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Top News Stories for Tuesday, February 10th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
Feb. 10 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of a Canada-funded bridge linking Ontario with Michigan, saying the United States must be "fully compensated for everything we have given them." Trump issued the threat via his Truth Social platform on Monday evening, targeting the long-planned, $4.4 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge, which is expected to open later this year along ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2026 -
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has emerged rattled but ultimately unscathed after a day and night of drama during which a key member of his Labour Party called for him to resign over revelations about a former ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, in the Jeffrey Epstein files. Starmer has faced more than a week of mounting pressure since the release of the latest tranche of documents from the US ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a number of community bank-favored provisions as part of a larger housing package Monday night, but those riders are already imperiling the bill's chances of re-passing the Senate. Processing Content The bill, H.R. 6644, passed the full house Monday evening by a wide bipartisan margin. House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., ...
Source: americanbanker.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
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
NEW YORK — It's not easy being a Republican in New York. It'll be even harder this midterm election year. Across the deep blue state, the GOP is being outraised and outpolled in key races. The reality is familiar enough for the perpetual underdogs — they haven't won a statewide contest in more than 20 years. But their woes are compounded now by President Donald Trump's abysmal favorability, prodigious ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee on Monday, but her attorney said she is "prepared to speak fully and honestly" if President Donald Trump grants her clemency . "Only she can provide the complete account" of Epstein's actions, David Oscar Markus said in a statement after Maxwell's brief virtual appearance before the panel in the morning, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Family of media tycoon say he will 'die a martyr behind bars' amid widespread criticism from press freedom groups Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences, a punishment his daughter said could mean "he will die a martyr behind bars". Claire Lai said the sentence was "heartbreakingly cruel" given her ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will "support" UK police assessing reports that the former Prince Andrew gave confidential information to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The statement on Monday came after police said they were examining reports that the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, sent trade reports to Epstein in 2010. Thames Valley Police, which serves areas west of ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Juan Pablo Guanipa was 'violently' taken from a residential neighbourhood in Caracas, according to opposition leader María Corina Machado Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Monday one of her closest allies was kidnapped hours after being released from prison. The government had released several prominent opposition members from prison on Sunday after lengthy politically ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
A rubber boat carrying dozens of people has capsized off the coast of Libya, leaving at least 53 people, including two babies, dead or missing. In a statement on Monday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the vessel carrying 55 people had overturned north of the coastal city of Zuwara, in northwestern Libya, on February 6. The IOM said its teams provided two survivors with ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Feb 9th, 2026 -
Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. military conducted a "lethal kinetic strike" targeting a boat alleged to be shipping narcotics in the eastern Pacific on Monday, killing two people and leaving one survivor, U.S. Southern Command said. The boat with three people on board was attacked as "intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific and was engaged in ...
Source: upi.com