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Shedeur Sanders received a surprise Pro Bowl invitation while traveling to visit his brother, making him — by selection — an NFL Pro Bowl quarterback. The rookie completed a 2025 season with the Cleveland Browns that ended with a 5-12 record but included a first regular-season start and seasonal highs and lows that broadened his … Read more
Lead The Muppet Show returns to broadcast TV in 2026 with Kermit back at the helm in a production staged for ABC and directed by Alex Timbers. The revival restores the original theater format, brings Statler and Waldorf back to their box seats, and pairs classic Muppet characters with celebrity guests including Sabrina Carpenter and … Read more
Lead: On Tuesday, February 3, 2026, Bitcoin plunged beneath the $73,000 threshold, touching $72,884.38 — its weakest level since November 6, 2024, when it traded at $68,898. The intraday drop exceeded 6%, extending a year-to-date decline of roughly 16% as investors rotated away from risk assets amid renewed geopolitical concerns and a partial U.S. government … Read more
Lead: On Tuesday in Paris, prosecutors asked an appeals court to bar far-right leader Marine Le Pen from holding elected office for five years, a move that could block her from running in the 2027 presidential election. The request, made during an appeal of a March 2025 conviction for misuse of European Parliament funds tied … Read more
Lead: On February 3, 2026, Apple released Xcode 26.3 as a release candidate to Apple Developer Program members, introducing agentic coding that integrates coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex. The update extends the intelligence features introduced in Xcode 26, enabling agents to act with greater autonomy across a project lifecycle to … Read more
Lead: U.S. influenza activity, which fell for several weeks, has begun to rise again as of Week 3 of 2026, prompting clinicians to warn of a likely secondary surge. Season-to-date CDC estimates list about 20 million illnesses, 270,000 hospitalizations and 11,000 deaths, including 52 pediatric fatalities. Physicians report increasing outpatient visits and positive lab tests … Read more
Lead Former No. 1 overall pick Jadeveon Clowney, speaking from San Jose in the lead-up to Super Bowl LX, said two coaches from his 12-season, seven-franchise career stand above the rest for football intellect and player impact. He named Mike Vrabel and Mike Macdonald as the most cerebral coaches he has played for and explained … Read more
Lead: In April 2025, three weeks before cameras were due to roll, FX’s limited series Love Story still lacked an actor to play John F. Kennedy Jr. Producers had already cast Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, but finding a convincing JFK Jr. proved unusually difficult. The search and subsequent costume and publicity controversies shaped … Read more
Health officials in central Cameroon and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa warn that neglected tropical diseases, long pushed toward elimination, may rebound after key U.S. aid was cut in 2025. On Feb. 3, 2026, clinicians in rural districts reported interruption of mass-drug distribution that had nearly stopped illnesses such as onchocerciasis, or river blindness. Local … Read more
Lead: Last week in Fulton County, Georgia, F.B.I. agents executed a search of an elections center and removed multiple truckloads of 2020 ballots as part of an expanding probe into post‑election fraud claims. The seizure, which took place after President Trump’s 2020 defeat in the state, intensified scrutiny of national- and local‑level roles in the … Read more
Lead: French prosecutors carried out searches of X’s offices in France on Tuesday as part of a preliminary criminal probe into allegations that the platform and related services spread child sexual-abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes. Investigators have summoned billionaire owner Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews scheduled for April 20, … Read more
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro told Fox News on Monday that anyone who brings a firearm into Washington, D.C., will face jail time, a comment that prompted swift criticism from Republican lawmakers and gun-rights groups. By Tuesday she posted a clarification on X saying her remarks targeted people “unlawfully” carrying firearms, and Deputy Attorney General Todd … Read more
Lead On Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, the House cleared a procedural hurdle that sets up a final vote on a sprawling funding package that would fully reopen the federal government within hours. The move followed intense private pressure from President Donald Trump and House leaders to bring holdout Republicans into line. The package funds multiple … Read more
Federal disclosures of roughly three million pages tied to Jeffrey Epstein have not ended public and legal uproar after advocates said the Justice Department still withheld potentially millions of responsive records. The department met part of its obligation under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required full disclosure by 19 December 2025, but the most … Read more
Lead: NASA paused the Artemis 2 wet dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center after a small liquid-hydrogen leak was detected in the SLS tail service mast umbilical during Feb. 2 tanking operations. The agency completed core-stage fueling but halted portions of the simulated countdown as teams troubleshot the leak; a public update and press conference … Read more
