Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Group board member Nicolás de Lope took over as CEO of Aldi Nord from Torsten Hufnagel, who left after 28 years for personal reasons; Germany chief Felix Rottmann moved up to the group board.

Senator Bernie Sanders administered the public oath on the steps of City Hall, hours after Attorney General Letitia James swore Mamdani in at 12:01 a.m. in the disused City Hall subway station. He is the city's first Muslim mayor and the first of South Asian descent.

A new theatrical anime film of Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina is announced, bringing Jougi Shiraishi's traveling witch Elaina back to the screen for the first time since C2C's 2020 TV series.

A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.

After tracing the toxin cereulide to arachidonic acid (ARA) oil from a global supplier, Nestlé began recalling SMA, BEBA, NAN, Alfamino and Guigoz batches country by country from 5 January 2026, in more than 60 countries.

Vuori filed a trademark suit in Miami federal court against the anonymous owners of 24 look-alike web shops such as vuoriclothing-outlets.shop and vuoriactivewear.com, seeking to freeze and seize them.

A second Jisoo-designed edition of Alo's Sunset Sneaker, in a neutral caramel suede she picked, went on sale for $275.

Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.

Lululemon USA sued the United States in the Court of International Trade for a full refund, with interest, of the emergency-powers tariffs it paid on imports, weeks before the Supreme Court struck them down.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced that Johnson & Johnson will build a second multibillion-dollar plant in Wilson, a drug product manufacturing facility for cancer and neurology medicines expected to create up to 500 jobs, beside the $2 billion biologics campus it is already building there.

Covering episodes 53 through 104 of the story, this installment continues Da Zhuzai (The Great Ruler), a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Motion Magic. It picks up leads Li Luo and Chen Mu on their climb through the setting's warring sects and hidden immortal factions after the ground laid in the first season.

Nike shut its decade-old SoHo flagship at 529 Broadway after IKEA owner Ingka Investments bought the building, ending a ten-year run in the roughly 55,000-square-foot property.

Alo hires Benedetta Petruzzo, managing director of Christian Dior Couture and earlier CEO of Miu Miu, into a new role running its business outside the US alongside co-CEOs Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority moved the Long Bridge Project into full construction, opening daytime work windows through the Washington, D.C. construction zone because the District's noise and vibration rules bar the work at night. A new two-track bridge beside the century-old Long Bridge will give a continuous four-track corridor between Arlington and L'Enfant Plaza, relieving the worst passenger-rail bottleneck on the East Coast.

On the first morning of the ICR Conference, Lululemon said fourth-quarter revenue and EPS would come in toward the top of its $3.500-$3.585 billion and $4.66-$4.76 ranges after the holidays.

Slack turned its decade-old Slackbot into an AI agent that searches your conversations and files, drafts content, schedules meetings and takes actions, rolling out to Business+ and Enterprise+ plans.

Smart texted between Catanduanes and Metro Manila and loaded its website through Lynk Global's low-orbit satellites, its first direct-to-device satellite test, from a coastal village in Pandan.

A software issue took down Verizon Wireless across the US for about ten hours, from around noon until 10:15 PM ET, with Downdetector counting more than 178,000 affected at the peak; Verizon gave affected customers a $20 credit.

The Netflix original anime Love Through A Prism (Prism Rondo) begins streaming, a Wit Studio-produced coming-of-age drama set at a London art academy in the early 1900s.

California's utilities regulator approved the transfer of Frontier's California operations to Verizon with enforceable conditions, including $500 million in small-business spending, the final regulatory approval before the deal closed five days later.

Nia DaCosta directs the second film in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's post-apocalyptic trilogy, continuing straight from 28 Years Later.

Madhouse returns with a second season of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, following the elf mage Frieren and her party through the perilous Northern Plateau on their way to the ancient capital of Aureole.

The 35,000-square-metre market at the head of Blackwattle Bay opened its doors at 7am, replacing the 1966 shed two kilometres away in Pyrmont and roughly doubling retail space across more than 40 food and seafood operators. Designed by Danish architects 3XN/GXN with BVN and Aspect Studios and built by Multiplex, it adds over 6,000 square metres of public open space on the harbour foreshore.

The UK government granted planning permission for China's new London embassy at the historic Royal Mint Court site, ending years of delays and security objections.

Elliott Hill moved APLA chief Cathy Sparks to lead Greater China as Angela Dong leaves, named César Garcia to succeed retiring Carl Grebert in EMEA, and made Crissy Campbell interim head of APLA.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.2 Instant's default personality to be more conversational and better at adapting its tone to context.

The US-majority TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC was established, taking over TikTok's US data, algorithm and moderation, with US user data and the algorithm secured in Oracle's US cloud.