Of course I want to face this year determined to be a happier, kinder, more empathetic and more just person. It’s very simple, really: We need to demand the resurrection of customer service and put large numbers of well-paid and trained employees back in charge. My point is not that travel should always go smoothly — things break, weather turns, accidents happen. I’m not saying it would solve all of our problems, but it would go a long way to lowering the national temperature. Not to mention all the jobs, and career paths, at all levels, restoring customer service could provide.

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President Trump added a new dimension into his increasingly aggressive pursuit of Greenland , telling Norway that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. European leaders are looking to take the heat out of the rapidly escalating issue, in hope that Trump won’t follow through with his pledge. In Brussels, EU officials and diplomats are taking the U.S. threats extremely seriously and see them as the latest evidence of a fundamental reshaping of trans-Atlantic ties. European officials are searching for ways to respond to the president without escalating the situation into a broader trade spat or capitulating on security in the face of his trade threats. European officials also point out that imposing tariffs on some—but not all—EU countries would be very difficult to enforce because the bloc operates as a single market.

Therapy language used to be confined to clinical settings and academic journals, but now, it crops up everywhere from TikTok captions to relationship arguments. Very few non-professionals using this language have a full, well-rounded academic understanding of the concepts they’re actually invoking. As a result of this, therapy language has quickly started to lose its original meaning. Therapy Language Weaponizes BoundariesFew therapy terms have entered popular culture as fully (or as confusingly) as boundaries have. Ironically, this dynamic undermines the very safety that therapy language is often used to protect.

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The hacking comes as the death toll in a crackdown by authorities that smothered the demonstrations reached at least 3,941 people, activists said. The footage aired Sunday night across multiple channels broadcast by satellite from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the country's state broadcaster. The death toll exceeds that of any other round of protest or unrest in Iran in decades, and recalls the chaos surrounding the 1979 revolution. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency put the death toll Monday to at least 3,941, warning it likely would go higher. Iranian officials have not given a clear death toll, although on Saturday, Khamenei said the protests had left “several thousand” people dead and blamed the United States for the deaths.

The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS online and by phone from January 9-12 among a random national sample of 1,209 adults. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

A heckler at an NBA game in London won cheers on Sunday for his pointed message to the United States and especially its leader, President Donald Trump. “Leave Greenland alone!” someone yelled as Vanessa Williams sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the game between the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic. The shout was a reference to Trump’s threats to take the island ― currently a semi-autonomous Danish territory ― and make it part of the U.S. Politics: CNN Medical Analyst Says This Moment Shows Donald Trump ‘Needs to Be Evaluated’Trump has not ruled out the use of force. Vanessa Williams sings the U.S. national anthem before the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic game at the O2 Arena in London on Sunday.

CNN.com reports today:As memories fade from last December's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a new national poll indicates that support for stricter gun control laws appears to be fading, too. According to a new CNN/ORC International survey, 49% of Americans say they support stricter gun control laws, with 50% opposed. That 49 percent support for “stricter gun control laws” represents a slight decline from the 53 percent who supported that aim when CNN/ORC last polled the question, in April. (As CNN noted, that figure “is in line with just about every other national survey released over the past couple of months.”)That shows the paradox of polling on “stricter gun control laws”: in that April poll, a full third of the total respondents said they didn't support “stricter gun control laws” in the abstract, but when specifically asked about one such law, they said they were for it. Unfortunately, CNN/ORC doesn't seem to have polled specific “stricter gun control laws” in their latest poll, leading to results and thus media coverage that is far less informative.

We are actively recruiting Primary Starting Pitchers who want to take the ball every week, pitch deep into games, and become the durable, innings-capable arms MLB organizations need. What the USPBL plans for a primary starting pitcher: “Build the ability to pitch deep into games.”That used to be self-evident for a starting pitcher, but no longer. In 2025, three major league pitchers threw 200 innings. Major league teams crave velocity, and young pitchers train to boost it. Here’s hoping the USPBL can discover some training methods that major league teams can use.

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Ant and Dec at the Britain's Got Talent launch in 2016 via Associated PressAnt and Dec have issued a public apology after facing backlash over a social media post that some critics described as inadvertently “triggering”. However, shortly after the ad – which has now been pulled – went live, some took issue with the imagery, which was branded “insensitive” by some who felt the opening shot was reminiscent of suicide imagery. “Ant and I don’t get to hang out as much as we used to, so it’s perfect for us.”In addition to the regular audio podcast, full video episodes of Hanging Out With Ant And Dec will be available to watch on the Belta Box YouTube channel when it launches later this week. AdvertisementBelta Box will also run across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, and will be the home of “new digital formats” as well as clips of “classic And and Dec moments from some of their best-loved shows”. Over the years, these shows have included the likes of SM:TV Live, Saturday Night Takeaway, the gameshow Limitless Win and the children’s drama Byker Grove, which Ant and Dec recently announced they would be rebooting for the BBC.

By LZ Granderson / Los Angeles TimesOne of the most important political stories in American history — one that is particularly germane to our current, tumultuous time — unfolded in Los Angeles some 65 years ago. While his faith made party leaders nervous, they were downright afraid of the impact a civil rights protest during the Democratic National Convention could have on November’s election. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was also a warrior for civil rights, but the House representative preferred the legislative approach, where backroom deals were quietly made and his power most concentrated. LZ Granderson is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. ©2026 Los Angeles Times, latimes.com.

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