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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina and the United States agreed Thursday to ease restrictions on each other's goods in an expansive trade deal that boosts a drive by President Javier Milei to open up Argentina's protectionist economy and a push by the Trump administration to reduce food prices for Americans. The deal, which slashes hundreds of reciprocal tariffs between the countries, also reflects the ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Two countries' envoys separately meet Omani negotiators amid US naval buildup in region Oman has mediated high-stakes, indirect talks between Iran and the US over Tehran's nuclear programme, seen as one of the last chances to prevent a new US attack. Envoys for the two countries arrived for separate meetings with the sultanate's top diplomat, Badr al-Busaidi. The negotiations are the first since the US struck ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The Trump administration's promised direct-to-consumer drug platform TrumpRx has officially gone live, with President Trump on Thursday calling it "one of the most transformative health care initiatives of all time." The website TrumpRx.gov currently features a collection of 43 prescription drugs treating various different conditions at varying discounts. Medications for asthma, infertility and obesity are among ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump has assumed essentially unlimited discretion to choose how many government employees lose their job security, under a rule that critics say threatens to upend the nonpartisan professional nature of the federal civilian workforce that has existed since the 1880s. A final regulation from the Office of Personnel Management released Thursday empowers Trump to reclassify federal policy-influencing ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
What's that magical channel that will save your business? "This is the most common question I get," writes Ivan Sparrow, a mobile marketer and app developer, in a . "And the one I constantly see on X." Unfortunately, there's no easy answer. Every brand and business has its own go‑to‑market style, and that determines which ad platforms work best. Apple Ads, for instance, are expensive. But a small ...
Source: adexchanger.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has hailed his Wednesday phone call with his key trade rival, China's President Xi Jinping, in which they discussed a wide range of issues, as "excellent". But while Trump, who hopes to persuade China to further isolate Iran, claimed after the call that China had promised to increase the volume of soya beans it buys from the US, Xi appeared more concerned with warning the US to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Apparently, humans aren't the only ones with a knack for acting and imagination. A bonobo named Kanzi could have cleared the audition of an elite culinarian when he pretended to see food that wasn't even there. In a recent set of experiments , scientists wanted to test if animals could play pretend just as well as humans, and the results didn't disappoint. Kanzi was treated to a make-believe tea party where he was ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and U.S. negotiators discussed the expiration of the last remaining nuclear arms pact between the two countries and agreed on the need to quickly launch new arms control talks, the Kremlin said Friday, even as the U.S. emphasized the need for China to join a future arms pact and accused Beijing of covert nuclear tests. The New START treaty terminated Thursday, leaving no caps on the two ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
London — So far, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hasn't been linked to any suggested wrongdoing revealed by the Epstein files . But his decision to give another politician, whose ties to Jeffrey Epstein have been laid bare by the documents, the vital job of ambassador in Washington D.C. has drawn a ferocious backlash. As the most tumultuous week in his premiership ends, Starmer is facing calls from ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Valve's living room PC console is coming in 2026 with custom AMD hardware, SteamOS, Proton support and a focus on 4K gaming, but price and launch timing are still in flux. Valve is bringing the Steam Machine back, but not as a partner program for third party living room PCs. This time it is a compact home console alongside the Steam Deck, built and sold by Valve with its own custom hardware and SteamOS software. ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The directive targets firewalls, routers, and VPNs that are no longer receiving vendor patches, as nation-state actors shift their tactics from endpoints to infrastructure. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has given federal agencies 18 months to remove all end-of-support edge devices from their networks, escalating its response to what security researchers describe as a fundamental shift in ...
Source: csoonline.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The new Page Match tool allows readers to scan a physical page to find their exact place in the audio. Spotify announced updates to its audiobook business on Thursday, February 5, 2026. The changes include enabling U.S. and U.K. users to buy physical copies of audiobooks directly through the app. The company also introduced two new features: Page Match and an expansion of Audiobook Recaps. Users will access ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Donald Trump is mentioned more than 3,000 times in the new tranche of three million documents The U.S. Justice Department released millions of files related to the case of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, shedding further light on his expansive network of high ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
At a time when many newsrooms are shrinking, your support is more important than ever. Membership ensures we can keep covering the issues that shape our lives and communities. Already a member? Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of longtime "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, was reported missing from her home near Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday . Since then, the local sheriff's department and federal agents have ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
The Paul Weiss chair dined with Epstein and sought his help getting his son a job with a Woody Allen film production Brad Karp, the longtime chair of powerful Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss, has resigned his top leadership role and will be replaced by partner Scott Barshay, the firm said on Wednesday. Karp has faced scrutiny after emails released by the US Department of Justice on Friday revealed extensive ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Fotos de personas desnudas. Nombres y rostros de víctimas de abuso sexual. Números de cuentas bancarias y del Seguro Social a plena vista. Todo esto se puede ver entre la montaña de documentos que el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos publicó el viernes como parte de sus labores por cumplir con una ley que requiere que la agencia saque a la luz sus ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago and 205% from December 2025. The total marked the highest for any January since 2009. At the same time, companies announced just 5,306 new hires, also the lowest January since 2009, which is when Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking such data. An Amazon Go store in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Layoff ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Guthrie appeared in the video alongside her siblings, Annie and Camron, and read from a prepared statement — at one point, addressing the people who may have her mother. "We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive, and that you have her. We want to hear from you, and we are ready to listen. Please, reach out to us," she said. In the nearly four-minute-long video, Guthrie described her mother as a ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Amazon posted mixed results for the fourth quarter. The company also said it expects capital expenditures to hit roughly $200 billion in 2026. Tech companies have aggressively ramped up their spending forecasts to seize artificial intelligence demand. In this article Amazon shares plunged more than 10% in extended trading Thursday after the company posted mixed fourth-quarter earnings and boosted its 2026 spending ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal agency for protecting workers' civil rights revealed Wednesday that it is investigating sportswear giant Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees through its diversity policies. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disclosed the investigation in a motion filed in Missouri federal court demanding that Nike fully comply with a subpoena for information. The ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Humans should not be drinking cow's milk for countless reasons, including the horrific torture that cows experience . Furthermore, drinking raw milk puts human lives at severe risk of illness, no matter how bright and bubbly the social media presence of the farm in question. Indeed, drinking raw milk from an influencer-led farm is such a bad idea that it should seem obvious to abstain. Nevertheless, the influencer ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
First, the jihadists sent a letter saying they were coming to the village to preach, said Nigerian chief Umar Bio Salihu. When no one attended, they went on a rampage, killing people and torching houses, he said. Salihu is the traditional chief of Woro, a small, Muslim-majority village in west-central Nigeria where alleged jihadist gunmen perpetrated a massacre late Tuesday. Details are still emerging from the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it will relax federal regulations regulating when companies may label products as free of artificial coloring. The FDA said businesses can now label products as having "no artificial colors" if the coloring is natural or plant-based. "Companies will now have flexibility to claim products contain 'no artificial ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-carrying boat in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, marking the 38th vessel to be struck over the last five months in Latin American waters, and the second this year. Two people were killed in Thursday's operation, U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X . The military alleged the boat was operated by a designated terrorist organization and was traveling on "known ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Poland announced on Thursday that the United States will have "no further dealings, contacts, or communications" with Włodzimierz Czarzasty, the speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament, over what Rose called "outrageous and unprovoked insults directed against President Trump." Amb. Tom Rose did not specify what those alleged insults were, but ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Washington — A federal court hearing in Minneapolis on Tuesday provided an extraordinary window into the volume of immigration-related cases overwhelming federal prosecutors in Minnesota amid the Trump administration's surge of immigration agents to the Twin Cities, and the frustrations of exasperated judges who have said their orders are repeatedly ignored. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Jerry ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Why does autism seem easy to spot in boys during childhood, yet many women speak about receiving a diagnosis much later in life? A large study from Sweden offers a clear answer. Autism does not appear less often in girls – it often gets recognized later. For decades, autism spectrum disorder has been linked more strongly with male individuals. Many reports showed about four male ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Enterprises are racing to build AI-dependent operations, but the most overlooked resilience lay-er might not be technical. [Note: This article was written in conjunction with Eugene Chuvyrov and Sheeraz Memon , Innovation Engineering, ServiceNow.] When my home internet went down for days, it initially felt like a pleasant break. Then reality hit: doorbell, security system, thermostat, lights, gym, ...
Source: cio.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Google plans to spend up to $185B Alphabet executives struck a confident tone on Wednesday's post-earnings call, signaling that Google's heavy investments in artificial intelligence are now translating into real revenue growth across the business. The call was the first since Google released its Gemini 3 model , which has boosted user engagement and helped the company regain momentum in the intensifying AI race. ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Mortgage rates rose again in the first full week following the Federal Open Market Committee's decision not to reduce rates during its January meeting. Processing Content Following the meeting, Pres. Trump nominated Kevin Warsh , a former Fed governor, to replace Jerome Powell as chairman. Warsh is seen by the markets as someone who is more accommodating to the President's desire to lower short-term rates. The ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly half of cancers could be avoided by cutting out three major risk factors, a new study has revealed. Research published this week in Nature Medicine identified that nearly 40% of global cancer cases are linked to tobacco (15% of new cases), infections (10%) and alcohol consumption (3%). Overall, 7.1 million cancer diagnoses in 2022 were linked to 30 modifiable risk ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
While labels list dozens of possible risks only four are supported by evidence, say researchers Almost all side-effects listed for statins are not caused by the drugs, according to the world's most comprehensive review of evidence. Other than the well-known risks around muscle pain and diabetes, only four of 66 other statin side-effects listed on labels – liver test changes, minor liver abnormalities, urine ...
Source: theguardian.com