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Top DHS Spokesperson Is Stepping Down
Top DHS
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Feb 17, 2026 12:42 PM CST

Top DHS Spokesperson Is Stepping Down

Tricia McLaughlin's departure comes as public opinion about ICE tactics appears to be souring

(Newser) - A high-profile voice defending the Trump administration's immigration push is stepping down. Tricia McLaughlin, the combative spokesperson for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and one of the administration's most visible champions of its crackdown, will leave the Department of Homeland Security next week, according to agency officials. Axios...

Far-Right Militia Hero Bundy Comes Out Against ICE

Ammon Bundy is now at odds with former allies by condemning Trump-era immigration crackdown

(Newser) - Ammon Bundy helped turn standoffs with federal agents into must-see conservative theater; now he's finding that many of his old allies no longer want to hear from him. The onetime face of the anti-government "Patriot Movement" has broken with much of the nationalist right over immigration enforcement, denouncing...

Hillary Clinton Alleges Epstein 'Cover-Up'

Ex secretary of state demands full file release, decries congressional inquiry as biased

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton says the Trump administration isn't coming clean on Jeffrey Epstein as part of a "continuing cover-up." In a BBC interview from Berlin, the former secretary of state accused officials of "slow-walking" the release of Epstein-related documents and "redacting the names of men" in...

Slavery Exhibits Will Return to Washington's Home

Judge compares monument changes to Orwellian rewriting of history

(Newser) - Visitors to George Washington's former Philadelphia home will once again be told the nation's first president kept slaves there, the New York Times reports. A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore exhibits on Washington's enslaved household at the President's House Site,...

Judge Evokes 'Ministry of Truth' in Ruling Against Administration

Philadelphia exhibit on George Washington was taken down after executive order

(Newser) - An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after the Trump administration took it down last month, a federal judge ruled on Presidents Day. The City of Philadelphia sued in January after the National Park Service removed the explanatory panels...

Embassies Are Pushing Hard for 'America 250' Donations

Former ambassador says push for corporate cash could be hurting America's image

(Newser) - US embassies are turning their usual Fourth of July receptions into something closer to a global fundraising drive for a blockbuster 250th birthday party—and some diplomats are leaning hard on corporate guests to pay for it. In recent months, American missions in places like Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore...

Public Health-Care Costs Are for Patients, or So We Thought

Insurers and hospitals end up using the posted prices for leverage, per KFF News

(Newser) - Republicans have long argued that if patients could see medical prices upfront, they'd act like bargain hunters and push costs down. KFF Health News reports that hasn't happened. Both the Trump and Biden administrations have tried to force hospitals and insurers to publicly post prices, but compliance has...

Local Cops Hedge on Investigating Federal Agents
When ICE Agents Shoot,
Local Cops Often Step Back
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Feb 15, 2026 1:40 PM CST

When ICE Agents Shoot, Local Cops Often Step Back

Legal experts say local police have obligation to investigate shootings by feds, but it rarely happens

(Newser) - Police in one Chicago suburb were securing the scene when they decided that the one thing they wouldn't do is scrutinize the federal agent who'd just killed a man. Bodycam footage from Franklin Park, Illinois, shows then-police chief Mike Witz telling his officers last September that they wouldn'...

Pentagon: US Boarded Tanker From Venezuela in Indian Ocean

Veronica III 'tried to defy President Trump's quarantine,' military says

(Newser) - US military forces boarded another sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking the vessel from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said Sunday. Several tankers had fled the Venezuelan coast, including the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean...

Rubio Reassures Europe While Digging In on Criticism

Leaders at security conference like shift in tone, but seem skeptical about fundamental changes

(Newser) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a high-profile security gathering in Munich on Saturday to argue that the US and Europe are fundamentally linked, even as he backed Trump administration policies that have strained those ties. In a keynote address to the Munich Security Conference, Rubio told European leaders that...

WH 'Excellently Preserved' as East Wing Was Destroyed

So says a memo made public on Friday

(Newser) - The White House mansion's eastern facade appears to have been "excellently preserved" when demolition crews tore down the East Wing to make way for President Trump's planned ballroom, an administration official said in a memo made public on Friday. Contractors took pains to protect the White House...

3 Dead After US Military Strikes Another Boat

US Southern Command says the 'narco-trafficking' hit against took place in the Caribbean

(Newser) - The US military said on Friday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea. US Southern Command said on social media that the boat "was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking...

ICE to Spend $38B Turning Warehouses Into Detention Sites

Immigration agency's plan would create network of large regional processing and removal centers

(Newser) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving ahead with a sweeping plan to turn industrial warehouses into a national network of immigrant detention hubs, with an estimated price tag of $38.3 billion, newly released documents show, reports the Washington Post . The records, posted on New Hampshire's state website...

Feds Drop Charges Against Man Shot by Agent in Minneapolis

'Newly discovered evidence' undercuts government's version of events

(Newser) - A federal judge in Minneapolis on Friday ordered the dismissal of felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg by an immigration officer, after new evidence emerged undercutting the government's version of events. In a highly unusual motion to dismiss filed late Thursday, US...

Jeanine Pirro Suit: I Fell in the Street, Now Pay Up

US attorney for DC's $250K negligence suit targets NY town, Con Ed for road hazard after Pirro tripped

(Newser) - Jeanine Pirro is taking her suburban hometown and a utility to court over what she describes as a painful street stumble. The US attorney for the District of Columbia and former Fox News host has filed a $250,000 negligence suit against the city of Rye, New York, as well...

US Secretly Sent Thousands of Starlink Terminals to Iran

State Department covertly delivered satellite internet amid mass protests, per WSJ

(Newser) - Washington's quiet bet on Elon Musk's satellites in Iran turns out to have been much bigger than previously disclosed. US officials say the Trump administration secretly moved about 6,000 Starlink satellite internet terminals into Iran after security forces there crushed mass protests in January, killing thousands and...

Fired Over a Blanket? Noem Won't Like Exposé

Wall Street Journal is out with a not-so-flattering look at DHS chief's reign

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal is out with an investigative look at Kristi Noem's tenure running the Department of Homeland Security, and it's a safe bet she will not be pleased. The story notes that Noem has been taking heavy bipartisan criticism for her DHS tactics and "constant...

Judge Blocks Trump's 'Arbitrary' Health Grant Cuts

He says Democratic-led states showed Trump cuts were possibly unconstitutional

(Newser) - A federal judge has hit pause on the Trump administration's bid to yank hundreds of millions in health dollars from four Democratic-led states. In a brief order Thursday, US District Judge Manish Shah in Illinois blocked an attempt to reclaim about $600 million in previously approved federal public health...

Judge Reads Death Threats After Her Haiti TPS Ruling

'Thank you,' Ana Reyes says in response to violent emails

(Newser) - "I hope you die today," one email said. "Enjoy choking on your tongue." A federal judge used part of a contentious court hearing Thursday to read that and other email and social media death threats she received after her ruling blocking the Trump administration from ending...

US, Taiwan Sign Deal Cutting Tariffs, Adding Investment
US, Taiwan Sign Trade Deal
Feb 12, 2026 7:00 PM CST

US, Taiwan Sign Trade Deal

Agreement includes purchases of American energy, aircraft, and technology

(Newser) - The US and Taiwan sealed a trade pact Thursday that lowers tariffs and steers tens of billions of dollars toward American energy and technology projects. Unveiled Thursday in Washington, the agreement commits Taiwan to buying more than $44 billion in US liquefied natural gas and crude oil, while further opening...

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