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Japanese-based Kirin announces deal to sell the Four Roses bourbon brand to wine giant Gallo 02/06/2026 02:02pm • Gallo signaled Friday that it sees wine and whiskey as a good mix for business. The wine giant said it plans to add a prominent Kentucky bourbon brand to its portfolio in a deal to purchase Four Roses Distillery from Japanese-based Kirin. The deal, valued at up to $775 million, is expected to close In unusual move, Republican chairman scrutinizes companies tied to husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar 02/06/2026 01:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Friday requested records related to firms partially owned by the husband of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, taking the extraordinary step of scrutinizing the spouse of a sitting House member. Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Repu Suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on Islamabad's outskirts kills at least 31 and wounds scores 02/06/2026 01:17pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others, officials said, a rare bombing in Pakistan's capital as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks 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 Virginia Democrats release long-awaited 10–1 congressional map 02/06/2026 12:39pm • After weeks of buildup and a missed self-imposed Jan. 30 deadline, Virginia Democrats on Thursday evening finally released their long-awaited revised congressional map, proposing an aggressive 10–1 configuration that would tilt 10 of the state’s 11 U.S. House districts toward their party. The The new season of 'Cross' is about corrupt billionaires. Aldis Hodge sees some parallels 02/06/2026 12:37pm • LONDON (AP) — Corrupt billionaires get their comeuppance in the new season of “Cross,” with Aldis Hodge returning as the detective and forensic psychologist working complex homicides in Washington, D.C. This series, which arrives Feb. 11 on Prime sees Cross investigating a violent vigilante ta Thousands of Libyans gather for the funeral of Gadhafi’s son who was shot and killed this week 02/06/2026 12:31pm • BANI WALID, Libya (AP) — Thousands converged in northwestern Libya for the funeral Friday of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed earlier this week when four masked assailants stormed into his home and fatally shot him. 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 US asks court to toss lawsuit alleging Army failed to stop Maine's deadliest mass shooting 02/06/2026 12:01pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. government wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from survivors and relatives of the victims of Maine's deadliest mass shooting, who say the Army failed them by not intervening before the killings. The families allege the government was negligent in failing to act on w Keke Palmer is a fish out of water in horror-comedy series based on cult movie 'The ’Burbs' 02/06/2026 11:22am • NEW YORK (AP) — The suburbs are anything but bland in the new Peacock series “The 'Burbs,” where strange things are going on. Like how jokes mix with the dread. Inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks-led movie of the same name, “The 'Burbs” follows a new mom as she navigates a foreign world of whi 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 After Epstein fallout, UK leader Starmer faces hurdles and rivals as he battles to keep his job 02/06/2026 11:21am • LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a battle to stay in post after the fallout from his decision in 2024 to appoint veteran politician Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite the latter's ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Starmer’s ju In a Nigerian village, extremists issued a call to prayer and then slaughtered those who turned up 02/06/2026 10:12am • WORO, Nigeria (AP) — Weeks after residents of two Nigerian villages ignored a letter from militants announcing they would come to spread their extreme form of Islam, gunmen arrived on motorbikes and embarked on a 10-hour frenzy of killing. The attackers went from door to door, shooting and setting The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/06/2026 09:43am • The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death’s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her. A lawyer for the fed Italy braces for Winter Olympics with high security and decree targeting violent protesters 02/06/2026 09:41am • MILAN (AP) — Italy has ramped up security ahead of the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics Friday, with thousands of agents protecting athletes, spectators and global leaders at locations spanning from Milan to the Dolomites. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Cabinet on Thursday ap