Monday, January 15

🚨NATION

📌 Congress leaders agree on stopgap bill extending government funding to March (NPR)

📌 South braces for snow and ice as new storm collides with Arctic cold (CNN)

📌 Iowa principal who risked his life to protect students dies 10 days after high school shooting (NBC NEWS)

📌 Texas "physically barred" Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say (CBS NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Taiwanese voters dismisses Chinese warnings and hand ruling party another presidential election win (CNN)

📌 Denmark’s King Frederik X takes the throne after abdication of Queen (CNN)

📌 Volcano erupts in Iceland, flowing lava reaches fishing town (REUTERS)

📌 North Korea launches ballistic missile, thought capable of hitting distant US bases (NPR)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Peregrine moon lander heads back toward Earth and should burn up in the atmosphere (NPR)

📌 Biotech and pharma companies are betting on a promising class of cancer drugs to drive growth (CNBC)

📌 Alaska Airlines begins preliminary inspections on its grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 fleet (FOX BUSINESS)

📌 Hertz dumping 20,000 electric cars from fleet in massive selloff (FOX NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 'Mean Girls' is the Queen Bee of the box office, opens to $28 million (CNBC)

📌 Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes has helmet shattered during playoff game vs. Miami (AP)

📌 Ellen DeGeneres says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle adopted one of her chickens (PEOPLE)

📌 Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy declares for NFL draft (NBC NEWS)