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The Washington Post cut about a third of its newsroom staff, laid off roughly 300 journalists and closed several sections, including sports and international.
The Justice Department's newly released Epstein files implicated numerous prominent figures, naming Bill Gates and prompting Melinda French Gates to demand answers while police opened a probe into Peter Mandelson.
Newly released Epstein documents showed ties to numerous powerful figures and emails showed a Kirkland lawyer sought Epstein’s helicopter and invited him to his son's bar mitzvah.
The White House confirmed the United States and Iran would hold direct talks in Oman on Friday after days of conflicting reports about timing, location and format.
Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. negotiators held trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday that Ukraine called productive, while the Kremlin said it would continue fighting until Kyiv conceded.
Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s border czar, announced the immediate withdrawal of 700 ICE and CBP agents from Minneapolis after two fatal shootings by federal officers and nationwide outcry.
More than three million files linked to Jeffrey Epstein were released, and President Donald Trump refused to discuss them, insulting a journalist who asked about the documents.
The New START nuclear-arms treaty between the United States and Russia expired today, eliminating the last bilateral limits on their strategic arsenals and prompting warnings of a renewed arms race.
Investors dumped software stocks worldwide and drove steep losses in US tech shares after new AI tools raised fears the technology could erode subscription-based software business models.
Chinese President Xi Jinping pressed U.S. President Donald Trump on Taiwan and warned against arms sales during a phone call that also covered Iran and trade, officials said.
The documentary Melania opened in U.S. cinemas and drew praise from Donald Trump, while critics called it a dreary, MAGA-style propaganda piece and European audiences largely stayed away.
President Donald Trump verbally attacked CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins at the White House when she questioned him about Jeffrey Epstein's victims, trading insults in the Oval Office.
DOJ said it removed ICE lawyer Julie T. Le after she told a Minnesota federal judge "this job sucks" and said immigration agencies hadn't complied with court orders.
The United States, the European Union and Japan announced in Washington they formed a strategic partnership to secure critical minerals and curb dependence on China, with representatives from 50-plus countries.
French prosecutors raided X's Paris offices and summoned owner Elon Musk to answer questions in a probe of the platform, a search X called "abusive."
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared California's new congressional map, allowing a plan that could give Democrats as many as five additional House seats after Republicans sought intervention.
Ryan Routh was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course in 2024.
The European Parliament resumed consideration of a US-EU trade agreement in Strasbourg after President Trump retreated on Greenland, and lawmakers demanded guarantees Washington would not threaten European sovereignty.
President Donald Trump nominated Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, pick the Senate's banking chair deemed likely to be confirmed despite warnings his balance-sheet cuts could spark a bond-market crisis.
The U.S. shot down an Iranian drone near a U.S. aircraft carrier, which Washington called self‑defense, while Iran said planned talks in Oman would still take place Friday.
Venezuelan security forces and the FBI detained Alex Saab, a Colombian‑Venezuelan businessman and former Maduro minister, in Caracas for extradition to the United States.
President Donald Trump planned to install a restored Christopher Columbus statue on the White House grounds, reviving a monument toppled in 2020 and drawing criticism from historians and conservationists.
Italian authorities said they had thwarted Russian cyberattacks aimed at Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic websites and Cortina hotels as the Games got under way.
Human Rights Watch said in its 2026 global report that Donald Trump had undermined core U.S. democratic pillars, likening the country to Russia and China and urging a democratic coalition.
In Washington, Gustavo Petro handed Donald Trump a list of suspected drug kingpins abroad, while Claudia Sheinbaum rejected Trump’s claim that cartels controlled Mexico.
Tom Homan, the administration's border czar, said he withdrew 700 federal immigration agents from Minnesota, citing increased cooperation from state corrections authorities.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed to acquire AI firm xAI and proposed orbiting, solar-powered data centers using up to a million satellites, but experts expressed doubts about feasibility.
Alphabet announced it would nearly double capital spending to as much as $185 billion in 2026 to build AI infrastructure after reporting $34.5 billion profit.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said ICE agents sent to the 2026 Milan‑Cortina Winter Olympics would have no operational policing role, limited to analysis and information‑sharing.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission opened an investigation into Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees over diversity measures, a probe the New York Times called unprecedented.
Renée Good's brothers testified to a U.S. congressional forum that ICE agents fatally shot their sister during an operation in Minneapolis and urged lawmakers to act.
Pima County authorities in Arizona searched for Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie, after she was reported missing from her Tucson home and was believed abducted Jan. 31.
Former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana died at 94 after a 34‑year House career in which he led the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees and the Sept. 11 commission.
U.S. tech-stock selloff continued Wednesday, hitting software companies, particularly those competing with AI, while the sector split into some winners and losers, market participants said.
Lindsey Vonn announced she would compete in the Olympic downhill in Cortina on Sunday despite a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee.
Lindsey Vonn said she would still race the women's Olympic downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo despite a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, after heavy snowfall canceled the first training.
UBS executives testified before a US Senate committee after nearly 900 bank accounts linked to the Nazi regime and SS resurfaced, prompting the bank to reopen archives.
Italy's interior minister Matteo Piantedosi said ICE agents would attend the Milan–Cortina Winter Olympics but would have no operational authority and Italian police would retain responsibility for security.
James Harden was traded from the Los Angeles Clippers to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for point guard Darius Garland, a move that significantly reshaped Cleveland’s roster.
William Stevenson, 77, once married to former first lady Jill Biden, was charged with first-degree murder in Delaware and remained jailed without bail after his wife was found in December.
President Trump pursued buying Greenland, prompting renewed scrutiny of U.S.–Danish control arrangements and, according to Swiss paper Tages-Anzeiger, a spike in Swiss imports of Greenlandic gold.
Penny the four-year-old Doberman from Reseda, California, won Best in Show at the 150th Westminster Kennel Club dog show in New York on Tuesday night.
