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Before Obama or Harris, Shirley Chisholm charted the course 02/02/2026 11:33am • There was a time when lawmakers with opposing views would reach across party lines and work together to find solutions to shared concerns. In today’s climate, that almost sounds like a fairytale. But it did happen. Shirley Chisholm was able to find a compromise with George Wallace that became 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 What to know after a deadly landslide in eastern Congo kills at least 200 miners 02/02/2026 09:13am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A landslide last week collapsed several tunnels at a major coltan mine in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead in the rebel-controlled site. The collapse occurred on Wednesday at the Rubaya mines, controlled by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, after heavy rains caused From Elon Musk to the former Prince Andrew, a who’s who of powerful people named in Epstein files 02/01/2026 10:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. All have denied having anything to do wi Mexico's Sheinbaum pledges to send humanitarian aid to Cuba 02/01/2026 05:30pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Sunday she plans to send humanitarian aid to Cuba this week, including food and other humanitarian aid. Sheinbaum's comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump said he asked the Mexican leader to suspend oil shipments to the Car 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 Athletes bring Milan Olympic Village to life, complete with Italian bidets and 4-story US banners 02/01/2026 11:42am • MILAN (AP) — The Milan Olympic Village was coming alive on Sunday as athletes laden with gear rolled into a brand-new complex where they will sleep, eat meals, work out and mix with other competitors for the next three weeks. Members of Team Canada were doing security with their suitcases from Ca Bone‑chilling winds rip through DC area Sunday 02/01/2026 06:52am • Count on strong winds across the D.C. area Sunday as a nor’easter moves along the East Coast. 7News First Alert Meteorologist Jordan Evans said northerly wind gusts could top 40 mph, creating dangerously low wind chills. There's a cold weather advisory for the D.C. area until 8 a.m. Monday m Besieged by gang violence, Palestinian citizens in Israel demand more security 02/01/2026 06:09am • KAFR YASIF, Israel (AP) — Nabil Safiya had taken a break from studying for a biology exam to meet a cousin at a pizza parlor when a gunman on a motorcycle rode past and fired, killing the 15-year-old as he sat in a black Renault. The shooting — which police later said was a case of mistaken iden In Minneapolis, all-encompassing immigration story tests a newsroom in midst of digital transition 02/01/2026 12:01am • With the eyes of a nation fixed on the unrest in Minneapolis, the events haven't left local journalists overmatched. Over the past month, the Minnesota Star Tribune has broken stories, including the identity of the immigration enforcement officer who shot Renee Good, and produced a variety of inform Blast in Iran port city kills 1, wounds 14 before Strait of Hormuz naval drill watched by US 01/31/2026 11:07pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An explosion tore through an apartment building Saturday in Iran 's port city of Bandar Abbas, killing a 4-year-old girl as local media footage purportedly showed a security force member being carried out by rescuers. The blast happened a day before a planned nav Coast Guard suspends search for people missing from fishing vessel that sank off Massachusetts 01/31/2026 03:36pm • GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday suspended the search for seven people who were aboard a commercial fishing vessel that sank off the coast of Massachusetts in rough, frigid waters. The Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission early Friday after receiving an alert f Spain offers hundreds of thousands of immigrants a way to stay legally. But who are they? 01/31/2026 10:54am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — More than half a million immigrants are believed to live in Spain without legal permission. They work jobs that few Spaniards want: picking fruits and vegetables in the fields, caring for children and the elderly, cleaning homes and hotel rooms. Some wind up homeless. The â Bitter cold grips DC region this weekend but a freeze reprieve is coming 01/31/2026 09:29am • The Arctic air of the past week will not be budging over the weekend as more cold weather advisories are issued for the D.C. region. The National Weather Service said the powerful blast of cold will bring dangerously cold, record low temperatures to the mid-Atlantic area Saturday and Sunday. B As officials disparage Pretti and Good, families of Black people killed by police have déjà vu 01/31/2026 09:00am • The shooting deaths of white protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis followed a playbook that is painfully familiar to Black Americans: Authorities quickly moved to disparage the victims, only to be contradicted as more evidence emerged. Black families who have lost