Alphabet and discouraging updates on the US job market hit Wall Street as bitcoin tumbles
NEW YORK (AP) — A sharp drop for Google's parent company is yanking the U. S. stock market lower on Thursday, while prices for bitcoin, silver and gold weaken. Yields are also sinking in the bond market following discouraging news on the U. S. job market. The S&P 500 fell 1. 2% and is heading toward its sixth loss in the seven days since it set an all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 606 points, or 1. 2%, as of 10:45 a. m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1. 5%...
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- The Gaza ceasefire began months ago. Heres why the fighting persists
Wed, 04 Feb 2026
- Taiwan-US ties are rock solid, the islands president says after Trump-Xi call
- ICE agents can't make warrantless arrests in Oregon unless there's a risk of escape, US judge rules
- Democrats demand 'dramatic changes' for ICE, including masks, cameras and judicial warrants
- Savannah Guthrie posts message to her mother's kidnapper asking to provide proof she is alive
- Washington Post cuts a third of its staff in a blow to a legendary news brand
- Epstein files rife with uncensored nudes and victims' names, despite redaction efforts
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- Iran and US agree to hold nuclear talks Friday in Oman as Trump delivers blunt warning to Khamenei
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- Curling opens competition at 2026 Winter Olympics as brief power outage pauses play, luge training
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- Israel strikes across Gaza, killing 24, and says militants attacked its soldiers
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- Wall Street loses ground as tech stocks sink again
- Trump and Xi discuss Iran in wide-ranging call as US presses China and others to break from Tehran
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- Judge set to hear arguments as court gives Trump another shot at nixing hush money conviction
- Penny the Doberman pinscher wins the 150th Westminster dog show
- China's Xi and Russia's Putin reinforce ties in video call
- Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible for blind people
- Women returning to Gaza say Israeli troops bound and interrogated them after Rafah crossing
Tue, 03 Feb 2026
- Son of late dictator Gadhafi is killed in Libya
- Defense objects to showing videos of Charlie Kirk's killing in murder case, claims bias
- Immigration agents draw guns and arrest activists following them in Minneapolis
- Jill Biden's first husband charged with killing wife in domestic dispute at their Delaware home
- Trump signs bill to end partial government shutdown, setting stage for next fight
- Judge: Deal reached to protect identities of Epstein victims in documents release
- Lawyers for patients of UCLA doctor say clients shaken by court overturning his sex abuse conviction
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- Russia bombards Ukraine with drones and missiles a day before planned peace talks
- Palestinians wait at border between Gaza and Egypt as uncertainty clouds reopening of Rafah crossing
- Trump demands $1 billion from Harvard as a prolonged standoff appears to deepen
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- Irans president seeks 'fair and equitable negotiations' with the United States
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- Intelligence director says Trump requested her presence at FBI search of Georgia election center
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- Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians
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- NASA hit by a fuel leak during a practice countdown of the moon rocket that will fly with astronauts
- Iran summons EU ambassadors to protest Revolutionary Guard being listed as a terror group
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- Arizona remains No. 1 in AP Top 25, Michigan jumps UConn for No. 2
- British politician Peter Mandelson faces pressure to quit House of Lords over Jeffrey Epstein ties
- 2-month-olds see the world in a more complex way than scientists thought, study suggests
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Sun, 01 Feb 2026
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- More frigid temperatures expected in much of US after a weekend of heavy snow
- Top Justice Department official plays down chance for charges arising from Epstein files revelations
- Gaza's crucial Rafah crossing prepares for limited travel to resume Monday
- Black History Month centennial channels angst over anti-DEI climate into education, free resources
- Texas stunner: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips Republican state Senate district Trump won by 17 points
- Johnson says no quick House vote to end partial shutdown and blames Democrats for their ICE demands
- Russian drones kill at least 12 in Dnipro as Zelenskyy says more Russia-Ukraine talks next week
- Iran's supreme leader warns any US attack would spark 'regional war'
- Melania, panned by some film critics, opens with strong ticket sales for a documentary
- Carlos Alcaraz beats Novak Djokovic to become the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam
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- Snow hits the Carolinas as low temps compound power outage woes elsewhere from last weekend's ice
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- Trump says feds won't intervene during protests in Democratic-led cities unless asked to do so
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- Judge says she wont halt the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota as a lawsuit proceeds
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- Elena Rybakina wins Australian Open by beating No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka for her 2nd Grand Slam title
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- Judge blocks additional citizenship provisions in latest setback to Trump's election executive order
- Journalist Don Lemon charged with federal civil rights crimes after covering anti-ICE church protest
- US stocks fall while a break in gold fever sends metals prices plunging
- Trump's choice of Warsh to lead Fed could reshape the world's most influential central bank
- The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights probe into the killing of Alex Pretti
- Israel reopening Gazas border crossing with Egypt on Sunday after long closure
- Panama Canal ports will keep operating after court finds concession unconstitutional, president says
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- Lindsey Vonn says 'Olympic dream is not over' after crashing in last downhill before Winter Games
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- The Latest: Congress scrambles to save bipartisan spending deal before Friday night deadline
- Towns once run by Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect emerge from court supervision transformed
- Venezuelas acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure investors
- Trump threatens tariffs on any country selling oil to Cuba, backing Mexico into a corner
Thu, 29 Jan 2026
- Trump says he will announce his Federal Reserve chair nominee on Friday morning
- Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over leaked tax info
- Democrats, White House strike spending deal that would avert government shutdown
- Trump threatens Canada with 50% tariff on aircraft sold in US, expanding trade war
- Man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Omar is charged with assaulting and intimidating her
- A man impersonating an FBI agent tried to get Luigi Mangione out of jail, authorities say
- Trump's border czar suggests a possible drawdown in Minnesota, but only after cooperation
- New cold snap adds urgency to winter storm recovery across the South
- EU lists Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organization over protest crackdown
- Israel returns Palestinian bodies, marking last exchange between Israel and Hamas
- Trump says Venezuelan airspace will reopen to commercial travel and Americans soon can visit
- Trump says he asked Putin not to target Kyiv for 1 week during brutal cold spell
- A former Illinois deputy is sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing Sonya Massey
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