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In La Quinta, California on Friday, 18-year-old Blades Brown vaulted up the leaderboard in just his 10th PGA Tour start, carding a 12-under 60 in the second round of The American Express to sit tied with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler after 36 holes. Brown’s round set a Nicklaus Tournament course record at PGA West … Read more

Lead: The Seattle Mariners have acquired right-hander Cooper Criswell from the New York Mets in exchange for cash considerations, the club announced in late January 2026. The move follows Criswell’s designation for assignment after the Mets added Freddy Peralta and Tobias Myers; Seattle designated left-hander Jhonathan Díaz as the corresponding roster move. Criswell, 29, profiles … Read more

Lead Goldman Sachs disclosed on January 23, 2026, that Chief Executive Officer David Solomon received a total pay package valued at $47 million, the largest award of his tenure. The board set a $2 million base salary and a $45 million bonus delivered as shares, cash and carried interest, according to a company filing referenced … Read more

Lead Neo Langston, a 23-year-old associate of musician D4vd, was arrested in Helena, Montana on Jan. 22, 2026, on an out-of-jurisdiction warrant from Los Angeles for failure to appear as a witness. Local authorities say Lewis & Clark County officers assisted the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division in the arrest and that Langston is … Read more

A vast winter system moving east this weekend will threaten roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population with heavy snow, widespread freezing rain and record-biting cold, stretching more than 2,000 miles from Texas to New England. Officials warned of crippling ice accumulations in southern zones that could down power lines and trees, leaving hundreds of thousands … Read more

Lead Major US platforms and Fortune 500 firms are increasingly integrating Chinese open-source AI models into production systems, a shift visible since the launch of DeepSeek R-1 in January 2025. Companies including Pinterest and Airbnb say these models deliver comparable accuracy at far lower cost, and developers are downloading Chinese models in high volumes from … Read more

Lead Between sustained success and a clear reset, the Seattle Seahawks moved from the Legion of Boom era to a rebuilt roster that reached the NFC title conversation. The team’s run of five straight postseason appearances with playoff wins and two Super Bowl trips was interrupted after a 9–7 campaign in 2017; following another run … Read more

Lead On Jan. 23, 2026, an FBI supervisory agent in Minneapolis resigned after she says she was discouraged from pursuing a civil-rights inquiry into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis. The agent, Tracee Mergen, stepped down after what she and two people familiar with … Read more

January 23, 2026 — Japanese financial markets saw abrupt dislocation this week as a sharp bond sell-off pushed yields to fresh highs after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi floated tax cuts on food tied to an election push. The move reversed a strong start to the year for stocks that had been buoyed by bets Ms. … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 23, 2026, Meta said it is temporarily blocking teen accounts from accessing AI characters across all of its apps worldwide as it rebuilds an updated experience. The company said the pause will affect accounts that list teen birthdays and users flagged as likely teens by age prediction tools. Meta framed the change … Read more

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, 38, has disclosed a recent cervical cancer scare after a doctor told her cancerous cells were found at the top of her cervix following a colposcopy and biopsy. She says a cone biopsy under anesthesia is next and a hysterectomy could be necessary if further testing confirms persistent abnormal tissue. Polizzi, a … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 23, 2026, thousands of people flooded streets across Minneapolis and St. Paul as hundreds of locally owned businesses shut for the day to protest a months-long federal immigration enforcement operation. Demonstrations, which unfolded in subzero temperatures, aimed to force federal authorities to withdraw immigration agents who have been active in the Twin … Read more

TR-49, released by Inkle, is a compact interactive-fiction experience that converts the act of scholarly digging into gameplay. Played from a first-person seat at a sepia-tinted terminal, the game asks players to enter four-character catalog codes to reveal archive entries and marginalia. Over roughly four to five hours a determined player can map out a … Read more

Three days into a federal immigration operation in Maine, the Department of Homeland Security told the Guardian on Friday, 23 January 2026, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had detained “more than 100” people in Portland and Lewiston. DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin said some arrestees were among “the worst of the worst” and had … Read more

Lead: At the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Jared Kushner presented a blueprint to transform Gaza into a modern coastal economy with high-rises, a new port and tourist zones — provided there is lasting security. He argued large-scale rebuilding could proceed rapidly, even suggesting Middle Eastern cities have been rebuilt in as little … Read more