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Lead On Feb. 1, 2026 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, the Tampa Bay Lightning staged a colorful pregame entrance ahead of the NHL Stadium Series game against the Boston Bruins. Players disembarked from the team bus wearing full, padded throwback Tampa Bay Buccaneers “Creamsicle” uniforms — helmets and pads included — while Buccaneers stars … Read more

Lead On Sunday in Los Angeles, the 2026 Grammy Awards fused fashion and political gestures as artists used the red carpet and stage to make statements. Several performers wore “ICE OUT” pins in visible solidarity with protesters in Minneapolis amid an ongoing immigration crackdown. Style highlights ranged from FKA Twigs’s distressed couture and unconventional accessories … Read more

Lead International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry told reporters in Milan on Feb. 1, 2026, that newly publicized ICE deployments and released Jeffrey Epstein files are a “sad” diversion from the Milan Cortina Winter Games, which open Feb. 6. Coventry said the IOC will not weigh in on law-enforcement or legal matters but acknowledged the … Read more

Lead: At the pre-telecast ceremony on Sunday afternoon, the song “Golden,” from Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation’s KPop Demon Hunters, won Best Song Written for Visual Media. Performed by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami and written by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, DO, 24 and Teddy, the track marks the first time a K-pop song has … Read more

At the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Kendrick Lamar extended his lead in hip-hop’s awards race by claiming four more trophies, bringing his career total to 26 Grammys and overtaking Jay-Z’s 25. The wins included Best Rap Album for GNX, Best Rap Song for “TV Off,” Best Melodic Rap Performance for “Luther,” and a … Read more

Lead Attorneys for more than 200 alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein have asked two federal judges in New York to order the immediate removal of the Justice Department’s public Epstein files website, calling the disclosure an “unfolding emergency.” In a Jan. 30, 2026 letter to U.S. District Judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer, lawyers Brittany … Read more

On the evening of February 1, 2026, the Grammy Awards red carpet at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena delivered a spectacle of theatrical fashion, political statements and headline-making theatrics. Attendees — from established icons to breakout winners across the record 95 categories — favored feathers, voluminous draping and dramatic trains. Standout moments included Rosé in a … Read more

Lead On February 1, 2026, President Donald Trump nominated former Fed governor Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, shifting market attention from near-term interest-rate moves to the central bank’s $6.6 trillion balance sheet. Warsh is known both as a monetary economist and a sharp critic of some Fed practices, and his selection has raised … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 1–2, 2026, spot gold and silver reversed a recent, record-breaking advance as Asian trading turned sharply negative. Spot gold fell as much as 6.3% and silver plunged as much as 11.9% in Asian hours, extending losses after earlier extreme moves that many traders called a dramatic unwinding. Silver briefly traded more than … Read more

Lead: On Feb. 1, 2026, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, a Gwinnett County police officer was killed and a second officer was critically wounded after gunfire erupted at a hotel near Stone Mountain. The two officers had been dispatched to the address on a fraud call; when they arrived a person produced a firearm and shot both. … Read more

Oracle Corp. said it plans to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion in 2026 through a mix of debt and equity to expand its cloud infrastructure, the company told Bloomberg Terminal on Feb. 1, 2026 (reported at 23:20 UTC; updated Feb. 2 at 01:50 UTC). The financing is intended to add data-center capacity to … Read more

On Feb. 1, 2026 in Los Angeles, the Grammy Awards’ red carpet turned into a showcase of extreme minimalism when singer Chappell Roan revealed a floor-length opaque skirt suspended from nipple piercings beneath a burgundy Mugler cape. Ms. Roan, nominated for record of the year and best pop solo performance, later changed into an ivory … Read more

Updated February 1, 2026 09:48AM. Professional road teams now begin structured high-intensity work in December alongside traditional aerobic base mileage, a shift that has moved the sport away from an historic Zone 2–only winter. Coaches and scientists argue this blended approach lets riders hold race-level punch for longer stretches across a 6–9 month season, but … Read more

Ifunanya Nwangene, a 26-year-old Nigerian singer who rose to public attention after appearing on The Voice Nigeria in 2021, died on Saturday in Abuja after being bitten by a snake. Social media videos show a handler removing a snake from her apartment and bystanders shouting that it was a cobra; two snakes were reportedly found … Read more

Lead Portland Mayor Keith Wilson demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) withdraw from the city after federal agents fired tear gas and other crowd-control munitions at a largely peaceful protest on Saturday at the South Waterfront ICE field office. Witnesses and at least one journalist who joined the demonstration said agents deployed tear … Read more