1 hr ago - By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 5 - U.S. President Donald Trump offered last month to drop his hold on funding for a key $16 billion New York Hudson River tunnel project in exchange for Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer supporting the renaming of ... (Reuters)

3 hrs ago - Updated: 9:15 PM CST Feb 5, 2026 Aaron Hegarty SARPY COUNTY, Neb. — Employees of Premier-Midwest Beer and Beverage have been picketing around the clock since their union contract expired on Monday, Teamsters Local 554 tells KETV. The union's pri ... (KETV)

3 hrs ago - The U.S. Virtual Embassy in Iran issued a security alert early Friday urging American citizens to “leave Iran now” and prepare departure plans that don’t rely on U.S. government assistance. The notice comes ahead of U.S. and Iran’ ... (CNBC)

3 hrs ago - February 5, 2026 8:10 PM The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family. The 5-year-old returned home this week after he was detained with hi ... (MPRNews)

6 hrs ago - Sen. Elissa Slotkin has refused to voluntarily participate in a Justice Department investigation over a video she and five other Democratic members of Congress recorded late last year that urged U.S. troops to resist unlawful orders from the Trump ad ... (Washington Post)

6 hrs ago - Updated Feb 5, 2026, 10:17 AM ET PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2026, 9:52 AM ET Marco Rubio now has one less critical role to worry about in the Trump administration. After nearly a year as acting archivist of the United States, Rubio’s tenure has ended. Ru ... (CNN Politics)

6 hrs ago - Jerry Mitchell February 5, 2026 Join 35,000 readers who wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter to get the latest Mississippi news directly in your inbox every weekday. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from ... (mississippitoday)

6 hrs ago - 12h The U.S. and Russia are closing in on a deal to continue to observe the expiring New START arms control treaty beyond its expiration on Thursday, three sources familiar with those talks tell Axios. Two of the sources cautioned that the draft plan ... (msn/Axios)

6 hrs ago - 02/05/2026 01:07 PM EST Virginia Democrats plan to release a proposed new congressional map this week that, if approved by voters, could net the party four additional seats in Congress. The effort comes as a legal fight over the redistricting push p ... (Politico)

7 hrs ago - A special Norwegian police unit which is analysing newly released Epstein files in the US said the 75-year-old was suspected of "aggravated corruption". Police said they had already asked the country's foreign ministry to lift his immunity, which he ... (BBC)

7 hrs ago - Updated Feb 5, 2026, 1:06 PM ET PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2026, 10:06 AM ET As part of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement’s efforts to replace artificial, petroleum-based food dyes with natural ones, the US Food and Drug Administration s ... (CNN Health)

8 hrs ago - Posted 12:38 PM, Feb 05, 2026 Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., is ramping up pressure on those who were communicating with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking on the House floor, Khanna said individuals who exchanged emails with Epstein should ... (Scripps News)

9 hrs ago - February 5, 2026 5:30PM ET The Trump administration was dealt another court blow Thursday as a federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security from using taxpayer address ... (Raw Story)

9 hrs ago - February 5, 2026 6:03 AM EST Updated 2 hours ago WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unit responsible for prosecuting potential wrongdoing by law enforcement, including during the crackdown on illegal immigration in Minneapolis, ... (Reuters)

9 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan is refusing to voluntarily comply with a Justice Department investigation into a video she organized urging U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders” — escalating ... (AP)

9 hrs ago - Feb. 5, 2026, 10:30 AM EST The top lawyer in Vice President JD Vance’s office is departing for the private sector after a year when he was a key player in the White House deal to save TikTok and other initiatives. Sean Cooksey will leave his po ... (NBC News)

10 hrs ago - Feb 5th, 2026, 6:55 am Kara Swisher led Washington Post alumni by donating a staggering $10,000 to a rapidly growing fundraiser for journalists laid off from the newspaper on Wednesday. The veteran tech journalist and former Post reporter made the d ... (MEDIAite)

10 hrs ago - Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday drew the backing of a slew of labor unions, including the Texas Teamsters, in his bid for a record fourth term in office — a series of endorsements that the Republican touted as a first from labor groups that have h ... (Houston Chronicle)

11 hrs ago - The world's two largest nuclear powers, Russia and the United States, no longer have any limits on their arsenals. At midnight on Thursday, a 15-year-old treaty called New START expired, and with it, caps on the number of weapons the two sides could ... (NPR)

11 hrs ago - Thu 5 Feb 2026 12.30 EST Last modified on Thu 5 Feb 2026 15.15 EST On the morning of 21 January, Israeli authorities left eight Palestinian men at a West Bank checkpoint. Disoriented and cold, they were dressed in prison-issued tracksuits and carried ... (The Guardian)