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Top News Stories for Friday, February 13th 2026
'They put me on there to die': Conservatives unload on GOP's failures to carry out DOGE cost-cutting
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Annie Grayer, Adam Cancryn, CNN 10 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency that upended the federal government at the start of President Donald Trump's second term has stalled out on Capitol Hill, a reality that's left conservative lawmakers fuming. Inside the White House, the cost-cutting crusade marked by mass firings ...
Source: yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to roll back the endangerment finding, which underpins the US's ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause climate change . The rollback, the result of more than 15 years of ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Sales of existing homes greatly declined in January despite mortgage rates coming down, a report from the National Association of Realtors released Thursday says. Existing home sales, sales of homes that were previously owned and occupied, fell 8.4% in January on a seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales were 4.4% lower than January 2025. The median sales price of existing homes was $396,800 for all ...
Source: upi.com
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 -
Doing President Donald Trump's bidding, the Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday approved legislation that would potentially prevent millions of Americans from participating in federal elections by instituting draconian voter ID requirements, mandating documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, and requiring states to share voter information with the Department of Homeland Security. The White ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The sudden closure of El Paso's airspace Wednesday came sometime after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials used an anti-drone laser that was provided by the military to shoot down objects that were later identified as party balloons, four people familiar with the matter said. The technology was used without coordinating with officials from the Federal Aviation Administration, the people said. The testing ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
– Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych pushed at the limits of the International Olympic Committee's rules on freedom of expression, and the global sports body pushed back. That created an emotional and historic moment of Heraskevych insisted on wearing a helmet in competition with the images of Ukrainian athletes and coaches killed during Russia's nearly 4-year-old full-scale invasion of their ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Body camera video released on Tuesday showed the moments leading up to and after the shooting of Marimar Martinez in 2025 in Chicago. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last year after she was accused of using her car to assault federal law enforcement before the case was dismissed in November, NBC news reported. Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Martinez five times, ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday afternoon, telling reporters ahead of his sit-down that he expected to talk about making sure "that what happened in Minneapolis does not happen in other cities." "Mayors work together," Frey said. "We're all operating in the reality business, and the reality is, what just happened with 'Operation Metro Surge' is not ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
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 on Thursday confirmed that it had blocked WhatsApp in the country. The Kremlin said citizens can use a state-backed messenging service instead. WhatsApp issued a statement saying Russia had attempted to "fully block" its service, with 100 million users affected. In this article People visit the Red Square in front of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. The Kremlin on Thursday confirmed it has blocked Meta ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. Un juez de inmigración negó la fianza a un hombre de Chicago, absuelto el mes pasado de orquestar un complot de asesinato por encargo contra el comandante de la Patrulla Fronteriza, Gregory Bovino, y lo calificó de "potencial" peligro para la comunidad a pesar del veredicto. En una audiencia de fianza el miércoles, el ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
By Marcus Oliver and Ryan Faris The adoption of artificial intelligence in business is nearly universal, yet a troubling paradox is emerging. While leaders rightly see agentic AI as a catalyst for growth, many are finding this powerful technology is increasing operational friction instead of improving productivity by adding pressure to systems and budgets and amplifying underlying flaws rather than resolving them. ...
Source: hbr.org
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Washington — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of certain Venezuelan migrants who he found were unlawfully deported to a Salvadoran prison under the Alien Enemies Act last year and then released into other countries. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in a brief opinion that the number of Venezuelans who would likely want to be returned to the U.S. to ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
In Pictures Voters across Bangladesh have participated in parliamentary elections, marking a pivotal moment for the nation's democracy following a period of significant political upheaval and violence. After a gradual start, polling stations in the capital, Dhaka, and throughout the country filled with voters by mid-morning. Voting will conclude later on Thursday with results anticipated on Friday. More than 127 ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Almost all of President Trump's tariffs last year were passed on to U.S. consumers and businesses in the form of higher costs, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As the average U.S. tariff on imports jumped to 13% in 2025, up from less than 3%, "nearly 90% of the tariffs' economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers," the researchers wrote. Who bears the burden of ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
App arrives months after Google requested takedowns of third-party options. When Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset launched in February 2024, users were frustrated at the lack of a proper YouTube app—a significant disappointment given the device's focus on video content consumption , and YouTube's strong library of immersive VR and 360 videos. That complaint continued through the release of the ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a sudden flight restriction for the region citing "Special Security Reasons." It is currently unclear why the order was issued. The restriction went into effect at 11:30 p.m. MST on Tuesday and is scheduled to remain in place until February 20. The order applies to all commercial, cargo, and general ...
Source: bnonews.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