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10:36 AM on Thursday, January 8

NASA says it has canceled the year's first spacewalk and may bring its crew back early from the International Space Station due to a medical issue

9:39 AM on Thursday, January 8

At The Church of the Epiphany in New York’s Upper East Side, a new, handcrafted organ is emblematic of the final phase of a multi-year, $70 million effort to relocate and rebuild the Episcopal congregation, an investment in community as much as sound

9:10 AM on Thursday, January 8

Russian security agency says a French political scholar jailed in Russia, Laurent Vinatier, freed in a prisoner swap

8:42 AM on Thursday, January 8

U.S. filings for unemployment benefits rose in the last week of 2025 but remain historically low, despite signs that the labor market is weakening

8:06 AM on Thursday, January 8

More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most used email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists

7:05 AM on Thursday, January 8

A new AP-NORC poll finds that about 2 in 10 U.S. adults donated money to a crowdfunding campaign over the last year, with medical expenses proving most common

7:01 AM on Thursday, January 8

Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett has announced her candidacy to become Georgia's secretary of state

3:34 AM on Thursday, January 8

They’re at it again

1:37 AM on Thursday, January 8

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission into antisemitism, weeks after a deadly attack at a Jewish holiday event in Bondi Beach

1:07 AM on Thursday, January 8

State lawmakers and governors will have decisions to make in 2026 about the budgets for their biggest social safety net programs

12:30 AM on Thursday, January 8

Saudi Arabia alleges UAE smuggled Yemen separatist leader wanted for treason out of country and flew him to Abu Dhabi

11:19 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Police say a shooting outside a church building in Salt Lake City has killed two people and injured six others

10:25 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Gadgets promoting a wide array of health benefits are on display at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas

12:23 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela

12:19 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Yemen is threatening to fracture even further, exposing a growing rift between Middle East powers Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

8:43 AM on Wednesday, January 7

President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing two sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the U.S. can oversee the sale of Venezuela’s petroleum worldwide

4:48 AM on Wednesday, January 7

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm after a bus driver ran over and killed a 14-year-old boy during a protest

4:45 AM on Wednesday, January 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration reiterated its intention to take over the strategic Arctic island

12:43 AM on Sunday, January 4

Protests in Iran are intensifying due to the country's struggling economy, putting pressure on its theocracy

12:08 PM on Tuesday, December 23, 2025