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Top News Stories for Saturday, February 14th 2026
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 -
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 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at storied investment bank Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, announced her resignation Thursday, after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship where she described him as an "older brother" and downplayed his sex crimes. Ruemmler said in a statement that she would "step down as Chief Legal Officer ...
Source: apnews.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 -
The decision to ban the group was unlawful, and a disproportionate interference with the Human Rights Act - specifically the freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, a judge rules. The government said it intends to take the case to the Court of Appeal. Palestine Action's co-founder has won a legal challenge over the group's ban as a terrorist organisation on two grounds. However, it will remain ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi approached testimony before the House Judiciary Committee the same way she has at hearings past: by sparring with lawmakers and deflecting their questions with personalized critiques pulled from a binder of notes. But Bondi's strategy came under increased scrutiny this week as news cameras caught sight of a new addition to her hearing prep: a page devoted to a Democratic lawmaker's ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Border czar Tom Homan said President Donald Trump has agreed with his proposal to conclude a federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. Homan last week had announced a drawdown of 700 agents from the area encompassing Minneapolis and St. Paul, a roughly 25% pullback that still left about 2,000 officers in place. Homan's announcement came less than three weeks after Trump deployed him to Minnesota to run ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Stand with a newsroom that doesn't flinch. Become a member and help keep fearless reporting independent. Already a member? The federal immigration agents who shot Marimar Martinez five times in October had said minutes earlier that it's "time to get aggressive" before swerving their patrol car into the Chicago teacher's vehicle and opening fire, according to newly released body camera footage of the three Border ...
Source: huffpost.com
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 -
A panel of judges in New York appointed a new top federal prosecutor in Albany on Wednesday after a Trump nominee was found to be serving in the role unlawfully — but within hours, the Justice Department announced it had fired the judges' new hire. The back-and-forth adds to months of friction between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary over who is allowed to lead U.S. attorney's offices around ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The IRS shared taxpayer data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that skirted federal privacy law and was outside the scope of the agencies' controversial data-sharing agreement, according to a court filing Wednesday. A sworn declaration from Dottie A. Romo, previously the IRS's chief operating officer and now its chief risk and control officer, detailed the tax agency's missteps regarding a request from ICE ...
Source: fedscoop.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Washington — The Senate failed to advance a measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, likely paving the way for another partial government shutdown without a last-minute breakthrough. In a 52 to 47 vote, all but one Democrat — Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — opposed moving forward with the bill, which would fund DHS through September. The motion needed 60 votes ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge has blocked Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth from lowering Senator Mark Kelly's rank in the military over his urging service members to refuse illegal orders. US District Judge Richard Leon wrote in a scathing ruling that Hegseth had unconstitutionally retaliated against Kelly in seeking to demote the retired Navy captain. In a post on social media, Hegseth said the judge's order would be ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return to the U.S. of a group of Venezuelan migrants who were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador last yea r under the Alien Enemies Act and accused of being members of the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua. The 137 Venezuelans the ruling applies to were deported to the notorious Center for Terrorism Confinement, or CECOT, in ...
Source: npr.org
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