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A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.

A wolf has ventured into the mountains of Los Angeles County.

She was looking for a mate but ended up making history. www.latimes.com/environment/...

OK, "The Secret Agent" is good, but it's not better than "It Was Just an Accident." But that's just the Golden Globes for you.

HUGE DAY FOR LA

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

U.S. Snowboarder Gets Fourth Place In Big Air – With A Broken Arm U.S. Snowboarder Gets Fourth Place In Big Air – With A Broken Arm

17-year-old Ollie Martin got in fourth place in men’s snowboard big air — but the result was still very impressive considering the circumstances.

wow, i read this one tonight to the girls.

Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...

Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

How the Justice Department Failed Epstein’s Victims | On the Media | WNYC Studios In the latest batch of Epstein files, hundreds of pages are redacted, shielding the names of prosecutors and possible co-conspirators. On this week’s On the Media, what the files say ...

"This is a crime against children...The public needs to demand that this case be treated how it should have been handled from the very beginning." Thank you, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @onthemedia.bsky.social. This is an important listen. #EpsteinFiles

F.B.I. Investigates Links to Biological Labs in Las Vegas and California The Las Vegas lab had vials of a “reddish liquid,” the police said. The California lab, uncovered in 2023, had materials “possibly associated with infectious diseases,” officials said.

Federal and local law enforcement officials in Las Vegas are investigating a possible illegal laboratory in a residential subdivision that they say may be linked to another similar investigation in California.

Dodgers pledged $100 million to Newsom's wildfire relief fund. So far, they've given $7.8 million LA Rises has struggled to distinguish itself amid a panoply of wildfire relief efforts, delivering $20 million to date, including $7.8 million from Mark Walter’s family foundation.

Dodgers owner Mark Walter promised that the team's charity and his own family foundation would give contribute up to $100 million to L.A. wildfire relief. One year later, they've given just $7.8 million: www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Photo shows a young girl with her cat

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.

She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.

Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

In an exceptionally rare sighting, scientists spot a "giant phantom jelly" in the ocean's midnight zone

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Should You Buy a Newspaper or a Yacht? Advice for Jeff Bezos

Devastated to see what’s happening at a place that I loved because it was the writing home of so many people I loved. what a gutting week

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week Members will be able to review the files on computers at DOJ beginning Monday, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. They can take notes, but cannot have electronic devices.

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

My Amazon Prime was up for renewal today. I guess life will be a little less convenient. #savethepost

An email from FBI document reviewers on the Epstein files project begging for guidance on what information they should disclose and what information should be redacted. The email says, in part,“Some photographs depict: victims, unknown-unidentified females and males, former U.S. Presidents, Secretary of State, and other celebrities.”

NEW: The Epstein files released last week includes hundreds of pages of docs that lays bare the behind-the-scenes chaos at the FBI early last year over the review of the files & questions on what should be redacted related to victims and public figures
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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW

my god this whole thing was amazing www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R...

MS NOW’s Crooked Play MS NOW’s push into video podcasts is accelerating, with the progressive network now in advanced discussions to license popular digital shows for air from Crooked Media and others, Status has learned.

Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying

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New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria While the New Mexico Department of Health said it can't pinpoint the baby's exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother's drinking raw milk during pregnancy.

"Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby's mother drank raw milk during pregnancy."

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DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

i plan on *only* watching the halftime show. gotta be selective on what gets my time/eyeballs. (i have twins.)

"When a poorly framed street photo causes the subject to be excluded by the system early, it is a mathematical certainty that any match will be a miss."

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

Washington Post Sports Department Was Among Last of Its Kind

NEW: A eulogy for The Post's sports department, which transformed the press box forever and created some of the best sportswriters in America

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Philadelphians are bringing the history back to the President’s House. 🦅

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

"This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction."

Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron dismembers Jeff Bezos.