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Top News Stories for Monday, February 2nd 2026
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who's who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. All have denied having anything to do with his sexual abuse of girls and young women. Yet some of them maintained friendships with Epstein, ...
Source: pbs.org
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
Resource-rich Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province, but also its poorest, and is facing a major security flare-up. Nearly 150 militants have been killed in a 40-hour battle after separatist fighters launched a series of deadly attacks, the Pakistani government said. Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province was rocked by a series of coordinated gun and bomb assaults on Saturday that left almost 50 people ...
Source: news.sky.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
Carlos Alcaraz was a phantom for the first 45 minutes of his maiden Australian Open final. While the Spaniard was painfully tentative on one of the most significant occasions of his career, he was suffocated by the eternal brilliance of Novak Djokovic, who burst into this historic match desperate to take the initiative and set the tone. A younger version of Alcaraz may have compounded his slow start by overhitting, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a day after a court order mandated their release. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery on Saturday directed government officials to release Adrian Alexander Conejo Ramos and his son, who were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month in Minnesota , from detention "as soon as ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza reopened on Sunday morning to limited traffic for the first time in more than two years. Israeli officials announced that after a trial operation of the crossing it will officially reopen on Monday, first for people leaving Gaza for medical attention and then others will be permitted to leave and enter, a process that will include intense scrutiny of ...
Source: upi.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
to 'avoid causing further embarrassment' amid claims he received $75,000 from while he was an MP. The peer, who was sacked as US ambassador last year because of his links to the paedophile, featured in a new tranche of documents released by the US Department of Justice on Friday. Bank statements suggest Epstein made three $25,000 transactions referencing Lord Mandelson between 2003 and ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he has determined that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington should close for about two years. Trump, who wrote on Truth Social that the decision is "totally subject" to approval by his handpicked board , said that the center will close on July 4 and that "financing is completed, and fully in place." He did not elaborate on where the funding came from. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MARIA SHERMAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sunday's Grammys mark a return to normalcy after the 2025 show was altered to focus on Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts. "I think we will see some history-making moments," Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason jr. told The Associated Press. "With artists being ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are both officers with Customs and Border Protection, ProPublica reports Government documents have identified the two federal officers who fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis as Jesus Ochoa, a border patrol agent, and Raymundo Gutierrez, an officer with Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to ProPublica . According to those records, Ochoa, 43, and Gutierrez, 35, were ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro hit a bus carrying mineworkers and killed at least a dozen people, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the next round of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. The strike injured several more people and sparked a fire that ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
The fee covers the cost of verifying your ID using the TSA's new ConfirmID system. The TSA said the fee covers a 10-day travel period. In a post on X, the US Department of State reminded travelers that they would need to be ready for the new identification system beginning February 1. Reminder: Starting February 1, if you don't have a REAL ID or acceptable form of ID (like a passport!) for domestic flights, you may ...
Source: insider.com
Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 -
President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the journalist Michael Wolff, accusing the author of "conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein" to harm him. The president issued the threat on Air Force One a day after a fresh tranche of Epstein files was published, revealing that multiple women made allegations of sexual abuse by Trump to the FBI, which he denies. "He was conspiring with Wolff to do harm to me politically," ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Attacks, which killed women and children, come day before border crossing is due to open in Gaza's southern most city Israel has carried out some of its deadliest airstrikes on Gaza in months, killing at least 30 Palestinians, some of whom were sheltering in tent cities for displaced people. Despite a nominal ceasefire, the Israeli military struck a police station in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood west of Gaza ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has instructed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not to intervene in protests occurring in cities led by Democrats unless local authorities ask for federal help amid mounting criticism of his administration's immigration crackdown . On his social media site, Trump posted that "under no circumstances are we going to participate in ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Actress Catherine O'Hara is being remembered by the cast of Schitt's Creek . Created by Dan Levy who also starred as David Rose, the Canadian comedy originally aired on CBC in 2015 before eventually moving to Pop TV and later Hulu and Netflix. O'Hara, who died on January 30 at the age of 71 , played eccentric, loveable matriarch Moira Rose. Dan shared his tribute to his on-screen mother on Instagram . "What a gift ...
Source: instyle.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
Paul George of the Philadelphia 76ers has been suspended 25 games for violating the terms of the NBA's anti-drug program, the league announced on Saturday. The NBA did not disclose the nature of the violation or the substance involved. George said in a statement to ESPN that he had taken something "improper" while seeking treatment for a personal issue. "Over the past few years, I've discussed the importance of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 -
About 190,000 are still without power in the south-east as states scramble to prepare for more winter weather Dozens of people have died in the teeth of a severe winter storm across the US south, with further freezing temperatures, snow and blizzards set to assail the east coast on Saturday. At least 85 people have died across multiple states, according to an Associated Press tally, with frigid conditions and icy ...
Source: theguardian.com