On this day in conspiracies

Newspapers report the creature's 'capture' in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The panic, having lasted almost exactly one week, begins to subside.

A ten-person ski-trekking group from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, led by 23-year-old Igor Dyatlov, sets out for Gora Otorten in the northern Urals, a route rated the highest Soviet difficulty grade.

A separate inquiry by senior civil servant Kutlu Savas, commissioned by the Prime Ministry Inspection Board, is made public by Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz. The Susurluk report describes state-linked death squads and criminal operations but is released only in redacted form, with portions withheld.

The Air Force reverses that position. A spokesman, Major Karl Lewis of the 301st Fighter Wing, confirms that ten F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron had been on a nighttime training mission in the Brownwood Military Operating Area near Stephenville on 8 January, and attributes the earlier denial to an internal communications error.

The Court of Cassation, Italy's highest civil court, upholds the state's liability. It holds that the evidence a missile or a mid-air incident in the course of a military engagement destroyed the aircraft is “abundantly” established, and that the cover-up must be treated as definitively ascertained.

President Trump signs an executive order, 'Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology', that prohibits US federal agencies from establishing, issuing, or promoting a CBDC, citing threats to privacy and sovereignty. Congress moves separately to codify a ban through the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act.

President Trump signs an executive order, 'Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology', barring federal agencies from establishing, issuing, or promoting a central bank digital currency, citing threats to privacy and sovereignty. The administration's stated policy is private stablecoins yes, a government CBDC no.