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Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota 02/08/2026 12:08am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as utility workers he’d seen outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis. They wore high-visibility vests and spotless white hard hats, he noticed, even while parked in their vehicle. His Luke Skaljac has stepped in for an injured teammate to keep a perfect season going for Miami (Ohio) 02/07/2026 08:09pm • HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A perfect season could have gone sideways for No. 23 Miami (Ohio) after third-leading scorer Evan Ipsaro was lost with a season-ending injury. Luke Skaljac stepped in as starting point guard for the RedHawks. “Obviously, it was devastating to have Evan go down. He was my Trump praises Nexstar-Tegna broadcast television deal he once opposed 02/07/2026 06:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump endorsed Nexstar Media Group's $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna on Saturday, an apparent reversal from earlier criticism of the deal. “We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks,” Trump wrote on social What to know about Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping and the race to find her 02/07/2026 03:31pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — It's been a week since “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie 's mother disappeared from her home in Arizona in what authorities say was a kidnapping. Investigators have been examining ransom notes and looking for evidence but have not named a suspect. On Friday, officers ret Republicans rarely criticize Trump in his second term. A racist post briefly changed that 02/07/2026 02:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump received rare blowback from Republican lawmakers over a video posted to social media that included a racist image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, depicted as primates. Since Trump’s return to the White House, Republican lawm Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump's post on the Obamas shows a 'bigoted and racist regime' 02/07/2026 10:55am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever since a racist video was posted on President Donald Trump's social media account, the White House has offered shifting responses. First it dismissed “fake outrage," then it deleted the post and blamed a staff member. Trump later told reporters Friday that “I didn't make Spiritual ties of ousted Venezuelan President Maduro and successor include guru Sathya Sai Baba 02/07/2026 07:00am • Venezuela’s former President Nicolás Maduro and current acting President Delcy Rodríguez — both raised Catholic in an overwhelmingly Christian country — have a deep reverence for an Indian spiritual leader who died in 2011. Religious identity is complex in Venezuela, where it is common for p Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it 02/06/2026 11:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted Friday after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive. Trump said later Friday Colorado funeral home owner who abused nearly 200 corpses gets 40 years, decried as a 'monster' 02/06/2026 09:18pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 40 years in state prison Friday. During the sentencing hearing, family members told Judge Eric Bentley they have h A man whose mother was found among 189 decaying bodies tells the story 02/06/2026 08:58pm • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakalā Volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place looking over her grandchildren. Then the FBI called. It was Feb. 4, 2024, and Johns The Latest: Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash 02/06/2026 07:13pm • 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. The Republican president’s Thursday night post was deleted Friday and bl Bad Bunny look-alike contest in San Francisco draws hundreds of fans 02/06/2026 03:01pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Bad Bunny look-alike contest at a San Francisco restaurant snowballed into a street party after hundreds of fans of the global superstar showed up to cheer his doppelgangers and sing along to his music ahead of his Super Bowl halftime show this weekend. More than 30 contesta Savannah Guthrie's family renews plea to mother's kidnapper, while sheriff says they have no suspect 02/06/2026 01:07pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie's brother on Thursday renewed the family's plea for their mother's kidnapper to contact them, hours after an Arizona sheriff said investigators don't have proof Nancy Guthrie is alive but believe “she's still out there.” “Whoever is Her jabs go viral. He's known to quote the Bible. How social media is shaping a Texas Senate race 02/06/2026 10:52am • Jasmine Crockett's most-watched TikTok clip is a five-second interview outside the U.S. Capitol. Someone asks the Democratic congresswoman from Texas what she would tell billionaire Elon Musk, and Crockett replies with a vulgar, two-word phrase. It’s been viewed 20.7 million times. James Talarico� Summer Britcher does not think a corpse could win an Olympic luge race. But she loved the 'SNL' joke 02/06/2026 08:03am • CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Summer Britcher loved the joke. The USA Luge veteran, about to compete in her fourth Olympics, went viral last weekend — in the sliding community, anyway. Even better, it happened without Britcher actually doing anything for her newfound fame. Such is the power of