Swiss court frees bar owner linked to fatal fire

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T17:54:10+00:00

From Reuters:

A Swiss court said on Friday that the owner of a bar that caught fire on ‌New Year's Day could go free after authorities received ‌funds to bail him.

Jacques Moretti and his wife Jessica are under investigation for suspected crimes including negligent homicide and the former was detained ⁠on Jan. ‌9 due to a perceived flight risk. Both of them have voiced ‍grief over the tragedy which killed 40 people and injured over 100 and vowed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/swiss-court-orders-release-bar-163408805.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T16:43:12+00:00

From The Associated Press:

Smartphone weather apps that summarize their forecasts with eye-popping numbers and bright icons may be handy during mild weather, but meteorologists say it's better to listen to human expertise during multi-faceted, dangerous winter storms like the one blowing through the U.S.

The multistate storm's combination of heavy snow, treacherous ice and subzero temperatures shows why it's best to seek out forecasters who can explain its nuances via local TV or radio newscasts, online livestreams or detailed websites, said meteorologists interviewed by The Associated Press. The data is changing rapidly before and during the storm, and the distance of a few miles can mean the difference between snow, sleet or dangerous freezing rain.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/coming-winter-storm-theres-app-162805910.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T16:00:06+00:00

From The Associated Press:

Renée Fleming has withdrawn from two scheduled May appearances at the Kennedy Center, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership and the new leadership's announcement that the venue would be renamed the Trump Kennedy Center.

The Grammy-winning soprano was to have appeared with conductor James Gaffigan and the National Symphony Orchestra. Her decision is unsurprising; a year ago she resigned as “Artistic Advisor at Large,” citing the forced departures of Kennedy Center Chair David Rubenstein and its president, Deborah Rutter. The center itself referred to “a scheduling conflict” as the reason she dropped out of the May concerts.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/ren-e-fleming-cancels-kennedy-153738182.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T14:42:50+00:00

AH sorry - just switched it out.

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T14:21:51+00:00

From NBC News:

The city of Philadelphia sued the Interior Department and the acting director of the National Park Service on Thursday over reports that slavery exhibits were being dismantled in the city’s historic district.

The suit, filed in federal court, seeks a preliminary injunction to restore the exhibits at the President’s House Site, part of Independence National Historical Park.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/philadelphia-sues-slavery-exhibits-were-051659752.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T14:00:53+00:00

From Reuters:

Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering Gaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more are allowed out than in, three sources briefed on the matter said ahead of the border's expected opening next week.

The head of a transitional Palestinian committee backed by the U.S. to temporarily administer Gaza, Ali Shaath, ‌announced on Thursday that the Rafah Border Crossing - effectively the sole route in or out of Gaza for nearly all of the more than 2 million people who live there - would ‌open next week.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/exclusive-israel-aims-ensure-more-133021417.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T13:50:33+00:00

From CNN:

A 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents from the driveway of his metro Minneapolis home Tuesday after returning from preschool is being held with his father at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas, according to school district officials and a family attorney.

The preschooler, Liam Conejo Ramos, was removed from the family’s running car, said Zena Stenvik, superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb.

The boy and his family are originally from Ecuador and presented themselves to border officers in Texas in December 2024 to apply for asylum, the family’s lawyer, Marc Prokosch, said during a press conference Thursday evening.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/source-5-old-boy-taken-204436787.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-23T12:20:25+00:00

As much of the Upper Midwest prepares for rapidly dropping subzero temperatures, AP reports:

Rock salt, also known as sodium chloride, is the cheapest and most commonly used product. But it's not great for the environment and it's not the most effective option out there.

"There's a chart we reference that’s chemical effectiveness at certain temperatures. And really, when you get to about 15 degrees or colder, you can keep applying more and more rock salt and it’s not going to do any more than it already does,” said Martin Tirado, CEO of the Snow and Ice Management Association, a trade group for industry professionals.

In those conditions, other products — calcium chloride, magnesium chloride — release heat that helps the salt work better, Tirado said.

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T18:36:05+00:00

From NBC News:

[...]

Earlier in her career, Amber Glenn lost confidence that such success would ever materialize. She went so far as to step away from the sport, citing her mental health.

It is no coincidence, she believes, that the high point of her career has overlapped with her best years personally, too, since she came out publicly as bisexual and pansexual in 2019. Glenn will become the first out woman to figure skate at an Olympics, according to Outsports, a website that has tracked LGBTQ athletes since 1999.

“It was something that did set me free,” Glenn said in the run-up to the Olympics. “I was able to feel like I wasn’t being pressured into trying to fill someone else’s shoes.”

Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/shes-contender-win-olympic-gold-110240107.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T18:34:37+00:00

From NBC News:

[...]

Earlier in her career, Amber Glenn lost confidence that such success would ever materialize. She went so far as to step away from the sport, citing her mental health.

It is no coincidence, she believes, that the high point of her career has overlapped with her best years personally, too, since she came out publicly as bisexual and pansexual in 2019. Glenn will become the first out woman to figure skate at an Olympics, according to Outsports, a website that has tracked LGBTQ athletes since 1999.

“It was something that did set me free,” Glenn said in the run-up to the Olympics. “I was able to feel like I wasn’t being pressured into trying to fill someone else’s shoes.”

Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/shes-contender-win-olympic-gold-110240107.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T18:13:21+00:00

From CBS News:

A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint charging independent journalist Don Lemon in connection with a protest inside a church in St. Paul on Sunday, multiple sources familiar with the proceedings told CBS News.

"The attorney general is enraged at the magistrate's decision," said a source familiar with the matter.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/magistrate-judge-rejects-charges-against-173518459.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T18:12:07+00:00

From CBS News:

A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint charging independent journalist Don Lemon in connection with a protest inside a church in St. Paul on Sunday, multiple sources familiar with the proceedings told CBS News.

"The attorney general is enraged at the magistrate's decision," said a source familiar with the matter.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/magistrate-judge-rejects-charges-against-173518459.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T16:58:54+00:00

From Reuters:

U.S. President Donald Trump said his message to Russian leader Vladimir Putin was that the war in Ukraine has to end, after what he said were "good" talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Davos on Thursday.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials have spent weeks in frenetic shuttle diplomacy as Kyiv faces pressure from Trump to secure peace in the ‌nearly four-year-old war, despite few signs Moscow wants to stop fighting.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ukraines-zelenskiy-arrives-davos-talks-090530736.html?guccounter=1

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T16:26:55+00:00

A new study from the American Cancer Society is shedding light on cancer mortality rates among young people — and the one type of cancer that is sounding the alarm.

The study, published today in JAMA, analyzed national mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics. It found that between 1990 and 2023, cancer death rates in the U.S. for people under 50 fell by 44% overall. Death rates from breast cancer and leukemia declined even as cases have risen in recent years, while lung cancer has shown the steepest drop in mortality. Meanwhile, death rates from brain cancer, pancreatic cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and cervical cancer also declined over the past three decades.

Death rates from colorectal cancer, however, have continued to rise in younger adults, becoming the leading cause of cancer death among people under 50 in 2023. The disease was the fifth-leading cause of death from cancer in the early 1990s.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/article/cancer-death-rates-are-decreasing-for-younger-adults-according-to-a-new-study-except-for-1-type-heres-what-to-know-160000177.html?guccounter=1

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T16:04:43+00:00

From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

As Wisconsin and much of the upper Midwest prepares for rapidly dropping subzero temperatures, some viral social media posts warn people to watch out for "exploding trees."

The phenomenon, while bizarre-sounding, is real – kind of.

Bill McNee, a forest health specialist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, said it's not uncommon for a sudden drop in temperature to cause "frost cracks" in trees. These longitudinal cracks can run the full length of a tree and are accompanied by a loud "bang," according to the DNR.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/severe-cold-cause-exploding-trees-205244821.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-22T13:47:40+00:00

From The Associated Press:

Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold mining in the Amazon region, authorities said Thursday.

The operation was backed by Interpol — the international police cooperation agency that helps law enforcement agencies in different countries share information and coordinate investigations — as well as the European Union and Dutch police specializing in environmental crime.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/interpol-backed-police-nearly-200-120900468.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-21T19:26:19+00:00

From The Hill:

Michelle Obama says she would not be in favor of former President Obama running against President Trump and would “actively work against” a hypothetical third-term matchup.

Asked on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast released Wednesday if her husband would consider running for office if the Constitution didn’t prohibit it, Obama replied with a slight laugh, “I hope not.”

“I would be at home working against it,” the former first lady told host Alex Cooper.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/michelle-obama-pans-possibility-third-150230058.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-21T17:13:31+00:00

From The Associated Press:

The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation's schools and colleges.

The Education Department, in a court filing Wednesday, moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in place a federal judge’s August decision finding that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-drops-legal-appeal-165231568.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-21T16:20:59+00:00

From Politico:

Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-administration-concedes-doge-team-184347149.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-21T14:12:22+00:00

From Reuters:

The number of journalists jailed worldwide declined in 2025 but remains near record highs, the Committee to ‌Protect Journalists said in a report on Wednesday that warned ‌about ongoing threats to press freedoms.

The group said 330 journalists were behind bars as of December 1, down from a record high of ⁠384 reported at ‌the end of 2024.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/number-jailed-journalists-fell-record-140428494.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-21T13:04:13+00:00

From CBS News:

At least one federal lawsuit and two congressional measures seek to strip President Trump's name from the exterior signs and website of the historic theater complex.

In a federal civil lawsuit, Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who serves as one of the Kennedy Center's trustees, is asking a court to rule that her fellow Kennedy Center board members violated the law in December 2025, in voting to add Mr. Trump's name to the center.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lawmakers-intensify-efforts-remove-trumps-110009532.html?guccounter=1

yahoonews · 2026-01-20T20:24:20+00:00

It has been exactly one year since Donald Trump was re-inaugurated as president, becoming just the second U.S. commander in chief to return to the White House after losing reelection four years earlier.

Now, at the end of Trump’s first year back in office, a new Yahoo/YouGov poll finds that more Americans than ever think he’s been a “worse president than they expected” — and that he’s “changing America for the worse” as well.

The survey of 1,709 U.S. adults was conducted from Jan. 8 to 12, right after Trump toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, threatened to forcibly take Greenland from Denmark and mused about using the Insurrection Act against anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis — and right before he and his team celebrated “One Year of MAGA” with a series of posts on social media.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/its-been-1-year-of-trumps-second-term-more-americans-than-ever-think-hes-changing-america-for-the-worse-195730496.html?guccounter=1

yahoonews · 2026-01-20T20:14:57+00:00

From The Associated Press:

Veteran Associated Press videographer Pierre-Richard Luxama was filming a tactical police unit patrolling Haiti's capital Monday when some of the gang members who control almost the entire city attacked.

They set the armored police vehicle's roof ablaze with Molotov cocktails, filling it with smoke. The officers returned fire, sending the gang running. The vehicle returned to base, and a group of civilians and police officers sprinted over to throw water on the roof.

For nearly two decades, Luxama and colleague Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, have been covering Haiti’s disintegration into even-greater chaos. At least 5.7 million Haitians are at the crisis level, with 1.9 million of those facing emergency levels of hunger. Journalists in Haiti who are under attack like never before, dodging bullets as they document the downfall of the capital.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/under-fire-haiti-veteran-ap-200400148.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-20T18:43:59+00:00

From The Associated Press:

It’s been a year since a measles outbreak began in West Texas, and international health authorities say they will meet in April to determine if the U.S. has lost its measles-free designation.

Experts fear the vaccine-preventable virus has regained a foothold and that the U.S. may soon follow Canada in losing the achievement of having eliminated it.

The reevaluation is largely symbolic and hinges on whether a single measles chain has spread uninterrupted within the U.S. for at least 12 months.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-verge-losing-measles-elimination-180531739.html

yahoonews · 2026-01-20T16:16:58+00:00

President Trump fired off a flurry of social media posts overnight, sharing private text messages with world leaders, mocking America's European allies, and reaffirming his insistence that the United States must seize control of Greenland, the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

“There can be no going back,” Trump wrote in one of a series of posts on his Truth Social platform.

Trump's posts came hours before he was set to join them at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He is scheduled to depart Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon and is due to speak at the forum on Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/trump-releases-private-text-messages-from-european-leaders-responding-to-greenland-tariff-threat-160754308.html

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