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Top News Stories for Saturday, February 7th 2026
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has again stoked outrage over his online posts, this time for sharing a video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as apes. The reposted clip came as part of a flurry of late-night messages on Trump's Truth Social account. By midday on Friday, the video had been removed — but not after an outpouring of bipartisan condemnation, slamming the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
A new Republican push to pass an elections-related bill known as the SAVE America Act is underway in Congress, as Democrats warn the proposal could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. , the bill would require Americans to show proof of citizenship in person to register to vote in federal elections, and implement photo ID requirements for voting. Though the legislation is aimed at preventing noncitizens from ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
This story is republished from STAT , the health and medicine news site that's a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT's free Morning Rounds newsletter here . President Trump on Thursday night announced the launch of TrumpRx, the website that he and his aides have touted for months as a platform aimed at lowering prescription drug prices. The website, which uses technology from health care company GoodRx, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — Iran and the United States held indirect talks in Oman over Tehran's nuclear program on Friday, months after America bombed Iran's uranium enrichment sites and just weeks following nationwide protests that convulsed the Islamic Republic . Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the talks as "a very good start" even as the parties met Oman's top diplomat at different times at a ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
News Trump administration paves way for easier termination of public employees The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Thursday announced drastic changes to the way federal employees are classified, making it easier for the president to fire public employees. The rule adds a new "excepted service" category, Schedule Policy/Career, which includes "career positions of a confidential, policy-determining, ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The United States on Friday urged three-way talks with Russia and China to set new limits on nuclear weapons, after the last treaty between top nuclear powers Washington and Moscow expired. China has already rejected joining disarmament negotiations "at this stage", while Russia suggested other nuclear-armed states like Britain and France should be included. "Arms control can no longer be a bilateral issue between ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google For years, imagination was thought to be uniquely human, tied to storytelling, play, and make-believe worlds. Scientists often drew a sharp line between human thought and animal behavior. New research now softens that line by showing imagination at work inside of an ape mind, using nothing more than empty cups, pretend juice, and playful interaction . The study explored pretend play using ...
Source: earth.com
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. ...
Source: upi.com
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 ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
– The sheriff investigating the apparent abduction of "Today" show host mother said Friday he was frustrated that a camera at 's home wasn't able to capture images of anyone the day she went missing. Investigators have found that the home's doorbell camera was disconnected early Sunday and that software data recorded movement at the home minutes later. But Nancy Guthrie did not have an active subscription, so ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
A pair of twin boys involved in a TV series he is directing have accused Busfield of touching them inappropriately Reading Time: 2 minutes West Wing and Field of Dreams actor Timothy Busfield has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child, a New Mexico prosecutor announced on Friday. The allegations are tied to Busfield's work as a director on the set of the television ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
A federal jury in Arizona awarded $8.5 million on Thursday to a woman who claimed that she was raped by her Uber driver. The verdict comes in the first federal bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation against Uber Technologies Inc. over claims of sexual assault. Plaintiff Jaylynn Dean alleged that her Uber driver raped her Nov. 15, 2023, while she was on a trip in Tempe, Arizona. Uber's lawyers said Hassan ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Layoff and hiring rates have been low for months. That may be starting to change, and not in a good way. Job cuts announced last month hit their highest January total since 2009 , according to a report released Thursday by global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. This is in line with a growing trend of jobs being trimmed across the country. Challenger's report, which is based on company announcements ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
A New York judge on Friday said. Mangione's trial will start in June, despite his attorneys pleading to push back the date as his federal trial begins in April. The New York state trial for Luigi Mangione, who is facing charges in connection with the 2024 fatal shooting of a UnitedHealthcare executive, will begin on June 8, the judge said in court Friday. While he was leaving court Friday, Mangione said: "One plus ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
The cheapest seat to this Sunday's Super Bowl matchup between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will cost you roughly four times what the typical U.S. worker earns in a week. In recent years, lower-priced tickets to the big game have averaged between $4,000 and $6,000, according to Ticketmaster, the official ticketing partner of the NFL. Add the cost of flights and lodging and the price tag to attend ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The directive gives agencies three months to identify unsupported edge devices, a year to begin removing them and 18 months to eliminate them entirely. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Thursday it detected widespread exploitation of unsupported, internet-facing devices by advanced hackers and ordered federal agencies to begin a monthslong process of removing and replacing that outdated ...
Source: washingtontechnology.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Supporters of 2026 California Billionaire Tax call it an emergency fix to prevent a healthcare 'collapse' A proposed tax targeting California's wealthiest residents is drawing strong support from likely voters, but critics warn it would discourage investment and trigger an exodus of high-income earners and businesses from the state. I think it's a really economically disastrous idea," Adam Michel, director of tax ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The EU said Friday that it had told TikTok it needs to change its "addictive design" or risk heavy fines. The EU said Friday that it had told TikTok it needs to change its "addictive design" or risk heavy fines, after the Chinese-owned platform was found in breach of the bloc's digital content rules. The European Commission, announcing preliminary conclusions of a probe opened two years ago, said it found TikTok ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices. After writing two November stories analyzing price expectations for Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, I really didn't think we'd be offering more informed speculation before the official price was revealed. Then Valve wrote a blog post this week noting that the "growing price of… critical components" like RAM and storage meant ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
You are not invited to join the latest social media platform that has the internet talking. In fact, no humans are, unless you can hijack the site and roleplay as AI, as some appear to be doing. Moltbook is a new "social network" built exclusively for AI agents to make posts and interact with each other, and humans are invited to observe. Elon Musk said its launch ushered in the "very early stages of the ...
Source: apnews.com
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 ...
Source: everydayhealth.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The FDA announced it planned to restrict use of GLP-1 active pharmaceutical ingredients in non-FDA-approved drugs, including those from Hims & Hers and other compounding pharmacies. "These actions are aimed to safeguard consumers from drugs for which the FDA cannot verify quality, safety or efficacy," Martin A . Makary, MD, MPH, FDA Commissioner, wrote in a press release. The FDA also intends to act against ...
Source: healio.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
When power is used to provoke and dehumanize, independent journalism matters. Your membership allows us to name harmful rhetoric, provide context, and report with integrity—standing up for truth and accountability. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — A key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans has been taken into custody and will be ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
For decades, cancer has been framed as something that "just happens." A roll of the genetic dice. A matter of bad luck. And while biology will always play a role, a sweeping new global analysis suggests that this story is incomplete—and, in some ways, unnecessarily disempowering. Ahead of World Cancer Day 2026, researchers from the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer ...
Source: mindbodygreen.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
with a Health+ subscription, supposedly aiming for a better combo between the Apple Watch, Apple Fitness+, and all the data those apps bring. However, the that Apple is scaling back its plans, as one of its top executives believed the service wasn't good enough to become a subscription. According to Bloomberg, services chief Eddy Cue said Apple's competitors in the health market have more competing features ...
Source: bgr.com
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 ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices. Two New York lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a three-year moratorium on data center development. The announcement makes New York at least the sixth state to introduce legislation putting a pause on data ...
Source: wired.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
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
In this article Nastco | Getty Bitcoin tumbled toward $60,000 this week as investors reassessed its utility. And while there isn't one clear catalyst driving the bloodbath, one thing is clear: the crypto market is in crisis. "There's nothing going on in the marketplace that should have necessitated this type of a crash," Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of alternative investment firm ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
If 2025 was the year of experimentation and pilots with agentic artificial intelligence, then 2026 is shaping up to be the year when agents find a permanent home in enterprise operations. Use cases are scaling up rapidly, based on data delivered during briefings at the AI & Big Data Expo in London this week by companies such as Salesforce Inc. and DeepL SE. This momentum is being fueled by accelerated improvements ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Substack's CEO says a security flaw discovered in February let an unauthorized party access user contact data and internal metadata. Substack, a popular newsletter platform, has confirmed a data breach that exposed users' email addresses and phone numbers. In an email to users, the company disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed this data, along with other internal metadata, in October. Sensitive ...
Source: techbriefly.com
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 ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Svedka Following last year's trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, the technology has become a star in its own right, alongside the latest movie trailers and snack brands. Let's explore the biggest ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Amazon posted record quarterly revenue and strong cloud growth in Q4 — but its stock sunk more than 10% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company missed Wall Street's profit expectations and revealed plans to spend $200 billion on capital expenditures in the upcoming year. "With such strong demand for our existing offerings and seminal opportunities like AI, chips, robotics, and low earth orbit ...
Source: geekwire.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
On February 5, 2026, FDA announced via a letter to food manufacturers that the Agency intends to exercise enforcement discretion regarding certain voluntary claims relating to the absence of certified colors used in foods intended for human consumption. Specifically, FDA does not intend to take enforcement action if the following claims are made on labels or labeling of foods that do not contain colors ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's ties with the United States are "rock solid," the island's president said Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke on the phone about topics that included the self-ruled island's future. "The Taiwan-U.S. relationship is rock solid, and all cooperation projects will continue uninterrupted," Taiwan President Lai Ching-te told reporters ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Ballerina Farm is the latest manufacturer of raw milk to halt production after reports that its milk failed safety tests. Coliform, a bacteria family that includes E. coli, was found in bottles manufactured in May and June 2025. The company, owned by lifestyle influencers Hannah and Daniel Neeleman, produces its raw milk, among other products, at a small farm in Kamas, Utah, where it also has a farm stand. They ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
In a tearful video posted Wednesday on Instagram, "TODAY" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie pleaded for more information from her 84-year-old mother's possible kidnapper, saying her family is "ready to talk." Savannah Guthrie — reading from prepared remarks, speaking directly to a camera and seated alongside her two siblings — said her family was aware of reports about a ransom letter sent to at least two ...
Source: nbcnews.com