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Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Attorney General Pam Bondi chastised House Democrats for ignoring stock market gains under President Donald Trump as they grilled her on the Epstein files. The DOJ oversight hearing had already devolved into partisan shouting matches on multiple occasions prior to Bondi's references to the stock market. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday responded to House Democrats' heated questions about the Trump ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
US politician Ro Khanna has publicly named six men whose identities were scrubbed from the Epstein files, including a retail tycoon who the FBI suspected was a co-conspirator of the sex offender's crimes. The Democrat revealed the names during a speech on the House of Representatives floor on Tuesday after reviewing unredacted documents at the Department of Justice headquarters the night before. A person's name or ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Employers across the U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, topping economists' forecasts in a sign the labor market remains resilient. By the numbers The January employment gain — which came in well above the 75,000 economists polled by FactSet had forecast— was the highest headline number since July 2025, according to eToro U.S. investment analyst Bret Kenwell. Hiring was strongest in the health ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A shooting at a school in remote northern British Columbia left seven people dead, while two more were found dead at a nearby home, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. A woman believed by police to be the shooter was also found dead, apparently from a self-inflicted wound. Royal Canadian Mounted Police said more than 25 people were wounded, including two who were airlifted to ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Republicans in the US House on Tuesday tried—and narrowly failed—to advance a measure containing language that would have temporarily blocked votes on resolutions disapproving of President Donald Trump's tariffs . Democrats voted unanimously to defeat the measure, and were joined by just three House Republicans —Don Bacon of Nebraska, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Kevin Kiley of ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Federal officials on Wednesday cast blame on Moderna as they stood by the Food and Drug Administration's controversial decision not to review the Cambridge biotech's new flu vaccine. In a press conference, a senior FDA official said the decision was the result of Moderna exposing certain trial participants to substandard care against the advice of the federal regulators. The senior official spoke to news media ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Israeli leader meets Trump ahead of Iran talks in seventh visit to White House since last year The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the White House, it was so he and President Donald Trump could finalize a deal to end one war in the Middle East. On ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans rushed to approve legislation on Wednesday that would impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements ahead of the midterm elections, a long shot Trump administration priority that faces sharp blowback in the Senate. The bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility , or SAVE America Act, would require Americans to prove they are citizens when they register to ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The sudden and surprising airspace closure over El Paso, Texas, stemmed from the Pentagon's plans to test a laser for use in shooting down drones used by Mexican drug cartels, according to three people familiar with the situation who were granted anonymity to share sensitive details. That caused friction with the Federal Aviation Administration, which wanted to ensure commercial air safety ...
Source: military.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 -
On Monday, the National Park Service (NPS) removed a Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City — a move many observers have condemned as just the latest attempt by the Trump administration to erase LGBTQ history and culture in the U.S. The Stonewall Inn is a dive bar in Manhattan that is widely considered the birthplace of the LGBTQ liberation movement. In 1969, the bar was the site of ...
Source: truthout.org
Lawyers of Chicago woman shot by federal agents say documents show how DHS lies about investigations
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
praised a during an immigration crackdown last year, according to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the Trump administration of mishandling the investigation and spreading lies about the shooting. Marimar Martinez, a teaching assistant and U.S. citizen, was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in October while in her vehicle. She was charged with a felony after Homeland Security officials ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The White House describes the move as 'the largest deregulatory action in American history' Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to dismantle the legal foundation of US climate regulation, which campaigners have labelled a "betrayal" of poorer nations and ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Users can click the three-dot menu on an image result and select "remove result," then specify if it shows a sexual image of them. Google has introduced a new tool designed to assist users in removing non-consensual explicit images from its Search results. The tool does not aim to prevent such images but rather to facilitate their removal from indexed content. To initiate a removal request, users can select an ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Cisco announced a suite of capabilities to help enterprises adopt agentic AI with confidence, combining agent protection, interaction governance, and resilient connectivity for AI-driven workflows. As organizations move from AI assistants to autonomous agents that use tools and data across hybrid environments, security teams need to strengthen agentic defenses , govern agent interactions with enterprise systems and ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska's Republican secretary of state will turn over sensitive information on every registered voter in the state to the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday after Nebraska's highest court rejected a legal effort to block the move. Secretary of State Bob Evnen told The Associated Press that the Nebraska Supreme Court denied the injunction Wednesday. Last week, a state judge dismissed the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
All flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas have been halted for "special security reasons," the Federal Aviation Administration said early Wednesday. "No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM," the FAA said, using the abbreviation for Notice to Airmen. It listed the reason as "temporary flight restrictions for Special Security Reasons." The restriction for the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Many people reach for coffee or tea each day without a second thought. Beyond boosting alertness and focus, new research suggests that moderate amounts of caffeinated coffee or tea may also help support brain health with age. The study reports that regular consumption of caffeinated coffee or tea links to a lower risk of dementia, slower loss of memory, and better thinking ability. The work ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
System administrators are likely to have a busy February after Microsoft released updates to fix six actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, three of which have been publicly disclosed. The zero-days are as follows: CVE-2026-21510 is a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows Shell which enables unauthorized attackers to circumvent Windows SmartScreen and security prompt protections by tricking victims ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.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
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
A new scientific study has uncovered an array of toxic chemicals in popular hair extensions , including products made from human hair, raising fresh concerns about the safety of a largely unregulated industry whose consumers are predominantly Black women . Researchers at Silent Spring Institute, a Newton-based nonprofit, conducted a chemical analysis of hair extensions, screening 44 products purchased online and in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
The retrieval of the video, which sees the armed suspect at the front door of the now-missing 84-year-old, has been a significant development in the case - but it's also led to wider concerns over privacy. Doorbell footage showing a masked man approaching Nancy Guthrie's home on the day of her disappearance has been released by the FBI. It comes almost 10 days after the 84-year-old mother of TV host Savannah ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
President Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants. He also announced new funding to restart and upgrade coal plants in several states. directs Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to enter into long-term contracts with coal-fired plants to serve military installations and facilities. The order ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Sunday night's Super Bowl and Bad Bunny fell short of setting records for the most watched US broadcast and half-time show. Seattle's 29-13 victory over New England averaged 124.9 million viewers on NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL+, according to Nielsen. That fell short of the 127.7 million US viewers who tuned in for Philadelphia's victory over Kansas City last year on Fox. However, this ...
Source: theguardian.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
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Dietitians and doctors break it down. Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Between hormonal fluctuations and physical changes, your body navigates a lot during . The things you did for your health in the past may need to be tweaked to support you though these changes. That includes rethinking your diet. "Menopause, understandably, can cause a ...
Source: womenshealthmag.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
initiatives? In announcing its "Great Healthcare Plan" in January 2026, the Trump administration became the latest in a long history of efforts by the U.S. government to rein in the soaring cost of health care. As a physician and professor studying the intersection of business and health , I know that the challenges in reforming the sprawling U.S. health care system are immense. That's partly for political and even ...
Source: theconversation.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
An Illinois ban on card interchange fees for taxes and tips has survived a court challenge. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division on Tuesday (Feb. 10) sided against a group of financial services organizations which had sued state Attorney General Kwame Raoul over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA). The law, set to go into effect in July , ...
Source: pymnts.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged Tuesday visiting Jeffrey Epstein on his private island in 2012, as Senate Democrats called into question his credibility on the issue. Justice Department files on Epstein released recently show Lutnick and Epstein had a closer relationship than Lutnick has previously stated. Maryland's Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen recalled that Lutnick had previously claimed to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
A referral by former Trump campaign lawyer Kurt Olsen led to the recent FBI raid that seized 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County, Georgia, elections center, a newly unsealed federal court document revealed. The document said that the FBI is conducting a "criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties" alleged to have occurred in voting processes and ballot counting in Fulton County in 2020 ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
US singer-songwriter Chappell Roan announced on Monday that she had left her talent agency, after its CEO was named in files related to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), passed overwhelmingly by Congress in November, compelled the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all of the documents in its possession related to the disgraced financier. Roan, 27, had been ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard. Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was shot in the chest on 10 January 2025 in Prosper, near Dallas. Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old's death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Officials at the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday launched a safety review of a decades-old preservative used in a variety of packaged foods including frozen meals and meat products. The agency is seeking public input on how food manufacturers use a chemical known as butylated hydroxyanisole, or BHA, and whether the latest science says it's still safe to use, according to a notice scheduled to publish ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.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 -
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been under intense pressure to resign. It follows his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as Britain's ambassador in Washington, despite knowledge of his connections to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among Starmer's potential replacements are his former deputy Angela Rayner, Health Minister Wes Streeting and former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband. British Prime Minister Keir ...
Source: cnbc.com