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January 29, 2026

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☰ × CBC Canada

-	CUSMA negotiations, interprovincial trade on the table as Carney meets with premiers
-	Misleading videos on social media are targeting travellers to Canada for FIFA World Cup
-	General Motors to lay off up to 1,200 workers in Oshawa, Ont., on Friday
-	Cryptosporidium confirmed in water treatment plant in Kashechewan First Nation
-	No sea ice, no problem for these Barents Sea bears — for now
-	Poilievre courts delegates as he faces a must-win leadership review vote
-	India reports 2 Nipah virus cases. What the infection is and how it spreads
-	Canadian mining firm says 10 employees abducted in Sinaloa, Mexico

☰ × BBC World

-	EU adds Iran's Revolutionary Guards to terrorist list
-	'I can breathe again' says Israeli hostage held for nearly 500 days in Gaza
-	France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex
-	Chips, anyone? German farm gives away millions of potatoes after bumper harvest
-	Talks ramp up to avert US government shutdown after Minneapolis shooting
-	Melania Trump documentary not showing in South African cinemas
-	Heavy gunfire and blasts heard near airport in Niger's capital
-	Nicki Minaj calls herself Trump's 'number one fan' and shows off gold card visa

☰ × Global News

-	Ilhan Omar attack: Man faces federal charge for assaulting congresswoman
-	Manitoba needs to spend more to meet environmental targets, coalition says
-	ICE ends operation in Maine, governor seeks details on 200 detainees
-	Ransomware is a ‘significant’ threat in Canada — and set to worsen: data
-	Fact File: Don’t be fooled by AI videos of Toronto snowstorm
-	Venezuela commercial airspace to reopen weeks after Maduro raid, Trump says
-	Sobeys parent company Empire shutters Voilà grocery delivery in Alberta
-	More caregivers in Quebec eligible for compensation under new home health policy

☰ × NPR News

-	Senate fails to advance spending bills as Democrats push for DHS reforms
-	Why these women break the law to sell their eggs for IVF
-	DHS funding battle risks shutdown. And, Fed holds rates steady despite Trump pressure
-	Saying Minnesota has 'been through a lot,' Klobuchar announces bid for governor
-	Senegal and Morocco fined and players banned after African Cup final chaos
-	Trump has sued universities for billions. Here's what the strategy tells us
-	'Philadelphia,' 'Clueless,' 'The Karate Kid' added to the National Film Registry
-	Big-budget Melania Trump documentary premieres with splashy rollout

☰ × The Guardian

-	Heavy security deployed at airport in Niger capital after overnight explosions
-	Hundreds feared dead in attempt to cross Mediterranean during cyclone
-	Crocodile warnings as floods devastate southern Africa
-	‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended
-	ActionAid to rethink child sponsorship as part of plan to ‘decolonise’ its work
-	US congressman meets five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at ICE detention center – as it happened
-	Can Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?
-	Mexico’s president says cancellation of oil shipment to Cuba is ‘sovereign’ decision

☰ × Al Jazeera

-	Mexico’s oil industry faces new pressures from Venezuela oil under US
-	Israeli settler violence displaces Palestinians across occupied West Bank
-	Airports embrace AI to manage growing global passenger traffic
-	Inside Gaza after Israel’s last captive is found
-	Al Jazeera denounces YouTube’s compliance with Israel’s ban on network
-	Hakan Fidan on Iran and Turkiye’s role in global security
-	Will killings by immigration agents cause another US government shutdown?
-	Spain launches probe as expired vaccines given to 253 children

☰ × The Verge

-	Everything is gambling now: the latest news on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi
-	Spotify’s new group chats share music with everyone in your circle
-	Half of developers think gen AI is bad for the gaming industry
-	Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs
-	Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
-	Waymo is finally starting passenger trips at SFO — but not to the terminals
-	Linux gaming developers join forces to form the Open Gaming Collective
-	What Netflix’s Warner Bros. deal could mean for TVs and remotes

☰ × TechCrunch

-	Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides to and from San Francisco International Airport
-	I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator
-	OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch
-	Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over ‘flagrant piracy’ of 20,000 works
-	India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale
-	Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI
-	Tesla’s energy storage business is growing faster than any other part of the company
-	Spotify rolls out group chats

☰ × TechRadar

-	Top antivirus hacked to push out a malicious update - find out if you're affected
-	The Garmin Venu X1 is back down to its lowest-ever price, with 25% shaved off Garmin's slimmest smartwatch
-	'It’s an awesome robot. It looks like a human. People could be easily confused that it’s a human' — Tesla exec on why Optimus 3 is a game changer
-	Napster’s back — and its new AI-first app wants you to help create the music, not just listen to it
-	This Fire TV offers all you need if you want a basic 4K TV for under $300
-	How I reclaimed 5+ hours a week — my 12 essential productivity tools of 2026
-	RAM is the new gold – why Costco is pulling memory from display PCs to halt a shoplifting surge
-	Fake Moltbot AI assistant just spreads malware - so AI fans, watch out for scams

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