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Literary agent Georges Borchardt, who championed Nobel laureates, dies at 97 01/21/2026 10:02am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Georges Borchardt, a literary agent of cosmopolitan taste and style who found U.S. publishers for future Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and Samuel Beckett and represented dozens of other prize-winning authors, from Ian McEwan to Tracy Kidder, has died at age 97. Georges Borchardt Inc. American Hockey League and Professional Hockey Players��� Association ratify CBA 01/21/2026 10:01am • The American Hockey League���s Board of Governors and Professional Hockey Players��� Association's full membership have ratified a collective bargaining agreement that ensures labor peace in the top layers of the sport in North America for the foreseeable future. The AHL and PHPA announced the final Sports on TV for Jan. 26 - Feb. 1 01/21/2026 10:00am • Adv24-25 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Jan. 26 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN'S) 7 p.m. ESPN ��� Louisville at Duke FS1 ��� Penn St. at Ohio St. 9 p.m. ESPN ��� Arizona at BYU COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN'S) 4:30 p.m. CBSSN ��� Bucknell at Lafayette 7 p.m. ESPNU ��� CCHA Glance 01/21/2026 10:00am • All Times EST OVERALL Grains mostly higher, livestock mixed 01/21/2026 09:45am • CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly higher in early trading Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Mar. corn was unchanged at $4.24 a bushel. Mar. wheat was up 0.5 cent at $5.11 a bushel. Mar. oats lost 0.75 cent at $3.00 a bushel. Mar. soybeans gained 0.25 cent at $10.53 a bushel. Beef was m We Need Diverse Books launches Unbanned Book Network to fight school bans 01/21/2026 09:30am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A grassroots organization founded to increase diversity in publishing is launching a program to counteract the nationwide wave of bannings in schools and libraries. On Tuesday, We Need Diverse Books, or WNDB, announced the formation of the Unbanned Book Network, which will donate b Greene County: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot 01/21/2026 09:27am • CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) ��� CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) ��� Greene County Bancorp Inc. (GCBC) on Wednesday reported earnings of $10.3 million in its fiscal second quarter. On a per-share basis, the Catskill, New York-based company said it had profit of 60 cents. The bank posted revenue of $36.7 million in the p Trump in Davos speech says he won't use force to acquire Greenland 01/21/2026 09:14am • DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ��� Trump in Davos speech says he won't use force to acquire Greenland. Bangladesh loses bid to move its T20 World Cup cricket games from India to Sri Lanka 01/21/2026 09:12am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� Bangladesh's request to move its T20 World Cup games from India to Sri Lanka has been turned down by the International Cricket Council. The ICC's board of directors met Wednesday and world cricket's governing body said afterward that its security assessments indi Marine Le Pen admits 'mistake' in EU embezzlement trial as she fights to save political career 01/21/2026 09:08am • PARIS (AP) ��� French far-right leader Marine Le Pen acknowledged ���a mistake��� on Wednesday at an appeals trial hearing in Paris that could derail her presidential ambitions, but firmly denied accusations she was at the center of a fraudulent system to siphon off European Union funds. Le Pen, 57, Man who assassinated former Japanese prime minister gets life in prison 01/21/2026 09:05am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday. The case has revealed decades of cozy ties between Japan���s governing party and a controversial South Korean church. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, earlier Germany arrests woman accused of supplying war-related information to Russian agent 01/21/2026 08:56am • BERLIN (AP) ��� German authorities on Wednesday arrested a woman accused of supplying information related to Russia's war in Ukraine to a Russian intelligence agent and helping to get him access to political events in Berlin, prosecutors said. The German-Ukrainian dual citizen, identified only as Il Community Trust Bancorp: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 01/21/2026 08:47am • PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Community Trust Bancorp Inc. (CTBI) on Wednesday reported net income of $27.3 million in its fourth quarter. The bank, based in Pikeville, Kentucky, said it had earnings of $1.51 per share. The bank holding company for Community Trust Bank posted reven Record crowds witness Sabalenka, Alcaraz, Gauff and Zverev advance at Australian Open 01/21/2026 08:37am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Another day, another record crowd. Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz advanced in straight sets Wednesday and the No. 3 seeds ��� Coco Gauff and Alexander Zverev ��� also progressed to the third round of the Australian Open. The combined numbers for day and n Kristen Bell returning as host to SAG's Actor Awards 01/21/2026 08:30am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Kristen Bell is returning as host of the Screen Actors Guild's Actor Awards for a third time. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union that presents the annual awards, announced Wednesday that Bell will emcee the March 1 awards, for