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Lead Across the United States this month, hundreds of consumers have paused subscriptions and shifted shopping or transit habits to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations. The month-long campaign led by commentator Scott Galloway—called “Resist and Unsubscribe”—launched last weekend and quickly drew attention after news of federal immigration activity in Minneapolis and elsewhere. … Read more

Lead: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the United States has proposed hosting talks next week — likely in Miami — and aims for a ceasefire and a negotiated end to the war by June. He confirmed Ukraine will participate in the US-hosted meeting while noting difficult issues, including territorial concessions, remain unresolved. The announcement came … Read more

Lead: Since 2025, German forces deployed in Lithuania have reported a pattern of non‑kinetic pressure — from airspace probes and surveillance drones to psychological and information operations — that stops short of open combat but raises security concerns. A German soldier recounted answering a call and hearing a recording of his own conversation hours earlier, … Read more

Lead On 7 February 2026 Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank named his starting XI for the Premier League trip to Old Trafford, making three changes ahead of the Manchester United fixture. The north London side, unbeaten in four across all competitions after a 2-2 draw with Manchester City last Sunday, selected Micky van de Ven, … Read more

Lead: Federal prosecutors in Minnesota moved within hours after the Jan. 2026 shooting that killed Renee Good to seek a warrant to search her S.U.V., expecting a routine civil‑rights review of an immigration agent’s use of force. According to multiple current and former officials, F.B.I. agents arrived with a signed warrant but were told to … Read more

Lead: The U.S. State Department has directed that all posts on its public X accounts made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025, be removed from public timelines and kept only in internal archives, the department confirmed to NPR. The material will remain on record internally to satisfy federal recordkeeping, but staff … Read more

Feb. 7, 2026 — In a wide-ranging interview tied to his new book A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, author Michael Pollan argues that questions about mind and self are becoming urgent as artificial intelligence and the attention economy reshape daily life. Pollan, known for The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006) and How to Change Your … Read more

Lead: Unsealed court filings show federal agents searched Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home in late 2025 and seized a Garmin device plus multiple drives and messaging records as part of a leak investigation. The materials released in Natanson’s motion to recover her devices indicate the FBI copied Signal conversations and took encrypted reporting notes … Read more

On Feb. 6 the European Commission proposed a 20th package of sanctions targeting Russia’s war against Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced. The draft measures focus on energy, financial services and trade and include a coordinated, full ban on maritime services for Russian crude oil that the Commission says will be aligned … Read more

On Friday in Olympia, a hastily scheduled public hearing on Senate Bill 6346 — the so-called “millionaires tax” — filled the Senate Ways and Means Committee room for two hours, producing heated testimony from both opponents and supporters. The proposal would impose a 9.9 percent tax on income above $1 million beginning in 2028, with … Read more

Lead: Over two working sessions in late 2025, an independent developer used Xcode 26.3’s new agentic AI integration and Claude agents to convert a 3D-printing filament manager into a sewing-pattern manager for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The project combined migration, image capture, OCR and on-device ML; the developer reports inserting 52,947 lines and deleting … Read more

iFixit published a teardown on Feb. 5, 2026, of Apple’s newly released AirTag, revealing the speaker is about 50% louder than the prior model but remains simple to silence. The team showed two thin wires linking the speaker coil to the printed circuit board and demonstrated non‑destructive disabling that leaves tracking functions intact. The teardown … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 6, 2026, as U.S.-Iran diplomacy resumed to avert a possible military clash, the Trump administration signaled an uncompromising demand: Iran must not retain any uranium enrichment capacity. Washington’s envoy carried that “zero enrichment” line into recent meetings in Oman, while Iranian officials say they cannot accept a restriction they view as inconsistent … Read more

Lead: Scientists using fresh radio-occultation data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft report that Jupiter is very slightly smaller than long-standing estimates indicated. Published in Nature Astronomy, the revised dimensions subtract roughly 15 miles from Jupiter’s polar extent and about 5 miles from its equatorial width. The team, including Yohai Kaspi of the Weizmann Institute and Scott … Read more

Lead Former President Bill Clinton on Friday renewed his demand that the House Oversight Committee hold a public hearing as part of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The appeal came after the Clintons agreed to closed-door depositions following threats of contempt from the GOP-led committee. Committee chair Rep. James Comer has scheduled … Read more