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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda and Polish President Karol Nawrocki, at the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

US security agreement for Ukraine is ‘100% ready’ to be signed, Zelenskyy says

The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: 11:53 AM CST

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that a U.S. security guarantees document for Ukraine is “100% ready” after two days of talks involving representatives from Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia.

Speaking to journalists in Vilnius during a visit to Lithuania, Zelenskyy said Ukraine is waiting for its partners to set a signing date, after which the document would go to the U.S. Congress and Ukrainian parliament for ratification.

Zelenskyy also emphasized Ukraine’s push for European Union membership by 2027, calling it an “economic security guarantee.”

The Ukrainian leader described the talks in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, as likely the first trilateral format in “quite a long while” that included not only diplomats but military representatives from all three sides. The talks, which began on Friday and continued Saturday, were the latest aiming to end Russia’s nearly four-year full-scale invasion.

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Some Republicans call for investigation after fatal shooting in Minneapolis

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Some Republicans call for investigation after fatal shooting in Minneapolis

Steven Sloan, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 12:03 PM CST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of Republicans called for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, an early sign that the accounting of events by President Donald Trump's administration may face bipartisan scrutiny.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee sought testimony from leaders at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, saying “my top priority remains keeping Americans safe.”

Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., said in a statement that he takes oversight of the Department of Homeland Security seriously and that "Congress has an important responsibility to ensure the safety of law enforcement and the people they serve and protect.”

Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana also pressed for more information about the shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at a VA hospital who was killed Saturday. In a social media post, Tillis called for a “thorough and impartial investigation” and said “any administration official who rushes to judgment and tries to shut down an investigation before it begins are doing an incredible disservice to the nation and to President Trump’s legacy.”

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Row erupts within UK’s governing Labour Party after popular mayor blocked from upcoming election

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Row erupts within UK’s governing Labour Party after popular mayor blocked from upcoming election

Pan Pylas, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 10:54 AM CST

LONDON (AP) — A row erupted Sunday within Britain's governing Labour Party after the ambitious mayor of Manchester was prevented from trying to reenter Parliament at a special election in the city, with critics claiming that Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not want to see a potential rival back in the House of Commons.

Andy Burnham, who has been in charge of the Greater Manchester region since 2017, made a request to Labour's governing committee on Saturday to stand as the party's candidate in the election for the Gorton and Denton constituency, which is expected to take place by the end of February.

If he ended up winning in a traditionally safe Labour seat, then he would have to stand down from his job as mayor, meaning that there would likely have to be another special election there. Burnham's mandate ends in May 2028.

The decision to block Burnham was made by a 10-strong group of Labour's National Executive Committee, the body behind the party's election machinery.

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Updated: 10:54 AM CST

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center, speaks with locals, during a visit to a community group at Flaunden Village Hall to discuss the government's Warm Homes Plan, in Flauden, Hertfordshire, England, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (Stefan Rousseau, Pool Photo via AP)

France detains captain of suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker seized in Mediterranean

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France detains captain of suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker seized in Mediterranean

The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: 10:44 AM CST

PARIS (AP) — The captain of a tanker intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea by the French navy on suspicion of shipping oil in violation of sanctions against Russia was being held in custody on Sunday for questioning.

The ship’s Indian captain, 58, was handed to judicial authorities following the diversion of the oil tanker, Grinch, and its arrival at anchorage in the Gulf of Fos-sur-Mer, the Marseille prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

The investigation is being conducted by the Maritime Gendarmerie’s Investigation Unit in Toulon, jointly with the Marseille Ship Safety Centre, on charges of failure to fly a valid flag, according to the statement, which added that the crew, also of Indian nationality, was being kept on board.

"The purpose of the investigation is to verify the validity of the flag flown by the tanker and the documents required for its navigation,” the statement said.

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Updated: 10:44 AM CST

In this photo, provided by the French Army on Thursday, Jan 22, 2026, an oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea that traveled from Russia, is pictured after being intercepted by France's Navy. (Etat-Major des Armees via AP)

Getting to ‘no’: Europe’s leaders find a way to speak with one voice against Trump

Laurie Kellman, The Associated Press 7 minute read Preview

Getting to ‘no’: Europe’s leaders find a way to speak with one voice against Trump

Laurie Kellman, The Associated Press 7 minute read 6:35 AM CST

LONDON (AP) — No more fawning praise. No more polite workarounds and old-style diplomacy. And no one is calling Donald Trump “daddy” now.

European leaders who scrambled for a year to figure out how to deal with an emboldened American president in his second term edged closer to saying “no,” or something diplomatically like it, to his disregard for international law and his demands for their territory. Trump's vow to take over Greenland and punish any country that resists, seems to have been the crucible.

"Red lines" were deemed to have been crossed this year when Trump abruptly revived his demand that the United States “absolutely” must rule Greenland, the semiautonomous region that is part of NATO ally Denmark. That pushed even the most mild-mannered diplomats to issue sharp warnings against Trump, whom they had flattered with royal treatment and fawning praise.

“Britain will not yield" its support for Greenland's sovereignty, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said. Several of the continent's leaders said “Europe will not be blackmailed” over Greenland.

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FILE - President Donald Trump speaks before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Jan. 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Protests inside churches are unusual despite long history of civil disobedience in the US

Peter Smith And Tiffany Stanley, The Associated Press 7 minute read Preview

Protests inside churches are unusual despite long history of civil disobedience in the US

Peter Smith And Tiffany Stanley, The Associated Press 7 minute read 7:35 AM CST

American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to happen inside a house of worship.

That is part of what makes the new case against anti-ICE protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, unusual. The group interrupted a service last Sunday at Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation, where one of its pastors works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Three of the protesters were arrested on federal charges Thursday.

Charles C. Haynes, a senior fellow for religious liberty at the Freedom Forum, a nonprofit group advocating for First Amendment rights, said disrupting a worship service is against the law – and that was likely the point.

Civil disobedience is by nature violating the law to bring attention to a cause. Famously, civil disobedience by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others led to landmark legislation during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Protesters against Federal immigration agents gather at Target, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Longtime festivalgoers say the final Sundance in Utah may also be their last

Hannah Schoenbaum, The Associated Press 4 minute read Preview

Longtime festivalgoers say the final Sundance in Utah may also be their last

Hannah Schoenbaum, The Associated Press 4 minute read 2:29 AM CST

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Attendees at this year's Sundance Film Festival could not stand in line, step onto a shuttle bus or walk into a lounge without hearing one common question: “Will you go to the festival when it moves to Boulder?”

Butch Ward has been a Sundance regular since the early '90s, but like many longtime festivalgoers who fell in love with its charming mountain hometown of Park City, he said he won't be following Sundance to its new setting in Colorado next year.

The media professional from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, considers this the last year of the festival in its true form, “because a Sundance outside Utah just isn't Sundance.”

That sentiment was shared by many attendees who had found their happy place at the Utah festival.

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Pedestrians walk down Main Street on the first day of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota

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Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota

Valerie Gonzalez, The Associated Press 3 minute read Yesterday at 6:23 PM CST

Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press showed children and parents at the South Texas Family Residential Center clad in jackets and sweaters, some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños," or “Liberty for the kids."

Families could also be heard outside chanting “Libertad!" or “Let us go," said Eric Lee, an immigration attorney who was there to visit a client at the facility in the town of Dilley.

“The message we want to send is for them to treat us with dignity and according to the law. We’re immigrants, with children, not criminals,” Maria Alejandra Montoya Sanchez, 31, told the AP in a phone interview from the facility after the demonstration. She and her 9-year-old daughter have been held at Dilley since October.

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Detainees held at the South Texas Family Residential Center wave signs during a demonstration in Dilley, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Brenda Bazán)

Democrats vow to oppose homeland security funding bill. That increases the chance of a shutdown

Kevin Freking And Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press 6 minute read Preview

Democrats vow to oppose homeland security funding bill. That increases the chance of a shutdown

Kevin Freking And Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press 6 minute read 11:33 AM CST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a 37-year-old Minnesota man, a stand that increases the prospect of a partial government shutdown by the end of the week.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, in a social media post Saturday night, hours after the shooting, said that what is happening in Minnesota is “appalling” and that Democrats “will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.”

Six of the 12 annual spending bills for the current budget year have been signed into law by President Donald Trump. Six more are awaiting action in the Senate. If senators fail to act by midnight Friday, funding for agencies covered under those six bills will lapse.

Republicans will need some Democratic support to pass the remaining spending bills in time to avoid a partial shutdown. That support was already in question after Renee Good, a mother of three, was fatally shot and killed earlier this month by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis. But the fatal shooting Saturday of Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse, quickly prompted Democrats to take a more forceful stand.

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Architect of the Capitol workers clear snow outside the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Dr. William Foege, leader in smallpox eradication, dies

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Dr. William Foege, leader in smallpox eradication, dies

Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 10:54 AM CST

ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. William Foege, a leader of one of humanity's greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — has died.

Foege died Saturday in Atlanta at the age of 89, according to the Task Force for Global Health, which he co-founded.

The 6-foot-7 inch Foege literally stood out in the field of public health. A whip-smart medical doctor with a calm demeanor, he had a canny knack for beating back infectious diseases.

He was director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and later held other key leadership roles in campaigns against international health problems.

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Updated: 10:54 AM CST

FILE - President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to Dr. William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who helped lead the effort to eradicate smallpox, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

American rock climber Alex Honnold reaches top of Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes

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American rock climber Alex Honnold reaches top of Taipei 101 skyscraper without ropes

Katie Tam, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 8:56 AM CST

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — American rock climber Alex Honnold ascended the Taipei 101 skyscraper on Sunday without any ropes or protective equipment.

Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as he reached the top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower about 90 minutes after he started. Wearing a red short-sleeve shirt, Honnold waved his arms back and forth over his head.

“It was like what a view, it’s incredible, what a beautiful day,” he said afterward. “It was very windy, so I was like, don’t fall off the spire. I was trying to balance nicely. But it was, what an incredible position, what a beautiful way to see Taipei.”

Honnold, known for his ropeless ascent up Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan, climbed up one corner of Taipei 101 using small L-shaped outcroppings as footholds. Periodically, he had to maneuver around and clamber up the sides of large ornamental structures that jut out from the tower, pulling himself up with his bare hands.

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Updated: 8:56 AM CST

FILE - People take photos with the iconic Taipei 101 skyscraper in the background in Taipei, Taiwan, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Massive winter storm across the US brings ice, frigid temperatures and widespread power outages

Kate Brumback And Julie Walker, The Associated Press 6 minute read Preview

Massive winter storm across the US brings ice, frigid temperatures and widespread power outages

Kate Brumback And Julie Walker, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: 12:08 PM CST

A massive winter storm dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow across much of the U.S. on Sunday, bringing subzero temperatures and paralyzing air and road traffic. Power lines were draped in ice, and hundreds of thousands of people in the Southeast were left without electricity.

The ice and snowfall were expected to continue into Monday in much of the country, followed by very low temperatures, which could cause “dangerous travel and infrastructure impacts” to linger for several days, the National Weather Service said.

Heavy snow was forecast from the Ohio Valley to the Northeast, while “catastrophic ice accumulation” threatened from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.

“It is a unique storm in the sense that it is so widespread,” weather service meteorologist Allison Santorelli said in a phone interview. “It was affecting areas all the way from New Mexico, Texas, all the way into New England, so we’re talking like a 2,000 mile spread.”

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Two people walk along the National Mall as snow falls, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sleep-tracking devices have limits. Experts want users to know what they are

R.j. Rico And Emilie Megnien, The Associated Press 7 minute read Preview

Sleep-tracking devices have limits. Experts want users to know what they are

R.j. Rico And Emilie Megnien, The Associated Press 7 minute read Updated: 7:59 AM CST

ATLANTA (AP) — Your watch says you had three hours of deep sleep. Should you believe it?

Millions of people rely on phone apps and wearable devices like rings, smartwatches and sensors to monitor how well they're sleeping, but these trackers don’t necessarily measure sleep directly. Instead, they infer states of slumber from signals like heart rate and movement, raising questions about how reliable the information is and how seriously it should be taken.

The U.S. sleep-tracking devices market generated about $5 billion in 2023 and is expected to double in revenue by 2030, according to market research firm Grand View Research. As the devices continue to gain popularity, experts say it is important to understand what they can and cannot tell you, and how their data should be used.

Here's a look at the technology — and why one expert thinks its full potential has yet to be realized.

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Updated: 7:59 AM CST

January 25, 2026

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Some Republicans call for investigation after fatal shooting in Minneapolis

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Row erupts within UK’s governing Labour Party after popular mayor blocked from upcoming election

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France detains captain of suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker seized in Mediterranean

France detains captain of suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker seized in Mediterranean

Getting to ‘no’: Europe’s leaders find a way to speak with one voice against Trump

Getting to ‘no’: Europe’s leaders find a way to speak with one voice against Trump

Protests inside churches are unusual despite long history of civil disobedience in the US

Protests inside churches are unusual despite long history of civil disobedience in the US

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