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After Epstein fallout, UK leader Starmer faces hurdles and rivals as he battles to keep his job 02/06/2026 11:21am • LONDON (AP) ��� British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a battle to stay in post after the fallout from his decision in 2024 to appoint veteran politician Peter Mandelson as the U.K. ambassador to the U.S. despite the latter's ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Starmer���s ju FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs have created an economic miracle. The facts tell a different story 02/06/2026 08:34am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Looking back on the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump boasts that he has resurrected the American economy by imposing big import taxes on foreign products. He made his case in a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, chiding the paper and critics, in Fear in Minnesota's Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination 02/06/2026 06:46am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched a crackdown in Minneapolis, a crisis was brewing. Measles vaccination rates among the state's large Somali community had plummeted, with the myth that the shot causes aut Antetokounmpo remains with Bucks as an extremely hectic NBA trade deadline passes 02/05/2026 11:13pm • Giannis Antetokounmpo remained with the Milwaukee Bucks while plenty of other players changed addresses as the NBA trade deadline passed Thursday. An extremely busy deadline, at that: There were 28 trades made in the week leading up to the deadline, the most that the NBA has seen in over that timefr Argentina and US sign a major trade deal to slash tariffs and boost a political alliance 02/05/2026 10:44pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentina and the United States agreed Thursday to ease restrictions on each other's goods in an expansive trade deal that boosts a drive by President Javier Milei to open up Argentina���s protectionist economy and a push by the Trump administration to reduce food pr After getting James Harden, Cavaliers aiming for deep playoff run 02/05/2026 09:02pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Even though the Cleveland Cavaliers have been playing their best basketball over the past three weeks, Koby Altman and the front office had concluded that they could not stand pat with their roster. Altman, the team's President of Basketball Operations, is hoping the addition of 1 UK's Starmer didn't know Jeffrey Epstein. But the prime minister's job is under threat 02/05/2026 08:44pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein. But the British prime minister���s job is under threat because of the fallout from the late sex offender���s global web of relationships. Friendship with Epstein has already brought down a British royal ��� Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly The Latest: Democrats demand ���dramatic changes��� for ICE 02/05/2026 07:38pm • Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are ���dramatic changes��� and ���real accountability��� for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Tru Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democrats' ICE demands 02/05/2026 06:26pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are ���unrealistic��� and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the Whit Mamdani endorses Hochul for reelection as New York governor 02/05/2026 11:00am • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul for reelection on Thursday, offering the moderate governor some progressive heft as she faces a challenge from her political left in her campaign for a second full term in office. In an op-ed in The Nation, Mamdani, Kindergarten readiness varies widely by income, new data shows. Cities are stepping in to help 02/05/2026 10:17am • SAN ANTONIO (AP) ��� Sandra Mosqueda watched with an amused smile as her 2-year-old son, Atreus, began sweeping the floor with a miniature mop. Atreus is part of the inaugural class of infants and toddlers receiving free preschool in a citywide program in San Antonio, Texas. It's something his mothe Israeli security service chief's brother is accused of smuggling cigarettes into Gaza 02/05/2026 10:07am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� An Israeli court on Thursday indicted a brother of the chief of Israel���s security service for smuggling tens of thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes into war-ravaged Gaza Strip at a time when getting aid into the territory was difficult and many Palestinians were going hungr Americans are struggling to save emergency funds, according to new report 02/05/2026 05:02am • Does it feel like an emergency expense, like a hospital visit or pricey car repair, will leave you in financial doldrums? You're not alone. A new Bankrate survey shows around half of Americans have less emergency savings than they have in credit card debt. The survey showed around 44% of respo US wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies to counter China 02/05/2026 03:34am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies and partners, using tariffs to maintain minimum prices and defend against China���s stranglehold on the key elements needed for everything from fighter jets to sm Hornets bringing Coby White back home to North Carolina in trade with Bulls, AP source says 02/04/2026 10:41pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ��� The Charlotte Hornets are bringing Coby White back home to North Carolina, where he is the state���s career high school scoring leader and played for the Tar Heels. The Hornets agreed to acquire White and Mike Conley Jr. from the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday in exchange for Co