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Top News Stories for Saturday, February 7th 2026
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON - Some Ohio Republicans joined widespread outrage Thursday over a racist video posted to President Donald Trump's social media account that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as primates. U.S. Rep. Max Miller, a Republican from Bay Village who served as director of advance in the first Trump administration, was among those condemning the post. "As the former ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House border czar Tom Homan's announcement that enforcement in Minnesota was being unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed months of internal grumbling and infighting among agencies about how to carry out President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Since it was created in 2003, ICE has conducted street arrests through "targeted enforcement." Homan uses ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
President Donald J. Trump announced the launch of TrumpRx, the direct-to-consumer drug website that features reduced prices for dozens of medications. The website "provides patients with access to a world-class experience for accessing deep discounts on the medicines they need," according to a White House fact sheet. Patients cannot buy drugs directly from TrumpRx. Instead, the site directs them to manufacturers' ...
Source: healio.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Iran and the United States began talks on Friday in Oman, with Washington refusing to rule out military action against its foe if diplomacy fails while the Islamic republic vowed to defend itself against "any excessive demands". Iran has insisted the Oman-mediated talks will be centred solely on its nuclear programme, though the United States also wants to discuss Tehran's backing for militant groups in the region ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
NEW YORK (AP) — By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a bedrock of creativity that's led to new kinds of art, music and more. Now, for the first time, an experiment hints that an ape in captivity can have an imagination. "What's really exciting ...
Source: pbs.org
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 -
Acts are alleged to have occurred in 2024 on set of TV drama The Cleaning Lady, which Busfield acted in and directed A grand jury in New Mexico has indicted the actor Timothy Busfield on child sex abuse charges, officials announced on Friday. Busfield was indicted on four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child, the Bernalillo county district attorney's office said in a statement. "As with all criminal ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
A U.S. jury ordered Uber on Thursday to pay $8.5 million after finding it liable in a lawsuit brought by a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by a driver when she was 19, a verdict that could influence thousands of similar cases against the ride-hailing company. The case, brought by plaintiff Jaylynn Dean , was the first trial — known as a bellwether — of more than 3,000 similar lawsuits against ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
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 ...
Source: theguardian.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 targets firewalls, routers, and VPNs that are no longer receiving vendor patches, as nation-state actors shift their tactics from endpoints to infrastructure. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has given federal agencies 18 months to remove all end-of-support edge devices from their networks, escalating its response to what security researchers describe as a fundamental shift in ...
Source: csoonline.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 -
TikTok told to change 'addictive design' by EU or face massive fines The EU has told TikTok it must change its "addictive design" or face heavy fines, after it found the video sharing platform had breached its online safety rules. It follows an investigation which began in February 2024 into the Chinese-owned app by the European Commission. In its preliminary findings , the Commission said TikTok did not ...
Source: bbc.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 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 ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man described as a key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the US compound in Benghazi, Libya, has been taken into custody and will be prosecuted in connection with a rampage that killed four Americans and became 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 ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Apple is scaling back and rethinking its ambitious plans to introduce an AI-powered health coach, according to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman citing anonymous sources privy to the company's plans. The project, known inside Apple as Mulberry , was first reported last year, with the company expected to roll together health-related AI features as a coach or assistant. But now, Bloomberg reports, that project ...
Source: cnet.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 -
Highlights Lawmakers have introduced several bills during Florida's 2026 Legislative Session that would regulate how hyperscale data centers are to be developed and operated in the state. This Holland & Knight alert analyzes Florida Senate Bill (SB) 484, SB 1118, House Bill (HB) 1007 and HB 1517, collectively referred to as "proposed bills," and their potential impact on data center regulation in Florida if ...
Source: jdsupra.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 has informed some of its users of a data breach in which email addresses and phone numbers were stolen. The attack occurred in October 2025, but the breach was first discovered on February 3rd, 2026, reports BleepingComputer . According to Substack CEO Chris Best, an unauthorized party gained access to limited user data. No passwords, payment details, or other financial data were affected. Some internal ...
Source: pcworld.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 -
What's that magical channel that will save your business? "This is the most common question I get," writes Ivan Sparrow, a mobile marketer and app developer, in a . "And the one I constantly see on X." Unfortunately, there's no easy answer. Every brand and business has its own go‑to‑market style, and that determines which ad platforms work best. Apple Ads, for instance, are expensive. But a small ...
Source: adexchanger.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon sales surged 14% during the fourth quarter, helped by strong holiday spending and a better-than-expected growth in its prominent cloud computing unit. But shares fell 11% in after hours trading on Thursday as investors appeared to be spooked by the Seattle-based tech company's plans to increase capital spending by nearly 60% to $200 billion from last year's $128 billion as it sees ...
Source: apnews.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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JONEL ALECCIA A newborn baby died from a listeria infection likely linked to the child's mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy, health officials said. New Mexico officials this week warned people to avoid consuming unpasteurized dairy products following the death. Interest in and sales of raw milk have been rising in recent years, fueled by social media and growing ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Savannah Guthrie shared a video message on Instagram on Wednesday pleading for her mother's safe return. Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, has been missing since Sunday. She was last seen at her home outside Tucson, Arizona. Officials told NBC Nightly News on Monday that they believe she was "taken out of her home against her will." Guthrie appeared in the video alongside her siblings, Annie and Camron, and read ...
Source: businessinsider.com