Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry  —  The White House press secretary had dismissed criticism of the clip's racist content as “fake outrage.”  But later Friday, the clip disappeared from the president's social media feed.  —  President Trump posted a blatantly racist video …

Officials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station and Dulles Airport for Trump  —  Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.  —  The Trump administration has sought …

White House excluding Dems from its annual governors meeting … NGA is meeting this year from Feb. 19 to 21.  —  The NGA said in a Friday email to people involved in planning that the association's leadership has decided the White House meeting will no longer be an association event.

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar  —  Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue's customers.  —  Days after being removed from his post in Minneapolis …

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week  —  Members will be able to review the files on computers at DOJ beginning Monday, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.  They can take notes, but cannot have electronic devices.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

Nevada Republican Mark Amodei to retire … Amodei's 2nd District is Republican-leaning and would likely remain in GOP hands even in a tough year for the party overall.  He's the only Republican in the state's congressional delegation.  —  Amodei's decision comes just three months …

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade  —  A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department's nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning …

Federal judge will let Marimar Martinez release text messages sent by Border Patrol agent who shot her  —  Federal prosecutors say the public release of text messages sent by the Border Patrol agent who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez last fall could only serve one purpose: to “sully” his reputation.

NBC appears to cut crowd's booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast  — Vice-president given hostile reception by some in Milan  — US broadcast cuts out crowd's show of dissent  —  The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared …

STAT+: TrumpRx claims to offer the lowest prices.  But many drugs have cheaper generics  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said his administration's new TrumpRx website will offer the cheapest prices in the world for 43 brand-name drugs, and counting.  But about half of them are already available as generics, usually for much less.

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school  —  A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas.  Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public view.

DeLauro to pressing clergy: ‘I will not vote to abolish ICE’  —  A Friday roundtable discussion with faith leaders and Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro grew contentious at times, with some clergy calling for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE …

Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family  —  Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.” … The Department of Homeland Security unsuccessfully sought …

Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe?  —  In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week's big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement.  Also, the anti-trans mob's latest target: tight clothing.  —  Pocket … Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a new book coming out.

RFK Jr.'s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files  —  JURASSIC ADVENTURES  —  The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones …

Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had “limited interactions” with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines  —  Waymo has established itself as the autonomous ride-hailing service to beat, operating a fleet of several thousand self-driving taxis across the United States, with active services in ten major metropolitan areas.

Kidney recipient arrested by ICE may now have meds  —  A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents is a kidney transplant recipient who did not have his life-saving medication when he was initially arrested.  —  The Department of Homeland Security said late Friday …

CNN Data Guru Reveals Trump's Catastrophic ‘Failure’  —  LOSING FORMULA  —  The animated numbers wiz said Trump has a “formula that equals failure.”  —  CNN's data guru foresees that the president's “failure, failure, failure” will defeat the GOP in the midterms.

Amazon's tax bill plunges after GOP tax cuts  —  The 87 percent drop is largely due to a more generous depreciation break in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act.’ … Also helping, though less important: The law's expanded breaks for businesses research and development expenses.

Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing  —  Off the coast of Cape Cod, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is a unique stretch of ocean that had been protected for a decade.  —  President Trump moved on Friday to allow commercial fishing …

Trump Admin Suspends 111,620 ‘California Borrowers’ For Allegedly Committing Billions in Pandemic-Era Fraud  —  Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced Friday her agency has suspended 111,620 borrowers in California over alleged fraud related to pandemic-era loan programs.

Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team.  Not even JD Vance's motorcade.  —  Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.  —  MILAN — The start of the women's short program at the Olympic figure skating team event …

NYC's small landlords say they won't survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent  —  New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.  —  NEW YORK — In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.

Donald Trump is trying to crush a religious uprising against him  —  In Washington yesterday, at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president actually took credit for the Bible being a bestseller.  —  “In 2025, more copies of the Holy Bible were sold in the United States than at any time in the last 100 years,” Donald Trump said.

Third Coconspirator in Fatal Benghazi Attacks in U.S. Custody, Charged in Washington D.C. with Murder and Terrorism Counts  —  For Immediate Release  —  Zubayar Al-Bakoush, an armed coconspirator in the 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens …

Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will  —  ‘PEOPLE ARE SCARED’  —  A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.  —  Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.

Hegseth Says Defense Department Will Cut Ties With Harvard  —  Mr. Hegseth's order appeared to target his alma mater, Harvard's Kennedy School for public policy.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that the Defense Department would sever its academic ties with Harvard University …

Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement  —  The conservative commentator on the antisemitism in maga media and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him.  —  Ben Shapiro is a conservative provocateur.  Ever since he was a teen-ager at U.C.L.A. writing op-eds …