21Globe - January 2018

ABC News - Home Depot is paying out one-time bonuses of up to $1,000 in cash to its hourly workers in the U.S., citing the recent tax overhaul.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be willing to be interviewed under oath by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

NBC News - Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon resigned Wednesday night amid widening denunciations of how the school handled the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal

ABC NEWS - A blast of cold weather on Thursday is reminding people in the Northeast that it is still the dead of winter.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s attendance at the World Economic Forum (all times local): 2:54 p.m. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May are meeting during a summit in Switzerland. The leaders met Thursday during the World Economic Forum in Davos and were expected to discuss the conflict in Syria, U.S. efforts to revise the Iran nuclear deal and North Korea’s nuclear threat.

FOX News - Larry Nassar, the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young female athletes, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison.

USA Today - Toys R Us late Tuesday filed court documents outlining plans to close up to 182 stores as part of its bankruptcy reorganization plans.

Reuters - Gangs pressure refinery workers to tap the lifeblood of Mexico’s oil industry. One former worker fled, while one former gang member turned informant.

USA Today - Minnesota Public Radio says it was more than a single touch that cost Garrison Keillor his job.

Rome (CNN)Pope Francis released a message condemning "fake news," saying that it's a "sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred."