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A South Korean court sentences Yoon to 5 years in prison on charges related to martial law decree 01/16/2026 09:05am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other allegations. Yoon was impeached, arrested and dismissed as pre Ukraine’s battered power grid faces unprecedented challenge, energy minister says 01/16/2026 08:17am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has not spared a single Ukrainian power plant from attack since its all-out invasion, Ukraine’s new energy minister said Friday, as a recent escalation of aerial bombardments left hundreds of thousands of people without heat or light for days during the coldest winter Venezuela’s new leader calls for opening oil industry to foreign investment and warmer US ties 01/15/2026 10:50pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez used her first state of the union message Thursday to advocate for opening the crucial state-run oil industry to more foreign investment following the Trump administration's pledge to seize control of Venezuelan crude sales. Explosion damages homes and injures at least 4 in the Netherlands 01/15/2026 10:35pm • UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — An explosion on a residential street in the center of the Dutch city of Utrecht injured at least four people Thursday, an emergency services official said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. The explosion, which caused a fire and widespread damage, sent p Federal immigration agents filmed dragging a woman from her car in Minneapolis 01/15/2026 09:44pm • A U.S. citizen on her way to a medical appointment in Minneapolis was dragged out of her car and detained by immigration officers, according to a statement released by the woman on Thursday, after a video of her arrest drew millions of views on social media. Aliya Rahman said she was brought to a de The Latest: UN Security Council discusses Iran's deadly protests after US request 01/15/2026 09:20pm • The U.N. Security Council in an emergency meeting Thursday discussed Iran's deadly protests at the request of the United States, even as President Donald Trump left unclear what actions he would take against the Islamic Republic. Tehran appeared to make conciliatory statements in the lead up to the US warns Iran that 'all options are on the table' in emergency UN meeting 01/15/2026 08:35pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After weeks of escalating tension, U.S. and Iranian officials faced each other Thursday at the U.N. Security Council, where America's envoy renewed threats against the Islamic Republic despite President Donald Trump's efforts to lower the temperature between the two adversari Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA's first medical evacuation 01/15/2026 08:29pm • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 1 NYC nurses on strike resume negotiations with hospitals on 4th day 01/15/2026 07:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York City nurses on strike resumed negotiations with hospital administrators Thursday to try to bring an end to the city's biggest walkout of its kind in decades. The New York State Nurses Association said its bargaining members began meeting with their counterparts at NewYork- What Is Life Like in Assisted Living? 01/15/2026 07:00pm • Sandi Mitchell says her days in assisted living include a 10 a.m. exercise class, arts and crafts activities, music, singing, dancing and plenty of socializing with new friends. In July of 2025, Mitchell joined the Benchmark Waltham Crossings property, an assisted living and memory care community in 7 Best Energy ETFs to Buy Now 01/15/2026 07:00pm • 2026 began with a dramatic upheaval in geopolitics. On Jan. 3, U.S. special operations forces executed a predawn military operation in Caracas that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, flying him to New York to face federal drug-trafficking and terrorism charges. President Donald Trump pub Matthew Stafford and Rams visit Caleb Williams and Bears in matchup of high-powered offenses 01/15/2026 06:58pm • Los Angeles Rams (13-5) at Chicago (12-6) Sunday, 6:30 p.m. EST, NBC. BetMGM NFL odds: Rams by 3 1/2. Against the spread: Rams 12-6; Bears 10-7-1. Series record: Bears lead 55-39-3. Last meeting: Bears beat Rams 24-18 at Chicago on Sept. 29, 2024. Last week: Rams won at Carolina 34-31; Bears beat Gr Aggressive tactics used on Minneapolis protesters raise concerns about federal officer training 01/15/2026 05:58pm • Federal immigration agents deployed to Minneapolis have used aggressive crowd-control tactics that have become a dominant concern in the aftermath of the deadly shooting of a woman in her car last week. They have pointed rifles at demonstrators and deployed chemical irritants early in confrontations First child death reported from flu this season in Virginia 01/15/2026 05:36pm • Flu season has taken a grim turn in Virginia, as the state's health department has reported the first death of a child caused by complications associated with influenza. In order to protect the family's privacy, the only information the Virginia Department of Health is releasing about the child i What you need to know about Grok and the controversies surrounding it 01/15/2026 05:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk's Grok keeps getting into trouble, and this time, more of the world's governments are trying to intervene. First launched in 2023, Grok is Musk’s attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in building an AI assistant powered by a large lan