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10:15 PM ET, February 13, 2026

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Reuters:
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show  —  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 …
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Politico:
ChatGPT cuts in action
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
White House, RFK Jr. shake up health leadership after controversies  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health department is undergoing a major leadership overhaul.  —  The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shaking up the health department's leadership team ahead of the midterms …
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
HHS shaking up top personnel to push Trump, MAHA priorities ahead of midterms  —  Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday announced a reshuffling of top staffers in his department as the Trump administration looks to shore up health wins that can boost GOP success in the upcoming midterms.
Discussion: Axios, RedState, CNN and Raw Story
NBC News:
Five months after Sen. Bill Cassidy asked RFK Jr. to testify, it still hasn't happened
Discussion: The Guardian
Washington Post:
With Congress gone, much of DHS is set to run out of money after midnight  —  Democrats have refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal immigrations agents, including requiring them to wear body cameras and tighter rules on warrants.  —  Much of the Department …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Congress Jets Off as D.H.S. Shuts Down  —  Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.  —  When a disruptive government shutdown nears, the Capitol is usually occupied …
Adam Duxter / CBS News:
Don Lemon pleads not guilty on St. Paul federal church protest charges  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Several people charged in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church whose pastor served as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official are set to be arraigned Friday afternoon in a Minneapolis federal courtroom.
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
Discussion: HuffPost
CNN:
Don Lemon pleads not guilty to federal charges stemming from church protest
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Meet the YOLO Republicans: Lawmakers with nothing to lose are threatening Trump's grip on Congress … When a vote to overturn his Canada levies came to the floor Wednesday, “I was in the cloakroom, and I heard people say, ‘I hate tariffs,’ and then voted” to leave them in place, Bacon recalled.
Discussion: Drezner's World and NewsNation
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Andy Craig / The UnPopulist:
Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
Discussion: Democratic Erosion
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Ramping Up Election Attacks, Trump Does Not Let Reality Get in His Way
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump takes a beating from his own party amid Epstein files release and tariffs rebuke
Discussion: Fox News
Associated Press:
Feds investigating whether 2 ICE officers lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis  —  Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis last month.
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Politico:
ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting … Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis - assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. … Local law enforcement and prosecutors are also investigating the incident.
Washington Post:
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers  —  Documents released Thursday offer the most complete picture to date of the Trump administration's controversial and costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings.
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New York Times:
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts  —  The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Dems tell DOJ to “immediately cease” Epstein files “spying”  —  A trio of top House Democrats wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding that the Department of Justice “immediately cease” cataloguing members' searches of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files.
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C. Frances / The Intercept:
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT.  Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The struggle that killed Alex Pretti began with a shove.  It ended with gunshots.  —  In the final moments before he was shot and killed by federal authorities in Minneapolis …
Discussion: New Republic
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
US judge orders Trump administration to facilitate deported college student's return  —  A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Honduran college student who was deported in violation of a court order, a step the government had previously refused to take.
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New York Times:   Judge Orders U.S. to Facilitate Return of College Student Who Was Deported in Error
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Consumer prices rose 2.4% annually in January, less than expected … The cost of goods and services rose at a slower annual rate than expected in January, providing hope that the nagging U.S. inflation problem could be starting to ease.  —  The consumer price index for January accelerated 2.4% …
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Colby Smith / New York Times:
U.S. Inflation Eased at Start of the Year
CNN:
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth's crackdown on ‘biased’ schools  —  Pete Hegseth Federal agencies US military Student life  —  Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance …
Discussion: Raw Story
Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal:
The Battles Inside Kristi Noem's DHS: Five Takeaways From the Journal's Investigation  —  Criticism of the Homeland Security secretary's tactics exploded during the Minnesota immigration enforcement surge  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has for months been the headline-grabbing …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash  —  Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial law-enforcement technology company.
ProPublica:
What Meetings Among Trump Lawyers Reveal About the FBI's Seizure of Election Records in Georgia  —  The Missouri prosecutor overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, has taken part in meetings since last fall with lawyers tasked by President Donald Trump to reinvestigate his loss to Joe Biden.
The Athletic:
President Trump pardons Hall of Famer Joe Klecko and four other former NFL players  —  Share full article  —  President Donald Trump pardoned former NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon on Thursday, according to White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson.
Wired:
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE  —  The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.  —  Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information …
Financial Times:
Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich  —  US secretary of state cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’  —  US secretary of state Marco Rubio has skipped a meeting with European leaders on the war in Ukraine, in a move seen …
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention  —  A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.  —  Listen to this article with a free account
Discussion: New York Times
Collin Anderson / The Washington Free Beacon:
Former Penn President Liz Magill, Who Resigned in Disgrace After Disastrous Anti-Semitism Testimony, Named Dean of Georgetown Law  —  Liz Magill, the former University of Pennsylvania president who resigned in disgrace after arguing that calls for the genocide of Jews could be permissible under campus rules …
Alayna Treene / CNN:
Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say  —  Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn't let go.  —  He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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NewsNation:
Epstein files show he tried to squash alleged victim's blackmail attempt of New York elites
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Used Anthropic's Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid
Discussion: Reuters
Washington Post:
New images of White House ballroom show clearest look yet at Trump project
Discussion: CBS News
Emma Colton / Fox News:
US troops blasted through steel doors ‘like it was like papier mache’ to snatch Maduro, Trump says
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
South Carolin's Mark Sanford eyes a comeback
Discussion: NBC News
France 24:
Knife-wielding Arc de Triomphe attacker dies after being shot by Paris police
Discussion: Reuters
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Stephen A. Smith Tells CBS News He Is Not Ruling Out 2028 Presidential Run: “I'd Love To Be On The Debate Stages Against Some Of These Individuals”
New York Times:
Justice Department Sues Harvard for Admissions Records
Jacob Owens / KVOA-TV:
Nanos pushes back on claims of withholding evidence in Guthrie case
Media Matters for America:
Jesse Watters: “Epstein got his money from two Jewish billionaires” and “the Jewish banking dynasty, the Rothschilds”
Discussion: Wonkette and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Paul Krugman:
The MAGA Bubble Is Imploding
 

 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Paramount names former Trump administration attorney Rene Augustine as its senior vice president of global public policy, amid a takeover battle for WBD

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
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