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US strikes alleged drug boat, killing 3

Published Feb 13, 2026, 7:51 PM ET / Updated Feb 13, 2026, 8:18 PM ET / By Aleena Fayaz

The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Friday, February 13, killing three people, according to US Southern Command.

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The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat on Friday, killing three people, according to US Southern Command.

“On Feb. 13, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” SOUTHCOM wrote on X, adding that no US military personnel were harmed in the strike.

The statement did not specify where the strike took place but said “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.”

At least 124 people have now been killed in strikes on suspected drug boats as part of Operation Southern Spear, a campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at curtailing narcotics trafficking.

The administration has labeled those killed as “unlawful combatants” and claimed the ability to engage in lethal strikes without judicial review due to a classified Justice Department finding.

Friday’s boat strike is the fourth publicly known attack of the year. A strike earlier this week killed two people and left one survivor, with the US Coast Guard providing technical support for search and rescue operations coordinated by Maritime Rescue Coordination Center Ecuador.

The administration has publicly presented little evidence that those killed in Operation Southern Spear are affiliated with drug cartels, or that each of the vessels had drugs on them.

The legality of the strikes has also come under intense scrutiny in Congress since the operations began in September. There is particular interest in the first attack on September 2, which included a follow-up strike that killed two crew members who had initially survived. Multiple current and former military lawyers previously told CNN the strikes do not appear lawful.

This story has been updated with additional details.

Case against man shot by ICE in Minneapolis dismissed with prejudice | CNN Politics

Published 9:37 PM EST, Fri February 13, 2026 / Source: CNN

Two ICE officers are on leave while investigators probe whether they lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis. CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez reports.

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Trump ousts judge-installed prosecutor; constitutional expert says Article II leaves no doubt

Legal expert says president has constitutional removal power despite federal law allowing judges to fill prosecutor vacancies

By Ashley Oliver
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Published February 13, 2026 6:08pm EST

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President Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to fire court-appointed U.S. attorneys, even if judges legally appointed them, according to former Justice Department official John Yoo, who said the Constitution gives the president broad removal power over executive branch officers.

“Otherwise, you could have U.S. attorneys who are enforcing federal law differently than the president would, and it’s the president who all of us in the country elect and to whom the president is accountable,” Yoo told Fox News Digital in an interview.

Trump exercised that power this week by terminating Donald Kinsella just hours after federal judges in the Northern District of New York voted to install him to fill the vacancy left by Trump appointee John Sarcone, whose temporary term had expired.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed the move in a fiery social media post, declaring that judges “don’t pick” U.S. attorneys and thrusting the fight deeper into a constitutional dispute over who ultimately controls them.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House June 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

At the center of the most recent dispute is a law that allows federal courts to appoint temporary U.S. attorneys when a presidential nominee has not been confirmed by the Senate and an acting official’s term has expired. Blanche suggested the court’s move to fill a U.S. attorney vacancy was unconstitutional, a comment that comes as the DOJ appeals Judge Lorna Schofield’s decision last month to disqualify Sarcone over his expired tenure.

But Yoo, a law professor at University of California, Berkeley, said both that the judges’ actions were legal due to a “quirk” in the law and that the president still has authority to fire Kinsella.

“No matter how an executive officer is appointed … none of these positions under the Constitution have any specific way to remove the officers, and so the president can remove all officers in the executive branch, particularly all officers in the Justice Department,” Yoo said.

Yoo said the Constitution lays out detailed processes for appointing U.S. attorneys but is “silent” on how they are removed.

“It has elaborate procedures … about how you appoint them to office. It doesn’t actually discuss at all how you remove them from office,” Yoo said, referencing the complex federal vacancy laws that govern how interim and acting U.S. attorneys are appointed.

John A. Sarcone III April 28, 2025, in the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the James T. Foley Federal Courthouse in Albany, N.Y.(Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

He noted that existing law and Supreme Court precedent have long given the president the ultimate power to fire inferior officers in the executive branch, meaning an official like the attorney general cannot remove the appointees chosen by the courts, such as Kinsella, but Trump can.

Kinsella did not respond to a request for comment on his termination.

Under the law, U.S. attorneys are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. But if the Senate does not act, the president can install a temporary U.S. attorney for a limited period, typically 120 days. If that term expires without confirmation of a nominee, the law gives the district court’s judges the power to appoint a replacement to avoid a vacancy in the office.

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Trump, for his part, has struggled to secure Senate confirmations of his U.S. attorney nominees in blue states, where the upper chamber’s blue slip tradition has meant that home state senators must greenlight his nominees.

His interim appointees in these states, including New York, California, Nevada, New Jersey and Virginia, have faced legal setbacks as federal judges have uniformly found that Trump cannot repeatedly reappoint the same person to consecutive temporary terms.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has ruled out approving any of Trump’s nominees in New York, for example. After Trump fired Kinsella, a veteran federal prosecutor, Schumer said in a statement the president wanted an unqualified “political loyalist” in office.

Alina Habba speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2025.(Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Everyone knows Trump only cares about one quality in a U.S. Attorney — complete political subservience,” Schumer said.

In New Jersey, Trump quickly fired a court-appointed U.S. attorney after a lower court found Alina Habba’s temporary term had expired. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit upheld the lower court’s finding that Habba was unlawfully serving.

In the Eastern District of Virginia, the top prosecutor’s role also remains in limbo as the DOJ appeals a judge’s decision to disqualify Lindsey Halligan, who brought high-profile indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey. The judge tossed those cases, finding Halligan was improperly appointed.

The Trump DOJ used a variety of loopholes in the law to install Sarcone, Habba, Halligan and others, and has argued in appeals that the judges disqualifying them — and replacing them with U.S. attorneys of the court’s choosing — were misreading the law.

“It is important that a DOJ component is overseen by someone who has the support of the Executive Branch, and that a U.S. Attorney’s Office can continue to function even when there is no Senate-confirmed or interim U.S. Attorney,” DOJ attorneys wrote in court papers in Habba’s case.

Yoo signaled that the courts were right to honor the statutory time constraints on acting and interm tenures, but he reiterated that Trump had sole removal power.

From the founding, he said, officers who enforce federal law have been removable at will by the president under Article II of the Constitution and the take care clause, the duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

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“Any subordinates who are carrying out federal law have to be accountable to him,” Yoo said.

The DOJ has not at this stage elevated any of the U.S. attorney cases to the Supreme Court. Habba’s case is the furthest along, and a spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on whether the DOJ would appeal that decision.

Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.

Why is the U.S. government exploring using high-energy lasers near the southern border?

Updated on: February 13, 2026 / 7:27 PM EST / CBS News

The unexpected and ultimately short-lived flight ban near El Paso this week stemmed from disagreements within the federal government over the use of a high-energy laser weapon system to take down drones, multiple sources told CBS News.

After training by the U.S. military, Customs and Border Protection used a palletized high-energy laser system earlier this week, even though the Federal Aviation Administration still has safety concerns, according to sources who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak on the matter.

The system CBP used has been deployed overseas, according to two of the sources, but had not been considered for regular domestic use until recently. The system works by detecting an aerial threat, emitting a laser beam that can quickly zero in on the target, like a drone, and the beam’s heat damages or disables the object.

High-energy lasers are one of several systems the government could use to counter drones.

“The laser, of course, is essentially instantaneous, and so it’s relatively easy for something that’s doing the speed of light to hit exactly the point on the object that it wants to do,” said Tom Karako, a senior fellow and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for International and Strategic Studies.

After Wednesday’s flight restriction was lifted, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said “the threat has been neutralized” by the FAA and praised the Pentagon, which he said “acted swiftly to address a cartel incursion.” But the Pentagon said it had nothing to add when asked when or how the threat was eliminated.

While CBP thought it was targeting foreign drones with the high-energy laser, it turned out to have taken down at least one party balloon, multiple sources told CBS News.

Drones near the border are not new and have been a steady problem over several years, particularly those used by cartels.

“The cartel drone problem is pervasive across the U.S. southern border,” according to Austin Doctor, who is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the director of strategic initiatives at the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center.

The cartels and affiliates are primarily using drones for surveillance purposes “to support their other illegal criminal activities, including smuggling of narcotics, smuggling of persons, firearms, and other illicit goods,” Doctor told CBS News.

They have not used weaponized drones inside the U.S., he said, but are using them inside of Mexico to target rival cartels, prompting fears they could eventually start to use the drones to threaten U.S. personnel or infrastructure.

The activity near the border, combined with the mysterious sightings near military installations, like Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia in 2023 and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey in 2024, contributed to the Pentagon’s establishment of a joint task force to counter drones.

The task force coordinates between federal agencies on what authorities to use in specific scenarios and how to mitigate any threat from drones.

The task force is “doing great things,” said retired Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, who served as the commander of U.S. Northern Command and NORAD from 2020 to 2024.

“But there’s so much more to be done,” VanHerck said in a phone interview. “They need to be empowered to get the right policy in place for who defends what specific critical infrastructure with what specific capability,” he said. “And the challenges become ensuring you’re able to defend while also maintaining safety of flight for general and aviation aircraft and the public in general, depending on what capability you utilize to engage the threat.”

There are a variety of capabilities “but no silver bullet for countering drones,” VanHerck added.

He favors a layered system of defense with a foundation of radio frequency cyber techniques that can disrupt and take over the drone to bring it down safely. According to VanHerck, field experience from around the world shows that over 80% of drones encountered are commercial and can be brought down with this type of technology.

Other layers would rely on different systems that could include high-energy lasers.

Karako of CSIS said defending the southern border from drones is one piece of the larger puzzle that President Trump’s Golden Dome initiative is about — to defend the homeland from all air and missile threats.

“Maybe the lesson here ought to be that this big effort, this big initiative coming down the pipe that is called Golden Dome will require and force us out of necessity to have better communication and better coordination between the very necessary FAA function for air traffic control and air traffic management, the coordination between the FAA function and the DOD national security function,” Karako said.

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马克龙：欧洲必须成为地缘政治强国

2026年2月14日 09:59 / 联合早报

法国总统马克龙说，欧洲必须将重心转向长期战略思考，包括建立纵深打击能力，并评估法国的核威慑力量如何融入欧盟未来的安全架构。

路透社报道，马克龙星期五（2月13日）在慕尼黑安全会议发表讲话，驳斥有关欧洲正在衰落的言论，并为欧洲打击虚假信息和社交媒体过度行为的努力辩护，称社媒泛滥正在危害西方民主国家。

马克龙说：“现在是展现魄力的时候了。现在是建立强大欧洲的时候了。”

他说：“欧洲必须学会如何成为地缘政治强国。这不是我们固有的基因（DNA）。”

即将进入总统任期最后一年的马克龙指出，就算俄罗斯和乌克兰达成协议，欧洲仍将面对一个挑衅好斗的俄罗斯，欧洲决不能向俄罗斯屈服，决不能接受一项无法解决核心问题的短期协议。

马克龙说：“欧洲人必须从自身的角度和利益出发。所以，我今天的提议是，就这一重要问题启动一系列磋商。我们已经开始与英国和德国同僚具体化这项工作，但还需要与这里所有具有强大能力和战略思维的同僚们进行更广泛的欧洲磋商。”

马克龙计划在2月晚些时候就法国核威慑力量在欧洲的作用发表讲话，他指出已经启动相关磋商。

德国总理默茨星期五在慕尼黑安全会议致开幕辞时罕见批评美国总统特朗普。他说在特朗普的领导下，美国的全球领导地位“受到了挑战，甚至可能已经丧失殆尽”，并警告说，基于规则的世界秩序“已经不复存在”。

在结束演讲前，默茨突然改用英语，直接向特朗普政府喊话。默茨说：“在大国竞争时代，即使大如美国也无法独断专行。亲爱的朋友，作为北约的一员不仅是欧洲的竞争优势，也是美国的竞争优势。”

美伊谈判和美俄乌三方会谈2月17日在日内瓦举行

发布/2026年2月14日 10:30 / 联合早报

2月17日，威特科夫（左）和库什纳（右）将在日内瓦分别与伊朗和俄乌代表团举行会谈。 （路透社）

新一轮的美国和伊朗间接谈判以及美国、俄罗斯、乌克兰三方会谈，将于下星期二（2月17日）在瑞士日内瓦举行。

路透社引述消息人士说，包括美国总统特朗普的特使威特科夫和特朗普女婿库什纳在内的美国代表团，下星期二上午在日内瓦与伊朗方面展开谈判，阿曼方面代表将协调双方接触。同日下午，美国代表团将在日内瓦与俄乌代表举行三方会谈。

另据法新社报道，俄罗斯和乌克兰政府星期五（13日）确认，由美国斡旋的新一轮三方会谈17日至18日在日内瓦举行。

乌克兰国家安全委员会主席、首席谈判代表乌梅罗夫说，乌克兰代表团已开始为此次会谈做准备。乌克兰总统泽连斯基的幕僚长、前情报主管布达诺夫和多名官员将随行。

俄罗斯总统普京的新闻秘书佩斯科夫说，俄方代表团将由普京助理梅金斯基率领。

Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2026, 6:13 PM ET / CNN

Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn’t let go.

He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned the video depicting the Obamas as apes, questioning the lawmakers’ loyalty and vowing consequences, sources familiar with his comments told CNN.

The president railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott — the sole Black Republican senator and chair of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm — throughout the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, arguing one of his top congressional allies was out of line to call his White House racist, the sources said.

“The president felt he could’ve handled that matter privately,” a senior Trump administration official told CNN of Scott. “He was like, ‘We work together all the time. He didn’t need to comment publicly.’”

Trump had even stronger words for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, one of the sources recalled, using expletives to denounce her and declaring that she was dead to him.

Britt’s office slammed that account as “fake news” and touted her strong working relationship with the president, while the White House praised her as “an incredible ally” whom the president has “great respect” for. Scott’s office declined to comment.

But the episode, which marks one of the starkest GOP breaks from the president ahead of the 2026 midterms, also reflects how such moments have frustrated the commander in chief.

The White House’s removal of the video, which it had initially defended last week, came nearly 12 hours after it had been online — and only after the blowback from some top Republicans.

Just days later, a handful of GOP lawmakers bucked Trump on a key tariff vote, prompting him to threaten that anyone who votes against his signature economic policy will “suffer the consequences” in primaries. And late last year, Trump, under GOP pressure, was forced to back a vote to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — an issue he has said the country should move on from.

The White House argued that Trump remains “the unequivocal leader” of the GOP, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying in a statement that he’s “committed to ensuring Republicans remain united against the Democrats who, if given the chance, will destroy our country again through open borders, allowing non-citizens to vote in elections, and horrific economic policy.”

Getting Trump’s attention

But last Friday morning, it was Republican lawmakers trying to set the tone for their party by forcefully speaking out against Trump’s late night post.

As the video was first gaining traction, Scott — who speaks to the president regularly — privately reached out, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Unable to get ahold of him, he took to X.

“Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it,” the senator wrote.

That got Trump’s attention. He later called Scott — with whom he has a close personal relationship — and told the South Carolina Republican he was planning to have his team remove the post. Just before noon, the White House said a staffer had erroneously posted the video and it was deleted. As he flew to Mar-a-Lago that night, Trump told reporters he hadn’t seen the final frames of the video depicting the Obamas and blamed an unnamed staffer for posting it. “I didn’t make a mistake,” he said.

The president, as well as many of Trump’s top advisers, have privately asserted that Scott’s response is what led to the story gaining nationwide attention, the sources said.

But Scott was hardly alone in condemning the video. Britt, who’s working closely with the White House to try to fund the Department of Homeland Security, applauded the post’s removal last week, saying it “should have never been posted to begin with, and is not who we are as a nation.”

The open criticism caught the attention of far-right activist Laura Loomer, who presented Trump with printouts of the lawmakers’ statements, one of the sources familiar said. Loomer, who has previously succeeded in riling up the president over critical comments made by his perceived allies, posted on X that she was “compiling a list” of Republicans who “attacked” Trump with “false accusations of racism.”

Notably, some of the senators Trump and Loomer were furious with — including Scott and Britt — were also in Palm Beach that weekend for the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s winter retreat. Trump did not meet with the group, but he did invite a select few — such as Sens. Eric Schmitt and Lindsey Graham, who had not criticized him over the video — to join him for golf and attend his Super Bowl party.

Britt’s office defended her support for Trump in a statement.

“This is classic fake news by CNN. Senator Britt has a 100% voting record with President Trump and remains one of his strongest allies in the Senate. Just this week, Senator Britt had a tremendous conversation with President Trump about her leadership as she fights to defend our incredible ICE officers, pass the SAVE America Act, and advance the president’s policies to make America affordable again. Any narrative suggesting otherwise is not only misleading, it is flat out false,” the statement said.

Trump says he hasn’t punished anyone

While Trump had harsh words for Republicans who spoke out against him, he’s been less critical of the unnamed staffer whom the White House blamed for the debacle, telling reporters on Thursday that he has no plans to discipline the person.

The president often posts personally on Truth Social — particularly late at night and early in the morning — and he often personally re-posts others’ posts, sources familiar with his social media use previously told CNN.

But a few close aides — including Natalie Harp, who will sometimes type out posts that are dictated to her, and Dan Scavino, a deputy chief of staff who ran Trump’s social media accounts during his first term — also have access. Harp and Scavino were spotted on Sunday sitting beside the president during his Super Bowl party. Harp also boarded Marine One with the president on Friday as he traveled to Fort Bragg.

“No, I haven’t [taken action against them],” Trump said Thursday, without naming anyone. “That was a video on, as you know, voter fraud, a fairly long video, and they had a little piece, and it had to do with the Lion King. It’s been very well, it’s been shown all over the place long before that was posted.”

Arizona sheriff in Nancy Guthrie search defends sending DNA to Florida lab

2026-02-13T18:10:00-0500 / CBS News

An Arizona sheriff defended sending evidence in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, to a lab in Florida for DNA testing over the FBI’s lab in Quantico, Virginia.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos also said the results that investigators have received from DNA testing so far haven’t led to a suspect. Authorities believe Nancy Guthrie was forcibly taken from her Tucson home during the middle of the night nearly two weeks ago.

Nanos told CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti in an interview Friday that his agency has been sending evidence to a Florida lab for years, and he doesn’t want samples sent to two different facilities.

“It adds a step that’s not needed,” Nanos said. “If you have two labs you’re looking at, and one’s bad or one’s better, that’s fine. That’s not the case here, nobody’s saying that.”

Nanos said the Florida lab has samples taken from the Guthrie family and people who have worked at Nancy Guthrie’s home to compare against the evidence that has been gathered during the investigation.

“Let’s just use one lab, they have it all, the reports are generated, those reports are shared between both agencies, and we keep moving,” Nanos said.

The sheriff didn’t provide details about what results investigators have gotten back from the lab amid the ongoing investigation.

“We did get some DNA back, and we are looking at all those things,” Nanos said.

Asked if the results have led to a suspect, Nanos said, “Boy, I wish it did. Not yet. We’ve got DNA, and it’s still working, that’s all I can tell you.”

DNA that wasn’t Nancy Guthrie’s or that of those in close contact with her was collected from the property, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said in an update Friday afternoon. Investigators are working to identify who it belongs to. The department isn’t disclosing where the DNA was found on the property.

Meanwhile, while Nanos said they haven’t received proof of life, he also added that “there has been no sign of death.” When asked if the suspect should be afraid, he responded: “I think the suspect should be afraid every night. We’re going to find you.”

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos exits the press room past a missing person poster after giving an update on the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 5, 2026. Reuters/Rebecca Noble

The FBI released a description Thursday of a person it referred to as a suspect who was seen on video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s Nest home security camera on the morning of her disappearance.

The bureau described the individual as a male who is about 5 feet, 9 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches tall with an average build. In the footage, the person is wearing a ski mask, gloves and what the FBI said was a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack.

CBS News has learned the backpack is sold exclusively at Walmart. Sources with knowledge of the investigation told CBS News that law enforcement officials reviewed video at one Walmart location in Tucson. CBS News reached out to Walmart corporate offices, but a spokesperson declined to comment.

The FBI says the masked figure seen on Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell camera was carrying a black 25-liter “Ozark Trail Hiker Pack” backpack like the one seen at right. FBI

In addition to the description, the FBI doubled its reward to up to $100,000 for information leading to Guthrie’s location or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance. Guthrie was also added to the bureau’s list of its most wanted missing persons.

Investigators have issued a wider call for video footage from Guthrie’s neighbors. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department asked people who live within 2 miles of her home to provide authorities with all footage of vehicles, people or anything that seems out of the ordinary from New Year’s Day to Feb. 2, the day after Guthrie was reported missing.

Investigators recently found a pair of black gloves that are being tested for DNA, sources close to the investigation confirmed to CBS News. Nanos told CBS News on Friday that the gloves have been sent out for testing.

In its update Friday, the sheriff’s department said “several” gloves have been found during the investigation, and that the closest gloves were found about 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home. A glove seen in images from the New York Post resembles those seen in the security camera footage authorities released earlier this week.

The FBI said Wednesday that agents were conducting an “extensive search” along multiple roadways in the Catalina Foothills area where Guthrie lives.

On Thursday, Savannah Guthrie posted a message to social media featuring clips of a family home movie when her mom was younger, writing, “We will never give up on her.”

Jonathan Vigliotti, Anna Schecter and Laura Geller contributed to this report.

Senators urge Trump to scrap social media vetting for foreign tourists

February 13, 2026 7:07 PM UTC / Reuters / By David Shepardson

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WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Two Democratic senators urged the Trump administration on Friday to abandon a proposal to require millions of foreign visitors to provide social media handles used over the past five years.

The proposed policy from U.S. Customs and Border Protection would require travelers from countries in the visa waiver program to submit the social media data.

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“By requiring travelers to disclose their personal social media information, CBP will force people who simply want to visit family in the United States, conduct business with U.S. companies, or attend events such as the upcoming World Cup to submit to sweeping digital surveillance,” said Senators Ed Markey and Ron Wyden.

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“No doubt many Americans would be outraged if countries such as Great Britain, France, or Australia imposed a similar policy on American tourists.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately comment. In December, the department said the proposal could take effect as early as this month.

Earlier, a group representing the U.S. travel and tourism industry warned the proposal could have a “chilling effect” on visits to the United States. “If we get this policy wrong, millions of travelers could take their business and the billions of dollars they spend elsewhere, only making America weaker,” the U.S. Travel Association said.

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Applicants for immigrant and non-immigrant visas have been required to share that information since 2019.

Washington has taken steps to tighten vetting of foreigners, stemming from a Trump executive order issued in January 2025 calling for visitors to the U.S. to be “vetted and screened to the maximum degree.”

The visa waiver program allows travelers from 42 countries, mostly in Europe, to visit the U.S. for up to 90 days without a visa. They must complete an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) form, which under the change would require social media handles.

The U.S. is considering requiring all email addresses used over the last 10 years and names, birth dates, residences and birthplaces of parents, siblings, children and spouses.

The U.S. State Department in December said it was requiring all H-1B applicants and their dependents to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to “public” in order for the department to review social media posts by applicants.

Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by William Maclean

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US releases $30 million of frozen New York tunnel funding

February 13, 2026 7:22 PM UTC / David Shepardson

• Summary

• Court orders release of $205 million for Hudson Tunnel Project
• Justice Department to release $30 million immediately, remainder soon
• Senator Cory Booker vows to prevent further project interruptions

Feb 13 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Friday released $30 million of $205 million in frozen federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project in New York after New York and New Jersey sued to challenge the decision.

The two states had sought an emergency hearing after raising concerns the U.S. Department of Transportation was not committing to release the funds.

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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to undo a lower court order requiring the funding, which had been frozen in October and forced the project to halt construction last week.

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The Gateway Development Commission said it received the initial $30 million “and expect to receive the full $205 million in reimbursement funds. Construction remains paused for now, and we are working with our contractors to plan how to deploy these funds in the most effective way and get workers back on the job to resume some construction as soon as possible.”

Judge Jeannette Vargas last week ordered the federal government to release funds for the project to overhaul critical rail infrastructure in New York and New Jersey, which had been frozen by Republican President Donald Trump since October 1.

At a hearing, Justice Department said they were working to release the remainder of the $205 million in the coming days. Vargas ordered the government to file a report on Tuesday on the status of the funding.

U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey called the announcement good news but said he would fight “until the Trump administration guarantees no more interruptions to building this vital infrastructure.”

The halt to construction triggered last week by the funding freeze put 1,000 workers out of work.

Trump offered last month to unfreeze the funds, a source said, in return for support from Democrats to rename Washington Dulles Airport and New York’s Penn Station after him. Democrats strongly criticized the suggestion.

The Hudson Tunnel Project aims to build a new commuter rail tunnel connecting Manhattan and New Jersey and repair a century-old tunnel used by more than 200,000 travelers and 425 trains daily. Vargas handed down her ruling hours after New York and New Jersey said construction would halt for lack of funding.

The existing Hudson Tunnel, heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, needs frequent emergency repairs that disrupt travel on the nation’s most heavily used passenger rail line.

The project was allocated about $15 billion in federal support under then-President Joe Biden, a Democrat. Nearly $2 billion has been spent so far.

Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Franklin Paul and Jonathan Oatis