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Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Photographs taken by Reuters during a congressional hearing on Wednesday showed the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, holding a document titled "Jayapal Pramila Search History", listing files that the Democratic US representative Pramila Jayapal had accessed during her review of the Epstein materials. Access to the unredacted Epstein materials became available to legislators earlier this week under the Epstein Files ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Rollback of government's ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families 'sicker and less safe', environmental advocate says The Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination that gives the government the ability to regulate climate-heating pollution. The move was described as a gift to "billionaire polluters" at the expense of Americans' health. The endangerment finding, which ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! Fewer Maine homes sold last month than in January 2025, but they sold for higher prices, kicking off the year with a familiar, if slow, pattern after an unpredictable market in ...
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Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Welcome to Trendlines. The secret password is " Stay little Valentine ." Today, I explain why the US suddenly has a million fewer jobs than the government previously said we had. Plus: Indexing killed the mutual fund star. Poof! The Labor Department said Wednesday that revised data show the US economy had a million fewer jobs at the end of last year than previously reported. You might ask: "Where did they go?" The ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych, a likely medal contender at the Milan Cortina Games , was barred from racing Thursday after refusing a last-minute plea from the International Olympic Committee to not use a helmet that honors more than 20 athletes and coaches killed since Russia invaded his country four years ago. The decision came roughly 45 minutes before the ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Newly released evidence shows that the Department of Homeland Security lied about the shooting of yet another US citizen. In October, a Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old school assistant, five times while she was in her vehicle in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago. She had been tailing agents while warning the neighborhood that "la migra" was coming. Immediately after the shooting, ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is ending the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to thousands of arrests, violent protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens over the past two months, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday. The operation called the Department of Homeland Security's " largest immigration enforcement operation ever " has been a flashpoint in the debate over President Donald Trump's mass ...
Source: wbur.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Since being sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has repeatedly tried to undermine public trust in vaccines. His agency recently took steps to slow down the development of these public health tools yet again. This week, vaccine manufacturer Moderna revealed that Vinaya Prasad, the top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—which is a part of ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Russia has blocked the popular messaging service WhatsApp over its failure to comply with local legislation. 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 ...
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 -
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 -
The original English version of this story is available here . Desde su llegada en 2018, Cáceres se ha aferrado a su fe: asiste a la iglesia cada semana y ha aceptado llamamientos de liderazgo voluntario, incluido el de consejera en la Sociedad de Socorro de su congregación. Por eso, resultó apropiado que su obispo, el líder laico de su congregación, estuviera a su lado cuando en ...
Source: sltrib.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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Lawmakers in both chambers were put on notice to return to Washington should a deal be reached to avert the anticipated shutdown A shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security appeared all but certain on Thursday as lawmakers prepared to depart Washington for a 10-day ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A district court in New York set the Trump administration off on Wednesday by naming the replacement for one of the DOJ's several "not lawfully serving" acting U.S. attorneys, leading to a swift "you are fired" announcement on social media and a near replay of a standoff from the summer. John Sarcone had clung to his claimed title of acting top prosecutor, through the office of first assistant U.S. attorney, and ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The IRS shared taxpayer data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that skirted federal privacy law and was outside the scope of the agencies' controversial data-sharing agreement, according to a court filing Wednesday. A sworn declaration from Dottie A. Romo, previously the IRS's chief operating officer and now its chief risk and control officer, detailed the tax agency's missteps regarding a request from ICE ...
Source: fedscoop.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 on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from downgrading the military retirement rank and pay of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, finding that the government had "trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms." A retired Navy captain, Kelly drew the Trump administration's ire after he and five other Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military to "refuse illegal orders." ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate the return from third countries" of Alien Enemies Act deportees who "desire" to come back to the United States as habeas cases proceed, putting the government on the hook for the costs of any flights. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, a thorn in the side of the DOJ, in multiple instances Thursday chided the Trump ...
Source: lawandcrime.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 -
A new report out today from the Google Threat Intelligence Group is warning that threat actors are moving beyond casual experimentation with artificial intelligence and are now beginning to integrate AI directly into operational attack workflows. The report focuses in part on abuse and targeting of Google's own Gemini models, underscoring how generative AI systems are increasingly being tested, probed and, in some ...
Source: siliconangle.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 -
Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket launched successfully Thursday morning while experiencing an issue with its booster. An apparent burn-through could be seen near the nozzle of the rocket's fuel booster about 20 seconds after liftoff. Despite this, the Vulcan Centaur's launch was a success. "We had an observation early during the flight on one of the four solid rocket motors," ULA ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Whether it was Google's doing, Apple's, or both, you can now watch your usual YouTube content in visionOS, no strings attached. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways I always wondered what would come first: smart cars that can communicate with each other via 5G, or the official YouTube app for VisionOS. The answer has finally arrived, with Apple today announcing the ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 does not include ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Public opinion polling agency says decision 'solely based on Gallup's research goals and priorities' Gallup, the public opinion polling agency, will stop tracking presidential approval ratings after almost nine decades, a spokesperson confirmed. As Donald Trump continues to closely scrutinize polling of his popularity, and publicly lambast media companies that report on unfavorable numbers, Gallup insisted its ...
Source: theguardian.com