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The 68th annual Grammy Awards celebrated the past year in music on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2026, filling Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena with artists spanning pop, hip-hop, country and Latin genres. During the three-hour telecast and an earlier ceremony, the Recording Academy named winners in more than 90 categories, with the largest spotlight on the four general-field […]
San Francisco — Moltbook, a week-old social network designed exclusively for artificial intelligence agents, is drawing both admiration and skepticism across the technology community. Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk described the platform as evidence of “the very early stages of singularity,” while critics question whether the site is showcasing genuine machine autonomy or […]
Perth, Australia – Forrestania Resources has reached binding agreements to purchase three Aurumin subsidiaries from Newcam Minerals, a transaction that will deliver complete ownership of the Mt Palmer gold project in Western Australia and expand the company’s tenure across the nearby Johnson Range and Mt Dimer areas. Under the terms announced on 2 February 2026, […]
Questions about potential conflicts of interest are mounting in Washington after newly disclosed corporate records showed that a member of the United Arab Emirates’ royal family acquired a substantial stake in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency firm tied to President Donald Trump’s family business interests, just days before the president returned to office in January […]
Nvidia shares edged lower in early U.S. trading on Monday after fresh doubts surfaced around the company’s previously announced plan to channel as much as $100 billion into OpenAI. The move followed a report indicating that the ambitious investment and infrastructure agreement, unveiled last September, has yet to be formalized. Market reaction By 11:18 a.m. […]
The U.S. manufacturing sector recorded unexpected growth at the start of the year, ending a lengthy period of contraction that had weighed on investor sentiment. The Institute for Supply Management’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) advanced to 52.6 in January, according to data released Monday. The result contrasts sharply with December’s 47.9 reading and surpasses the […]
Authorities in southern Arizona are looking for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of television journalist Savannah Guthrie, after family members reported her missing over the weekend. Detectives with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department have processed the older woman’s residence in the Catalina Foothills and now regard the house as an active crime scene. Last Known […]
Walt Disney Co. is approaching a pivotal leadership transition with financial tailwinds at its back. During Monday’s fiscal first-quarter earnings call, the company detailed performance that exceeded analyst forecasts and emphasized operational improvements achieved since Bob Iger resumed the chief executive post in late 2022. Directors are expected to meet this week to choose Iger’s […]
The landscape for investors focused on rare earths and other critical minerals shifted again after a report released Monday indicated that the United States government could create a dedicated stockpile of these materials. The possibility of federal purchases has attracted renewed attention to MP Materials Corp., one of the few domestic producers in the sector, […]
One Gwinnett County police officer was fatally shot and another was seriously wounded Sunday morning during an exchange of gunfire inside a hotel room near Stone Mountain, roughly 25 miles northeast of Atlanta. The suspect, identified by investigators as 35-year-old Kevin Andrews of Decatur, was also struck by police fire and is receiving medical treatment. […]
New York — Chinese-language money laundering networks transferred roughly $16.1 billion in illicit funds through cryptocurrency channels in 2025, according to a study released Tuesday by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The figure represents close to 20 percent of the global illicit-crypto market, which the report valued at just over $82 billion for the year. Scale […]
GeoPark Limited has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Frontera Energy’s oil and gas exploration and production portfolio in Colombia, strengthening the buyer’s position in one of Latin America’s most active hydrocarbon provinces. The deal, announced on January 29, 2026, assigns a cash value of $375 million to the assets, with an additional $25 million payable if specified […]