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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 4th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Democrats' victories in a pair of special elections in Texas are raising the party's hopes for November, with one race cutting into Speaker Mike Johnson's already razor-thin majority in the House and the other sending shockwaves through the Republican Party nationwide. on Saturday, Christian Menefee defeated another Democrat to fill a vacant seat in a deep-blue district in the Houston area. This narrows House ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law a massive funding package to end the brief government shutdown that began Saturday. The bill passed the House earlier Tuesday on a vote of 217-214. It passed the Senate last week. The legislation will ensure full-year funding for the federal government through the end of September, with the lone exception of the Department of Homeland Security, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
on Tuesday signed legislation to end a government shutdown hours after it was approved by the House of Representatives, as top Democrats warned they will block further funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if their demands for restrictions on Trump's mass deportation campaign are not addressed. The Republican-controlled House approved the $1.2tn appropriations measure by a narrow 217-214 vote, with ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
and Gustavo Petro meet at the White House on Tuesday, the encounter will cap one of the most volatile stretches in modern U.S.-Colombian relations-and test whether a fragile thaw can hold. . Now, Trump is striking a notably warmer tone. "I look forward to seeing him," Trump said Monday. "We're going to be talking about drugs because a tremendous amount of drugs come out of his country. We're going to have a good ...
Source: bradenton.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 -
In 2010 then business secretary contacted Jes Staley, then at JP Morgan, about funding for £700m listing on London Stock Exchange Jeffrey Epstein described Peter Mandelson as "devious" after lobbying a bank to underwrite a mining project launched by their mutual friend Nat Rothschild, emails included in the latest tranche of Epstein files suggest. In April 2010, the then business secretary appears to have ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
US president makes further claims of antisemitism against Ivy League school amid wider dispute with higher eduction institutions Donald Trump has announced that his administration is seeking $1bn in damages from Harvard University , the latest step in a long-running battle with the university over allegations of antisemitism. In a Truth Social post late on Monday, Trump accused the Ivy League school of being ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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 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
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
Donald Trump has indicated support for the move, saying the cameras will mean people "can't lie about what's happening" in the city. Officers tasked with carrying out a controversial immigration crackdown in Minneapolis will be equipped with body-worn cameras following the fatal shooting of two protesters. Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said every agent from her department in the city, including those from ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
January 2026 report to be rescheduled after BLS has already been faced with major delays from last year's shutdown The US's closely watched jobs report will once again be delayed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on Monday, amid a government shutdown. The January 2026 jobs report, originally scheduled to be released on Friday, will be rescheduled when federal funding resumes. Data collection for the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
A federal judge on Monday ruled that an offshore wind project aimed at powering 600,000 New York homes can resume construction, the fifth such project put back on track after the Trump administration halted them in December. In clearing the way for Sunrise Wind to proceed, Judge Royce Lamberth found that the government had not shown that offshore wind is such an imminent national security risk that it must halt in ...
Source: apnews.com
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 Magalhães, ...
Source: news4jax.com