Wednesday Headlines: January 14, 2026

John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including the massive Verizon outage affecting hundreds of thousands of users, a landmark Supreme Court ruling that challenges ballot harvesting laws in Illinois, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services withholding funds from California over illegal Medicaid spending and the FBI's raid on a Washington Post reporter's home amid a classified information leak investigation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.