7 min ago - TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A Shadow Hills resident tells News 4 Tucson that she witnessed three people being detained during a SWAT operation on Friday night. According to an unconfirmed report by a neighbor, another person shot himself in the head. This ... (News 4 Tucson)

24 min ago - Feb 13, 2026 7:51 PM EST NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have com ... (PBS News/AP)

1 hr ago - Updated 7:11 PM EST, February 13, 2026 MALAKOFF, Texas (AP) — Some school districts in the U.S. dropped plans for class pictures after widespread social media posts linked a billionaire with ties to Jeffrey Epstein to the photography giant Lifet ... (AP)

1 hr ago - February 13, 2026, 6:43 PM Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump's nominee for a top job at the State Department, is facing bipartisan pushback from senators of both parties over past racist comments he made and there are growing chances his confirmati ... (ABC News)

1 hr ago - 02/13/26 6:31 PM ET The NAACP on Friday threatened to sue Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, claiming that gas turbines powering a company data center are polluting communities in Mississippi and Tennessee. “Our communities are not playgrounds for ... (The Hill)

1 hr ago - Feb 13th, 2026, 6:21 pm In a Friday appearance before reporters from the tarmac at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump was questioned on what's left to bomb in Iran if he truly "totally obliterated" the country's nuclear sites as he's previously clai ... (MEDIAite)

2 hrs ago - Fri 13 Feb 2026 18.17 EST First published on Fri 13 Feb 2026 16.51 EST A prominent healthcare advocacy group is calling for the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to step down from his post after he downplayed Covid risks by saying: “I
... (The Guardian)

2 hrs ago - February 13, 2026 6:05 PM EST Updated 10 hours ago WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Two Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Friday asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to examine the potential national security implications of ... (Reuters)

3 hrs ago - Feb. 13, 2026, 4:35 PM EST TEL AVIV, Israel — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has apologized for his yearslong friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that included regular correspondence, multiple visits to the disgraced ... (NBC News/AP)

3 hrs ago - Feb 13, 2026 4:18 PM Eastern Standard Time PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has found Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) responsible for the company’s baby powder products contributing to the death of ... (Busines Wire)

4 hrs ago - February 12, 2026 3:38 PM ET In the last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted 37 investigations into officers' use of force, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said during congressional testimony on Thursday. Of those, 18 are closed and 19 ... (NPR)

4 hrs ago - Posted February 13, 2026 at 3:33pm ​The House Agriculture Committee on Friday unveiled a five-year farm bill ahead of the scheduled Feb. 23 markup of a measure that could divide members across regional lines as much as political ones. The draf ... (Roll Call)

6 hrs ago - 11h MINNEAPOLIS -- A recent federal appeals court ruling means immigrants detained in Minnesota and sent to Texas won't be released on bond -- for now. Thousands of immigrants detained during the monthslong Operation Metro Surge have been sent to Tex ... (Minneapolis Star Tribune via MSN.com)

9 hrs ago - The US military’s Southern Command, which oversees operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said it had carried out its second deadly boat strike this week. The command said the latest strike killed three suspected drug smugglers in the Ca ... (Guardian/US)

11 hrs ago - February 13, 2026 6:05 PM EST Updated 2 hours ago WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told R ... (Reuters)

11 hrs ago - 9h (Bloomberg) -- The US Transportation Security Administration will now refer to non-US citizens as “aliens” in its regulations, according to a change announced Friday. The decision was included in a final rule signed by Homeland Security ... (msn/Bloomberg)

12 hrs ago - 02/13/26 6:30 PM ET A new report from House Democrats concludes that President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was “nothing short of a catastrophe.” The 47-page report, published Thursday by House Oversight Democrat ... (The Hill)

12 hrs ago - Published Feb. 13, 2026, 2:21 p.m. ET Gov. Josh Shapiro implored Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week to reconsider converting warehouses in Berks and Schuylkill counties into mass immigration detention centers, citing “real harms&# ... (Philadelphia Inquirer)

13 hrs ago - Federal funding for the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel between New York City and New Jersey, which had been suspended for more than four months, began to flow again on Friday after lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal judge on Friday ... (New York Times)

13 hrs ago - February 13, 2026 1:36 PM EST Updated 2 hours ago BOSTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Honduran college student who was deported in violation of a court order, a step ... (Reuters)