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Top News Stories for Friday, February 13th 2026
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
The American Bankers Association today joined the Business Software Alliance and seven associations in urging Commerce Department officials to retain the core structure of a risk management framework for artificial intelligence as the Trump administration seeks to spur AI adoption in the U.S. AI Risk Management Framework , or RMF, was released in 2023 in collaboration with the private and public sectors. The ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Kathy Ruemmler is leaving her position as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 's top lawyer, ending the firm's monthslong attempt to defend her previous association with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein . Ruemmler's name appeared in the millions of pages of documents that have been released by the US Department of Justice in recent weeks. Goldman Sachs hired Ruemmler as its legal chief in 2020, the year after Epstein's death. ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Feb 13th, 2026 -
Agency says application rejected due to lack of 'adequate and well controlled' trial, but experts say 'they're just coming up with reasons' A senior US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says Moderna's clinical trial on a new, potentially more effective flu vaccine was a "brazen failure" and that the FDA is now calling it into question. The FDA unexpectedly refused to consider Moderna's application for a ...
Source: theguardian.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
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The Attorney General treats oversight like roller derby. February 12, 2026 "You don't tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer. Not even a lawyer." The Attorney General of the United States was yelling. The target of her fury, who shouted right back, was Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and, as it happens, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a former ...
Source: newyorker.com
Border czar says Minnesota immigration crackdown is over, after angry protests and 2 fatal shootings
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TIM SULLIVAN, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration is ending a massive immigration crackdown that swept across the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and other Minnesota communities, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday, concluding an operation that led to thousands of arrests, angry mass protests and the ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
Doing President Donald Trump's bidding, the Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday approved legislation that would potentially prevent millions of Americans from participating in federal elections by instituting draconian voter ID requirements, mandating documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, and requiring states to share voter information with the Department of Homeland Security. The White ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The White House fired the top federal prosecutor for upstate New York just hours after he was sworn into office Wednesday. Donald Kinsella, who has worked for decades as a government attorney and in private practice, was appointed and sworn in as the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York in a private ceremony, the court said on its website . Later that day, he was fired in an email from the White ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
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 ruled Thursday that the Trump administration "trampled" on Sen. Mark Kelly's First Amendment rights, blocking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's efforts to punish Kelly, a retired naval officer. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees," U.S. District ...
Source: nbcnews.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