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Robotaxi pioneer Waymo gets $16 billion injection to accelerate its expansion plans 02/02/2026 07:31pm • Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has raised another $16 billion to help fuel its ambition for its fleet of self-driving cars to provide rides throughout the world while other deep-pocketed rival services backed by Tesla and Amazon try to catch up. The fundraising announced Monday values Waymo at $126 billion. DC-area school districts respond to parents' criticism of snow days 02/02/2026 07:26pm • Frigid temperatures, slippery sidewalks and impassable roads caused by a winter storm last weekend forced several school systems in the D.C. area to close for a majority of the week, if not the entire week. Now, parents are wondering whether makeup days are coming and what the rest of the school Fairfax County case alleging school-assisted abortions now in federal court 02/02/2026 07:00pm • A legal challenge alleging that a Fairfax County Public Schools employee helped minors get abortions without their parents��� consent is now in federal court in a case that hinges on a First Amendment free speech claim. FCPS teacher Zenaida Perez, plaintiff in the case, is seeking to prove that s Father of 5-year-old detained in Minnesota disputes government assertion he abandoned the boy 02/02/2026 06:11pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� The father of a 5-year-old boy who was detained by immigration officers and held at a federal facility in Texas denied government accounts Monday that he abandoned his son last month while being pursued by authorities. As the pair returned to Minnesota, Adrian Conejo Arias, who School closures in the Southeast stretch into 2nd week after latest winter storm 02/02/2026 05:31pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� School systems across the Southeast are dealing with weather-related school closures for the second week in a row, leading some to try remote learning while many prepare to add more school days to make up for lost instructional time. A series of winter storms has left tens of Editorial Roundup: United States 02/02/2026 04:11pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ The Washington Post says Trump is focused on foreign policy while voters worry about cost of living President Donald Trump kicked off his midterm campaign travel this week with a bipolar economy: huge growth but plummeting consumer Olivia Dean wins best new artist at the 2026 Grammy Awards 02/02/2026 11:46am • Olivia Dean clinched the Grammy for best new artist Sunday in a milestone moment for the British pop singer-songwriter known for her soulful voice and timeless sound. Dean, who is part of a growing class of young U.K.-born vocalists, made waves last year with her romantic sophomore album ���The Art 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 Sierra Bancorp: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 02/02/2026 08:19am • PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� Sierra Bancorp (BSRR) on Monday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $12.9 million. The bank, based in Porterville, California, said it had earnings of 97 cents per share. The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four Takeaways from the AP's reporting on PFAS contamination of private drinking water wells 02/02/2026 07:50am • STELLA, Wis. (AP) ��� The roughly 40 million Americans who get their water from private wells are particularly vulnerable to harmful forever chemicals. These well owners are often the last to know their water is contaminated, and the problem can take years to fix. The federal government has set stri Mayor of Portland, Oregon, demands ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters 02/01/2026 07:00pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� The mayor of Portland, Oregon, demanded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators ��� including young children ��� outside an ICE facility during a weekend protest that he characterized as peacef Black History Month centennial channels angst over anti-DEI climate into education, free resources 02/01/2026 04:42pm • For academics, historians and activists, the past year has been tumultuous in advocating the teaching of Black history in the United States. Despite last year proclaiming February as National Black History Month, President Donald Trump started his second term by claiming some African American his 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- A week after the snowstorm, neighbors help neighbors in DC 02/01/2026 09:09am • There were many in the D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood who not only lent a helping hand to their neighbors, they also brought tools. Mike Chaney, a native of Cleveland, said he's no stranger to snow. ���This has been the worst. It's just the thickness, the hardness,��� Chaney said. ���We got to Mass evictions in Lagos displace thousands including baby twins now living in a canoe 02/01/2026 02:06am • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ��� Victor Ahansu was barely awake with his wife and baby twins before the grinding sound of bulldozers woke them. It was all the warning the family had, he said, before fleeing mass evictions in their historic community of Makoko in Lagos. Their house was demolished on Jan. 11,