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Former minister Peter Mandelson resigned from the House of Lords and faced an investigation by London's Metropolitan Police after disclosures suggested he shared confidential government emails with Jeffrey Epstein.
Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. negotiators met in Abu Dhabi for peace talks despite Russia’s overnight missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure.
President Donald Trump urged Republicans to "take over" and "nationalize" elections in 15 states ahead of November midterms, claiming to block noncitizen voting, a claim experts say is false.
U.S. Department of Justice files showed convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein continued attending exclusive dinners with Silicon Valley billionaires and executives as late as 2018.
Anthropic's release of a new AI tool on Tuesday triggered a global sell-off in software and business-to-business service stocks, stoking investor fears of AI-driven disruption.
President Donald Trump scolded CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins during a public appearance after she asked about the Jeffrey Epstein files, saying, "I don't think I've ever seen you smile."
President Trump urged Republicans to "nationalize" U.S. elections, saying federal agents should help count votes—a role the Constitution grants to states—and the White House later walked back the comments.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro met at the White House and emerged conciliatory, agreeing to pursue cooperation against drug trafficking.
U.S. forces shot down an Iranian drone that approached the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, officials said, days before planned U.S.–Iran talks this week.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she would deploy a team of legal observers across New York to document ICE raids and monitor whether enforcement stayed within the law.
Melinda French Gates said her name and marital status were mentioned in newly released Epstein files and she insisted ex-husband Bill Gates must answer questions they raised.
President Donald Trump signed a congressional spending bill at the White House, ending the partial U.S. government shutdown after a narrow 217–214 House vote, while DHS funding remained short-term.
At a Capitol Hill forum on Feb. 3, the brothers of Renee Nicole Good urged Congress to rein in ICE’s aggressive deportation raids, condemning what they called continued excessive force.
French prosecutors raided X’s Paris offices and summoned Elon Musk in a probe into suspected abuse of algorithms, fraudulent data extraction and AI-generated sexualized deepfakes.
Human Rights Watch said in its annual report Trump's return to the White House intensified a global democratic recession, and Russia and China were less free than two decades ago.
Elon Musk merged SpaceX with his AI startup xAI, creating a combined company valued at about $1.25 trillion, a move critics said chiefly served his financial interests.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil, a claim analysts called unlikely as India sourced about a third of its crude from Russia.
President Donald Trump ordered a two‑year closure of the Kennedy Center in Washington for renovations, prompting unions, orchestra leaders and lawmakers to cite worker uncertainty and falling ticket sales.
A month after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a Jan. 3 operation, Caracas remained divided between pro-Maduro rallies and anti-occupation protests amid reports of ongoing political detentions.
The United States and Russia allowed the New START nuclear arms treaty to lapse, ending limits on their strategic arsenals and raising the risk of a renewed nuclear arms race.
President Trump released a rendering of the future East Wing and ballroom, saying it would match the mansion’s height and scale amid criticism over its size.
Gold prices swung sharply as U.S.–Iran tensions and uncertainty over U.S. policy under President Trump drove safe‑haven demand and heightened market volatility.
William Stevenson, a former husband of U.S. first lady Jill Biden, was charged with first‑degree murder in Delaware after his wife, Linda Stevenson, was found dead in December.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's involvement in Milan‑Cortina security and a planned "Ice House" drew criticism, prompting organizers to rename it "Winter House" ahead of the Games.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro met U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, and both described the encounter as easing tensions that had risen after clashes and Venezuela’s invasion.
US and Iranian envoys were set to meet Friday in Oman, sources said, after Iran requested moving the previously planned Istanbul talks, Turkish reporting had indicated.
Norway’s Crown Princess Mette‑Marit was shown in a photo at Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach pool house and was reported to have maintained yearslong contact, sparking a national scandal.
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran resigned his senior White House advisory post, ending a controversial dual role while his Fed term continued, drawing Democratic criticism.
NATO began planning Arctic Sentry, a mission to bolster defense of the Arctic around Greenland in response to recent U.S. threats, NATO spokespeople said.
AWS chief Matt Garman said Elon Musk's plan to put servers and data centers in space was "simply not economically viable" and would be extremely difficult to implement.
Banco Santander agreed to buy Webster Bank for about $12.2 billion to deepen its U.S. retail presence in the Northeast, the bank said.
Investigators searched for Nancy Guthrie, 84, after she vanished from her Catalina Foothills, Arizona, home in a suspected abduction, and her daughter Savannah Guthrie withdrew from NBC’s Olympics coverage.
The United States approved the Texas GulfLink deepwater port for crude exports and allowed up to one million barrels per day about 26.6 nautical miles off Brazoria County, Texas.
U.S. warships arrived off Port-au-Prince, the U.S. embassy said, in a deployment it described as Operation "Southern Spear" ordered by Defense Minister Pete Hegseth amid Haiti's political turmoil.
President Donald Trump reinstated the African Growth and Opportunity Act with about 30 African countries, restoring duty‑free access for numerous African exports to the United States.
NASA delayed the Artemis II crewed lunar launch after engineers detected a hydrogen leak during fueling tests at Kennedy Space Center, citing a risk of an explosive fuel‑air mixture.
IOC president Kirsty Coventry signalled at the 145th IOC congress in Milan that Russia could be readmitted to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, prompting anger from Ukraine's sports minister.
The Walt Disney Company named Josh D'Amaro, its parks and resorts chief, to succeed Bob Iger as CEO on March 18 after a unanimous board vote.
PayPal said it would name Enrique Lores its new CEO to replace the outgoing chief after a disappointing quarter, and its shares plunged about 17–20% on Wall Street.
NASA delayed the Artemis II crewed lunar launch after engineers found liquid hydrogen leaks during a wet dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, agency officials said.
Waymo said on Monday it raised $16 billion in new funding, valuing the Alphabet subsidiary at $126 billion to accelerate global robotaxi expansion.
Josh D'Amaro was named chief executive of The Walt Disney Company, succeeding Bob Iger in March, after leading Disney’s parks division.
Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify in depositions before a Republican-led House panel in late February about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein, averting a contempt vote.
U.S. military said it shot down an Iranian drone as it approached aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, after Iranian vessels confronted a U.S. tanker near Hormuz.
Lindsey Vonn said she would race the Olympic downhill in Cortina d’Ampezzo despite suffering a ruptured left ACL in a crash in Crans‑Montana last Friday.
