Wikinews:2019/January

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January 4

• Nancy Pelosi again elected Speaker as 116th U.S. Congress sworn in
• Magnitogorsk apartment building collapses after explosion, dozens dead

January 5

• Florida highway pileup, fire kills five children, two truck drivers
• Escape room fire kills five teen girls in Koszalin, Poland

January 6

• Senator Ted Cruz proposes amendment to U.S. Constitution setting Congressional term limits

January 7

• President Trump says he 'can' and 'may' put US into state of emergency to build border wall
• Catalonia apartment block fire kills three, injures sixteen

January 9

• Simple animals could live in Martian brines: Wikinews interviews planetary scientist Vlada Stamenković

January 10

• Wikinews investigates disappearance of Indonesian cargo ship Namse Bangdzod

January 12

• State-run bus crashes in Cuba en route to Havana, killing seven
• Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources

January 14

• Arrest made as mayor of Gdańsk, Poland stabbed on stage

January 15

• Iranian cargo plane crashes into Karaj houses

January 16

• Lion Air disaster: Crashed jet's voice recorder recovered from Java Sea

January 22

• Former U.S. intelligence agent Tony Mendez, architect of 'Argo' rescue, dies at 78

January 23

• Germany bans Mahan Air of Iran, citing 'security'

January 24

• Car bomb ramming attack kills dozens at military base in Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan

January 26

• US study finds correlation between youth suicide, household gun ownership

January 27

• Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris

January 28

• Bombs kill at least 20 at cathedral in Mindanao, Philippines

January 30

• Mokha, Yemen bomb kills photojournalist, at least five others