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Top News Stories for Friday, February 13th 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 -
Palestine Action supporters celebrate UK legal victory The High Court in the United Kingdom has ruled that the government's ban on the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a "terror group" was unlawful. In a statement responding to the landmark ruling on Friday, Palestine Action's cofounder Huda Ammori, who had challenged the government's ban, said the ruling was a huge win for the group. "This is a ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
"By some baffling twist of logic, it concluded that Oakes was guilty of offering bribes but that no one was guilty of accepting them," wrote historian Maury Klein regarding the Credit Mobilier scandal. During the late 19th century, financial elites bribed lawmakers to maximize industrial profits through state-sponsored projects. Despite the widespread attention to the scandal and a congressional investigation, none ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that the federal government will withdraw thousands of immigration agents from the Minneapolis area. Homan added that the drawdown is a response to "unprecedented levels of coordination" from state and local officials. There has also been a decrease in "unlawful agitator activity," though more than 200 protesters have been arrested. Homan did not specify the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Newly released evidence shows that the Department of Homeland Security lied about the shooting of yet another US citizen. In October, a Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old school assistant, five times while she was in her vehicle in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago. She had been tailing agents while warning the neighborhood that "la migra" was coming. Immediately after the shooting, ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
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 -
A district court in New York set the Trump administration off on Wednesday by naming the replacement for one of the DOJ's several "not lawfully serving" acting U.S. attorneys, leading to a swift "you are fired" announcement on social media and a near replay of a standoff from the summer. John Sarcone had clung to his claimed title of acting top prosecutor, through the office of first assistant U.S. attorney, and ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
IRS Blunder Sends Immigrant Data to DHS The IRS mistakenly gave the Department of Homeland Security thousands of immigrants' personal information as part of the agencies' controversial data-sharing agreement, according to a new court filing. The error stems from the IRS's provision of taxpayers' addresses that immigration enforcement authorities didn't already have, IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The White House and Senate Democratic leaders continued to trade offers and kept the details of negotiations private, signaling some hope — but no guarantee of an agreement. WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is poised to shut down this weekend as Congress remained deadlocked Thursday on a path forward before leaving town for a weeklong holiday break. The White House and Democratic leaders ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from downgrading the military retirement rank and pay of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, finding that the government had "trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms." A retired Navy captain, Kelly drew the Trump administration's ire after he and five other Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military to "refuse illegal orders." ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Washington — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of certain Venezuelan migrants who he found were unlawfully deported to a Salvadoran prison under the Alien Enemies Act last year and then released into other countries. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in a brief opinion that the number of Venezuelans who would likely want to be returned to the U.S. to ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
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