A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring several. Officials said there did not appear to be major damage from the quake.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5. Its epicenter was near the town of San Marcos in the southern state of Guerrero, near the Pacific coastal resort town of Acapulco.
It occurred at a depth of 21.7 miles, 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rancho Viejo, Guerrero. The quake was felt more than 250 miles away in Mexico City.
Residents and tourists in Mexico City and Acapulco rushed into the streets when the shaking began.
Tourists remain outside after evacuating their hotels during a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Acapulco, Mexico, on Jan. 2, 2026.
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Karen Gomez, a 47-year-old office worker living on the 13th floor of an apartment building in Mexico City, told Agence France-Presse that a siren woke her up.
“I woke up in terror. My cellphone alert said it was a powerful earthquake,” she said.
The civil defense agency reported various landslides around Acapulco and on other highways in the state.
Local officials said a 60-year-old man in Mexico City died of his injuries after falling while evacuating his second-floor apartment in the capital, AFP reported. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada confirmed the death in a statement posted on social media. In a separate statement on social media, she said at least 12 people were injured in the quake.
The second death was reported nearby in Guerrero. Gov. Evelyn Salgado told reporters a 50-year-old woman died after her home collapsed.
A tourist is assisted after being evacuated from a hotel during a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Acapulco, Mexico, on Jan. 2, 2026.
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President Claudia Sheinbaum, whose first press briefing of the new year was interrupted by the quake, said she spoke with Salgado, who initially told her there was no serious damage reported.
José Raymundo Díaz Taboada, a doctor and human rights defender who lives on one of the peaks ringing Acapulco, said he heard a strong rumbling noise and all the neighborhood dogs began barking.
“In that moment the seismic alert went off on my cellphone,” he said, “and then the shaking began to feel strong with a lot of noise.”
He said the shaking was lighter than in some previous quakes and he had prepared a backpack of essentials to be ready to leave as the aftershocks continued.
He said he had been unable to reach some friends who live along the Costa Chica, southeast of Acapulco, because communications were cut.
People seek safety in a parking lot after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Mexico City, on Jan. 2, 2026.
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Mexico is situated between five tectonic plates and is one of the world’s most seismically active countries.
In January 2025, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook a region of southwest Mexico. The tremor was about five miles from Coalcoman de Vazquez Pallares, a municipality of around 20,000 people, about 372 miles west of Mexico City. The quake struck at a depth of 53 miles.
In 1985, an 8.1 magnitude quake centered on the Pacific coast ravaged much of central and southern Mexico, killing thousands and causing severe damage in Mexico City.
A 7.1-magnitude quake on Sept. 19, 2017, killed 369 people, most of them in the capital.
Exactly five years later, on the same date in 2022, central Mexico was hit by another quake, just hours after millions of people had taken part in a mock earthquake safety exercise. The repercussions of the 7.6 magnitude quake extended as far as 1,500 miles north, where four-foot-tall waves began churning inside a Death Valley cave called Devils Hole.
Misery Signals‘ farewell show is now streaming on YouTube. The influential metalcore outfit officially closed the book on their career at Union Hall in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 19, 2024, marking the final stop of their global farewell tour.
That last run was especially meaningful, as it saw the band reunite vocalists Jesse Zaraska and former frontman Karl Schubach on stage together, giving longtime fans a definitive sendoff. The Edmonton performance served as a true swan song, celebrating the band’s full history. The show ran as follows:
“A Victim, A Target”
“In Summary Of What I Am”
“Set In Motion” (w/ Karl Schubach)
“Luminary” (w/ Karl Schubach)
“The Stinging Rain”
“Worlds & Dreams”
“Old Ghosts”
“Nothing” (w/ Karl Schubach)
“Ebb And Flow” (w/ Karl Schubach)
“Anchor” (w/ Karl Schubach)
“Difference Of Vengeance And Wrongs”
“Like Yesterday”
“Something Was Always Missing, But It Was Never You” (w/ Karl Schubach)
“A Certain Death” (w/ Karl Schubach)
“Weight Of The World” (Jesse & Karl together)
“Five Years” (Jesse & Karl together)
“The Failsafe” (Jesse & Karl together)
“The Year Summer Ended In June” (Jesse & Karl together)
Misery Signals mutually disbanded in 2024 after 22 years, five albums, and a legacy that helped define modern metalcore. Beyond their own catalog, the band’s members left their mark through work with and alongside artists such as Fall Out Boy, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Comeback Kid, and more, deeply shaping the genre and its community.
As a final gift to fans, Misery Signals have also made their farewell tour documentary available to stream. Titled Love Is Forever, Blood Is Forever, the 25-minute film documents the band’s final three performances and the fans who supported them to the very end.
The documentary was directed by Morgan Tedd, who described the project as deeply personal: “I wanted to capture the bond between the band, their fans, and the music itself; to celebrate the joy and intensity of their live performances through a reflective lens, as they toured for the final time before laying Misery Signals to rest. This film is my love letter to the band, and a shared celebration from one fan, to every fan.”
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WHEN THE MIAMI MARLINS made a bid to host the NHL’s annual Winter Classic at their stadium, LoanDepot Park, they knew they would have to overcome one major obstacle in pitching the idea: Florida’s warm and sunny weather. Rather than ignore the obvious hurdle of hosting the league’s signature outdoor winter hockey event in the tropics, the team decided to go all in on the theme and submitted a proposal entitled “Miami Ice,” a play on the hit 1980s TV show “Miami Vice.”
“We’re not shy of the fact that this is in South Florida. I think that’s what makes this unique and novel,” said Anthony Favata, vice president of operations and events for the Marlins. “The vibrancy of the colors of South Beach, of the palm trees, and this juxtaposition of warm weather versus winter. So, we’re very much leaning into that.”
The big question was whether South Florida’s balmy weather and professional-quality ice hockey could peacefully coexist.
After years of discussions and multiple visits to LoanDepot Park, the league awarded the 2026 Winter Classic to the Marlins, confident that engineers could build an outdoor hockey rink in sunny Miami where the average temperature in January hovers around 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Miami will likely have the warmest temperature at the 8 p.m. ET puck drop in the history of the Winter Classic, where the average temperature for all previous sites at puck drop was 33 degrees, but the league and Marlins say they have a plan to ensure the ice will be ready to go on game day. The game will air on TNT.
To build the rink, NHL engineers planned to use multiple generators, two 18-wheeler coolant trucks, approximately 20,000 gallons of water and round-the-clock care starting in mid-December. Compared to other outdoor rinks they’ve built in much colder climates, they said, this Miami build was easier to plan and execute.
The idea to hold a Winter Classic in Florida started years ago, according to Steve Mayer, president of NHL events and content. League officials first considered hosting an all-Florida franchise matchup between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers. Ultimately, officials said they decided two games were better than one and awarded the Winter Classic to the Panthers, who will play the New York Rangers in Miami on Friday, and the Stadium Series to the Lightning, who will play the Boston Bruins at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on Feb. 1.
Mayer described it with a “Field of Dreams” analogy. “This is an incredible sports story where you can go into a place that has never really participated [in hockey], never really been exposed to a sport, and then build it and they will come,” Mayer said, adding that filling a single arena would be an achievement. “And now we’re filling two stadiums that are huge, just full of Panther fans and Lightning fans.”
Mayer called Florida the new “hotbed of hockey.” A Florida team has played in the last six Stanley Cup Final series. The Panthers are the reigning back-to-back champions, having won in 2024 and 2025. The Lightning won back-to-back titles in 2020 and 2021. Additionally, league officials say youth hockey participation rates had increased by 212% since the NHL first expanded into Florida in the 1990s, and for the seventh straight season, there are at least eight Florida-born players playing in the league. Fifteen years ago, there had never been more than two players in the same season from the state.
LOANDEPOT PARK’S retractable roof, which will help control the conditions until game day, is a major reason why Florida’s heat isn’t such a big concern, event planners told ESPN.
“The greatest enemy of the ice is wind and sun,” said Jorge Pinoncély, of Industrial Frigo, a winter entertainment company that has built more than 500 outdoor ice rinks in the U.S. and is unaffiliated with the NHL.
The evening start time means direct sunlight won’t be a concern once the roof is retracted. But Pinoncély cautioned that wind could be an issue.
University of Miami atmospheric sciences professor Paquita Zuidema likened the effects of wind on an ice rink to a block of ice sitting in a backyard.
“The ice will be constantly cooling the air above it,” helping keep the surface temperature low, Zuidema said. But wind “will keep removing that cold pool of air. So the ice will need to work harder to cool off that air layer.”
The optimum temperature for ice level — the pocket of air above the ice and inside the glass — on game day is approximately 60 degrees, said Derek King, the NHL’s vice president of facilities and hockey operations.
“Inside the glass is really important. We know, though, that we don’t have a lot of control over that,” he said. “So we’ll make that [ice] sheet as cold as we can to kind of control that area, and then we’ll monitor our temperatures.”
The league refined the process of building a rink with each of the 43 outdoor games held since 2003. From start to finish, it takes two weeks and about 100 people to create the Winter Classic’s on-field build out of the hockey rink, but only 24 for the ice crew according to King.
Work began as soon as the NHL’s two 18-wheeler mobile refrigeration units arrived at LoanDepot Park from Canada, where they are stored. In cold-weather builds such as Chicago or Minneapolis, the NHL typically needs just one mobile refrigeration unit, but for Miami the league needed two.
Workers ran pipes that carried a mixture of 40% glycol and 60% water from the refrigeration trucks to the baseball field. At the same time, they prepped the field by covering approximately 80% of it with an armored subfloor before building a stage for the rink. Staff used the closed roof to help keep the indoor temperature controlled to 60 degrees.
With the foundation complete, workers laid down aluminum panels that connect to the pipes channeling the glycol mix. That mix has a freezing temperature lower than water and allows the metal plates to get colder than the 32 degrees needed to freeze water.
It typically takes four to five days to lay the pipes and build the foundation, rink and boards, according to King. Next comes a process where workers use ice and water to fill gaps — much like grouting between tiles — to create the smoothest-possible surface.
From there, teams finally begin to make the ice by slowly spraying the rink with water over the course of several days, gradually building the sheet of ice to get to an eventual game-time thickness of 2 to 2.5 inches and a surface temperature of 25 degrees.
During this process, they paint the rink white and add logos and lines before the top layer of ice is added.
Once completed in Miami, the Panthers and Rangers got practice time. The league planned to use any remaining time left to work out any kinks and make sure the ice was ready for Friday’s game day.
BY “TAKING MOTHER NATURE out of the equation,” King said, the build can be easier compared to colder venues such as Nashville in 2022, when rain created more than 4 inches of ice by game day, or during the 2025 Stadium Series in Columbus, where wind and snow interrupted the build.
But warmer venues aren’t hazard-free. Six days before the 2020 Winter Classic at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, heavy rain and warm weather melted the ice, forcing workers to restart the layering process.
When the league finally opens the roof in Miami, King said his team will be prepared to adapt to weather conditions.
“We just need to look at how we deal with the ice on game day. Are we going to limit the amount of time we’re going to flood? Are we going to shave off more ice and kind of deal with what we know we can deal with?” King said. “So control stuff we can control and really let Mother Nature set in.”
But King admits there was one unusual challenge for his team ahead of the warm weather build: what to wear.
“We’re not all bundled up in heavy coats and stuff like that, trying to stay warm,” said King, who is based in Canada and looked forward to the T-shirt weather of Florida. “We’ve all had to kind of rethink our outfitting for this build because we’re going to be in Miami.”
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – 2026 has arrived, and with the new year comes a flood of resolutions and goals for self-improvement. While these resolutions aren’t always followed through, setting a goal and starting to work towards it can still be helpful. KRQE asked viewers via social media if they had made a New Year’s resolution for 2026. […]
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms sounded.
The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was near the town of San Marcos in the southern state of Guerrero near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, according to Mexico ’s national seismological agency.
The state’s civil defense agency reported various landslides around Acapulco and on other highways in the state.
Residents and tourists in Mexico City and Acapulco rushed into the streets when the shaking began.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.7 miles (35 kilometers), 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rancho Viejo, Guerrero, which is in the mountains about 57 miles northeast of Acapulco.
Sheinbaum, who resumed her press briefing a short time later, said she spoke with Guerrero’s Gov. Evelyn Salgado, who told her there was no serious damage reported.
José Raymundo Díaz Taboada, a doctor and human rights defender who lives on one of the peaks ringing Acapulco, said he heard a strong rumble noise and all the neighborhood dogs began barking.
“In that moment the seismic alert went off on my cell phone,” he said, “and then the shaking began to feel strong with a lot of noise.”
He said the shaking was lighter than in some previous quakes and he had prepared a backpack of essentials to be ready to leave as the aftershocks continued.
He said he had been unable to reach some friends who live along the Costa Chica southeast of Acapulco because communications were cut.
Kelly Clarkson is doing everything she can to keep life steady and full of love for her kids — even as her own heart continues to heal.
The pop-country powerhouse spent the holidays focused on staying “present” for her children, daughter River Rose (11) and son Remington (9), after the loss of their father, Brandon Blackstock.
Blackstock died in August at age 48 after a three-year battle with melanoma.
A source told People that Clarkson is “heartbroken for her kids” but determined to give them a sense of stability.
“Losing their dad is incredibly painful and confusing,” the insider shared. “But she’s also very grounded. She’s not someone who falls apart. She looks at life realistically and does everything she can to make things as steady and loving as possible for her kids.”
Her “focus is to be present for her kids,” the source said. “She’s a great mom.”
Those close to her say she made the season about comfort and connection, doing her best to keep things “normal” while holding space for her children’s grief.
Moving Forward, One Day at a Time
Since her ex-husband’s passing, Clarkson has leaned on the routines that have always grounded her — family, work, and music.
Between The Kelly Clarkson Show, her return to The Voice for Season 29, and her Las Vegas residency, she continues to balance it all while making time for her kids above everything else.
For Clarkson, the new year isn’t about starting over — it’s about holding steady, finding peace, and showing her kids what resilience really looks like.
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More important than these 31 pictures of Kelly Clarkson‘s stunning weight loss journey are the details of how and why she gained and lost the weight.
The singer has dealt with serious medical conditions since 2006. Add two kids, the stress of life, career and divorce and getting older — yeah, we totally get how she gained a few pounds.
In 2025, she’s as fit as she’s ever been, and that’s because she began to take her doctor’s advice seriously. Medicine helped, but it’s not what you think.
Keep scrolling to see the ups and downs of the American Idol winner’s road to good health.
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A violinist who performed on tour with Will Smith has filed a lawsuit against the actor-musician and a management company, accusing them of retaliation, sexual harassment and wrongful termination.According to a complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County court, violinist Brian King Joseph was fired shortly after reporting to police an alleged intrusion into his hotel room, in which materials and a note addressed to him were left in his room while he was away.CNN has reached out to Smith’s representatives and to a contact affiliated with Treyball Studios Management for comment.Smith’s attorney has denied the allegations, according to a statement given to PEOPLE on Thursday.”Mr. Joseph’s allegations concerning my client are false, baseless, and reckless,” attorney Allen B. Grodsky said, according to PEOPLE. “They are categorically denied, and we will use all legal means available to address these claims and to ensure that the truth is brought to light.”According to the suit, Joseph was hired in late 2024 for Smith’s “Based on a True Story: 2025 Tour” and other performances.Joseph and Smith developed a close relationship leading up to and during the tour, the suit claims, with Smith telling Joseph at one point, “You and I have such a special connection, that I don’t have with anyone else.”The lawsuit centers on an incident in March 2025 in Las Vegas. The suit alleges someone had “unlawfully” entered Joseph’s hotel room and left wipes, a beer bottle, a backpack, a bottle of HIV medication and hospital discharge paperwork with another person’s name unknown to him, and a note that read: “Brian, I’ll be back no later 5:30, just us (drawn heart), Stone F.”Fearing the unknown individual would return to “engage in sexual acts,” Joseph says he notified hotel security and Smith’s representatives, took photos of the items and requested a room change, according to the complaint. He also called a local police nonemergency line to report the incident.Hotel security found no signs of forced entry into the room, according to the suit, and said the only individuals with access to his room would have been with the management team who booked the room.According to the suit, instead of investigating, tour management later accused Joseph of fabricating the claims and terminated his employment. The lawsuit states he was told the tour was “moving in a different direction,” but another violinist was soon hired to fill his role.Joseph believes Smith was involved in the decision to fire him, according to the suit, and claims Joseph was being “deliberately” groomed and primed “for further sexual exploitation.”At the time of his termination, the suit claims the incident resulted in severe emotional distress, PTSD and economic loss.
CNN —
A violinist who performed on tour with Will Smith has filed a lawsuit against the actor-musician and a management company, accusing them of retaliation, sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
According to a complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County court, violinist Brian King Joseph was fired shortly after reporting to police an alleged intrusion into his hotel room, in which materials and a note addressed to him were left in his room while he was away.
CNN has reached out to Smith’s representatives and to a contact affiliated with Treyball Studios Management for comment.
Smith’s attorney has denied the allegations, according to a statement given to PEOPLE on Thursday.
“Mr. Joseph’s allegations concerning my client are false, baseless, and reckless,” attorney Allen B. Grodsky said, according to PEOPLE. “They are categorically denied, and we will use all legal means available to address these claims and to ensure that the truth is brought to light.”
According to the suit, Joseph was hired in late 2024 for Smith’s “Based on a True Story: 2025 Tour” and other performances.
Joseph and Smith developed a close relationship leading up to and during the tour, the suit claims, with Smith telling Joseph at one point, “You and I have such a special connection, that I don’t have with anyone else.”
The lawsuit centers on an incident in March 2025 in Las Vegas. The suit alleges someone had “unlawfully” entered Joseph’s hotel room and left wipes, a beer bottle, a backpack, a bottle of HIV medication and hospital discharge paperwork with another person’s name unknown to him, and a note that read: “Brian, I’ll be back no later [sic] 5:30, just us (drawn heart), Stone F.”
Fearing the unknown individual would return to “engage in sexual acts,” Joseph says he notified hotel security and Smith’s representatives, took photos of the items and requested a room change, according to the complaint. He also called a local police nonemergency line to report the incident.
Hotel security found no signs of forced entry into the room, according to the suit, and said the only individuals with access to his room would have been with the management team who booked the room.
According to the suit, instead of investigating, tour management later accused Joseph of fabricating the claims and terminated his employment. The lawsuit states he was told the tour was “moving in a different direction,” but another violinist was soon hired to fill his role.
Joseph believes Smith was involved in the decision to fire him, according to the suit, and claims Joseph was being “deliberately” groomed and primed “for further sexual exploitation.”
At the time of his termination, the suit claims the incident resulted in severe emotional distress, PTSD and economic loss.
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