The mother of 5-year-old Beautiful, Michelae Jones, and Beautiful’s aunt Kira Townsend, speak with KTLA-TV about a shoe-throwing incident at the child’s daycare center in Inglewood. Daycare workers in Inglewood were fired after a video surfaced showing an aide throwing a shoe at a 5-year-old. “Again, we are deeply sorry, and this is a terrible incident, and it does not define our school,” she added. It does not define what I’ve taken 15 years to build.”AdvertisementThe child’s mother, Michelae Jones, told KTLA5 that her daughter told her about the incident. She then confronted the director of the daycare but “staff members were slow to respond.”“I’ve been with these people for three years,” Jones told the station.

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“He gives the universal sign for stop at the very beginning with both palms out,” Body Language Expert & Behavior Analyst Traci Brown told HuffPost. He’s looking at the reporter, he’s got his hands out toward the reporter,” Wood explained. AdvertisementWood also noticed that he offered an “immediate head-shake ‘no’” as the reporter asked the question. “As the question proceeds, he blinks, he shutters his eyes, which means you’re blocking the question, you don’t want the question,” Wood said. If you look at those pictures, they’re overlapping body language with him shoulder to shoulder,” Wood continued.

February 07, 2026 12:45 UTC

Premiering this week and continuing weekly is the four-part series “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History,” presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., at the start of what happens to be Black History Month. “One is antisemitism, one is anti-Black racism,” whose purpose here is to explore “the areas of overlap.” They aren’t the only victims of bigotry in American history and modern America; Italians and Irish immigrants had their turn, too. Gates has assembled a stimulating, illuminating, maddening, saddening, but often inspiring, story of their relations with the world and one another. Still, many of the stories here are based on Black and Jewish friendships. Because when the stuff hits the fan, they’re coming after both of us.”‘Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History’How to watch: PBS

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As soon as they could blame the post on a staffer, Republicans rushed to condemn the post’s racism. “They couldn’t break me,” Armstrong told Nil Köksal of Canadian news interview show As it Happens. Trump’s doubling down on racism reflects Americans’ growing disillusionment with him and his administration. Mr. Lyons seemed intent that CBP conduct targeted operations for at least two weeks before transitioning to full scale immigration enforcement. Now, rather than dividing Americans, Trump’s outrageous behavior is uniting Americans against him.

February 07, 2026 10:34 UTC

MILTON, Georgia (WUPA) — Milton police say the body believed to be that of Lil Jon’s missing son, Nathan Smith, was recovered Friday from a pond near his home, ending several days of intense searching but leaving questions unanswered. As the search continued without success, investigators widened their efforts to include a pond at nearby Mayfield Park, close to Smith’s residence. On Feb. 6 at about 11:53 a.m., divers with the Cherokee County Fire Department located and recovered a body from the water. Authorities said the individual is believed to be Smith, pending official identification by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office. In a statement, Lil Jon said he and Smith’s mother, Nicole Smith, are “extremely heartbroken” and “devastated” by the news.

February 07, 2026 10:07 UTC

Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, was having so much fun Thursday bashing former Vice President Kamala Harrison Sean Hannity’s Fox News show that she let her disrespect for the Constitution slip. “There’s nothing I’d love to see more than the President Trump-Kamala Harris rematch of 2028,” Miller continued. “You saw that her headquarters account also had 67 on it, which is another meaningless statement, which is the parallel to Kamala Harris,” Miller told Hannity on Thursday. Stephen Miller and then-Katie Waldman arrive for the State Dinner with Australian PM Morrison on Sept. 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. “ICE are heroes,” an outraged Miller responded to the sketch on X.Miller ended her appearance on Hannity with another verbal eye roll aimed at the Constitution.

February 07, 2026 09:42 UTC

Multiple yellow rain warnings are in place across the UK today (Friday, 6 February), too. Which begs the question: why is the rain so relentless, and when oh when will it end? This drives areas of low pressure north-east up to the UK, and is partly caused by a large range of temperatures across the Atlantic Ocean right now. Low pressure weather fronts are associated with rain, wind, and unsettled conditions. In fact, the Met Office’s long-range forecast says that even as far away as 6 March, “low pressure systems will probably dominate” the UK.

February 07, 2026 09:13 UTC

The S&P 500 jumped 1.7% Friday and was heading toward its best day since May. They were the two strongest forces lifting the S&P 500, and they benefited from hopes for continued spending by customers diving into artificial-intelligence technology. AdvertisementEven with Friday’s rebound, the S&P 500 is still potentially heading toward its third losing week in the last four. The improvement was strongest among households who own stocks, which are benefiting from the S&P 500 setting a record late last month. AdvertisementThe smaller stocks in the Russell 2000 index jumped 3.4%, roughly double the gain of the S&P 500.

February 07, 2026 07:56 UTC

Gavin McKenna during the Penn State Nittany Lions game against the Michigan State Spartans at Beaver Stadium on January 31 in State College, Pennsylvania. - Richard T Gagnon/Getty ImagesPenn State hockey forward Gavin McKenna will not face a felony aggravated assault charge after it was dropped by the Centre County District Attorney’s Office on Friday. On Wednesday, 18-year-old McKenna was charged with four counts by the State College Police Department after an altercation on January 31, according to court documents. According to the State College Police Department, McKenna was involved in an altercation at approximately 8:45 p.m ET on January 31. CNN has reached out to Penn State hockey and McKenna’s representation for comment.

February 07, 2026 07:27 UTC

U.S. Justice Department/ReutersThe chumminess among some of the gilded people in Epstein’s circle has landed at an acutely populist moment. The latest tranche of Epstein files is screaming evidence that there is work to be done and that previous generations had fallen down on the job. Some of the leading figures in the last round of Epstein files had gotten away with the tiniest of reputational stains. The Epstein files featured casually misogynist language in which girls, real and grown, were assessed by the size and aesthetic quality of their body parts. Virginia Giuffre, only 16 when she got caught up in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, is now dead by suicide.

February 07, 2026 07:12 UTC

Luke Thompson as Benedict Bridgerton in season four of Bridgerton LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIXAfter three series of Bridgerton, Benedict finally stepped into the spotlight for season four. Before Bridgerton, Luke was best known for his theatre work, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t already have a string of on-screen credits to his name when he was cast. Here are seven early Luke Thompson roles you may have forgotten about…The Suspicions Of Mr WhicherLuke Thompson in the ITV drama The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher ITVLuke’s first television role was in a 2014 episode of The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher. Kiss Me FirstLuke Thompson in one of Kiss Me First's more racy scenes Channel 4AdvertisementIn 2018, Luke Thompson appeared in two episodes of Kiss Me First. Bridgerton season four is currently streaming on Netflix and returns with four new episodes on Thursday 26 February.

February 07, 2026 06:59 UTC

Single White Female is a reference that’s come up a lot for this film, and somehow, it’s escaped me. And that is where the parallels end…James Sweeney and Dylan O'Brien's characters meet at a twin bereveament group in the film Twinless Republic PicturesThis film was greenlit immediately before the Hollywood strikes of 2023. Dylan O'Brien was attached to play twins Roman and Rocky in Twinless years before filming actually got underway Republic PicturesAdvertisementHave you had much feedback from actual twins? They’ve seen [the leaked scenes] and not seen the whole film, and think that they know what the film’s going to be about. AdvertisementDylan O'Brien and James Sweeney pictured at the Astra Film Awards earlier this year helsea Lauren/Shutterstock for ASTRA AwardsHow far into the shoot were those scenes filmed?

February 07, 2026 06:59 UTC

True authoritarians go much further, but Mr. Trump has already undone the post-Watergate depoliticization of the Justice Department. The Trump administration is conducting a military-style operation in an American city under dubious pretenses. The true goal seems to be instilling fear in people who oppose Mr. Trump’s agenda. Mr. Trump’s recent predecessors were not perfect on this issue, but he has reached another level. The Trump administration has sought to manipulate government information by, among other things, sidelining scientific experts.

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