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Lead: Connor Storrie will make his first appearance as host of Saturday Night Live on February 28, the program announced during its most recent broadcast. The February 28 episode will also feature Mumford & Sons as the musical guest, and airs live on NBC and Peacock at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT. Storrie’s rapid ascent—from … Read more

On Saturday morning, Jan. 31, 2026, Highway 99 near Avenue 24 in Tulare County was closed in both directions after a chain-reaction crash that involved 59 vehicles, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) said. The multi-vehicle collision halted traffic within about 11 minutes of the first calls shortly after 8:15 a.m.; responders cleared the scene and … Read more

Lead In New York on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, heavyweight Jarrell Miller had his hairpiece dislodged by a second-round exchange with Kingsley Ibeh, exposing a large bald area. Miller completed the round wearing the piece, removed it between rounds and tossed it into the crowd, then won the bout by split decision. He … Read more

Lead: On January 31, 2026, Democrat Taylor Rehmet won the special runoff for Texas Senate District 9 in Tarrant County, defeating Republican Leigh Wambsganss in what officials report as a complete but unofficial count. Rehmet, a Fort Worth union president, received 54,267 votes (about 57%), while Wambsganss, a conservative activist, garnered 40,598 votes (about 43%). … Read more

Pete Davidson made a surprise return to Saturday Night Live’s cold open for the show’s 1,000th episode, appearing in Minneapolis as Tom Homan, the Trump-era border official. In the sketch, Davidson’s Homan addresses a baffled group of ICE agents after recent Minnesota violence and urges them to “lower the temperature” while trying to reframe what … Read more

Lead: Gavin McKenna, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, starred for Penn State on Feb. 1, 2026, at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., scoring once and adding two assists in a 5-4 overtime loss to Michigan State. The outdoor game drew 74,575 spectators to the football venue, turning Happy Valley … Read more

Lead On the morning of Jan. 31, 2026, a multivehicle collision on Highway 99 in an unincorporated area of Tulare County, California, left 10 people injured and shut the road for more than six hours. The California Highway Patrol said roughly 59 vehicles — including big rigs, trucks and cars — were involved in the … Read more

Lead: Orange County health officials confirmed a second measles case for 2026 on Jan. 31 after an international traveler who arrived at Los Angeles International Airport visited the Disneyland Resort on Jan. 28. Public health agencies say the person was in Goofy’s Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and in … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 31, 2026, thousands of people rallied in cities across the United States to protest federal immigration operations tied to Minneapolis. Demonstrations drew notable turnouts in Los Angeles and Portland and smaller gatherings outside federal facilities such as the B.H. Whipple Federal Building. In Minneapolis, clashes between sheriffs’ deputies and demonstrators produced several … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 31, 2026 the U.S. Department of Justice released nearly three million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, revealing sustained contacts between the disgraced financier and numerous prominent business, cultural and political figures. Many named in the files had publicly minimized or denied ties after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and death by suicide … Read more

Lead A memo issued this week by acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Todd Lyons expands the circumstances in which deportation officers may make warrantless arrests of people suspected of being in the United States unlawfully. The directive, submitted to a federal court in Minnesota and first reported by The New York Times, broadens … Read more

On Saturday, a wave of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, local rescue authorities said, with casualties reported in Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah. Gaza’s civil defence, run by Hamas, said children and women were among the dead and that one helicopter strike hit a tent sheltering displaced … Read more

Lead: On Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, WWE staged Royal Rumble at the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET and broadcast on ESPN (U.S.) and Netflix worldwide. The show delivered two marquee Rumble matches, a high-stakes AJ Styles vs. GUNTHER bout with retirement on the line, and Drew McIntyre … Read more

Lead: Starting February 1, 2026, NYU marketing professor Scott Galloway has called for a monthlong, nationwide boycott of major technology services to protest recent actions by U.S. immigration enforcement. The proposal asks Americans to “unsubscribe” from or “opt out” of paid services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Amazon Prime Video and Microsoft Office for the entire … Read more

Demond Wilson, the actor who played Lamont Sanford opposite Redd Foxx on the hit 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son, died on Jan. 31, 2026, at his home in California’s Coachella Valley. He was 79. His son, Christopher Wilson, confirmed that Mr. Wilson had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Wilson’s death closes a chapter on a … Read more