12 Feb 2026, 3:43 pm
Inset: Damian Mitchell (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry). Background: The Safeway grocery store in Phoenix where Damian Mitchell purchased a paring knife that he used to stab a man outside (Google Maps). An Arizona man is headed to prison for using a paring knife that he had just bought from a Safeway grocery store to stab a stranger to death after they "exchanged words" as they "passed each other" outside, court documents say. Damian M…
12 Feb 2026, 3:39 pm
Forget the prix-fixe menus and the frantic hunt for a 7 p.m. reservation. In Philly, the real Valentine’s Day magic happens over drinks by candlelight […]…
12 Feb 2026, 3:35 pm
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12 Feb 2026, 3:26 pm
Immediately realizing using the racist slur Nicole Curtis pleaded to the crew to delete the video.
12 Feb 2026, 3:18 pm
WASHINGTON—After nearly 20 years, the climate policy responsible for a generation of greenhouse gas regulations has been repealed, President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday. The regulation, known as the Endangerment Finding, expanded the definition of harmful air pollutants to include greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, allowing the EPA to regulate them under the Clean Air Act. Zeldin said Thurs…
12 Feb 2026, 3:14 pm
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12 Feb 2026, 3:06 pm
Snoop Dogg’s high-profile presence at the Winter Olympics has drawn cameras and crowds — and now, a complaint from a decorated gold medalist. According to the New York Post, Dutch speed skating icon Marianne Timmer said she had a tense encounter with members of the rapper’s security team while working as a media commentator at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium. The three-time Olympic champion said the incident happened after the women’s 1,000-meter ev…
12 Feb 2026, 3:06 pm
Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to AI models’ supposedly burgeoning intelligence: running a vending machine without going comically off the rails. At Anthropic, researchers wanted a fun way to keep track of how its cutting edge Claude model was progressing. And what better staging ground for it to demonstrate its autonomy than the task of keeping one of these noisy, oversized, and…
12 Feb 2026, 3:04 pm
The Trump administration announced an end to greenhouse gas emission standards for all vehicles made in model year 2012 or later Thursday.
12 Feb 2026, 3:00 pm
Anthropic has raised $30 billion in a Series G funding round that values the Claude maker at $380 billion as the company prepares for an initial public offering that could come as early as this year. Investors in the new round include Singapore sovereign fund GIC, Coatue, D.E. Shaw Ventures, ICONIQ, MGX, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Greenoaks and Temasek. Anthropic raised its funding target by $10 billion during the process after the round was several times subsc…
12 Feb 2026, 2:59 pm
(MedPage Today) -- LAS VEGAS -- Receiving an mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine during or shortly before pregnancy had no impact on kids' neurodevelopmental outcomes, a multicenter prospective observational study found. Kids between ages 18 and 30 months...
12 Feb 2026, 2:58 pm
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are accusing the Justice Department of spying on them as they reviewed the unredacted Epstein files on DOJ computers, tracking the documents they examined. Attorney General Pam Bondi was photographed during a congressional appearance before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday flipping to a document titled “Jayapal Pramila Search……
12 Feb 2026, 2:55 pm
The ships arrived two weeks after US President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country selling or providing oil to Cuba, prompting the island to ration energy.
12 Feb 2026, 2:54 pm
(MedPage Today) -- Among the thousands of names that show up in the Department of Justice's latest release of records related to Jeffrey Epstein are several physicians. A MedPage Today review uncovered numerous references to doctors in the more...
12 Feb 2026, 2:53 pm
A pair of researchers resigned from Anthropic and OpenAI this week, with one warning that the “world is in peril” from a multitude of crises. Mrinank Sharma announced his resignation from Anthropic in an open letter to his colleagues on Monday. Sharma, who has served on the company’s technical staff since 2023, first noted that……
12 Feb 2026, 2:52 pm
The Philadelphia Phillies have released outfielder Nick Castellanos, making him a free agent who can sign with any club for the league minimum.
12 Feb 2026, 2:51 pm
Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, as President Donald Trump looks on (AP Photo/Alex Brandon). A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has barred the Trump administration from transferring 20 former federal death row inmates to the "most restrictive" federal prison in the United States. In April 2025, the plaintiffs, who had their sentences commuted to life in…
12 Feb 2026, 2:51 pm
Connor McDavid registered three assists to help Canada shut out Czechia 5-0 on Thursday in an opening match of the Winter Olympics hockey tournament.
12 Feb 2026, 2:49 pm
A gender critical activist has hailed Labour's new trans guidance issued to schools, pinpointing a crucial safeguarding detail on GB News. Under Bridget Phillipson's guidance, which women's rights campaigners have sought for years, students will be allowed to change their gender at school. The framework has advised teachers to approach requests to transition with "caution" and has added they must consult parents. However, while it is being reported that the guidance…
12 Feb 2026, 2:49 pm
Trump's retribution campaign is hitting a losing streak. …
12 Feb 2026, 2:48 pm
Background: News footage of Salinas Valley State Prison (KTVU). Insets (left to right): Nicolas Young, Joseph Mendoza, and Edgar Frayre (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation). The family of a man stabbed to death inside a California prison has filed a lawsuit alleging that prison employees recorded the attack instead of helping. According to the lawsuit, which was reviewed by Law&Crime, 36-year-old Joseph Mendoza was serving a 22-year prison t…
12 Feb 2026, 2:47 pm
The Kremlin on Thursday said it is discussing options with Cuba to provide assistance to the island in the face of a President Trump threatening tariffs on any country providing oil to Havana. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said it is “impossible to discuss these issues in such a public manner,” according to Russian state news outlet……
12 Feb 2026, 2:46 pm
(WPHL) -- The Phillies' roster will be looking different for the 2026 season. The Philadelphia Phillies announced on X that the team has released outfielder Nick Castellanos. According to his bio on the Phillies website, in the 2025 Regular Season, Castellanos batted .250 with 17 home runs and 72 RBIs.
12 Feb 2026, 2:46 pm
Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych is banned from the Olympics for refusing to replace a helmet that honored dead compatriots, officials said Thursday.
12 Feb 2026, 2:45 pm
The European Space Agency's billion-dollar Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer has shifted its focus to an extraordinary cosmic intruder, a comet originating from beyond our solar system.Juice, which launched in 2023 on an eight-year voyage to study Jupiter and its potentially life-harbouring moons, found itself ideally positioned to observe the rare visitor.The comet, designated 3I/Atlas, is hurtling through our solar system at approximately 220,000 kilometres per hour rela…
12 Feb 2026, 2:43 pm
Senate Democrats blocked GOP efforts to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Thursday, putting the department on the brink of a shutdown. Democrats first blocked an attempt to advance a full-year funding bill on a 52-49 vote. It needed 60 votes to advance. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) then moved to get unanimous consent on……
12 Feb 2026, 2:41 pm
Summary and Key Points: General Stephen L. Davis, Commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, has categorized the PLAAF as a “regional bomber force at best,” downplaying the immediate threat of China’s H-20 stealth bomber. -While the H-20 aims to mimic the B-2 and B-21’s flying-wing design, U.S. intelligence suggests it faces severe engineering hurdles […] The post ‘Not There Yet’: China’s New Xi’an H-20 Stealth Bomber Has a Problem appeared firs…
12 Feb 2026, 2:41 pm
The Nick Castellanos era with the Phillies has officially come to an end. The Phillies announced Thursday that they’ve released the outfielder following a difficult 2025 season. Castellanos, 32, is entering the final year of his five-year, $100 million contract and is owed $20 million in 2026. A trade remains possible, but the financial commitment makes it difficult. Castellanos finished 2025 with a .250/.294/.400 slash line, 17 home runs, and a -1.0 WAR.
12 Feb 2026, 2:40 pm
X Money 'External Beta' Will Go Live In 1-2 Months, Musk Says Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, X Money, an upcoming payments system that forms part of Elon Musk’s “everything app” plans, is scheduled to come out as a “limited beta” in the next two months before launching to X users worldwide. Musk gave the new timeline at his AI company’s “All Hands” presentation on Wednesday, during which he said that X Money was al…
12 Feb 2026, 2:39 pm
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 and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations. The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public h…
12 Feb 2026, 2:39 pm
Tara Palmeri: “Donald Trump thought he’d cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein years ago. But the deceased financier’s shadow lurks across an administration struggling to outrun its own history.”…
12 Feb 2026, 2:37 pm
A Bangladeshi migrant has won an asylum case because he might have been jailed for 20 years on bomb charges if deported back to his country of origin.The man, who was granted anonymity, argued he should not be sent back to his home country because he had been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in jail for “bogus” explosives offences.He insisted the allegations were false and politically motivated, and said the previous regime in Bangladesh had persecuted him beca…
12 Feb 2026, 2:37 pm
Massie takes the view, however that anyone who associated with Epstein after 2018 is fair game. Is that fair? You be the judge.
12 Feb 2026, 2:37 pm
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) “rejected a suggestion that the Senate Banking Committee conduct its own investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to supplant a probe by the Justice Department and clear the way for the committee to approve President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the central bank,” Bloomberg reports. “Tillis, who views the DOJ investigation as an attack on the Fed’s independence, has vowed to hold up any Fed nominees until that probe…
12 Feb 2026, 2:36 pm
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 17: Nick Castellanos #8 of the Philadelphia Phillies looks on against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on September 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Phillies have released outfielder Nick Castellanos, the team announced on Thursday.Castellanos' release comes after the Phillies reportedly told the outfielder not to show up to spring training. The 33-ye…
12 Feb 2026, 2:35 pm
Consumer outlet Which? has been campaigning on access to loyalty schemes, calling it a "huge win for shoppers".
12 Feb 2026, 2:35 pm
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) launched a tough new ad hitting Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) as “always concerned, but never courageous” in the state’s U.S. Senate contest…
12 Feb 2026, 2:35 pm
A federal judge Thursday blocked Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth from punishing Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly over his role in a viral November 2025 video urging U.S. service members to not follow “illegal orders.” U.S. District Judge Richard Leon — an appointee of former President George W. Bush — issued a preliminary injunction blocking Kelly, a retired Navy captain, from having his military rank demoted and his retirement pay reduced. The d…
12 Feb 2026, 2:34 pm
Reform UK has distanced itself from former Boris Johnson ally and Conservative environmentalist Ben Goldsmith after farmers objected to his rewilding advocacy.Nigel Farage is understood to have abandoned plans for him to develop the party's environmental strategy ahead of the next general election, weeks after the two discussed policy proposals.Deputy leader Richard Tice dismissed any prospect of collaboration with Mr Goldsmith, declaring: "Farmers can trust Reform.
12 Feb 2026, 2:34 pm
Sheriff's deputies in Minnesota came to the rescue of a deer that wandered into a resident's backyard batting cage and got tangled in netting.
12 Feb 2026, 2:33 pm
Philadelphia Street in Indiana, Indiana County on Jan. 21, 2026. (Photo by John Beale for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star)Citing increasing housing costs and sluggish homebuilding, Gov. Josh Shapiro pitched a 10-year roadmap Thursday to make the commonwealth “a national leader in access to safe and affordable housing.” “This is a long-term plan to cut costs, to build more affordable housing (and) to break down barriers that have kept Pennsylvanians from findi…
12 Feb 2026, 2:30 pm
BTS's comeback concert will feature Gyeongbokgung Palace and Gwanghwamun Gate and Blackpink will preview a new song at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
12 Feb 2026, 2:30 pm
Venezuela acting President Delcy Rodriguez told NBC News that Nicolás Maduro is still the “legitimate president” of her country.
12 Feb 2026, 2:30 pm
Trump Revokes Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding In "Largest Deregulatory Action" In U.S. History Update (Thursday Afternoon): President Trump told reporters that his administration has rescinded the 2009 Obama-era "Endangerment Finding," a determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare, which he said has been used by the radical left to justify $1.3 trillion in regulatory costs that have hurt American households and sent consumer…
12 Feb 2026, 2:29 pm
Alton Towers has backtracked on its controversial plan to tighten access to its disability queuing system following strong criticism from people with autism, ADHD and anxiety.Merlin Entertainments, who oversee the park, had planned to introduce new eligibility rules for its Ride Access Pass, which provides a non-queueing option for people unable to stand in long lines.Under the scrapped plan, visitors to places like Alton Towers and other parks including Chessington…
12 Feb 2026, 2:28 pm
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12 Feb 2026, 2:27 pm
A federal judge said President Trump’s $10 billion defamation case against the BBC can start next year, setting a “provisional start date of Feb. 15, 2027 for a two-week trial,” the AP reports.
12 Feb 2026, 2:27 pm
Manchester United has said it is an “inclusive and welcoming club” with a “diverse group of players” amid the outcry over remarks by its co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe. He’s now apologised for his “use of language” when he told an interviewer the UK had been “colonised” by immigrants. The Football Association is looking into whether Sir Jim brought the game into disrepute.
12 Feb 2026, 2:25 pm
“I think there is a great sense of pride in the way we’ve stood up to this bullying and this lawlessness, but also it’s come at a huge price — a huge personal price, a huge economic price. There will be, I’m sure, a sense of hope that maybe the worst of this is coming to an end. But, boy, people are going to be reeling from this for a really long time.” — Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), quoted by Politico, on ICE pulling out of Minneapolis after weeks of prote…
12 Feb 2026, 2:25 pm
A federal judge blocked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over encouraging U.S. troops to refuse illegal orders.
12 Feb 2026, 2:23 pm
Left: Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg (U.S. District Courts). Right: President Donald Trump observes military demonstrations at Fort Bragg, Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate the return from third countries" of Alien Enemies Act deportees who "desire" to come back to the United States as habeas cases proceed, putting the government on th…
12 Feb 2026, 2:22 pm
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has delivered a new batch of Su-57 “Felon” fifth-generation fighters to the Aerospace Forces in a “new technical configuration.” -This updated variant reportedly features enhanced avionics and refined weapons integration, incorporating lessons learned from active combat in Ukraine. -Despite claims from Rostec officials that the Su-57 […] The post Russia’s New ‘Super’ Su-57 Felon Ste…
12 Feb 2026, 2:20 pm
At 87 years old, Vonzie Whitlow continues cutting hair at Detroit's first Black-owned barbershop, a legacy spanning more than six decades of community service and mentorship."God keeps me motivated," Whitlow said.Whitlow's barbershop opened in 1963 when Vonzie partnered with one of his two younger brothers, Calvin, who has since passed away.Their father, Howard Whitlow, encouraged the two to start the business right around the time Vonzie's daughter, Zena, was born.