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No sign of new protests in Iran as a hard-line cleric calls for executions and threatens Trump 01/16/2026 07:40pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump ��� evidence of the rage gripping a No. 1 Indiana looking for a storybook ending to complete this real-life Hollywood script at Miami 01/16/2026 06:09pm • Long before Angelo Pizzo penned the scripts for two of America's most iconic sports movies, he and his father would make the one-block walk from their home to Indiana's football stadium. The strolls home usually seemed to take a bit longer because even then, in 1955, losses were the norm. Eventually Trump thanks Iran for not following through on executions of political prisoners 01/16/2026 03:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said was meant to be hundreds of political prisoners. ���Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people,��� Trump told reporters while leavin Uganda's president leads in tense election marred by internet shutdown and voting interference 01/16/2026 02:17pm • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled the country for 40 years, had an early lead Friday in a tense presidential election marred by an internet shutdown, voting delays and opposition allegations of ballot stuffing and detentions by security forces. Provisional re She set a photo afire, lit a cigarette ��� and became a symbol of resistance for Iran protesters 01/16/2026 09:10am • LONDON (AP) ��� With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent ��� and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in recent days shows the woman ��� who described herself as an Iranian refugee ��� snapping open Delays plague voting in Uganda's presidential election 01/15/2026 09:34pm • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ��� Uganda���s presidential election was plagued by widespread delays Thursday in addition to a days-long internet shutdown that has been criticized as an anti-democratic tactic in a country where the president has held office since 1986. Some polling stations remained closed fo 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 Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday 01/15/2026 08:26pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary. The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed up AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and France's Brazil's Supreme Court moves Bolsonaro to larger cell with outdoor area 01/15/2026 05:52pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice on Thursday ordered the transfer of former President Jair Bolsonaro from the federal police headquarters in Brasilia to a much bigger cell with an outside area in the Papuda Penitentiary Complex, also in the capital. The transfer was describe 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 Tanzania president remorseful over internet shutdown on election day 01/15/2026 04:29pm • DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) ��� Tanzania���s president has, for the first time since the disputed October election, commented on a six-day internet shutdown as the country went through its worst postelection violence. President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Thursday expressed ���sympathy��� to diplomats and fore What to know about UK legal changes aiming to regulate AI-generated nude images 01/15/2026 01:14pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Laws that will make it illegal to create online sexual images of someone without their consent are coming into force soon in the U.K., officials said Thursday, following a global backlash over the use of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to make sexualized deepfakes of Exiled crown prince���s plan for Iran is mostly aimed at Trump, experts say 01/15/2026 12:59pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� No pursuit of nuclear weapons. Confronting drug trafficking. An immediate recognition of the state of Israel. Exporting copious amounts of oil and gas. Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi laid out his aspirations Thursday for Iran if its theocracy is toppled ��� and experts sa Verizon says hourslong outage that disrupted calling and data services has been resolved 01/15/2026 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Verizon said it resolved an outage that disrupted many U.S. customers' calling and other cellular services for more than 10 hours on Wednesday. The New York-based carrier didn't specify what caused Wednesday's disruptions, but confirmed that the outage was resolved by 10:20 p.m. ET Beware of online ads with elaborate backstories. They may not be from a real small business 01/15/2026 09:25am • Melia & Co appears to be a small family-run business. The sweaters on its website feature a photo of a woman hand-knitting a Christmas design. The caption says that after decades of creating knitwear that tells "quiet stories of care and beauty,��� she is closing her little studio and the pieces