Hello. Today we have a deep dive into emerging divisions in the MAGA movement that pose a risk for Republicans' control of Congress in the midterms.
Rubio is striking a warmer tone as he heads to a global security summit in Munich, after Vance attacked European allies at the same gathering last year.
Plus, an uninhabited island of granite is the source of curling stones for the Winter Olympics. Here's how they are made. |
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Candidates for Georgia's 14th Congressional District participate in a political forum in Kennesaw. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer |
- Donald Trump may have expected his endorsement of a local prosecutor in the race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene to clear the Republican field. Instead, more than a dozen Republicans are still competing, turning this deeply conservative corner of Georgia into an election-year test of Trump's hold on his Make America Great Again movement.
- An Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of television journalist Savannah Guthrie's mother, impairing its ability to assist in the probe, a US law enforcement official told Reuters.
- Trump's administration announced the repeal of a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, and eliminated federal tailpipe emissions standards for cars and trucks, in a sweeping climate change policy rollback.
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump's administrator of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, emailed an invitation to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein, Justice Department documents show.
- Just weeks after a dramatic purge of China's top general, the CIA is moving to capitalize on any resulting discord with a new public video targeting potential informants in the Chinese military.
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- Bangladesh's opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party won a landslide parliamentary election, returning to power after nearly two decades and positioning party leader Tarique Rahman to become prime minister as the country emerges from months of unrest.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned transatlantic ties faced a "defining moment" in a rapidly changing world but struck a warmer tone ahead of the Munich Security Conference. Sabine Siebold joins the Reuters World News podcast with a look at what to expect.
- Thailand's Bhumjaithai Party, which won Sunday's general election by a wide margin, will be joined by the third-place Pheu Thai party to form a coalition government, Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said.
- The British government's ban on pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is unlawful, London's High Court ruled after a legal challenge by the group's co-founder.
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- Global shares retreated from record highs ahead of key US inflation data, while worries about shrinking margins for major tech companies and AI disruption fears simmered beneath the surface after a week of selling.
- Indian IT shares were headed for their worst week since March 2020, losing about $50 billion in market value.
- Anthropic has raised $30 billion in its latest funding round, more than doubling the Claude chatbot maker's valuation to $380 billion and underscoring massive investor interest in the startup and the broader AI industry.
- OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation's leading AI companies to replicate models and use them for its own training, a memo seen by Reuters showed.
- Applied Materials forecast second-quarter revenue and profit above market estimates, betting on a boom in demand for AI processors and a worldwide memory shortage to help drive sales of its chipmaking equipment.
- ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell Shanghai Moonton Technology, the studio behind the popular mobile game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group in a deal valued at between $6 billion and $7 billion, sources said.
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- Much of Asia will be off to celebrate the Lunar New Year as the year of the fire horse begins, a rare combination said to pair elements of energy with volatility.
- Fresh off hitting $1 trillion in market cap, Walmart will post quarterly results that offer a glimpse into consumer spending in the wake of mixed signals from US economic data.
- Europe's four largest mining companies - Rio Tinto, Glencore, Anglo American and Antofagasta - are reporting earnings, at a time when some of the metals they mine have scaled new price peaks.
- UK labor market data and inflation readings will provide fresh fodder for markets, even though investors are still digesting the fallout from the recent instability at the heart of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government.
- Bank Indonesia's policy meeting will be closely watched by investors after MSCI threatened a downgrade to frontier market status last month, triggering a $80 billion wipeout - the country's worst rout since the Asian financial crisis in 1998.
- Here's all you need to know about the coming week in financial markets.
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While the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games embrace cutting‑edge sporting technology, the equipment for one event remains rooted in tradition. Curling stones are still carved from ancient Scottish rock and shaped much as they were half a century ago. |
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Members of the opening committee perform during a dress rehearsal for the traditional Opera Ball in Vienna. REUTERS/Lisa Leutner |
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