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Speed Read

Friday, January 23

⏳ THE SPEED READ

🚨NATION

  • Winter storm live updates: More than half of the U.S. braces for hazardous ice, heavy snow and brutal cold (NBC)

  • House Dems help GOP pass bills to fund ICE, avert shutdown (AXIOS)

  • Mass anti-immigration enforcement protests planned in Minnesota (THE HILL)

  • Jury finds Chicago man not guilty of circulating $10K bounty on life of top Border Patrol leader (FOX)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

  • Death toll in Iranian protests crackdown tops 5,000, activists say (NBC) as Trump warns U.S. ‘armada’ heading to Iran (MO NEWS)

  • Canada’s PM Mark Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech (AP)

  • France seizes suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker (BBC)

  • UN expert urges world to reject Myanmar ‘sham’ election (AFP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

  • TikTok distances from U.S. entity, distances itself from China (MO NEWS)

  • Airlines cancel hundreds of flights as massive winter storm sweeps across U.S. (CNBC)

  • U.S. measles cases surpass 400 with infections in 14 states: CDC (ABC)

  • New research says more planets are deemed hospitable for aliens than originally thought (INDEPENDENT)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

  • FCC targets TV talk shows amid Trump’s battles with Kimmel, others (USA TODAY)

  • Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged cocaine kingpin in custody (GUARDIAN)

  • Stars and the public say a final goodbye to fashion icon Valentino at a Rome funeral (AP)

  • Director James Cameron leaves America and moves to New Zealand (VARIETY)


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