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The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/08/2026 12:58pm • 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 FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn���t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show 02/08/2026 11:43am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein���s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world���s most influential people. But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused Takeaways from what the Epstein files show about the FBI investigation of possible sex trafficking 02/08/2026 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The FBI collected ample proof that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls but found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows. Videos and photos seized Styling hair and robbing banks: The life lessons of K.J. Hughes' parents 02/08/2026 06:06am • Entrepreneurship runs through K.J. Hughes' veins.�� While Hughes has a MBA from the University of Maryland���s Robert H. Smith School of Business, he was making good money from an early age. At 15, he started hosting basement parties at his friend's house while his mom was out of town, which wou Relationship experts and couples say romance doesn't need grand gestures to thrive 02/08/2026 01:01am • Doing something romantic for Valentine's Day does not need to involve a heart-shaped box of chocolates, roses or an atypically expensive dinner, according to relationship experts. In fact, therapists encourage couples craving intimacy and a deeper connection to focus less on grand gestures and more Man drives car into pedestrians at grocery store in California mountain town, injuring 4 02/07/2026 09:57pm • TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) ��� A vehicle plowed into and injured pedestrians at the entrance of a grocery store in a scenic California mountain town Saturday, police reported. Four people, including some children, were hurt when the 49-year-old man drove into the front of the Truckee Safeway in the after Drone attack by paramilitary group in Sudan kills 24, including 8 children, doctors' group says 02/07/2026 03:54pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� A drone attack by a notorious paramilitary group hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors��� group said, a day after a World Food Program aid convoy was targeted. Saturday's attack by the Ra She filmed Iran's violent crackdown on protesters. Now she is afraid to go outside 02/07/2026 11:40am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� As tear gas canisters landed among protesters filling the wide boulevard, the 37-year-old beautician and her friends ran for cover. They sheltered among trees, concealed in darkness pierced only by the glow of streetlights and small fires behind them in the western Iranian city of Ka House panel advances bills limiting ICE activity in Virginia 02/07/2026 10:07am • A Democratic House subcommittee early Friday morning advanced a broad slate of bills aimed at tightening how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can operate in Virginia. Lawmakers and supporters say the package of proposals is designed to protect access to courts, schools, polling places and Early fall dents Diggins��� medal bid but not her optimism in opening race at Milan Cortina 02/07/2026 09:37am • TESERO, Italy (AP) ��� Jessie Diggins isn���t about to abandon her optimism despite a disappointing start to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. An early fall knocked the American star out of medal contention in Saturday���s opening women���s 20-kilometer skiathlon, but Diggins said the setback did l Meet the quartet of US Olympic figure skaters whose parents were ex-Soviet skating superstars 02/07/2026 07:54am • One would think that given all the success Marina Klimova enjoyed in high-stakes, international figure skating with her husband and pairs partner, Sergei Ponomarenko, she would have no trouble watching her son when he takes the ice. The couple won three world championships, after all. An Olympic med Olympics opening ceremony in Milan was lacking snow, but tiny winter wonderland was on its sidelines 02/07/2026 07:35am • MILAN (AP) ��� The Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan on Friday offered a bonanza of highlights: the lighting of a Leonardo da Vinci-inspired cauldron, athletes in eye-popping attire from top designers, Mariah Carey belting out high notes in Italian and much more. One key thing it didn't prov Savannah Guthrie's mother may have been kidnapped. How does law enforcement handle negotiations? 02/07/2026 12:00am • Experts say abductions for ransom are rare, despite the prevalence of dramatic hostage crises on television. But the apparent kidnapping of ���Today��� show host Savannah Guthrie���s mother has raised questions about how law enforcement handles hostage negotiations in real life, and the risks of med 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 Judge orders return of 3 deported families protected by family separation settlement 02/06/2026 11:57pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� A judge says the federal government must return three families hurt by the first Trump administration's policy of separating parents from the children at the border, saying their deportations in recent months relied on ���lies, deception and coercion." The order, issued Thursday,