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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 4th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A stunning setback for Republicans at the ballot box in a ruby red part of right-leaning Texas has some saying the defeat was a "wake-up call" for the GOP ahead of this year's midterm elections, when the party is defending its narrow congressional majorities. The double-digit shellacking, in a special state Senate election this past weekend in a Fort Worth area district that ...
Source: foxnews.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 (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a roughly $1.2 trillion government funding bill Tuesday that ends the partial federal shutdown that began over the weekend and sets the stage for an intense debate in Congress over Homeland Security funding. The president moved quickly to sign the bill after the House approved it with a 217-214 vote. "This bill is a great victory for the American people," Trump ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. . AOC Rips DOJ For Dragging Heels On Epstein Prosecutions — And Weighs In On Clinton Testimony After immigration agents killed two American citizens in Minneapolis last month, even Republicans have acknowledged the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far, and DHS said this week it will distribute body cameras to agents ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
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 -
The Walt Disney Company announced Tuesday that Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks division, will replace Bob Iger as chief executive when the entertainment titan steps down in March. D'Amaro, 54, will take the helm on March 18 following a unanimous board vote, the company said. He will succeed Iger, who has led Disney for nearly two decades across two separate stints. "Josh D'Amaro possesses that rare ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Feb 3rd, 2026 -
Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The daytime chat programs Sherri and The Show have been canceled. "This decision is driven by the evolving daytime television landscape and does not reflect on the strength of the show, its production -- which has found strong creative momentum this season -- or the incredibly talented Sherri Shepherd ," Debmar-Mercury co-presidents Ira Bernstein and Mort Marcus said in a joint statement to Variety ...
Source: upi.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 -
Dr. Peter Attia, the celebrity doctor who helped popularize the longevity craze, has publicly apologized as he faces a growing backlash following the release of email exchanges he had with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Attia's name appears frequently in the latest batch of Epstein files, which the Justice Department released Friday. The two exchanged jokes, scheduled times to meet and discussed Epstein's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Every Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday, in the latest fallout after the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal officers sparked widespread outrage. Noem made the announcement on the social media platform X. She ...
Source: pbs.org
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press The spotlight is on Gobbler's Knob in western Pennsylvania on Monday morning, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil announce whether he saw his own shadow , thereby predicting six more weeks of winter or an early spring. Thousands attend the annual event that exploded in popularity after the 1993 Bill Murray movie, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
The US president tried to kill offshore wind projects – now four are back under construction C onstruction has resumed on four offshore wind mega-projects after they survived a near fatal attack by Donald Trump's administration thanks to rulings by federal judges. These are being seen as victories for clean energy amid a wider war being waged on it by the Trump administration. The wind farms are considered ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 2nd, 2026 -
Former IRS agent Brendan Banfield was convicted by a Fairfax County jury Monday of killing his wife and another man in a scheme prosecutors say he orchestrated with the family's au pair. Banfield, 40, was found guilty of aggravated murder and related charges in the deaths of his wife, 37-year-old Christine Banfield, and 39-year-old Joseph Ryan. The killings occurred in the morning of Feb. 24, 2023, in ...
Source: insidenova.com