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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 -
Democratic senators refuse to vote for bill authorizing continued DHS spending after killings of two US citizens Funding lapsed for several US government departments on Saturday, the result of a standoff in Congress over new restrictions on federal agents involved in Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign following the killings of two US citizens in Minneapolis. The partial government shutdown is the result of ...
Source: theguardian.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 is sitting out a World Cup super-G race Saturday after crashing and injuring her left knee a day earlier but remains on track for the Milan Cortina Olympics, her coach told The Associated Press. "No she is not racing today but preparing for Cortina as usual," Chris Knight, Vonn's personal head coach, said in a text message to The AP. Vonn then posted on Instagram, "Unfortunately, I won't be able to ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors can't seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a federal judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration's bid to see him executed for what it called a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America." Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge that had enabled prosecutors to seek ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Back in May, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered what might be the single most audacious statement of the Trump era —and that's saying something: I think everybody – the American public believe it's absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency . Anyway, in unrelated news, Donald Trump just filed a lawsuit against his own IRS , demanding that ...
Source: techdirt.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The terms of a Russian commitment to U.S. President Donald Trump to temporarily halt its bombardment of Ukraine during one of the country's bleakest winters in years remained unclear Friday, as Ukrainians braced for even worse conditions to come next week. Trump said late Thursday that President Vladimir Putin had agreed to a temporary pause in targeting Kyiv and other places as the ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Home » » Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez signed into law a reform of the nation's hydrocarbons legislation, opening the country's oil industry towards privatization and allowing for more foreign investment. President Rodriguez enacted the reform bill less than a month after the capture of deposed Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro in a U.S. military operation in Venezuela's capital, ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Healthcare, visas and whisky: What did UK and China get from Starmer's visit? Sir Keir Starmer's visit to China this week is the clearest sign yet the two countries are seeking to end the diplomatic "ice age" that has defined their relationship. Both leaders face economic pressures at home and are seeking new opportunities for trade and investment. For Sir Keir, the first UK prime minister to visit China since ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Jan 30th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Google has a whole new world for people to play in—but only for a minute. This week, the company released Project Genie , which the company calls its "general-purpose world model" that is capable of generating interactive environments. First unveiled to a small group of invite-only testers back in August of last year, the model, known as Genie 3, is now rolling out to Google AI Ultra ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
Traditionally, the conclusion of a Federal Reserve meeting in which interest rate cuts were kept on hold would not be a reason for optimism for borrowers, especially for homebuyers and owners looking to refinance. And that was the case this week after the central bank kept its benchmark interest rate frozen , following three straight rate cuts in the final four months of 2025. At the same time, interest rates ...
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 -
Pour out a cold one for ChatGPT-4o. Parent company OpenAI announced on Thursday it is retiring several of its older models, including GPT-5, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and o4-mini. The last day to use these models is Friday, Feb. 13. Normally, deprecation of older AI models wouldn't warrant scrutiny -- or even a news story -- but ChatGPT-4o is special. It's weird to say, but for many ChatGPT fans, that model is ...
Source: cnet.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 -
President Donald Trump said Friday that he would nominate Brett Matsumoto, a longtime government economist, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing the agency's commissioner in August. "Brett Matsumoto is a Brilliant, Reputable, and Trusted Economist who will restore GREATNESS to the Bureau of Labor Statistics," Trump said in a post on Truth Social . Trump fired former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that puts pressure on Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said this week that her government had at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but said it was a "sovereign decision" not made under pressure ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 -
Apple on Thursday said it saw record-high earnings in the final three months of last year, with iPhone sales surging in greater China. The tech giant reported profit of $42.1 billion on revenue of $143.8 billion in the recently-ended quarter. The iPhone "had its best-ever quarter driven by unprecedented demand," chief executive Tim Cook said on an earnings call. Sales of iPhones grew around the world, climbing to ...
Source: digitaljournal.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