Prosecutors Fail to Bring Charges Against Democrats Involved in Illegal Orders Video  —  The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.  —  Federal prosecutors in Washington sought and failed on Tuesday …

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights  —  The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.  A notice posted on the FAA's website …

FDA won't review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine  —  The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.  —  The Food and Drug Administration has declined to review Moderna's application …

GOP revolt sinks effort to block votes on Trump's tariffs  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson's bid to block future votes on President Donald Trump's tariffs failed Tuesday after an internal GOP revolt.  Three Republican lawmakers, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Kevin Kiley of California and Don Bacon of Nebraska …

Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada  —  A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.

Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says  —  U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.

FIRE sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity  — The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.  — The federal government strong-armed Apple and Facebook to remove ICE activity monitoring from company platforms.

Building the camps  —  The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.  —  More and more news reports are popping up, describing warehouses the administration is acquiring, with plans to convert them to detention facilities.  ICE has spent nearly three-quarter …

Fired Former Trump Prosecutor to Run for Congress in Virginia as a Democrat  —  J.P. Cooney, a former top deputy to the special counsel Jack Smith, who led two prosecutions of President Trump, plans to seek election to a newly drawn district in Northern and Central Virginia.

The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims  —  ATLANTA — An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia's Fulton County was initiated by a lawyer working for the Trump administration who also aided President Trump's efforts to try to overturn that election years ago …

Poll: Trump's ratings on immigration tumble as Americans lose confidence in his top issue  —  Immigration has been one of President Donald Trump's strong suits, but the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll shows his numbers falling to the same level as his overall approval.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees  —  In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products.  Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released.  As Herb Scribner of Axios explained, the documents are available from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on computers …

Canada's Muscular New Anti-Trump Strategy Debuts in Greenland … On Friday, Canada's consulate opened in the unassuming building, a permanent diplomatic outpost sharing modest digs with Iceland — previously one of the only countries with a formal presence in the territory.

Person detained for questioning in connection with Nancy Guthrie abduction: Official  —  Earlier Tuesday, the FBI released images of a masked figure.  —  LIVE  —  This image provided by the FBI Feb. 5, 2026, shows a missing person Nancy Guthrie.  —  FBI

U.S. payrolls rose by 130,000 in January, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.3%  —  Job growth was stronger than expected to start 2026, providing some relief to concerns about the state of the U.S. labor market.  —  Nonfarm payrolls increased by 130,000 for January …

IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS  —  The tax agency only recently discovered the mistake and is working with other federal agencies on a response.  —  The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals …

10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.  —  6 victims found dead inside local high school, police say  —  10 dead, including suspect, after mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.  —  Ten people are dead, including a suspect, after an active shooter incident in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., according to RCMP.

As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused  —  Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years.  Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody.

The Banality of MAGA Evil  —  Instead of criminal masterminds we got amoral, stupid grifters like Howard Lutnick … There's a longstanding tradition in American politics of what Richard Hofstadter famously called the paranoid style - a way of thinking that sees conspiracies lurking everywhere.

Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms … The Department of Homeland Security has hired a social media manager from the Department of Labor for a key communications job, despite posts he made on Labor Department media accounts that raised internal alarms over possible white-nationalist messaging.