Migrating species crucial to planet under threat, says UN (www.bbc.com)
More than 40 years ago many of the world’s nations signed an agreement to protect the world’s migrating species, known as the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)....
Republicans work to recruit female, minority candidates even as they criticize diversity programs (apnews.com)
Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, recently listed for reporters a slew of candidates that he described as fitting the “formula” for the GOP expanding their ranks in November....
US defense secretary Lloyd Austin transfers duties to deputy after being hospitalised (www.theguardian.com)
Biden’s top military adviser is receiving treatment for an ‘emergent bladder issue’, with deputy Kathleen Hicks taking over his duties...
American woman killed in apparent crossfire in a drug dispute at the Mexican beach resort of Tulum (apnews.com)
An American woman and a man from Belize have been killed in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum, officials confirmed Sunday....
Patrick Mahomes rallies the Chiefs to second straight Super Bowl title, 25-22 over 49ers in overtime (apnews.com)
Musk ordered to testify again in SEC investigation of Twitter takeover (www.theguardian.com)
US regulator sued in October to compel Musk to testify as part of an investigation into his $44bn purchase of what is now known as X...
Katz Group launches court battle with Edmonton homeless organization over $5M donation (www.cbc.ca)
According to court documents obtained by CBC News, the Katz Group alleges that it shouldn’t have to make the donation because Boyle Street didn’t try hard enough to fundraise on its own....
Israeli strikes hit Rafah after Biden warns Netanyahu to have 'credible' plan to protect civilians (apnews.com)
Ahead of farmers' protest, massive gathering banned in Delhi's Seelampur (www.businesstoday.in)
The farmers’ protest has been a significant event, with thousands of farmers from over 100 villages in Noida and Greater Noida blocking highways on February 8, demanding higher compensation for lands acquired by the government. The protests have been marked by disruptions to traffic and heightened security measures, including...
Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill Clears Critical Hurdle in the Senate (www.nytimes.com)
The Senate on Sunday pushed a $95 billion emergency aid bill for Ukraine and Israel past a critical hurdle, with a bipartisan vote that kept it on track for passage within days....
Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’ (fortune.com)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is trying a unique strategy to get remote workers to return downtown: insulting them....
Migrant Crisis Complicates Democrats’ Bid to Regain George Santos’s Seat (www.nytimes.com)
The party has turned to a moderate veteran, Tom Suozzi, to restore its tarnished brand. But the migrant influx reaching New York has complicated his task....
Utah is pushing back against ever-tightening EPA air pollution standards (www.kpbs.org)
When it comes to its chronically poor winter air, Salt Lake City already has topography working against it. Steep mountain ranges on either side of the city create a giant bowl, where dreaded winter temperature inversions trap cold air that stagnates with dust, factory smoke, and diesel exhaust from the city’s expanding web of...
Republican lawmakers are backing dozens of bills targeting diversity efforts on campus and elsewhere (apnews.com)
Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities and other public institutions under a slate of bills pending in Republican-led legislatures, with some lawmakers counting on the issue resonating with voters in this election year....
Donald Trump's Nato comments labelled ‘appalling and unhinged’ (www.bbc.com)
And so it begins. Nine months still to go before the next US presidential election and already the Republican party favourite and former President Donald Trump is sending eyes rolling skywards with his seemingly outlandish statements....
Donna Summer Estate Says Kanye West Used ‘I Feel Love’ Without Permission on ‘Vultures 1’ Track (www.billboard.com)
The states keeping their children hungry (www.newsweek.com)
Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little (www.theguardian.com)
'Disenfranchised' millennials feel 'locked out' of the housing market and it taints every part of economic life, top economist Mark Zandi says (fortune.com)
Few milestones in life mean as much to the American Dream as owning a home. And millennials have encountered the kind of trouble totally befitting their generation, which largely graduated into the teeth of the disastrous post-2008 job market. Just as they entered peak homebuying and household formation age, housing...
How Washington is bracing for Trump’s next trade war (www.politico.com)
Trading partners are taking the threat of a new trade war seriously, even if they don’t take Trump’s comments literally....
Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public (www.theguardian.com)
Seine-Port is introducing restrictions on phone use in streets, shops and parks – but young people say there’s little else to do...
Nightclubs on the brink as clean-living Gen Zs ditch scene (www.yahoo.com)
‘Fleeing under the cover of darkness’: How Idaho’s abortion ban is changing pregnancy in the state (edition.cnn.com)
Jen and John Adkins never expected to have to send a package like this....