caption they wrote that parenthood has opened their … Read more

Illinois health officials announced the state’s first pediatric influenza death this season as flu activity in Illinois reached the CDC category of “Very High.” State and federal agencies say the current wave is driven primarily by a new H3N2 subclade dubbed “Subclade K,” and public-health leaders urged vaccination and basic precautions as emergency departments and … Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration announced on January 5, 2026, that it has selected RTX and Spain’s Indra to replace 612 radar units deployed across the United States that date back to the 1980s. The agencies said the contractors are expected to deliver new radar capability by the summer of 2028 as part of a broader, … Read more

Lead: At CES 2026 in early January, Dell revived the XPS brand and unveiled two new models, the XPS 14 and XPS 16, aiming to reclaim the line’s performance-focused identity. The machines emphasize thinner aluminum construction, dedicated function keys, etched trackpad boundaries, and Intel’s new Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 processors. Dell confirmed select … Read more

Lead At CES in Las Vegas on Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang introduced Alpamayo, a new open-source AI platform the company says adds human-like “reasoning” to autonomous vehicles. Nvidia demonstrated a driverless Mercedes‑Benz CLA running the system in a staged video and said the car will reach US roads in the coming months before wider … Read more

Doctors’ visits for influenza-like illness have reached levels not seen in nearly three decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, and cases appear likely to climb further in the coming weeks. For the week ending Dec. 27, roughly 8.2% of outpatient visits nationwide were for flu-like symptoms — the highest share recorded since … Read more

Lead: Venezuela’s National Assembly swore in Delcy Rodríguez as interim president on Monday after outgoing leader Nicolás Maduro was taken into US custody in an overnight operation and appeared in a New York federal court the same day. Rodríguez, 56, a vice‑president since 2018, called the seizure of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores a … Read more