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ABC News Update

Friday, January 16, 2026 07:00PM ET

ABC News Update

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🗓️ 17 January 2026

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From ABC News. I'm Dave Packer. A federal investigation has been open into Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry and Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh, say multiple U.S. officials for allegedly obstructing federal law enforcement in the state. Walsh this hour responding, quote, the only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

0:22.8

Protests are expected to ramp up this weekend, Minnesota's Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson.

0:27.9

Make no doubt public safety is our top priority.

0:31.4

Our focus is keeping demonstrators, community members, drivers, our law enforcement officers, safe, especially during moments of heightened

0:40.0

tension or uncertainty. The U.S. is currently getting cooperation concerning oil access from Venezuela's

0:45.6

acting president, Delci Rodriguez. We're not hearing from the president or anybody on his team

0:50.9

pushing hard for an imminent election there.

0:54.3

And I think that's a critical thing.

0:55.7

And I think that's something that Michato would have liked to have heard from the president yesterday.

1:00.0

The White House said that at this point, the president would hopefully like to see an election there one day,

1:07.0

but that there's no updated timeline in his mind on when that could happen. ABC's Karen Travers, President Trump saying he might impose tariffs on countries that don't back his efforts to inquire Greenland.

1:16.6

I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security.

1:21.6

Large new study finding the strongest evidence to date, no link between pregnant women taking Tylenol and autism and their babies.

1:28.3

Researchers writing in the journal Lancet, Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Women's Health Study

1:32.3

reviewed results from 60 different studies with some of their most valuable findings coming when they compared siblings from the same family.

1:39.3

The lack of association between a mother taking acetaminifin and her child having autism, ADHD,

1:45.4

or intellectual disability remained, even in studies that went back years and those that carefully

1:51.6

considered factors that might skew the results. Sherry Preston, ABC News. You're listening to ABC News.

2:00.5

Mexico lawmakers are taking on artificial intelligence.

2:03.5

Earlier this weekend, Albuquerque man was arrested on charges of creating child pornography.

2:08.3

That's already a felony, but in the future, the charges could be upgraded because of his method.

2:13.3

New Mexico Attorney General Ronald Torres.

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