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Wall Street’s Crypto Debate Is Over As Banks Go All-In On BTC, Stablecoins, Tokenized Cash
Wall Street’s Crypto Debate Is Over As Banks Go All-In On BTC, Stablecoins, Tokenized Cash
Authored by Sam Bourgi via CoinTelegraph.com,
Big banks aren’t debating crypto anymore — they’re building it. From tokenized cash to ETFs, Wall Street is quietly going onchain.
For years, major banks treated cryptocurrency primarily as a risk to be contained. That posture is now giving way to a more deliberate form of engagement. Rather than debating crypto’s legitimacy, banks are increasingly deciding how and where to integrate it, from regulated investment products to blockchain-based payment rails.
This shift is on full display in this week’s Crypto Biz. JPMorgan is extending its US dollar deposit token onto new blockchain infrastructure, signaling that tokenized cash is moving closer to production use within global banking.
Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, is positioning itself to offer exposure to Bitcoin and Solana through exchange-traded funds (ETFs), potentially bringing crypto investments to millions of wealth management clients.
Barclays has made its first bet on stablecoin infrastructure, backing settlement rails designed to connect regulated issuers with financial institutions.
And Bank of America has taken another step toward normalization by allowing advisers to recommend spot Bitcoin ETFs to clients.
Together, these moves suggest the banking sector is no longer content to watch from the sidelines.
JPM Coin heads to the Canton Network
JPMorgan announced plans to issue its US dollar-denominated deposit token, JPM Coin (JPMD), natively on the Canton Network, marking another step by Wall Street toward production-ready blockchain infrastructure.
Digital Asset, the developer of the Canton Network, and Kinexys by JPMorgan will extend JPM Coin from its existing rails onto Canton’s privacy-focused layer-1 blockchain, enabling regulated digital cash to move across interoperable networks.
According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, JPM Coin, described as the first bank-issued, US dollar-denominated deposit token for institutional clients, represents a digital claim on JPMorgan’s dollar deposits and is designed to facilitate faster, more secure movement of regulated money on public blockchains.
“This collaboration brings to life the vision of regulated digital cash that can move at the speed of markets,” said Yuval Rooz, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset.
Morgan Stanley enters crypto ETF race
US investment bank Morgan Stanley is entering the cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund market, with proposed products offering exposure to Bitcoin and Solana, following the strong debut of spot crypto ETFs in the United States.
The bank has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch two investment vehicles, the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust and the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust, designed to provide passive investment exposure to the performance of their underlying digital assets.
If approved, the funds could be made available to more than 19 million clients within Morgan Stanley’s wealth management division, significantly expanding access to crypto-linked investment products.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs have ranked among the most successful ETF launches on record, attracting substantial inflows during their first two years of trading. Momentum has continued into the new year, with renewed investor demand driving fresh inflows during the first trading sessions.
The 12 spot US Bitcoin ETFs have amassed more than 1.3 million BTC, valued at nearly $120 billion. Source: Bitbo
Barclays invests in stablecoin infrastructure
London-based banking giant Barclays has made its first investment in a stablecoin-focused company, signaling traditional finance’s growing interest in digital dollar infrastructure.
The bank announced an undisclosed investment in Ubyx, a US-based stablecoin clearing platform that connects regulated issuers with financial institutions to facilitate settlement and interoperability. The move also marks a notable shift for Barclays, which in recent years has publicly emphasized the risks associated with digital assets.
“This investment aligns with Barclays’ approach to explore opportunities based on new forms of digital money, such as stablecoins,” the bank said in a statement.
Ubyx has previously raised $10 million in seed funding, backed by Galaxy and Coinbase. The company was founded by Tony McLaughlin, a former Citibank executive.
Bank of America wealth advisers cleared to recommend Bitcoin ETFs
US investors may soon receive recommendations to buy Bitcoin ETFs from Bank of America’s private bank and Merrill Edge platforms, adding to evidence of Bitcoin’s growing integration into traditional finance.
The bank’s chief investment office has approved coverage of four U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, including products offered by Bitwise, Fidelity, BlackRock and Grayscale. Collectively, the funds manage more than $100 billion in Bitcoin assets.
The move comes roughly a month after Bank of America reportedly advised wealth management clients to allocate 1% to 4% of their portfolios to digital assets.
“For investors with a strong interest in thematic innovation and comfort with elevated volatility, a modest allocation of 1% to 4% in digital assets could be appropriate,” Chris Hyzy, chief investment officer at Bank of America Private Bank, told Yahoo.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 01/10/2026 – 18:40
Instituto Nobel dice que opositora venezolana Machado no puede dar su premio de la Paz a Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — La organización que supervisa el premio Nobel de la Paz está echando agua fría a los planteamientos de que la líder opositora venezolana María Corina Machado comparta el premio que obtuvo recientemente con el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump.
Una vez que se anuncia el Nobel de la Paz, no puede ser revocado, transferido ni compartido con otros, expresó el Instituto Nobel noruego en un breve comunicado el viernes.
“La decisión es definitiva y se mantiene para siempre”, afirmó.
El comunicado se dio a conocer después de que Machado expresara que le gustaría darle o compartir el premio con Trump, quien supervisó la exitosa operación de Estados Unidos para capturar al presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro. Él enfrenta cargos de narcotráfico en Nueva York.
“Ciertamente me encantaría poder decirle personalmente que creemos —el pueblo venezolano, porque este es un premio del pueblo venezolano—, que ciertamente queremos dárselo y compartirlo con él”, le dijo Machado el lunes a Sean Hannity, presentador de Fox News.” Lo que ha hecho es histórico. Es un gran paso hacia una transición democrática”.
Machado le dedicó el premio a Trump, al igual que al pueblo de Venezuela, poco después de que se anunciara. Trump ha codiciado y ha hecho campaña abiertamente para ganar el Nobel él mismo desde que regresó a la presidencia.
Sin embargo, en lo que respecta a gobernar Venezuela tras la captura de Maduro, hasta ahora Trump ha respaldado a otra persona: la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez, quien fue vicepresidenta en el gobierno de Maduro.
Ha llamado a Machado una “mujer muy agradable”, pero dijo que actualmente no tiene apoyo dentro de Venezuela para gobernar. Él le dijo a Hannity el jueves que Machado planea visitarlo la próxima semana, y señaló que un posible ofrecimiento del premio de la Paz para él sería un “gran honor”.
Un representante de Machado no respondió de momento a un mensaje solicitándole sus comentarios.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Doctors say changes to US vaccine recommendations are confusing parents and could harm kids
Dr. Molly O’Shea has noticed growing skepticism about vaccines at both of her Michigan pediatric offices and says this week’s unprecedented and confusing changes to federal vaccine guidance will only make things worse.
One of her offices is in a Democratic area, where more of the parents she sees are opting for alternative schedules that spread out shots. The other is in a Republican area, where some parents have stopped immunizing their children altogether.
She and other doctors fear the new recommendations and the terminology around them will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents that make it harder for kids to get shots, and ultimately lead to more illness and death.
The biggest change was to stop blanket recommendations for protection against six diseases and recommend those vaccines only for at-risk children or through something called “shared clinical decision-making” with a health care provider.
The phrase, experts say, is confusing and dangerous: “It sends a message to a parent that actually there’s only a rarefied group of people who really need the vaccine,” O’Shea said. “It’s creating an environment that puts a sense of uncertainty about the value and necessity or importance of the vaccines in that category.”
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who helped lead the anti-vaccine movement for years, said in announcing the changes that they better align the U.S. with peer nations “while strengthening transparency and informed consent.”
But doctors say they are sowing doubt — the vaccines have been extensively studied and proven to be safe and effective at shielding kids from nasty diseases — at a time when childhood vaccination rates are already falling and some of those infectious diseases are spreading.
On Friday, the American Academy of Pediatrics and more than 200 medical, public health and patient advocacy groups sent a letter to Congress about the new childhood immunization schedule.
“We urge you to investigate why the schedule was changed, why credible scientific evidence was ignored, and why the committee charged with advising the HHS Secretary on immunizations did not discuss the schedule changes as a part of their public meeting process,” they wrote.
Many don’t know what ’shared decision-making’ means
O’Shea said she and other pediatricians discuss vaccines with parents at every visit where they are given. But that’s not necessarily “shared clinical decision-making,” which has a particular definition.
On its website, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices says: “Unlike routine, catch-up, and risk-based recommendations, shared clinical decision-making vaccinations are not recommended for everyone in a particular age group or everyone in an identifiable risk group. Rather, shared clinical decision-making recommendations are individually based and informed by a decision process between the health care provider and the patient or parent/guardian.”
In this context, health care providers include primary care physicians, specialists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses and pharmacists.
A pair of surveys conducted last year by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania suggested that many people don’t fully understand the concept, which came up last year when the federal government changed recommendations around COVID-19 vaccinations.
Only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults knew that one meaning behind shared decision-making is that “taking the vaccine may not be a good idea for everyone but would benefit some.” And only about one-third realized pharmacists count as health care providers to talk with during the process, even though they frequently administer vaccines.
As of this week, vaccines that protect against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rotavirus, RSV, flu and meningococcal disease are no longer universally recommended for kids. RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and meningococcal vaccines are recommended for certain high-risk populations; flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and meningococcal vaccines are recommended through shared decision-making — as is the COVID-19 vaccine, although that change was made last year.
Shortly after the federal announcement Monday, Dr. Steven Abelowitz heard from half a dozen parents. “It’s causing concern for us, but more importantly, concern for parents with kids, especially young kids, and confusion,” said Abelowitz, founder of Ocean Pediatrics in Orange County, California.
Though federal recommendations are not mandates — states have the authority to require vaccinations for schoolchildren — they can affect how easy it is for kids to get shots if doctors choose to follow them.
Under the new guidelines, O’Shea said, parents seeking shots in the shared decision-making category might no longer bring their kids in for a quick, vaccine-only appointment with staff. They’d sit down with a health care provider and discuss the vaccine. And it could be tougher to have a flu clinic, where parents drive up and kids get shots without seeing a doctor.
Staying the course as challenges mount
Still, doctors say they won’t let the changes stop them from helping children get the vaccines they need. Leading medical groups are sticking with prior vaccine recommendations. Many parents are, too.
Megan Landry, whose 4-year-old son Zackary is one of O’Shea’s patients, is among them.
“It’s my responsibility as a parent to protect my child’s health and well-being,” she said. “Vaccines are a really effective and well-studied way to do that.”
She plans to keep having the same conversations she’s always had with O’Shea before getting vaccines for Zackary.
“Relying on evidence and trusted medical guidance really helps me to make those decisions,” she said. “And for me, it’s not just a personal choice for my own son but a way to contribute to the health of everybody.”
But for other families, confidence about vaccines is waning as trust in science erodes. O’Shea lamented that parents are getting the message that they can’t trust medical experts.
“If I take my car to the mechanic, I don’t go do my own research ahead of time,” she said. “I go to a person I trust and I trust them to tell me what’s going on.”
Abelowitz, the California doctor, likened the latest federal move to pouring gasoline on a fire of mistrust that was already burning.
“We’re worried the fire’s out of control,” he said. “Already we’ve seen that with measles and pertussis, there are increased hospitalizations and even increasing deaths. So the way that I look at it — and my colleagues look at it — we’re basically regressing decades.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/10/us-doctors-vaccine-recommendations/
St. Patrick’s High School students modify custom cars for children with disabilities
St. Patrick’s High School engineering students hosted their third “Go Baby Go” event Saturday morning as part of a national program to modify battery-powered ride-on cars for children with limited mobility.
Five families attended the event and were able to bring a car home for their child at no cost. Ride-on cars are small toy vehicles designed for toddlers or young children.
“This is often the first time these kids can move independently,” said Rachel Galant, clinical program designer for the Illinois Spina Bifida Association. “It helps them engage with their peers, build social skills and communicate in ways they couldn’t before.”
Throughout the morning, students adjusted seating, added supports and made design changes to ensure each car met the individual needs of the children. Occupational therapists worked alongside students to supervise proper positioning and safety before the children tested the vehicles.
Sixteen-month-old Kalani Hernández was one of the toddlers fitted for a car. Kalani has hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, a form of brain injury that affects muscle tone and mobility. She also has cerebral palsy-related motor impairments.
“She’s a fighter. She came into this world fighting, and she’s still fighting,” said her mother, Christina Acosta.
Kalani’s vehicle included added back support, pool noodles along each side of her body for stability and a 3D-printed steering bar to make the wheel easier to control. The exterior of her car was decorated with pink flowers and stickers seen on the YouTube site of “Ms. Rachel,” a popular preschool educator.
Kalani’s father, Vincent Hernández, said the car allows his daughter to participate in activities alongside other children.
“She won’t just be sitting next to them anymore,” he said. “She’ll be with them.”
Go Baby Go began in 2012 at the University of Delaware and has since expanded to schools, hospitals and universities nationwide. The program is open-source, allowing schools and organizations to adapt the model to their communities.
Magdalena Piper, St. Patrick’s career and technical education department chair, said the program aligns with the Portage Park school’s focus on hands-on learning and community service. She said the students were the driving force behind the event.
“They saw the program and wanted to bring it here. They lead the work and learn by doing,” she said.
Jackson McGarvey, 17, who participated in the past two Go Baby Go events and is one of the student leaders for the program, said it takes around three months of preparation before the event to ensure the cars are ready for the children.
“After all that work, seeing a kid sitting in the car and enjoying it is amazing,” he said. “That moment makes everything worth it.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/10/st-patrick-high-school-cars-children-disabilities/
“Uninvestable”: Trump’s $100 Billion Venezuela Gamble Meets Oil Industry Reality
“Uninvestable”: Trump’s $100 Billion Venezuela Gamble Meets Oil Industry Reality
President Donald Trump’s push for U.S. oil companies to commit at least $100 billion toward rebuilding Venezuela’s energy industry is meeting significant resistance from the very executives he is courting, according to Bloomberg.
Although the White House projects confidence, industry leaders are warning that Venezuela remains too unstable for major investment, with Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods describing the country bluntly as “uninvestable.”
At a closed-door meeting Friday with roughly 20 energy executives, Trump said he expected an agreement “today or very shortly thereafter” to restart large-scale drilling in Venezuela following the removal of Nicolás Maduro. He applied direct pressure, telling the group, “If you don’t want to go in, just let me know, because I’ve got 25 people that aren’t here today that are willing to take your place.”
Publicly, many executives praised the opportunity. Privately and in their remarks, they expressed deep concern about risk, governance, and long-term returns. Woods delivered the strongest warning, pointing to Venezuela’s unstable business environment and past expropriations. “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it’s uninvestable,” he said, noting Exxon’s assets there had already been seized twice. He questioned whether any future protections would hold: “How durable are the protections from a financial standpoint? What will the returns look like? What are the commercial arrangements, the legal frameworks?” Even so, he added that Exxon would be willing “to put a team on the ground” if invited and given proper security guarantees.
Other executives struck a cautious tone. Continental Resources founder Harold Hamm said the prospect “excites me as an explorationist,” but emphasized the scale of the task ahead: “There’s a huge investment that needs to be done — we’ve all agreed on that, and certainly we need time to see that through.”
Bloomberg writes that Trump, however, left the meeting projecting momentum. “We sort of formed a deal,” he told reporters, predicting companies would soon be investing “hundreds of billions of dollars in drilling oil.” Yet when pressed for specifics, Energy Secretary Chris Wright acknowledged that Chevron — the only U.S. major still operating in Venezuela — was the only firm to make a concrete pledge. Chevron Vice Chairman Mark Nelson said production, now about 240,000 barrels per day, could rise by roughly 50% within 18 to 24 months.
Trump sought to ease investor fears by promising sweeping protections: “You have total safety, total security,” he said. “You’re dealing with us directly — you’re not dealing with Venezuela or we don’t want you to deal with Venezuela.” Wright later said the administration’s priority is to “change the behavior of the government in Venezuela” and “drive better business conditions.”
The meeting included moments of levity over massive past losses. When ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance said his company had absorbed a $12 billion hit in Venezuela, Trump replied, “Good write-off,” prompting Lance to respond, “It’s already been written off.”
Some executives were openly eager. Repsol’s CEO told Trump his company was “ready to invest more in Venezuela today,” and Armstrong Oil & Gas CEO Bill Armstrong said, “We are ready to go to Venezuela… it is prime real estate… kind of like West Palm about 50 years ago: very ripe.”
Still, many industry figures are uneasy about the optics and risks of the administration’s strategy, which critics argue amounts to an aggressive grab for Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Trump defended the move bluntly: “If we didn’t do this, China or Russia would have done it.”
Despite the uncertainty, Wright predicted Venezuela’s output would “hopefully” begin rising by summer and said, “They are going to ramp up investment immediately in the next few weeks… Can we achieve $100 billion investment over next 10 years? I think absolutely.”
Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, but decades of neglect, sanctions, and infrastructure collapse have pushed production below one million barrels per day. Rebuilding even a fraction of its former output will require years of work and tens of billions of dollars to repair abandoned rigs, corroded pipelines, and heavily damaged facilities.
Tyler Durden
Sat, 01/10/2026 – 18:05
Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the US after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon
MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of people marched in Minneapolis Saturday to protest the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer there and the shooting of two people in Portland, Oregon, as Minnesota leaders urged demonstrators to remain peaceful.
The Minneapolis gathering was one of hundreds of protests planned in towns and cities across the country over the weekend. It came in a city on edge since the killing of Renee Good on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
“We’re all living in fear right now,” said Meghan Moore, a mother of two from Minneapolis who joined the protest Saturday. “ICE is creating an environment where nobody feels safe and that’s unacceptable.”
On Friday night, a protest outside a Minneapolis hotel that attracted about 1,000 people turned violent as demonstrators threw ice, snow and rocks at officers, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Saturday. One officer suffered minor injuries after being struck with a piece of ice, O’Hara said. Twenty-nine people were cited and released, he said.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stressed that while most protests have been peaceful, those who cause damage to property or put others in danger will be arrested. He faulted “agitators that are trying to rile up large crowds.”
“This is what Donald Trump wants,” Frey said of the president who has demanded massive immigration enforcement efforts in several U.S. cities. “He wants us to take the bait.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz echoed the call for peace.
“Trump sent thousands of armed federal officers into our state, and it took just one day for them to kill someone,” Walz posted on social media. “Now he wants nothing more than to see chaos distract from that horrific action. Don’t give him what he wants.”
What to know about the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis
Communities unite in frustration
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says its deployment of immigration officers in the Twin Cities is its biggest ever immigration enforcement operation. Trump’s administration has said both shootings were acts of self-defense against drivers who “weaponized” their vehicles to attack officers.
Connor Maloney said he was attending the Minneapolis protest to support his community and because he’s frustrated with the immigration crackdown.
“Almost daily I see them harassing people,” he said. “It’s just sickening that it’s happening in our community around us.”
He was among thousands of protesters, including children, who braved sub-freezing temperatures and a light dusting of snow, carrying handmade signs saying declaring, “De-ICE Minnesota!” and “ICE melts in Minnesota.”
They marched down a street that is home to restaurants and stores where various nationalities and cultures are celebrated in colorful murals.
Steven Eubanks, 51, said he felt compelled to attend a protest in Durham, North Carolina, on Saturday because of the “horrifying” killing in Minneapolis.
“We can’t allow it,” Eubanks said. “We have to stand up.”
Indivisible, a social movement organization that formed to resist the Trump administration, said hundreds of protests were scheduled in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Florida and other states.
ICE activity across Minneapolis
In Minneapolis, a coalition of migrant rights groups organized the demonstration that began in a park about half a mile from the residential neighborhood where the 37-year-old Good was shot on Wednesday.
But the large protest apparently did not deter federal officers from operating in the city.
A couple of miles away, just as the demonstration began, an Associated Press photographer witnessed heavily armed officers — at least one in Border Patrol uniform — approach a person who had been following them. Two of the agents had long guns out when they ordered the person to stop following them, telling him it was his “first and final warning.”
The agents eventually drove onto the interstate without detaining the driver.
Protests held in the neighborhood have been largely peaceful, and in general there has been minimal law enforcement presence, in contrast to the violence that hit Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. Near the airport, some confrontations erupted on Thursday and Friday between smaller groups of protesters and officers guarding the federal building used as a base for the Twin Cities crackdown.
O’Hara said city police officers have responded to calls about cars abandoned because their drivers have been apprehended by immigration enforcement. In one case, a car was left in park and a dog was left inside another.
He said immigration enforcement activities are happening “all over the city” and that 911 callers have been alerting authorities to ICE activity, arrests and abandoned vehicles.
The Trump administration has deployed thousands of federal officers to Minnesota under a sweeping new crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. More than 2,000 officers were taking part.
Lawmakers snubbed
Three congresswomen from Minnesota attempted to tour the ICE facility in the Minneapolis federal building on Saturday morning and were initially allowed to enter but then told they had to leave about 10 minutes later.
U.S, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig accused ICE agents of obstructing members of Congress from fulfilling their duty to oversee operations there.
A federal judge last month temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing policies that limit congressional visits to immigration facilities. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by 12 members of Congress who sued in Washington, D.C. to challenge ICE’s amended visitor policies after they were denied entry to detention facilities.
Associated Press writers Allen Breed in Durham, North Carolina, and Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, contributed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/10/nationwide-anti-ice-protests/
Atlanta Falcons hire former quarterback Matt Ryan as president of football
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons on Saturday named former longtime quarterback Matt Ryan to the newly created role of president of football.
Ryan, who holds most of the team’s passing records after he spent 14 years as the starter, was announced to the new role after interviewing Friday.
Ryan will be responsible for leading the search for the Falcons’ new coach and general manager. Each new hire will report directly to Ryan, who will leave his role as NFL analyst with CBS.
Falcons owner Arthur Blank on Thursday confirmed the team’s interest in Ryan. The team interviewed candidates for only two days before hiring Ryan.
Ryan was the Falcons’ starting quarterback from 2008-21 and was named the 2016 NFL MVP after leading the team to the Super Bowl. He holds most of the team’s major passing records, including yards, touchdown passes and completions, and he retired following one season with the Indianapolis Colts.
“Arthur gave me the chance of a lifetime almost twenty years ago, and he’s done it again today,” Ryan said in a statement released by the team. “While I appreciate the time I had with the Colts and with CBS, I’ve always been a Falcon. It feels great to be home.”
The Falcons have scheduled a news conference with Ryan on Tuesday.
Blank said Thursday that he believed Ryan was qualified for the job despite his lack of front-office experience because of his high football IQ. Blank said in a statement Saturday that Ryan’s “leadership, attention to detail, knowledge of the game and unrelenting drive to win made him the most successful player in our franchise’s history.”
Added Blank: “I am confident those same qualities will be a tremendous benefit to our organization as he steps into this new role. From his playing days to his time as an analyst at CBS, Matt has always been a student of the game, and he brings an astute understanding of today’s NFL, as well as unique knowledge of our organization and this market. I have full confidence and trust in Matt as we strive to deliver a championship caliber team for Atlanta and Falcons fans everywhere.”
The Falcons fired coach Raheem Morris and general manager Terry Fontenot on Sunday, hours after the completion of an 8-9 season. It was the team’s eighth consecutive losing season. It will be Ryan’s challenge to help direct the team to its first playoff appearance since 2017.
“I could not be more excited, grateful, or humbled by this new opportunity,” Ryan said. “I began my career with a singular goal: to do right by the Blank family, the Falcons organization, the city of Atlanta, and especially our fans. My commitment to the success of this franchise has not changed. I’m beyond ready to help write a new chapter of excellence.”
Ryan acknowledges there will be an adjustment in his new job.
“My history with this team speaks for itself, and I’m really grateful for it, and the great relationship I’ve been lucky to have with Arthur and his family,” Ryan said. “I also recognize this side of football is not where I’ve come up. I’ve played, I’ve commented, but I haven’t directly operated. I think I’m humble enough to recognize there will be some baptism by fire, but I’m ready for that.
“I know I’ve got great resources and partners throughout this organization and I’m fortunate to have mentors across the league. That said, I do understand the weight of a role like this — I’ve lived it. I have confidence in the perspective my years as a player and a team leader give me. This is not a new table; it’s just a new seat.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/10/matt-ryan-atlanta-falcons-president/
Braves refuerzan bullpen al firmar al derecho Tyler Kinley por $4,25M y uno año
ATLANTA (AP) — Los Bravos de Atlanta firmaron al lanzador derecho Tyler Kinley el sábado con un contrato de un año por 4,25 millones de dólares, que incluye una opción del club para 2027, continuando así su trabajo de temporada baja en el bullpen.
Kinley recibirá un salario de 3 millones este año, y los Bravos tienen una opción de 5,5 millones con una cláusula de rescisión de 1,25 millones de dólares.
Kinley, de 34 años, tuvo un récord de 5-0 con una efectividad de 0.72 en 25 entradas con Atlanta la temporada pasada, después de ser adquirido de Colorado el 30 de julio.
El acuerdo con Kinley se produce después de que los Bravos firmaran al venezolano Robert Suárez con un contrato de tres años por 45 millones de dólares y renovaran al cerrador cubano Raisel Iglesias con un acuerdo de un año por 16 millones.
En ocho temporadas en las Grandes Ligas con los Bravos, Rockies y Marlins, Kinley tiene un récord de 19-14 y una efectividad de 4.75. Ha aparecido en 342 juegos, todos como relevista.
Para hacer espacio en el roster de 40 jugadores, el lanzador zurdo Ken Waldichuk fue designado para asignación.
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Female with head trauma found in Chicago Lawn parking lot ruled a homicide, medical examiner says
The death of a female found with head injuries in a Chicago Lawn parking lot was ruled a homicide Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police found the still-unidentified female unresponsive in the 6700 block of South Western Avenue just before 11:30 a.m. Friday. She was pronounced dead at the scene, but police preliminarily classified it as a death investigation.
An autopsy performed Saturday showed that the woman died by blunt force head trauma and assault and was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Police said they have not been able to confirm the victim’s age and are still investigating.
Chicago Bears’ Kevin Byard III and Joe Thuney named 1st-team All-Pros, while Darnell Wright gets 2nd-team nod
Three Chicago Bears — free safety Kevin Byard III, left guard Joe Thuney and right tackle Darnell Wright — were named to the Associated Press All-Pro teams Saturday, hours before their wild-card-round playoff game against the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field (7 p.m., Fox-32 and Prime Video).
Byard and Thuney were selected to the first team, Wright to the second team. Byard and Thuney also were voted to the Pro Bowl along with center Drew Dalman.
It’s a third All-Pro selection for Byard, 32, who finished the regular season as the NFL’s interceptions leader with seven. The team captain also helped guide the defense to a league-leading 33 takeaways, including an NFL-high 23 interceptions.
Thuney, 33, a former Kansas City Chief and New England Patriot, earned his third straight All-Pro nod and fifth of his career. Wright, 23, the No. 10 pick in 2023, was selected for the first time.
Thuney, Wright and Dalman helped anchor a line that blocked for the league’s third-ranked rushing offense (144.5 yards per game) and protected quarterback Caleb Williams, who saw his sacks drop from 68 his rookie season to 24.
The Bears last had an All-Pro selection in 2023, when cornerback Jaylon Johnson was named to the second team. Before that, kick returner Cordarrelle Patterson was a first-team selection in 2020.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/10/chicago-bears-all-pro-selections/
