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DOJ sends letter to Congress with list of people named in Epstein files, including Trump: Report

02/14/26 10:59 PM ET The Justice Department (DOJ) sent a letter to Congress on Saturday outlining its justification for redactions made in the released Jeffrey Epstein files, according to Politico. The six-page letter to the leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary committees also included a list of “all government officials and politically exposed persons” named in the files for any reason. Several high-profile names were on the list, including President Trump. The department noted that na ...

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Sen. Mark Kelly's lawyer urges DOJ officials not to seek indictment for a second time over video

Feb. 14, 2026, 5:22 PM EST An attorney for Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., is urging U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Attorney General Pam Bondi not to pursue an indictment for a second time against a group of lawmakers who participated in a video encouraging members of the military to ignore “illegal orders,” according to a letter first obtained by NBC News. The letter, sent Friday from Kelly’s attorney Paul Fishman to Bondi and Pirro, warns the Department of Justice against attempting to go to a s ...

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Cuba postpones its annual cigar fair as a US oil siege causes severe fuel shortages and blackouts

Updated 3:37 PM EST, February 14, 2026 HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba’s annual cigar fair, which was set to be held the last week of February, has been postponed organizers said Saturday, as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages brought about by a U.S oil embargo. In a statement, the cigar fair’s organizer, Habanos S.A. said it decided to postpone the iconic event to “preserve its high standard of quality.” Habanos S.A., a joint venture between the state-owned company Cubatabaco and ...

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'Speaks Volumes': Kentucky Gov Boycotting White House Dinner After Trump Refuses to Invite Nation's Only Black Governor

Feb 14th, 2026, 6:30 pm Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) vowed Saturday that he will not attend the upcoming White House dinner for governor’s and their families because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to invite Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), who is the sole Black governor in the nation. In a confusing turn of events, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) — who chairs the National Governors Association — claimed earlier this week that the president was only inviting Republican ...

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Tim Walz Thanks Minnesota After Tumultuous Federal Surge--'Spring is Coming'

Published Feb 14, 2026 at 07:55 PM EST Minnesota Governor Tim Walz posted a message thanking his state's residents for their "resilience" following a difficult month that saw violence, death, and clashes with federal authorities. Walz said in a video message posted on X on Saturday: "The rest of the country saw what the soul of Minnesota looks like. Spring is coming." Why It Matters The Trump administration this week officially ended Operation Metro Surge, which was descr ...

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Lindsey Graham Shares Blunt Message to Those 'Nervous' About Trump's Takeover Plans: Who Gives a S--- Who Owns Greenland

Sen. Lindsey Graham dismissed worries about President Donald Trump's quest for full “ownership” of Greenland, including threats to acquire it by force. Graham's blunt message came at POLITICO’s 2026 Munich Security Conference on Friday, Feb. 13, after journalist Jonathan Martin asked the South Carolina Republican, 70, if he has a message for Europeans in the audience “who are obviously nervous” about Trump’s controversial plans for the NATO territory. Graham, a Trump ally, first joked about Ma ...

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Barack Obama publicly states support for anti-ICE demonstrators in Minneapolis

Sat 14 Feb 2026 12.15 EST Last modified on Sat 14 Feb 2026 12.20 EST Barack Obama publicly gave his support to demonstrators in Minneapolis for standing up to the “unprecedented nature” of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minnesota. Speaking in an interview with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on Saturday, the former president discussed the power that US citizens hold when standing up for the values they believe in and his hopes for the next generation of Ame ...

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Senators Sound Alarm As AI Companies Pour Millions Into U.S. Elections

Feb 14, 2026, 06:00 AM EST WASHINGTON – Prominent critics of artificial intelligence warned that the industry’s plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on this year’s midterm elections are aimed at blocking Congress from regulating a rapidly advancing technology that poses serious risks to society, including jobs, energy prices, and privacy, along with more existential dangers. “The big money interests, the billionaires who control our economy and our political system, are going to do ...

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Rubio tells Munich security forum that US and Europe belong together

By Humeyra Pamuk MUNICH, Feb 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a message of ‌unity to Europeans on Saturday, saying Washington does ‌not intend to abandon the transatlantic alliance, but that Europe's leaders ​had made a number of policy mistakes and need to change course. Rubio's overall message of togetherness at the annual Munich Security Conference was relatively well-received by the gathering ‌of European diplomats and ⁠security official ...

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Judge bars 'warrantless' immigration enforcement raids at churches to protect 'religious freedom'

Feb 14th, 2026, 10:26 am The Trump administration has been barred from carrying out "warrantless" immigration enforcement operations in or "within 100 feet of the entrance" to various churches across the country. In a 62-page memorandum and order, U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor, a George W. Bush appointee, rejected the need for such efforts in all but the most limited of cases in the name of religious freedom. "The prospect that a street-level law-enforcement ...

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Schumer Calls 'Bull' On Noem's Voter Fraud Fearmongering

27 min ago - Feb 15, 2026, 02:29 PM EST Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) doesn’t think Immigrations and Customs Enforcement “thugs” have any business being near polling places, no matter what Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says. T ... (Huff Post)

Trump's bizarre Valentine's Day fundraising letter asked do you still love me? - and E Jean Carroll said she received it

51 min ago - Sunday 15 February 2026 15:00 EST E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won an $83.3 million defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump after he denied sexually abusing her, said she received a Valentine’s Day-themed fundraising email from a po ... (The Independent)

Rapper turned civic leader Luther Campbell challenges Cherfilus-McCormick in congressional primary

1 hr ago - Luther Campbell, the rap music icon, free-speech advocate and civic activist, launched a primary challenge Sunday against U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who is under federal indictment and now faces a widening field of political rivals. Campbe ... (Sun-Sentinel)

Democrats say Trump's climate rollbacks 'corruption in action'

1 hr ago - 02/15/26 6:00 AM ET Democrats are linking President Trump’s unraveling of climate change regulations to a larger story about corruption, a midterm argument they think could hurt Republicans in the battles for the House and Senate this fall. Whil ... (The Hill)

National Institutes of Health faces leadership vacuum as director positions sit open

1 hr ago - Feb. 15, 2026, 5:00 AM EST The world’s largest public funder of biomedical research is in limbo. The National Institutes of Health has, in large part, managed to withstand the Trump administration’s attempts to slash its budget and upend h ... (NBC News)

Trump's border czar says 'small' security force will remain in Minnesota after enforcement drawdown

2 hrs ago - Updated 2:27 PM EST, February 15, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that more than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of ... (AP)

Trump sanctions chief poised to leave after Bessent tension

3 hrs ago - 48m (Bloomberg) -- John Hurley, the Trump administration’s top sanctions official, is set to leave his post after friction with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to people familiar with the matter. Hurley’s expected departure as ... (msn/Bloomberg)

Jeffries goes all in on gerrymandering -- with House control on the line

3 hrs ago - Updated Feb 15, 2026, 9:34 AM ET PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2026, 7:00 AM ET As Hakeem Jeffries sits in the minority of a GOP-controlled Washington, he is still haunted by a Republican gerrymandering gambit that he believes cost him the speaker’s gavel & ... (CNN Politics)

Doctors Without Borders Says Gunmen Are Using a Gaza Hospital, Posing Risk to Patients and Staff

3 hrs ago - The aid group, known by its French initials MSF, said it made the decision to pull services from the Nasser Hospital Complex in Khan Younis after its staff witnessed an uptick in what it called unacceptable acts that it said posed a threat to its tea ... (Wall Street Journal)

'This is the Epstein Administration!' Thomas Massie Trashes Trump in Fiery ABC Hit

4 hrs ago - Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) ripped President Donald Trump — accusing him of being “still in the Epstein class” in a fiery interview on ABC Sunday. Speaking with Martha Raddatz on ABC’s This Week, the Kentucky Republican — who h ... (Mediaite.com)

Chinese automakers want to come to US. They could be here fairly soon

4 hrs ago - Chinese cars could be at an American dealership sooner than you think, and that’s good news for US consumers. Chinese car companies make more vehicles than anyone else on Earth and export more as well. But high tariffs and hostile US-China trade ... (CNN)

Europeans push back at US over claim they face 'civilizational erasure'

4 hrs ago - Updated 6:09 AM EST, February 15, 2026 MUNICH (AP) — A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration. EU for ... (AP)

Immigration officers seem to be trained to be 'nasty, mean and cruel,' Schumer says

5 hrs ago - 02/15/2026 11:52 AM EST Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday questioned the Department of Homeland Security’s training of immigration officers, calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement a “rogue force.” “They’re ... (Politico)

Ex-watchdogs warn rush to give power to local police in immigration crackdown risks 'threat to civil rights'

6 hrs ago - Sun 15 Feb 2026 07.00 EST Last modified on Sun 15 Feb 2026 07.02 EST Homeland Security watchdogs who were forced out of their jobs warn that the Trump administration’s “alarming” rush to deputize hundreds of local police departments to ... (The Guardian)

'Very serious.' Denmark, Greenland fear Trump still wants to take control

7 hrs ago - Feb. 14, 2026 Updated Feb. 15, 2026, 4:00 a.m. ET MUNICH, Germany − The leaders of Denmark and Greenland do not think the crisis over the Arctic territory has ended and believe President Donald Trump is still "very serious" about acquiring the ... (USA Today)

US military boards another oil tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean

7 hrs ago - Politics US military boards another oil tanker in Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean {snip picture} The Pentagon, the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense, is seen from the air, Sept. 20, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Al ... (Associated Press)

GOP senators view Lutnick's contacts with Epstein as political liability

8 hrs ago - 02/15/26 6:00 AM ET Republican senators are worried that revelations around Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could balloon into a bigger political liability for the GOP heading into this year ... (The Hill)

Kristi Noem says she will ensure the 'right people' vote in midterms and elect 'the right leaders'

9 hrs ago - Sunday 15 February 2026 00:27 EST Kristi Noem appeared to suggest the Department of Homeland Security was responsible for election security and said she would ensure the “right people” were voting to elect “the right leaders.” &# ... (The Independent)

U.S. Reportedly Deports 9 People To Cameroon Despite Court Protections

10 hrs ago - Feb 14, 2026, 09:30 PM EST Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Trump administration secretly deported nine people to Cameroon, despite many of them having U.S. court protections against such action and none of them hailing from that African nation, the New York T ... (Huff Post/Reuters)

Crown prince urges the world to stand with the people of Iran as 250,000 rally in Munich

10 hrs ago - By STANISLAV HODINA Updated 3:25 AM CST, February 15, 2026 Leer en español MUNICH (AP) — About 250,000 people demonstrated on Saturday against Iran’s government on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders in Germany, police sai ... (AP)

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