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EPA ends credits for automatic start-stop vehicle ignition, a feature Zeldin says ‘everyone hates’
Feb 12, 2026 4:16 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency announced an end Thursday to credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to reduce emissions that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said “everyone hates.”
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2 Mexican Navy ships laden with humanitarian aid dock in Cuba as US blockade sparks energy crisis
Feb 12, 2026 3:24 pm - HAVANA — Two Mexican Navy ships laden with humanitarian aid docked in Cuba on Thursday as a U.S. blockade deepens the island’s energy crisis. The ships arrived two weeks ...
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Grieving families press Congress on aviation safety reforms after midair collision near DC
Feb 12, 2026 3:11 pm - Key senators and the families of the 67 dead in an airliner collision with an Army helicopter near the nation's capital are convinced that advanced aircraft locator syste...
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RFK Jr. promised to restore trust in US health agencies. A year later, it’s eroding
Feb 12, 2026 3:06 pm - NEW YORK — Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services one year ago, he has defended his upending of federal health ...
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Homeland Security shutdown seems certain as funding talks between White House and Democrats stall
Feb 12, 2026 2:41 pm - WASHINGTON — A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appeared certain Thursday as lawmakers in the House and Senate were set to leave Washington for a 10-day b...
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Climate inaction puts 34% of fashion industry profits at risk
Feb 12, 2026 2:40 pm - The fashion industry is heading for a 34% drop in profits by 2030 unless companies move quickly to rein in their climate footprint, according to a report by the Apparel Impact Institute.
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Speaker Johnson says he disapproves of Justice Department logging lawmaker searches of Epstein files
Feb 12, 2026 2:36 pm - WASHINGTON— Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that he did not think it was appropriate for the Justice Department to be tracking the search histories of...
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Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change
Feb 12, 2026 2:30 pm - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions a...
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Federal authorities announce an end to the immigration crackdown in Minnesota
Feb 12, 2026 9:08 am - MINNEAPOLIS — The Trump administration is ending the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday of the two-month operation that led to thousa...
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Democratic senators decry indictment attempt, warning it 'could break this institution'Feb 11, 2026 5:20 pm - WASHINGTON — Democrats took to the Senate floor Wednesday to deliver impassioned speeches denouncing the Justice Department’s attempt to indict a group of lawmakers who l...
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