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Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate 02/05/2026 05:07pm • SANTA CRUZ DEL NORTE, Cuba (AP) — The smell of sulfur hits hard in this coastal town that produces petroleum and is home to one of Cuba’s largest thermoelectric plants. Yet, even as the plant cranks back to life, residents remain in the dark, surrounded by energy sources they cannot use. As tens Companies can now claim 'no artificial colors' if they add plant-based color to food 02/05/2026 01:22pm • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors. The agency announced Thursday that food labels may claim to have “no artificial colors” when they are free of petroleum-based dyes, even when they contai Vance says the Olympics are 'one of the few things' that unite Americans 02/05/2026 01:16pm • MILAN (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Milan with his family Thursday, telling U.S. athletes competing in the Milan Cortina Winter Games that the competition “is one of the few things that unites the entire country" before taking his family to see a hockey game. It's the first stop Boar's Head reopens Virginia deli meat plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak 02/05/2026 11:07am • The Boar’s Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly food-poisoning outbreak in 2024 is back in business, company officials said. The Jarratt, Virginia, site resumed limited operations on Monday, nearly 17 months after it was shut down following the listeria outbreak that killed 10 people and sicke Photos of Cubans getting by without power as outages persist and tensions with US escalate 02/05/2026 10:32am • SANTA CRUZ DEL NORTE, Cuba (AP) — Much of Cuba remains hit with constant power outages, stemming from aging infrastructure and fuel shortages at power plants. Uncertainty looms over potential aid from Russia or Mexico, after the U.S. attacked Venezuela, disrupting oil shipments. As families cope w Inside the toxic legacy of America’s multibillion-dollar carpet empire 02/05/2026 09:49am • DALTON, Ga. (AP) — Bob Shaw glared at the executives from the chemical giant 3M across the table from him. He held up a carpet sample and pointed at the logo for Scotchgard on the back. “That’s not a logo,” fumed Shaw, CEO of the world’s largest carpet company, one attendee later recalled. As winter comes, so does garbage. A river in Bosnia chokes in tons of waste year after year 02/05/2026 09:24am • VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Dejan Furtula sighed with despair while looking at construction machines working around the clock to remove tons of trash clogging the Drina River near his hometown of Visegrad, in eastern Bosnia. The environmental activist is frustrated because the problem is TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan in boost for its chipmaking ambitions 02/05/2026 05:41am • TOKYO (AP) — Taiwan’s chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it will be manufacturing some of the world's most cutting-edge semiconductors in Japan to meet booming artificial intelligence-related demand, in a boost for the country's chipmaking ambitions. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a major c This Smithsonian greenhouse contains obscure and exotic plants from around the world 02/05/2026 04:25am • It’s a 5,000-square-foot research greenhouse that scientists from all over the world come to study, filled with obscure and exotic plants you can’t find anywhere else on the planet — let alone in the D.C. region. In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we're wrapping up our exclusive Here's what international law says about striking energy facilities in war 02/04/2026 07:16pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russian missiles and drones have pounded Ukraine’s energy grid in recent weeks, plunging people into frozen darkness in one of the country’s coldest winters on record. Ukraine has accused Russia of illegally targeting power infrastructure during the war to deny ci Russia and Ukraine envoys meet in Abu Dhabi for 2 days of US-brokered talks 02/04/2026 11:40am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Envoys from Moscow and Kyiv met in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday for another round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending the almost four-year war, as a Russian attack using cluster munitions killed seven people at a market in Ukraine. The delegations from Moscow and Kyiv were joined in th Backyard vegetable gardens are healthy for people and the planet. Here's how to start yours 02/04/2026 09:01am • If you want healthy food, experts say to eat what's local, organic and in-season. Those foods benefit the planet too, because they are less taxing on the soil and they don't travel as far. It doesn't get more local, organic and in-season than a backyard vegetable garden. At this time of year, many b Kiefer honors forgotten female alchemists in war-scarred Milan ballroom with monumental exhibition 02/04/2026 03:54am • MILAN (AP) — German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer pays tribute to one of Milan’s most majestic yet melancholy spaces inside Palazzo Reale with the site-specific exhibition titled “The Women Alchemists,’’ previewed on Tuesday as part of the city’s cultural programming for the 2026 Win Mexico agrees to make more predictable water deliveries to the US 02/04/2026 12:41am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico and the United States said Tuesday that they had reached an agreement under which Mexico would send a minimum amount of water annually to the U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to raise tariffs by 5% on Mexican imports if it did not deliver more water. The countri Trial of ex-FirstEnergy executives charged in $60M Ohio bribery scheme begins 02/03/2026 08:13pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The $4.3 million payment that Ohio-based FirstEnergy made to veteran lawyer and lobbyist Sam Randazzo in 2019, shortly before he was appointed as the state’s top utility regulator, is at the center of the latest criminal trial to get underway in a sweeping $60 million bribe