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22 Legal Secrets to Help Reduce Your Taxes 02/01/2026 07:00pm • Taxes are inevitable, but most people would probably rather not hand over a portion of their hard-earned money to the government. Fortunately, there are plenty of legal ways to lower the amount you pay the taxman each year. These include credits, deductions and advanced investment strategies. Some t 'It's a big family': Amazon Fresh workers in Montgomery Co. say final goodbye 02/01/2026 06:13pm • A majority of Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go locations across country closed their doors for the final time Sunday. Amazon announced the closures on Tuesday, adding that the online outlet would focus on food delivery and its other grocery chain, Whole Foods. Amazon Fresh customers such as Sooyon a Johnson says no quick House vote to end partial shutdown and blames Democrats for their ICE demands 02/01/2026 03:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday it will be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote, all but ensuring the partial federal shutdown will drag into the week as Democrats and Republicans debate reining in the Trump administration's sweeping immigrati Right-wing influencers target Somali child care centers after viral Minneapolis video 02/01/2026 02:55pm • It all began after a viral video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis: strangers peering through windows, right-wing journalists showing up outside homes, influencers hurling false accusations. In San Diego, child care provider Samsam Khalif was shuttling kids to her home- Super Bowl week sightseeing and adventure goes well beyond football in the San Francisco Bay Area 02/01/2026 12:09pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Take a stroll down The Embarcadero on San Francisco's spectacular waterfront to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market for plentiful food options, people watching and souvenir shopping. Travel farther outside the city for renowned wine tasting or a breathtaking drive along the coastli A week after the snowstorm, neighbors help neighbors in DC 02/01/2026 09:09am • There were many in the D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood who not only lent a helping hand to their neighbors, they also brought tools. Mike Chaney, a native of Cleveland, said he's no stranger to snow. “This has been the worst. It's just the thickness, the hardness,” Chaney said. “We got to Bus crashes in wet conditions in southern Turkey, killing 9 02/01/2026 07:41am • ISTANBUL (AP) — A intercity bus rolled off a road in southern Turkey’s Antalya province on Sunday, killing nine people, a senior official said. Images on state broadcaster TRT showed the vehicle lying on its side on an embankment on a highway slip road in Dosemealti, a district to the northwest Besieged by gang violence, Palestinian citizens in Israel demand more security 02/01/2026 06:09am • KAFR YASIF, Israel (AP) — Nabil Safiya had taken a break from studying for a biology exam to meet a cousin at a pizza parlor when a gunman on a motorcycle rode past and fired, killing the 15-year-old as he sat in a black Renault. The shooting — which police later said was a case of mistaken iden NASCAR delays preseason race at Bowman Gray Stadium to Monday 01/31/2026 11:26am • WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR has postponed the preseason exhibition race at Bowman Gray Stadium until Monday night because of ice and snow blanketing the Winston-Salem area. The Clash was supposed to be a two-day event beginning Saturday, with the main event held Sunday evening. NASCAR late l As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu 01/31/2026 09:00am • The shooting deaths of white protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis followed a playbook that is painfully familiar to Black Americans: Authorities quickly moved to disparage the victims, only to be contradicted as more evidence emerged. Black families who have lost The Latest: Justice Department says it’s releasing 3 million pages from its Jeffrey Epstein files 01/30/2026 10:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday released many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures under a law intended to reveal what the government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with the ri From stilettos to safety concerns on Inauguration Day: 4 takeaways from Melania Trump's new movie 01/30/2026 09:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The new documentary “Melania” opens on a close-up of the trademark stilettos of first lady Melania Trump as she walks the halls of Mar-a-Lago, her Palm Beach home, in early January 2025, following her as she climbs into a dark SUV for the short drive to the airport and a flig Cubans scramble to survive as US vise on island tightens in push to oust government 01/30/2026 06:12pm • HAVANA (AP) — Cubans are hustling to become more self-sufficient as the U.S. government tightens its economic noose over the communist-run island in a move experts say is meant to force a popular uprising and usher in a new government. A sharp increase in U.S. sanctions was already suffocating Cub 'Never thought a meet would not pay:' Grand Slam Track bankruptcy takes a toll on struggling runners 01/30/2026 04:37pm • His name wasn't splashed across any of the headlines when Grand Slam Track — the running league that was supposed to infuse cash into the sport and its athletes' bank accounts — declared bankruptcy, making it official that dozens of runners and even more vendors might not see any of the money th Newsom files a civil rights complaint against Dr. Oz over allegations of hospice fraud 01/30/2026 03:27pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is demanding a civil rights investigation of Dr. Mehmet Oz, saying he discriminated against Armenians in a video claiming hospice fraud in Los Angeles, the latest front in the state’s ongoing battle with the Trump administration. The Dem