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Speed Read

Thursday, January 15

🚨NATION

  • Democrat blasts HHS for creating confusion in cutting, then reinstating grants for substance abuse and mental health programs (CNN)

  • Appeals court says judge had no jurisdiction to order Mahmoud Khalil’s release (ABC)

  • ​​ICE deputy director resigns from agency to run for Congress (FOX)

  • Brazilian au pair testifies against former employer and lover who murdered wife and stranger in Virginia (CBS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

  • Pro-regime protesters in Iran hold Trump assassination attempt photo, chant ‘death to America,’ state media shows (FOX)

  • British veterans aged 65 told to prepare for war (THE TELEGRAPH)

  • Another construction crane collapse in Thailand kills 2 people a day after deadly train derailment (NBC)

  • More than 4.7m social media accounts blocked after Australia’s under-16 ban came into force, PM says (GUARDIAN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

  • Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday (AP)

  • Verizon to issue $20 credits to customers affected by cell service outage (NBC)

  • After a medical evacuation from space, NASA’s Crew-11 returns to Earth a month early (NPR)

  • OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT Translate’ opens and challenges Google Translate (VERGE)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

  • Many college players among 20 charged in point-shaving scheme (ESPN)

  • Harry Styles announces music return with fourth solo album ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally’ (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

  • Mattel partners with author Alex Aster Announces New Barbie YA Novel (PEOPLE)

  • Woman who claimed to be Freddie Mercury’s secret daughter dead at 48 (E!)


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