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The Latest: Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter 02/02/2026 11:34am • PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil, the legendary groundhog that lives in a tree stump in rural Pennsylvania, has issued the most highly anticipated weather forecast of the season: six more weeks of winter. The groundhog’s forecast was announced Monday by the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club How the Super Bowl halftime show evolved from pageantry to pop culture's biggest stage 02/02/2026 10:47am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Once upon a time, the Super Bowl halftime show belonged to marching bands and pageantry. But these days, it belongs to global pop stars, cinematic production and moments that ripple beyond the stadium. Over the years, the league’s brief intermission has transformed into one of A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells 02/02/2026 10:36am • STELLA, Wis. (AP) — Kristen Hanneman made a small decision in 2022 that would upend life for her entire town. State scientists were checking private drinking water wells across Wisconsin for a widely used family of harmful chemicals called PFAS. They mailed an offer to test the well outside her ti Takeaways from investigation into the toxic forever chemical legacy of the South’s carpet industry 02/02/2026 10:02am • A major investigative collaboration among five newsrooms shows how chemicals used to make carpets stain-resistant have contaminated swaths of the South. In the mills of northwest Georgia, workers treated carpets with these chemicals starting in the 1970s. Carried in manufacturing wastewater, the che A mix of hope and fear settles over Venezuela after US-imposed government change 02/02/2026 09:57am • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Time in Venezuela feels like it’s moving both too fast and too slow. The pillars of the country’s self-proclaimed socialist government are falling at a dizzying pace or not quickly enough. Economic relief is finally on the horizon or already too late. Thirty days afte What to know after a deadly landslide in eastern Congo kills at least 200 miners 02/02/2026 09:13am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A landslide last week collapsed several tunnels at a major coltan mine in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead in the rebel-controlled site. The collapse occurred on Wednesday at the Rubaya mines, controlled by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, after heavy rains caused What to know about Groundhog Day traditions and Punxsutawney Phil 02/02/2026 08:07am • The handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil at Gobbler's Knob in western Pennsylvania announced that he saw his own shadow Monday morning, thereby predicting six more weeks of winter and not an early spring. Thousands attended the annual event that exploded in popularity after the 1993 Bill Balloons from Belarus cross into Polish airspace for a third night 02/02/2026 07:00am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus have been reported crossing into Polish airspace for a third night in a row. Polish authorities on Monday said the “hybrid incidents” were part of the threat to the country's eastern border posed by Russia's ally Belarus. Spurs win in return home to San Antonio delayed by snow, mechanical issues 02/02/2026 01:57am • SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The long, strange trip the San Antonio Spurs faced to get home from the East Coast was tiring and, at times, scary, but it turned out to be well worth the journey. San Antonio defeated the Orlando Magic 112-103 on Sunday night in a game that started five hours late after the Spu The Latest: Bad Bunny makes Grammy Awards history with album of the year win 02/01/2026 11:54pm • Bad Bunny’s “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” became the first all-Spanish-language album to win album of the year, while Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Dean were among the other winners at the 68th annual Grammy Awards. Bad Bunny also accepted the best música urbana album award for ‘Debí Tirar Más Fot 7 of the Best Emerging-Market Stocks to Buy Right Now 02/01/2026 07:00pm • For investors looking for growth stocks, emerging-market companies provide a unique opportunity. These regions tend to have lower labor costs, are home to younger populations and expanding middle classes, and see faster GDP growth than most developed nations as a result. That combination creates pow 7 of the Best High-Yield Bond Funds to Buy Now 02/01/2026 07:00pm • One notable trend across both mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is the growing prevalence of core-plus fixed-income strategies. These funds operate under a two-part mandate. The "core" sleeve is typically invested in diversified, investment-grade bonds designed to provide stability and c 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- Russian drones kill at least 12 in Dnipro as Zelenskyy says more Russia-Ukraine talks next week 02/01/2026 12:58pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro hit a bus carrying mineworkers and killed at least a dozen people, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the next round of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian del