Today is Thursday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2026. Today in history:On Jan. 29, 2002, in his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush said terrorists were still threatening America — and warned of “an axis of evil” consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq. (Her reign would end two years later when the Hawaiian monarchy was abolished following a U.S. military-supported coup d’état.) In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing a security guard and critically injuring a nurse. (Alexandre Bissonnette, who was arrested nearby, pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges and drew a life prison sentence.)