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Disney earnings preview: Parks likely to struggle amid hurricanes as investors eye streaming momentum
Disney will report quarterly results before the bell on Wednesday.
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RFK Jr. 'tempered' his stance on vaccines in private discussions, Pfizer CEO says
Pfizer CEO has met with the new administration and believes Trump and RFK Jr. are going to be net positives for the health sector.
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Congo calls rebels' ceasefire declaration 'false communication' as reports of fighting continue
Congo's government on Tuesday described the unilateral ceasefire declared by Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo as “false communication,” while the United Nations noted reports of heavy fighting with Congolese forces in the region. The M23 rebels on Monday announced the ceasefire on humanitarian grounds after pleas for the safe passage of aid and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
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Ohio governor orders state employees back to in-office work 5 days a week starting in March
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered state employees back to their offices full-time starting next month. In an executive order issued Tuesday, DeWine required all permanent employees of state agencies, boards and commissions to resume five-day, in-office work weeks no later than March 17. Both are in the best interests of Ohio citizens, he wrote.
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White House preparing executive order to abolish the Department of Education
The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.
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Trump says he's given advisers instructions for Iran to be 'obliterated' if it assassinates him
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him. “If they did that they would be obliterated,” Trump said in an exchange with reporters while signing an executive order calling for the U.S. government to impose maximum pressure on Tehran. "I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left.”
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Judge says Elon Musk's claims of harm from OpenAI are a 'stretch' but welcomes possible trial
Elon Musk's lawyers faced off with OpenAI in court Tuesday as a federal judge weighed the billionaire's request for a court order that would block the ChatGPT maker from converting itself to a for-profit company. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said it was a “stretch” for Musk to claim he will be irreparably harmed if she doesn't intervene to stop OpenAI from moving forward with its transition from a nonprofit research laboratory to a for-profit corporation. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company last year, first in a California state court and later in federal court, alleging it had betrayed its founding aims as a nonprofit research lab benefiting the public good.
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US health secretary nominee RFK Jr passes crunch Senate vote
US President Donald Trump's embattled health secretary pick, vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr, squeaked through a crucial vote in his confirmation bid on Tuesday as senators advanced his nomination to the floor. The Senate confirmed former congressman Doug Collins -- no relation of the senator -- as secretary of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday, a day after approving fracking executive Chris Wright to lead the Energy Department.
AFP
'Rare earths' for aid: Ukraine's minerals threatened by war
US President Donald Trump has signalled he could trade aid to Kyiv in its fight against Russia's invasion for access to Ukraine's "rare earth" metals, key elements used in electronics.- 'Critical' materials - Trump said on Monday he wanted to negotiate an agreement in which Kyiv guarantees supplies of the specific category of rare earth metals.
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FBI agents sue to stop Justice Department from compiling past work on Jan. 6 investigation
In a class action suit filed on Tuesday, the agents said the information will be used to retaliate against them through firings or other actions.
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Jewish population in West Bank keeps rising. Settlers hope Trump will accelerate growth
The Jewish population in the West Bank grew at twice the rate of the general Israeli population last year, according to an advocacy group that hopes the Trump administration will support policies that help accelerate the growth of settlements in the occupied territory. The West Bank's Jewish-settler population rose by roughly 2.3% — over 12,000 people — last year, reaching 529,450, according to a report by WestBankJewishPopulationStats.com, based on official government figures. The number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank could grow “much higher” under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, Baruch Gordon, the director of the group that publishes the data, said Tuesday.
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Senate panel advances RFK Jr.'s nomination to be health secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cleared a key hurdle Tuesday after a Senate panel voted to advance his nomination to be health and human services secretary to the full chamber.
Reuters
US Congress to form cryptocurrency working group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative French Hill, a Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, said on Tuesday lawmakers from both chambers of congress would form a working group to develop policy favoring development of digital assets. New legislation will deliver "clarity for a regulatory framework," Hill said at a Capitol Hill news conference, joined by White House crypto and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks as well as other lawmakers.
AFP
FBI agents sue over gathering of info on employees who probed Capitol riot
Nine FBI agents sued the US Justice Department on Tuesday seeking to block its efforts to collect information on agents involved in investigating President Donald Trump and the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot by his supporters.In their complaint, the FBI agents said the effort to collect information on employees who participated in the Capitol riot investigation was part of a "purge" orchestrated by Trump as "politically motivated retribution."
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Migrant flight heads to Guantanamo Bay as legal questions swirl around Trump plans
As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the unprecedented step of flying migrants from the US southern border to the facility, according to two US officials and a person familiar with the planning.
Time
The Minor Events That May Have Sparked a Major Tragedy
An aerospace expert explains what we still don’t know about the D.C. plane crash.
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FBI seeking info on Iranian intel officers accused in Robert Levinson abduction
The FBI issued seeking information posters for two Iranian intelligence officers believed to be responsible for the 2007 abduction of Robert Levinson.
Associated Press
Lawsuit accuses University of California of racial discrimination in admissions
A lawsuit filed this week accuses the University of California of racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Latino students over Asian American and white applicants. A group called Students Against Racial Discrimination sued Monday in federal court, alleging the university system admits students with inferior academic credentials at the expense of better-qualified ones. The complaint claims UC's admissions practices violate a state law approved by voters in 1996 that forbids considering race and other factors in public education, public employment and public contracting.
AFP
Trump ally known for racist comments gets top State Dept job
A former Donald Trump aide who once called for "competent white men" to be "in charge" and spread conspiracy theories about the 2021 US Capitol assault has been given a top State Department post, an official said.Reports of his latest appointment have sparked outrage among many, particularly over an October 4, 2024 post on X, in which he wrote: "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.
Reuters
US military trying to remove transgender service members, legal filing says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has started taking steps to remove at least one transgender service member and is turning away transgender applicants looking to join the military, an emergency legal filing that seeks a temporary restraining order said on Tuesday. Trump signed an executive order last week that took aim at transgender troops. It included a line saying that a man identifying as a woman was "not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."

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