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Rubio plugs Orbán’s bid for another term after April elections during a visit to Budapest

By MATTHEW LEE and JUSTIN SPIKE
Feb 16, 2026 7:26 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday enthusiastically endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 's bid to serve a fifth straight term af...
Monster trucks? A bill percolating in D.C. to boost rig weights is causing concern in the suburbs

By Marni Pyke
Feb 15, 2026 8:45 pm - Safety advocates are pushing back against efforts in Congress to raise truck weight limits from 80,000 pounds to 91,000.
TSA agents are working without pay at US airports due to another shutdown

By RIO YAMAT
Feb 14, 2026 4:46 pm - A shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that took effect early Saturday impacts the agency responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports across the country. Travelers with airline reservations may be nervously recalling a 43-day government shutdown that led to historic flight cancellations and long delays last year.
White House, RFK Jr. shake up health leadership after controversies

By Lauren Weber, Rachel Roubein and Dan Diamond
Feb 14, 2026 3:02 pm - The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shaking up the health department’s leadership team ahead of the midterms, pushing out several deputies while elevating others in hopes of stabilizing an agency rattled by internal fights and controversial messages, according to more than half a dozen people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel matters.
Journalist Don Lemon pleads not guilty to civil rights charges in Minnesota church protest

By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Feb 13, 2026 7:39 pm - Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges Friday, following a protest at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official is a pastor. Four others also pleaded not guilty in the case.
DHS shutdown nears as Senate fails to cut deal, heads to recess

By Erik Wasson and Steven T. Dennis
Feb 13, 2026 7:26 pm - A Saturday shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is all but inevitable after the Senate failed to advance a funding bill and headed out on a week-long recess without a deal regarding new limits on immigration enforcement.
Feds open a perjury probe into ICE officers’ testimony about the shooting of a Venezuelan man

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JIM MUSTIAN and JACK BROOK
Feb 13, 2026 7:14 pm - Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers

By Douglas MacMillan and Jonathan O'Connell
Feb 13, 2026 6:46 pm - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of immigrants, according to documents the agency provided to New Hampshire’s governor and published on the state’s website Thursday.
A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding

BY MELISSA GOLDIN
Feb 13, 2026 4:35 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked the 2009 endangerment finding, which has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.But in making the announcement, Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin made false claims regarding the government declaration, climate change, and energy.
Pregnant women die at higher rates when states restrict abortion

By Emma Court
Feb 13, 2026 4:17 pm - State abortion restrictions put in place during the last two decades have resulted in more women dying during or after childbirth, leading to about 16 additional deaths a year across the states that became more stringent, new research finds.

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