Fact & Spin

January 20, 2024: NKorea underwater drone claim, Trump’s Colorado push and Zuckerberg’s AI aspirations

Facts & Spins for January 20, 2024 Top Stories: A top NATO official urges Western civilians to prepare for conflict with Russia, North Korea claims a successful test of an underwater nuclear-capable drone, The US State Dept. says there’s “no way” to ensure long-term Israeli security without a Palestinian state, Somalia rejects mediation with Ethiopia over the Somaliland port, The White House cancels nearly $5B in student debt for almost 74K borrowers, Trump's legal team urges the SCOTUS to keep him on the Colorado ballot, Biden inks a short-term Congressional spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, Another transgender political candidate is disqualified over a naming row in Ohio, OpenAI removes its ban on the military use of its AI tools, and Mark Zuckerberg enters the race for Artificial General Intelligence.
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January 19, 2024: Beijing COVID mapping, Uvalde shooting report and AI Davos discussions

Facts & Spins for January 19, 2024 Top Stories: A Beijing lab is found to have mapped COVID weeks before the global outbreak began, India rescues a Houthi-struck cargo ship in the Red Sea, Western nations consider funding Ukraine with frozen Russian assets, a Serbian opposition leader claims he was tortured by the secret service, the Ecuadorian prosecutor investigating a live-streamed TV studio attack is killed, a federal report on the Uvalde school shooting is published, Democratic lawmakers introduce a bill to protect IVF access, Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson loses his social media training court case, AI takes center-stage at the World Economic Forum, and Apple removes its blood oxygen feature from its smartwatches.
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January 18, 2024 Top Stories: Deadly Iranian attacks, slow China growth and cloned monkeys

Facts & Spins for January 18, 2024 Top Stories: An Iranian missile strike on Pakistan kills two children, China’s economic growth reaches a three-decade low, Belarus updates its military doctrine, Marine vet Daniel Penny loses a motion to dismiss his subway chokehold case, E Jean Carroll’s $10M defamation trial against Trump begins, a Judge blocks Spirit Airlines merger deal with JetBlue, France announces parental leave reforms, a report finds 90% of online child abuse content is 'self-generated' through extortion, the FDA clears an AI-Powered handheld cancer detector and a cloned rhesus monkey reaches adulthood for the first time.
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January 17, 2024: Trump wins Iowa, Nauru abandons Taiwan and tobacco use declines

Facts & Spins for January 17, 2024 Top Stories: Donald Trump wins big in the Iowa caucuses, Vivek Ramaswamy drops out of the GOP race, Iran strikes an alleged Israeli ‘spy base’ in Iraq, US Secretary of State Blinken expresses Arab nations’ caution over rebuilding Gaza, Nauru cuts ties with Taiwan, Zelenskyy visits Davos to garner support, Elon Musk requests a bigger stake in Tesla, the Biden campaign raises $97M in Q4 of 2023, global tobacco use declines, and a study finds having more siblings negatively impacts mental health.
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January 16, 2023: Taiwan election, new Danish king and AI job loss

Facts & Spins for January 16, 2024 Top Stories: NATO is allegedly preparing for a Russian attack in 2025, William Lai wins Taiwan’s presidential election, US congressional leaders unveil a stopgap bill to avert a shutdown, Missiles hit a US ship off Yemen’s coast, North Korea claims to have tested a solid-fuel hypersonic missile, Biden is reportedly “running out' of patience with Netanyahu, US climate envoy John Kerry plans to step down, Frederik X is proclaimed King of Denmark The White House warns Texas against blocking border patrol access, and the IMF warns AI could effect 40% of jobs.
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January 13, 2024: Hague Gaza trial, Altman-Johnson meeting and cosmic megastructures

Facts & Spins for January 13, 2024 Top Stories: Israel responds to South Africa’s Gaza genocide claims in the Hague, US and UK bomb Houthi targets in Yemen, US House Speaker Johnson and Sam Altman discuss AI regulation, Rishi Sunak promises a ‘100-year partnership’ with Ukraine and inks a security pact, Poland’s opposition holds a mass anti-government protest, Texas blocks federal immigration agents from a key area on the US southern border, Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to federal tax charges, The FAA will audit Boeing following the recent Alaska Airlines door incident, A new study reports that UK maternity deaths hit a 20-year high, and a new discovery of deep space “megastructures” yields cosmic questions.
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January 12, 2024 Top Stories: Christie presidential exit, Bitcoin ETF approval and Argentina $4.7B IMF loan

Facts & Spins for January 12, 2024 Top Stories: Chris Christie drops out of the Republican presidential race, as Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis face off in the 5th GOP debate, Papua New Guinea declares a state of emergency after violent riots break out, the US Pentagon warns that $1B in Ukraine aid is at 'risk of theft,' Morocco is elected to lead the UN Human Rights Council, US regulators approve Bitcoin ETFs, Argentina secures $4.7B from the IMF, Donald Trump speaks as his New York civil fraud trials closes, NFL coach Bill Belichick leaves the New England Patriots, and a study finds that climate change drove the largest-ever ape to extinction.
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January 11, 2024 Top Stories: Ecuadorian TV gunmen, AI misinformation threat and secret synagogue tunnels

Facts & Spins for January 11, 2024 Top Stories: Gunmen storm an Ecuadorian television studio live on air, Houthi rebels launch one of their largest-ever attacks in the Red Sea, AI-powered misinformation is labeled the highest short-term threat, Rishi Sunak announces a law to exonerate post office scandal victims. Hunter Biden appears at a House committee hearing to hold him in contempt, the SEC confirms its X account was hacked, a secret tunnel under a New York synagogue sparks chaos, Afghan girls are arrested for violating hijab rules, the WHO is accused of putting women at risk with its trans self-ID plan and scientists reveal a DNA test for detecting early stage cancer.
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January 10, 2024 Top Stories: 2023 hottest year, German farmer protests and banned dog meat

Facts & Spins for January 10, 2024 Top Stories: 2023 was the hottest year on record, German farmers block roads in protest again agriculture policies, Macron appoints France's youngest-ever prime minister, Antony Blinken meets with Israeli officials, Taiwan’s presidential frontrunner vows to maintain the status quo, Ecuador declares a state of emergency after a druglord escapes prison, Trump claims immunity from prosecution in the Georgia election case, Nikki Haley narrows her gap with Trump in New Hampshire, Norway approves the world's first commercial deep sea mining, and South Korea outlaws dog meat trade.
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January 09, 2024 Top Stories: $1.6T spending cap, troubled moonlander launch and Beckenbauer death

Facts & Spins for January 09, 2024 Top Stories: Congressional negotiators agree to a $1.6T 2024 spending cap, NASA’s first moonlander launch in decades suffers a rocky start, the US grounds Boeing 737s after a door falls off mid-flight, German football start Franz Beckenbauer dies aged 78, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is re-elected, Antony Blinken meets with Middle Eastern leaders, multiple explosions rock Ukraine following renewed Russian attacks, SCOTUS rejects X’s challenge to disclose surveillance requests, Lloyd Austin faces scrutiny over a secretive hospital stay and mass killer Anders Breivik sues Norway over his prison isolation.
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