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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 11th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Facing bipartisan criticism over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday said that he had no personal relationship with Epstein but acknowledged visiting the late convicted sex offender's island while on a family vacation in 2012. "I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with that person, OK?" Lutnick said during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Prince William is currently traveling in Saudi Arabia, but he hasn't been able to escape questions regarding his family members back home—specifically, his uncle, the former Prince Andrew . One day after the Prince and Princess of Wales broke their silence on new allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, one onlooker questioned William about the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal. "Sir, to what extent do ...
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 -
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 -
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 -
'They cannot erase our history. Our Pride flag will be raised again,' says Manhattan borough president The Trump administration has removed a large pride flag from the Stonewall national monument in New York City, marking the latest move by the federal government to end diversity initiatives and sanitize the history shared in national parks. The monument commemorates the June 1969 riots that followed a police raid ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Measures adopted by the Israeli government that deepen the country's control in the occupied West Bank amounted to implementing "de facto sovereignty," a top official said Tuesday, using language that mirrors critics' warnings about the intent behind the moves. The steps "actually establish a fact on the ground that there will not be a Palestinian state," Energy Minister Eli Cohen told Israel's Army Radio. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change , the White House announced. The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule rescinding a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding. That Obama-era policy determined that carbon ...
Source: apnews.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 -
– An of the nation's governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President excluded Democratic governors from White House events. The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month, after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors. On Tuesday, 18 ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
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
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 -
Camilo Montoya-Galvez 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News. The official ...
Source: yahoo.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. 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