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Lead An affidavit unsealed on Feb. 10, 2026, shows the Fulton County, Georgia, criminal inquiry into the 2020 election traces back to a referral from Kurt Olsen, a Trump White House election adviser who has promoted false claims about 2020 results. Federal agents executed a search warrant late January 2026 at a Fulton County election … Read more

Lead Microsoft warns that the root Secure Boot certificates used since 2011 will expire in June 2026 (with a related set expiring in October 2026), potentially limiting future boot-level fixes and blocking installs that rely on the newer 2023 certificates. For most up-to-date Windows 11 and patched Windows 10 systems, Windows Update or vendor firmware … Read more

Lead On Feb. 10, 2026 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Sweden’s sibling pair Isabella and Rasmus Wranå captured Olympic gold in mixed doubles curling, edging the United States’ Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin 6-5. The deciding point came in the final end when Isabella delivered the winning stone and the Swedes removed the Americans’ rock. The … Read more

Lead: Canadian carriers Air Canada and WestJet announced flight suspensions to Cuba after Cuban authorities informed airlines they were facing an aviation-fuel shortage. Air Canada said it would suspend the 16 weekly flights serving four Cuban cities starting Monday; WestJet described an “orderly wind down” of its Cuba services. Both carriers arranged empty return flights … Read more

Lead Universal has scheduled a new installment in its The Mummy franchise for May 19, 2028, announcing that Oscar winners Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will return. The studio held that date as a potential event release and currently has no other wide releases slated for the same day. Radio Silence—directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and … Read more

Lead: An annual gathering of the nation’s governors set for Feb. 19-21 in Washington is unraveling after the White House planned a Feb. 20 event that reportedly would invite only Republican governors. The National Governors Association (NGA), which represents all 55 governors, said it will no longer serve as the formal host for the White … Read more

Lead: New federal filings and interviews show that, as of early 2026, national Republican committees and allied super PACs hold a substantial financial advantage over Democratic counterparts, raising concerns about the balance of power heading into the November midterms. The gap—driven in part by a pro‑Trump super PAC reported to hold $304 million and by … Read more

Lead An immigration judge has determined there is no legal basis to remove Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, from the United States. The decision, issued in January 2026 and disclosed publicly in February, follows her arrest last year by masked immigration agents after she co‑authored a pro‑Palestinian opinion in her student … Read more

Researchers reported on 10 February 2026 that Earth’s metallic core may store a hydrogen mass equivalent to roughly nine to 45 modern oceans, a finding published in Nature Communications that shifts estimates of the planet’s internal volatile inventory. The team, led by Dongyang Huang of Peking University, used atom-scale measurements on laser-melted iron under high … Read more

Lead: Senior immigration officials from ICE and Customs and Border Protection testified before the House Homeland Security Committee, facing sharply partisan questioning over enforcement tactics after recent clashes in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Witnesses included Todd Lyons, acting director of ICE, and Rodney Scott, commissioner of CBP; lawmakers pressed them about two recent deaths of U.S. … Read more

Lead: A fast-moving clipper is spreading light snow across Upstate New York and New England on Tuesday, with 1–3 inches common and up to 8 inches in higher terrain, while a separate cross-country storm is organizing to bring heavy rain and a potential severe-weather threat to the Deep South by the end of the week. … Read more

Lead: Philippe Gaulier, the French clown and teacher whose École Philippe Gaulier trained generations of performers, died on Monday at age 82. His wife, Michiko Gaulier, said he succumbed to complications from a lung infection after having been ill since a 2023 stroke. Gaulier’s Paris school, founded in 1980 and run from London during the … Read more

Samsung’s next-generation application processor, the Exynos 2700, is expected to enter mass production in the second half of 2026, an analyst told Korea Economic Daily. The move could lift Samsung’s internal chipset presence in future Galaxy S-series phones after Exynos 2600 covered roughly 25 percent of Galaxy S26 units. Reported improvements in Samsung Foundry’s second-generation … Read more

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced on Jan. 30 that it has initiated a focused preclinical examination of ivermectin’s reported ability to kill cancer cells, a move NCI Director Anthony Letai said the agency is treating seriously and expects preliminary results from in a few months. The remark came at a Washington, D.C. event where … Read more

OM System announced the OM-3 Astro on February 9, 2026, a dedicated version of its OM-3 body tailored for astrophotography. The company changed the camera’s infrared (IR) cut filter and added software and shooting presets to improve capture of red nebulae and night-sky scenes. The OM-3 Astro preserves the OM-3’s 20.4-megapixel stacked BSI Micro Four … Read more