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US applications for jobless benefits, a proxy for layoffs, tick down to 209,000 last week.Jan 29, 2026 8:16 am - U.S. applications for unemployment benefits inched down modestly last week, remaining at historically healthy levels despite recent high-profile layoff announcements.
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Democrats, White House strike spending deal that would avert government shutdownJan 29, 2026 8:13 am - Democrats and White House struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday as they consider new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement
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Actor Rose Byrne named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the YearJan 29, 2026 7:36 am - Rose Byrne, fresh off her Golden Globe Award win and Oscar nomination for the leading role in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You," was named as the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Wednesday.
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As if! ‘Clueless,’ ‘The Karate Kid,’ ‘Inception’ among 25 movies entering National Film RegistryJan 29, 2026 7:24 am - As if they’d leave “Clueless” off the list as one of 25 classic movies chosen this year by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry. And if “Clueless” wasn’t your jam — whatever! — Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending “Inception” is in the mix.
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In the Oscar-nominated ‘Arco,’ an apocalypse kids can get behindJan 29, 2026 5:15 am - Ugo Bienvenu’s “Arco” is a charming and dreamy sci-fi animated movie where environmental catastrophe and cartoony fun collide. Like “WALL-E,” there are heroic robots in “Arco,” an Oscar nominee for best animated feature. But it’s the film’s plucky young protagonists that give Bienvenu’s future-set film its heart.
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Jason Statham sticks close to the formula as a lethal former spy in ‘Shelter’Jan 29, 2026 5:15 am - Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in “Shelter,” and that’s a pretty good analogy for Statham’s usual movie role these days: Tall, cold, alone, tough, quiet and only intermittently illuminating.
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Foul trouble can’t stop Lauren Betts in No. 2 UCLA’s 80-67 win over IllinoisJan 28, 2026 10:00 pm - Lauren Betts overcame early foul trouble to score 23 points and pull down nine rebounds, leading No. 2 UCLA to a win over Illinois.
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Aaron Nesmith makes go-ahead layup and game-saving block as Pacers rally past Bulls 113-110Jan 28, 2026 9:05 pm - Aaron Nesmith made a go-ahead reverse layup with 13.9 seconds left and blocked Coby White's attempt from close range with 2.9 seconds remaining, and the Indiana Pacers rallied from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Chicago Bulls 113-110 on Wednesday night.
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Omar criticizes Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’ after attack; suspect had made pro-Trump posts onlineJan 28, 2026 7:55 pm - Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed President Donald Trump for threats to her safety on Wednesday, one day after she was accosted and squirted with liquid at an event in Minneapolis. The man arrested for Tuesday's attack has posted online in support of the Republican president.
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Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changesJan 28, 2026 7:48 pm - With a partial government shutdown looming, Senate Democrats laid out a list of demands Wednesday for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement that officers show identification as the country reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis.