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Social Security Administration office during U.S. government shutdown as officials confirm benefit payments continue

Social Security payments will not be affected by the government shutdown, the agency confirms

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February 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM

A Spanish Navy warship enters port escorted by smaller vessels, as Spain rolls out a major fleet renewal plan.

Spain approves its largest naval program in decades, with new F-110 frigates and four S-80 submarines

By ECONEWS

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February 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Scientific paper images flagged for manipulation in NIH funded cancer research investigations

A scientific “detective” from the United Kingdom has uncovered manipulated images in articles financed with public funds, and the United States is already recovering millions of dollars

By ECONEWS

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February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM

President Donald Trump gestures in the Oval Office amid questions about $2,000 tariff dividend checks

Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend checks: what he said and why economists doubt they will arrive

By ECONEWS

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February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM

Mega Millions winning numbers beside a North Carolina Lottery ticket, as a prize is held up over a Social Security number debt mix-up.

A North Carolina man’s $800 Mega Millions prize was withheld over a debt tied to his Social Security number that was not his

By Adrian Villellas

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February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM

New York City skyline with Central Park in autumn, as the city announces a major housing settlement forcing repairs across boroughs

The Mamdani administration secures a landmark multimillion-dollar settlement that forces a large property owner to repair thousands of structural problems and ends the hellish conditions endured by hundreds of families in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan in 2026

By ECONEWS

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February 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM

A cargo ship escorted by tugboats moves through a canal channel with a bridge in the background.

The Panama Canal is forgotten: a new interoceanic corridor opens that will change global trade

By ECONEWS

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February 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM

There are no new federal stimulus checks in February 2026: what the IRS and official sources actually say

By ECONEWS

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February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM

A hillside vineyard in Virginia with rows of grapevines and winery buildings, representing small farm wineries facing new rules.

A recently-passed law in Virginia could bankrupt small artisanal wineries that have been growing grapes and making unique wines in mountainous terrain for decades

By ECONEWS

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February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM

IRS website shown as tax deadline penalties of up to 680 dollars begin after missed January filing cutoff

IRS penalties of up to $680 per form for employers who missed the January 31 W-2 and 1099 deadline

By ECONEWS

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February 4, 2026 at 1:18 PM

IRS 2026 tax season: most refunds move to direct deposit, with 164 million returns expected

By ECONEWS

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February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM

Crowds gather around Cloud Gate in Millennium Park as visitor fees and hotel taxes rise ahead of 2026.

Chicago imposes the highest tourist tax in US history (and it won’t be the only one): how it will affect your next booking in 2026

By Adrian Villellas

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February 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot works at a lab table during a demo, showing AI-driven hands handling small parts.

Elon Musk’s plan to redesign the world’s factories… and perhaps the planet too: humanoid robots that work 12 hours a day, never rest, and use artificial intelligence

By Adrian Villellas

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February 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii property where a $30 million underground mega-bunker is being built

Mark Zuckerberg’s $30 million Hawaii bunker: 30 rooms, water tanks and blast-resistant doors

By Adrian Villellas

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January 31, 2026 at 7:37 AM

A U.S. Coast Guard member stands beside stacks of seized cocaine bales during an offload at a port.

A Coast Guard patrol intercepted hundreds of packages of cocaine on the high seas, but behind that record lies a chain of deforestation, poisoned rivers, and rainforests turned into clandestine airstrips

By Adrian Villellas

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January 31, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Freight train on the Interoceanic Corridor rail line in southern Mexico, part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec route linking two coasts.

The Latin American country that moves millions of tons of earth and creates a route that surpasses the Panama Canal

By Adrian Villellas

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January 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM

A US president signs an emergency order at the Resolute Desk as aides stand nearby in the Oval Office.

Trump declares a national emergency to shield $2.5 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue from creditors

By ECONEWS

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January 29, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Teen engineering student inspects a compact modular micro house designed to shelter homeless people and reduce housing emissions.

An 18-year-old designs a micro-house that can be assembled in a day and will move into it for 12 months to test it out: his plan is for it to serve as a real shelter for homeless people and reduce emissions

By ECONEWS

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January 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Open-pit iron ore mine in Australia’s Pilbara region, where geologists confirmed an estimated 55 billion tons of high-grade ore underground.

Australian iron ore discovery: the Pilbara’s 55 billion tons formed a billion years later than thought, a study finds

By Adrian Villellas

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January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Geologists examine drilling equipment at the Wangu gold field in Hunan after locating a massive deep underground gold deposit.

China finds a gold deposit worth about $85.9 billion 2,000 meters under Hunan’s Wangu gold field

By ECONEWS

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January 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM

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Economy

Social Security payments will not be affected by the government shutdown, the agency confirms

Spain approves its largest naval program in decades, with new F-110 frigates and four S-80 submarines

A scientific “detective” from the United Kingdom has uncovered manipulated images in articles financed with public funds, and the United States is already recovering millions of dollars

Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend checks: what he said and why economists doubt they will arrive

A North Carolina man’s $800 Mega Millions prize was withheld over a debt tied to his Social Security number that was not his

The Mamdani administration secures a landmark multimillion-dollar settlement that forces a large property owner to repair thousands of structural problems and ends the hellish conditions endured by hundreds of families in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan in 2026

The Panama Canal is forgotten: a new interoceanic corridor opens that will change global trade

There are no new federal stimulus checks in February 2026: what the IRS and official sources actually say

A recently-passed law in Virginia could bankrupt small artisanal wineries that have been growing grapes and making unique wines in mountainous terrain for decades

IRS penalties of up to $680 per form for employers who missed the January 31 W-2 and 1099 deadline

IRS 2026 tax season: most refunds move to direct deposit, with 164 million returns expected

Chicago imposes the highest tourist tax in US history (and it won’t be the only one): how it will affect your next booking in 2026

Elon Musk’s plan to redesign the world’s factories… and perhaps the planet too: humanoid robots that work 12 hours a day, never rest, and use artificial intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg’s $30 million Hawaii bunker: 30 rooms, water tanks and blast-resistant doors

A Coast Guard patrol intercepted hundreds of packages of cocaine on the high seas, but behind that record lies a chain of deforestation, poisoned rivers, and rainforests turned into clandestine airstrips

The Latin American country that moves millions of tons of earth and creates a route that surpasses the Panama Canal

Trump declares a national emergency to shield $2.5 billion in Venezuelan oil revenue from creditors

An 18-year-old designs a micro-house that can be assembled in a day and will move into it for 12 months to test it out: his plan is for it to serve as a real shelter for homeless people and reduce emissions

Australian iron ore discovery: the Pilbara’s 55 billion tons formed a billion years later than thought, a study finds

China finds a gold deposit worth about $85.9 billion 2,000 meters under Hunan’s Wangu gold field

In West Antarctica, a Thwaites Glacier model checked against 27 years of satellite records projects it could add up to about 1.2 inches to global seas by 2100, and that is roughly double earlier estimates

Off Mozambique, divers surveyed three peat reefs made of forest peat up to 5,000 years old, and each held 26 to 36 kinds of small fish with no living coral

In New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, footprints left beside mammoths date to 23,500 to 21,700 years ago, and pollen shows those walkers saw pine forest turn to pinyon and juniper within about 100 years

In gardens across Britain and Europe, a dark dropping up to 2 inches long can be hedgehog poop rather than a rat sign, and the Mammal Society says shiny insect fragments give it away

Scientists grew the UK’s first rice crop in four flooded paddies near Ely during the record-breaking summer of 2025, and the trial could help farmers keep the Fens’ peat soils wet

In the eastern Pacific, NASA satellites show seas up to 1.3 feet higher as NOAA gives the strongest El Niño since 1950 an 83 percent chance for October to December, and equatorial waters turn bluer

A giant isopod brought from Puerto Rico in the 1980s sat in a University of Tübingen collection under the wrong name for decades, and a closer look shows the 12.7-inch crustacean is a new species

Awunbarna in western Arnhem Land holds 20 of the 52 known recent Rainbow Serpent rock paintings, one 20 feet long, and archaeologists argue artists painted them big as colonization upended their world

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