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Top News Stories for Friday, February 6th 2026
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
News , CC0, via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court allows California redistricting to proceed The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an injunction request from California Republicans who had asked the court to block the implementation of a new congressional district map before the 2026 midterm elections. A ballot initiative, Proposition 50 , mandates redistricting of California to potentially flip five ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Feb 6th, 2026 -
Two countries' envoys separately meet Omani negotiators amid US naval buildup in region Oman has mediated high-stakes, indirect talks between Iran and the US over Tehran's nuclear programme, seen as one of the last chances to prevent a new US attack. Envoys for the two countries arrived for separate meetings with the sultanate's top diplomat, Badr al-Busaidi. The negotiations are the first since the US struck ...
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 -
Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, remained missing as the search for her entered its fifth day Thursday. Investigators said they had no proof she was still alive but continued to hope she was "still out there." Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson home against her will over the weekend. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said no suspects or persons of ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
The chairman of a powerful Wall Street law firm who drew outrage by caving to President Donald Trump's revenge campaign has finally quit after his fawning emails to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed. Brad Karp, the 66-year-old head of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, had gushed that the disgraced financier was "amazing," and asked Epstein for help getting his son a job with a Woody Allen ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
AL-HOL, Siria (AP) — Poco a poco, los servicios básicos de un campamento en el noreste de Siria que alberga a miles de mujeres y niños vinculados al grupo Estado Islámico (EI) vuelven a la normalidad después de que las fuerzas gubernamentales tomaran la instalación de manos de combatientes kurdos, dijo el jueves un funcionario de las Naciones Unidas. Las fuerzas del gobierno ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
New data on jobs and layoffs this week points to more job cuts and lackluster hiring plans, indicating 2026 might not be the fresh start many job seekers are looking for. A monthly survey of layoff announcements from the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released Thursday found that U.S. employers announced 108,435 job cuts in January, the highest cuts for the first month of the year since 2009. Last ...
Source: nbcnews.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 on Thursday projected a surge of more than 50% in capital expenditures this year, joining its peers in a spending spree to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure, and sending its shares down 9% in after-hours trading. It is the latest sign that Big Tech will not be hitting the brakes any time soon on hefty AI investments. Amazon shares closed down 4.4% during regular trading as ...
Source: nypost.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 -
Infant dies from Listeria believed to be from raw milk An infant in New Mexico died from Listeria that health officials believe was contracted through raw milk. Investigators could not pinpoint the exact source of the infant's infection but believe it was from unpasteurized milk consumed by the infant's mother during pregnancy, according to a press release from the New Mexico Department of Health. Listeria is one ...
Source: healio.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen killed scores of people during an attack on two villages in Western Nigeria in one of the deadliest assaults in the West African country in recent months. The attack on Tuesday evening targeted the neighboring villages of Woro and Nuku, in Kwara state. A lawmaker who represents the area said that at least 162 people were killed, while Amnesty International said the gunmen killed ...
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 -
The U.S. military struck an alleged drug-carrying boat in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, marking the 38th vessel to be struck over the last five months in Latin American waters, and the second this year. Two people were killed in Thursday's operation, U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X . The military alleged the boat was operated by a designated terrorist organization and was traveling on "known ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. and Russia agreed Thursday to reestablish high-level military dialogue for the first time in more than four years in another sign of warming relations between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to office and sought to end the war in Ukraine. High-level military communication was suspended in late 2021, as tension between Moscow and Washington rose ahead of ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
Trump's administration is publicly feuding with itself. A spokesperson for Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security blasted government attorney Juliet Le on Wednesday, after Le told a federal judge that her job "sucked" and begged to be held in contempt . Le made the statements during a hearing to address why ICE officials were ignoring court orders to release detainees. "This conduct is unprofessional and ...
Source: thedailybeast.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 -
text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a 'arms race' with AI detectors In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine's detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent in the results. And they weren't alone. Other fiction ...
Source: theconversation.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 -
Housing market watchers say improving home affordability and inventory levels are short-term positives for home shoppers, but caution that the maintaining the independence of the Federal Reserve and tracking broader economic conditions like consumer confidence and economic uncertainty, will help predict where the housing market is heading in the year ahead. The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly half of cancers could be avoided by cutting out three major risk factors, a new study has revealed. Research published this week in Nature Medicine identified that nearly 40% of global cancer cases are linked to tobacco (15% of new cases), infections (10%) and alcohol consumption (3%). Overall, 7.1 million cancer diagnoses in 2022 were linked to 30 modifiable risk ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Feb 5th, 2026 -
A review of the evidence suggests that statins are no more likely than a placebo to cause most of the side effects listed on their labels The long list of side effects associated with statins is vastly overstated, according to the most rigorous assessment of the evidence to date. This is prompting calls for the drugs ' packaging to be updated, over concerns that warnings regarding these supposed side effects are ...
Source: newscientist.com