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A document that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, shows a U.S. passport renewal in 2012 and a federal booking system form from 2020 for Ghislaine Maxwell. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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The Latest: Ghislaine Maxwell declines to answer questions in House deposition

Read full article: The Latest: Ghislaine Maxwell declines to answer questions in House deposition

Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her 5th Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with members of the audience after delivering a speech at Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
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British PM fights to keep his job after revelations about former ambassador's ties to Epstein

Read full article: British PM fights to keep his job after revelations about former ambassador's ties to Epstein

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is battling to cling to power as revelations about the relationship between the former U.K. ambassador to Washington and Jeffrey Epstein spiral into a full-blown crisis for his 19-month-old government.

Thailand's Prime Minister and leader of Bhumjaithai Party Anutin Charnvirakul, center, leave after a press conference at the party headquarters following the general election in Bangkok, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand’s ruling Bhumjaithai party tops election that marks a conservative comeback

Read full article: Thailand’s ruling Bhumjaithai party tops election that marks a conservative comeback

The Bhumjaithai Party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is on track to win the most seats in Thailand’s general election, according to unofficial results.

Sanae Takaichi, center, Japan's prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), puts pins marking the names of candidates who won lower house elections, at the LDP headquarters Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 in Tokyo, (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi looks to translate her election gains into a new conservative shift

Read full article: Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi looks to translate her election gains into a new conservative shift

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party has secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.

FILE - Michael Bermudez of Spartanburg, S.C., holds a sign at a vigil honoring the life of Iryna Zarutska, who was fatally stabbed on a commuter train last month, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

North Carolina Republicans to question Charlotte leaders on crime after train stabbings

Read full article: North Carolina Republicans to question Charlotte leaders on crime after train stabbings

North Carolina Republican legislators are set to question Charlotte-area leaders about crime-fighting tactics and spending.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz listens as President Donald Trump speaks about TrumpRx in the South Court Auditorium in the Old Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise

Read full article: 'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise

A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states.

Opposition leaders Mara Oropeza and Juan Pablo Guanipa, left, ride motorbikes through Caracas, Venezuela, after their release from custody, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela frees several opposition members after lengthy politically motivated detentions

Read full article: Venezuela frees several opposition members after lengthy politically motivated detentions

Venezuela’s government has released several prominent opposition members from prison, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado.

Center-left Socialist candidate Antnio Jos Seguro celebrates after defeating far-right populist Andr Ventura in the second round of Portugal's presidential election in Lisbon, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)

Moderate candidate wins emphatically over a populist in Portugal's presidential runoff

Read full article: Moderate candidate wins emphatically over a populist in Portugal's presidential runoff

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro has won Portugal’s presidential runoff election against hard-right populist André Ventura.

Thailand's Prime Minister and leader of Bhumjaithai Party Anutin Charnvirakul, center, speaks during a press conference at the party headquarters following the general election in Bangkok, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand's conservative Bhumjaithai party tops polls but will need partners to form government

Read full article: Thailand's conservative Bhumjaithai party tops polls but will need partners to form government

The Bhumjaithai party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has taken a commanding lead in Thailand’s general election.

A protester holds a cutout of Jeff Bezos' face outside of the Washington Post office following a mass layoff, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)
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Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he's stepping down, days after big layoffs at the paper

Read full article: Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he's stepping down, days after big layoffs at the paper

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he’s stepping down, three days after the troubled newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff.

Sanae Takaichi, center, Japan's prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), puts pins marking the names of candidates who won lower house elections, at the LDP headquarters Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 in Tokyo, (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Prime Minister Takaichi’s party wins a supermajority in Japan's lower house

Read full article: Prime Minister Takaichi’s party wins a supermajority in Japan's lower house

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party has secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance cheer on team USA during the Olympic opening ceremony at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
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Ohio man charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child abuse files

Read full article: Ohio man charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child abuse files

An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while he was visiting his home state last month.

President Donald Trump speaks during a session on his Board of Peace initiative at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Trump aims to hold the first meeting of his new Board of Peace in Washington this month

Read full article: Trump aims to hold the first meeting of his new Board of Peace in Washington this month

President Donald Trump plans to convene the first meeting of his Board of Peace this month in Washington to raise money for the reconstruction of Gaza.

Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aim, center, salutes as he arrives for a ceremony marking the end of the presidential council in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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Haiti's presidential council dissolves after rocky tenure as unelected US-backed ruler remains

Read full article: Haiti's presidential council dissolves after rocky tenure as unelected US-backed ruler remains

Haiti’s presidential council has stepped down after almost two years of tumultuous rule alongside a U.S.-backed prime minister who is expected to remain in power as the country prepares for the first general elections in a decade.

FILE - U.S, Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York speaks at a news conference in Washington, Nov. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump's post on the Obamas shows a 'bigoted and racist regime'

Read full article: Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump's post on the Obamas shows a 'bigoted and racist regime'

The chair of the Congressional Black Caucus says the Trump administration has a chance to change after President Donald Trump posted a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as primates in the jungle.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth leaves an oath of enlistment ceremony, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, held on the base of the Washington Monument in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, discontinuing military training, fellowships

Read full article: Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, discontinuing military training, fellowships

The Pentagon says it will cut ties with Harvard University, ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.

FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 17, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File)

A charismatic straight talker, Japan's Takaichi expands her power after huge election win

Read full article: A charismatic straight talker, Japan's Takaichi expands her power after huge election win

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's party won a huge election Sunday, taking advantage of her popularity among fans who see the hardline conservative as someone who speaks her mind and can bring change.

A document with an email chain from Jeffrey Epstein illustrates the amount of redactions of personally identifiable information that the U.S. Department of Justice was required to do before release of Epstein documents, is photographed Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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Justice Department will allow lawmakers to see unredacted versions of released Epstein files

Read full article: Justice Department will allow lawmakers to see unredacted versions of released Epstein files

The Department of Justice will allow members of Congress to review unredacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

FILE - This undated file image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made during the Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition 2013, shows corals on Mytilus Seamount off the coast of New England in the North Atlantic Ocean. (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research via AP, File)
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Trump ends Obama-era restrictions on commercial fishing in protected area off New England

Read full article: Trump ends Obama-era restrictions on commercial fishing in protected area off New England

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation reopening a huge swath of the Atlantic to commercial fishing.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles listens during a meeting with President Donald Trump and oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Energy chief Wright says orders empowering coal plants helped keep lights on during winter storm

Read full article: Energy chief Wright says orders empowering coal plants helped keep lights on during winter storm

The Trump administration says its emergency orders keeping coal-fired plants running helped prevent blackouts during the recent cold snap.

FILE - People work at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
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FEMA will resume staff reductions that were paused during winter storm, managers say

Read full article: FEMA will resume staff reductions that were paused during winter storm, managers say

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is resuming staff cuts that were paused during January's severe winter storm, according to two FEMA managers.

FILE - White House border czar Tom Homan holds a news conference at the Bishop Whipple Federal building on Wednesday, February. 4, 2026 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy, File)
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Leadership changes in Minnesota follow tensions among agencies over immigration enforcement tactics

Read full article: Leadership changes in Minnesota follow tensions among agencies over immigration enforcement tactics

The Trump administration's immigration operation in Minnesota is now being unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, joined at left by FBI Director Kash Patel, and Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, appear before reporters at the Justice Department, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington, to announce the capture of a key participant in the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Bondi dismisses concerns over Gabbard's role in FBI search of Georgia election hub

Read full article: Bondi dismisses concerns over Gabbard's role in FBI search of Georgia election hub

Attorney General Pam Bondi says she's not worried about the involvement of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in an FBI search of a Georgia election office.

FILE - Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens., Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri, File)
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Accused militant is taken into custody in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack

Read full article: Accused militant is taken into custody in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack

The Justice Department says a key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, has been taken into custody and will be prosecuted in Washington in connection with the rampage that killed four Americans and became a divisive political issue.

FILE - Former President Barack Obama talks with then President-elect Donald Trump as Melania Trump reads the funeral program before the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it

Read full article: Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it

President Donald Trump says he won't apologize for posting a racist video of the Obamas.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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The Latest: Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash

Read full article: The Latest: Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash

President Donald Trump’s social media post featuring a video about election conspiracy theories and a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle has been deleted.

Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, left, shakes hands with Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, prior a debate during the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Convention, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Georgetown, Texas. (Bob Daemmrich/Texas Tribune via AP, Pool)
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Her jabs go viral. He's known to quote the Bible. How social media is shaping a Texas Senate race

Read full article: Her jabs go viral. He's known to quote the Bible. How social media is shaping a Texas Senate race

Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are adept at creating digital media moments and collecting social media followers.

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump's aggressive tactics force a reckoning between local leaders and Washington

Read full article: Trump's aggressive tactics force a reckoning between local leaders and Washington

Local leaders across the U.S. describe an increasingly hostile relationship with Washington, driven by President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

FILE - Immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census in Washington, April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Census Bureau plans to use survey with a citizenship question in its test for 2030, alarming experts

Read full article: Census Bureau plans to use survey with a citizenship question in its test for 2030, alarming experts

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to use a survey form with a citizenship question for its 2030 census practice test.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, left, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey, enter a command vehicle as the FBI takes Fulton County 2020 Election ballots, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga., near Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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Republicans reject complaint about Gabbard as Democrats question time it took to see it

Read full article: Republicans reject complaint about Gabbard as Democrats question time it took to see it

The Republican lawmakers in charge of the House and Senate intelligence committees have rejected an anonymous complaint from last year alleging that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard withheld access to classified information for political reasons.