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In Scotland, fishing trawlers scrape the seabed despite protection promises 01/22/2026 10:46pm • KYLEAKIN, Scotland (AP) — Bally Philp hauls up his baited traps from the waters off Scotland’s Isle of Skye, checking each one methodically. Unlike most of Scotland’s coastline, these waters are protected from industrial fishing methods that have devastated seabeds elsewhere. But Philp, who’ Firefighters face attacks, drones and arsonists while battling deadly blazes in Chile 01/22/2026 10:06pm • FLORIDA, Chile (AP) — Firefighters and security forces battling blazes in Chile that have killed at least 21 people and ravaged swaths of forest this week faced other dangers, too, from attempted attacks to the threat of drone collisions. The flames, among the worst tragedies in the country’s r Ball back in starting lineup, helps spark fast start as the Hornets beat Magic 124-97 01/22/2026 09:41pm • ORLANDO (AP) — LaMelo Ball returned to Charlotte's starting lineup and had 16 points, seven assists and six rebounds as the Hornets beat the Orlando Magic 124-97 on Thursday night. Ball, who a night earlier had one of the worst shooting performances of his career when he came off the bench as part Sundance kicks off its last year in Utah with powerful premieres and tributes to Robert Redford 01/22/2026 09:40pm • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Robert Redford liked to say that everybody has a story. He’s not the only person who said it, but he is one of the few who did something to celebrate it, his daughter, Amy Redford, said Wednesday evening ahead of the Sundance Film Festival's opening day. Thanks to her fath Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church leads to arrests but no charges for journalist Don Lemon 01/22/2026 09:36pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A prominent civil rights attorney and at least two other people involved in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church have been arrested, Trump administration officials said Thursday, even as a judge rebuffed related charges against j Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day' 01/22/2026 07:16pm • DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted his European allies Thursday for what he portrayed as the continent’s slow, fragmented and inadequate response to Russia’s invasion nearly four years ago and its continued international aggression. Addressing the World E FAA is making the rules imposed after an airliner collided with an Army helicopter permanent 01/22/2026 07:14pm • The temporary rules imposed after last year's collision of an airliner and an Army helicopter to improve the safety of the crowded airspace around Washington, D.C. are being made permanent, the government announced Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration took steps to make sure that helicop Hundreds of pet rats need new homes after they were found in condemned house in New York 01/22/2026 07:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Animal rescue volunteers are racing to find new homes for hundreds of pet rats found running amok in a filthy, now condemned house in the New York City suburbs. A group of about ten volunteers have spent the last couple of weeks rounding up the domesticated white rodents at the hom What to know about the devastating floods in southern Africa 01/22/2026 04:26pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Torrential rains and severe flooding across parts of southern Africa have killed more than 100 people in three countries, destroyed thousands of homes and caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of damage in one of Africa’s premier wildlife parks. Mozambique, S Why Chile’s wildfires are spreading faster and burning hotter 01/22/2026 01:35pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Chile is reeling from one of its most serious wildfire emergencies in years. Deadly flames sweeping across central and southern parts of the South American country have turned large swaths of forest and towns to ash, killed at least 20 people, forced tens of thousands from Study shows how earthquake monitors can track space junk through sonic booms 01/22/2026 11:01am • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms. Scientists reported Thursday that seismic readings from sonic booms that were generated when a discarded module Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Jan. 23 - Jan. 29 01/22/2026 10:00am • Jan. 27 1937 — Tris Speaker and Cy Young are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1973 — UCLA, led by Bill Walton, sets an NCAA record for consecutive victories with its 61st win, an 82-63 victory over Notre Dame. UCLA breaks the record of 60 set by San Francisco in 1956. Walton scores 16 point Gunman at large in Australia after leaving 3 dead and 1 wounded 01/22/2026 08:58am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A gunman was at large after a shooting in a town in Australia's New South Wales state on Thursday left three people dead and another wounded, police said. Emergency services were called to two locations at Lake Cargelligo, a town of around 1,500 people, after 4 p.m. Two Nuclear reactor owned by Fukushima plant operator TEPCO to shut down again hours after restart 01/22/2026 07:05am • TOKYO (AP) — A reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is now being shut down again Thursday due to a glitch that occurred hours after the unit's resumption, its operator said. The No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwaza New water taxi service launches between Miami and Miami Beach 01/22/2026 06:11am • MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — South Florida commuters traveling to or from the beach might be able to save some time and money by getting off the roads and onto the water. Officials launched a free water taxi service Tuesday, with 40-foot (12-meter) boats carrying up to 55 people each for a scenic 20-m