Manhunt Launched After Judge and Wife Shot in Their Home

A manhunt has been launched after an Indiana state court judge and his wife were shot inside their home. Steven Meyer, a Tippecanoe Superior Court judge, and his wife, Kimberly Meyer, were both injured in the attack, with the judge suffering an injury to his arm and his wife sustaining an injury to her hip. Both are in stable condition, police said Monday. The couple were discovered by authorities inside their Lafayette home, about 60 miles northwest of Indianapolis, after responding to reports of a shooting. Police described the shooting as a “senseless unacceptable act of violence” as they continued to hunt for the suspect. They have not released a motive or suspect description. Indiana’s top judge, State Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush, urged colleagues to remain vigilant. She called any violence against judges or their families “completely unacceptable.” Meyer previously served as a Democratic city council member and oversaw a high-profile case involving Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian-born orphan whose adoptive parents abandoned her, claiming she had behavioral issues and dwarfism.

A single state in Australia has suffered its fourth shark attack in three days after a surfer was bitten in the chest. Police said a 39-year-old man was mauled in New South Wales’s Mid North Coast on Tuesday morning after it bit his board. He has since been released from the hospital, with Surf Life Saving NSW CEO Steve Pearce telling ABC, he was “very fortunate to not have sustained any serious injuries.” NSW Superintendent Joseph McNulty described the situation off the coast of Australia’s most populous state as a “perfect storm environment”, with two people left in critical conditions after torrential rainfall may have washed nutrients into the water, drawing in sharks’ prey. Authorities are now pleading with people to stay out of the water. Among the victims is a 12-year-old boy, who was left in a critical condition with bites on both his legs. He was dragged from the water by his friends after being attacked while rock jumping in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse on Sunday. A man was then left in a critical condition at Manly Beach on the city’s northern shore on Monday, while an 11-year-old surfer also escaped without injury after his board was bitten at Dee Why Beach the same day.

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Rob Hirst, co-founder and drummer for Australian rock group Midnight Oil, has died the band confirmed Tuesday. Hirst was 70 and had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2023. “After fighting heroically for almost three years, Rob is now free of pain—‘a glimmer of tiny light in the wilderness’,” his bandmates wrote in a statement on social media. “He died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones. The family asks that anyone wanting to honour Rob donate to Pankind, Pancreatic Cancer Australia or Support Act.” Over nearly five decades, Hirst powered the group’s sound with forceful rhythms while co-writing lyrics and melodies for key songs including “Beds Are Burning” and “The Dead Heart”. Formed in Sydney during the mid-1970s, Midnight Oil released 13 studio albums and gained recognition for politically charged rock. “It’s been absolutely better than anything anyone could ever ask for,” he said in a 2025 interview when asked for his reflections on life. “And so, if my life is attenuated by this tiny little tumour that threatens to do me in, then I will still consider myself incredibly fortunate.”

A brutal winter storm unleashed havoc on a Michigan highway after whiteout conditions triggered a massive chain-reaction crash involving more than 100 vehicles. The pileup included at least 30 lorries and unfolded as the storm blanketed large swaths of the state with heavy snow and high winds. Drone footage shared by Fox Weather showed Interstate 196 buried under snow near Grand Rapids, with jack-knifed trucks and cars scattered across lanes and shoulders. Winds of up to 40 miles per hour were recorded at the crash site, where snowfall topped a foot. One driver said visibility collapsed almost entirely as snow blew sideways across the roadway. “I could barely see the road in front of me,” the driver said. Michigan State Police shut down the motorway in both directions while crews worked to clear the wreckage. Authorities reported numerous injuries but no deaths. “It was a little scary just listening to everything, the bangs and booms behind you,” truck driver Pedro Mata Jr told the Associated Press, saying he avoided crashing by pulling off the road. As snow continued to fall, stranded passengers were bused to a nearby high school. The storm was part of a wider system that sent temperatures plunging nationwide, with rare snowfall reported as far south as the Florida Panhandle.

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The West Wing star Timothy Busfield has been edited out of an upcoming movie following his arrest earlier this month on charges of child abuse and criminal sexual contact with a minor. Busfield, who was accused of abusing underage boys on the set of The Cleaning Lady, had top billing in Amazon MGM’s You Deserve Each Other, but according to Variety, will be edited out. Other stars in the film, which is based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Hogle and is still in post-production, include Kyle MacLachlan, Penn Badgley, Justin Long, and Meghann Fahy. The film marks the second project impacted following Busfield’s arrest after NBC pulled an episode of Law & Order: SVU in which he was a guest star from its schedule ahead of its planned Jan. 22 premiere. Busfield, 68, turned himself in to U.S. Marshals on Jan. 13 after the warrant was issued for his arrest on Jan. 9. Busfield has firmly denied the allegations and has claimed that he is ready to “confront these lies.” A civil lawyer for Busfield told The New York Times, “He is innocent and is determined to clear his name.”

American singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman and his wife died over the weekend after a fatal blaze at his home in Belgium. The fire is understood to have broken out early Saturday, according to ClashMusic. First responders found the property already engulfed in flames by the time they arrived on site after neighbors alerted authorities. Zimmerman, who spent much of his later life living and performing in Europe, and his wife were confirmed dead at the scene. He was 84, and the couple had been married for more than five decades. The American-born artist established a long-running career in folk and acoustic music, becoming known for his poetic songwriting and distinctive guitar work. David Bowie routinely cited Zimmerman’s ‘Ten Songs’ as one of his favorite albums of all time. “Tucker was a master musician and songwriter from San Francisco. His songs were biting and revolutionary,” Zimmerman’s producer Tony Visconti said in a statement. “He was one of my oldest friends. David Bowie adored him,” he added. “If you haven’t heard Tucker’s music, it was like a very dark version of Bob Dylan. I’m all choked up.”

A United Airlines jet suffered a “mechanical issue” upon landing in Orlando, appearing to slump and veer from the center of the runway. United Flight 2323 touched down in Florida on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon, having taken off from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Footage of the landing shows the two-year-old Airbus A321neo bump and lurch as it touches down, with something appearing to detach from the plane. “Oooh, something popped off,” an onlooker can be heard saying in the clip. The plane was left blocking the runway, Fox35 reports, with the 200 passengers and six crew onboard having to be picked up by buses. No injuries were reported. The airline said work was underway to move the plane, but it is not yet clear what the issue is or what caused it. “United flight 2323 from Chicago to Orlando experienced a mechanical issue upon landing. Passengers are being bused to the terminal and our team is working to remove the aircraft from the runway. No injuries have been reported,” United told Fox.

Valentino Garavani, the legendary designer who founded the Italian luxury fashion house Valentino in 1960, has died at the age of 93, his foundation announced Monday. “Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones,” Fondazione Valentino Garavani e Giancarlo Giammetti announced in a post on Instagram, adding that his funeral will take place on Friday, Jan. 23, at a Roman basilica. After launching his fashion house, the designer became widely known for his signature, “Valentino Red,” a vivid color that became a hallmark of his brand, even used for his bulletproof Mercedes. He retired from the fashion house in 2008, two years after a cameo in The Devil Wears Prada. “In Italy, there is the Pope—and there is Valentino,” former mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, told The New Yorker in 2005. Valentino’s designs have been worn by Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who wore a Valentino wedding dress for her marriage to Aristotle Onassis. “It is very, very simple, I try to make my girls look sensational,” Valentino told The New York Times in 2007, with the outlet reporting that, for the designer, everything was “very funny” and “very nice,” and he regarded his clothes as “very beautiful.” Giancarlo Giammetti, 83, the other member of the foundation which announced the death, co-founded the fashion house. He was Valentino’s lover until the early 1970s, when he married a Brazilian socialite. Valentino went on to date one of his house’s models, and traveled everywhere with his pet pugs.

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Billionaire wealth in 2025 surged at a rate three times faster than average over the past five years, according to a report released on Sunday by Oxfam. According to the Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Protecting Freedom from Billionaire Power report, the number of billionaires worldwide has surpassed 3,000, and their wealth has reached a record $18.3 trillion—higher than at any point in history. As nearly half of the world’s population lives in poverty, the planet’s twelve richest billionaires now hold more wealth than roughly four billion people—half of the population. The 2025 Forbes list of the world’s richest people places Elon Musk, 54, at the top with $342 billion, followed by Mark Zuckerberg, 41, in second with $216 billion, and Jeff Bezos, 62, in third with $215 billion. The report links the surge in wealth accumulation to the policies of President Donald Trump—himself a billionaire—who, in his second administration, cut taxes, rolled back environmental and financial regulations on corporations, and placed billionaires in positions of political power. “The widening gap between the rich and the rest is at the same time creating a political deficit that is highly dangerous and unsustainable,” said Amitabh Behar, Oxfam’s International Executive Director.

Middle-class homebuyers are being priced out of major U.S. cities, with 70 percent of homes unaffordable for average people even in the best cases. New data from Bankrate looked at the 34 largest metropolitan areas to assess how much of each city’s housing market was affordable for its median earners. Overall, 75 percent of homes were out of the median buyer’s price range across the cities, with some of the lowest rates at less than 1 percent. Only 11 of the 34 cities had 30 percent of their listed properties within budget for average earners, with the route to homeownership easiest in the Rust Belt. Among the best cities were Pittsburgh with 55 percent of homes, St. Louis with 50 percent, Baltimore with 43 percent, Detroit with 42 percent, and Birmingham, Alabama, with 41 percent. Meanwhile, among the most unaffordable were Miami with 0.4 percent, Los Angeles with 0.5 percent, San Diego with 1.6 percent, New Orleans with 2.7 percent, and Boston with 4.8 percent. Speaking to Axios, Bankrate data analyst Alex Gailey said, “Without a meaningful increase in housing supply, particularly in places where people want to live and work, affordability is unlikely to improve even if mortgage rates ease.”