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Day: January 16, 2026

What Happened Today – January 15, 2026

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SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts inside Dragon Endeavour spacecraft after NASA's first medical evacuation splashdown

SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts Oleg Platonov, Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and Kimiya Yui sat in the Dragon Endeavour capsule aboard the recovery ship after NASA's first medical evacuation in 65 years of spaceflight. (Photo by Bill Ingalls, NASA)

Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against protesters in Minneapolis, the same day his administration sanctioned Iranian leaders for attacking protesters in their country. That 1807 law hasn’t been invoked without a governor’s consent in more than 60 years, not since LBJ used it to protect civil rights marchers from Alabama state troopers. Now … Read more