Culture

Jerry Hall and Elizabeth Jagger Wear Coordinating Icy Hues at Berlin Fashion Week

Jerry Hall and her daughter Elizabeth Jagger attended the Marc Cain show during Berlin Fashion Week on Friday, Jan. 30. Hall, 69, wore an icy aqua blue silk pantsuit with pointed-toe silver heels and an icy blue trench coat. She accessorized with vibrant red lipstick and wore her long blonde

Crypto

Binance to Convert $1B SAFU to Bitcoin in 30 Days; Will Top Up If Under $800M

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, said it will convert the entire $1 billion reserve of its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) from stablecoins into Bitcoin over the next 30 days. The SAFU fund, created in 2018 and funded by Binance's trading fee

Politics

State Department to send more than $6.5 billion in weapons to Israel, bypassing Congress

The State Department announced on Friday that it planned to send Israel more than $6.5 billion in weapons aid, including Apache attack helicopters and combat land vehicles, bypassing the customary congressional informal review process, the Times reported. The packages covered four weapons systems that had been under review for

Culture

Sam Worthington’s scariest performance: Ron Lafferty in Hulu’s Under the Banner of Heaven

In a Collider piece published Jan. 30, 2026, Carolyn Jenkins argues Sam Worthington’s scariest and most underrated performance appears in the 2022 Hulu miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven rather than his work in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise. Under the Banner of Heaven, a seven-episode adaptation of Jon

Science

NASA Libera instrument completes testing, ready for delivery

NASA’s Libera instrument, designed to maintain the global data record of Earth’s radiation budget, has completed comprehensive environmental testing and is ready for delivery. Thermal vacuum tests simulated the temperatures and environments Libera will experience in space. The instrument will fly on the Joint Polar Satellite System-4 (JPSS-4)

Sports

Patrick Agyemang nets ninth as Derby rout Bristol City 5-0, bolsters USMNT case

Patrick Agyemang scored his ninth Championship goal as Derby County crushed Bristol City 5-0 on Friday night, Jan. 31, 2026, with the forward netting Derby’s fourth in a dominant victory, Goal/ Getty Images Sport reported. The result lifted Derby to sixth in the table with 45 points and moved

Politics

Nationwide 'National Shutdown' protests target ICE as businesses close

Crowds across the US staged protests against ICE on Friday in a general strike billed as a "National Shutdown," with some local businesses closing for the day amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. Organizers called for a 24-hour general strike asking students to skip school,

Politics

Influencer right criticizes Trump after apparent softening on Minneapolis crackdown

A vocal group of Trump supporters publicly criticized the president after he appeared to temper his immigration crackdown in Minneapolis following a phone call with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and after Mr. Trump reassigned Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official leading the operation, the Times reported on Jan. 30, 2026.

Sports

How to watch the 118th Millrose Games on NBC and Peacock — Wanamaker Mile stars

Some of the world’s best track and field athletes compete this Sunday, Feb. 1, at the 118th Millrose Games in New York, with live coverage on NBC and streaming on Peacock at 4 p.m. ET. The meet, held at The Armory in Manhattan since 2012, is also a

Culture

Sundance’s final Park City edition ends with tributes to Robert Redford

The Sundance Film Festival’s last edition in Park City closed on an elegiac note on Jan. 30, 2026, marked by tributes to founder Robert Redford and the announcement that the festival will move to Boulder, Colo., next January after 41 years in Park City. The program included a gala

Culture

Dan Levy says he wrote Moira Rose for Catherine O’Hara — 'dream come true'

Years before her death, Dan Levy told Page Six that it was a "dream come true" to work with family friend Catherine O’Hara, saying in a March 2018 interview that he had written the Schitt’s Creek matriarch Moira Rose with O’Hara in mind. "We

Culture

NYT photographs chronicle Westminster Kennel Club’s 150th anniversary

Photographers for The New York Times have for nearly a century documented the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, a three-day event the paper describes as part red carpet gala, part sporting event and part fashion show; this year marks the show’s 150th anniversary and, the Times reports, the event

Culture

Markiplier's Iron Lung movie expands the sub, but his playthrough is the better watch

YouTuber Markiplier (Mark Fischbach) produced, directed, acted in and distributed a feature adaptation of indie horror game Iron Lung, which is now in movie theaters; a PC Gamer reviewer watched Markiplier’s 45-minute 2022 playthrough and the 2+ hour film to compare them. The playthrough is described as spooky and

Tech

Apex Legends leaving Nintendo Switch on Aug. 4, Respawn says

Respawn announced that Apex Legends will be removed from the original Nintendo Switch when Season 30 begins on Aug. 4, with Season 29 serving as the game’s final update on the platform, the studio said via the official Apex Legends X account. The post said players will still be

Science

Algae blooms on Greenland’s ice are darkening surfaces and speeding melt, studies say

Two new studies published in January find that algae growing on Greenland’s snow and ice is darkening surfaces and exacerbating seasonal melting, the research says. One paper appeared Jan. 13 in Environmental Science and Technology and the other on Jan. 28 in Nature Communications. On snow the growth appears

Culture

TR-49 offers a satisfying archive puzzle set around a strange basement machine

TR-49, from developer inkle, is a puzzle game that puts you in the shoes of Abbi, a young woman seemingly trapped in a dark basement using a dial-based machine to search a computer archive. The game is out now for PC via Steam and iOS. Gameplay centers on a four-character

Politics

Trump nominates Kevin M. Warsh as next Federal Reserve chair

President Trump announced on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, that he was nominating Kevin M. Warsh to serve as the next chair of the Federal Reserve; if confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Warsh would replace Jerome H. Powell when Mr. Powell’s term ends in May. Mr. Trump praised Mr. Warsh

Culture

Highguard adds limited 5v5 mode after player numbers dwindled

After launching on January 26, Highguard has struggled to keep players, according to SteamDB, and developer Wildlight announced a big update this week: a limited-time 5v5 mode for the free-to-play raid shooter. Studio head and game director Chan Grenier teased a “big update” on Twitter, and the change arrived about

Culture

Scrapped 'Upgrade' TV spin-off would have followed criminals fitted with STEM, producer says

Producer Tim Walsh—who was set to be showrunner—says the planned TV spin-off of Leigh Whannell’s 2018 film Upgrade was scrapped after being sold to Peacock in 2019, and that the series “died,” he told Bloody Disgusting; Whannell had confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter in 2025 that the

Politics

Trump sues I.R.S. and Treasury over leaked tax returns, seeks at least $10 billion

On Jan. 30, 2026, President Trump filed a complaint in federal court in Miami against the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department, demanding at least $10 billion for the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns from his first term. The suit, brought by Mr. Trump along with two of

Sports

Vernon Davis Responds to Allegations He Attacked Pregnant Woman; Arrest Warrant Issued

Retired NFL tight end Vernon Davis responded Friday after a criminal complaint obtained by TMZ accused him of attacking a pregnant woman on multiple occasions last year. "I'm aware and saddened by the reporting and look forward to clearing my name," Davis wrote on Instagram on

Crypto

Ethereum faces February crossroads as whales accumulate but ETFs stay cautious

Ethereum enters February 2026 at a critical crossroads after losing nearly 7% in January, with large wallets accumulating near key support while spot-ETH ETF flows remain mixed, according to the BeInCrypto analysis. Seasonality is conflicted: historically February has a median gain near +15% since 2016, but January’s weakness echoes

Politics

2007 draft indictment accused Jeffrey Epstein of crimes against more than a dozen girls

A draft federal indictment prepared in 2007 accused Jeffrey Epstein of committing sex crimes against more than a dozen teenage girls over six years, the document, released Friday by the Justice Department, said. Epstein ultimately pleaded to a much lesser state charge, the report noted. The 32-count, 56-page draft indictment

Culture

Super Bowl 2026 ads so far: Sabrina Carpenter, Emma Stone, Taika Waititi and more

Collider has rounded up the Super Bowl 2026 commercials released or teased so far ahead of the rematch between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, in a piece published Jan. 30, 2026 by Charlie Ridgely. The roll call includes high-profile talent: Pringles tapped pop star Sabrina Carpenter for a

Science

NASA selects Axiom Space for fifth private mission to ISS, targeted Jan 2027

NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than January 2027 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "The award of our fifth private astronaut mission shows that commercial space is