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Blood found inside home of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, source says

Updated on: February 3, 2026 / 1:44 PM EST / CBS News

A little bit of blood was found inside the Arizona home of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, whose disappearance is being investigated as a crime, a law enforcement source familiar with the case told CBS News.

It is unclear whose blood it is, but it is being tested. Investigators and analysts are combing through the house in search of clues to the 84-year-old’s disappearance.

Investigators believe that Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the middle of the night over the weekend, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News.

The sheriff dismissed the possibility that Guthrie, who lives alone, may have wandered away from her home because he said she doesn’t have any cognitive issues and her mobility is limited.

Authorities have been searching for Guthrie since Sunday. She was last seen at her home Saturday night, but no one knew she was missing until she didn’t show up for church the next morning, Nanos said.

Guthrie takes daily medication, adding additional urgency to the search.

Savannah Guthrie asked people on social media Monday to pray for her mother.

“Thank you for lifting your prayers with ours for our beloved mom, our dearest Nancy, a woman of deep conviction, a good and faithful servant,” she said on Instagram. “Raise your prayers with us and believe with us that she will be lifted by them in this very moment. we need you.”

Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie on the “Today” show June 15, 2023. Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images

An official told CBS News that 88-Crime, an Arizona-based, non-profit program that works with law enforcement to help solve crimes, is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for “information leading to the arrest of the person or persons involved in the disappearance.”

Nancy Guthrie’s family has asked residents near her home to review their security footage from over the weekend, especially between the hours of 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Sunday. When CBS News asked Nanos about the time frame, he said the department is starting with a narrow window and will expand outward.

“Keep looking. You never know what you’ll see,” Nanos told CBS News. “Maybe it’s just a pair of headlights. But if you see something that just doesn’t seem right in that neighborhood, please let us know. We can come and download all your digital evidence and take a look at it ourselves.”

Anna Schecter and Patrick Torphy contributed to this report.

国共智库论坛登场 达成恢复两岸人员往来正常化等共同意见

2026年2月3日 23:54 / 联合早报

由中共中央台办海峡两岸关系研究中心与中国国民党国政研究基金会共同主办，以“两岸交流合作前瞻”为主题的国共两党智库论坛，星期二（2月3日）在北京开幕。图为中共中央台办主任宋涛（左）、中国国民党副主席萧旭岑（右）出席论坛。 （中新社）

国共智库论坛星期二在北京达成恢复两岸人员往来正常化等15项共同意见。台湾总统赖清德透过记者会喊话，面对中国大陆威胁，国民党作为最大在野党不审总预算、不审国防预算特别条例，只进行国共合作，“这对台湾来讲是危险的”。

国民党主席郑丽文在2026台北国际书展活动中，未直接回应国共论坛的问题，而是强调东亚已非昔日弱小的被殖民地，期许上个世纪曾经充满烟硝味的“第一岛链”，不再被视为战争冲突的代名词，而是转化为“和解和平的起点”。

睽违近10年的国共智库论坛，星期二（2月3日）在北京召开。中共中央台湾工作办公室主任宋涛在开幕式致词时表示，“举办国共两党智库论坛是落实两党领导人贺复电精神的具体举措”，正逢其时、顺应民意，是一个充满希望的良好开端。

宋涛表示，两党要以民意为依归，毫不动摇坚持“九二共识”、反对“台独”，引领两岸关系发展的方向，推动两岸关系和平发展。他说：“两岸关系终将冬去春来，家国团圆，未来可期。”

国民党副主席萧旭岑致词时，引用2025年台湾民众赴中国大陆达489万人次，几乎回到疫情前高峰区间，接近九成民众主张两岸维持沟通管道，46%民众希望两岸加强经贸交流，创下近四年新高等数据。他强调国民党背负台湾老百姓的期待，国共论坛就是为两岸产业寻找出路，为两岸人民共谋福祉。

萧旭岑称，过去30年经验证明，两岸大交流、大合作，互利共荣、和平发展，最符合两岸人民的共同利益。期许两岸应以确保人民福祉为最大目标，坚持“九二共识”，反对“台独”，求同存异，搁置争议，共创双赢，共同追求和平发展。

他意有所指地说：“我们应该要两岸合作，赚世界的钱，不要两岸对立，让其他外国渔翁得利、剥削台湾、掏空台湾，让后代子子孙孙无法立足！”

赖清德星期二召开“台美经济繁荣伙伴对话”记者会，强调经过九个月的努力，完成台美对等关税谈判，取得“让国人满意，让世界称羡的成果”，确保台湾企业在国际经贸竞争中，得以和世界主要竞争对手，站在平等的立足点上。

赖清德在接受提问时称，这场记者会不是针对国共交流而开的，但刚好可以提供对比，让民众清楚辨识，到底是民进党政府推动的携手美国等友盟，走进国际的经济战略，或再度“锁进中国”，即在野党推动的“二次西进”，对台湾经济发展比较有利？

他认为，面对中国大陆威胁时，国民党不审总预算、不审国防预算特别条例，只进行国共合作，“这对台湾来讲是危险的”。

赖清德重申，民进党政府不只重视和美国等国的国际关系，也同样重视两岸关系，只要大陆正视“中华民国”存在的事实，愿意尊重台湾人民自由民主的生活方式，只要能对等尊严，台湾很乐意跟大陆进行交流合作，创造和平共荣，近十年来“我们的两岸路线，持续保持善意”。

国共两党智库论坛在傍晚闭幕，双方提出五个面向、15项共同意见，包括推动恢复两岸人员往来正常化、加强两岸新兴产业领域合作、探索两岸医疗康养合作新路径等。

台湾政府的大陆委员会则强调，国共两党的“共同意见”是配合中共融台及统战政策，并走回西进及依赖中共的老路。中共的做法是企图绕过公权力，制造台湾内部分化及矛盾、误导民众认知。

研究：引入AI阅片有助提升乳腺癌筛查效果

发布时间 / 来源：2026年2月3日 23:28 / 联合早报

瑞典一项研究发现，人工智能（AI）辅助乳腺筛查减少侵袭性“间期癌”。 （示意图 / Pixabay）

瑞典隆德大学参与的一项研究显示，在乳腺癌筛查中引入人工智能（AI）辅助阅片，不仅有助于提高筛查检出能力，还能降低确诊于两次筛查之间的乳腺癌（即“间期癌”）的发病率。

新华社报道，隆德大学日前发布新闻公报说，“间期癌”是指女性一次筛查结果正常后，到下一次计划筛查之前这段时间里被诊断出的乳腺癌。由于这类癌症通常更具侵袭性，“间期癌”发生率被视为衡量筛查有效性的重要指标之一。

这项AI辅助乳腺X光筛查研究共有约10.6万名40岁至74岁的瑞典女性参与，随访两年多。参与者接受常规乳腺X光检查。差异主要体现在影像解读环节：对照组采用传统流程，由乳腺放射科医生阅片；AI辅助组则引入AI进行影像判读，并由医生复核。

结果显示，与传统方法相比，AI辅助筛查在提高效率的同时提升了检出表现：可使医生阅片工作量减少44%，乳腺癌检出率提高29%。同时，AI辅助组的“间期癌”病例较对照组减少12%。研究还指出，在AI辅助筛查后仍出现的“间期癌”中，病情较重的比例也更低。

研究人员说，AI辅助不仅提高了筛查“敏感性”，即更不容易漏检癌症，且并未增加“假阳性”。“假阳性”是指女性因筛查结果阳性进一步检查，但最终并未确诊乳腺癌的情况，这可能带来不必要的焦虑和医疗负担。

研究人员指出，上述结果进一步支持AI辅助乳腺筛查在临床应用中的安全性、准确性与效率。该技术已在瑞典部分地区以及欧洲其他地区开始应用。随着证据积累，相关方法有望在开展乳腺癌筛查的国家产生更广泛影响。

相关研究成果已发表于英国医学期刊《柳叶刀》。

US Senate committee to hold hearing with NTSB chair on deadly mid-air collision

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee plans to hold a February 12 hearing with the head of the National Transportation Safety Board after the agency found a series of systemic failures by the Federal Aviation Administration led to a devastating mid-air collision that killed 67 people last year.

The January 2025 collision between an American Airlines AAL.O regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) was the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster since November 2001.

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The panel will hear testimony from NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy as lawmakers seek to win approval of an air safety reform bill that has stalled in the U.S. House.

Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz said he believes the House will quickly take up the bill that would require aircraft operators by the end of 2031 to equip their fleets with a key airplane tracking system known as ADS-B that also boosts oversight of commercial jet and helicopter traffic and flight routes near commercial airports.

Separately, the committee on Tuesday voted to advance the nomination of an American Airlines pilot and safety official to serve on the NTSB. John DeLeeuw, managing director of safety and a Boeing 787 captain, was named to fill the seat of Alvin Brown, an appointee of the Biden administration who was dismissed by the White House in May.

The NTSB determined the accident was caused by the FAA’s decision to allow helicopters to travel close to the airport with no safeguards to separate them from airplanes and its failure to review data and act on recommendations to move helicopter traffic away from the airport.

Homendy said the airport’s air traffic control tower personnel repeatedly sought to raise concerns only to get “squashed by management … This was 100% preventable.”

The board also cited failings in the Army safety culture and the Army pilot’s failure to properly see and avoid the passenger airplane. In December, the Justice Department said the federal government was liable in the crash due to the actions of the Army helicopter and the FAA air traffic controller.

The National Transportation Safety Board said last year that since 2021, there were more than 15,200 occurrences between commercial airplanes and helicopters with lateral separation distance of less than 1 nautical mile and vertical separation of less than 400 feet, and 85 close-call incidents during that period.

Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington; Editing by Aurora Ellis

国共智库论坛登场 达成恢复两岸人员往来正常化等共同意见

发布/2026年2月3日 23:54

由中共中央台办海峡两岸关系研究中心与中国国民党国政研究基金会共同主办，以“两岸交流合作前瞻”为主题的国共两党智库论坛，星期二（2月3日）在北京开幕。图为中共中央台办主任宋涛（左）、中国国民党副主席萧旭岑（右）出席论坛。 （中新社）

国共智库论坛星期二在北京达成恢复两岸人员往来正常化等15项共同意见。台湾总统赖清德透过记者会喊话，面对中国大陆威胁，国民党作为最大在野党不审总预算、不审国防预算特别条例，只进行国共合作，“这对台湾来讲是危险的”。

国民党主席郑丽文在2026台北国际书展活动中，未直接回应国共论坛的问题，而是强调东亚已非昔日弱小的被殖民地，期许上个世纪曾经充满烟硝味的“第一岛链”，不再被视为战争冲突的代名词，而是转化为“和解和平的起点”。

睽违近10年的国共智库论坛，星期二（2月3日）在北京召开。中共中央台湾工作办公室主任宋涛在开幕式致词时表示，“举办国共两党智库论坛是落实两党领导人贺复电精神的具体举措”，正逢其时、顺应民意，是一个充满希望的良好开端。

宋涛表示，两党要以民意为依归，毫不动摇坚持“九二共识”、反对“台独”，引领两岸关系发展的方向，推动两岸关系和平发展。他说：“两岸关系终将冬去春来，家国团圆，未来可期。”

国民党副主席萧旭岑致词时，引用2025年台湾民众赴中国大陆达489万人次，几乎回到疫情前高峰区间，接近九成民众主张两岸维持沟通管道，46%民众希望两岸加强经贸交流，创下近四年新高等数据。他强调国民党背负台湾老百姓的期待，国共论坛就是为两岸产业寻找出路，为两岸人民共谋福祉。

萧旭岑称，过去30年经验证明，两岸大交流、大合作，互利共荣、和平发展，最符合两岸人民的共同利益。期许两岸应以确保人民福祉为最大目标，坚持“九二共识”，反对“台独”，求同存异，搁置争议，共创双赢，共同追求和平发展。

他意有所指地说：“我们应该要两岸合作，赚世界的钱，不要两岸对立，让其他外国渔翁得利、剥削台湾、掏空台湾，让后代子子孙孙无法立足！”

赖清德星期二召开“台美经济繁荣伙伴对话”记者会，强调经过九个月的努力，完成台美对等关税谈判，取得“让国人满意，让世界称羡的成果”，确保台湾企业在国际经贸竞争中，得以和世界主要竞争对手，站在平等的立足点上。

赖清德在接受提问时称，这场记者会不是针对国共交流而开的，但刚好可以提供对比，让民众清楚辨识，到底是民进党政府推动的携手美国等友盟，走进国际的经济战略，或再度“锁进中国”，即在野党推动的“二次西进”，对台湾经济发展比较有利？

他认为，面对中国大陆威胁时，国民党不审总预算、不审国防预算特别条例，只进行国共合作，“这对台湾来讲是危险的”。

赖清德重申，民进党政府不只重视和美国等国的国际关系，也同样重视两岸关系，只要大陆正视“中华民国”存在的事实，愿意尊重台湾人民自由民主的生活方式，只要能对等尊严，台湾很乐意跟大陆进行交流合作，创造和平共荣，近十年来“我们的两岸路线，持续保持善意”。

国共两党智库论坛在傍晚闭幕，双方提出五个面向、15项共同意见，包括推动恢复两岸人员往来正常化、加强两岸新兴产业领域合作、探索两岸医疗康养合作新路径等。

台湾政府的大陆委员会则强调，国共两党的“共同意见”是配合中共融台及统战政策，并走回西进及依赖中共的老路。中共的做法是企图绕过公权力，制造台湾内部分化及矛盾、误导民众认知。

White House meeting fails to resolve US crypto legislation stalemate | Reuters

By Hannah Lang

• Summary
• Meeting highlights divisions between banks and crypto firms
• Clash over stablecoin rewards stalls legislation
• Crypto firms argue rewards are key for customer recruitment

Feb 3 (Reuters) – A White House meeting aimed at breaking a months‑long stalemate between major U.S. banks and cryptocurrency firms ended on Monday without any agreement, underscoring industry divisions that threaten progress on landmark digital‑asset legislation.

The closed‑door session, convened by the White House’s crypto council, brought together representatives from the crypto and banking industries in an effort to reach an agreement on stalled crypto market structure legislation. Both sides emerged from the meeting describing it as constructive, but fundamental disagreements that upended the bill’s progress remained unresolved.

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Representatives of the American Bankers Association, the Independent Community Bankers of America, the Blockchain Association and The Digital Chamber were among those in attendance.

“The White House continues to engage in productive conversations to advance President Trump’s agenda of cementing American dominance in the cutting-edge technologies of the future,” said White House spokesman Kush Desai in a statement.

STABLECOIN INTEREST A STICKING POINT

Crypto market structure legislation has been held up by a clash for months between the two industries over how the bill treats interest and other rewards paid on stablecoins. Banks have been pushing for language in the bill prohibiting the practice.

Crypto companies say providing rewards such as interest is crucial for recruiting new customers and that barring them from doing so would be anti-competitive. ‍Banks say the increased competition could result in insured lenders experiencing an exodus of deposits – the primary source of funding for ⁠most banks – potentially threatening ⁠financial stability.

Monday’s White House meeting was intended to forge a compromise after the Senate Banking Committee postponed a vote last month amid rising objections from both sectors and fears the bill did not have enough support to advance to the full Senate.

While both sides in statements called the meeting constructive, it did not result in an agreement, according to one source who attended and declined to be identified discussing private policy discussions.

The source anticipated there would be subsequent White House meetings to try and resolve the impasse.

The Clarity Act aims to create federal rules for digital assets, the culmination of years of crypto industry lobbying. Crypto companies have long argued that existing ‌rules are ‌inadequate for digital assets, and that legislation is essential for companies to continue to operate with legal certainty in the U.S.

The House of Representatives passed its version of the bill in July.

Reporting by Hannah Lang in New York; editing by Pete Schroeder, Chizu Nomiyama, Rod Nickel

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Hannah Lang covers financial technology and cryptocurrency, including the businesses that drive the industry and policy developments that govern the sector. Hannah previously worked at American Banker where she covered bank regulation and the Federal Reserve. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park and lives in Washington, DC.

End of government shutdown in sight as Speaker Johnson overcomes GOP revolt

The final vote on sending the bill to President Trump’s desk is Tuesday afternoon

By Elizabeth Elkind
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Published February 3, 2026 12:34pm EST

Kat Cammack discusses House test vote to end partial government shutdown

Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., discusses the House test vote to end the partial government shutdown. She addresses the need for the SAVE Act to ensure only citizens vote in U.S. elections.

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The end of the current government shutdown is in sight on its fourth day after Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., managed to corral nearly all of his House GOP lawmakers to advance the legislation.

The Senate’s federal funding deal survived an important hurdle late Tuesday morning, clearing a House-wide “rule vote” to allow for lawmakers to debate the measure and set up a vote on final passage by the afternoon.

The 217 to 215 vote was a touch-and-go situation for over an hour as Johnson managed a perilously slim one-seat majority with flare-ups of GOP rebellions that almost upended the proceedings and extended the shutdown.

It comes after a pair of House conservatives announced they would be backing off their threats to sink the legislation during the rule vote if the legislation was not paired with an unrelated election integrity bill called the SAVE America Act.

TRUMP UNDERCUTS GOP PUSH TO ATTACH SAVE ACT TO SHUTDOWN BILL AS CONSERVATIVES THREATEN MUTINY

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., awaits the arrival of the leader of the Orthodox Christian Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 17, 2025.(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

A rule vote is a House-wide test vote of sorts for most bills before they are considered for final passage. They normally fall along partisan lines even if the underlying bill has bipartisan support.

The same is true in this case, where at least several House Democrats are expected to support the funding bill during final passage — despite House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., strongly coming out against it.

But for Johnson, that meant navigating a his slim majority to get nearly all House Republicans to vote in lockstep to advance the legislation.

Democrats had initially walked away from a bipartisan House deal to finish funding the federal government through the end of fiscal year (FY) 2026 on Sept. 30, rebelling against a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over President Donald Trump’s handling of unrest in Minneapolis.

TRUMP, SCHUMER REACH GOVERNMENT FUNDING DEAL, SACRIFICE DHS SPENDING BILL IN THE PROCESS

It left roughly 78% of the government’s yearly funding hanging in the balance. The DHS bill was lumped into a wider package authorizing budgets for the departments of War, Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Education.

A new deal hashed out between Senate Democrats and the White House would fully fund those remaining areas while only extending current funding levels for DHS through Feb. 13, in order to give Democrats and Republicans time to hash out a longer-term bipartisan plan.

President Donald Trump arrives to take part in a dedication ceremony for Southern Boulevard in the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 16, 2026.(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

And despite most House Republicans coming on board — some more reluctant than others over the prospect of dealing with Democrats — Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., warned they would not support the bill during the rule vote without the SAVE America Act attached.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ENTERS DAY 4 AS LAWMAKERS GEAR UP FOR HOUSE-WIDE VOTE ON TRUMP-BACKED DEAL

The SAVE America Act would require voter ID at the polls and create a new proof of citizenship mandate in the voter registration process.

But that would require it to be sent back to the Senate for additional approval, where Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said it was dead on arrival.

However, Luna told reporters on Monday night that she and Burchett both changed their minds after getting assurances from the White House that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., would force a vote on the SAVE America Act.

“As of right now, with the current agreement that we have, as well as discussions, we will both be a yes on the rule,” Luna said. “There is something called a standing filibuster that would effectively allow Senator Thune to put voter ID on the floor of the Senate. We are hearing that that is going well, and he is considering that…so we are very happy about that.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna looks on during a House Oversight Subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on April 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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But another unexpected mutiny arose when Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., initially voted with Democrats to sink the rule. He posted on X shortly before the vote, “[Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.] is already backtracking on what he reportedly told some House Republicans: that if we reopened the government, he’d keep his word and bring the SAVE Act to the floor. House Republicans MUST hold the line and refuse to fold on something as fundamental as election integrity. The SAVE Act belongs on must-pass legislation.”

Other conservatives like Reps. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Troy Nehls, R-Texas, did not initially cast votes but did so by the end of the ordeal.

After negotiations with GOP leaders, Rose eventually switched his vote as the few Republicans left in the chamber applauded. Just one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., ended up not voting with the majority.

House lawmakers will now debate the underlying bill, which will see a final vote later in the afternoon.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

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Martin Shkreli countersues over unique Wu-Tang Clan album

By Jonathan Stempel

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• ‘Pharma Bro’ sues PleasrDAO, Wu-Tang’s RZA, producer
• Shkreli claims 50% stake in ‘Shaolin’ album
• PleasrDAO accused Shkreli of making copies
• PleasrDAO lawyer expects rejection of countersuit

NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Martin Shkreli, the convicted former pharmaceutical executive, countersued a digital art collective that paid $4 million for a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

In a complaint filed late Monday night in Brooklyn federal court, Shkreli also sued Wu-Tang rapper RZA and producer Cilvaringz to undo their alleged “duplicate sale” to the PleasrDAO collective of his 50% interest in copyrights to “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.”

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PleasrDAO is a decentralized group that buys what its members view as culturally significant materials.

“Mr. Shkreli’s approach throughout has been to distract and delay with actions that the court has consistently and strenuously rejected,” PleasrDAO’s lawyer Steven Cooper said in an email. “These counterclaims will meet the same fate.”

Representatives for RZA and Cilvaringz did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The countersuit raises the stakes in an unusual battle, over a unique album that Shkreli said he bought for $1.5 million in 2015.

Shkreli, 42, relinquished ownership of “Shaolin” to partially satisfy a forfeiture stemming from his 2017 conviction for defrauding hedge fund investors and scheming to defraud investors in his drugmaker Retrophin.

PleasrDAO paid about $4 million for “Shaolin” in 2021.

It sued Shkreli three years later, saying he violated his 2015 sale contract by livestreaming parts of the album for his followers, apparently from copies.

JUDGE ALLOWED PLEASRDAO TO SUE SHKRELI

In his countersuit, Shkreli said the contract called for his 50% copyright interest to be transferred to him in 2103, when he would be 120 years old.

He said the defendants violated his rights when PleasrDAO paid RZA and Cilvaringz $750,000 for that stake, with RZA and Cilvaringz essentially “selling a total of 150% of the copyrights.”

RZA’s and Cilvaringz’s respective given names are Robert Diggs and Tarik Azzougarh.

Shkreli and PleasrDAO are seeking unspecified damages and profits in their respective lawsuits.

Last September, U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen rejected Shkreli’s bid to dismiss PleasrDAO’s lawsuit, saying the value of “Shaolin” came from the collective’s “ability to exploit its exclusivity to create an ‘experience’ that its competitors cannot.”

Shkreli became known as “Pharma Bro” when, as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals in 2015, he raised the price of the life-saving antiparasitic drug Daraprim overnight to $750 per tablet from $17.50.

In 2022, Shkreli was released early from his seven-year prison sentence, and banned from the pharmaceutical industry.

Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Richard Chang and Franklin Paul

香港巴士安全带新法暂缓 立法会被质疑把关不力

发布/2026年2月3日 23:32 / 联合早报

香港实施巴士乘客强制佩戴安全带新法例，岂料数天后就因发现执行细节和法例精神不符而宣布暂缓执行。社会各界纷纷质疑立法会把关不力，立法会前主席范徐丽泰更在报章撰文，指立法会议员履职要重视审议条例草案。

香港巴士乘客强制佩戴安全带的新法例是在1月25日正式实施，港府连日来大事宣传新法，却引起很多乘客不满，认为带来不便。事件过后有出人意表的发展，身为律师的立法会前议员江玉欢上周在社交媒体发文，指新法例列明有关措施只适用于今年1月25日或之后首次登记的新巴士。该日之前首次登记的现役旧巴士，乘客不佩戴安全带也不违法。

由于法例条文与港府的宣传及警方的执法不吻合，港府运输及物流局局长陈美宝上周五（1月30日）召开记者会，表示有关巴士乘客安全带佩戴的法律条文“在技术上有不足之处，未能完全反映立法原意”，宣布暂缓执行并删除条文。

据香港《信报》报道，港府会在完善法律条文后再征询立法会，并重新推出新法。但对于当局打算重新实施备受争议的强制系安全带规例，不少议员的态度有极大保留。有议员认为港府这次错有错着，应顺水推舟，调整原本的强制系安全带要求，甚至无限期搁置立法。

中央港澳办主任夏宝龙上月在全国港澳研究会专题研讨会上发表讲话，指出香港实施行政主导，立法会要发挥好作用，“要同唱一台戏，要多补台，不能拆台”。这次的“安全带之乱”引起香港社会热议，质疑立法会把关不力。

香港立法会前主席范徐丽泰星期二（2月3日）在《明报》撰文，对立法会议员履职提出三点看法，包括：应成为政府与市民之间的桥梁、善用质询及无法律效力的议案辩论，以及重视审议条例草案。

范徐丽泰说，议员应向市民解释政府的政策和法案，再把收集到的民意向政府反映；在审议条例草案的过程中，须逐个考虑各方面意见，达成大家都可接受亦可行的方案。她强调需要平衡各方利益，使条文符合订立条例的初心，并能行之有效。

香港中文大学政务与政策科学学院讲师孔永乐接受《联合早报》访问时指出，立法会议员在审议条例草案过程中，发现新法例在实际执行过程中可能面对问题时，有责任在议会内提出修订。这也是立法会议员发现民意、听取民意，最终向政府表达民意及改善民生福利的过程。

他表示，这起风波反映日后香港立法会议员与市民见面交流时，不但要聆听市民对民生经济各方面的意见，也应多了解他们对即将实施的新法例是否关注及有所忧虑。此外，立法会议员要加强对政策议题的相关研究，确保政策实施后能为整体社会带来更多益处。

Trump says his administration is seeking $1 billion in talks with Harvard

Updated on: February 3, 2026 / 10:09 AM EST / CBS/AFP

President Trump said late Monday his administration is seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University in an apparent response to a New York Times report that said the school had won some concessions in ongoing negotiations to settle its dispute with the government.

“We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothing further to do, into the future, with Harvard University,” Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

He quoted the Times as saying, “Some connected to the University, however, think Harvard has no option but to eventually cut a deal. The Administration has repeatedly attempted to cut off research grants, which would be an untenable crises. Like many major research universities, Harvard relies on federal funding for its financial model.”

The Times earlier on Monday reported Mr. Trump had dropped his administration’s demands for a settlement payout of $200 million from Harvard, after protracted talks.

Citing “Harvard and Trump officials briefed on the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations,” the Times said “Trump administration officials have indicated in recent days that the president no longer expects such a payment.”

Mr. Trump told reporters last September that negotiators were close to reaching a $500 million settlement with Harvard, with part of the deal including a plan to open new trade schools.

“They wanted to do a convoluted job training concept, but it was turned down in that it was wholly inadequate and would not have been, in our opinion, successful,” Mr. Trump said in his Monday post.

“It was merely a way of Harvard getting out of a large cash settlement of more than 500 Million Dollars, a number that should be much higher for the serious and heinous illegalities that they have committed,” he added, without specifying what laws Harvard had allegedly broken.

Administration officials have accused Harvard and other colleges of promoting so-called “woke” ideology while failing to sufficiently protect Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests and filed a series of legal complaints along with demands for large payouts.

A federal judge ruled in September that the Trump administration violated Harvard University’s First Amendment rights and federal law when it froze nearly $2 billion in federal grants due to the antisemitism allegations.

In her ruling in September, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said the funding freeze was part of a “government-initiated onslaught” against the school that was “much more about promoting a governmental orthodoxy in violation of the First Amendment than about anything else, including fighting antisemitism.”

Harvard also separately sued the federal government last year after Mr. Trump barred most international students from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard. Burroughs later ruled for Harvard, blocking that policy. The Justice Department said it will appeal.

Critics have called it a pressure campaign by the administration on liberal universities. CBS News has reached out to Harvard University for comment.