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UK police search two properties linked to Peter Mandelson as part of Epstein probe 02/06/2026 12:15pm • LONDON (AP) ��� British police on Friday searched two properties linked to ex-ambassador Peter Mandelson as part of a probe into potential misconduct stemming from his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Hayley Sewart said that ���officers from the Met Savannah Guthrie's demand for mom's 'proof of life' is complicated in this era of AI and deepfakes 02/06/2026 12:08pm • When Savannah Guthrie made a heart-wrenching plea to the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother to send ���proof of life,��� she addressed the possibility of people creating deepfakes. "We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated,��� she said. Before artificial intelligence tools EU commission proposes further sanctions on Russian oil trade and financial services 02/06/2026 11:28am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The European Union's executive arm proposed further sanctions against Russia on Friday over the Ukraine war, including a ban on shipping services that help Moscow's oil industry and measures targeting the country���s financial services and trade sectors. European Commission Preside ESPN BET Promo Code WTOP Now Gets $1,000 Bonus on theScore Bet 02/06/2026 11:22am • As the New York Knicks prepare to visit the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena on Friday, February 06, 2026, prospective bettors can unlock significant value by using theScore Bet promo code WTOP. New theScore Bet customers can take advantage of a generous welcome offer on the app���which was f Her jabs go viral. He's known to quote the Bible. 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This will unlock Shutdown of Kenya's Koko biofuel firm wipes out clean cooking options 02/06/2026 08:34am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� It was designed to be as simple as buying airtime: a quick tap on the dispenser, a few shillings and a cooking canister refilled. Now, more than 3,000 Koko fuel supply points across Kenya sit idle, with no fuel and no clear answers for the households that relied on them. For FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs have created an economic miracle. The facts tell a different story 02/06/2026 08:34am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Looking back on the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump boasts that he has resurrected the American economy by imposing big import taxes on foreign products. He made his case in a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, chiding the paper and critics, in Trump's aggressive tactics force a reckoning between local leaders and Washington 02/06/2026 07:18am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Denver Mayor Mike Johnston regularly games out responses to threats like destructive tornadoes or hazardous waste leaks. He's added a new potential menace: the federal government. When President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to some U.S. cities last year over the ob Takeaways from AP's report on a woman whose body was among 189 left to decay in a funeral home 02/06/2026 05:47am • COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) ��� A Colorado funeral home owner will be sentenced Friday for stashing nearly 200 decaying human bodies in an office building over four years. One of the bodies was the mother of Derrick Johnson. The 45-year-old learned from the FBI that the ashes he had buried behind h Idaho visits Williams and Montana 02/06/2026 04:43am • Idaho Vandals (13-10, 5-5 Big Sky) at Montana Grizzlies (13-11, 7-4 Big Sky) Missoula, Montana; Saturday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Montana takes on Idaho after Money Williams scored 25 points in Montana's 82-74 loss to the Eastern Washington Eagles. The Grizzlies are 8-5 in home games. Montana ranks Cash-strapped Lebanon finds itself sitting on a gold mine, as precious metal prices surge 02/06/2026 03:41am • BOURJ HAMMOUD, Lebanon (AP) ��� Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether it can use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at gold as a way to protect their battered assets. Lebanon���s econom Huie's 15 lead Eastern Washington past Montana 82-74 02/05/2026 11:43pm • MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) ��� Kiree Huie had 15 points in Eastern Washington's 82-74 victory over Montana on Thursday. Huie also added nine rebounds for the Eagles (6-17, 4-6 Big Sky Conference). Isaiah Moses added 13 points while shooting 4 for 12 (1 for 4 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free-th Argentina and US sign a major trade deal to slash tariffs and boost a political alliance 02/05/2026 10:44pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentina and the United States agreed Thursday to ease restrictions on each other's goods in an expansive trade deal that boosts a drive by President Javier Milei to open up Argentina���s protectionist economy and a push by the Trump administration to reduce food pr UK's Starmer didn't know Jeffrey Epstein. But the prime minister's job is under threat 02/05/2026 08:44pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein. But the British prime minister���s job is under threat because of the fallout from the late sex offender���s global web of relationships. Friendship with Epstein has already brought down a British royal ��� Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly