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Top News Stories for Friday, February 13th 2026
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
showed Bondi at a congressional hearing Wednesday holding a document labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History." The document listed Epstein files that the Democratic representative from Washington confirmed she searched. this week to view unredacted Epstein files. The review process could take place in person at the Justice Department on DOJ computers. In a letter from the Justice Department to lawmakers obtained by ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said his administration has rescinded the "endangerment finding," a landmark scientific determination that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. The 2009 finding serves as the legal foundation for a variety of environmental rules, including federal climate standards for cars and trucks. Trump said he's also repealing those vehicle-related standards. "We are officially ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Slow inventory recovery, coupled with major snowstorms across half of the country, put a massive halt on existing-home sales in January, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). NAR's Existing-Homes Sales report for January found that sales fell 8.4% to a rate of 3.91 million, a large reversal from last month's 5.1% increase and the biggest monthly decrease seen since ...
Source: rismedia.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 -
An 18-year-old identified by police as Jesse Van Rootselaar carried out a deadly shooting in the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge that left multiple people dead and many more injured on Wednesday. Canadian police said the violence began at a family home near the town. There, Van Rootselaar shot and killed her 39-year-old mother and her 11-year-old stepbrother. After those killings, she traveled to Tumbler Ridge ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Feb. 11, 2026 to approve the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act – or SAVE America Act. The bill would require individuals to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote and present photo identification when they do vote in federal elections. This marks the third year in a row that the House has passed similar legislation. Passage in the ...
Source: theconversation.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
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Sports 4 min read Ukrainian skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from the Winter Olympics for "refusing to adhere" to the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) athlete expression guidelines regarding his insistence on wearing a helmet featuring images of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine in competition. IOC President Kirsty Coventry met with Heraskevych early Thursday in an attempt ...
Source: edition.cnn.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 -
Tom Homan claims success in 'sanctuary' crackdown as federal agents begin drawdown following a wave of protests and two deaths Reading Time: 2 minutes The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end, border tsar Tom Homan said on Thursday. Democratic Governor Tim Walz said on Tuesday that he expected Operation Metro Surge, which started in December, to ...
Source: scmp.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review an application from the biotech company Moderna to approve its mRNA-based flu vaccine. The agency's decision, which Moderna announced in a press release on Feb. 10, 2026 , is the latest step in efforts by federal health officials under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to disrupt longstanding public health practices relating to vaccine ...
Source: theconversation.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Russia has blocked the popular messaging service WhatsApp over its failure to comply with local legislation, the Kremlin said Thursday, urging its 100 million Russian users to switch to a domestic alternative. Moscow has for months been trying to shift Russian users onto Max, a domestic messaging service that lacks end-to-end encryption and that activists have called a potential tool for surveillance. "As for the ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump ordered two executive branch departments to take actions that would increase the use of coal in the United States, despite fossil fuels becoming an obsolete form of energy production that is devastating to the health of the planet. Under his plan, intended to bolster the dwindling U.S. coal industry , the Department of Defense would purchase electricity from coal-fired power ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. El agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza que disparó a Marimar Martínez de Chicago, escribió una vez que sus superiores lo habían apoyado, "en grande". El comandante de la Patrulla Fronteriza, Gregory Bovino, lo elogió después del tiroteo. Dijo que el apoyo continuó en la cadena de mando, desde la ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) agents is unlike any past technology shift. It creates a significant opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) to expand and enhance their offerings. AI agent adoption accelerates at unprecedented speed A survey of 600 global data leaders across the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific conducted by Informatica, a unit of Salesforce, finds nearly half (47 percent) have ...
Source: smartermsp.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The Department of Homeland Security, which houses agencies focused on immigration, disaster response and cybersecurity, is on track to shut down Saturday as lawmakers leave town without a funding agreement or a deal that Democrats hope will rein in the conduct of federal immigration officers. After two U.S. citizens were shot dead by immigration officers in Minneapolis, Democrats laid out 10 demands to restrict ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Federal judges defended their authority to select a new US attorney for the Northern District of New York after the Justice Department quickly fired the court's newly appointed top prosecutor. The appointment of longtime litigator Donald Kinsella falls in line with the court's statutory role to name a US attorney at the time of a vacancy, the court said Thursday. The statement came a day after Deputy Attorney ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The IRS' improper disclosure of thousands of immigrants' personal information to the Department of Homeland Security fulfilled early warnings that the data-sharing deal between the agencies would put taxpayer data at risk. The IRS and DHS in April 2025 agreed to share data of immigrants to help with criminal investigations, subject to privacy law limitations. But the agency in a Wednesday court filing said it ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It's now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than 50. The deaths of "Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek at 48 this week, and a few years ago "Black Panther" star Chadwick Boseman at 43, highlight the risk for younger adults. "We're now starting to see more and more people in the ...
Source: apnews.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 ordered the Trump administration to start allowing Venezuelans sent to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador to return to the United States for their immigration proceedings if they choose to. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote in an order that it was requiring the administration to allow entry to any of the more than 130 Venezuelan men who were held for four months in the Terrorism ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
By Out of the six people who were murdered Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota, five were members of the same family. Russell Kot, 51, who lived in Fort Lauderdale, killed Larisa Blyudaya, 46, and her 18-year-old son, Ben Azizov, according to police. Police found their bodies inside Blyudaya's town house on the 500 block of Northeast 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale's Victoria Park neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
"We will pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect our data centers," Anthropic said in a blog post published Wednesday, adding that it will absorb costs that might otherwise be passed on to American households. "The country needs to build new data centers quickly to maintain its competitiveness on AI and national security," Anthropic said. "But AI companies shouldn't leave American ratepayers to ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) models has led to a new form of intellectual property theft called "model extraction attacks" or "distillation attacks," Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said in a Thursday (Feb. 12) blog post . In these attacks, threat actors use their legitimate access to a large language model (LLM) to extract information that can be ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The same chemicals found in pipes, pesticides and floor tiles are also present in some wigs, braiding hair and hair extensions, a new study published Wednesday in the journal Environment & Health found. Researchers at the Silent Spring Institute, a scientific research nonprofit organization based in Massachusetts, tested 43 hair extension products purchased online and from local beauty supply stores and identified ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in the contest that pits the Bangladesh Nationalist Party against its former ally the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami. Bangladesh will go to the polls for the first time since its government collapsed in 2024 during a bloody crackdown on protesters. More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in the country's first general election since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Foreign exporters paid a growing share of the cost of new tariffs in 2025, though U.S. importers continued to pay for most of that cost, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday (Feb. 12). The share paid by foreign exporters was 6% from January through August, 8% from September through October, and 14% in November, New York Fed economists Mary Amiti , Chris Flanagan and Sebastian Heise ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Amazon is competing with Walmart in the delivery business and against pharmacies such as CVS and Walgreens. Pharmacy Susan Morse Amazon Pharmacy has announced it is expanding same-day delivery to close to 4,500 cities this year. This will add nearly 2,000 new communities to expansion efforts that began in 2024 in New York City and greater Los Angeles. New states offering same-day medication delivery include ...
Source: healthcarefinancenews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... United Launch Alliance suffered yet another fiery burn-through on one of its solid rocket boosters during a national security mission Thursday. The Vulcan rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 at 4:22 a.m. on the USSF-87 mission for the Space Force, ULA's first launch of the year and only its fourth launch of a Vulcan. Tracking ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes Today is a momentous day for anyone who spent $3,500 on Apple's "spatial computer." The Vision Pro , two years after its initial release, now has an official YouTube app . It may seem like one of those things that happened a million years ago, but for various reasons, it actually happened today. According to the official description of the YouTube app in the App Store, you'll be able to watch ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
▶ Follow live updates on the airspace around El Paso EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport. A notice posted on the FAA's website said the temporary flight restrictions were for "special security reasons," but did not provide additional details. The closure ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it "reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership." "Our ...
Source: thehill.com