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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 break and negotiations with the White House over Democrats' demands for new restrictions had stalled. The White House and Democrats have traded offers in recent days as the Democrats have said they want curbs on President Donald Trump’s broad campaign of immigration enforcement. They have demanded better identification for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal law enforcement officers, a new code of co

Homeland Security shutdown seems certain as funding talks between White House and Democrats stall

Pipeline rupture sends 36,000 gallons of wastewater near Tijuana River

Prosecutors investigate the EU's executive branch over the sale of buildings to Belgium 2 years ago

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Justice Department’s antitrust chief has been fired, sources say

Gail Slater, who ran the antitrust division for the Justice Department for nearly a year, was forced out by the Trump administration this week, two people familiar with the matter told CNN.Slater, who suggested in a post on X Thursday she was leaving on her own, had been at odds with Attorney General Pam Bondi and the West Wing for months, the sources said. Her ouster as the antitrust chief was viewed as a long time coming, and it remains to be seen who fills her role on a permanent basis.Bondi issued tepid praise of Slater in a statement Thursday.“On behalf of the Department of Justice, we

Judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for call to resist unlawful orders

Venezuela’s parliament is to debate an amnesty bill that could free hundreds

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FDA rejects Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application - for reasons with no basis in the law

The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review an application from the biotech company Moderna to approve its mRNA-based flu vaccine. The agency’s decision, which Moderna announced in a press release on Feb. 10, 2026, is the latest step in efforts by federal health officials under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to disrupt longstanding public health practices relating to vaccine access and approval, as well as to reshape the public’s perception of vaccine safety. Vaccines based on mRNA came to the forefront in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but

Ukrainian athlete tests the Olympic rules on free speech — and gets disqualified

Judge says Pete Hegseth is unlawfully retaliating against Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

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Border czar hails a 'safer' Minnesota as he says the state's immigration crackdown is over

The Trump administration is ending the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday of the two-month operation that led to thousands of arrests, angry mass protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens. The operation, which the Department of Homeland Security called its “ largest immigration enforcement operation ever, ” has been a flashpoint in the debate over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, flaring up after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed by federal officers in Minneapolis. The U.S. Immigration an

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Trump repeals EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution, teeing up a legal battle with global stakes

The Trump administration delivered a deadly blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules that revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution.First issued in 2009, the endangerment finding determined that six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health under the Clean Air Act. It has underpinned the EPA’s authority to limit planet-warming pollution from the oil and gas industry, power plants and vehicles since the Obama administration and is considered the federal government’s most powerful tool to tackle c

US curler Rich Ruohonen’s long, winding road to the Olympic Games

Pride flag removed from Stonewall National Monument in NYC

‘They put me on there to die’: Conservatives unload on GOP’s failures to carry out DOGE cost-cutting

The budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency that upended the federal government at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term has stalled out on Capitol Hill, a reality that’s left conservative lawmakers fuming.Inside the White House, the cost-cutting crusade marked by mass firings and blanket funding eliminations is largely seen as over, two people familiar with the discussions said, as Trump turns his attention to other priorities. On Capitol Hill, Republicans have passed just a single bill enacting $9 billion in DOGE cuts – far short of Elon Musk’s aim of cutting

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Chair of Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission removes member after heated hearing on antisemitism

The chairman of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission said Wednesday that he ousted a member of the commission after she sparred with fellow members during a contentious public hearing on antisemitism.Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who chairs the commission, said on X that it was his call to remove Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California USA, after tense exchanges during the hearing Monday over what constitutes antisemitism in the US.Boller, during the hearing, defended conservative commentator Candace Owens, who has boosted conspiracy theories and embraced antisemitic r

Governors association says all members now invited to White House meeting as Trump defends exclusion of some Democrats

Republicans urge Trump to hold firm against Democrats’ DHS demands as clock ticks toward shutdown

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Will American 'Quad God' Ilia Malinin try hardest quad of all in his last skate at the Olympics?

Ilia Malinin keeps teasing fans at the Milan Cortina Olympics by submitting program plans that have the American figure skating star attempting the quad axel, a 4 1/2-revolution jump so difficult nobody but him has ever landed it in competition. Yet through two programs in the gold medal-winning team event and his individual short program Tuesday night, the “Quad God” has yet to attempt the hardest quadruple jump of all, opting instead for the safer triple axel everyone else is doing. “My lazy part of me," Malinin said with a smirk, “just forgetting to chan

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Astronomers discover ‘inside out’ solar system

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA.Four planets orbit LHS 1903 — a red dwarf star, the most common type of star in the universe — and are arranged in a peculiar sequence. The innermost planet is rocky, while the next two are gaseous, and then, unexpectedly, the outermost planet is also rocky.This arrangement contradicts a pattern commonly seen across the galaxy and in our own solar system, where the rocky planets (Mercur

Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change

Spy agency says Kim Jong Un’s daughter is close to being designated North Korea’s future leader

Billionaire Manchester United co-owner sparks outrage by claiming UK ‘colonized by immigrants’

Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire co-owner of Manchester United, has sparked widespread outrage for claiming the United Kingdom has been “colonized by immigrants,” with club supporters condemning his language as dangerous and divisive and the prime minister demanding an apology.Ratcliffe, who founded petrochemical company Ineos and is one of Britain’s richest men, apologized in a statement Thursday for his “choice of language” — but only after a storm of outrage that drew in senior politicians and soccer fans alike.“I don’t think the (British) economy is in a good place,” Ratcli

He witnessed the sun’s power ‘like nobody else before or since.’ Now his first portrait has been found

When solar storms erupt from the sun and reach Earth, their intensity is measured against a historical benchmark: the Carrington Event. Now, a portrait of 19th century British solar astronomer Richard Carrington has been discovered — providing, at long last, an image of the man for whom the event was named.On September 1, 1859, powerful electric current surges delivered electric shocks to operators in telegraph stations and even sparked fires in their offices. Some telegraph machines received messages that didn’t make sense, while others sent messages despite not being plugged in, accordin