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Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security shut down this weekend as the White House and Democratic leaders continued to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two American citizens in Minnesota last month. The two sides have continued to trade offers, signaling some hope for an agreement. But it remains unclear which Democratic demands the White House will agree to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026 -
When the Trump administration erased one of the nation's bedrock scientific principles on climate change this week, it set up a legal battle that's all but certain to hinge on the Supreme Court. And not for the first time. The scientific principle that was killed Thursday, the endangerment finding, which found that greenhouse gases endanger public health by heating up the world, itself resulted from a Supreme Court ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026 -
Federal Reserve showed a surprise. rose less than expected last month, it may have addressed concerns of some Fed policymakers that inflation may be too high to cut interest rates more than once this year, especially after the hot CPI had come in hot, we would have cautioned against taking it too literally – but the fact that the January report was so tepid relative to a typical January is somewhat of a ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ICE's new "processing centers," like the one it is eyeing in a massive warehouse in east Orlando, would each hold up to 1,500 immigrant detainees for as long as a week before they are transferred to other facilities or deported, according to an outline of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's plan released by New Hampshire's governor. Homeland Security intends to ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026 -
At least a half-dozen top officials in the current Trump administration have connections to Jeffrey Epstein , according to an NBC News review of some of the over 3 million documents the Justice Department has released. The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications. President Donald Trump, who had a lengthy relationship with Epstein, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026 -
MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin need only to have looked into the stands on Friday night, where Nathan Chen watched as the American figure skating sensation known as the "Quad god" fell apart in his Olympic free skate, for inspiration about what might come next. The overwhelming favorite to win gold, Malinin fell twice amid a calamitous program that he seemingly had perfected over the past year, sending him ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026 -
There's Now a Café Where You Go on Dates With AI By As AI continues to reshape how people work and socialize, a more intimate frontier has emerged: romance. Millions of people now talk, flirt, confide, and form emotional bonds with AI companions-relationships that exist entirely on screens. But what has been missing, until now, is the presence of an IRL date itself. On Valentine's Day weekend, that boundary ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Amazon's doorbell and smart home devices arm Ring announced on Friday that it canceled a partnership with Flock Safety that it entered into last year , amid a backlash that reached a crescendo following Ring's Super Bowl commercial on Feb. 8. The commercial was for Ring's new Search Party feature aimed at helping homeowners find lost dogs. But instead of generating warm fuzzies among pet ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler has had a storied legal career. As a federal prosecutor, she helped successfully prosecute Enron executives including Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. She was part of President Barack Obama's administration, working in various roles for much of his two terms in office, including as White House Counsel. She was even briefly considered by President Obama ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Feb. 13 (UPI) -- The British government's ban on protest organization Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws was ruled unlawful by three judges, who said the move was disproportionate and breached free speech rights. The High Court in London said the ban could stay in place for now to allow the government time to appeal and for the court to hear legal arguments. But London's Metropolitan Police said it will not ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
CIOs Say Stalled Pilots, Vendor Regret and Growing Fatigue Stifle AI Ambition These may be the halcyon days for enterprise artificial intelligence, where money and ambition are only hindered by imagination as tech vendors race to gain a competitive edge. But CIOs say they're feeling increasing pressure to show that investments in AI are driving measurable business value - and the reckoning is coming soon, according ...
Source: devicesecurity.io
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Federal authorities have opened an investigation into two ICE officers and whether they lied in sworn statements after the Department of Justice dropped charges against a Venezuelan man who was shot during an operation. "The men and women of ICE are entrusted with upholding the rule of law and are held to the highest standards of professionalism, integrity, and ethical conduct," acting Immigration and Customs ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Four new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching into orbit early Friday morning. They will arrive at an unusually quiet orbiting lab. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev were originally going to overlap in space with the outgoing crew, a mission known as Crew-11. But that group ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Justice department accuses university of failing to comply with government's request for over 10 months The Department of Justice filed a new lawsuit against Harvard University , accusing it of failing to hand over documents and comply with a federal investigation into alleged racial discrimination in its admissions process, in the latest escalation of Donald Trump's long-running legal pursuit of the nation's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Former CNN host Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from his coverage of a protest last month at a church over federal immigration raids in the US state of Minnesota. Lemon, 59, was charged with conspiracy to deprive rights and interfering with religious freedoms by allegedly obstructing someone's First Amendment rights by force. He was arrested after entering the Cities Church in St Paul on 18 ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have discovered a star system that's out of order, with a late bloomer planet that may have sprung up at a different time than its neighbors. The discovery defies the norms of planet formation across the cosmos, raising questions over how this weird rocky world broke a familiar pattern. The inner planets of our solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are rocky worlds, while ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Dubai's DP World announced Essa Kazim was the new chairman of its Board of Directors and Yuvraj Narayan was its new Group Chief Executive Officer, replacing Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Sulayem had been the CEO of Dubai's largest port operator since 2016 and chairman since 2007. DoJ records showed years of exchanges with Epstein, but Sulayem has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing. Sultan Ahmed Bin ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Voting was largely peaceful in an election seen as a test of Bangladesh's democracy after years of political turmoil The Bangladesh Nationalist party, led by Tarique Rahman , has won a sweeping victory in the country's first election since a gen Z uprising toppled the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina . Results from the election commission confirmed the BNP alliance had won 212 seats, returning the party to power ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Home » » A federal judge in Washington, D.C. agreed to prevent the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly for his participation in a video where he urged troops to disobey unlawful demands. The judge granted the senator's request for a preliminary injunction against Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a suit filed by Kelly accusing Hegseth of trying to penalize him for his political ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Donald Trump has justified the US's decision to deploy another aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Middle East, declaring "we'll need it" if a deal isn't struck with Iran. Donald Trump says regime change in Iran "would be the best thing that could happen" as a second US aircraft carrier is deployed to the Middle East. The US president made the remarks after visiting troops at Fort Bragg in North ...
Source: news.sky.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 -
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton on Friday called for "immediate property tax relief" for Ohioans, saying recent efforts by the Republican-led legislature to ease homeowners' tax burden aren't enough. Acton, speaking at a Columbus union hall to accept the endorsement of the Ohio AFL-CIO, said she will put out details about her tax plan – and how to pay for it – later in ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return Babson College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza to the United States within two weeks, saying it was time to "make amends" for mistakenly deporting her to Honduras in November in violation of a court order. "In this unfortunate case , the government commendably admits that it did wrong," US District Judge Richard G. Stearns wrote in the eight-page order. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LAURAN NEERGAARD 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 ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Latest blow to mass deportation efforts in the state follows wave of rebukes from federal courts against ICE A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump lambasted the administration for surging federal officers into Minnesota without accounting for basic due process protections for ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Stand with a newsroom that doesn't flinch. Become a member and help keep fearless reporting independent. Already a member? WASHINGTON/FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Feb 13 (Reuters) - U .S. President Donald Trump on Friday embraced potential regime change in Iran and declared that "tremendous power" will soon be in the Middle East, as the Pentagon sent a second aircraft carrier to the region. Trump's military moves ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
A Slovak fugitive who had been on the run for 16 years was finally arrested when he turned up in Milan to support his national ice hockey team at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics , police said Friday. The 44-year-old man, who was not named, was wanted by Italian authorities for a series of thefts committed in 2010. The carabinieri managed to track down and arrest the man on Wednesday after he checked into a ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Orangeburg, S.C. — Two people are dead and another is wounded after a shooting at a South Carolina State University residential complex, the university said Thursday. University officials haven't confirmed the victims' identities or the condition of the person wounded, the school said in a news release. There was no word about the whereabouts of any suspect or suspects. The school put the campus on ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Existing home sales in January fell to lowest level since August 2024 as tight inventory continued to push home prices higher and winter weather weighed on sales activity. Total existing home sales fell 8.4% in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.91 million in January, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) . Total sales were 4.4% lower than a year ago. Despite mortgage rates trending ...
Source: nahb.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Both Democrats and Republicans have called out the Department of Justice for tracking their searches in the Jeffrey Epstein files database. A day after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, members of the U.S. House said the department has been tracking their searches in its files related to the investigation into Epstein and his co-conspirators. ...
Source: upi.com