Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. EMBRACING CLEMENCY POWERS LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Obama is planning more commutations after a dramatic move to cut short convicted leaker Chelsea Manning’s sentence. OBAMA-CLEMENCY
2. WHAT’S AT STAKE IN TRUMP’S INAUGURAL SPEECH
Will the president-elect convey a unifying message for a divided nation or play up his persona as a disrupter of the established order? TRUMP-INAUGURATION-SPEECH
3. FLIGHT 370: CLUES BYPASSED
Some are questioning how investigators may have missed opportunities by failing to organize coastal searches for the remnants that drifted to distant shorelines. MALAYSIA-MISSING PLANE-DEBRIS CLUES
4. HEALTH SECRETARY PICK FACING SCRUTINY
Tom Price is facing pointed questions about Trump’s health policies – and his own investments in health care companies. TRUMP-HEALTH SECRETARY
5. PROSECUTOR: ORLANDO GUNMAN’S WIDOW KNEW ABOUT ATTACK
Noor Salman is indicted on charges of aiding and abetting Omar Mateen in the months before the rampage at the Pulse nightclub that left 49 people dead. ORLANDO SHOOTER’S WIFE
6. LARGE SWATHS OF GAZA STRIP PLUNGE INTO DARKNESS
The power shortages are the worst to hit Gaza since Hamas seized control of the territory 10 years ago. GAZA-IN THE DARK
7. FOR DRIVERLESS CARS, A MORAL DILEMMA
MIT researchers ask human drivers how they’d handle life-or-death decisions in hopes of creating better algorithms to guide autonomous vehicles. SELF-DRIVING CARS-ETHICS
8. GLOBAL WARMING COULD STEAL POSTCARD-PERFECT DAYS
Rio de Janeiro, Miami and much of Africa are projected to have more inclement weather, while Europe and Seattle will gain nicer conditions. FEWER MILD DAYS
9. WHO WON TOP BOOK PRIZE
Crystal Wilkinson, who explored generations of black women in a fictional Southern township, wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. BOOKS-GAINES AWARD-WILKINSON
10. COOPERSTOWN READY FOR NEXT ENSHRINEMENT
Tim Raines and Jeff Bagwell are likely to be voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame. Trevor Hoffman and Ivan Rodriguez, too, might make the grade. HALL-OF-FAME