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Friday, February 13, 2026

Soon after winning reelection in November 2024, Donald Trump's lawyers told a state judge in Delaware that a lawsuit brought against him by two co-founders of his social media company should be put on hold because a sitting president does not have time to deal with civil litigation.


President Donald Trump on Friday said he will issue an executive order "shortly" laying out the "legal reasons" for national voter-identification requirements.

Trump, in posts late Friday to Truth Social, said he wants voter-ID laws implemented for the 2026 midterm elections, even though legislation mandating them appears poised to stall in Congress.


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It still feels like a technological marvel: Waymo's autonomous cars are now transporting passengers across six cities. Alas, this driverless future comes with its own set of problems. These vehicles can be rendered inert if a passenger accidentally leaves the door open.


Friedrich Merz has said Germany and its European allies must not shy away from the reality of the new global order


The Trump administration has spent more than $1m per person to deport some migrants to countries they have no connection to, only to see many sent back to their home nations at further taxpayer expense, according to a new congressional investigation. A 30-page report from Senate foreign relations committee Democrats, released on Thursday and shared with the Guardian, details how the US government paid more than $32m to five foreign governments " including some of the world's most corrupt regimes " to accept approximately 300 third-country nationals deported from the US. Read more


Two federal officers appear to have lied about an incident last month in Minneapolis that ended with one of them shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons said Friday.


Donald Trump has once again appeared in public with makeup heavily caked on his hand to cover severe bruising. The hand bruising was first noticed in 2024 The last time this happened, about 3 weeks ago, the White House said he had "clipped" his hand on a table. This time they say it's from working hard and shaking a lot of hands. LOL!


In a humiliating defeat for Donald Trump's administration, all federalized National Guard troops have been pulled out of American cities that never wanted them there after failing to accomplish what the president asked them to do.


It may be the Winter Games, but the temperature at the Olympic Village is heated. The supply of condoms given to competitors at the Milan Cortina Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa. Condoms have traditionally been provided to Olympians since the 1988 Seoul Games to raise awareness of sexually transmitted diseases at the height of the aids epidemic. In Paris 2024, organizers supplied Olympians with 300,000 condoms, though the record goes to the 2016 Rio Olympics, when a whopping 450,000 condoms were distributed.


At least 177 new measles cases have been reported in the last week in the U.S., according to newly updated data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A total of 910 infections have been confirmed in 24 states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Only six measles cases this year were from international visitors, CDC data shows.


The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs, according to three documents seen by Reuters. The White House Office of Management and Budget, which Vought leads, is allocating $15 million of what remains of USAID operating expenses to cover the costs of his protection by the U.S. Marshals Service through the end of 2026, the documents showed.


Donald Trump is quietly gearing up to roll back some of the tariffs he promised would make the country "rich as hell" as his approval rating plummets amid an affordability crisis.


U.S. businesses and consumers bore about 90 percent of the cost of President Trump's sweeping tariffs, according to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The study, published Thursday, found that the majority of costs that came from tariffs were passed onto the American public in the first 11 months of 2025, contradicting Trump's promises that foreign companies would pay the import taxes.


The highly classified whistleblower complaint against DNI Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and sensitive matters related to Iran.

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The biggest controversy of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics came to a head on Thursday morning, as Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from competing. Heraskevych, who was his country's flagbearer at the opening ceremony, wished to compete in the men's skeleton while wearing a special remebrance helmet featuring artwork depicting Ukrainian athletes killed during the Russian invasion. Read more


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