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United Airlines is set to upgrade its reservation system. Here’s what that means for travelers.

February 2, 2026 / 6:56 PM EST / CBS News

United Airlines is planning a major technology update that will take down its online reservation system early Wednesday.

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The carrier is urging passengers with flights scheduled to depart on Wednesday to check in via United’s website or mobile app on Tuesday to avoid encountering problems. United expects the outage to last roughly four and a half hours, beginning Wednesday at 2:30 a.m. EDT and lasting until 6 a.m. EDT.

An alert on United’s homepage informs travelers that it is “conducting a planned technology upgrade” and that many of its web and app services will not be available during that time, including for employees of the airline.

United is modernizing its aging mainframe flight reservation system, known as Shares. The upgrade requires the airline to transfer reservation data from its current data center in North Carolina to a more high-tech facility in Chicago that the airline said will improve reliability.

Here’s what United customers should know about United’s reservation system upgrade.

What if I am flying on Wednesday?

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United’s flight schedule will be temporarily unavailable starting early Wednesday morning. Customers also won’t be able to make new reservations, cancel bookings, check in for flights or retrieve their itineraries.

As such, the airline is urging anyone scheduled to fly on Wednesday morning to check in on Tuesday. That is also when passengers should check bags, which fliers can typically do up to four hours before departure.

The reservation system refresh has been planned for some time, with United canceling impacted flights months ago. The airline notified customers of the changes, affecting roughly 600 flights, at the time.

Customers can still book, complete check-in or make changes to their trips prior to Feb. 4 at 2:30 a.m. EDT, or once the data transfer is completed.

What could go wrong?

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United has rehearsed the data migration process, so things should go smoothly, the airline told CBS News. Travel experts expect relatively little disruption.

“Don’t freak out if you can’t search for flights in the middle of the night,” Scott Keyes, founder and CEO of flight deals website Going.com, told CBS News. “It will come back online soon.’

Of course, if the upgrade doesn’t go as planned, it could spell headaches for customers. Roughly a decade ago, Southwest Airlines suffered a computer outage that dragged on for days, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations and thousands more delays.

Edited by Alain Sherter

Kris Van Cleave contributed to this report.

法国总理再过关 财政预算获通过

2026年2月3日 08:52 / 联合早报

法国国民议会（议会下院）星期一（2月2日）宣布，部分议员因财政预算问题针对政府提交的两项不信任动议在当天表决中均被否决。这意味着总理勒科尔尼领导的政府得以继续履职，法国2026年财政预算案最终获得通过。

新华社报道，这是勒科尔尼政府开年来第四次在不信任动议的表决中过关。国民议会当天分别表决由部分左翼议员和极右翼议员提出的不信任动议，前者获260票赞成，后者获135票赞成，均未达到289票这一不信任动议通过门槛，即获得国民议会过半数议员支持。

勒科尔尼1月30日动用法国宪法相关机制，绕过国民议会表决，直接通过2026年财政预算案完整法案，从而引发上述两项不信任动议。此前，勒科尔尼政府于1月20日、23日两次启用这一宪法机制，分别通过预算案的收入和支出部分。前两次的启用同样在国民议会引发不信任动议，加上1月27日的两项不信任动议，均被否决。

法国媒体称，拥有60多个议席的社会党被视为帮助勒科尔尼政府连续过关的“关键少数”。为争取社会党支持，勒科尔尼在大企业及富裕人群税收政策以及维持和改善部分社会福利等议题上作出一定让步。

法国2026年财政预算最终通过后，将提交宪法委员会进行审查，随后正式颁布。

法国总统马克龙2024年6月解散国民议会，新选出的议会呈左翼、中间派、极右翼三足鼎立格局，政府施政缺少稳固的议会多数支持，已有两届政府被议会投票推翻。2025年10月，勒科尔尼组阁，他曾承诺让议会充分辩论，不启用宪法相关机制强行通过法案。

Trump dodges question about his threat to sue Trevor Noah over Epstein joke | CNN Politics

Updated 8:04 PM EST, Mon February 2, 2026 / Source: CNN

President Donald Trump dodged a question from a reporter about whether he plans to sue comedian and 2026 Grammys host Trevor Noah. The president threatened to sue Noah in a Truth Social post after the comedian joked about the president and Jeffrey Epstein’s island.

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Clemson basketball player’s teammates pool money to bring her mom from overseas for surprise visit

February 2, 2026 / 8:04 PM EST / CBS News

For Rusne Augustinaite, home is more than 5,000 miles away.

The 22-year-old junior guard at Clemson University grew up in Lithuania, far from where she’s become one of the best three-point shooters in the Atlantic Coast Conference. And while she has now spent years playing in the U.S., one person has never seen her play a college game in person: her mom.

Travel costs and work obligations kept her mother, Rasa, at home. That was until Augustinaite’s teammates stepped in to help.

After learning how much she missed her family, the Tigers quietly pooled their own money for an unforgettable surprise.

Video of the sweet moment shows Rasa knocking on the door. Augustinaite answers, looking confused for a moment before realizing her mom was standing in front of her. The two come together for an emotional embrace as teammates cheer on in support.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/clemson-basketball-player-stunned-when-moms-shows-up-at-her-door-from-thousands-of-miles-away/

“I don’t know how it didn’t … slip or someone didn’t text it in the wrong group chat or something,” Augustinaite told CBS News. “But they did a great job, and it’s all because of my teammates, and I’m just so happy to have them.”

The reunion was made even sweeter after what happened during Augustinaite’s next game.

With her mom watching from the stands, she delivered one of the best performances of the year, scoring a season-high 21 points as Clemson defeated Southern Methodist University. After the final buzzer, she got the best victory celebration of all — a post-game hug from mom.

President Donald Trump is trying to quell a growing rebellion against the funding deal he negotiated with Senate Democrats as a growing number of House conservatives threaten to sink the legislation if a key demand is not met.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is walking a tightrope with House Republicans demanding the inclusion of election integrity legislation to the Trump-backed deal, which he negotiated with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., last week.

The government is in its third day of a partial shutdown. Adding the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, to the package would send the legislation back to the Senate, where Schumer has already vowed to block it.

That would likely extend what was intended to be a temporary closure.

SCHUMER NUKES GOP PUSH FOR ‘JIM CROW-ERA’ VOTER ID LAWS IN TRUMP-BACKED SHUTDOWN PACKAGE

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President Donald Trump demanded “NO CHANGES” to the funding deal he brokered with Senate Democrats as a cohort of House Republicans push for voter ID laws to be added into the mix.(Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump took to Truth Social to lower the temperature among House Republicans, and noted that he was “working hard with Speaker Johnson to get the current funding deal, which passed in the Senate last week, through the House and to my desk, where I will sign it into Law, IMMEDIATELY!”

“We need to get the Government open, and I hope all Republicans and Democrats will join me in supporting this Bill, and send it to my desk WITHOUT DELAY,” Trump said. “There can be NO CHANGES at this time.”

HOUSE DEMOCRATS MUTINY SCHUMER’S DEAL WITH WHITE HOUSE, THREATENING LONGER SHUTDOWN

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have coalesced behind a plan to strip the DHS funding bill from a broader spending package, but Republicans aren’t biting.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“We will work together in good faith to address the issues that have been raised, but we cannot have another long, pointless, and destructive Shutdown that will hurt our Country so badly — One that will not benefit Republicans or Democrats,” he continued. “I hope everyone will vote, YES!”

A cohort of House Republicans, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., wants to see the SAVE Act attached to the five-bill funding package plus short-term extension for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

It would require states to obtain proof of citizenship in-person when people register to vote and remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital on Monday that he was leaning against voting to advance the funding deal if the SAVE Act was not attached. Reps. William Timmons, R-S.C., and Eric Burlison, R-Mo., have foreshadowed similar threats.

It’s legislation that has long been shelved since advancing from the House last year. Its passage in the upper chamber is even more unlikely because of the 60-vote filibuster threshold and Senate Democrats’ reticence to even consider supporting it.

‘OPENING PANDORA’S BOX’: MIKE JOHNSON BACKS TRUMP AFTER WARNING WHITE HOUSE ABOUT DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune speak at a press conference on the Republican budget bill at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Their demands come as the House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper for most legislation to get a chamber-wide vote, is set to meet Monday evening to consider the funding deal. Johnson met with Rules Committee members on Monday afternoon ahead of their scheduled meeting.

Tacking on the SAVE Act would likely kill any chance of the spending deal earning support from House Democrats, who are already resistant to the deal.

And if it were to make it to the Senate, Democrats in the upper chamber are primed to block it.

Without it, however, the group of House conservatives could kill the spending deal during a procedural hurdle called a “rule vote.” The House Rules Committee advancing the bill sets up a chamber-wide rule vote, which if successful would unlock debate and set up a final vote on passage.

Rule votes generally fall along partisan lines. And with a one-vote majority after the swearing-in of a new House Democrat who won a special election in Texas over the weekend, Johnson can afford little dissent.

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Schumer laid out an edict on Monday against the idea, where he accused Republicans of pushing legislation “reminiscent of Jim Crow-era laws,” that he argued would act as a means to suppress voters rather than encourage more secure elections.

“It is a poison pill that will kill any legislation that it is attached to,” Schumer said in a statement. “If House Republicans add the SAVE Act to the bipartisan appropriations package it will lead to another prolonged Trump government shutdown.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

Virginia man who had affair with au pair found guilty of murdering wife, another man

Updated on: February 2, 2026 / 7:30 PM EST / CBS/AP

A Virginia man having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair was found guilty Monday of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy.

Brendan Banfield, a former IRS law enforcement officer, told police he came across Joseph Ryan attacking his wife, Christine Banfield, with a knife on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023. He shot Ryan and then Juliana Magalhães, the au pair, shot him, too.

But officials argued in court that the story was too good to be true, telling jurors that Banfield set Ryan up in a scheme to get rid of his wife. It later came out that Brendan Banfield and Magalhães had been having an affair.

Banfield, 40, shifted slightly and showed little emotion on Monday as the verdict was read in court. He had pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder in the killings of his wife and Ryan, and had taken the stand in his own defense. The jury had deliberated for nearly nine hours across two days before reaching a verdict. Banfield faces the possibility of life in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled for May 8.

Brendan Banfield looks on during the double murder trial for Brendan Banfield in Fairfax County Circuit Court, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Fairfax, Virginia. Tom Brenner / AP

Magalhães pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2024 and testified against her former lover at trial. She said they had impersonated Christine Banfield, a pediatric intensive care nurse, on a website for sexual fetishes. She said they used the site to lure Ryan to the house for a sexual encounter involving a knife, staging the scene to look as though they had shot an intruder who was attacking the wife.

Defense attorney John Carroll argued that Magalhães’ testimony could not be trusted because she was cooperating with prosecutors to try to avoid a long prison sentence. In his own testimony, Banfield said that the testimony was “absolutely crazy.”

Carroll also introduced evidence showing that there was dissent within the police department over the theory that Magalhães and Brendan Banfield impersonated Christine Banfield on social media in a “catfishing” scheme. An officer who concluded from digital evidence that Christine Banfield was behind the social media account was later transferred in what Carroll said was punishment for disagreeing with a theory favored by the department’s higher-ups.

In closing arguments, prosecutor Jenna Sands told the jury they did not have to rely solely on Magalhães’ testimony, pointing to what she called a “plethora of evidence.” That included expert testimony that blood stains on Ryan’s hands suggested Christine Banfield’s blood had been dripped onto him from above.

Magalhães was scheduled to be sentenced after Banfield’s trial. Attorneys have said she could be allowed to walk free if she is sentenced to time served.

特朗普宣布建立关键矿产储备 | 联合早报

发布/2026年2月3日 06:54

特朗普2月2日在白宫椭圆形办公室宣布启动一项名为‘金库项目’的关键矿产储备计划。 （路透社）

美国总统特朗普宣布建立一项关键矿产储备计划。

路透社报道，特朗普星期一（2月2日）在白宫说：“我们今天启动一项名为‘金库项目’（Project Vault）的计划，以确保美国企业和工人永远不会因任何短缺而受到损害。”

特朗普称，“金库项目”将结合美国进出口银行提供的100亿美元（约127亿新元）融资和来自私营企业的20亿美元资金。

美国内政部长伯古姆说，本周晚些时候将宣布另外11个国家加入“金库项目”。

特朗普宣布建立关键矿产储备 | 联合早报

发布/2026年2月3日 06:54

特朗普2月2日在白宫椭圆形办公室宣布启动一项名为‘金库项目’的关键矿产储备计划。 （路透社）

美国总统特朗普宣布建立一项关键矿产储备计划。

路透社报道，特朗普星期一（2月2日）在白宫说：“我们今天启动一项名为‘金库项目’（Project Vault）的计划，以确保美国企业和工人永远不会因任何短缺而受到损害。”

特朗普称，“金库项目”将结合美国进出口银行提供的100亿美元（约127亿新元）融资和来自私营企业的20亿美元资金。

美国内政部长伯古姆说，本周晚些时候将宣布另外11个国家加入“金库项目”。

美国印度达成贸易协议 特朗普将印度关税降至18% | 联合早报

发布时间: 2026-02-02T23:08:34.000Z | 来源: 联合早报

特朗普2月2日与莫迪通电话后宣布将印度关税降至18%。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普宣布与印度达成一项贸易协议，并将美国对印度商品的关税从25%降至18%，印度则同意停止购买俄罗斯石油并降低贸易壁垒。两国官员说，美国也取消了此前因印度购买俄罗斯石油而向印度额外征收的25%惩罚性关税。

综合彭博社和路透社报道，特朗普星期一（2月2日）与印度总理莫迪通电话后在社交媒体宣布立即降低印度的关税，并强调印度减少购买俄罗斯石油有助于结束乌克兰战争。

特朗普说，他和莫迪达成一项双边贸易协议。美国将把对印度商品加征的“对等关税”税率从25%降至18%，印度同时降低对美关税和非关税壁垒。

特朗普称，印度将“致力于将针对美国的关税和非关税壁垒降至零”，还将购买“超过5000亿美元（约6360亿新元）的美国能源、技术、农产品、煤炭和许多其他产品”。

莫迪在社交媒体上发文证实双方达成协议，称“印度制造产品的关税将降至18%”。但他未在帖子中提及石油采购。

一名白宫官员告诉法新社，特朗普去年8月为迫使印度停止购买俄罗斯石油而额外征收的25%关税也完全取消。新德里知情官员确认此消息。

美国政府2025年7月31日宣布对印度输美商品征收25%的“对等关税”，这一关税措施于当年8月7日生效。同年8月6日，特朗普签署行政令，以印度“以直接或间接方式进口俄罗斯石油”为由，对印度输美商品额外征收25%关税。

印度和美国早在2025年2月就承诺围绕双边贸易协议展开谈判，但立场差异、尤其是围绕原油采购的分歧导致双方迟迟未能达成贸易协议。

Homeland Security officers in Minneapolis will be issued body cameras, Noem says

By Holmes Lybrand | CNN Politics

Updated 2 hr ago
Updated Feb 2, 2026, 5:39 PM ET
PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2026, 5:24 PM ET

US Border Patrol agents stand guard at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 8.

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All Homeland Security officers on the ground in Minneapolis will be issued body cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday.

“Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis,” Noem wrote in a social media post. “As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country.”

Advocates and critics of the administration’s immigration operations have long called for Department of Homeland Security officers — including from ICE and Customs and Border Protection — to wear body cameras. DHS officers themselves have resorted, at times, to filming tense interactions with protestors on their own personal devices.

One of the most well-known instances was when the officer who shot and killed Renee Good filmed the incident on his cellphone.

After two officers shot and killed Alex Pretti in late January, investigators began reviewing over 30 body cameras worn by officers that day to piece together what had taken place in the moments before his death.

Customs and Border Protection’s internal investigation found in it’s initial report, which included a review of the body worn camera footage, that only the two officers had fired their own weapons.

CNN’s Alayna Treene pressed White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt last week on why the administration had not required DHS officers to wear body cameras in the wake of the shooting of Pretti, an ICU nurse.

Leavitt said conversations were ongoing. “I’ll leave it to them and the president to make that decision,” she added.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he was leaving decisions regarding the use of body cameras to Noem.

“Well, it wasn’t my decision. I would have, you know — I leave it to her,” the president said. “They generally tend to be good for law enforcement, because people can’t lie about what’s happening … But if she wants to do that, I’m OK with it,” Trump said.

Noem’s announcement also comes after Senate Democrats and Trump brokered a deal to temporarily extend DHS funding for two weeks as Republicans and Democrats negotiations over demands on the left to rein in ICE tactics continue.

The funding bill has cleared the Senate, with pressure now on House Republicans.

As Democrats continue to outline their demands on reforming or curbing the tactics of DHS immigration officers, some Republicans — even staunch backers of the administration’s immigration enforcement — have voiced support for mandating body worn cameras.

“I don’t have a problem with that personally,” Republican Senator and member of the Senate’s homeland security committee Ron Johnson told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday.

Johnson said he opposes other efforts by Democrats, including to mandate judicial warrants in immigration cases.

“We have got millions of cases backlogged,” he said. “So demanding judicial warrants is their sneaky way of basically neutering our ability to enforce any immigration laws.”