NPR (Steve Inskeep) - Morning news brief
Immigration officials testify before House as DHS funding deadline looms, Britain's prime minister faces calls to resign over ex-ambassador's Epstein tire, Savannah Guthrie pleads for mother's return.
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - OpenAI and Anthropic are picking public fights
AI CEOs are openly trash-talking each other, sniping over advertising and their philosophical approaches to the future. Why it matters: The squabbling is intensifying as the cost of staying competitive in AI soars — and pressure is mounting for the technology to deliver real returns. Driving the news: The fighting ramped up around the Super Bowl. - Anthropic pledged to keep its large language model, Claude, ad-free , alongside a commercial poking at OpenAI, which is testing ads in ChatGPT. - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman fired back with a 420-word post on X , calling the ad "dishonest." - Altman was already fending off rumors about OpenAI's relationship with Nvidia, after the Wall Street Journal reported the chipmaker was pulling back from…
AMERICANGREATNESS (Liz Sheld) - Morning Greatness: Appeals Court Backs Noem Move to End TPS Protections for Nepal, Honduras, Nicaragua
Good Tuesday morning. Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today: 4:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in Signing Time 5:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in […] Source
NPR (Becky Sullivan) - Mikaela Shiffrin set to ski for the first time in the Olympics in team combined event
The team combined event pairs a downhill skier with a slalom skier. The top U.S. duo — the slalom star Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson, who won gold in the downhill on Sunday — is a medal favorite.
WASHINGTONPOST (Daniel Wu) - Americans’ optimism for their future took a hit last year, poll finds
Around 60 percent said they expected their lives would be significantly better in the future, roughly nine percentage points lower than during the pandemic.
NYTIMES (Trish Bendix) - Jon Stewart Defends Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
“The Daily Show” host said it shouldn’t be a performer’s job to unify the country: “Isn’t there another person whose job description is much more along those lines?”
ABCNEWS - Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for water shortages and wildfires
Except for California, most Western states are experiencing the worst snow drought in decades not because of dry conditions but really warm temperatures that change snow to rain
HUFFPOST - This Group Has Pulled A Big 'Switcheroo' On Trump Since 2024, CNN's Harry Enten Says
The data guru said the president's approval numbers with the demographic are "absolutely collapsing” after the group helped him return to office.
HUFFPOST - Savannah Guthrie Makes New Plea As Missing Mother's Ransom Deadline Nears
Guthrie said her family is “at an hour of desperation” as the search for Nancy Guthrie continues.
HUFFPOST - MAGA World Throws Steve Bannon Under The Bus
High-profile right-wingers lashed out over Bannon's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.