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Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government's legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
The American Bankers Association today joined the Business Software Alliance and seven associations in urging Commerce Department officials to retain the core structure of a risk management framework for artificial intelligence as the Trump administration seeks to spur AI adoption in the U.S. AI Risk Management Framework , or RMF, was released in 2023 in collaboration with the private and public sectors. The ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
The application has been erased from the national internet directory as part of a broader crackdown on unfriendly communication tools. Russian authorities have fully blocked WhatsApp, impacting up to 100 million users, according to the Financial Times. Officials removed the app from an online directory, erasing it from Russia's internet. The government previously urged users to switch to Max, an unencrypted app ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
The company identified over 100,000 prompts it suspects were intended to extract proprietary reasoning capabilities. Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly threat report released by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The prompts looked like a coordinated ...
Source: csoonline.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Unofficial results show BNP ahead in Bangladesh election The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by Tarique Rahman has won two-thirds majority in the South Asian country's historic elections – the first since the 2024 student-led uprising that ousted the previous Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina . The Election Commission (EC) on Friday released the latest results from the elections, showing that the BNP had ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Kathy Ruemmler is leaving her position as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 's top lawyer, ending the firm's monthslong attempt to defend her previous association with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein . Ruemmler's name appeared in the millions of pages of documents that have been released by the US Department of Justice in recent weeks. Goldman Sachs hired Ruemmler as its legal chief in 2020, the year after Epstein's death. ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
This mission marked the debut of the heavy-lift four-booster variant, which doubles the payload capacity of the previous Ariane 62 model. Europe's most powerful rocket, the Ariane 64, reached orbit for the first time on Wednesday, carrying 32 satellites for Amazon's Leo broadband internet constellation. The launch took place at 16:45 UTC from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, with the mission lasting one ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Agency says application rejected due to lack of 'adequate and well controlled' trial, but experts say 'they're just coming up with reasons' A senior US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says Moderna's clinical trial on a new, potentially more effective flu vaccine was a "brazen failure" and that the FDA is now calling it into question. The FDA unexpectedly refused to consider Moderna's application for a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As outrage spreads over energy-hungry data centers, politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers have found rare bipartisan agreement over insisting that tech companies — and not regular people — must foot the bill for the exorbitant amount of electricity required for artificial intelligence. But that might be where the agreement ends. The price of powering ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Four fresh astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS). On Friday at 5:15 a.m. ET, Crew-12 launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kickstarting a day-long journey to orbit. Crew-12 is composed of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The quartet are set to dock at the ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
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Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Palestine Action supporters celebrate UK legal victory The High Court in the United Kingdom has ruled that the government's ban on the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a "terror group" was unlawful. In a statement responding to the landmark ruling on Friday, Palestine Action's cofounder Huda Ammori, who had challenged the government's ban, said the ruling was a huge win for the group. "This is a ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Two people are dead and a third is wounded following a shooting on the campus of South Carolina State University, officials said. The shooting occurred Thursday night in an apartment at the Hugine Suites student residential complex on the university's campus in Orangeburg, located about 75 miles northwest of Charleston. The university issued a campus lockdown at about 9:15 p.m., according to ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
TOKYO — Japanese authorities have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain for allegedly fleeing inspection in its exclusive economic zone, an incident that could further inflame tensions between Asia's top two economies. The captain, a 47-year-old Chinese national, is accused of ignoring orders to stop for an on-board inspection on Thursday in waters off southwest Nagasaki prefecture, Japan's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker, a roboticist from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) , was walking down a hallway tapping the railings, walls, and columns with a "wand" her student, Dr. Andrew Schulz, had given her. While she tapped the wand on different surfaces, she realized she could feel the different vibrations of surfaces, without having to look at them. The vibrations felt soft and gentle ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore shrugged off President Trump's comment that he was "not worthy" to attend an annual White House dinner featuring governors from both parties, telling CBS News the president does "not determine my worthiness." Moore said that "if the point of the meeting is to turn it into name-calling … I will not go." The governor also said: "I will work with anyone. But I will bow down to no one. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The suspect in a school mass shooting in Canada that killed eight people was an 18-year-old with a history of contact with police over her mental health, police have said. Canadian police identified the suspect on Wednesday as Jesse Van Rootselaar, saying she had died from a self-inflicted wound after carrying out the attack in the remote mountain community of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia province. It was ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
, has banned immigration agents from some state property and launched an online portal for residents to share videos and photos of enforcement activity. , signed an executive order on Wednesday which prohibits immigration officers from access to non-public portions of state-owned property if they don't have a judicial warrant, according to . The prohibition also bars immigration agents from using state property as ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Ukraine bobsled skeleton pilot Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from the Olympics for refusing to replace a helmet that honored dead Ukrainians, officials said Thursday. The International Olympic Committee said Heraskevych refused to "adhere to the IOC athlete expression guidelines." The decision was announced less than an hour before the start of the 2026 Winter Olympics bobsled competition. "This ...
Source: upi.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 19th century called, and it wants its fuel source back," said the president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council on Wednesday as President Donald Trump announced his latest attempt to prop up the pollution-causing, expensive coal industry with taxpayer funds—this time by ordering the Pentagon to purchase electricity directly from coal-fired power plants. "While Americans are demanding clean, ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
What is the SAVE America Act that mandates voter ID? The US House of Representatives this week passed legislation that would require voters to provide proof-of-citizenship as the midterm elections approach. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE America Act, would require a people to present a valid US passport or birth certificate when registering to vote. The proposal has raised concerns among some ...
Source: bbc.com
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 -
On February 5, 2026, a Massachusetts federal judge issued an order staying information-sharing between the IRS and ICE, as well as a preliminary injunction prohibiting Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, acting-Director Todd Lyons, and any DHS and ICE agent from "inspecting, viewing, using, copying, distributing, relying on, or otherwise acting upon any return information that had ...
Source: natlawreview.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 -
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 ruled Thursday that the Trump administration "trampled" on Sen. Mark Kelly's First Amendment rights, blocking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to punish Kelly, a retired naval officer. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees," U.S. District ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some of the Venezuelan migrants deported to a to return to the U.S. at the government's expense. The case has been a legal flashpoint in the administration's sweeping . It started in March after President invoked the 18th century Alien Enemies Act to send Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members to a mega-prison ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
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 -
It took two years, but YouTube is finally an Apple Vision Pro app. The news, announced Thursday, might come as a surprise if -- like most people -- you haven't tried Apple's Vision Pro . YouTube always seemed like a perfect fit for Apple's mixed-reality device, since so many videos there work in 3D, 360 degrees or in 180-degree immersive formats. And yet, Google and Apple had never figured out a way to make it ...
Source: cnet.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