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Top News Stories for Thursday, February 12th 2026
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Donald Trump addresses House Republicans in Washington. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Every time he sees trouble brewing, Donald Trump exhibits a telltale panic response. When he's cornered, when the walls close in and facts start to make the hair left on his head stand straight up — although a stiff wind will do that too — Trump doesn't simply deny. He lies by preemptively distancing himself. It's the first ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump is singing "No Canada" as a sprawling bridge connecting Ontario to Detroit nears completion. The Gordie Howe International Bridge is set to connect Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Construction began in 2018, with an anticipated opening planned for 2024. Delays pushed the opening to 2026 — and Trump's threats could delay it even longer. The US and Canada are engaged in an ongoing ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
RIO RICO, Ariz. (AP) — A person was detained for questioning Tuesday in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, hours after the FBI released surveillance videos of a masked person wearing a handgun holster outside Guthrie's front door the night she vanished from her Arizona home. News outlets later interviewed a man who said he was questioned and released. Authorities have not confirmed that the person they picked ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
At least nine people were killed and 27 were injured in a mass school shooting on Tuesday in a town in northeastern British Columbia, the Canadian police has said. A suspected attacke r was also found dead from what appeared to be a self‑inflicted injury, police reported, adding that authorities do not believe there were any other suspects or an ongoing threat to the public. Here is what we know: What ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refused to consider Moderna's application for a new flu vaccine using mRNA technology, the company announced Tuesday, a decision that could delay the introduction of a shot designed to offer stronger protection for older adults. Moderna said it received what's known as a "refusal-to-file" (RTF) letter from the FDA 's Center for ...
Source: foxnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
As CIOs build on how they lead hybrid teams of humans and AI agents, and innovate while keeping governance, accountability, and trust in place, they're moving further away from the image of merely managing technology. But despite how responsibilities are evolving, reputational and technological change don't happen in tandem. A few years ago, the term AI agent was unknown to most CIOs. It only showed up in a handful ...
Source: cio.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Microsoft has plugged 50+ security holes on February 2026 Patch Tuesday, including six zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by attackers in the wild. The "security feature bypass" zero-days Among the zero-days fixed are three vulnerabilities that allow attackers to bypass a security feature. CVE-2026-21513 affects the MSHTML/Trident browser engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer, and ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administrationsays it has lifted the temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, and all flights are to resume. The FAA said it was closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport on Wednesday morning. "The temporary closure of airspace over El Paso has been lifted. There is no ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Google expanded its "Results about you" tool to give users more control over sensitive personal information and added a way to request removal of non-consensual explicit images from Search. Manage and limit sensitive personal information in Search Users can request the removal of Search results that contain sensitive personal information, such as driver's license numbers, passport numbers, and Social Security ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
If you think using AI means doing less at work, think again. In a new eight-month study of how generative AI changed work habits at a US-based tech company with about 200 employees, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business found that employees' work intensified in three main ways. Employees multitasked more, took on a broader range of responsibilities, and worked longer hours, ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Elon Musk has long framed SpaceX's mission in sweeping terms: to send humans to Mars and make humans interplanetary. Along the way, the moon has played an inconsistent supporting role. SpaceX is under contract with NASA, for example, to send people to the moon, and that funding plays a key role in some of SpaceX's major projects. However, Musk's main messaging for years has been to build cities on Mars, not the ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Well, it had to happen eventually — ChatGPT is now showing ads. "Our goal is for ads to support broader access to more powerful ChatGPT features while maintaining the trust people place in ChatGPT for important and personal tasks," the company said. Only the Free and Go tiers of ChatGPT will see ads, OpenAI said. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers will not have ads. Ads will not ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article FBI affidavit reveals Trump administration's criminal investigation was sparked by election denier Kurt Olsen The FBI raided an elections office in Georgia and seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election in connection with a federal investigation into "deficiencies or ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Discord just announced that, starting in March, the platform will introduce "teen-by-default" settings globally. This means all new and existing Discord accounts will automatically be set with teen-friendly security settings, regardless of the user's actual age. Among other things, teen-friendly settings mean that sensitive content will be blurred, age-restricted servers and channels will be blocked, and message ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
'They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again,' says Manhattan borough president The Trump administration has removed a large pride flag from the Stonewall national monument in New York City, marking the latest move by the federal government to end diversity initiatives and sanitize the history shared in national parks. The monument commemorates the June 1969 riots that followed a police raid ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The star said the decision "reflects my belief that meaningful change in our industry requires accountability and leadership that earns trust". US singer Chappell Roan has announced she is leaving her talent agency, after emails between its founder and Ghislaine Maxwell were featured in the Epstein files. The Grammy-winning star shared a statement on social media announcing her departure from Wasserman, led by ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change , the White House announced. The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule rescinding a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding. That Obama-era policy determined that carbon ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The House of Representatives has announced the passage of H.R. 6644 , known as the Housing for the 21st Century Act, and the industry has reacted with positivity and now look to the Senate for further action. The Housing for the 21st Century Act is a comprehensive, bipartisan legislative package that aims to increase housing supply in the U.S. through removing certain building and lending regulations, as well as ...
Source: rismedia.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Air Canada became the first scheduled airline to withdraw services to Cuba due to shortages of jet fuel as the United States tightened its energy embargo on the Caribbean island. Canada's Montreal-headquartered flag-carrier announced Monday it was suspending its 16 weekly flights serving Havana and three other cities, effectively immediately, but said it would send aircraft to bring home 3,000 ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
If you think your daily doses of espresso or Earl Grey sharpen your mind, you just might be right, new science suggests. A large new study provides evidence of cognitive benefits from coffee and tea -- if it's caffeinated and consumed in moderation: two to three cups of coffee or one to two cups of tea daily. People who drank that amount for decades had lower chances of developing dementia than people who drank ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Reports stated Trump personally blocked invites for Democratic Govs. Jared Polis and Wes Moore The National Governors Association (NGA) has canceled a planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump later this month, after the White House reportedly excluded Democratic governors. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com A federal judge in Los Angeles Monday struck down a California law that prohibited federal law enforcement agents from wearing masks but upheld a companion law that requires federal agents to display clear identification with their agency and badge number. California's first-in-the-nation unmasking law, passed ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday took steps toward banning BHA , a food additive used in processed foods such as meats and bread. BHA, or butylated hydroxyanisole, has been used in the food supply for decades. The FDA first listed it as "generally recognized as safe" in 1958 and approved it as a food additive in 1961. It's used to prevent fats and oils in food from spoiling and can show up in products ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The Sun/Facebook/screen grab A British woman was shot dead in Texas after arguing with her father about President Donald Trump , witnesses told an inquest this week. According to the BBC , police in Prosper, Texas, investigated the death of Lucy Harrison after she was shot in January 2025 as a possible case of manslaughter, but no charges were ever brought. Lucy Harrison's boyfriend, Sam Littler, told an inquest in ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
A federal judge Tuesday shut down the Justice Department's efforts to obtain personal voter information from elections officials in Michigan, the third time a court has tossed a lawsuit by the Trump administration in its efforts to obtain voter registration lists from the states. U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou, the chief judge for U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, granted a request from ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Todd Lyons, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended his agency's officers before Congress on Tuesday, standing behind their tactics and saying they would not be intimidated as they carry out the president's mass deportation plans. Lyons was one of the three heads of agencies implementing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda to testify in a hearing called after ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
SAN FRANCISCO – Connor Haught has been juggling virtual work meetings and arts and crafts projects for his two daughters as his family tries to navigate a teachers strike in San Francisco with no end date in sight. Haught's job in the construction industry allows him to work from home but, like many parents in the city, he and his wife were scrambling to plan activities for their children amid the uncertainty ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
King Charles III indicated Monday that the British royal family would cooperate if police come asking questions about his younger brother, the former Prince Andrew's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. "The King has made clear, in words and through unprecedented actions, his profound concern at allegations which continue to come to light in respect of Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's conduct," a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Reuniting families with their lost pooches, what's not to like? Well, coordinated neighborhood surveillance, for one. That sums up the reaction to the Super Bowl ad for Search Party, the AI-powered feature from Amazon's Ring that mobilizes outdoor cameras across a neighborhood to help find lost dogs. Search Party raised privacy concerns when it launched last year , focusing in part on the fact that the feature is ...
Source: geekwire.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Home » » The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to dismiss its criminal case against the former adviser to President Donald Trump , Steve Bannon, which is related to his refusal to testify before the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, US Capitol riots. The "government has determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
You can now play the lost Roman board game called Ludus Coriovalli that was discovered in a museum. During a brief respite from COVID-19 lockdowns in the summer of 2020, archaeologist Walter Crist found himself wandering the halls of Het Romeins Museum in Heerlen, Netherlands. He was killing time, looking at the remnants of Coriovallum, the Roman town that once bustled beneath the modern streets. Then, something ...
Source: zmescience.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
By Carson Hartzog, The Minnesota Star Tribune In his second week as Target CEO, Michael Fiddelke shuffled his leadership team and consolidated store districts - moves that drew mixed reactions from retail experts. After several quarters of lackluster performance, the actions addressed some of the loudest criticism of the Minneapolis-based retailer: the state of its stores and product assortment, especially in ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
LONDON — The leader of the Scottish Labour party, Anas Sarwar, urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign Monday, intensifying pressure on the British leader over his decision to make Peter Mandelson the ambassador to the United States despite his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein. "The distraction needs to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change," Sarwar said at a news conference in Glasgow, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Deportation proceedings against Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk have been terminated in immigration court, court filings show. Lawyers for the 30-year-old student from Turkey Monday filed notice of the termination in a federal appeals court in New York, where she is challenging her deportation by the Trump administration. Öztürk was arrested by masked immigration agents in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Facebook, Google and other tech giants for more than a decade have rejected allegations that they build products deliberately to get kids addicted to social media. For the first time, company executives, including Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg , will answer to these accusations in front of a jury as part of a trial that kicked off Monday, and which is drawing comparisons to Big ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
A U.S. military strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Pacific killed at least two people, with one survivor, according to U.S. Southern Command. The strike was carried out Thursday at the direction of commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan and targeted a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations, according to SOUTHCOM . Officials said two people described as "narco-terrorists" were killed and one ...
Source: bnonews.com