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Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Members of Congress sharply criticized the Justice Department over allegations that it was tracking what lawmakers were searching for as they viewed unredacted versions of the Jeffrey Epstein files . A Reuters photo showed Bondi at a congressional hearing Wednesday holding a document labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History." The document listed Epstein files that the Democratic representative from Washington ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change , the most aggressive move by the Republican president to roll back climate regulations. The rule finalized by the Environmental ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Feb. 11, 2026 to approve the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act – or SAVE America Act. The bill would require individuals to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote and present photo identification when they do vote in federal elections. This marks the third year in a row that the House has passed similar legislation. Passage in the ...
Source: theconversation.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Body camera video released on Tuesday showed the moments leading up to and after the shooting of Marimar Martinez in 2025 in Chicago. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last year after she was accused of using her car to assault federal law enforcement before the case was dismissed in November, NBC news reported. Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Martinez five times, ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday afternoon, telling reporters ahead of his sit-down that he expected to talk about making sure "that what happened in Minneapolis does not happen in other cities." "Mayors work together," Frey said. "We're all operating in the reality business, and the reality is, what just happened with 'Operation Metro Surge' is not ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
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 -
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump ordered two executive branch departments to take actions that would increase the use of coal in the United States, despite fossil fuels becoming an obsolete form of energy production that is devastating to the health of the planet. Under his plan, intended to bolster the dwindling U.S. coal industry , the Department of Defense would purchase electricity from coal-fired power ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress were set to depart Washington on Thursday without funding the Department of Homeland Security, putting it on a near-certain path to a shutdown this weekend amid a deep partisan divide over Democrats' demands to increase restrictions on federal immigration agents. Senate Democrats blocked a spending bill that would have funded the department past a Friday night shutdown deadline ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Veteran prosecutor Donald Kinsella abruptly dismissed by White House less than five hours after being sworn in as replacement for John Sarcone, who was ruled to have unlawfully outstayed his tenure A freshly-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York was ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
– A federal judge agreed Thursday to the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that Pentagon officials not only violated Kelly's First Amendment free speech rights, but they also "threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." The judge ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in the contest that pits the Bangladesh Nationalist Party against its former ally the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami. Bangladesh will go to the polls for the first time since its government collapsed in 2024 during a bloody crackdown on protesters. More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in the country's first general election since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...
Source: news.sky.com