Informing, engaging & connecting the people of the world. JANUARY 7, 2020

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VIDEO: The 2020 Consumer Electronic Show kicks off Tuesday in Las Vegas. People flock to CES to see the how latest technologies, including robotics, drones, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, are changing how we do things.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On January 7, 1953, President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb. The announcement came during Truman’s final State of the Union address before Congress. The bomb was tested in November 1952 and produced an explosion with a yield of 10.4 megatons of TNT, and created a fireball more than 6 kilometers wide. It destroyed the Pacific island of Elugelab and parts of nearby islands.

Iraqi forces are pushing ahead with their crackdown on Islamic State’s ongoing insurgency despite the pause in assistance from the United States and coalition partners.

VIDEO: The U.S. is standing firmly with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, as both he and a rival lawmaker, Luis Parra, claim to be the country’s parliamentary speaker. The constitutional crisis in Venezuela has deepened after security forces loyal to socialist leader Nicolas Maduro blocked Guaido from entering the National Assembly chamber on Sunday.

Fears are mounting about the plight of more than a dozen Britons and Americans imprisoned in Iran. The U.S. and British governments accuse Tehran of holding them as “bargaining chips.”

The daughter of Angola’s former president said she was blindsided by a court decision to freeze her assets.