News for January 3, 2026

Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of a bar in Crans-Montana after a New Year’s fire killed 40 people and injured more than 100.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent his first full day in office riding the New York City subway, then moved quickly to action on housing, city government, and a rollback of some late-stage Adams orders.

Alaska’s court system spent more than a year building an AI chatbot for probate help, but the project ran into accuracy, trust, and oversight problems before launch.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate an Arizona helicopter crash that killed four people after the aircraft appeared to hit a long recreational slackline strung across a mountain range.