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| Work Millions across the US brace for plummeting temperatures and winter storms  Julie Walker contributed to this report from New York. She can be reached at https://x.com/jwalkreporter. Dave Collins contributed from Hartford, Connecticut. Bruce Shipkowski contributed from Toms River, New Jersey. |
| Work Nick Kroll to Headline 2025 Leukemia Ball - Washingtonian  Special ‘thank you’ to our 2025 Presenting Partner, KPMG, our Exclusive Partners, LIUNA, BDO, Pohanka Auto Group, LINK Strategic Partners, Johnson & Johnson, and CJ Coakley, as well as our Diamond Partners, Truist and Hargrove, and Platinum Partners, TMG, Deloitte, EY, and Chiaramonte Construction Company. Thanks to our Media Partners Washingtonian, Fox5DC, iHeartMedia, WTOP, Comcast, Jones & Brown Productions, and Hanson Productions. |
| Work Pipes burst, shelters fill up in Denver amid third day of nonstop, below-freezing temps  Warmer weather is headed for the city on Tuesday and temperatures are forecast to peak around 40 degrees, Ideker said. The rest of the week will feel more normal, and most daylight temperatures will stay above freezing. |
| Work Christian Braun scores 20, Peyton Watson sustains head injury in Nuggets' win at Magic  Watson blocked 88 shots last season, ranking 14th in the league despite his limited minutes off the bench. With 28 blocks in the last 17 games, he’s now up to 14th again with 50 this season. What makes it impressive is that each of the top 13 are 6-foot-10 or taller; Watson is listed as 6-7. |
| Work Josh Allen scores 2 TDs, Bills force 3 turnovers to beat Ravens 27-25 and reach AFC title game  The Bills get a rematch of the AFC championship game after the 2020 season, which Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs won 38-24. That Kansas City team lost the Super Bowl to Tom Brady and Tampa Bay. |
| Work Today in History: January 20, physician hastens King George V's death  In 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, as protesters registered their rage against the new president in a chaotic confrontation with police just blocks from the inaugural parade. |
| Work San Diego's 43rd Martin Luther King Jr. parade celebrates his legacy, sows new hope  “I’m a young kid. I don’t know anything about racism or anything… They ripped through my bag. I’m like, ‘Did I do something?’ I was freaked out. Now, looking back, I realize, ‘Oh, that was an experience of racism.’ I didn’t know.” |
| Work Who is Christopher Macchio Meet the opera tenor singing the national anthem at the inauguration  “I’m a traditionalist,” he said. “I will be delivering essentially a straightforward rendition. And the only license that I take is when it comes to the high notes. I do tend to indulge a little bit and stretch those high notes.” |
| Work Clothes in the closets and favorite foods in the fridge: Moving day comes to the White House  The White House is deep-cleaned in between families. Windows will be washed, carpets vacuumed or replaced, new mattresses brought in, and all bedrooms and bathrooms will be stocked with fresh linens and towels. |
| Work From backing a ban to being hailed as a savior: Inside Trump's TikTok shift  Though Trump sought to ban TikTok during his first term, he reversed that stance during his 2024 campaign, when he came to believe a ban would help the app’s rival, Facebook, which he held responsible, in part, to his 2020 election loss to Biden. |
| Work Community members gather on eye of presidential inauguration in Our Lady of Guadalupe procession  Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for “border czar,” said in an interview with Fox News that immigration agents will prioritize public safety threats, but added that “no one is off the table.” |
| Work Eight years ago, stars avoided Trump's inauguration. This time it's different  Producers Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley Jackson started the event in 2017, also held on Inauguration Day, to raise money for organizations and non-profits they thought would need help over the next four years. |
| Work As Trump returns to the White House, families prepare for mass deportations  ICE arrests a fraction of targets in its street operations, though Trump is expected to cast a wider net than President Joe Biden, whose focus on picking up people away from the border was largely limited to those with serious criminal histories or who pose a risk to national security. |
| Work Trump returning to power after unprecedented comeback, emboldened to reshape American institutions  “The president is going to come in with a flurry of executive orders,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. “And we are going to be working alongside the administration and in tandem.” |
| Work Watch live: Donald Trump's inauguration  Frigid weather is rewriting the pageantry of the day. Trump’s swearing-in was moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda — the first time that has happened in 40 years — and the inaugural parade was replaced by an event at a downtown arena. |
| Work Pope Francis calls Trump's plans of mass deportation of immigrants 'a disgrace'  Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. |
| Work Trump's inauguration will usher in a crypto-friendly administration, and with it, new state policies  “We were ahead of the curve,” Fulop said. “And I think that’s what you’re eventually going to see is this is widely accepted, with regard to exposure in all pension funds, some sort of exposure.” |
| Work More teens say they're using ChatGPT for schoolwork, a new study finds  A recent poll from the Pew Research Center shows more and more teens are turning to ChatGPT for help with their homework. 3 things to know: According to the survey, 26% of students ages 13-17 are using the artificial intelligence bot to help them with their assignments. |
| Work AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes  Humans make mistakes all the time. All of us do, every day, in tasks both new and routine. Some of our mistakes are minor and some are catastrophic. Mistakes can break trust with our friends, lose the confidence of our bosses, and sometimes be the difference between life and death. |
| Work The secret to a successful workplace: middle managers  US businesses are betting that they can thrive with fewer middle managers. They could come to regret it. Some business leaders think scaling back middle-manager roles -- a trend called the "Great Flattening" -- could help them cut costs and operate more efficiently. |
| Work How To Use AI To Expand the Background of Any Image  These AI-powered tools can help you reframe and resize your photos. |
| Work The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of MSG  You probably know monosodium glutamate from its link to so-called 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' -- and that's precisely the problem. |
| Work AI Replacing Salespeople Perfectly Defines the AI Redundancy Problem  AI for sales outreach sounds great in theory. I know. I thought the same thing 15 years ago. For 10 minutes. Until I really thought about it. Then I laughed and went on to the next thing. |
| Work Teenager's school project achieves plasma The 17-year-old student achieved plasma in his project this summer and saw it showcased at the Cambridge Science Festival, as reported by Interesting Engineering. Mencarini hails from Italy but is studying math, chemistry, and physics at Cardiff Sixth Form College in Cambridge. |
| Work When can you change the lyrics on song covers Ask Kelly Clarkson  I can't hold a tune to save my life, so I don't know for sure, but I imagine there are a few things that strike fear into the heart of singers. Losing their precious voice, for one. Not getting enough attention (can't relate). And then there is ... Kelly Clarkson covering your song. |
| Work Martin Karplus, Chemist Who Made Early Computers a Tool, Dies at 94  Martin Karplus, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical chemist who used computers to model how complex systems change during chemical reactions, a process that has led to advances in the understanding of biological processes, died on Dec. 28 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 94. |
| Work Im a hopeless people pleaser. I tried saying no for a week  Giving in to a pushy salesperson. Keeping quiet when you witness a workplace interaction that strikes you as unjust. Biting your tongue when a hairstylist declares that life is not worth living without micro-bangs. We've all been there. We've all caved in. |
| Work 5 skills with fast-growing demand on Upwork--most can pay more than $200 per hour  Some skills are almost always in demand on freelance marketplace Upwork. Full stack developers, for example, who build the back end of websites, were in demand in both 2023 and 2024. They're now listed on Upwork's most recent report as well, 2025's Most In-Demand Skills. |
| Work Here Are 11 Things Trump Has Promised to Carry Out on Day 1 of His Presidency  President-elect Donald Trump has promised significant changes when he takes office on everything from immigration to foreign policy to tariffs. |
| Work Has Trump Changed the Retirement Plans for the Country's Largest Coal Plants?  There is renewed talk of a coal power comeback in the United States, inspired by Donald Trump's return to the presidency and forecasts of soaring electricity demand. The evidence so far only shows that some plants are getting small extensions on their retirement dates. |
| Work People with workingclass accents more likely to be suspected of committing crimes  Researchers have said a study that found people who speak with accents perceived as working class are more likely to be suspected of committing a crime raises "serious concerns" about bias in the UK criminal justice system. |
| Work Behind the Curtain: A Chilling, "Catastrophic" Warning  The next few years will decide if AI leads to catastrophe -- and whether China or the U.S. dominates the AI arms race. |
| Work How gen Z helped drink Guinness dry and its stout rivals cashed in  At the Lamb, a pub on London's Holloway Road, Hamish Goodwin is nursing a pint of Murphy's. A Guinness drinker, Goodwin recently fell in love with the lesser-known stout, which he calls "slightly richer". |
| Work Houthis to halt Israel, Red Sea attacks if Gaza truce comes into force  Houthi rebels have backed the Gaza ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas, with the Yemeni group's spokesperson saying they will halt their military operations against Israel as well as commercial ships in the Red Sea if the truce comes into force on Sunday. |
| Work The Future of Farming is Here How Greenfield Robotics is shaping the next generation of agriculture.  Robotics and artificial intelligence: Words typically accompanied by the backdrop of a neon cityscape full of high rises,and never ending streams of cars flying past. |
| Work When will TikTok come back? Americans turn to VPNs with mixed results  Americans faced the stark reality of the TikTok ban Sunday as ByteDance blocked access to the app in the United States. Users in the U.S. who open the app now are greeted with a popup that reads, "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now." |
| Work There's a New Way to Count Prime Numbers  To make progress on one of number theory's most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source. |
| Work Americans Favor Deporting Undocumented Immigrants, Until They're Asked How  Few like Trump's idea of using military for deportations. |
| Work 'Shock and awe': Trump plans 100 immediate executive actions. Here's what could be coming.  WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump intends to start his second White House term with a bang through a flurry of executive orders and directives that leave no doubt a major transformation is underway. "Shock and awe," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. |
| Work TikTok Flickers Back to Life After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban  TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of the app. |
| Work Former surgeon general: Vaccine-preventable diseases are still a major threat  "You can't die of heart disease at 50 if you died of polio at 5," Jerome Adams, former surgeon general, warns. |
| Work Starboard Value acquires 7.7 stake in chipmaker Qorvo  The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. |
| Work US FTC sues PepsiCo over alleged preferential price deal with Walmart  The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. |
| Work ReadySet Surgical concludes supplier agreement with Vizient  The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. |
| Work India's Wipro eyes best day in four years on echoing IT peers' demand revival hopes  Wipro's 11% increase in latest-quarter revenue from the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) segment, which accounts for about a third of total revenue, shows a pick up in discretionary spending, Jefferies analysts said in a note. |
| Work Live updates: Three Israeli hostages arrive in Israel as ceasefire passes first hurdle  A Red Cross convoy was seen in Gaza Strip on Sunday, believed to be on its way to pick up the first Israeli hostages in the territory. It was not clear how long the process would take. |
| Work GBQ Partners expands with WLW acquisition  The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. |
| Work Country Garden expects to reach terms with creditors in February, lawyer tells court  Chan said Country Garden should disclose whether it expects to reach an agreement with creditors by February-end. If it does not, parties including the petitioner and creditors can apply to bring the next hearing forward. |
| Work Vivendi's new 'galaxy' of companies needs more time to explain strategy, analysts and investors say  Stéphane Le Gall, a fund manager at Arkea Asset Management, another minority shareholder in Vivendi, told Reuters he was waiting for a revaluation of the combined four stocks, which he believes will happen when the companies explained their respective strategies. |
| Work Why are lone homes left standing after the fires? It's not entirely luck  Emails and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles next to those left standing have been flying back and forth among architects, builders and fire safety specialists around the world. |
| Work Chinese investors pile into Bridgewater-style funds, eyeing Trump return  Carlos Casanova, Asia senior economist at UBP, said there has been a huge flight to safety among Chinese investors and "everyone was so worried about Trump and what would happen" after his inauguration. |
| Work Kretinsky's EPH among suitors approached about Uniper, sources say  Uniper supplied around a quarter of the gas consumed in Germany last year and is its largest gas storage operator. It also operates nearly a quarter of the country's so-called systemically relevant power capacity which must be kept on reserve to ensure supply. |
| Work Novak Djokovic won't speak to the Australian Open's local TV network without an apology  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Novak Djokovic declined to do a customary post-match TV interview at the Australian Open after his win Sunday night to protest comments made on air by someone who works for the official broadcaster of the tournament in the host country. |
| Work Copper market sees half chance of 10 US tariff by first quarter-end, Goldman says  The investment bank assigned a 10% chance to a 10% effective tariff on gold being introduced within the next 12 months. It said bullion's status as a financial asset makes it likely to be exempt from broad-based tariffs. |
| Work Stock market today: Asian shares gain and bitcoin hits a record high ahead of U.S. inauguration  Wall Street has been lurching down and up in recent weeks as economic reports pushed traders to revamp their expectations about what the Fed will do with rates. Lower worries about inflation have sent Treasury yields down and stocks up, while worsening worries about inflation have triggered the opposite reaction. |
| Work Indian fintech Paytm's Q3 adjusted loss narrows sequentially as payments business recovers  Paytm said its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization before cost of employee stock options was a negative 410 million rupees, compared to negative 1.86 billion rupees in the previous quarter. |
| Work The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its 'kill chain'  Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. |
| Work Dollar drops, bitcoin hits all-time high before Trump inauguration  Investors were also monitoring developments in the Middle East after Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel freed 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, marking the first day of a ceasefire halting a 15-month-old war. |
| Work Chinese property developer Country Garden plans deal with creditors, as industry languishes  Country Garden is one of dozens of property companies caught up in a crackdown on excess borrowing that led many to default on its debts. It said last week that it posted a net loss of 12.84 billion yuan ($1.76 billion) in the first six months of 2024. In 2023, it reported a net loss of 178.4 billion yuan ($24.4 billion). |
| Work Google's Titans Give AI Human-Like Memory  Seven years and seven months ago, Google changed the world with the Transformer architecture, which lies at the heart of generative AI applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT. |
| Work Goldman Sachs is sounding and acting a lot more like private equity  Everything from higher reporting requirements and litigation costs to more public scrutiny and non-stop quarterly earnings have cited in the debate as reasons why companies might choose to stay private longer. |