Category Archives: Top Stories
US senators sharply question Trump officials about Pretti shooting, use of force
Feb 12 (Reuters) - The top Republican and Democrat on a U.S. Senate committee played video showing the lead-up to the shooting of U.S. citizen Alex Pretti to Trump immigration officials at a hearing o...
Feb 12, 2026 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott sits next to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons as they attend a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 12, 2026. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura
Trump revokes basis of US climate regulation, ends vehicle emission standards
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the repeal of a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, removing the l...
Feb 12, 2026 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 12, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Olympics-Figure skating-Malinin making history with skating's first Olympic backflip in decades
By Lori Ewing MILAN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - When Ilia Malinin launched himself into a backflip at the Milano Cortina Olympics, it detonated through the crowd like a firecracker and even brought tennis gre...
Feb 12, 2026 Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics - Figure Skating - Men Single Skating - Short Program - Milano Ice Skating Arena, Milan, Italy - February 10, 2026. Ilia Malinin of United States performs during the Short Program REUTERS/Yara Nardi
Illinois GOP Senate candidates take stage in first major debate
Article Summary Don Tracy, Jeannie Evans and Casey Chlebek pitched themselves as best positioned to flip a Senate seat Democrats have held since 1985. None directly criticized President Donald Trump, ...
Feb 12, 2026 Visual: Republican candidates for U.S. Senate participate in a debate hosted by hosted by ABC-7 Chicago in partnership with Univision and the League of Women Voters on Feb. 11, 2026. (Screenshot of ABC-7’s debate feed)
Trump agrees to end deportation surge in Minnesota, White House border czar says
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said on Thursday that a significant drawdown of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota was underway and that he ...
Feb 12, 2026 A law enforcement officer uses a battering ram to force entry into a home during an immigration raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, January 18, 2026. REUTERS/Leah Millis
RFK Jr's vaccine agenda faces Boston judge who has handed Trump setbacks
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping efforts to upend U.S. immunization policies are set to go before a federal judge in Bost...
Feb 12, 2026 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 29, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Marimar Martinez, Chicago woman shot and briefly charged by Border Patrol, moves to sue
Article Summary Marimar Martinez, the Chicago teacher's aide shot five times by a Border Patrol agent last fall, will release evidence that was recently unsealed from the government's dismissed case a...
Feb 12, 2026 Marimar Martinez and her attorneys present recently unsealed evidence from her trial at a Feb. 11, 2026, news conference. Martinez’s legal team announced at the event that they would be filing a Federal Torts Claim Act complaint later that day, the first step toward a civil suit against the Border Patrol agent who shot Martinez five times in October. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Maggie Dougherty)
Investigators fan out in search of Nancy Guthrie, analyze discarded glove
By Erica Stapleton and Jana Winter TUCSON, Arizona, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Sheriff's deputies and FBI agents fanned out along highways, vacant lots and remote dwellings of southern Arizona on Wednesday, c...
Feb 12, 2026 Well-wishers leave flowers outside of Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills after the disappearance of Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of U.S. journalist and television host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her home in Tucson, Arizona, U.S. February 11, 2026. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble
Peoria family displaced by fire
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria family was displaced Wednesday night by a fire in the area of N. Victoria Avenue and W. Overbrook Drive. The Peoria Fire Department responded to the fire around 8:45 p.m., find...
Feb 12, 2026 (Midwest Communications)
POWER Act: Lawmakers seek to regulate new data centers' power, water usage
Article Summary Illinois lawmakers are pursuing data center regulations to address concerns about price increases, electricity shortages and environmental impacts. The POWER Act addresses all three by...
Feb 11, 2026 Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, joins advocates on Feb. 11, 2026, in Chicago to introduce a bill regulating data centers in Illinois. (Medill Illinois News Bureau photo by Gabriel Castilho)
