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How Jan. 6 will be different this year. And, who took home a Golden Globe award
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Today is Jan. 6, the day Congress is scheduled to certify President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. The atmosphere is expected to be very different from four years ago, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Around 140 police officers were injured. While the FBI has classified the attack as an act of domestic terrorism, Trump has referred to it as a “day of love.” He has also promised to pardon people charged for their involvement in the attack.
Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell watches a video of rioters during a hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
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- 🎧 When Trump ran for president again, he embraced the idea that the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, was overblown and said there were no guns. NPR’s Tom Dresibach tells Up First that this claim is false. Trump also said his supporters at most “got a little out of hand” — a narrative that judges who heard the more than 1,500 cases have dispelled. Trump promised pardons on Day One in office but has been vague about who would receive them. Aquilino Gonell, who was a Capitol Police sergeant during the attack and whose injuries forced him to retire, says he feels betrayed by the election. “What did I risk my life for?” Gonell says.
- ➡️ Some of the people who stormed the Capitol believed in the QAnon conspiracy theory that claims Trump is involved in a secret battle against evil members of the alleged deep state. After the attack, multiple social media platforms pushed to ban QAnon content. Here’s why it hasn’t gone away.
- ➡️ There are subtle ways this year’s certification process will differ from 2021’s due to Congress passing new rules. These are some of the key changes.
CNN is fighting a defamation lawsuit in court today. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, CNN reported as part of its investigation into claims of “black market rescues” that a security consultant was among those offering to evacuate people desperate to flee the country — for a price. When the story aired, a photo of Zachary Young, a security contractor who had offered to evacuate people from Afghanistan, was shown. Young says he sued CNN to clear his name.
- 🎧 Young’s attorneys say his character was maligned, and he wasn’t doing it for individuals but for deeper-pocketed organizations like U.S. and European nongovernmental organizations. His attorneys claim he lost millions of dollars due to this story, according to NPR’s David Folkenflik. CNN apologized some months after the story first appeared, saying it shouldn’t have applied the “black market” label to Young. The network’s lawyers have taken a more aggressive tone, saying Young lied to CNN reporters and that the network couldn’t confirm he evacuated anyone as he claimed. Behind the scenes, some editors at CNN have expressed misgivings about the reporting.
The 82nd Golden Globes took place last night in Beverly Hills. Comedian Nikki Glaser hosted. The queer musical-thriller Emilia Pérez took home the move movie awards, including one for best musical or comedy film. On the television side, FX’s Shōgun led wins and took home awards in every category it was nominated for. Here’s the full list of last night’s winners.
- 🎧 Though Emilia Pérez‘s big wins were no surprise, says NPR’s Mandalit del Barco, who was inside the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night, there were some surprising moments. The movie musical Wicked only took home one win for its box office achievement. In 2022, the Globes faced criticism after the Los Angeles Times reported there were no Black members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which used to hand out these awards. The organization has since been bought and formally disbanded. The number and types of voting members have been expanded to include more than 300 entertainment journalists from around the world.
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Palestinian artist Tamer Nafar performs during a festival in the town of Sakhnin in northern Israel on Oct. 23, 2016.
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The Arabic and Hebrew music landscape has been shaken up by the Israel-Hamas war. NPR’s Daniel Estrin says he didn’t listen to music for a long time after the Oct. 7 attacks as he just couldn’t stomach it. The music scene also reflected this. First, there was shock, then silence, as many musicians were not writing. Now, there is a burst of new music. Estrin spoke with Israeli music critic Einav Schiff and Palestinian musician Tamer Nafar about some of the songs on their playlists and to reflect on over a year of war.
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Jossiel Estefes “Onex stands beside his bike in a gas station in Connecticut during a ride.
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Brothers Andrés and Eddie Lucero founded the South Bronx-based Aztec Rebels motorcycle club in 2016 after learning about the culture and politics of another Bronx-based motorcycle club. They dreamt of developing a space where they could hear their own music, speak their language and be understood. They started with five founding members. Since then, they have expanded to more than 20 full members. “People are always looking for a family, and that’s why sometimes they get into gangs. We want to be that place where Mexicans can come and be in a safe environment, without violence, but with a family,” Eddie says.
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A team of 100 researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford uncovered around 200 dinosaur footprints along five trackways in southeast England during a week-long excavation in June 2024.
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- Researchers found around 166-million-year-old footprint tracks at a limestone quarry in southeast England, providing insights into certain dinosaurs’ size and speed. Five trackways were uncovered: Four are suspected to be the giant 60-foot, 2-ton Cetiosaurus and the fifth a Megalosaurus.
- Congestion pricing was introduced yesterday in the center of New York City. The measure, which charges many drivers $9 to enter Manhattan at peak hours, went through despite a late attempt by New Jersey to stop it in court.
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has resigned from the Washington Post after the editorial page editor rejected her cartoon depicting media and tech giants submitting to President-elect Donald Trump.
This newsletter was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
An explosion and fire drew a large emergency response on Friday to a lumber mill in the Midcoast region of Maine, officials said.
The State Police and fire marshal’s investigators responded to Robbins Lumber in Searsmont, about 72 miles northeast of Portland, said Shannon Moss, a spokeswoman for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
Mike Larrivee, the director of the Waldo County Regional Communications Center, said the number of victims was unknown, cautioning that “the information we’re getting from the scene is very vague.”
“We’ve sent every resource in the county to that area, plus surrounding counties,” he said.
Footage from the scene shared by WABI-TV showed flames burning through the roof of a large structure as heavy, dark smoke billowed skyward.
The Associated Press reported that at least five people were injured, and that county officials were considering the incident a “mass casualty event.”
Catherine Robbins-Halsted, an owner and vice president at Robbins Lumber, told reporters at the scene that all of the company’s employees had been accounted for.
Gov. Janet T. Mills of Maine said on social media that she had been briefed on the situation and urged people to avoid the area.
“I ask Maine people to join me in keeping all those affected in their thoughts,” she said.
Representative Jared Golden, Democrat of Maine, said on social media that he was aware of the fire and explosion.
“As my team and I seek out more information, I am praying for the safety and well-being of first responders and everyone else on-site,” he said.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Crime scene tape surrounds a bicycle in front of St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Atlanta on May 14, 2026. (SKYFOX 5)
ATLANTA – The woman stabbed to death on the Beltline has been identified as 23-year-old Alyssa Paige, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner.
The backstory:
Paige was killed by a 21-year-old man Thursday afternoon while she was on the Beltline. Officials confirmed to FOX 5 that the stabbing happened near the 1700 block of Flagler Avenue NE.
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the department was alerted around 12:10 p.m. that a woman had been stabbed just north of the Montgomery Ferry Drive overpass. She was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital where she later died. Another person was also stabbed during the incident, but their condition remains unknown.
According to officers, the man responsible attacked a U.S. Postal worker prior to the stabbing before getting away on a bike. He then used that bike to flee the scene of the stabbing as well.
The suspect was arrested near St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Peachtree Street in Midtown around 5:25 p.m.
What we don’t know:
While officials haven’t released an official motive, they noted the man may have been suffering a mental health crisis.
The Source: Information in this article came from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office and previous FOX 5 reporting.
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a former Army serviceman they accused of distributing instructions on how to build explosives that were used by a man who conducted a deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day last year.
The former serviceman, Jordan A. Derrick, a 40-year-old from Missouri, was charged with one count of engaging in the business of manufacturing explosive materials without a license; one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device; and one count of distributing information relating to manufacturing explosives, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Wednesday. The three charges together carry a maximum sentence of 40 years in federal prison.
Starting in September 2023, the authorities said, Mr. Derrick was using various social media sites to share videos of himself making explosive materials, including detonators. His videos provided step-by-step instructions, and he often engaged with viewers in comments, sometimes answering their questions about the chemistry behind the explosives.
The authorities said that Mr. Derrick’s videos were downloaded by Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, who was accused of ramming a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025, in a terrorist attack that killed 14 people and injured dozens. Mr. Jabbar was killed in a shootout with the police. Before the attack, Mr. Jabbar had placed two explosives on Bourbon Street, the authorities said, but they did not detonate.
The authorities later recovered two laptops and a USB drive in a house that Mr. Jabbar had rented. The USB drive contained several videos created by Mr. Derrick that provided instructions on making explosives. The authorities said the explosives they recovered were consistent with the ones Mr. Derrick had posted about.
Mr. Derrick’s lawyers did not respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Derrick was a combat engineer in the Army, where he provided personnel and vehicle support, the authorities said. He also helped supervise safety personnel during demolitions and various operations. He was honorably discharged in February 2013.
The authorities did not say whether Mr. Derrick had any communication with Mr. Jabbar, or whether the men had known each other. In some of Mr. Derrick’s videos and comments, he indicated that he was aware that his videos could be misused.
“There are a plethora of uh, moral, you know, entanglements with topics, any topic of teaching explosives, right?” he asked in one video, according to the affidavit. “Of course, the wrong people could get it.”
The authorities also said that an explosion occurred at a private residence in Odessa, Mo., on May 4, and the occupant of the residence told investigators that he had manufactured explosives after watching online tutorials from Mr. Derrick.
Mr. Derrick’s YouTube account had more than 15,000 subscribers and 20 published videos, the affidavit said. He had also posted content on other platforms, including Odysee and Patreon. Some videos were accessible to the public for free, while others required a paid subscription to view.
“My responsibility to my countrymen is to make sure that I serve the function of the Second Amendment to strengthen it,” Mr. Derrick said in one of his videos, according to the affidavit. “This is how I serve my country for real.”
Outside of the income he received through content creation, Mr. Derrick did not have any known employment. He did receive a monthly disability check from Veterans Affairs, the affidavit stated.
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