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Trump given Nobel Peace Prize by its Venezuelan winner at White House

Donald Trump has been presented with a Nobel Peace Prize medal by Maria Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, who won the...

Sports

Bruins retire No. 33 jersey of Hall of Famer Zdeno Chara

Associated Press Jan 15, 2026, 07:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — When Zdeno Chara signed with the Boston Bruins in 2006, the...

Sports

Blues leading scorer Robert Thomas to IR, out at least 2 weeks

Associated Press Jan 15, 2026, 02:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. LOUIS — The Blues put leading scorer Robert Thomas on injured reserve...

Sports

U.S. men’s hockey thinking ‘gold or bust’ to end 46-year wait

ESPN News Services Jan 15, 2026, 06:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Burned in Zach Werenski‘s memory is the first U.S. practice at the...

Sports

Back so soon?: Kershaw commits to pitch in World Baseball Classic

Alden GonzalezJan 15, 2026, 12:45 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A....

Sports

Shortstop Luis Hernandez, 17, agrees to deal with Giants

Associated Press Jan 15, 2026, 09:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Venezuelan shortstop Luis Hernandez, the top-rated prospect in this year’s...

Politics

Local elections 2026: Over a third of councils offered a delay have requested one – is yours on the list?

Over a third of the local councils offered a delay to their elections in May have requested one, Sky News analysis shows. Twenty-four councils...

Politics

Labour MPs anticipate ‘politically inept’ U-turn on social media ban

Labour MPs expect a “politically inept” U-turn from the government on banning social media for under-16s amid Conservative plans to force a vote on...

Environment

Venezuela oil fetching 30% higher price, U.S. energy chief says, after first sale worth $500 million

The Nave Photon, carrying crude oil from Venezuela, is docked at Port Freeport in Freeport, Texas, U.S., January 15, 2026. Antranik Tavitian | Reuters...

Venezuela oil fetching 30% higher price, U.S. energy chief says, after first sale worth 0 million

Technology

CNBC Daily Open: TSMC earnings draw investors’ eyes back to AI

A man walks past a TSMC logo at Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan April 15, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters Thursday offered markets...

World

Trump presented with Nobel Peace Prize by its Venezuelan winner at White House

Donald Trump has been presented with a Nobel Peace Prize medal by Maria Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, who won the...

World

Uganda votes as its pop star politician Bobi Wine goes up against President Museveni

Bobi Wine’s house is heavily surveilled. Motorbikes whiz back and forth in the street in front of his gate with a trained curiosity before...

Sports

2027 NFL draft: Early look at top prospects at each position

Matt MillerJan 15, 2026, 04:40 PM ET Close Matt Miller is an NFL draft analyst for ESPN, providing in-depth scouting on the nation’s top...

Technology

OpenAI tells investors to brace for ‘deliberately outlandish’ claims from Musk ahead of trial

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday,...

Technology

China just ‘months’ behind U.S. AI models, Google DeepMind CEO says

China’s artificial intelligence models may be just “a matter of months” behind U.S. and Western capabilities, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind told...

Technology

Wikipedia parent partners with Amazon, Meta, Perplexity on AI access

Riccardo Milani | Afp | Getty Images Wikimedia announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies in a blog post on Thursday, including Amazon,...

Politics

Badenoch turned a crisis into an opportunity – but her Reform problems aren’t over

Times really have changed. What the hell has just happened? Robert Jenrick has defected to Reform after Kemi Badenoch found some evidence and unceremoniously...

Science

NASA Says the Year 2025 Almost Became Earth’s Hottest Recorded Year Ever

NASA’s latest global temperature analysis shows Earth remained extremely warm in 2025, nearly matching 2023 levels. Although cooler than record-setting 2024, last year ranked...

Politics

Ofcom welcomes Grok sexualised image restrictions and says investigation ‘ongoing’

Ofcom has welcomed restrictions on Grok, X’s AI chatbot, to prevent the generation of sexualised images. Sir Keir had made similar comments the previous...

Politics

Robert Jenrick: From centrist Cameron Remainer to anti-immigration zealot – and now Reform

In an interview with Sky News during last autumn’s Conservative conference, Robert Jenrick appeared to leave the door open to a Tory deal with...