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10:00 AM ET, February 13, 2026

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Wall Street Journal:
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem's Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS  —  Secretary, with close adviser Corey Lewandowski, faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations  —  Kristi Noem knew she needed a reset.
New York Times:
Goldman Sachs General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler Resigns Over Epstein Ties  —  Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top Obama administration lawyer, is out at Goldman Sachs after emails showed a friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spanning many years.  —  Goldman Sachs's top lawyer …
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Financial Times:
Top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign over Epstein links  —  Attorney to depart Wall Street bank on June 30 after new documents revealed extent of her ties to the sex offender  —  Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler said she will resign this summer after documents released …
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Robert Draper / New York Times:   The Epstein Files and the Hidden World of an Unaccountable Elite
Washington Post:
DOJ's targeting of Trump critics ramps up with attempt to indict lawmakers  —  The case is the first time the Justice Department has attempted to classify critical speech from prominent Trump detractors as a crime.  —  The Justice Department's efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump's critics entered …
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost, USA Today, Politico and Vox
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Resistance rising  —  Little by little, week after week, a subtle but significant shift is unfolding in American politics: Institutions and even a small but growing number of Republicans are standing up to President Trump. … But the law of political gravity is starting to apply to Trump.
Discussion: Semafor
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   “If We Don't Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don't Have a Free Country”
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Trump discovers that the road to autocracy is lined with potholes
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Administration Erases the Government's Power to Fight Climate Change  —  The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that says greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being.  It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
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US EPA:
President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner  —  Substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn't known  —  WASHINGTON—The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard …
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New York Times:
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses  —  In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.  —  Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people …
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Politico:
House leaders say lawmakers can't attend Munich Security Conference as official delegation … The possibility some lawmakers won't attend the conference represents a major break with the yearslong precedent of bipartisan groupings joining a summit that offers unique perspective into high-level thinking in Washington and among allies.
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Associated Press:
Logistics giant DP World replaces chairman named in Jeffrey Epstein documents  —  Dubai has announced a new chairman for DP World, one of the world's largest logistics companies, replacing the outgoing head who was named in the Jeffrey Epstein documents.  The announcement by the government's …
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Jana Choukeir / Reuters:   Dubai's DP World names new chairman and CEO after pressure over Epstein
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Prosecutor Seeks Dismissal of Charges Against Man Shot by ICE  —  The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota asked a judge to drop charges against the immigrant who was shot by an ICE agent, saying new evidence was “materially inconsistent” with what officials had claimed.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and GV Wire
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Pooja Salhotra / New York Times:
A D.H.S. Shutdown Looms. Bruised Minnesotans Urge Their Parties to Dig In.
Discussion: The Guardian
Associated Press:
Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned five former professional football players — one posthumously — for various crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.
Michael S. Derby / Reuters:
NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs  —  Americans are shouldering almost all of President Donald Trump's import tax surge, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Thursday.  —  The bank said 90% of the tariffs imposed by the president …
Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
Second US aircraft carrier is being sent to the Middle East, AP source says  —  The world's largest aircraft carrier has been ordered to sail from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, a person familiar with the plans said Thursday, as U.S. President Donald Trump considers whether to take possible military action against Iran.
New York Times:
Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait  —  The painted portrait from President Trump's first term was completed more than four years ago, but never unveiled.  Now he wants the National Portrait Gallery to commission a new one.  —  The unveiling of an official …
Discussion: The Independent
Media Matters for America:
Jesse Watters: “Epstein got his money from two Jewish billionaires” and “the Jewish banking dynasty, the Rothschilds”
Discussion: Wonkette
Jana Winter / Reuters:
Exclusive: Arizona sheriff blocks FBI access to evidence in Nancy Guthrie abduction, source says  —  An Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of U.S. television journalist Savannah Guthrie's mother, impairing its ability to assist in the probe …
ProPublica:
“Not Ready for Prime Time.”  A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.  —  Reporting Highlights  — Widespread Errors: An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing citizenship for people born outside the U.S.
AP-NORC:
A majority disapprove of how Trump is handling Greenland  —  Twenty-four percent of adults approve of Trump's handling of Greenland; 72% disapprove. … The Trump administration's approach to Greenland is proving unpopular among U.S. adults, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Associated Press:
US spent $40 million on roughly 300 deportations to third nations, Democratic report finds  —  The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own as immigration officials expanded the practice over the last year to carry …
Discussion: CNN, The Guardian and Politico
The Downballot:
Morning Digest: For the first time ever, New Mexico Republicans won't field a Senate candidate  —  It's one of three statewide races that the GOP is forfeiting this year  —  Leading Off  —  NM-Sen  —  For the first time since New Mexico became a state in 1912, Republicans won't field a candidate in a U.S. Senate race.
CNN:
House speaker condemns Trump Justice Department monitoring of lawmakers' Epstein document review  —  Federal agencies Epstein files Congressional news Donald Trump  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal's search history of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files …
Finya Swai / Politico:
Billy Long calls Iceland ‘52nd state’ joke ‘totally inappropriate’  —  Former Rep. Billy Long apologized to lawmakers for a private joke he made to former House colleagues saying Iceland would be the “52nd state” with him as its governor.  Appearing Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
New York Times:
The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein's Power  —  This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.  —  At the end of January, Trump's Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files …
Discussion: The.Ink
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Kari Lake is making Trump's job harder in Iran  —  She has gutted America's ability to get good information to the Iranian people in a conflict.  —  If President Donald Trump takes military action in Iran, he will need help from the Iranian people.  The U.S. military can decapitate the regime from the air.
New York Times:
Conspiracy Theories Only Flourish With More Epstein Evidence  —  The dump of millions of documents has fueled a new wave of speculation, A.I.-generated hoaxes and foreign disinformation.  —  The release of an enormous cache of files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein might …
 
 
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 More Items: 
Paul Krugman:
The MAGA Bubble Is Imploding
Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and GV Wire
New York Times:
Beyond the Big Cities, ICE Is Rattling Small-Town and Exurban America
Discussion: Insider NJ
Vox:
They backed Trump. Then Border Patrol arrested their neighbor. What now?
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren
Discussion: Pluribus News and NewsMax.com
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Members of Congress prepare to face angry, dissatisfied primary voters in 2026
 Earlier Items: 
Ken Klippenstein:
Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press:
NY officials raise rainbow flag at Stonewall in rebuke of Trump administration
Molly Parks / Washington Examiner:
Hawley calls on Minnesota attorney general to be indicted over fraud reports: ‘You ought to be in jail’
Gigi Douban / NPR:
Trump border czar Tom Homan announces Minnesota immigration surge is ending
 

 
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