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Saturday, February 04, 2023 6:22 AM ET

World News

Second Chinese spy balloon spotted over Latin America

Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, scrapped a high-level trip to Beijing after a similar balloon was sighted over the US

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SF Gate

Dozens of soldiers freed in Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap

SF Gate - 15 minutes ago

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war have returned...

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BBC News

Tyre Nichols: Sixth police officer fired

BBC News - 24 minutes ago

Preston Hemphill violated multiple rules, including stun gun deployment regulations, police say.

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Channel NewsAsia

Billionaire Musk likely to 'double down' on tweets after court victory

Channel NewsAsia - 1 hour ago

Elon Musk may become even more emboldened in his Twitter use after a jury cleared the billionaire Tesla chief executive over his missive that he had "funding secured" to take his electric car company private. A San Francisco jury took just two hours to unanimously find the world's second-richest person not

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Politics News

Fox News

Jordan, Cruz shred Biden over suspected Chinese spy balloon by comparing him to past presidents: 'Weakness'

Fox News - 21 minutes ago

Rep. Jim Jordan said President Biden's inaction on the suspected Chinese spy balloon flies in the face of previous presidents, like Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy.

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SF Gate

Biden's State of the Union address to take aim at Silicon Valley

SF Gate - 9 hours ago

WASHINGTON - President Biden plans to call for tougher regulation of Silicon Valley in...

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Star Tribune

Ex-Prosecutor’s Book Details Struggle Over Indicting Trump On His Business Records

Huffington Post - 11 hours ago

“Once again, Donald Trump had managed to dance between the raindrops of accountability,” writes Mark Pomerantz.

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Tampa Bay Times

‘Biden economic plan is working,’ touts president amid blo

Washington Times - 19 hours ago

A defiant President Biden crowed Friday over “strikingly good news” in a jobs report that showed U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs in January.

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Business News

Times of India

Elon Musk cleared in trial over tweets about taking Tesla private | CBC News

CBC News - 26 minutes ago

A jury has cleared Elon Musk of wrongdoing for 2018 tweets in which he declared he had financing to take Tesla private.

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Gulf News

U.S. reports blowout job growth; unemployment rate lowest since 1969

Reuters - 12 hours ago

The jobs data pointed to a stubbornly tight labor market, and a potential headache for Federal Reserve officials as they fight inflation.

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Opinion | Here’s why virtual reality won’t be tech’s ‘next big thing’

Toronto Star - 29 minutes ago

Despite Big Tech’s infatuation with VR, writes Navneet Alang, recent weak demand for products shines a light on the main problem: it’s escapist, niche and misses what people actually want out of tech

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International Business Times

Samsung LED Settlement Worth $150 Million, Nanotech Firm Says

International Business Times - 15 hours ago

Samsung Electronics Co has agreed to pay $150 million to British nanotechnology company Nanoco Technologies to settle patent lawsuits over technology used in Samsung's LED televisions, Nanoco and an investor in its cases said Friday.

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Technology

NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency’s hiring spree

Washington Times - 12 hours ago

The National Security Agency is doggedly courting laid-off Big Tech workers as the spy agency undertakes one of its largest hiring surges in the last 30 years.

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One America News Network

U.S. jury finds Tesla and Musk not liable in case over take-private tweet

One America News Network - 31 minutes ago

(Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Friday found Tesla Inc and CEO Elon Musk not liable in a securities fraud case over a tweet that he had lined up funding to take the electric car

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Breitbart

Apple Earnings Disappoint as Executives Mention 'Challenging Economy' Seven Times

Breitbart - 17 hours ago

Tech giant Apple recently released its quarterly earnings report, with results falling short of analysts' predictions. There is no question where Apple places the blame for its lackluster earnings — during the earnings call, CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri mentioned a variation of the phrase "challenging economy" seven times.

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Sky News

Artificial intelligence: Google poised to unveil how it plans to take on ChatGPT

Sky News - 1 hour ago

The launch of ChatGPT from OpenAI appears to have kicked off an AI arms race, with Google and Microsoft seemingly leading the charge as tech giants look to change the way we engage with their products and services - including searching the web.

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Sports Headlines

Evening Standard

Evans beaten in Davis Cup opener as Great Britain get off to bad start

Evening Standard - 1 hour ago

Dan Evans suffered a shock defeat at the hands of world number 2 Nicolas Mejia as Great Britain’s attempts to return to the latter stages of the Davis Cup got off to a bad start in Colombia.

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Independent UK

Everton vs Arsenal LIVE: Latest Premier League updates

Independent UK - 11 minutes ago

Can Sean Dyche lead Everton to victory in his first match against the Premier League leaders?

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Sky News

Caddie for amateur golfer at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am collapses during the tournament: ‘It was especially jarring’

Chicago Tribune - 5 hours ago

The caddie for an amateur in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am collapsed on the course Friday, and CPR was performed on him until an ambulance arrived.

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Daily Mail

Chelsea's big money signings debut in Fulham stalemate

First Post - 6 hours ago

Graham Potter's Chelsea sit ninth in the Premier League table, still nine points adrift of the Champions League places.

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Entertainment News

National Post

Review | Issues of race, class, IVF propel writer Charlene Carr’s Nova Scotia-based thriller ‘Hold My Girl’

Toronto Star - 14 hours ago

Carr’s tenth novel is a tug-of-war family drama where many of the relationships seem wobbly and almost poisonous

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BBC News

Grammy Awards: Domi & JD Beck on 'crazy' nomination

BBC News - 9 hours ago

Domi & JD Beck have been signed for less than a year but are up for two of the prestigious awards.

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Huffington Post

Fashion Designer Paco Rabanne Dies At Age 88

Huffington Post - 3 minutes ago

The Spanish-born designer was known for perfumes sold worldwide but made his name with metallic space-age fashions that put a bold, new edge on catwalks.

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UPI

What to stream this weekend: 'Grammys,' 'Harlem' S2, 'Dear Edward' - UPI.com

UPI - 14 hours ago

"Harlem" Season 2, "Dear Edward," "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," "Murder in Big Horn,'" "Killing County" and The Grammys are some of the entertainment options streaming this weekend.

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Odd/Weird News

UPI

Watch: Video captures scene as boulder crashes through house in Hawaii - UPI.com

UPI - 12 hours ago

Authorities in Honolulu are looking into a surreal incident in which a boulder smashed through the living room of new suburban home, narrowly missing the family who had only recently moved in.

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