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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 11th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
at lunchtime, Khanna, of California, named the six as Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Leslie Wexner. Wexner is the billionaire founder of Victoria's Secret. His extensive ties to Epstein – the late convicted sex offender and disgraced financier – were exposed in a lengthy Bin Sulayem is a billionaire businessman and real estate developer from ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump says he intends to block a new bridge connecting the United States and Canada that aims to ease congestion at the busiest trade corridor between the two nations. One person who would enthusiastically support Trump's threat is a Detroit billionaire who owns an almost century-old bridge nearby and has long tried to scuttle the new crossing, which would connect Detroit to Windsor, Ontario. The ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
King Charles has spoken out about the Epstein files, and, according to multiple outlets, will back a police inquiry into his younger brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor , the man formerly known as Prince Andrew. Buckingham Palace has said it will support authorities in an investigation against the former Duke of York and his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein if requested, The Times reported, ...
Source: instyle.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Home » » Ghislaine Maxwell, the former confidante and longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from Congress, invoking her Fifth Amendment right during a private virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 9. "This is obviously very disappointing," Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) told reporters following the deposition. "We had many ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The FBI last month raided a Georgia election hub near Atlanta and seized ballots and voter records at the urging of a lawyer who had worked with President Donald Trump to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a newly released court record revealed Tuesday. FBI special agent Hugh Raymond Evans wrote in an affidavit that the investigation "originated from a referral sent by Kurt Olsen, Presidentially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
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
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The National Park Service removed a Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City on Monday — the latest in a series of actions from the Trump administration that remove recognition of LGBTQ people from the historic site. The monument recognizes the Stonewall Inn, a Manhattan gay bar that was the site of a 1969 uprising widely considered a turning point in the modern LGBTQ rights movement. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Israel's security cabinet has approved plans that pave the way for more settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory A White House official has reiterated Donald Trump's opposition towards Israel annexing the West Bank , after Israeli plans were announced that would pave the way for more settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. The measures, announced on Sunday, included allowing Jewish Israelis to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
The Environmental Protection Agency moved to revoke the 2009 endangerment finding, which determined greenhouse gases pose a risk to public health and undergirds federal climate regulations. The move is a major boon for the fossil fuel industry, which for years has opposed regulations on greenhouse gases. It also represents the Trump administration's most aggressive move against fighting climate change. The sun sets ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
Stand with a newsroom that doesn't flinch. Become a member and help keep fearless reporting independent. Already a member? LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu , two Olympic standouts who have faced their share of hate over the years, each weighed in Monday on Donald Trump 's bashing of their friend, American freeskier Hunter Hess, for having said he didn't back the U.S. president's heightened ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
President Trump is excluding Democratic governors from typically bipartisan events held at the White House during the annual gathering of state leaders in Washington, D.C. No Democratic governors were invited to a formal business meeting that was to take place Feb. 20 between governors, the president and White House officials while they are in town for the National Governors Association conference. A source ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Deportation proceedings against Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk have been terminated in immigration court, court filings show. Lawyers for the 30-year-old student from Turkey Monday filed notice of the termination in a federal appeals court in New York, where she is challenging her deportation by the Trump administration. Öztürk was arrested by masked immigration agents in ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
– Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close political ally of Venezuela's opposition leader , has been placed under house arrest, his family said on Tuesday, two days after he was released from prison. Guanipa, a former governor for the opposition, is at home in the northwest city of Maracaibo, his son, Ramón Guanipa, posted on X. "My father remains unjustly imprisoned — because house arrest is still ...
Source: news4jax.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
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Geneva - The United Nations migration agency said Monday that 53 people were dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. Only two survivors were rescued. The International Organization for Migration said the boat overturned Friday north of Zuwara, a city on the northwest coast of Libya that's about 180 miles from the Italian island of Lampedusa, which many migrants attempt ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Tom Homan suggested that a widespread approach to immigration operations would lose public support Tom Homan – the Trump administration's "border czar" sent to Minnesota in January after federal agents fatally shot two US citizen protesters – warned last year that the government's aggressive, widespread approach to immigration enforcement would cost it public support. Homan made the observation in an ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong's prominent pro-democracy prisoner and media mogul, was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Beijing's sweeping national security law on Monday in a high-profile case that has dragged on for five years. Lai, the founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, was first arrested in August 2020 and found guilty late last year on two counts of foreign collusion and one count of seditious ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
The U.S. said Monday that it hit a vessel allegedly transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor in the second such strike in the past four days. Citing "intelligence," U.S. Southern Command said Monday on X that the vessel "was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations." "Two narco-terrorists were ...
Source: nbcnews.com