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How to create a calming 'nature nook' with indoor plants. Advice from Hilton Carter 02/03/2026 05:59pm • Have you dreamed of creating a calm and cozy spot at home to relax and recharge, but don’t think you can spare the space? You don’t need a “man cave,” “she shed” or even a whole room to retreat to. Just one corner will do. One corner, warm lighting, a cozy chair and some plants, says in Russia bombards Ukraine with drones and missiles a day before planned peace talks 02/03/2026 05:50pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia carried out a major overnight attack on Ukraine in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday was a broken commitment to halt striking energy infrastructure as the countries prepared for more talks on ending Moscow’s 4-year-old full-scale invasion. The bombardmen Wildlife officials warn against feeding animals during cold weather 02/03/2026 05:14pm • If you're wondering whether you should feed the wild animals you see wandering over the icy snow in your yard, the answer is no. "Folks often feel a need to do something to support the wildlife," John Burke, natural resources branch manager with the Fairfax County Park Authority, told WTOP. " 'Monster's Paradise,' lampooning US President Donald Trump, has world premiere at Hamburg Opera 02/03/2026 02:35pm • HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Tobias Kratzer spoke in disbelief ahead of the world premiere of “Monster's Paradise” by Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, which features a gluttonous, ravenous, insatiable President-King, lampooning U.S. President Donald Trump. “The metaphor has become a reality,� Agave or bust! Mexican long-nosed bats head farther north in search of sweet nectar 02/03/2026 02:20pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Mexican long-nosed bats have a taste for agave, their tongues designed to lap up the famous desert plant's nectar during nightly flights. It's not just a means of satisfying taste buds. It's a matter of fueling up for an arduous journey. The endangered species migrates eac Dominion Energy, NOVA Parks reach agreement on tree cutting along W&OD Trail 02/03/2026 10:52am • Almost a year after Dominion Energy paused tree cutting along the Washington and Old Dominion Trail after complaints from counties and towns along the popular walking and biking path, Dominion Energy and NOVA Parks have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) about future vegetation managemen Seeking shelter from Trump's fury, U.S. trade partners reach deals with each other 02/03/2026 09:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Bullied and buffeted by President Donald Trump’s tariffs for the past year, America’s longstanding allies are desperately seeking ways to shield themselves from the president’s impulsive wrath. U.S. trade partners are cutting deals among themselves —- sometimes discarding Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom 02/03/2026 04:57am • BEIJING (AP) — Even as China's expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years — raising concern about whether the world's largest emitter will reduce carbon emissions enough to limit climate change. More than Where is Evo Morales? Bolivia's ex-leader vanishes from public view for nearly a month 02/03/2026 02:09am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The almost monthlong disappearance from public view of Bolivia’s towering socialist icon, ex-leader Evo Morales, shortly after the Jan. 3 U.S. seizure of his close ally former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is alarming his supporters, roiling his enemies and galvani Authorities believe 'Today' show host Savannah Guthrie's mother was taken against her will 02/02/2026 09:37pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities believe the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will, and the sheriff said Monday it’s imperative she’s found soon because she could die without her medication. Nancy Guthrie was la From southern India to Canada's far north: New archbishop serves Indigenous Catholics 02/02/2026 08:11pm • As a teenager in southern India, Susai Jesu led 4:30 a.m. prayer services in his small Catholic village before the farmers went into the fields. He directed the choir, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood. Little did he know that this dedication would take him halfway around the Southern US enters a second week of biting cold and prolonged outages 02/02/2026 05:21pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Four homes blasted by icy winds on an eroding North Carolina island collapsed into the ocean and Florida farmers anxiously waited for frozen plants to thaw Monday as people across the eastern half of the United States coped with more than a week of sub-freezing weather. Thermo 'Whose story does the evidence support?': Jury resumes deliberations in 'au pair affair' murders trial 02/02/2026 12:04pm • Jurors resumed deliberations Monday morning in the aggravated murders trial of Brendan Banfield, charged in the 2023 deaths of his wife, and another man, in his Herndon, Virginia, home. During the two week trial, Fairfax County prosecutors have argued that Banfield had an affair with the family' 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 Takeaways from investigation into the toxic forever chemical legacy of the South’s carpet industry 02/02/2026 10:02am • A major investigative collaboration among five newsrooms shows how chemicals used to make carpets stain-resistant have contaminated swaths of the South. In the mills of northwest Georgia, workers treated carpets with these chemicals starting in the 1970s. Carried in manufacturing wastewater, the che