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Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Elon Musk and former UK ambassador to US Peter Mandelson among those named in newly released documents From If you're just joining us, millions of files related to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the US justice department, the largest disclosure by the government since a law passed last year ruled that the documents should be published. The disgraced financier was convicted of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Trump nominated Kevin Warsh, an ex-Fed governor, for the role as the White House continues to attack Jerome Powell The US Federal Reserve requires "strong, sound and steady leadership", according to Donald Trump. The president found a man to lead the central bank who would "provide exactly that type of leadership", he declared."He's strong, he's committed and he's smart." This is not how Trump described Kevin ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The federal government is shutting down for the second time in six months after Congress failed to reach an agreement on the yearly budget in time. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is expected to notify federal agencies to begin shutdown preparations as early as just after midnight on Jan. 31 Unlike last time, however, the government is only entering a partial ...
Source: foxnews.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — Former CNN host Don Lemon, released a day after federal officers arrested him in Los Angeles, defended his career in journalism on Friday, saying he will never stop reporting. U.S. District Judge Patricia Donahue ordered Lemon to be released on no money bond, according to The Hollywood Reporter . Lemon was accused of disturbing worshippers in a Minnesota church by disrupting their First ...
Source: wfla.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Eugene Scott, a journalist based in Washington, D.C., and a visiting fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SNF Agora Institute, is a contributing Globe Opinion writer. The FBI raid Wednesday on a Georgia election operation center is the latest development in President Trump's ongoing attack on election integrity. And that means that Americans should be concerned about the fate of the upcoming midterm elections. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
News WikiMedia ( ) DOJ opens civil rights probe into killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters on Friday that the Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the intensive care nurse killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis last weekend. Blanche said the FBI will lead the investigation ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Danish firm Maersk will temporarily operate two ports on the Panama Canal after a court ruled that contracts given to a Hong Kong firm were unconstitutional. The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) announced the changes on Friday, a day after the Central American country's Supreme Court invalidated port contracts held by Hong Kong-based firm CK Hutchison. The court ruling followed repeated threats from United States ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Lindsey Vonn sat out a World Cup super-G race on Saturday after crashing and injuring her left knee a day earlier, but remains on track for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics , her coach said. "No, she is not racing today but preparing for Cortina as usual," Chris Knight, Vonn's personal head coach, said in a text message. Vonn then posted on Instagram: "Unfortunately, I won't be able to race today. Thank you for ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel has denounced what he called an attempt by his United States counterpart, Donald Trump, to "suffocate" the sanctions-hit country's economy. Trump signed an executive order on Thursday threatening additional tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba, the latest move in Washington's campaign of pressure on Havana. The order alleged that the government of communist-run Cuba was an ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Pedro Pascal and Meryl Streep lead tributes to Catherine O'Hara Meryl Streep, Pedro Pascal and Ben Stiller are among celebrities to have paid tribute to Emmy-winning actor Catherine O'Hara, who died on Friday aged 71. The Canadian-born star was best known for her roles in the films Beetlejuice and Home Alone, as well as comedy TV series including Schitt's Creek and The Studio. Streep said O'Hara brought "love and ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
The Lily Jean's captain, Gus Sanfilippo, and his crew were featured in an episode of the History Channel show 'Nor'Easter Men' Reading Time: 3 minutes There was no mayday call from the commercial fishing vessel Lily Jean as it navigated the frigid Atlantic Ocean on Friday morning on its way home to Gloucester, Massachusetts, America 's oldest fishing port. The US Coast Guard was notified by the boat's beacon that ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Why Are Non-Human Identities Crucial for Cloud Security? Does your organization fully understand the importance of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) in cybersecurity? With a crucial component of cloud security, managing these machine identities effectively can be the key to minimizing risks and ensuring robust access management. Where systems and services interact automatically, establishing a comprehensive strategy for ...
Source: securityboulevard.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, will not face the death penalty if convicted, a court has ruled. US District Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed the federal firearms charges against the 27-year-old that carried the possibility of the death penalty. He will still face stalking charges, which can bring a maximum punishment of life in prison. Mangione was ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Home » » President Donald Trump , Don Jr., Eric Trump , and the Trump organization are suing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Treasury Department for $10 billion over the federal agencies' failure to prevent alleged leaks of President Trump 's tax information during his first term, which was given to several news outlets. The suit, filed in a Florida court on Jan. 29, and which includes ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Ukraine president says he will wait to see if Putin complies with Trump request to halt strikes on energy infrastructure Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy , said he was waiting to see whether Russia would observe a proposed pause in strikes on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure, as Kyiv endures a spell of bitter winter cold. Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that Vladimir Putin had agreed to halt ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
A bill that will end the monopoly of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA in the oil sector has been passed by Venezuela's National Assembly, less than a month after the US captured Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez has signed a law opening the country's oil sector to privatisation. The National Assembly approved the bill to lure in foreign investment on Thursday - as the US eased ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
US president warns against closer ties with China during British PM's trip to secure lower tariffs and better market access Donald Trump has warned the UK against doing business with China, just hours after Keir Starmer lauded the economic relationship during a landmark visit to Beijing . The US president said it was "very dangerous" for the UK to pursue closer ties with the rival superpower as the prime minister's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Google AI lets you explore any virtual world you can dream up instantly Google's just begun opening up access to an AI model I can actually get behind. This one lets you generate a virtual world of any kind and travel through it with a vehicle or character like in a video game – all with text prompts or images you upload. That could be a spaceship flying over an alien planet, a blimp over a European city set ...
Source: newatlas.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported mammography identifies more cancers during screening and reduces the rate of breast cancer diagnosis by 12% in the years following, finds the first randomised controlled trial of its kind involving over 100,000 Swedish women published in The Lancet journal. The interim safety results of the MASAI trial, ...
Source: news-medical.net
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Homebuyers and owners looking to refinance, for the first time in years, largely entered 2026 with a sense of cautious optimism. And that feeling was supported by hard data and encouraging economic developments in the final four months of 2025, specifically. A declining inflation rate played a large role in encouraging the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts. While those were on hold for the majority of the year, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Former Illinois sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for the 2024 killing of Sonya Massey in her Springfield home. A jury last year found Grayson guilty of second-degree murder. police body camera footage shown widely across the nation," said the Chicago Tribune. The footage showed Grayson, who is white, fatally shooting the 36-year-old Black mother of two after responding to a ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
This change affects users who haven't upgraded to GPT-5.2, though OpenAI claims most users have already transitioned to the newer model. The retirement streamlines ChatGPT's offerings, leaving users with fewer but more advanced AI models for their interactions. You'll soon have fewer AI models to choose from when conversing with ChatGPT. OpenAI recently announced that it'll soon be discontinuing several of the AI ...
Source: pcworld.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
National Security What Are the Chances Trump Attacks Iran? The Trump administration has targets but no endgame. Nanna Heitmann / Magnum Photos January 30, 2026, 10:36 AM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + 0:00 12:00 T he Trump administration is contemplating another attack on a foreign adversary, using a familiar script. Once again, the president has assembled what he described as an "armada" of ships within striking ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Brett Matsumoto, the next chief, has worked as an economist at the BLS since 2015 President Donald Trump has nominated economist Brett Matsumoto to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to a Truth Social post Friday. "For many years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, under WEAK and STUPID people, has been FAILING American Businesses, Policymakers, and Families by releasing VERY inaccurate numbers," the ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Yesterday, a federal jury in San Francisco convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, 38, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information containing Google's trade secrets related to artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The jury's ...
Source: justice.gov
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Saks Global plans to shutter most of its Sak Off 5th stores as the bankrupt retailer looks to slash costs and cater to higher-income customers. The company said on Thursday that it will close all but 12 of its 70 Saks Off 5th locations. The remaining outlets will serve primarily as a selling channel for residual inventory from Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. Saks, which also owns ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
What is a Trump Account? Trump Accounts are investment accounts for kids. The federal government will contribute $1,000 for newborns to kick-start the account. Parents or guardians can then add their own money — up to $5,000 a year — to maximize growth, but contributing isn't required. Adults will have control of the account until their child turns 18. At age 18, the child can either withdraw the funds ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHELLE L. PRICE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade war with America's northern neighbor as his feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney expands. Trump's threat posted on social media came after he threatened over the weekend to impose a ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Apple on Thursday forecast a surge of up to 16% in revenue for the March quarter, well ahead of Wall Street's expectations, powered by strong demand for its iPhones and a sharp rebound in China. That followed holiday-quarter results that beat estimates as well, with CEO Tim Cook telling Reuters that demand for the latest handsets was "staggering." Apple's iPhone 17 lineup helped lift sales across key markets, ...
Source: nypost.com
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Federal transportation regulator to investigate after child in Santa Monica sustained minor injuries from incident The US's federal transportation regulator said Thursday it had opened an investigation after a Waymo self-driving vehicle struck a child near an elementary school in southern California last week, causing minor injuries. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the child in Santa Monica ...
Source: theguardian.com