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Top News Stories for Saturday, February 14th 2026
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government's legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
The American Bankers Association today joined the Business Software Alliance and seven associations in urging Commerce Department officials to retain the core structure of a risk management framework for artificial intelligence as the Trump administration seeks to spur AI adoption in the U.S. AI Risk Management Framework , or RMF, was released in 2023 in collaboration with the private and public sectors. The ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
The application has been erased from the national internet directory as part of a broader crackdown on unfriendly communication tools. Russian authorities have fully blocked WhatsApp, impacting up to 100 million users, according to the Financial Times. Officials removed the app from an online directory, erasing it from Russia's internet. The government previously urged users to switch to Max, an unencrypted app ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
The company identified over 100,000 prompts it suspects were intended to extract proprietary reasoning capabilities. Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The prompts looked like a coordinated ...
Source: csoonline.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Unofficial results show BNP ahead in Bangladesh election The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by Tarique Rahman has won two-thirds majority in the South Asian country's historic elections – the first since the 2024 student-led uprising that ousted the previous Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina . The Election Commission (EC) on Friday released the latest results from the elections, showing that the BNP had ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Kathy Ruemmler is leaving her position as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 's top lawyer, ending the firm's monthslong attempt to defend her previous association with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein . Ruemmler's name appeared in the millions of pages of documents that have been released by the US Department of Justice in recent weeks. Goldman Sachs hired Ruemmler as its legal chief in 2020, the year after Epstein's death. ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
This mission marked the debut of the heavy-lift four-booster variant, which doubles the payload capacity of the previous Ariane 62 model. Europe's most powerful rocket, the Ariane 64, reached orbit for the first time on Wednesday, carrying 32 satellites for Amazon's Leo broadband internet constellation. The launch took place at 16:45 UTC from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, with the mission lasting one ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Agency says application rejected due to lack of 'adequate and well controlled' trial, but experts say 'they're just coming up with reasons' A senior US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says Moderna's clinical trial on a new, potentially more effective flu vaccine was a "brazen failure" and that the FDA is now calling it into question. The FDA unexpectedly refused to consider Moderna's application for a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As outrage spreads over energy-hungry data centers, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech companies — and not regular people — must foot the bill for the exorbitant amount of electricity required for artificial intelligence. But that might be where the agreement ends. The price of powering ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Four new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching into orbit early Friday morning. They will arrive at an unusually quiet orbiting lab. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev were originally going to overlap in space with the outgoing crew, a mission known as Crew-11. But that group ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Proofpoint has acquired Acuvity, strengthening its platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI and agent-driven workflows. As generative AI reshapes how work gets done, organisations are deploying AI copilots, autonomous agents, and model-connected ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
London's high court on Friday upheld a challenge to a government ban on activist group Palestine Action, saying the proscription had interfered with the right to freedom of speech. A three-judge panel at the court found the ban was "disproportionate" and resulted in a "very significant interference with the right to freedom of speech and free assembly". UK interior minister Shabana Mahmood said she was ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Two people are dead and a third is wounded following a shooting on the campus of South Carolina State University, officials said. The shooting occurred Thursday night in an apartment at the Hugine Suites student residential complex on the university's campus in Orangeburg, located about 75 miles northwest of Charleston. The university issued a campus lockdown at about 9:15 p.m., according to ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
TOKYO — Japanese authorities have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain for allegedly fleeing inspection in its exclusive economic zone, an incident that could further inflame tensions between Asia's top two economies. The captain, a 47-year-old Chinese national, is accused of ignoring orders to stop for an on-board inspection on Thursday in waters off southwest Nagasaki prefecture, Japan's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, a roboticist from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) , was walking down a hallway tapping the railings, walls, and columns with a "wand" her student, Dr. Andrew Schulz, had given her. While she tapped the wand on different surfaces, she realized she could feel the different vibrations of surfaces, without having to look at them. The vibrations felt soft and gentle ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
US attorney general displayed records of Congress members' searches into Epstein files during House hearing Members of Congress are calling for investigations after discovering the Department of Justice created records of their research activities while they dug into files connected to Jeffrey Epstein . Photographs taken by Reuters during a congressional hearing on Wednesday showed the US attorney general, Pam ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The families of victims of a shooting in a remote Canadian Rockies town grappled with unrelenting grief Thursday as details emerged about those killed in the country's deadliest mass shooting in years. Authorities said the 18-year-old alleged shooter, identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed her 39-year-old mother, Jennifer Jacobs, and 11-year-old stepbrother, Emmett ...
Source: apnews.com
Border czar says Minnesota immigration crackdown is over, after angry protests and 2 fatal shootings
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TIM SULLIVAN, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration is ending a massive immigration crackdown that swept across the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and other Minnesota communities, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday, concluding an operation that led to thousands of arrests, angry mass protests and the ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy — Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych is out of the Milan Cortina Games after refusing a last-minute plea from the International Olympic Committee to use a helmet other than the one that honors athletes killed in Russia's war on his country . IOC President Kirsty Coventry was waiting for Heraskevych at the top of the track when he arrived around 8:15 a.m. Thursday, about ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Attorney of woman shot by ICE agent accuses officials of fabricating evidence The attorney of Marimar Martinez, whom US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot multiple times in Chicago in October, argued Wednesday that released evidence shows that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has lied about information tied to investigations. Attorney ...
Source: jurist.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Feb. 12 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to purchase coal-fired electricity to boost domestic coal production, a move that has drawn staunch criticism from energy and environmental experts. Trump issued the directive via an executive order that he signed Thursday at the end of a White House ceremony attended by coal executives called "The Champion of Coal Event." "We're going to be buying a ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
What is the SAVE America Act that mandates voter ID? The US House of Representatives this week passed legislation that would require voters to provide proof-of-citizenship as the midterm elections approach. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE America Act, would require a people to present a valid US passport or birth certificate when registering to vote. The proposal has raised concerns among some ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The appointment of a new U.S. attorney by federal judges in upstate New York this week ended abruptly after he was fired by the White House. Donald T. Kinsella was appointed as the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York . But just hours later, Kinsella said, he received an email from a White House official telling him that he was being removed from the post, the . When the New York Times reached ...
Source: abajournal.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
IRS Blunder Sends Immigrant Data to DHS The IRS mistakenly gave the Department of Homeland Security thousands of immigrants' personal information as part of the agencies' controversial data-sharing agreement, according to a new court filing. The error stems from the IRS's provision of taxpayers' addresses that immigration enforcement authorities didn't already have, IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Washington — The Senate failed to advance a measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, likely paving the way for another partial government shutdown without a last-minute breakthrough. In a 52 to 47 vote, all but one Democrat — Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — opposed moving forward with the bill, which would fund DHS through September. The motion needed 60 votes ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Following actor James Van Der Beek 's death after a 2½-year battle with colon cancer, experts are warning of the disease's prevalence among younger people. The "Dawson's Creek" star announced his stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis in November 2024, although he was officially diagnosed in August 2023 after a colonoscopy. In an August 2025 feature with Healthline, Van Der ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has granted Sen. Mark Kelly's request for a preliminary injunction against Pete Hegseth, in a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Democrat accusing the defense secretary of trying to punish him for his political speech. Kelly, a former Navy Captain, sued Hegseth in January, one week after the defense secretary moved to formally censure him for participating in a video where he and ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some of the Venezuelan migrants deported to a to return to the U.S. at the government's expense. The case has been a legal flashpoint in the administration's sweeping . It started in March after President invoked the 18th century Alien Enemies Act to send Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members to a mega-prison ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Donald Trump has appeared to confirm that the United States is looking to further shore up military assets in the Middle East despite ongoing diplomacy to ease tensions with Iran. The US president shared on his Truth Social platform on Thursday, without comment, a Wall Street Journal article titled "Pentagon Prepares Second Aircraft Carrier to Deploy to the Middle East". The story cited US officials as saying that ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining within the historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Feb. 7 fell by 5,000 to 227,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That's basically in line with the 226,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
It took two years, but YouTube is finally an Apple Vision Pro app. The news, announced Thursday, might come as a surprise if -- like most people -- you haven't tried Apple's Vision Pro . YouTube always seemed like a perfect fit for Apple's mixed-reality device, since so many videos there work in 3D, 360 degrees or in 180-degree immersive formats. And yet, Google and Apple had never figured out a way to make it ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The sudden and unprecedented Tuesday closure of El Paso's airspace stemmed from border officials firing a high-energy laser at what they believed to be a cartel drone , according to reports. But, it turned out to be something considerably more innocuous: a party balloon drifting ...
Source: independent.co.uk