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Top News Stories for Friday, February 6th 2026
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina and the United States agreed Thursday to ease restrictions on each other's goods in an expansive trade deal that boosts a drive by President Javier Milei to open up Argentina's protectionist economy and a push by the Trump administration to reduce food prices for Americans. The deal, which slashes hundreds of reciprocal tariffs between the countries, also reflects the ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Senior officials meet for indirect talks, amid a crisis that has raised fears of a military action between Iran and the US From While the talks are happening in Oman, we know US warships and aircraft have amassed near Iran's coastal waters , with Trump threatening that "bad things" would probably happen if a deal could not be reached. Tehran is deeply worried that Trump may still carry out his threat of striking ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
The Trump administration's promised direct-to-consumer drug platform TrumpRx has officially gone live, with President Trump on Thursday calling it "one of the most transformative health care initiatives of all time." The website TrumpRx.gov currently features a collection of 43 prescription drugs treating various different conditions at varying discounts. Medications for asthma, infertility and obesity are among ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump has assumed essentially unlimited discretion to choose how many government employees lose their job security, under a rule that critics say threatens to upend the nonpartisan professional nature of the federal civilian workforce that has existed since the 1880s. A final regulation from the Office of Personnel Management released Thursday empowers Trump to reclassify federal policy-influencing ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
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
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has hailed his Wednesday phone call with his key trade rival, China's President Xi Jinping, in which they discussed a wide range of issues, as "excellent". But while Trump, who hopes to persuade China to further isolate Iran, claimed after the call that China had promised to increase the volume of soya beans it buys from the US, Xi appeared more concerned with warning the US to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Apparently, humans aren't the only ones with a knack for acting and imagination. A bonobo named Kanzi could have cleared the audition of an elite culinarian when he pretended to see food that wasn't even there. In a recent set of experiments , scientists wanted to test if animals could play pretend just as well as humans, and the results didn't disappoint. Kanzi was treated to a make-believe tea party where he was ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and U.S. negotiators discussed the expiration of the last remaining nuclear arms pact between the two countries and agreed on the need to quickly launch new arms control talks, the Kremlin said Friday, even as the U.S. emphasized the need for China to join a future arms pact and accused Beijing of covert nuclear tests. The New START treaty terminated Thursday, leaving no caps on the two ...
Source: apnews.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 -
Valve's living room PC console is coming in 2026 with custom AMD hardware, SteamOS, Proton support and a focus on 4K gaming, but price and launch timing are still in flux. Valve is bringing the Steam Machine back, but not as a partner program for third party living room PCs. This time it is a compact home console alongside the Steam Deck, built and sold by Valve with its own custom hardware and SteamOS software. ...
Source: techbriefly.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 -
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
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Jeremy Herb, MJ Lee, Nicky Robertson, CNN 8 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly-released documents from disgraced late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including a sheaf of entirely redacted pages, are seen in this handouts released by the US Justice Department in Washington, DC, on December 19. - Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The Justice Department failed to ...
Source: yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
TUCSON — Investigators have no proof that the missing mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie is still alive but are holding out hope she's "still out there," a sheriff in Arizona said Thursday. Five days into the desperate search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, authorities have not identified any suspects or persons of interest, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said. DNA tests showed blood found on ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
The Paul Weiss chair dined with Epstein and sought his help getting his son a job with a Woody Allen film production Brad Karp, the longtime chair of powerful Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss, has resigned his top leadership role and will be replaced by partner Scott Barshay, the firm said on Wednesday. Karp has faced scrutiny after emails released by the US Department of Justice on Friday revealed extensive ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
NUEVA YORK (AP) — Fotos de personas desnudas. Nombres y rostros de víctimas de abuso sexual. Números de cuentas bancarias y del Seguro Social a plena vista. Todo esto se puede ver entre la montaña de documentos que el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos publicó el viernes como parte de sus labores por cumplir con una ley que requiere que la agencia saque a la luz sus ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago and 205% from December 2025. The total marked the highest for any January since 2009. At the same time, companies announced just 5,306 new hires, also the lowest January since 2009, which is when Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking such data. An Amazon Go store in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Layoff ...
Source: cnbc.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
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Amazon posted mixed results for the fourth quarter. The company also said it expects capital expenditures to hit roughly $200 billion in 2026. Tech companies have aggressively ramped up their spending forecasts to seize artificial intelligence demand. In this article Amazon shares plunged more than 10% in extended trading Thursday after the company posted mixed fourth-quarter earnings and boosted its 2026 spending ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal agency for protecting workers' civil rights revealed Wednesday that it is investigating sportswear giant Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees through its diversity policies. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disclosed the investigation in a motion filed in Missouri federal court demanding that Nike fully comply with a subpoena for information. The ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Humans should not be drinking cow's milk for countless reasons, including the horrific torture that cows experience . Furthermore, drinking raw milk puts human lives at severe risk of illness, no matter how bright and bubbly the social media presence of the farm in question. Indeed, drinking raw milk from an influencer-led farm is such a bad idea that it should seem obvious to abstain. Nevertheless, the influencer ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
First, the jihadists sent a letter saying they were coming to the village to preach, said Nigerian chief Umar Bio Salihu. When no one attended, they went on a rampage, killing people and torching houses, he said. Salihu is the traditional chief of Woro, a small, Muslim-majority village in west-central Nigeria where alleged jihadist gunmen perpetrated a massacre late Tuesday. Details are still emerging from the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it will relax federal regulations regulating when companies may label products as free of artificial coloring. The FDA said businesses can now label products as having "no artificial colors" if the coloring is natural or plant-based. "Companies will now have flexibility to claim products contain 'no artificial ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Death toll from Washington's campaign on alleged drug traffickers now at least 128 The US military on Thursday said it killed two alleged drug traffickers in a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific, bringing the death toll from Washington's campaign to at least 128. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Poland announced on Thursday that the United States will have "no further dealings, contacts, or communications" with Włodzimierz Czarzasty, the speaker of the lower house of the Polish parliament, over what Rose called "outrageous and unprovoked insults directed against President Trump." Amb. Tom Rose did not specify what those alleged insults were, but ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Washington — A federal court hearing in Minneapolis on Tuesday provided an extraordinary window into the volume of immigration-related cases overwhelming federal prosecutors in Minnesota amid the Trump administration's surge of immigration agents to the Twin Cities, and the frustrations of exasperated judges who have said their orders are repeatedly ignored. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Jerry ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Previous work on gender and autism estimated higher autism rates in boys and men, but this latest research suggests that may not be true Autism rates are 'more or less equal for men and women', according to a study which challenges previous assumptions about its prevalence. While the neurological and developmental condition is known to be more common in young boys, Swedish researchers found there was a big rise in ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Varonis is expanding its AI security capabilities through the acquisition of AllTrue.ai, which brings real-time visibility and security to AI systems, complementing Varonis' understanding of enterprise data, identities, and access. Together, the combined platform helps organizations ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Google plans to spend up to $185B Alphabet executives struck a confident tone on Wednesday's post-earnings call, signaling that Google's heavy investments in artificial intelligence are now translating into real revenue growth across the business. The call was the first since Google released its Gemini 3 model , which has boosted user engagement and helped the company regain momentum in the intensifying AI race. ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Mortgage rates rose again in the first full week following the Federal Open Market Committee's decision not to reduce rates during its January meeting. Processing Content Following the meeting, Pres. Trump nominated Kevin Warsh , a former Fed governor, to replace Jerome Powell as chairman. Warsh is seen by the markets as someone who is more accommodating to the President's desire to lower short-term rates. The ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Global analysis data reveal that lung, stomach, and cervical cancers represent approximately half of preventable cancers. Approximately 4 of 10 cancer cases in 2022 may have been averted by avoiding exposure to key preventable risk factors, according to findings from a global analysis study published in Nature Medicine. 1 Of 18.7 million cancer cases recorded in 2022, approximately 7.1 million (37.8%) were linked ...
Source: cancernetwork.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Far fewer people who could benefit from statins actually take the cholesterol-lowering drugs now. Many who start taking them stop. The long list of side effects, detailed in fine print on package inserts and discussed in exam rooms over the years, pose barriers to ...
Source: statnews.com