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Friday, February 13, 2026

A gripping minute-by-minute account of a shooting involving federal immigration agents reveals the truth. read more


President Donald Trump blatantly threatened congressional members of his party on Wednesday, warning that "any Republican" who voted against his tariffs would "seriously suffer the consequences." read more


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. The president slapped tariffs of up to 50 percent on steel and aluminum imports last summer, boasting that the move would provide a "big jolt" to U.S. industry. But in a humiliating retreat, and keeping true to the nickname he has earned for his chaotic approach to trade policy""TACO," short for "Trump Always Chickens Out""Trump now plans to scale back some of these tariffs as cost-of-living pressures drag down his approval ratings, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the matter.


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Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030

www.theguardian.com

That quite a legacy for pedo 47 and nazi Leon.

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