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WASHINGTON (AP) —A grand jury has reportedly delivered another major rebuke to the Trump administration’s efforts to target the president’s political opponents.

On Tuesday, a grand jury declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who had made a video urging active duty troops to “refuse illegal orders,” according to multiple reports.

The failed indictment, which was sought by federal prosecutors at the Justice Department, was the latest example of a grand jury declining to back charges the administration had pursued against those who’d provoked President Donald Trump’s ire. In December, a grand jury also declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge tossed a prior case against her.

The lawmakers released the video last November to remind military members that they could “refuse illegal orders.” Since the video’s release, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Penn.), Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Penn.), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.) and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) have been the subject of Trump’s verbal and online attacks.

At one point, Trump described the lawmakers’ actions as “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has also targeted Kelly by opening a Defense Department investigation into him and threatening to demote his military rank.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-orders-democrats-video-e1435655587ad9715c4d1cc776edd545

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https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bondi-epstein-files-search-history-hearing-pramila-jayapal/

A high-profile House Democrat is accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of "spying" on her search history while she pored through Jeffrey Epstein-related documents, after Bondi was seen at a combative congressional hearing Wednesday with what appeared to be a list of the lawmaker's searches.

One of the printouts that Bondi referenced during the hearing was a list labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History," referring to Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington. The document listed out at least eight different files from the Justice Department's trove of Epstein records, including their file numbers and brief descriptions of their contents, according to images snapped by photojournalists who covered the hearing.

It's not entirely clear how the list was compiled, but since Monday, the Justice Department has allowed several members of Congress to visit its offices and search through a database of unredacted Epstein files. In recent weeks, the department has made millions of records on the late sex offender public, but with redactions to take out survivors' names and other information, drawing criticism from some lawmakers who argue the redactions were excessive.

Jayapal said in a statement to CBS News on Wednesday: "It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files."

"Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched," said the Democrat, who previously chaired the Congressional Progressive Caucus. "That is outrageous and I intend to pursue this and stop this spying on members."

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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/10/americas/canada-british-columbia-school-shooting-intl-hnk
At least nine people have been killed at a high school and a residential property in the Canadian province of British Columbia, police said Tuesday, in the country’s deadliest school shooting in decades.

Police found six people dead and dozens injured when they responded to reports of an active shooter at the school in Tumbler Ridge, a small rural town in the province’s northeast, around 1:20 p.m.

Another person died while being transported to hospital, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

Two more people were found dead at a residence believed to be connected to the incident, police said.

The suspected shooter was found deceased at the school with “what appears to be a self-inflicted injury,” said police.

The suspect was described as a brown-haired woman wearing a dress, in an emergency alert which went out to residents’ phones, according to CNN affiliate CBC News.

Two victims were airlifted from the school to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries. About 25 other people with non-life-threatening injuries are being treated at a local medical centre, police said.


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https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/aerovironments-locust-counter-drone-laser-used-by-us-army-near-el-paso-airport-2026-02-12/

Feb 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army deployed AeroVironment Inc's LOCUST laser counter-drone weapon system near El Paso International Airport on Wednesday, leading to a seven-hour airspace shutdown, two people briefed on the situation told Reuters.

The use of the 20-kilowatt LOCUST direct-energy weapon, which has not previously been reported, is a rare known example of the U.S. deploying cutting-edge counter-drone technology capable of defeating flying objects at a fraction of the cost of traditional interceptor missiles.

AeroVironment and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halted air traffic for more than seven hours in and out of the Texas border city of El Paso earlier on Wednesday after raising concerns that the Army's laser-based counter-drone system, housed at Fort Bliss adjacent to the airport, could pose risks to commercial air traffic, government and airline officials told Reuters.

The United States has been seeking safe and cost-effective ways to defeat drones, particularly around airports and large sporting events - a concern that has become more urgent ahead of the FIFA World Cup and America250 anniversary celebrations this summer. On the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon reports more than 1,000 drone sightings monthly.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/faa-el-paso-airport.html
The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly grounded all flights in and out of El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days starting Wednesday morning, citing “special security” instructions, and then lifted the order hours later.

A Trump administration official said the Department of Defense disabled Mexican cartel drones that had breached U.S. airspace and that there was no threat to commercial air travel currently.

“The temporary closure of airspace over El Paso has been lifted,” the FAA said in a post on X. “There is no threat to commercial aviation. All flights will resume as normal.”

The airport sits next to Biggs Army Airfield and is near the Mexican border, about 12 miles from Juarez, Mexico. The Pentagon referred a question about the nature of the security issue to the FAA.

Flights were initially halted until late Feb. 20 and the ban applied to a 10-nautical-mile area around the airport. The FAA hadn’t immediately disclosed what the security reasons for the temporary sudden halt were or why it was set for so long.

While the FAA regularly halts flights at airports for weather, traffic or even rocket launches, a security issue is highly unusual, as is announcing such a long effective airspace closure.

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Texas Democrat whose district includes much of El Paso, said the move to suddenly close airspace was “unprecedented” and said that “what my office and I have been able to gather overnight and early this morning, there is no immediate threat to the community or surrounding areas.”


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Republicans promote common sense voting laws
Democrats defer to their think tank talking points and lies, because it makes it more difficult for them to rig elections
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5728702-gop-voting-bill-id-requirement/
GOP lawmaker says those without an ID ‘need’ to be able to get one free of charge to vote

Ahead of a vote on a GOP-backed voting requirement bill in the House, Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) said Sunday that those without IDs must be able to get one for free to vote.

“If there’s an individual [who] doesn’t have an ID, there 100 percent needs to be a mechanism for that person to get an ID without a charge,” Steil told host Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”

“We want to make sure that more people are voting, not less,” he added. “And I think instilling this confidence [in elections] will actually result in more people coming to the polls.”

Steil noted that the Wisconsin state Legislature implemented such a policy when it passed legislation requiring photo IDs to vote in 2011. Under that law, residents can obtain an ID from the state’s Department of Transportation for free to vote.

The House is set to vote this upcoming week on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which proposes requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and valid identification to cast a ballot.


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https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-releases/super-bowl-lx-is-second-most-watched-all-time-with-nearly-125-million-viewers-peaking-at-all-time-u-s-record-137-8-million-viewers-across-nbc-peacock-and-telemundo

Seahawks-Patriots is Most-Watched Show in History of NBC, Which Celebrates 100 Years in 2026

Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Featuring Global Superstar Bad Bunny Generates Over 4 Billion Social Views in First 24 Hours – up 137% - the Most-Consumed Halftime Show of All-Time on NFL Social Platforms

Telemundo Delivers Largest Spanish-Language NFL Game Audience Ever; Peacock Achieves Best Day Ever on Sunday

Sunday’s Milan Cortina Olympics Presentation Averages 42 Million Viewers, Marking Largest Winter Games Audience since Day 2 of 2014 Sochi Olympics

STAMFORD, Conn. – February 10, 2026 – NBC Sports’ presentation of Super Bowl LX set an all-time media record as 137.8 million viewers watched in the second quarter as the Seattle Seahawks led 6-0 over the New England Patriots – marking the highest peak viewership in U.S. TV history.

The Seahawks’ 29-13 victory over the Patriots averaged 124.9 million viewers on NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL+, based on official live + same day Nielsen Big Data + Panel, ranking as the second-most watched show in U.S. history (behind Super Bowl LIX on FOX in Feb. 2025).

Super Bowl LX is the most-watched show in the history of NBCUniversal, which celebrates 100 years of NBC in 2026.

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Trump acknowledged knowing of Epstein's sexual crimes against children but not speaking to authorities about it until details of the case began going public, during a panicked phone call to the lead investigator where he also declared his own innocence unprompted.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-chief-trump-told-goodness-stopping-epstein-2006/story?id=130010254

>A former Palm Beach, Florida, police chief who investigated Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-2000s told the FBI he had received a call from Donald Trump at the time to say "thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this," according to an FBI account of an interview with the ex-police chief in 2019.

>The Miami Herald was the first to report on the document.

>President Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and has said that he cut off contact with his former friend more than 20 years ago.

>Trump has claimed that he booted Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after discovering that he was poaching employees from the club’s spa.

https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

[February 9th, 2026]

Discord's new CEO Humam Sakhnini plans to roll out a forced AI ID verification system for all users this following March, however in October 2025, Discord confirmed a data breach originating from a third-party support provider, potentially exposing sensitive data for approximately 70,000 users. The stolen information includes government ID photos (passports/driver's licenses) used for age verification, along with user emails, names, and partial credit card data.

While some users can continue to use the platform as they usually do, the anonymous adults whom wish to be anonymous in NSFW/Age-gated servers, will be required to submit a video, or use a form of ID to scan to verify, however while Discord states:
- Facial scans never leave your device. Discord and our vendor partners never receive it.
- IDs are used to get your age only and then deleted
- Discord only receives your age — that's it. Your identity is never associated with your account.

For the majority of adult users, we will be able to confirm your age group using information we already have. We use age prediction to determine, with high confidence, when a user is an adult. This allows many adults to access age-appropriate features without completing an explicit age check. (Yet we'll see in March)

Which is confusing on last October's data breach, nevertheless new filters are being planned to set in place, that of which are:
- Mature Sexual Media Filter: Helps identify visual media that may contain sexually explicit or suggestive material involving adults

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https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/

Google provided Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a wide array of personal data on a student activist and journalist, including his credit card and bank account numbers, according to a copy of an ICE subpoena obtained by The Intercept.

Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a Cornell University job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus. When President Donald Trump assumed office and issued a series of executive orders targeting students who protested in support of Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding.

Google informed Thomas-Johnson via a brief email in April that it had already shared his metadata with the Department of Homeland Security, as The Intercept previously reported. But the full extent of the information the tech giant provided — including usernames, addresses, itemized list of services, including any IP masking services, telephone or instrument numbers, subscriber numbers or identities, and credit card and bank account numbers — was not previously known.

“I’d already seen the subpoena request that Google and Meta had sent to Momodou [Taal], and I knew that he had gotten in touch with a lawyer and the lawyer successfully challenged that,” Thomas-Johnson said. “I was quite surprised to see that I didn’t have that opportunity.”

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-reporter-lutnick-epstein-island-b2917783.html

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday abruptly cut short a briefing with reporters after a reporter asked about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The question came hours after Lutnick, responding to questions from congressional lawmakers over documents released by the Justice Department, revealed that he misled the public about the extent of his ties to the convicted pedophile sex trafficker, who killed himself in jail while awaiting trial.

Leavitt was roughly 20 minutes into one of her regular briefings with the White House press corps when a reporter asked whether President Donald Trump would stand behind Lutnick, who earlier in the day had admitted to members of the Senate Commerce Committee that he’d visited Epstein’s notorious private island, Little Saint James.

She replied that Trump “fully supports” Lutnick and described him as “a very important member of President Trump's team.”

But instead of allowing reporters to probe further into Trump’s views on Lutnick, or ask any other further questions, Leavitt launched into a monologue chastising reporters for not asking about various positive statistics touted by the administration on issues of importance to the president.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2407jrn83o
A former Florida police chief said he received a call from Donald Trump in 2006 in which the now-president told him "everyone" knows about Jeffrey Epstein’s behaviour, according to an FBI document released by the justice department.

The document is a written record of a 2019 FBI interview with the former Palm Beach police chief, who alleges Trump called him after the department launched an investigation into Epstein and said: "Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this."

The officer's name is redacted, but the document identifies the interview subject as the Palm Beach police chief at the time of its Epstein investigation. That was Michael Reiter, who told the Miami Herald that he received the call from Trump.

The president has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and has said he did not know about his crimes. The alleged call, however, is likely to raise further questions about what Trump knew and when.

Asked by reporters in 2019 - when Epstein was arrested by federal agents for sex trafficking - if he had "any suspicions" about the disgraced financier, Trump said: "No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven't spoken to him in many, many years."

According to the FBI summary of the interview, which was released in the latest tranche of Epstein files, Reiter said Trump told him in a July 2006 call that he had thrown Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club and "people in New York knew he was disgusting".

Reiter also claims Trump told him Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's "operative", and "she is evil and to focus on her".


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The affordability crisis in the United States reflects a systemic issue in which the costs of housing, food, healthcare, childcare, and energy increase faster than incomes. As a result, over one-third of middle-class households are now struggling to meet their basic needs.

Recently, Trump signed an executive order imposing potential tariffs of up to 25% on countries that conduct business with Iran, reaffirming a national emergency. However, Peter Schiff, Chief Economist and financial commentator, has sounded the alarm, labeling it a disastrous move.

Schiff's caution is indicative of a broader institutional defect following the "Secondary Tariff" framework on February 6. According to an analysis released today by the Tax Foundation, Trump's 2026 tariff plan would result in an average annual tax hike of $1,300 for each American household.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate that by mid-2026, these tariffs would increase inflation by 1%.

Meanwhile, Trump, who has been largely dismissing the affordability crisis as a Democratic 'con job,' had a social media meltdown after Schiff questioned his policies in December. “Why would Fox and Friends Weekend (of all things?) put on a ‘Stockbroker’ named Peter Schiff, a Trump-hating loser who has already proven to be wrong,” the president wrote on his Truth Social, before adding, “Either the show made a mistake, or it is heading in a different direction." Schiff responded with a scathing comment on X, saying, "Since Pres. Trump called me a jerk and a loser for claiming that prices are still rising when he insists they're coming way down. I challenge him, or his designee, to a debate on the U.S. economy and the efficacy of his policies. If I'm as wrong as he says I am, let him prove it."

As of early 2026, about 96% of U.S. tariffs are effectively paid by Americans, showing up as higher prices for importers and consumers.

https://marketrealist.com/how-is-trump-deepening-the-affordability-crisis/

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American workers are staring down a terrible labor market. It’s so bad that job postings are at their lowest level since the depths of the pandemic.

The demand for new hires “continues to wane,” said CNN. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that there were just 6.54 million job openings in December.

- The “lowest level since September 2020.” That leaves “slim pickings” for U.S. workers looking to find a new job, said NerdWallet’s Elizabeth Renter, per the network.

“The hiring recession isn’t going to end anytime soon,” said Heather Long, the chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, in a commentary.

- Layoffs in January were the highest since the 2009 financial crisis plunged the U.S. economy into the “steepest downturn since the Great Depression,” said CNBC.

American companies announced more than 108,000 layoffs for the month, more than double from a year ago. That signals that employers are “less-than-optimistic about the outlook for 2026,” said workplace expert Andy Challenger in an analysis.

Workers are feeling negative, too.

- Consumer confidence is at its “lowest level since 2014,” said The Associated Press.

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https://www.newsweek.com/emiru-drama-explained-popular-streamer-responds-after-ice-clip-goes-viral-11488160

Twitch streamer Emiru is facing backlash after a clipped moment from her livestream went viral, sparking accusations that she deliberately avoided addressing a question about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The clip led to widespread speculation about her political views and intentions, with some users accusing her of attempting to remain apolitical to avoid alienating parts of her audience.

The controversy began when a clipped segment of Emiru’s Twitch stream appeared to show her dodging a question that referenced ICE.

"If you need a streamer who doesn’t even know anything about politics to tell you about politics you probably just need to like get off the Internet," Emiri said in a response to her thoughts on ICE on her Twitch stream.

The backlash unfolded as public figures, celebrities, and influencers increasingly spoke out against ICE amid growing allegations of misconduct, racial profiling, and heavy-handed tactics, at a moment when the agency has been thrust back into the national spotlight by the Trump administration’s hard-line deportation policies dominating headlines.