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Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has played down his connections to child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails shared details about their interactions. Facing calls for his resignation, Lutnick told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he "barely knew" Epstein, although emails appear to contradict his earlier accounts of their relationship. "I did not have any relationship with him. I ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Feb. 10 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of a Canada-funded bridge linking Ontario with Michigan, saying the United States must be "fully compensated for everything we have given them." Trump issued the threat via his Truth Social platform on Monday evening, targeting the long-planned, $4.4 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge, which is expected to open later this year along ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Spotify Swedish music streaming giant Spotify saw its user numbers peak last quarter, driven by its year-end "Wrapped" campaign, which rounds up stats and listening highlights for users and new features on its free tier. The company said it saw a record 38 million new users in the fourth quarter, taking its total to 751 million monthly active users, up 11% from a year earlier. Paying ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Following a statement on February 9 that indicated that King Charles and Buckingham Palace are "ready to support" police in any investigation against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor , a royal biographer is signaling that the powers-that-be are indicating that the former Prince Andrew is "on his own" henceforth. Andrew and his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has gotten the former Duke of York in ...
Source: instyle.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Home » » Ghislaine Maxwell, the former confidante and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from Congress, invoking her Fifth Amendment right during a private virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 9. "This is obviously very disappointing," Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) told reporters following the deposition. "We had many ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Discord users will soon see a change to how their accounts work. From early March 2026, access to some features will require age verification using an ID or a face scan. The changes follow earlier deployments in a small number of countries and will apply to both new and existing ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Drinking two to three cups of coffee daily could reduce the risk of dementia , according to new observational research published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. American researchers analyzed four decades of data from more than 130,000 doctors and nurses, finding that moderately caffeinated coffee and tea intake can lower the risk of cognitive decline, ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
A referral by former Trump campaign lawyer Kurt Olsen led to the recent FBI raid that seized 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County, Georgia, elections center, a newly unsealed federal court document revealed. The document said that the FBI is conducting a "criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties" alleged to have occurred in voting processes and ballot counting in Fulton County in 2020 ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has emerged rattled but ultimately unscathed after a day and night of drama during which a key member of his Labour Party called for him to resign over revelations about a former ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Starmer has faced more than a week of mounting pressure since the release of the latest tranche of documents from the US ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
FBI director Kash Patel said the images show "an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance". The FBI has released images of an "armed individual" who appeared on Nancy Guthrie's doorstep on the night she went missing. Authorities investigating the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of a US TV host more than a week ago have not ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The billionaire stated that a lunar city could be finished in under 10 years due to more frequent launch windows and proximity. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the company has shifted its near-term priorities from Mars settlement to building a "self‑growing city on the Moon." In a post on X, Musk stated the lunar project could be completed in less than 10 years, compared to more than 20 years for a ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Key Takeaways On Feb. 6, 2026, FDA announced that it would take action to restrict access to GLP-1 ingredients for non-FDA approved compounded drugs. On the same day, the HHS General Counsel announced on social media that his office had referred Hims & Hers to the DOJ for investigation of potential federal law violations. These announcements signal possible future enforcement actions and scrutiny for compounding ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Air Canada became the first scheduled airline to withdraw services to Cuba due to shortages of jet fuel as the United States tightened its energy embargo on the Caribbean island. Canada's Montreal-headquartered flag-carrier announced Monday it was suspending its 16 weekly flights serving Havana and three other cities, effectively immediately, but said it would send aircraft to bring home 3,000 ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
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Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
'They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again,' says Manhattan borough president The Trump administration has removed a large pride flag from the Stonewall national monument in New York City, marking the latest move by the federal government to end diversity initiatives and sanitize the history shared in national parks. The monument commemorates the June 1969 riots that followed a police raid ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
"Take the vaccine, please." Though prominent members throughout the Trump Administration often say and do much more harm than good, occasionally, figureheads like Dr. Mehmet Oz may stumble into saying the right thing to protect and save lives. Amid a maddening number of measles cases that have cropped up from Disneyland in California all the way to Clemson University and elsewhere throughout South Carolina, as well ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Measures adopted by the Israeli government that deepen the country's control in the occupied West Bank amounted to implementing "de facto sovereignty," a top official said Tuesday, using language that mirrors critics' warnings about the intent behind the moves. The steps "actually establish a fact on the ground that there will not be a Palestinian state," Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israel's Army Radio. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change , the White House announced. The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule rescinding a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding. That Obama-era policy determined that carbon ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Chappell Roan announced Monday that she's left her talent agency after its CEO was named in files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the Department of Justice. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed overwhelmingly by Congress in November compelled the Department of Justice to release all the documents in its possession related to the disgraced financier. Roan, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration rejected Moderna's application for its mRNA-based flu vaccine, the drugmaker said Tuesday. The move is the latest sign that the FDA, under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is slow-walking vaccine approvals and taking a harder line on shots that use messenger RNA technology. Moderna's vaccine uses the same mRNA technology as its Covid shot. In a release Tuesday, Moderna said ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a number of community bank-favored provisions as part of a larger housing package Monday night, but those riders are already imperiling the bill's chances of re-passing the Senate. Processing Content The bill, H.R. 6644, passed the full house Monday evening by a wide bipartisan margin. House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com A federal judge in Los Angeles Monday struck down a California law that prohibited federal law enforcement agents from wearing masks but upheld a companion law that requires federal agents to display clear identification with their agency and badge number. California's first-in-the-nation unmasking law, passed ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Stand with a newsroom that doesn't flinch. Become a member and help keep fearless reporting independent. Already a member? LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu , two Olympic standouts who have faced their share of hate over the years, each weighed in Monday on Donald Trump 's bashing of their friend, American freeskier Hunter Hess, for having said he didn't back the U.S. president's heightened ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Reports stated Trump personally blocked invites for Democratic Govs. Jared Polis and Wes Moore The National Governors Association (NGA) has canceled a planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump later this month, after the White House reportedly excluded Democratic governors. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JONEL ALECCIA, AP Health Writer Federal health officials said Tuesday they will reassess the safety of a chemical called BHA used in foods including potato chips, cereals, frozen meals and meat products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new request for information regarding butylated hydroxyanisole, a preservative. The agency's review "will consider ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Immigration Court Blocks Trump From Deporting Pro-Palestine Tufts Student The Trump administration is actively trying to deport students like Rümeysa Öztürk without providing credible evidence for how they took part in antisemitic activity. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. An immigration judge dropped a deportation case against Rümeysa Öztürk, ...
Source: motherjones.com
You can tell Google Search to remove your personal IDs and explicit images now - but there's a catch
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Google will remove your passport, driver's license, or Social Security number if you ask. But you have to add those details to your request first. Is that safe? Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways You've long been able to ask Google to remove certain personal information from its search results, such as your name, home address, phone number, and email address. But now the ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Ring's Super Bowl ad promoting its 'Search Party' feature for finding lost pets backfired, with viewers finding the neighborhood camera surveillance imagery dystopian rather than heartwarming. A lost pooch. A heartbroken young girl. A parent stapling up "lost" posters. And then, an unlikely hero—a network of Ring security cameras—arrives to save the day. That's the 30-second elevator pitch for Ring's ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Home » » The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to dismiss its criminal case against the former adviser to President Donald Trump , Steve Bannon, which is related to his refusal to testify before the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, US Capitol riots. The "government has determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
By Carson Hartzog, The Minnesota Star Tribune In his second week as Target CEO, Michael Fiddelke shuffled his leadership team and consolidated store districts - moves that drew mixed reactions from retail experts. After several quarters of lackluster performance, the actions addressed some of the loudest criticism of the Minneapolis-based retailer: the state of its stores and product assortment, especially in ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
– Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close political ally of Venezuela's opposition leader , has been placed under house arrest, his family said on Tuesday, two days after he was released from prison. Guanipa, a former governor for the opposition, is at home in the northwest city of Maracaibo, his son, Ramón Guanipa, posted on X. "My father remains unjustly imprisoned — because house arrest is still ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
YouTube TV is introducing more than 10 different interest-based bundles priced below its standard 82.99 dollar monthly rate. YouTube TV announced on Monday new lower-priced subscription plans that allow users to customize their service around specific interests such as sports, news, and entertainment. The company plans to introduce more than 10 different bundles, each priced below the existing main plan's $82.99 ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Todd Lyons, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended his agency's officers before Congress on Tuesday, standing behind their tactics and saying they would not be intimidated as they carry out the president's mass deportation agenda. Lyons was one of the three heads of agencies implementing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda to testify in a hearing called after the shooting ...
Source: wbur.org
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist who studies ancient board games, one exhibit stuck out to Crist: a stone game board dating to the late Roman Empire. It was about eight inches across and etched with angular lines that roughly formed the shape of an ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES — The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements for the first, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, begin this week. Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube will face claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. TikTok and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Only two survivors rescued in tragedy off Libyan coast, UN migration agency says The UN migration agency said 53 people had died or were missing after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. Only two survivors were rescued. The International Organization for Migration said the boat overturned north of Zuwara on Friday. "Only two Nigerian women were rescued during a search and rescue operation ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Tom Homan suggested that a widespread approach to immigration operations would lose public support Tom Homan – the Trump administration's "border czar" sent to Minnesota in January after federal agents fatally shot two US citizen protesters – warned last year that the government's aggressive, widespread approach to immigration enforcement would cost it public support. Homan made the observation in an ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai , the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing , was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent. Lai, 78, was convicted in December of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Schools closed as teachers in San Francisco began a strike Monday after struggling to come to an agreement with the school district over pay and health care costs. It's the first time in 50 years that the district has seen a teacher strike. It affects 50,000 students. The United Educators of San Francisco and the San Francisco Unified School District spent the weekend working toward an agreement, ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. military conducted a "lethal kinetic strike" targeting a boat alleged to be shipping narcotics in the eastern Pacific on Monday, killing two people and leaving one survivor, U.S. Southern Command said. The boat with three people on board was attacked as "intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific and was engaged in ...
Source: upi.com