SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Endeavour -- carrying NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan's Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov -- undocked from the space-facing port of the International Space Station (ISS)'s Harmony module at 2220 UTC on Jan. 14, marking the first-ever medical evacuation from the ISS. The departure was prompted by an undisclosed medical issue involving one of the four crew members, which led NASA to cut the mission short.

A crew member experienced a medical situation that led to the cancellation of USA EVA 94, a critical spacewalk to install solar arrays. NASA announced the early return on January 8, 2026, stating the astronaut was in stable condition but required medical care. The crew which launched to the ISS on Aug. 1, 2025, was scheduled to spend a six-month stint on the orbital laboratory and return in late February, but had to depart earlier.

On January 12, 2026, Mike Fincke handed command of the ISS to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, preparing for the crew’s departure. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the mission's end during a press conference the same day as the canceled EVA, and crews aboard the ISS began their preparations to leave — including the change of command ceremony.

The Crew-11 astronauts aboard Endeavour now face a roughly 11-hour deorbit trajectory, with an expected parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, Thursday morning.

Currently aboard the ISS are Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (Roscosmos), Chris Williams (NASA), and Sergey Mikaev (Roscosmos). The skeleton crew will remain until the arrival of SpaceX Crew-12, scheduled for mid-February 2026.

Spanish police have made their largest-ever cocaine seizure at sea, intercepting a Cameroon-flagged merchant vessel in the Atlantic Ocean carrying nearly 10,000 kilograms (about 11 tons) of cocaine hidden within a shipment of salt, en route from Brazil to Europe.

The operation, named "White Tide," involved international cooperation with agencies from the US, Brazil, the UK, France, and Portugal, and resulted in the arrest of 13 crew members and the recovery of a firearm used to guard the drugs.

The vessel, identified as the United S, was boarded by Spain’s Special Operations Group (GEO) while en route from Brazil to Europe, and after running out of fuel, it drifted for nearly 12 hours before being towed to the Canary Islands by Spain’s maritime rescue service, SASEMAR.

The cocaine, packed into 294 bales, was concealed among tons of salt cargo, requiring officers to search through the holds to uncover the illicit shipment.

The bust is the largest maritime cocaine seizure in Spain’s history, surpassing the previous record of 7.5 tonnes seized in 1999. The seized drug is valued at over $116.5 million (€100 million).

This operation marks a significant blow to a multinational criminal network involved in trafficking cocaine from South America to Europe via commercial shipping routes.

Spain has increasingly become a key entry point for cocaine into Europe, with authorities seizing 123 tonnes nationwide in 2024, up from 118 tonnes in 2023.

In October 2025, Spanish police seized 6.5 tonnes of cocaine from a vessel off the Canary Islands following a tip from US authorities, and in June 2025, a network using high-speed "narco boats" was dismantled.

American commentator Candace Owens has said that Israel’s Likud Party, through its lawmaker Dan Illouz, has declared her and journalist Tucker Carlson as enemies and threatened them, asserting that "these people are murderers" and that Israel would be responsible if anything happens to them.

Owens' remarks followed Illouz’s speech in the Knesset, where he criticized what he described as "intellectual vandalism" by Carlson and Owens, framing their rhetoric as a dangerous threat to Western values Owens shared the remarks on social media, questioning the U.S. government’s tolerance of such statements.

The comments originated from a Knesset address by Illouz, a Likud Party member, who warned of a “new enemy rising from within” the West, accusing Owens and Carlson of spreading “poison” under the guise of patriotism.

Owens stated on X: “The Likud party in Israel just named me and Tucker Carlson as enemies that must be fought. These people are murderers. Murderers are threatening me and Tucker Carlson over speech. How is this at all acceptable to our government?”

The American conservative commentator is a known critic of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and she has condemned the Jewish nation's genocidal military campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, and the undue influence of Israli agents on American foreign policy in the Middle East.

Illouz responded directly on X, clarifying that a Member of Parliament speaking is a democratic debate, not a party directive, and dismissed Owens’ claims of threats as a “desperate silencing tactic” typical of cancel culture. He claimed that Israel, as a democracy, stands for freedom and will not be silenced, asserting that the bond between Israel and America is eternal.

The Likud Party is currently led by Netanyahu and is Israel’s largest right-wing political party, with a history of holding power since 1977.