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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from "One Battle After Another." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)2026-01-07T05:00:33Z One Battle After Another dominated nominations to the Actor Awards on Wednesday, with Paul Thomas Andersons ragtag revolutionary saga landing a record seven nods in the annual SAG-AFTRA honors.In the 31 years of the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards, no movie has received more than five nominations. Along with a nod for the guilds top award, best ensemble, the cast of One Battle After Another was showered with nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and its stunt performers.The four other nominees for best ensemble are: Sinners, Hamnet, Marty Supreme and Frankenstein. Usually, to win best picture at the Oscars, a movie needs a SAG ensemble nomination. Only four films in the last three decades have managed the feat without that. Among the films that missed the cut this year were Sentimental Value, Wicked: For Good and Train Dreams. Sinners had an especially good result. Along with a best male actor nod for Michael B. Jordan, supporting actors Miles Caton and Wunmi Mosaku were both nominated. It collected five nominations in total. In television, Apples The Studio, HBOs White Lotus and Netflixs Adolescence lead the nominees.Historically, the Actor Awards have been one of the strongest Oscar indicators. Actors make up the largest branch of the film academy, and, in the past, individual SAG nominees have overlapped with the Oscar field at a rate of roughly four out of five. The Actor Awards are presented by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. That means the nominees Wednesday may closely resemble those headed to the Oscars. They are:Best male actor: DiCaprio, Timothe Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) and Jesse Plemons (Bugonia). The only surprise of that group was Plemons. The favorite remains the 30-year-old Chalamet who won the same award last year for A Complete Unknown and vowed to pursue greatness in his acceptance speech. Best female actor: Infiniti, Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs Id Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue) and Emma Stone (Bugonia).In the supporting male actor category, the nominees are: Del Toro, Penn, Caton, Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein) and Paul Mescal (Hamnet).The nominees for best supporting female actor are: Taylor, Mosaku, Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good), Amy Madigan (Weapons) and Odessa Azion (Marty Supreme). The biggest surprise in that category was the 25-year-old Azion.Snubbed altogether was Joachim Triers acclaimed Norwegian drama Sentimental Value. Both Renate Reinsve, in lead female actor, and Stellan Skarsgrd, for supporting male actor, have been viewed as shoo-ins. Many analysts have even considered Skarsgrd the favorite to win. With more than 122,000 voting members, the actors guild has tended to skew more populist and the guild often shies away from non-English language nominees. Membership in the academy, meanwhile, has grown increasingly international. Along with Sentimental Value, movies like the Iranian revenge drama It Was Just an Accident and the Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent should have greater success come Oscar nominations on Jan. 22. There have been some prominent differences between SAG and the Oscars. Last year, Chalamet won best male actor but lost to Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) at the Oscars. The papal drama Conclave took best ensemble, but Sean Bakers Anora won best picture at the Academy Awards. On the television side, the leader in comedy was The Studio, which scored nods for its ensemble, Seth Rogen, Kathryn Hahn, Catherine OHara and Ike Barinholtz. The top drama was The White Lotus, which collected four nominations including best ensemble and nods for Parker Posey, Walton Goggins and Aimee Lee Wood. The limited series Adolescence also landed four nominations, for Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Christine Tremarco. The Actor Awards will take place Sunday, March 1, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Netflix will stream the ceremony live. Harrison Ford will be presented with the guilds life achievement award. JAKE COYLE Coyle has been a film critic and covered the movie industry for The Associated Press since 2013. He is based in New York City. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00053-6We highlight some Nature Briefing stories from the end of 2025, including: a seismic detector made from a telecom cable, and how self-heating plants attract pollinators.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09870-7A bookkeeping approach shows that disturbed tropical humid forests experienced net aboveground carbon loss during 19902020, primarily driven by small but persistent deforestation clearings owing to persistent land-use conversion without forest regrowth.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09885-0Humans and monkeys integrated experiential and observational evidence during a two-player task, and the anterior cingulate cortex combined the information sources into a unified neural belief representation that explains behavioural asymmetries.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09909-9The existing ENCODE registry of candidate human and mouse cis-regulatory elements is expanded with the addition of new ENCODE data, integrating new functional data as well as new cell and tissue types.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10040-ySystematic analyses of lipid mobilization by human lipid transfer proteins

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Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09867-2A new architecture based on high-valence sulfur/sulfur tetrachloride cathode chemistry is described for manufacturing high-voltage anode-free sodiumsulfur batteries, demonstrating promise for applications in grid energy storage and wearable electronics.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09895-yAn observation-based storm-track proxy shows that the winter North Pacific storm track has shifted substantially polewards, suggesting regional impacts on precipitation and warming patterns, with implications for temperature variability and extreme events.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09902-2The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encodes the value, salience and valence of learned stimuli along distinct neural dimensions, and the geometry of these representations shapes motivated behaviours in mice.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09907-xIntegrated single-cell and spatial data analysis, combined with bidirectional CRISPR screens, identify the transcription factor GLIS3 as a key driver of chronic inflammation and fibrosis and a potential marker of disease severity in patients with ulcerative colitis.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09874-3A soft, biodegradable, wireless sensing device can monitor pressure, temperature and strain over long distances (up to 16cm), maintaining accuracy across varying positions and angles.

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A truck departs from a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)2026-01-07T22:02:19Z California will lose an additional $160 million for delaying the revocations of 17,000 commercial drivers licenses for immigrants, federal transportation officials announced Wednesday.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy already withheld $40 million in federal funding because he said California isnt enforcing English proficiency requirements for truckers.The state notified these drivers in the fall that they would lose their licenses after a federal audit found problems that included licenses for truckers and bus drivers that remained valid long after an immigrants visa expired. More than one-quarter of the small sample of California licenses that investigators reviewed were unlawful.But then last week California said it would delay those revocations until March after immigrant groups sued the state because of concerns that some groups were being unfairly targeted. Duffy said the state was supposed to revoke those licenses by Monday. Duffy is pressuring California and other states to make sure immigrants who are in the country illegally arent granted the licenses. Our demands were simple: follow the rules, revoke the unlawfully-issued licenses to dangerous foreign drivers, and fix the system so this never happens again, Duffy said in a written statement. (Gov.) Gavin Newsom has failed to do so putting the needs of illegal immigrants over the safety of the American people. Newsoms office did not immediately respond after the action was announced Wednesday afternoon. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on The federal government began cracking down during the summer. The issue became prominent after a truck driver who was not authorized to be in the U.S. made an illegal U-turn and caused a crash in Florida that killed three people in August. Duffy previously threatened to withhold millions of dollars in federal funding from California, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New York, Texas, South Dakota, Colorado, and Washington after audits found significant problems under the existing rules, including commercial licenses being valid long after an immigrant truck drivers work permit expired. He had dropped the threat to withhold $160 million from California after the state said it would revoke the licenses. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Derek Barrs said California failed to live up to the promise it made in November to revoke all the flawed licenses by Jan. 5.We will not accept a corrective plan that knowingly leaves thousands of drivers holding noncompliant licenses behind the wheel of 80,000-pound trucks in open defiance of federal safety regulations, Barrs said.Trucking trade groups have praised the effort to get unqualified drivers who shouldnt have licenses or cant speak English off the road. They also applauded the Transportation Departments moves to go after questionable commercial drivers license schools. The spotlight has been on Sikh truckers because the driver in the Florida crash and the driver in another fatal crash in California in October are both Sikhs. So the Sikh Coalition, a national group defending the civil rights of Sikhs, and the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the California drivers. They said immigrant truck drivers were being unfairly targeted. Immigrants account for about 20% of all truck drivers, but these non-domiciled licenses immigrants can receive only represent about 5% of all commercial drivers licenses or about 200,000 drivers. The Transportation Department also proposed new restrictions that would severely limit which noncitizens could get a license, but a court put the new rules on hold. JOSH FUNK Funk is an Associated Press reporter who covers transportation including aviation safety and airlines along with all the major freight railroads. Funk also covers Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway, the impact of the ongoing bird flu outbreak, agriculture and other news out of the Midwest. twitter mailto

A maroon Honda Pilot SUV sits perpendicular across a residential road in Minneapolis. At the time, federal authorities were in the neighborhood as part of the Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) recently announced surge of thousands of officials. A silver Nissan Titan drives up the road and stops because the Honda is blocking its path. Two officers dressed in body armor, pouches, and badges saying police exit the Nissan.The two people walk towards the Honda. Someone can be heard saying get out of the fucking car. One of them tries to open the drivers door and reach through the open window. The driver of the Honda reverses and turns, getting straighter with the road. The driver then slowly accelerates and starts to turn to the right, leveling the car out with its front pointing away from the two officers.A third officer, who has been standing on the other side of the road, pulls out a firearm while the car is turning away from him and fires into the car three times. The officer fires two of the shots when the vehicle is already well past him. He is not in front of the car, but to the side. The officer calmly holsters his weapon.The Honda, now straight on the road and its driver shot, rolls up the street and collides with a vehicle and electricity pole. The woman driver died. The driver's airbag is covered in blood.You can watch three videos taken at the scene and posted to social media here, here, and here, to see if you think the above description is accurate.The Trump administration is telling an entirely different story. A statement posted by the official DHS X account said, one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill theman act of domestic terrorism.An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers. The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. Thankfully, the ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries, it added.Do you know anything else about this incident? Do you work at ICE, CBP, or another agency? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote, the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said at a press conference, it was an act of domestic terrorism and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him.Trump posted a fourth video with his Truth Social post, which, again, you can watch here.DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. The Honda was already turning to the right away from the officers when the one who allegedly feared for his life fired the shots. There were no other officers up the road where the car did fully level out, meaning no other fellow officers were at risk.This is a pattern. Some event happens as part of the Trump administrations mass deportation campaign, DHS rushes out a misleading, wrong, or incendiary statement that does not reflect reality, and it becomes another piece of ammo for the X.com grifters, right wing media ecosystem, or people who just love the idea of others being hurt. DHSs serial lying has become such a problem that even a judge called it out. In November, U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis wrote a more than 200 page opinion that in large part catalogued DHS officials bullshit. Parts of the opinion were scathing: The Court finds Defendants' evidence simply not credible.As Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, highlighted at the time, Ellis was the first federal judge to review bodycam footage from DHSs actions in Chicago. DHS claimed rioters had shot agents with fireworks; the explosions were DHSs own equipment, according to bodycam and helicopter footage. Another series of bodycam clips showed DHS agents lobbed flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls at the protesters, stating, fuck yea!. And in an instance particularly relevant to Wednesdays shooting, DHS shared a video the court believed was an attempt to show agents constantly face danger from cars ramming them on purpose. Instead, it suggests that the agent drove erratically and brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force.Ellis also specifically found the testimony of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino not credible. In one case, Bovino was shown a video of agents hitting Rev. Black with pepper balls. Bovino denied seeing a projectile hit Black in the head, Ellis wrote.You can watch the video yourself, which Ellis provided a link to in her opinion, here. For what its worth, Bovino was, at some point, at the scene of Wednesdays shooting in Minneapolis.Overall, after reviewing all the evidence, the Court finds that Defendants widespread misrepresentations call into question everything that Defendants say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening at the Broadview facility or out in the streets of the Chicagoland area during law enforcement activities, Ellis wrote.It has also become routine, unfortunately, for law enforcement to use passive voice and reflexively claim that an officer was acting in self defense after law enforcement shoots someone, regardless of the circumstances.In September a man called Joshua Jahn opened fire on an ICE facility. Even then, ICE wasn't hurt: he killed two detainees and injured another.But DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Its words carry no weight or meaning for those who care about what really happened. Only those who want to believe what it says.Correction: this piece has been updated to say the vehicle was a Honda Pilot, not a Hyundai pilot.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09914-yNew hominin fossils from the Grotte Hominids at Thomas Quarry I (ThI-GH) in Casablanca, Morocco, dated to around 773 thousand years ago are similar in age to Homo antecessor, yet are morphologically distinct.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09881-4Myb1 functions as a switch-like regulator of state transitions in Hortaea werneckii, whereby its expression and degradation are coupled to nutrient conditions, stabilizing unicellular or multicellular growth.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09894-zThe inability of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells to shift the circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus during daytime is caused by light-dependent depolarization block of these cells.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09886-zHuman genetic variation influences instability of DNA repeats that commonly expand as we age.

Nature, Published online: 07 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09899-8A histone ubiquitin-dependent regulatory hub governs stimulus-dependent heterochromatin propagation, with important implications for understanding mechanisms governing rapid changes in the epigenetic landscape in physiology and disease.

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The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)2026-01-07T22:11:16Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies and commissions following his instructions for his administration to review participation in and funding for all international organizations, including those affiliated with the United Nations, according to a White House statement on social media. Most of the targets are U.N.-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor and other issues that the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and woke initiatives, according to a partial list obtained by The Associated Press. The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nations sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity, the State Department said in a statement. Trumps decision to withdraw from organizations that foster cooperation among nations to address global challenges comes as his administration has launched military efforts or issued threats that have rattled allies and adversaries alike, including capturing autocratic Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro and indicating an intention to take over Greenland. This is the latest U.S. withdrawal from global agenciesThe administration previously suspended support from agencies like the World Health Organization, the U.N. for Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA, the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO as it has taken a larger, a-la-carte approach to paying its dues to the world body, picking which operations and agencies they believe align with Trumps agenda and those which no longer serve U.S. interests. I think what were seeing is the crystallization of the U.S. approach to multilateralism, which is my way or the highway, said Daniel Forti, head of U.N. affairs at the International Crisis Group. Its a very clear vision of wanting international cooperation on Washingtons own terms. It has marked a major shift from how previous administrations both Republican and Democratic have dealt with the U.N., and it has forced the world body, already undergoing its own internal reckoning, to respond with a series of staffing and program cuts. Many independent nongovernmental agencies some that work with the United Nations have cited many project closures because of the U.S. administrations decision last year to slash foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.Despite the massive shift, the U.S. officials, including Trump himself, say they have seen the potential of the U.N. and want to instead focus taxpayer money on expanding American influence in many of the standard-setting U.N. initiatives where there is competition with China, like the International Telecommunications Union, the International Maritime Organization and the International Labor Organization. The global organizations from which the US is departingThe withdrawal from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, is the latest effort by Trump and his allies to distance the U.S. from international organizations focused on climate and addressing climate change. UNFCC, the 1992 agreement between 198 countries to financially support climate change activities in developing countries, is the underlying treaty for the landmark Paris climate agreement. Trump who calls climate change a hoax withdrew from that agreement soon after reclaiming the White House.Mainstream scientists say climate change is behind increasing instances of deadly and costly extreme weather, including flooding, droughts, wildfires, intense rainfall events and dangerous heat.The U.S. withdrawal could hinder global efforts to curb greenhouse gases because it gives other nations the excuse to delay their own actions and commitments, said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists that tracks countries carbon dioxide emissions. It also will be difficult to achieve meaningful progress on climate change without cooperation from the U.S., one of the worlds largest emitters and economies, experts said. The U.N.'s population agency, which provides sexual and reproductive health across the world, has long been a lightning rod for Republican opposition and Trump himself cut funding for the agency during his first term in office. He and other GOP officials have accused the agency of participating in coercive abortion practices in countries like China. When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he restored funding for the agency. A State Department review conducted the following year found no evidence to support these claims. Other organizations and agencies that the U.S. will quit include the Carbon Free Energy Compact, the United Nations University, the International Cotton Advisory Committee, the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies and the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.The State Department said additional reviews are ongoing. ___Amiri reported from the United Nations. Associated Press writer Tammy Webber reported from Fenton, Michigan.___This story has been updated to correct Daniel Fortis title at the International Crisis Group; It is head of U.N. affairs, not senior U.N. analyst. FARNOUSH AMIRI Amiri covers foreign policy and the United Nations as a correspondent for The Associated Press, based in New York. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site