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Fox News Hourly Update

8AM ET 02/02/2026 Newscast

02 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What updates are there on the government shutdown?

2.95 - 11.503 Dave Anthony

It's day three of the government shutdown. I'm Dave Anthony, Fox News, but it's only a partial one this time. And House Speaker Mike Johnson tells Fox News Sunday it'll end soon.

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11.603 - 18.453 House Speaker Mike Johnson

We'll get all this done by Tuesday, I'm convinced. We do have to do it by way of a rule process, which will be probably on our own.

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18.513 - 37.244 Dave Anthony

Because Democrats are unwilling to help approve the Senate compromise that funds the government through September, except for homeland security. It would only get two weeks as Democrats demand immigration enforcement reform. And that anti-ICE sentiment was prominent in the Grammys on CBS last night. No one is illegal on stolen land. That was Billie Eilish after winning Song of the Year.

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37.344 - 52.093 Dave Anthony

Bad Bunny also got cheered, accepting Album of the Year's Grammy, declaring Ice Out were not savages. President Trump called the Grammys the worst and virtually unwatchable. And a Truth Social post that also threatened to sue the host Trevor Noah for a comment that the president visited Epstein Island.

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52.073 - 79.465 Chris Foster

referencing late sex offender jeffrey epstein the president called that wrong and defamatory president trump was also chairman of the board of the now trump kennedy center says it's going to close in july for a two-year renovation there was a renovation and expansion completed in 2019 rooms president trump has said nobody's going to use there have been lower ticket sales and artist boycotts since the president took over the center's board a year ago and voted december to rename the kennedy center the donald j trump and john f kennedy memorial center for the performing arts that's

79.445 - 101.993 Dave Anthony

Fox's Chris Foster. There's still about 100,000 power outages in the south from the massive storm more than a week ago. While in North Carolina, they dig out from a weekend storm that dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas. So how much more of this are we going to get? They just asked a famous groundhog. There is a shadow here on my ground. Six more weeks of winter abound.

101.973 - 118.817 Dave Anthony

Punxsutawney Phil just predicted that at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania, where it's one degree now. And on this Groundhog Day, there are also other less famous ones across the country that will also forecast how much winter is left. America's listening to Fox News.

120.029 - 125.06 Ainsley Earhardt

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125.08 - 134.68 Unknown

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Chapter 2: How did the Grammys address immigration and ICE issues?

136.583 - 154.727 Dave Anthony

The Republican House majority gets a little slimmer today, 218 to 214. Democrat Christian Menefee is expected to be sworn in after winning a special election in Texas Saturday to replace the late Sylvester Turner, who died last year there. Mourning a police officer in Georgia the day after a deadly shooting.

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154.707 - 176.108 Sue Guzman

A Gwinnett County, Georgia police officer is dead and others injured after they were shot by a suspect in a suburban Atlanta hotel room Sunday morning. Police Chief J.D. McClure says the officers were called to the room after someone told the hotel the credit card was being used fraudulently. Suspect inviting the officers into the room where at some point he produced a handgun and fired at them.

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176.488 - 186.199 Sue Guzman

The alleged shooter also shot by one of the officers he's expected to survive. The injured officer said to be in serious but stable condition. Sue Guzman, Fox News.

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186.399 - 204.77 Dave Anthony

Social media is on trial in two separate cases. Jury selection continues in California today in a lawsuit accusing YouTube owner Google and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, of using technology to make their social media addictive, causing mental health issues for users. Snapchat and TikTok were also sued in the case but settled.

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205.331 - 208.035 Dave Anthony

They'll start to pick a jury today in the other trial.

208.015 - 224.826 Jessica Rosenthal

New Mexico's attorney general sued Meta, claiming they failed to adequately protect minors from being exploited on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The state argues Meta's own internal documents reveal company officials have known about the grooming, solicitation, and efforts to traffic children through their platforms.

224.806 - 238.51 Jessica Rosenthal

Meta attorneys have pointed to First Amendment but also liability protections they have, arguing they can't be held responsible for third-party content, though they also argue they've implemented a number of child safety protocols, including restrictions on direct messages to users under 16.

239.071 - 246.985 Jessica Rosenthal

Ahead of jury selection, the judge in the case denied Meta's request to restrict recordings and streamings of the trial. Jessica Rosenthal, Fox News.

247.486 - 253.497 Dave Anthony

On Wall Street, selling is brewing. Stock futures are down before this week's trading. I'm Dave Anthony. This is Fox News.

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