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The new BTS album title and what to know about the K-pop band’s comebackJan 15, 2026 11:30 am - After a nearly four-year musical hiatus, the K-pop giants BTS are back. Well, almost.On Thursday morning, the entertainment company BigHit Music shared on social media that the septet will release a new album on March 20 titled “ARIRANG.”
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15 former NCAA players among those charged in alleged scheme to fix basketball gamesJan 15, 2026 9:25 am - Federal prosecutors charged 20 people on Thursday, including 15 former college basketball players, in what they called a betting scheme to fix NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games.
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US seizes sixth sanctioned tanker it says has ties to Venezuela in Trump’s effort to control its oilJan 15, 2026 9:05 am - U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil.
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Verizon says hourslong outage that disrupted calling and data services has been resolvedJan 15, 2026 8:33 am - NEW YORK — Verizon said it resolved an outage that disrupted many U.S. customers' calling and other cellular services for more than 10 hours Wednesday. The carrier didn't...
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Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to ‘put an end’ to protests in MinneapolisJan 15, 2026 7:39 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act allowing him to deploy troops as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement persist in Minneapolis.
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A new era for Canada-China relations? Prime Minister Carney signals change in BeijingJan 15, 2026 7:29 am - BEIJING — On the first trip by a Canadian leader to China in eight years, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that the two countries are entering a new era of relati...
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Senators launch a cross-party effort to end stock trading by lawmakersJan 15, 2026 7:24 am - Two senators from opposite parties are joining forces in a renewed push to ban members of Congress from trading stocks, an effort that has broad public support but has repeatedly stalled on Capitol Hill.
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Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuationJan 15, 2026 7:18 am - An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.
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Lawmakers propose $2.5B agency to boost production of rare earths and other critical mineralsJan 15, 2026 7:11 am - A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to spur production of rare earths and the other critical minerals, while the Trump administration has already taken aggressive actions to break China's grip on the market for these materials that are crucial to high-tech products, including cellphones, electric vehicles, jet fighters and missiles.
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What’s next for Greenland and Denmark after difficult meeting with Trump administrationJan 15, 2026 7:07 am - U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials have met face to face to discuss President Donald Trump's ambitions to take control of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Den...