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Top News Stories for Friday, February 13th 2026
'They put me on there to die': Conservatives unload on GOP's failures to carry out DOGE cost-cutting
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Annie Grayer, Adam Cancryn, CNN 10 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency that upended the federal government at the start of President Donald Trump's second term has stalled out on Capitol Hill, a reality that's left conservative lawmakers fuming. Inside the White House, the cost-cutting crusade marked by mass firings ...
Source: yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Sales of single-family homes that closed in January plunged seasonally adjusted by 9.0% from December, to an annual rate of 3.53 million sales. Compared to January in: 2025: -4.3% 2024: -9.5% 2023: -3.3% 2022: -37.2% 2021: -40.2% 2019: -20.1% There were bad winter storms in parts of the country. So, OK. But wait… in the vast West, the weather was warm and fairly dry for this time of the year, and sales ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Welcome to Trendlines. The secret password is " Stay little Valentine ." Today, I explain why the US suddenly has a million fewer jobs than the government previously said we had. Plus: Indexing killed the mutual fund star. Poof! The Labor Department said Wednesday that revised data show the US economy had a million fewer jobs at the end of last year than previously reported. You might ask: "Where did they go?" The ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Attorney of woman shot by ICE agent accuses officials of fabricating evidence The attorney of Marimar Martinez, whom US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot multiple times in Chicago in October, argued Wednesday that released evidence shows that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has lied about information tied to investigations. Attorney ...
Source: jurist.org
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 -
Since being sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has repeatedly tried to undermine public trust in vaccines. His agency recently took steps to slow down the development of these public health tools yet again. This week, vaccine manufacturer Moderna revealed that Vinaya Prasad, the top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—which is a part of ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appeared certain Thursday as lawmakers in the House and Senate were set to leave Washington for a 10-day break and negotiations with the White House over Democrats' demands for new restrictions had stalled. Democrats and the White House have traded offers in recent days as the Democrats have said they want curbs on President Donald Trump's ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
Federal judges defended their authority to select a new US attorney for the Northern District of New York after the Justice Department quickly fired the court's newly appointed top prosecutor. The appointment of longtime litigator Donald Kinsella falls in line with the court's statutory role to name a US attorney at the time of a vacancy, the court said Thursday. The statement came a day after Deputy Attorney ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The IRS' improper disclosure of thousands of immigrants' personal information to the Department of Homeland Security fulfilled early warnings that the data-sharing deal between the agencies would put taxpayer data at risk. The IRS and DHS in April 2025 agreed to share data of immigrants to help with criminal investigations, subject to privacy law limitations. But the agency in a Wednesday court filing said it ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has granted Sen. Mark Kelly's request for a preliminary injunction against Pete Hegseth, in a lawsuit filed by the Arizona Democrat accusing the defense secretary of trying to punish him for his political speech. Kelly, a former Navy Captain, sued Hegseth in January, one week after the defense secretary moved to formally censure him for participating in a video where he and ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
By Out of the six people who were murdered Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota, five were members of the same family. Russell Kot, 51, who lived in Fort Lauderdale, killed Larisa Blyudaya, 46, and her 18-year-old son, Ben Azizov, according to police. Police found their bodies inside Blyudaya's town house on the 500 block of Northeast 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale's Victoria Park neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 12th, 2026 -
The same chemicals found in pipes, pesticides and floor tiles are also present in some wigs, braiding hair and hair extensions, a new study published Wednesday in the journal Environment & Health found. Researchers at the Silent Spring Institute, a scientific research nonprofit organization based in Massachusetts, tested 43 hair extension products purchased online and from local beauty supply stores and identified ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 11th, 2026 -
Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Gallup will stop measuring and publishing presidential approval ratings this year, the analytics firm announced on Wednesday. The company said in a statement that it is getting out of tracking the approval ratings of politicians to focus its research on "issues and conditions that shape people's lives." "That work will continue through the Gallup Poll Social Series, the Gallup Quarterly Business ...
Source: upi.com