Tech

Best Buy sells PS5 Digital Fortnite bundle for $399, lowest price since Black Friday

Best Buy is selling the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition Fortnite Flowering Chaos bundle for $399 — $100 off — the lowest price ZDNET has seen outside of a Black Friday sale, the report says. The PS5 Digital Edition in this bundle features an 825GB storage drive, the review notes, and the console’

Sports

Lindsey Vonn airlifted after Switzerland crash, injures left knee before Olympics

Lindsey Vonn, 41, crashed in a downhill World Cup event in Switzerland on Jan. 30, 2026, and was airlifted by helicopter a week before the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin. "I crashed today in the Downhill race in Switzerland and injured my left knee," Vonn said in

Culture

Catherine O’Hara joked “Am I dying?” in 2025 interview a year before her death

Catherine O’Hara made an offhand joke about her own mortality in March 2025, asking “Am I dying or something?” during a Los Angeles Times interview with her "The Studio" co-stars, Page Six reported. The remark resurfaced after news that the actress died on Friday, a death her

Sports

Thomas Frank tells media real football isn't Football Manager after Semenyo joins Man City

Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank used a press conference to remind the football media that the sport is not the videogame Football Manager, as the mid-season transfer window nears its end. The comment came amid intense transfer speculation and after one of Spurs’ main targets, Antoine Semenyo, chose to join

Politics

Judge rules Energy Department violated law over secret climate working group

A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a government report on global warming, the court said on Jan. 30, 2026. The decision was issued

Culture

Kinji Hakari's Pachinko-based cursed technique explained in Jujutsu Kaisen S3

Episode 5 of Jujutsu Kaisen season 3, titled “Passion,” sets up a tense encounter between Yuji Itadori and suspended third-year Kinji Hakari inside Hakari’s Gachinko Fight Club after Yuji, Panda and Megumi infiltrate the venue. MAPPA stages the interaction as a rotoscoped, continuous one-shot that breaks into violence when

Culture

Blow Out (1981): Tarantino‑praised De Palma thriller now streaming free on Tubi

Brian De Palma's 1981 thriller Blow Out is currently streaming free on Tubi and The Roku Channel, MovieWeb reports. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has long praised the movie — while promoting Pulp Fiction in 1994 he said, "Brian De Palma's Blow Out, I think, is one of

Business

Kevin Warsh nomination may struggle to deliver Trump’s sought rate cuts

President Trump nominated Kevin M. Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve on Jan. 30, 2026, praising him as “central casting,” saying he would “go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen” and writing that he “will never let you down,” the article reports. The article

Culture

Don Lemon arrested hours after Busta Rhymes praised him at pre‑Grammys party

Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles on Jan. 29 after attending a pre-Grammys party, taken into custody by more than two dozen federal agents over his alleged role in a Jan. 18 church protest in St. Paul, Minn., the FBI confirmed to PEOPLE. The former CNN anchor had been

Crypto

Crypto whales pile into SHIB, PENDLE and ADA ahead of potential February rebounds

On-chain data cited by BeInCrypto shows large crypto wallets have been accumulating Shiba Inu (SHIB), Pendle (PENDLE) and Cardano (ADA) heading into February, with notable buying activity concentrated between Jan. 27–29. SHIB whales increased holdings from about 666.05 trillion to 666.74 trillion SHIB (an addition of 690

World

Trump declares emergency to cut oil shipments to Cuba, threatens tariffs

On Thursday, President Trump declared a "national emergency" over what he called an "unusual and extraordinary threat" by Cuba and moved to cut off oil shipments to the island, warning he might impose additional tariffs on countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba. Mr. Trump

Culture

The Pitt Season 2: Stars say the day 'just keeps getting worse' for Mel after Ep. 4

In a Collider interview published Jan. 30, 2026, Supriya Ganesh and Taylor Dearden discussed Season 2 Episode 4 of HBO's The Pitt, titled "10:00 A.M.," saying the episode ramps up the pressure on the ER staff and that, for Dearden's character Mel,

Science

Perseverance animation shows 807-foot drive along Jezero Crater rim

This animation shows NASA’s Perseverance rover’s point of view during an 807-foot (246-meter) drive along the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2025, the 1,709th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The sequence was captured over two hours and 35 minutes using 53 Navigation Camera

Sports

Ronaldo and Joao Felix star as Al-Nassr beat Al-Kholood to move within three points

Al-Nassr produced a dominant win over Al-Kholood at King Abdullah Sport City Stadium, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Joao Felix starring as the visitors moved within three points of Saudi Pro League leaders Al-Hilal. The game began with Al-Nassr on top: Felix and Sadio Mane combined early to create a chance

Politics

Minneapolis knitters make red ‘Melt the ICE’ hats to protest ICE

This month in Minneapolis-area suburbs, hobbyist knitters have been making red tasseled “Melt the ICE” hats to galvanize opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to mourn two Minnesotans, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were fatally shot by federal agents, The New York Times reports. The knitted pattern, selling

Politics

DOJ releases 3M Epstein files, withholds about 200,000 pages as privileged

The Justice Department said Friday it is concluding its Jeffrey Epstein data dump by releasing roughly 3 million new files while withholding or redacting about 200,000 pages that it deems privileged, according to a letter to Congress and remarks from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Three new tranches of

Culture

Law & Order: SVU honors longtime transport captain John Leonidas

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Season 27 episode “Hubris,” which aired Jan. 29, closed with a title slide reading “In Memory of John Leonidas” shown before the credits. Leonidas was a longtime member of the SVU crew who worked in the show’s transportation department as a Captain,

Culture

Justin Peck’s “The Wind-Up” premieres at New York City Ballet, review says

Justin Peck’s new ballet, The Wind-Up, set to the first movement of Beethoven’s “Eroica,” premiered on Thursday at New York City Ballet, the review says. The review finds that the piece, Peck’s 26th work for the company, does not rise to the challenge of the “Eroica” but

Culture

Angelica Jensen says Vanderpump co-stars’ OnlyFans is ‘dark, weird’ over apparent incest

Angelica Jensen, a new cast member on Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules, told Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” that she has a problem with some of her co-stars’ OnlyFans content, calling it “dark” and “weird.” Jensen said she does not judge cousins Jason Cohen and Chris Hahn for having OnlyFans accounts

Tech

Beyond Good & Evil 2 not among Ubisoft cancellations, creative director says 'unaffected'

Ubisoft announced a major restructuring this week that included massive layoffs, studio closures and the cancellation of multiple projects, but Beyond Good & Evil 2 is not among the cut titles, creative director Fawzi Mesmar said on LinkedIn. Mesmar wrote that he is "saddened by the cancellations that ha[

Culture

Jujutsu Kaisen episode 52 turns a one-shot rotoscoped scene into cinema

Polygon says Jujutsu Kaisen episode 52, “Passion,” closes on a single, unbroken rotoscoped take between Yuji and Kinji Hakari that pushes the anime’s direction from TV toward cinema. In the episode Yuji goes undercover at a fight club to recruit its boss for the Culling Games, throwing a staged

World

NERC says U.S. and Canadian grids are worsening and blackout risks will rise over five years

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation said in an assessment released Thursday that the reliability of the electric grids serving the United States and Canada is “worsening” and that tens of millions of people face a growing risk of blackouts over the next five years. The report cites rapidly rising

Culture

Tom Hanks' Greyhound Still in Apple TV Top 10 Six Years After 2020 Release

MovieWeb reports that Tom Hanks’ World War II thriller Greyhound remains a fixture on Apple TV’s global streaming charts six years after its 2020 premiere, having spent more than 600 days in the Top 10. Premiering July 10, 2020, Greyhound is based on C. S. Forester’s 1955 novel

Politics

Viktor and Amalija Knavs: Melania Trump’s parents who became U.S. citizens in 2018

Melania Trump’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, are Slovenian natives who moved to the U.S. after her 2005 marriage and became U.S. citizens in August 2018 in a private New York ceremony; Amalija died on Jan. 9, 2024. The couple met in Slovenia in 1966, according to

Business

Starmer secures visa-free travel and whisky tariff cut during China visit

Prime Minister Keir Starmer traveled to China this week with more than two dozen British business and financial leaders for the first visit by a British leader in eight years, meeting President Xi Jinping and returning with measures including short-term visa-free travel for British citizens, a cut in tariffs on