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One year after the Jan. 7, 2025 wildfires that devastated large swaths of the Los Angeles area, rebuilding remains minimal: fewer than a dozen single-family houses in Los Angeles County have been completed. The fires — the Palisades and Eaton events — killed 31 people and destroyed about 13,000 homes and other residential properties. While … Read more

Lead Two people were killed and six others wounded after gunfire erupted outside a funeral at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel on Redwood Road in Salt Lake City Wednesday evening. Police received the call shortly after 7:30 p.m. local time and said shots were fired following an altercation in the chapel … Read more

Lead The Chicago Bears host the Green Bay Packers in an NFC wild card playoff game at Soldier Field on Saturday, Jan. 10, with kickoff scheduled for 7 p.m. CT. National television coverage is available on Prime Video and FOX32 in the Chicago area, while Sky Sports will carry the game in the U.K. Local … Read more

Lead: Spotify has introduced two social-features—Listening activity and Request to Jam—inside Messages to surface real-time listening and make it easier to start shared listening sessions. The updates expand on Messages, which launched last year and has since enabled nearly 40 million users to send about 340 million messages. Listening activity is opt-in and shows what … Read more

Lead AEW opens 2026 with a live Dynamite from the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Wednesday, January 7 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT. The card features a no‑rules Lights Out match pitting “Hangman” Adam Page and Swerve Strickland against HOOK and Powerhouse Hobbs, plus an AEW Continental Championship Eliminator between champion Jon Moxley … Read more

Lead: Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and Google have reached agreements to resolve multiple U.S. lawsuits alleging that the AI chatbot maker contributed to mental health crises and suicides among teenagers. Court filings in a case brought by Florida mother Megan Garcia show the settlement, and documents indicate four additional cases … Read more

Lead Glenn Hall, the Hall of Fame goaltender famed for an unmatched ironman run of 502 consecutive regular-season starts (552 including playoffs), died on Jan. 8, 2026, in a hospital in Stony Plain, Alberta. He was 94. Over an 18-season NHL career Hall won three Vezina Trophies, the Calder Trophy and the Conn Smythe Trophy, … Read more

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged US defence spending to be raised to $1.5 trillion by 2027, calling the move necessary for “these very troubled and dangerous times.” He proposed the increase from this year’s $901 billion budget, approved by Congress in December, and said higher tariffs could make the larger sum attainable. Trump … Read more

Lead: The Utah Mammoth will host the 2027 Discover NHL Winter Classic against the Colorado Avalanche at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, with the exact date to be announced. The announcement, made Jan. 7, 2026, marks a major milestone for the franchise that the NHL awarded on April 18, 2024. The outdoor game will … Read more

Lead On January 7, 2026, Apple announced that JPMorgan Chase will become the new issuer for the Apple Card in the United States. The company’s update reiterates that certain Apple financial services—such as Savings and Apple Cash—are connected with existing banking partners while regulatory and account terms remain in force. The notice sets out key … Read more

Lead South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said he asked Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Beijing summit on Monday to serve as a mediator to address the North Korean nuclear crisis and reduce tensions between the Koreas. Lee told reporters in Shanghai on Jan. 7, 2026, that Xi responded by urging patience. Lee framed … Read more

Lead Trae Young has been traded from the Atlanta Hawks to the Washington Wizards in a multi-player deal that sends CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert to Atlanta, sources told ESPN. The move ends Young’s more than seven-year run as the Hawks’ primary franchise player and sends the 27-year-old point guard to his preferred destination in … Read more

January 2026 — Tariff measures introduced since the start of President Trump’s second term have altered trade flows and investment decisions worldwide, and that process looks set to continue through 2026. The International Monetary Fund now flags the tariff shock as a factor in slowing projected global growth to 3.1% next year, down from its … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 6, 2026 — the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington — the White House published a new timeline that described that day’s pro-Trump marchers as “peaceful” and blamed Capitol Police for escalating violence. The administration’s page downplayed President Donald Trump’s pre-riot rhetoric, repeated a … Read more

Lead New analysis published in the British Medical Journal finds that people who stop weight‑loss injections such as Mounjaro or Wegovy regain weight about four times faster than those who abandon conventional dieting. The pooled data from trials show an average rebound of 0.8 kg per month after injections stop, which would typically return patients … Read more