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A coastal storm driven by a jet stream shift is expected to produce a band of snow from southern Georgia to Delaware on Sunday, with the potential for additional accumulation into parts of the Northeast. Exact amounts will hinge on the storm's track and speed.

Little Lambs Foundation plans a 12,000 square-foot diaper bank and community resource center in Logan with construction set to begin in spring, while the foundation still needs about $500,000 of the $1.5 million project cost.

The National Weather Service has issued a freeze watch for St. Johns County as an Arctic cold front is expected to bring widespread frost and lows near or below freezing through Jan. 19.

Sheinelle Jones says she continues to grieve after her husband, Uche Ojeh, died last May from glioblastoma. She has returned to television and was announced as a co-host on Today with Jenna & Friends.

On Jan. 14, 2025, Kate Middleton announced she was in remission; since then she has gradually resumed public duties while keeping many personal details private.

SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 14; the Falcon 9 first stage landed on the droneship and the network now has nearly 9,500 active units, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell.

The American Cancer Society reports a 70% five-year survival rate for cancers diagnosed 2015–2021, while lung, colorectal and pancreatic cancers are expected to cause the most cancer deaths in 2026.

A reflection for Feb. 8, 2026 links Matthew 5:13-16 and Isaiah 58 to a call for Christians to act as 'salt' and 'light,' using images like a teleidoscope and 'hot peppers' to urge renewed attention to migrants and the poor, and citing messages from Pope Leo XIV and U.S. bishops.

Google is rolling out automatic conference room detection to Google Meet on Android and iOS using inaudible ultrasonic signals from compatible room hardware; when a phone detects a room, Meet can offer Companion mode so the user can join without turning on the phone microphone or speaker.

Marisa Abela said on a podcast that her 2020 thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment have made it harder to maintain her physique, and that she remains on lifelong medication with regular checkups.

Leonardo DiCaprio was honored at the National Board of Review’s annual gala in Manhattan, where Paul Thomas Anderson’s 'One Battle After Another' received multiple top awards, including best film and director.

Hypixel has announced a bug bounty for Hytale that pays $25,000 for serious vulnerabilities, with some payouts able to exceed that amount; the program’s rules and restrictions are posted on the game’s official site.

The writer says cheap pillows made their shoulder and neck pain worse and that switching to the Panda London Hybrid pillow relieved that pain; the pillow is reported to be on sale for £71, its lowest recorded price.

A LendingClub-commissioned Talker Research survey of 2,000 Americans found limited familiarity with high-yield savings accounts (30%) and that 43% of respondents do not know their savings account interest rate.

Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar said 2026 "will be the year of price pressure" after the company’s U.S. pricing deal and the arrival of cheaper generics, and he expects to expand the incretin market with both new oral and injectable Wegovy products; other executives at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference described a cautiously optimistic outlook for 2026.

A man in his late 50s with long-standing erectile dysfunction has tried medications, a vacuum pump, and injections and is now scheduled for an inflatable penile prosthesis; the procedure is described as irreversible and carries surgical risks.

Scientists reported 2025’s global average temperature at 15.08°C, about 1.44°C above pre-industrial levels, and said the last three years have hovered near the 1.5°C Paris limit.

On April 29, Disneyland's Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge will add characters from the original Star Wars trilogy — including Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia — and will add rearranged selections of John Williams' film themes; the changes apply only to the Disneyland park.

The World Meteorological Organization says 2025 ranked among the three warmest years on record, extending an 11-year run of unusually high global temperatures.

Coastal announced it has been acquired by Tata Consultancy Services and will operate as its own brand under TCS to broaden Salesforce, data, and AI services at global scale.

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope found a bright, multicolored bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 about 730 light-years away, despite no detected accretion disc. The structure appears to trace an outflow active for at least 1,000 years, and researchers report a strong magnetic field as a possible partial explanation.

Morocco welcomed about 19.8 million international tourists in 2025 (up 14%), and Egypt recorded roughly 19 million visitors (up 21%), with both countries reporting record-breaking arrivals amid a post-pandemic recovery.

Six puppies in Gold Bar, Washington who were treated for suspected opioid exposure are recovering and will be quarantined before being offered for adoption; some first responders have expressed interest in adopting them.

Kristin Seefeldt will serve as faculty director of the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions through December 2026, and Luke Shaefer has been named Detroit's chief executive of health, human services and poverty solutions and will begin in February while taking a two-year leave from U‑M.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy signed a memorandum reaffirming plans to develop a nuclear reactor for a lunar base with a goal of being ready to launch by 2030, and a recent executive order called for a lunar base and reactor by that year.

Researchers used Curiosity data and a Mars-adapted climate model to run 64 simulations of a Gale crater lake and found that thin, seasonally disappearing ice lids could thermally insulate liquid water for decades under cold early-Mars conditions.

Experts and patients say judgment about smoking helps keep many people from screening and treatment; only 18 percent of eligible Americans get screened and about 20 percent of lung cancer patients receive no treatment.

A prehistoric dugout canoe recovered at Lake Mendota is reported as about 5,200 years old, and officials link the discoveries to Ho-Chunk ancestral ties and ceremonial significance.

A YouTuber demonstrated a handheld device that sends a narrow ultrasonic beam which the air demodulates to produce audible sound only within the beam; the video explains the carrier-wave method and notes lingering questions about safety standards for high-power ultrasound.

Several national and international climate agencies report that 2025 ranked as the second- or third-warmest year on record, with the last three years the warmest on record and greenhouse gas concentrations rising.