Friday, January 26, 2024

Friday News

HEADLINES:

  • Gaza officials say Israeli fire strikes a crowd waiting for aid, killing at least 20 (AP)

  • Nikki Haley Pushes Forward With Longshot Effort to Dethrone Trump in GOP Race (WSJ)

  • Trump storms out of courtroom during closing arguments in E. Jean Carroll's defamation damages trial (NBC)

  • A Reality Check on the Fani Willis Scandal (Politico Mag)

  • New Hampshire and Iowa Reveal Broader Weaknesses for Trump (NYT)

  • Trump back in court for E. Jean Carroll defamation trial (MSNBC)

  • Trump briefly testifies in E. Jean Carroll defamation trial (WP)

  • Fox Corp. must face Smartmatic's $2.7 billion defamation suit (NBC)

  • McConnell says immigration talks in ‘quandary’ as Trump lobbies Congress to kill deal (CNN)

  • U.S. Secretly Alerted Iran Ahead of Islamic State Terrorist Attack (WSJ)

  • What to know about Israel’s controversial ‘buffer zone’ in Gaza (WP)

  • Darya Trepova: Russian woman jailed for 27 years for cafe bomb killing (BBC)

  • Pro-war Putin critic Igor Girkin sentenced to four years in Russian prison on extremism charges (CNN)

  • A Leaked Memo From Google CEO Sundar Pichai Comes Amid Employee Discontent. No CEO Wants This for Their Company (Inc.)

  • The U.S. economy grew at blistering 3.3% pace in Q4 while inflation pulled back (CNBC)

  • Mom of Michigan high school shooter, Jennifer Crumbley, goes on trial (Reuters)

  • Ranked: The Most Popular AI Tools (Visual Capitalist)

  • Google shows off Lumiere, a space-time diffusion model for realistic AI videos  (Venture Beat)

  • AI-generated puffy pontiff image inspires new warning from Pope Francis (Ars Technica)

  • What’s next for robotaxis in 2024 (Technology Review)

  • Sam Altman and Satya Nadella on their vision for a world with superhuman intelligence (Economist)

  • Biden Announces He’s Reheating Chili If Anyone’s Interested (The Onion)

 

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