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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 4th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he was "not in favor" of federalizing elections a day after President Donald Trump said on a podcast that Republicans "ought to nationalize the voting." "That's a constitutional issue," Thune told a reporter who asked him about Trump's remarks. Elections for members of Congress are run by the states, in accordance with the Constitution's Article 1, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
In 2024, an enforcement case over facial-recognition data resulted in a €30.5M fine for Clearview AI. For context, that is roughly equivalent to the annual cost of employing about 400 senior engineers in San Francisco. Now imagine losing that much overnight, not because of real business, but because you were not compliant enough as your AI evidence trail breaks down, and just like that, suddenly, in 2025, the ...
Source: learn.g2.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
SpaceX says it wants to deploy an astronomical number of data centres in orbit to supply power for artificial intelligence, but the proposal might not be entirely serious We are only a month into 2026, yet it's already clear what one of the major space stories of the year is going to be: mega-constellations, and the ongoing attempts to launch thousands of satellites into Earth's orbit. The latest development is ...
Source: newscientist.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
NASA's test run of its Artemis II countdown ran into problems Monday at Kennedy Space Center, scrapping any chance of the moonbound mission launching this month. "With more than three years between SLS launches, we fully anticipated encountering challenges," said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. "This is precisely why we conduct a wet dress rehearsal." NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina ...
Source: bradenton.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Jimmy Kimmel says he had not expected Donald Trump to take a swipe at him when responding to questions in the White House . The president had been fielding questions in the Oval Office and hit out at Grammy Awards show host Trevor Noah , but also included a jab ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bullied and buffeted by President Donald Trump's tariffs for the past year, America's longstanding allies are desperately seeking ways to shield themselves from the president's impulsive wrath. U.S. trade partners are cutting deals among themselves —- sometimes discarding old differences to do so — in a push to diversify their economies away from a newly protectionist United ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography. The prosecutor's office also said both Musk and former X chief executive Linda Yaccarino had been summoned to appear at hearings in April. In a separate development, the UK's ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
The United States House of Representatives has approved a $1.2 trillion spending package to end a partial government shutdown. The bipartisan legislation, passed on Tuesday, restores lapsed funding for key federal programmes, including those within the Departments of Labor and Education. The bill passed with 217 voting for it and 214 voting against in the Republican-controlled House. Twenty-one Republicans voted ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
With only five Palestinians in need of medical evacuation from Gaza permitted to leave through the Rafah crossing after it reopened on Monday, health authorities in the exclave warned that the restrictions Israel is continuing to impose at the crossing could ultimately kill thousands of Palestinians who have been waiting for years for treatment as Israeli attacks have decimated Gaza's health system. Zaher ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
"TODAY" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie will not host the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony Friday as Arizona authorities continue to investigate her mother's possible abduction . "Savannah will not be joining us at the Olympics as she focuses on being with her family during this difficult time," an NBC Sports spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday. "Our hearts are with her and the entire Guthrie family as the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his ongoing feud with progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar, appearing to suggest baselessly the Minnesota Democrat is aligned with ISIS leaders in her birth country of Somalia. about U.S. forces striking ISIS-Somalia leaders in Somalian caves. He , "Was Ilhan Omar there to protect her corrupt 'homeland?'" Omar, 43, is a Somalian-born Muslim and the first Somali American elected to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker's plan to invest in OpenAI remains "on track," in an interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer. "There's no controversy at all. It's complete nonsense," Huang said. "We love working with OpenAI." Huang said Nvidia would invest in OpenAI's next fundraising round. In this article Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
President Trump recently called Colombia's leader, Gustavo Petro, a "sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States." But on Tuesday, the two leaders made nice - mostly - at a closed-door meeting at the White House that both described as productive. Trump described the two-hour-long conversation, which touched on energy, Venezuela and bilateral efforts to combat drug trafficking, as ...
Source: bradenton.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
From next year, new car models will have to have both exterior and interior handles with mechanical releases. The world's second-largest economy and major electric car maker is to ban hidden door handles, a common feature on electric vehicles (EVs). China will ban hidden door handles from next year, making it the first country to do so. Instead, cars must have a mechanical release function for handles, except for ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
The family of Virginia Giuffre , one of Jeffrey Epstein 's most vocal accusers who died by suicide in 2025, says they are outraged over the Justice Department's handling of the latest release of the Epstein files. Sky and Amanda Roberts, Giuffre's brother and sister-in-law, say the department failed to protect survivors of Epstein's abuse when releasing the documents. "I mean these are intimate details in these ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Mozilla Firefox has always seemed like the "cool kid" browser option, for the power users who don't want to deal with Google or Microsoft. So perhaps filling it up with "AI" features — you know, the things people are kind of tired of seeing from Google and Apple — might not be winning people over. Mozilla seems to have read the room: Upcoming builds will let you disable "AI" completely. "We've heard ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — British politician Peter Mandelson is quitting the House of Lords as he faces new questions, and a potential police investigation, over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Speaker of the Lords, Michael Forsyth, said Mandelson has informed officials he will retire from Parliament's upper chamber effective Wednesday. The announcement came as the British government ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Marius Borg Høiby, son of the crown princess of Norway, pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape in his trial that began Tuesday in an Oslo courtroom. Høiby, 29, is facing 38 charges , including abuse in close relationships and filming women's genitals without their knowledge. He pleaded guilty to some charges, including sexually offensive behavior, violation of a restraining order ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with an hourslong swim after the family was swept out to sea off the Australian coast. Austin Appelbee swam 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) to shore to raise the alarm after he got into difficulties on Friday with his mother Joanne Appelbee, 47, brother Beau, 12, and sister Grace, 8, police said. Naturaliste Marine Rescue commander ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Snowflake Inc. today detailed a sweeping set of product updates aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence, positioning its platform as a foundation for building, governing and operating AI systems directly on enterprise data rather than as an experimentation layer bolted onto existing infrastructure. The announcements, timed around the company's Build 2026 event in London, span ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro spent Tuesday morning in damage control mode after she invoked the fury of Second Amendment advocates with comments she made threatening to "jail" anyone who brings a gun into Washington D.C. During an interview Monday with her former Fox News colleague Martha MacCallum about a recent decrease in crime in D.C., Pirro bragged ...
Source: mediaite.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Donald Trump is reflected in a television screen on Air Force One. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Trump has sued the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion. In the suit, filed in Miami federal court on Thursday, Trump alleges that the IRS was responsible for the leak of some of Trump's tax documents to press in September 2020. The leak occurred by an IRS contractor. The leaked tax documents revealed that Trump paid only ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
The Walt Disney Co. named parks chief Josh D'Amaro to succeed Bob Iger as CEO of the entertainment company. D'Amaro, who currently oversees Disney's theme parks and dozens of its resort hotels, will take the helm of the company on March 18, 2026, the company said Tuesday. He will lead a company with $36 billion in annual revenue and around 185,000 employees worldwide, at a time when it is struggling to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The daytime chat programs Sherri and The Show have been canceled. "This decision is driven by the evolving daytime television landscape and does not reflect on the strength of the show, its production -- which has found strong creative momentum this season -- or the incredibly talented Sherri Shepherd ," Debmar-Mercury co-presidents Ira Bernstein and Mort Marcus said in a joint statement to Variety ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Feb. 3 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump late Monday said he is now seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University, as he lashed out at reports that his administration had dropped its demand for financial compensation from the Ivy League school. "We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University," Trump said on his Truth Social media ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Researchers investigated historic and current lead exposure by studying an unexpected part of the body: hair. In a study published yesterday in the journal PNAS, researchers analyzed hair clippings from people in Utah (referred to as Utahns, if you can believe it) dating back to 1916. Lead levels before the creation of the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By DEE-ANN DURBIN PURCHASE, NY (AP) — PepsiCo is cutting prices on Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos chips this year to win back customers exasperated by years of price hikes . "For some consumers, low- and middle-income consumers, the biggest friction they have today in our category… is affordability," PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Ramon Laguarta said Tuesday ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Zelenskyy says Putin 'taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorise people', as Kyiv hits lows of -20C More than 1,000 residential buildings in Kyiv were without heating on Tuesday after a massive Russian air attack during one of the coldest nights of the winter, with temperatures in the capital falling to -20C. Overnight, the Kremlin fired 450 attack drones and more than 70 missiles across the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Ideas The End of the Nuclear-Arms-Control Era The last significant treaty is about to expire, and Trump isn't putting anything in its place. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Sources: Bettmann; Peter Turnley / Corbis / VCG / Getty. Save Something very dangerous is on track to happen this Thursday. In two days, New START , the last significant survivor of the age of nuclear-arms-control agreements ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
"Smoking is associated with many cancers but is the most common cause of lung cancer. In general, more men smoke than women, although in several countries the incidence of smoking is decreasing because of social awareness. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus and the most common cause of cervical cancer. HPV vaccination "Men tend to have higher exposure to several major risks — notably tobacco smoking, ...
Source: medicalnewstoday.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S., dealing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda another legal, though perhaps temporary, setback. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted a request to pause the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Democratic legislative leaders are finally releasing their long-anticipated proposal to impose an income tax on Washington's wealthiest residents. The bill, to be formally introduced this week in the state House and Senate, would impose a 9.9% tax on people earning more than $1 million a year, according to a draft of the final legislation and a summary circulated over the weekend and obtained by The Seattle Times. ...
Source: seattletimes.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
The "Search Party" tool leverages a neighborhood network of outdoor cameras to scan for missing pets using computer vision. Amazon announced that its AI-powered "Search Party" Ring feature is now available to all U.S. Ring customers, including those without a Ring camera. The expansion makes the tool accessible through the Ring app for the first time to users who do not own camera hardware. Launched last fall, ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
– The charity founded by , is shutting down following the release of emails showing the depth of her friendship with the late sex offender Sarah's Trust, which focused on improving the lives of women and children, said it will close for the "foreseeable future,'' following the revelations in latest documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice. Ferguson is the ex-wife of the former Prince due to his ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president said Tuesday he instructed the country's foreign minister to "pursue fair and equitable negotiations" with the United States, the first clear sign from Tehran it wants to try to negotiate as tensions remain high with Washington after the Mideast country's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests last month. The announcement marked a major turn for reformist ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! OpenAI has launched the new Codex app for macOS, a dedicated workspace for managing multiple AI coding agents in parallel. The app is designed to help developers reduce repetitive work and focus on higher-level engineering tasks. Codex can write features, fix bugs, answer questions ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Dr. Peter Attia, the celebrity doctor who helped popularize the longevity craze, has publicly apologized as he faces a growing backlash following the release of email exchanges he had with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Attia's name appears frequently in the latest batch of Epstein files, which the Justice Department released Friday. The two exchanged jokes, scheduled times to meet and discussed Epstein's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday, in the latest fallout after the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal officers sparked widespread outrage. Noem made the announcement on the social media platform X. She ...
Source: pbs.org
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
For those who are unfamiliar, Groundhog Da y is a celebration that takes place each Feb. 2, and it involves having a groundhog forecast the upcoming weather, most notably deciding if we will get an early spring or if winter will continue to linger for the next few weeks. The tradition has German roots, which is why it's no surprise that the biggest celebration in the U.S. takes place in Pennsylvania, where a number ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not be releasing the January jobs report as scheduled Friday due to the partial government shutdown, The decision comes ahead of a busy week for economic data that would have culminated with the nonfarm payrolls release. The US Department of Labor headquarters building is seen at dusk on June 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will not be releasing the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. . I f you're one of the millions of people who use a white noise machine at night, there's a good chance it doesn't actually produce true white noise. Instead, many of these sleep aids produce pink noise, a broadband sound that filters out the higher frequencies many people find annoying or distracting. Pink noise, previous studies have shown, can deepen sleep , but ...
Source: nautil.us
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
For years now, Starlink has quietly become one of the most important tools in Ukraine's war effort. On Sunday, Elon Musk suggested that recent SpaceX steps to stop Russia from using the satellite internet system appear to have worked. Still, the comment landed at a tense moment, as Ukraine investigates reports that Russian forces had managed to use Starlink terminals to guide long-range drone attacks. Technology ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
Today, the Trump administration lost yet another legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. This is the fifth and final offshore wind project that has successfully challenged the administration's stop-work order. In December—three days before Christmas—Donald Trump's Department of the Interior halted five offshore wind projects that were all more than 40 percent complete. ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
A Virginia man having an affair with the family's Brazilian au pair was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy. Brendan Banfield , a former IRS law enforcement officer, told police he came across Joseph Ryan attacking his wife, Christine Banfield, with a knife on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023. He shot Ryan and then Juliana ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! The seven victims of a marine tragedy that has devastated a storied Massachusetts fishing town included a fifth-generation fisherman, a young federal fisheries observer on her ...
Source: pressherald.com