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UK leader Starmer averts a leadership challenge for now but remains damaged by Epstein fallout

By JILL LAWLESS
Feb 10, 2026 8:11 am - After indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files sparked a dramatic day of crisis that threatened to topple U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he was saved by a pugnacious fightback and by hesitation among his rivals in the governing Labour Party about the consequences of a leadership coup.
A person has been detained for questioning in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, AP sources say

By TY O'NEIL
Feb 10, 2026 8:06 am - “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie pleaded for the public’s help at “an hour of desperation” in the search for her missing mother as the family’s latest attempts to reach the abductors failed to yield any proof she is alive or communication with the culprits.
Top Iran security official is in Oman, site of talks with the US, likely over nuclear messages

By JON GAMBRELL
Feb 10, 2026 8:03 am - A top Iranian security official traveled on Tuesday to Oman, the Mideast sultanate now mediating talks between Tehran and Washington over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program aimed at halting a possible American strike.
DOJ seeks to undo Steve Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena

By Salvador Rizzo and Jeremy Roebuck
Feb 09, 2026 7:01 pm - The Justice Department is taking steps to throw out Stephen K. Bannon’s conviction for defying a congressional subpoena about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, its latest shift in ...
China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case

By KANIS LEUNG
Feb 09, 2026 6:49 pm - Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.
Crackdown on dissent after nationwide protests in Iran widens to ensnare reformist figures

By JON GAMBRELL
Feb 09, 2026 4:54 pm - Iranian security forces have launched a campaign to arrest figures within the country's reformist movement, reports said Monday.
Jimmy Lai's children look to Trump and other leaders to push China to free their father

By DIDI TANG and SYLVIA HUI
Feb 09, 2026 4:42 pm - The children of Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and China critic, said Monday that a possible visit by President Donald Trump to Beijing in April could be “crucial” in securing the release of their 78-year-old father.
Masks emerge as symbol of Trump's ICE crackdown and a flashpoint in Congress

By LISA MASCARO
Feb 09, 2026 4:38 pm - Beyond the car windows being smashed, people tackled on city streets — or even a little child with a floppy bunny ears snowcap detained — the images of masked federal officers has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.
Ghislaine Maxwell appeals for clemency from Trump as she declines to answer questions from lawmakers

By STEPHEN GROVES
Feb 09, 2026 11:57 am - Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in a deposition Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump ended her prison sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their relationships with Epstein.
Purported Nancy Guthrie ransom note deadline approaches as search enters a second week

By TY O'NEIL
Feb 09, 2026 9:53 am - Authorities investigating the apparent kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie returned to her Arizona neighborhood several times over the weekend, ahead of a Monday evening deadline set by her purported abductors who sent ransom notes demanding money for her return.

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