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Samsung launched the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra at Galaxy Unpacked in San Francisco on February 25, 2026. Pre-orders opened the same day, with global availability from around March 11.
On January 22, 2025, the mayor of Ma’ale Adumim announced that about 4,000 acres of municipal land, formerly known as E1, would be renamed ‘Trump One’.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience lunar landers from Florida on January 15, 2025. Blue Ghost later landed on the Moon; Resilience crashed.
On January 22, 2026, TikTok closed a deal creating a majority American-owned joint venture for its US operations. Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX each hold 15%.
From January 1, 2025, Virginia requires minimum car insurance of $50,000 per person and $100,000 per accident for bodily injury, plus $25,000 for property damage.
BlackRock, which manages about $11.5 trillion, left the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative on January 9, 2025. The initiative then paused its activities.
The 109th Pennsylvania Farm Show ran from January 4 to 11, 2025, in Harrisburg. Admission was free, and parking cost $15.
The Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, was established in 1962 and renamed for President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Its visitor complex displays Space Shuttle Atlantis and a Saturn V rocket.
NASA and Boeing agreed in November 2025 to cut the Starliner crew contract from six missions to four. The next flight would carry no astronauts.
The CFPB sued three large banks and the operator of Zelle in December 2024, alleging they failed to protect users from fraud. It dropped the case in March 2025.
