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President Donald Trump announced he’s directing the Pentagon and other agencies to release files on UFOs and extraterrestrial life, citing strong public interest. The move follows remarks by former President Barack Obama suggesting the possibility of alien life. Trump said he may “get Obama out of trouble” by declassifying the information.
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Air Force One is getting a makeover — a red, white and blue paint style championed by President Donald Trump🇺🇸
The new design adds gold and dark blue accents and will be seen on other government jets in the Air Force fleet, too.
Boeing is in the process of modifying two of its 747-800 aircraft that are slated to replace the existing fleet of two aging Boeing 747-200 aircraft that the president currently uses and that take on the Air Force One call sign when the president is aboard.
In 2018, Trump directed that those new jets would ditch the iconic Kennedy-era blue-and-white design for a white-and-navy color scheme. An Air Force review had suggested the darker colors would increase costs and delay delivery of the new jumbo jets, so former President Joe Biden reversed the decision in March 2023.
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President Donald Trump wrote on social media Friday that he will soon make an "irrefutable" case to require voter identification for the 2026 midterm elections.
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!"
In a subsequent post, the president said that he would sign an executive order to implement ID requirements.
Any executive order setting federal rules on voting is likely to face swift legal challenges on constitutional grounds. Article I of the U.S. Constitution says that the states will control "Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections."
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Amazon's Ring has canceled its partnership with surveillance company Flock Safety as pushback builds against Ring's plans for an AI-driven camera network.
In October 2025, Ring began a partnership with Flock, which develops license plate readers and surveillance cameras. The companies planned to expand an existing Ring program called Community Requests, where Ring owners can "choose to share specific videos with local police in response to requests for help with active investigations." That expansion was never launched, the companies say.
And last week Ring debuted "Search Party" in a Super Bowl ad, pitching consumers on an AI system that would use opted-in Ring cameras to locate lost pets.
But public sentiment toward the proposed pet-searching program quickly soured. The Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that such biometric surveillance was ripe for abuse. Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) wrote a letter to Amazon, warning that the public was making it clear they opposed "Ring’s constant monitoring and invasive image recognition algorithms."
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The Trump administration this week began cuts to $600 million in funding used to track and prevent HIV and STDs in four Democrat-led states.
The Centers of Disease Control plans to suspend grants to local public health agencies, hospitals, NGOs and universities in California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota.
Cuts began the week of February 9 and are expected to continue over the next several weeks.
Historically, the groups used the money to study the spread of HIV and STDs, track outbreaks or offer pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Some funding cuts would also apply to groups that supported children's gender transition or provided social programs for LGBTQ+ adults.
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Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta's Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms.
The question of addiction is a key pillar of the case, where plaintiffs seek to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case, which TikTok and Snap have settled.
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A person has been detained in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, law enforcement sources tell CNN and ABC News.
The development follows a rapid sequence of events that played out on Tuesday.
Scripps News confirmed that a small amount of money was deposited into the bitcoin wallet identified in the original ransom note tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
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Scripps News has confirmed that a small amount of money has been deposited into the bitcoin wallet identified in the original ransom note tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
The source of the deposit is unknown, and because it is so small, it does not appear to be an attempt to pay the ransom, which was several million dollars.
The activity occurred hours after the FBI released images and video from a doorbell camera showing the person they believe may been involved in the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie.
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The Environmental Protection Agency this week plans to repeal a key legal finding and regulatory framework that currently says greenhouse gases are responsible for global warming and threats to human health.
"On Thursday, President Trump will be joined by Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday.
The Trump administration first proposed the rule change in July of 2025. It would repeal the EPA's current legal support for regulations on vehicles, energy generation and other sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
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