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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 11th 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 -
Koh Ewe 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police have released a man hours after they detained him in connection to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of US news anchor Savannah Guthrie, CBS News, the BBC's US partner, has reported. After taking the man into custody at a traffic stop, police searched his home in Rio Rico, south of Tucson, Arizona, sources ...
Source: yahoo.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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Bad Bunny's halftime show aside, AI companies stole the spotlight on Super Bowl Sunday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Salesforce, Meta, Amazon-owned Ring and a smaller company called Genspark.ai all used Super Bowl spots to promote their products as AI tools meant to help boost productivity and inspiration – rather than replace, annoy or deceive. "A lot of AI companies see the Super Bowl as an opportunity to connect ...
Source: adexchanger.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Stand with a newsroom that doesn't flinch. Become a member and help keep fearless reporting independent. Already a member? The FBI search of election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, that led to the seizure of ballots from the 2020 election was ordered by Kurt Olsen, who previously helped President Donald Trump challenge his loss in that election and is now working for the Trump administration. The revelation ...
Source: huffpost.com
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 -
NEW YORK – The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the The multicolored flag, one of the world's , was quietly removed in recent days from a flagpole on the National Park Service-run site, which centers on a tiny park in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. It's across the street from , the gay bar where patrons' rebellion against a police raid helped catalyze The park service said it's simply ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Grammy-winning singer Chappell Roan has left the talent agency led by entertainment industry executive and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics chair Casey Wasserman, who appears in recently released government files on Jeffrey Epstein . Wasserman has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, but documents released by the Justice Department revealed that in 2003, he exchanged flirtatious emails with ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO 2 and other greenhouse gases harm health In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters . "President Trump will be joined by EPA Administrator Lee ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — A bill that includes a number of bank-favored provisions faces a more uncertain future in the Senate, even after it passed through the House yesterday with an overwhelmingly large bipartisan margin. Processing Content The House bill, known as the Housing for the 21st Century Act, aims to increase the supply of housing by streamlining state and local regulations and making it easier for ...
Source: americanbanker.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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JONEL ALECCIA, AP Health Writer Federal health officials said Tuesday they will reassess the safety of a chemical called BHA used in foods including potato chips, cereals, frozen meals and meat products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new request for information regarding butylated hydroxyanisole, a preservative. The agency's review "will consider ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Carl Gibson February 10, 2026 | 06:19PM ET Frontpage news and politics A 23 year-old British woman was shot dead by her own father after the two had a heated argument about then-President-elect Donald Trump , according to a new report. The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Lucy Harrison was fatally shot by her father, Kris, in early 2025 while she was visiting him at his home in Texas. According to the Beast , Kris ...
Source: alternet.org
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday rebuffed the Justice Department's effort to obtain sensitive voter information from Michigan, joining a growing number of judges who have tossed out lawsuits brought by the Trump administration in its bid to secure voter registration lists from states. U.S. District Judge Hala Jarbou granted a request from Michigan officials to dismiss the lawsuit from the Justice ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Todd Lyons, the 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 agenda. Lyons was one of the three heads of agencies implementing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda to testify in a hearing called after the shooting ...
Source: wbur.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 -
It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist who studies ancient board games, one exhibit stuck out to Crist: a stone game board dating to the late Roman Empire. It was about eight inches across and etched with angular lines that roughly formed the shape of an ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Retail giant plans to redirect savings toward additional store hours and guest experience training for frontline employees Target on Monday took steps toward streamlining its retail model by putting more money toward frontline store employees while cutting about 500 office and supply chain jobs. The retail giant indicated in an internal memo seen by FOX Business that it will reduce the number of store districts ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — Keir Starmer fights another day. After indirect fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files sparked a dramatic day of crisis that threatened to topple him, the U.K. prime minister was saved by a pugnacious fightback and hesitation among his rivals inside the governing Labour Party about the consequences of a leadership coup . Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said Tuesday that Labour lawmakers had "looked ...
Source: apnews.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 Rumeysa Ozturk was stripped of her visa and arrested for writing an opinion piece for a student newspaper, according to internal Trump administration documents An immigration court judge has terminated deportation proceedings against Rumeysa Ozturk , a Tufts University scholar ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
The world's largest social media companies have been accused of creating "addiction machines" as a landmark trial began in California examining the mental health effects of Instagram and YouTube. In his opening argument before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl and a jury, Mark Lanier argued that his client, plaintiff "K.G.M.," suffered from mental health issues as a result of her social media ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
The U.S. military struck its 39th alleged drug-carrying boat on Monday, killing two people and leaving one survivor who is now the focus of a search-and-rescue effort. The military's Southern Command said in a post on X it struck a vessel that was "operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations" and "engaged in narco-trafficking operations." It did not name the group that allegedly operated the boat, but the ...
Source: cbsnews.com