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Shirley Raines, a Compton-born community organizer who founded Beauty 2 the Streetz and became a familiar presence serving people on Skid Row, has died at 58, her organization announced on Jan. 29, 2026. Raines worked across Los Angeles and Nevada, bringing hygiene, beauty services and basic supplies to people experiencing homelessness and using media to … Read more

Lead U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced she will run for governor of Minnesota after Gov. Tim Walz abandoned a bid for a third term this month amid criticism over management of state child care funds. Klobuchar framed her campaign as a response to a year of violent and disruptive incidents in the state and pledged … Read more

Lead: President Donald Trump’s plan to chair a new “Board of Peace” intended to guide Gaza’s future has met resistance from major powers and appears to have bolstered support for the United Nations. Announced at Davos and followed by letters inviting roughly 60 countries, the board’s broadened mandate — and a charter that grants Trump … Read more

Lead Researchers led by Prof Uri Alon at the Weizmann Institute report in Science on 29 January 2026 that genetics may explain roughly half of the variation in human lifespan once deaths from external causes are removed. Using mathematical modeling calibrated against thousands of twin records from Denmark and Sweden, the team separated extrinsic mortality—accidents, … Read more

January 29, 2026 — The SEC announced that Saturday’s Southeastern Conference men’s basketball game between No. 18 Vanderbilt and Ole Miss will be played in Nashville at Memorial Gymnasium with a 5 p.m. tip. The teams have agreed to flip this season’s home-and-home: Vanderbilt will host on Jan. 31 and travel to Oxford on March … Read more

Lead: Sasha Troufanov, an Israeli man taken hostage on 7 October 2023, said the return this week of the final captive’s body allowed released hostages to “breathe and start our lives again.” Troufanov — held in Gaza for 498 days and freed in February 2025 — described severe physical injuries, prolonged isolation and limited medical … Read more

Lead On Thursday in Washington, Senate Democrats voted 45-55 to block a fiscal package that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies, citing demands tied to new restrictions on immigration enforcement. The move came as congressional leaders and the White House raced to negotiate terms to avoid a partial government shutdown … Read more

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced Thursday that federal immigration officials have stopped their recent “enhanced operations” in Maine after she spoke directly with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The operations, which began more than a week earlier and produced hundreds of arrests, were described by Collins as no longer ongoing or planned at large scale … Read more

Federal prosecutors on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, charged a Minnesota man after an incident at a Minneapolis town hall earlier that week in which Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was sprayed with a liquid from a syringe. The complaint says Anthony Kazmierczak attempted to spray Omar during the event and was subdued by bystanders and security. … Read more

Northwestern University surgeons kept a 33-year-old man alive for 48 hours after removing both lungs, using a bespoke extracorporeal circuit while they treated a life‑threatening infection and awaited donor organs. The patient arrived with Influenza B complicated by a carbapenem‑resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection that caused necrotizing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), leaving his lung tissue … Read more

Forecasters say a major winter storm will form off the Carolina coast this weekend and track north into the Mid‑Atlantic and New England, bringing heavy snow, strong winds, large waves and coastal flooding from Saturday into early Monday. Significant snowfall—around a foot in places—is increasingly likely across parts of the Southern Appalachians, the Carolinas and … Read more

Lead: On Jan. 29, 2026, Lukoil said it has reached an agreement in principle for U.S. private equity firm Carlyle to take over most of its foreign assets, excluding operations in Kazakhstan. The announcement follows U.S. Treasury sanctions imposed in October 2025 and parallel European Union measures that have curtailed Russia’s fuel exports. Lukoil and … Read more

Bruce Springsteen released a new protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” on Jan. 28, 2026, responding to two fatal encounters between federal immigration enforcement agents and civilians in Minneapolis this month. He dedicated the track to the city’s residents, immigrant neighbors and the victims Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Springsteen said he wrote the song on … Read more

Lead Federal agents executed a search warrant this Wednesday at Fulton County election headquarters in Atlanta seeking ballots and related 2020 materials, an action critics tie to President Donald Trump’s prolonged claims that he won the 2020 election. Trump has repeatedly pushed those false assertions for more than five years and, since returning to the … Read more

Lead: Odessa A’zion, 25, has emerged this awards season as a breakout actor after starring in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme and HBO’s ensemble comedy I Love LA. Her performance helped Marty Supreme become A24’s top North American earner at $81 million against a reported $70 million budget and earned the film nine Oscar nominations, including … Read more