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Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 - The billionaire stated that a lunar city could be finished in under 10 years due to more frequent launch windows and proximity. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the company has shifted its near-term priorities from Mars settlement to building a "self‑growing city on the Moon." In a post on X, Musk stated the lunar project could be completed in less than 10 years, compared to more than 20 years for a ...

Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 - WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a number of community bank-favored provisions as part of a larger housing package Monday night, but those riders are already imperiling the bill's chances of re-passing the Senate.  Processing Content The bill, H.R. 6644, passed the full house Monday evening by a wide bipartisan margin.  House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., ...

Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 - US singer-songwriter Chappell Roan announced on Monday that she had left her talent agency, after its CEO was named in files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), passed overwhelmingly by Congress in November, compelled the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all of the documents in its possession related to the disgraced financier. Roan, 27, had been ...

Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 - NEW YORK — It's not easy being a Republican in New York. It'll be even harder this midterm election year. Across the deep blue state, the GOP is being outraised and outpolled in key races. The reality is familiar enough for the perpetual underdogs — they haven't won a statewide contest in more than 20 years. But their woes are compounded now by President Donald Trump's abysmal favorability, prodigious ...

Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 - Technology Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide. The first in a wave of legal cases alleging that social media is dangerously addictive is now on trial. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Harold M. Lambert / Lambert / Getty. Save In a state court in Los Angeles this week, 12 jurors are hearing opening arguments in a case that has the potential to change social ...

Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 - WASHINGTON — Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a federal prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges, refused Monday to answer questions during a deposition before the House Oversight Committee. Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, the committee's chair, said that Maxwell, who appeared virtually from a prison in Texas, invoked her Fifth Amendment right ...

Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 - Tom Homan suggested that a widespread approach to immigration operations would lose public support Tom Homan – the Trump administration's "border czar" sent to Minnesota in January after federal agents fatally shot two US citizen protesters – warned last year that the government's aggressive, widespread approach to immigration enforcement would cost it public support. Homan made the observation in an ...