The Daily Populous

Thursday January 15th, 2026 evening edition

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33-year-old Stephen Chase has revealed that, after every surgery, he wakes up speaking fluent Spanish despite only knowing a “low level” of the language.

Patients waking up from surgery after being pumped full of painkillers has produced a number of viral videos in the past.

In the case of Stephen Case, a father from Utah, he wakes up from surgeries speaking Spanish for a little bit.

American speaks fluent Spanish after every surgery.

That’s right, every time Chase goes under the knife for a surgery, he wakes up speaking Spanish.

“I spent a lot of time at my best friend’s house and his parents were always speaking Spanish.

“Now I tell people that I tend to wake up speaking Spanish so they’re prepared,” he added. »

The Xbox Developer Direct will feature a secret fourth game

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

The upcoming Xbox Developer Direct will feature a currently unannounced fourth game.

VGC can corroborate this and understands that the fourth game is a smaller-scale original game from one of Xbox Game Studios’ first-party developers.

The Xbox Developer Direct will also include “the first in-depth look” at Beast of Reincarnation, the new game from Game Freak. »

European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island

Authored by bbc.co.uk
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Trump, meanwhile, doubled down on his bid to bring Greenland under US control, telling reporters in the Oval Office, "we need Greenland for national security".

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland was not planning to join the European military deployment to Greenland, but warned that any US military intervention there "would be a political disaster".

Finland is sending two military liaison officers for what it said was a fact-finding mission during what was currently a planning stage of the operation. »

Trump is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests

Authored by theguardian.com

A year after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a global survey suggests much of the world believes his nation-first, “Make America Great Again” approach is instead helping to make China great again.

Most EU citizens expected China to soon lead the world in electric vehicles and renewable energies.

In South Africa (85%), Russia (86%), and Brazil (73%), majorities view China either as a necessary partner or as an ally. »