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Madison Beer, 26, says she feels unexpectedly at peace as her third studio album Locket—released Jan. 16—breaks new ground for her career. The record gave Beer her first top-10 placement on the Billboard 200 and produced her first Hot 100 entry with the single “Bittersweet.” A decade after a 13‑year‑old Beer was amplified by a … Read more

Lead David Ellison, Paramount’s chairman and CEO, published an open letter to the British creative community in February 2026 as the company presses its unsolicited bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). He pledged to boost film output, guarantee a minimum 45-day theatrical window and keep HBO operating independently, while criticizing Netflix’s proposed approach to WBD’s … Read more

Lead: A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released after two fatal federal immigration-enforcement shootings in Minnesota finds 65% of Americans say Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has “gone too far” in enforcement. The results, collected in the wake of the deaths of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good, show rising skepticism about ICE and … Read more

The days after federal agents fatally shot Veterans Administration nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have produced sharper public disapproval of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and broader skepticism of the Trump administration’s immigration approach. New national surveys from Quinnipiac and Ipsos, fielded Jan. 29–Feb. 2 and Jan. 30–Feb. 1 respectively, show larger shares of Americans … Read more

Researchers have built a multi-omics atlas and a PageRank-based pipeline (Taiji) to map transcription factor (TF) activity across nine CD8+ T cell states and used in vivo Perturb-seq to validate state-selective regulators. Integrating 52 ATAC-seq and 69 RNA-seq experiments (121 samples) revealed 136 single-state and 173 multi-state TF genes, including 34 TEXterm- and 20 TRM-selective … Read more

Lead INGLEWOOD, Calif. — On Wednesday night the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Los Angeles Clippers 124-91 at the Intuit Dome in a game made odd by Darius Garland’s presence courtside after his trade to Los Angeles. Donovan Mitchell led Cleveland with 29 points and nine assists, while the Cavs dominated from the outset, opening the … Read more

Lead Fallout season two closes on New Vegas with a reunion between Maximus and Lucy and a city left as the epicenter of a brewing continental conflict. Key players—Mr. House (now sustained by cold fusion), a resurgent Legion, the NCR, and newly revealed Enclave operatives—have their positions clarified or teased. The finale resolves some arcs … Read more

As Super Bowl Sunday drew near on NBC, advertisers mounted an all-out push to reach the game’s vast audience — more than 127.7 million U.S. viewers in 2025 — by packing commercials with celebrities, AI demonstrations and health-related messages. Brands ran spots featuring Kendall Jenner, George Clooney and Jurassic Park alumni while legacy icons like … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 4, 2026, Rep. Maxine Waters and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clashed during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington over tariffs, inflation and housing affordability. Waters repeatedly invoked her signature parliamentary rebuke — “reclaiming my time” — and, when interrupted, demanded that the chair silence Bessent with the now-viral line, “Can … Read more

Newly released court documents and emails published by the US Department of Justice show a sustained private correspondence between Lord Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein spanning 2009–2012, including exchanges while Epstein was serving a sentence after his 2008 conviction. The messages, disclosed via filings in the United States District Court for the Southern District of … Read more

On February 4, 2026 (UTC), spot silver plunged as much as 17%, erasing a two-day rebound and briefly undoing gains that had taken the metal above $90 an ounce in early Asian trade. The slide followed a record-breaking rally and leaves silver down by more than a third from an all-time high hit on Jan. … Read more

STILLWATER, Okla. — On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, No. 16 BYU fell 99-92 to Oklahoma State at Gallagher-Iba Arena, marking the Cougars’ third straight defeat. BYU rallied from an early deficit to tie the game at halftime, but Oklahoma State overwhelmed them in the second half to secure the upset. The loss dropped BYU to … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 4 an impulsive X4.2 solar flare erupted from a large, magnetically complex sunspot group, peaking at 7:13 a.m. EST (1213 GMT) and briefly knocking out high-frequency radio communications across parts of western Africa and southern Europe. The burst produced intense ionizing radiation in Earth’s upper atmosphere but—according to forecasters—showed no immediate clear … Read more

Lead Tracy Spiridakos and Jesse Lee Soffer will return to the OneChicago universe as Hailey Upton and Jay Halstead for a three-hour crossover airing March 4 from 8–11 p.m. ET/PT. The cameo was revealed in a Chicago Med teaser and reunites two former Chicago P.D. regulars around a case that draws federal and local teams … Read more

A former housecleaner who used the pseudonym “Kelly” told Las Vegas police that several people who stayed in a northeast Las Vegas rental became ill after entering a garage she says contained equipment consistent with a biological laboratory. The tip, detailed in a recently released arrest report, led to a weekend raid and the arrest … Read more