Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 -
The White House's TrumpRx website went live Thursday with a promise to instantly deliver prescription drugs at "the lowest price anywhere in the world." "This launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, many times, and it's not even close," President Trump said at a news conference announcing the launch of the platform. Drug policy experts say the jury is still out on ...
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Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said Friday that the high-stakes talks between Iran and the United States in Oman had gone well and that the two sides would meet again next week , though he did not provide any details about the meeting "They had a very good meeting with a very high representative Iran, of Iran, and we'll see how it all turns out," Trump said in a gathering of reporters aboard Air Force One, noting that the ...
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Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 -
Donald during a press briefing at the White House. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Despite repeated judicial rulings rejecting Trump's 2020 election claims, he persists. Proving that his ego burned through his prefrontal cortex and seared his last shard of reasoning capacity, after his attempt to extort Minnesota voter rolls failed, Trump's FBI raided an election center in Georgia and seized them directly. Both acts were ...
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Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 -
News ) Uber ordered to pay $8.5 million in bellwether sexual assault case A US federal jury on Thursday ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million in compensatory damages to a passenger who alleged she was sexually assaulted by her driver, marking the first plaintiff victory in a multidistrict litigation including thousands of similar claims. Thursday's verdict hinged on the legal theory of apparent authority , under which a ...
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Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 -
Authorities in the European Union said that the video-sharing platform TikTok is in breach of online content regulations, warning the company to change "addictive" features in order to protect minors from compulsive use. The European Commission shared the preliminary conclusions of a probe into TikTok on Friday, stating that features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and a personalised ...
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Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 -
NEW DELHI – India and the United States released a framework for an interim trade agreement to lower tariffs on Indian goods, which Indian opposition accused of favoring Washington. The joint statement, released Friday, came after U.S. announced his plan last week to reduce import tariffs on the South Asian country, six months after imposing steep taxes to press New Delhi to Under the deal, tariffs on goods ...
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Saturday, Feb 7th, 2026 -
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — It's been a week since "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie 's mother disappeared from her home in Arizona in what authorities say was a kidnapping. Investigators have been examining ransom notes and looking for evidence but have not named a suspect. On Friday, officers returned to 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie 's home near Tucson and to the surrounding neighborhood to continue their search. ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
In October 2020, President Trump unveiled a plan to grant himself the power to fire vast numbers of civil servants for any reason should they get in the way of his agenda. Five and a half years later, that plan has come to fruition, despite vast public opposition. Starting March 9, an unspecified number of federal employees could lose their current job protections and be converted into at-will employees at Trump's ...
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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 ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 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? SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico grand jury has indicted Timothy Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child. Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman announced the indictment Friday in a ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has conducted another strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people. The U.S. Southern Command announced the strike on X Thursday night . "On Feb. 5, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
A federal judge on Friday blocked President Trump from freezing $16 billion in funds for the massive Gateway tunnel project in New York and New Jersey. Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Southern District of New York ordered the Trump administration to release funds earmarked for the Hudson River rail tunnel – which would connect New York and New Jersey – on the same day construction on the project ...
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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 ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Mangione faces trial in state and federal court after being charged with murdering healthcare CEO Brian Thompson The judge overseeing Luigi Mangione 's New York state murder proceeding slammed his federal colleague for trying to beat him to trial in a criminal case that has left this country rapt. Mangione is charged with the murder of the United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, who was shot dead on a midtown ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Bloomberg reports that Apple has shut down its Mulberry project and will roll out some of its AI coaching features as incremental updates to the Health app. Apple is scaling back a planned virtual health coach and plans to fold its features into the existing Health app instead, according to a report from Bloomberg . The project, internally code-named Mulberry, was described as an AI-powered wellness coach that ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Legacy systems often suffer from messy data and workflows that aren't ready for AI's speed and scale. As enterprises race to adopt AI, many are discovering that experimentation alone isn't enough to deliver real business value. Legacy systems, fragmented data, and outdated architectures continue to limit how far AI initiatives can scale , often stalling promising ideas at the pilot stage. To discover more, Digital ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Statin Side Effect Risks May Be Much Lower Than You Think New research suggests that it's rare to experience most of the listed side effects for this common type of cholesterol-lowering medication. Taken by millions of people across the United States, statin medications can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke by lowering cholesterol levels. But an untold number of people who could also benefit from these ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The Hims website arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it would take action against telehealth provider Hims & Hers for its $49 weight-loss pill, including restricting access to the drug's ingredients and referring the company to the Department of Justice for potential violations of federal law. Federal action to ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told federal agencies on Thursday that they must immediately begin ripping and replacing all end-of-support edge devices. (BOD), CISA said that agencies must update end-of support edge devices on their networks, which are devices that are no longer supported by their vendors. These devices are especially vulnerable to cyber threat campaigns that target ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, foreground center, helps raise the Canadian flag at the new Canadian consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, right, speaks to the media following the flag raising at the new ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — An alleged participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, has been taken into custody to face prosecution for the rampage that killed four Americans and emerged as a divisive political issue, the Justice Department said Friday. Zubayar Al-Bakoush, identified by officials as a member of an extremist militia in Libya, had been wanted by the United States for ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Can ICE keep locking up immigrants without a hearing? A critical constitutional question is piling up in hundreds of cases, Alex Woodward reports P resident Donald Trump's administration is working fast to arrest and deport as many people as it can, from street-level surges of ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
A top Russian military intelligence general was shot in a Moscow apartment building Friday and hospitalised, Moscow said, in what it said was an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine. There was no comment from Kyiv, which has claimed responsibility for some of the several high-ranking military officials that have been killed since Moscow launched its full-scale offensive in February 2022. Russian ...
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Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The AI agents' social network exposes concrete threats, including the extent to which technical users are willing to overlook security best practices — and the infinite swarm of disinformation to come. Is an autonomous network of AI agents about to break free from humanity and take over the world? You might think so when you follow the uproar surrounding Moltbook , the latest big buzzword from the tech ...
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Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Amazon reported a profit of $21.2 billion on net sales of $213.4 billion in the recently ended quarter. Amazon shares dove more than 11 percent on Thursday as the computing and retail titan reported strong sales but significantly boosted spending estimates. Amazon reported a profit of $21.2 billion on net sales of $213.4 billion in the recently ended quarter as its AWS cloud computing, retail, advertising, and ...
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