President Donald Trump’s administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AP) - Sharp drops hit Wall Street as technology stocks sank even more and bitcoin's price plunged again to roughly half its record set in the fall. The S&P 500 fell 1.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.2%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.6%. Bitcoin fell below $65,000, while gold and silver prices resumed their sharp slides.
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2026. There are 330 days left in the year. Today in history: On Feb. 4, 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, California, found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, ordering Simpson to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ families.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Iran in a wide-ranging call as the U.S. administration pushes Beijing and others to further isolate Tehran. Trump said the two leaders also discussed a broad range of other critical issues in the U.S.-China relationship.
The last remaining nuclear arms pact between Russia and the United States is set to expire Thursday, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says it would be “up to the president” whether or not to sue Kevin Warsh, if he fails to lower interest rates. During remarks at a private black-tie dinner of the elite Alfalfa Club on Saturday night, Trump said he might sue his newly selected Fed chair nominee if he didn’t lower interest rates.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says history is on his side. He wants to build a towering arch near the Lincoln Memorial and argues that the nation’s capital first clamored for such a monument two centuries ago – even going so far as to erect four eagle statues as part of the project before being derailed by the attack on Fort Sumter.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Envoys from Moscow and Kyiv met in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday for another round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending the almost four-year war, as a Russian attack using cluster munitions killed seven people at a market in Ukraine.
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