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January 17, 2026
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Clayton Collins
Director of Editorial Innovation

We hotfooted, with care, all week on stories from Greenland to Minneapolis.聽Venezuela news ebbed a bit, in its 鈥渘ow what?鈥 moment. Iran聽news surged. We go deep with two stories today on the Islamic Republic. They鈥檙e astute takes on truth-versioning inside Iran and on scenarios for (and some possible effects of) any U.S. action. Then we check in from Ukraine.

We believe in weekend respites. Also read today about a Dolly Parton book and about how our essayist reframed the chore of laundry.聽Find more news on our homepage. The Daily takes a break Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and resumes Tuesday.


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

Majid Asgaripour/WANA/Reuters
Members of the Iranian police stand guard in front of the British Embassy following anti-government protests, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 14, 2026.

A brutal Iranian crackdown has appeared to quash most protests, and officials are seeking to portray a sense of 鈥渘ational solidarity.鈥 But images and eyewitness accounts of shocking 鈥渁trocities鈥 are accumulating that paint a different picture.

Fazry Ismail/AP/File
Fighter jets are seen on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, whose carrier strike group has been sent to the Middle East as President Donald Trump weighs the use of military force against the Iranian regime.

As mass protests in Iran prompt a brutal government crackdown, the U.S. is considering its response. President Donald Trump has several options available to him amid historic opposition to Tehran鈥檚 current regime.

Vladyslav Musiienko/AP
Emergency tents are set up in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid Russian air attacks that leave many residents without power, water, and heating in the dead of winter, Jan. 15, 2026.

Russian air attacks are hitting Ukrainian energy infrastructure hard, leaving residents without power and heat during one of the coldest winters of the war to date. It鈥檚 putting citizens鈥 resilience to the test.

Book review

Charlie Riedel/AP/File
The singer performs during an event celebrating the expansion of Dolly Parton鈥檚 Imagination Library, in Overland Park, Kansas, in 2023.

Dolly Parton started writing songs when she was 11 years old, and the country music star hasn鈥檛 stopped since. Her down-home warmth and business acumen have carried over into projects such as movie acting, children鈥檚 literacy programs, and an amusement park. A new biography, 鈥淎in鈥檛 Nobody鈥檚 Fool,鈥 charts her challenges and successes.

Essay

Scott Wilson

When a decades-old dryer finishes its final load, a dad of grown kids reflects on the cycles of laundry it has completed over the cycles of his life, from young parenthood to empty nester.


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Matias Delacroix/AP
Melba Vazquez pauses while writing a letter to her children, Anyela Bermudez and Merwin Simons, who are being held at the El Rodeo I prison in Guatire, Venezuela, Jan. 16, 2026. The facility, just east of Caracas, has been the site of demonstrations that have brought international attention to the plight of political detainees there. A number were released this month.

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