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Janet Mills launches ad hitting Susan Collins as ‘always concerned, but never courageous’ in key Maine Senate contest | CNN Politics

Published 1:39 PM EST, Thu February 12, 2026 / CNN

Two days after Sen. Susan Collins announced she’s running for re-election, Democratic challenger Gov. Janet Mills has a new ad attacking Collins’ record in the Senate. CNN’s Dana Bash and the “Inside Politics” panel analyze what the ad says about Mills’ campaign and her Democratic primary contest against Graham Platner. “She is trying to show people…I am going to fight harder than Graham Platner is saying that he’s going to fight,” Edward-Isaac Dovere tells Bash.

Judge orders Trump administration to facilitate return of some Venezuelan migrants deported under Alien Enemies Act

February 12, 2026 / 1:25 PM EST / CBS News

Washington — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of certain Venezuelan migrants who he found were unlawfully deported to a Salvadoran prison under the Alien Enemies Act last year and then released into other countries.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in a brief opinion that the number of Venezuelans who would likely want to be returned to the U.S. to continue challenging their detentions and removals is small, and acknowledged that they will be taken into immigration custody upon their arrival.

Still, he gave lawyers for the Venezuelan men until Feb. 27 to inform him of the number of plaintiffs who want to travel on their own to a U.S. port of entry or wish to be flown from a third country to the U.S. for court proceedings.

“These men suffered brutal abuse and torture because the Trump administration treated due process as optional,” Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the ACLU who is representing the migrants, told CBS News. “The Court rightly has grown frustrated with the administration’s stalling tactics and has now taken the critical first step to provide these men with a chance to present their cases.”

Boasberg’s decision stems from a December ruling that the Trump administration had denied due process to a class of 137 Venezuelans who were deported to El Salvador last March under the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law invoked by President Trump to summarily remove Venezuelans who were accused of being members of the gang Tren de Aragua.

In earlier stages of the case, the judge had determined that their removals were in defiance of an order that required the Department of Homeland Security to turn around planes bound for a Salvadoran prison with more than 200 Venezuelans on board.

“Against this backdrop, and mindful of the flagrancy of the Government’s violations of the deportees’ due-process rights that landed Plaintiffs in this situation, the Court refuses to let them languish in the solution-less mire Defendants propose,” Boasberg wrote Thursday. “The Court will thus order Defendants to take several discrete actions that will begin the remedial process for at least some Plaintiffs, as the Supreme Court has required in similar circumstances. It does so while treading lightly, as it must, in the area of foreign affairs.”

The judge cited a Supreme Court decision that required the Trump administration to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from Salvadoran custody. A top immigration official had acknowledged that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported back to his home country of El Salvador.

Boasberg said that while he gave the government the opportunity to propose steps to facilitate hearings for the Venezuelan migrants who were challenging their detentions and their alleged gang membership, “the government’s responses essentially told the Court to pound sand.”

“Believing that other courses would be both more productive,” Boasberg wrote that he is ordering the government to “facilitate the return from third countries of those plaintiffs who so desire.” He said other plaintiffs can pursue additional legal claims from overseas.

Boasberg said his order does not apply to those who currently remain in Venezuela, citing ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Venezuelan government following the removal of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month. Last July, El Salvador agreed to a prisoner swap in which over 250 Venezuelan men who were removed from the U.S. and sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison were returned to their home country.

Boasberg wrote that “it is up to the Government to remedy the wrong that it perpetrated here and to provide a means for doing so. Were it otherwise, the Government could simply remove people from the United States without providing any process and then, once they were in a foreign country, deny them any right to return for a hearing or opportunity to present their case from abroad.”

The judge said the federal government must pay for the air travel of those who wish to return to the U.S. He also required the Trump administration to return any passports and identification documents and make “good-faith efforts” to obtain the documents that were transferred to El Salvador.

“It is worth emphasizing that this situation would never have arisen had the Government simply afforded Plaintiffs their constitutional rights before initially deporting them,” Boasberg wrote.

In arguing for this remedy, Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer representing the men in this case, said in an earlier hearing that his team had only gotten in touch with a few of the men who were removed. Boasberg said that the number of Venezuelan migrants who may wish to return to the U.S. as they pursue legal remedies, “would likely be very small if not zero.”

The Odds: Can Republican Susan Collins hold onto her US Senate seat in Maine? | CNN Politics

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Senators criticize FAA for failures before fatal helicopter collision

February 12, 2026 5:50 PM UTC / Reuters

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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) speaks during a memorial event marking the one-year anniversary of the midair collision involving American Eagle flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at DAR Constitutional Hall in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 28, 2026. REUTERS/Kylie… Read more

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration faced harsh criticism from senators over a litany of failures before the January 2025 collission of a American Airlines regional jet and Army helicopter that killed 67 people.

Senator Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Commerce Committee, said the National Transportation Safety Board showed the “failures of the FAA and what it needs to do to change its culture.” The NTSB determined the collision was caused by the FAA’s decision to allow helicopters to travel close to the airport with no safeguards to separate them from airplanes and its failure to review data and act on recommendations to move helicopter traffic away from the airport.

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Former Jack Smith deputy involved in prosecuting Trump announces run for office

JP Cooney said he ‘was fired by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice because of my work to prosecute him’

By Alex Nitzberg
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Published February 12, 2026 8:53am EST | Updated February 12, 2026 12:22pm EST

JP Cooney, who worked on the criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump with former special counsel Jack Smith, has mounted a congressional bid in Virginia as a Democrat.

“I was fired by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice because of my work to prosecute him. But I won’t let Trump – or anyone – stop me from serving. I’m J.P. Cooney, and I’m running for Congress in Virginia’s 7th District,” he wrote in a Wednesday post on X.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) reacted to the announcement in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.

“JP Cooney wants Virginians to believe that weaponizing the law to target President Trump and Republicans and launching sham, politically-motivated investigations that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars is a qualification for public office,” RNC spokeswoman Emma Hall said. “The reality is he’s just another radical Democrat whose only goal is to impeach President Trump and obstruct the America First agenda, even as it delivers historic results for Virginia.”

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Cooney’s LinkedIn profile states, “As Principal Deputy to Special Counsel Jack Smith, Cooney was a lead prosecutor in both criminal prosecutions of President Trump for obstruction of justice and conspiracy.”

Smith praised Cooney in a statement reported by The New York Times.

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“I’ve known J.P. for a long time and I think the world of him as a person and as a public servant,” Smith noted, according to the outlet. “He’s a man of integrity who has committed his career to upholding the rule of law, and he’s the model of who our country needs in public service.”

Cooney aims to run in a district that does not actually exist yet, the Times noted, explaining that Virginia’s 7th Congressional District would be altered under a redistricting push by Democrats. The plan would need to surmount legal challenges and clear a ballot referendum.

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“Never has there been a Congress that has been such a weak and ineffective check on a president’s abuses of power,” Cooney said, according to the Times. “I lie awake every night worrying that Donald Trump does not have the best interests of our country in mind, and that’s a seismic shift in American leadership and politics.”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

A partial government shutdown is about to hit the Department of Homeland Security. Here’s what that means

Published Feb 12, 2026, 11:12 AM ET / Source: CNN

By Tami Luhby

Community members react to federal immigration agents conducting enforcement tasks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 5, 2026.

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The Department of Homeland Security could be ensnared by a partial government shutdown if Congress does not fund the agency by the end of Friday. But nearly all DHS workers would remain on the job — even if many wouldn’t get paid until the lapse ends — and the public probably wouldn’t notice much of a change.

DHS is the last federal agency lacking funding for the remainder of fiscal year 2026, which runs through September 30. Since the record-long shutdown ended in mid-November, lawmakers have passed a series of spending bills for the rest of the government.

The most recent package, approved at the end of January, only funded DHS for two weeks to give Congress more time to negotiate reforms in the agency’s immigration enforcement operations — a demand by Senate Democrats after federal immigration agents fatally shot two US citizens in Minneapolis in January.

The White House made an offer Wednesday night, which Democrats are reviewing. But it’s unclear if they can hammer out a deal before DHS’ funding expires.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that another short-term funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, would be needed to keep critical parts of DHS operational. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hasn’t indicated how Democrats will proceed.

President Donald Trump is no stranger to government shutdowns. He also presided over one in his first term, which lasted 35 days and had been the longest on record until last year’s 43-day impasse.

Here’s what we know about a partial government shutdown affecting DHS:

What is the debate around funding DHS?

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The shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by DHS immigration agents during protests in Minneapolis last month sparked widespread public outcry and prompted Senate Democrats to demand reforms in exchange for their support of a package to fund other federal departments.

The Democrats have said they want to restrict roving patrols, tighten parameters around warrants for searches and arrests, toughen use-of-force policies and require US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to wear body cameras and remove their masks. Republicans have resisted nearly all of those changes, and some have pushed for concessions from Democrats, like cracking down on so-called sanctuary cities.

Senate GOP Leader John Thune in the US Capitol, February 9, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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What would a shutdown mean for ICE and CBP?

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Democrats may not have much power to actually restrict ICE and US Customs and Border Protection activities in the event of a shutdown. Even in a shutdown, ICE would still continue to operate its main functions, multiple congressional aides have contended.

Overall, more than 90% of DHS’ 272,000 employees would continue working during a lapse, according to the agency’s September shutdown plan covering the first five days of an impasse. More than 93% of ICE and CBP workers would remain on the job.

Only about 44,500 staffers would continue to be paid through other appropriations, according to the shutdown plan. However, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said last fall that 70,000 law enforcement personnel, including in CBP, ICE and other divisions, would receive their paychecks.

DHS has other resources to draw on, including a $165 billion infusion from last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which funneled $75 billion to ICE, alone, and $64 billion to CBP.

The president’s signature policy bill gives Noem wide-ranging power to move money around to carry out the agency’s operations.

How would a lapse in funding affect other agencies under DHS?

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DHS is a sprawling agency that includes not only ICE and CBP, but also the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Secret Service and other divisions.

Much of the agency’s workforce is focused on activities that protect life and property and is therefore considered essential. Activities that would continue include law enforcement operations, including those related to immigration and drug trafficking; passenger processing and cargo inspections at ports of entry; Disaster Relief Fund activities; and Secret Service functions.

“Because we know that the majority of staff right now would be required to work, it’s likely that the impacts would be minimally felt,” said Rachel Snyderman, managing director of the economic policy program at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “But as the duration of the shutdown continues, that’s where you start to see some issues with staff attrition.”

FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund also appears to be well-funded, though monthly reports are still lagging because of the fall shutdown, according to the center. It estimates that the fund contained nearly $31 billion at the start of the year, and the agency typically spends $500 million to $1 billion a month — barring a major disaster.

However, depending on the length of the shutdown, Americans may notice longer lines at airport security checkpoints since TSA workers would have to work without pay. This has happened during prior impasses as employee absences increase as shutdowns drag on.

Would the IRS or other government agencies be affected?

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All other areas of the federal government, including national parks and the Internal Revenue Service, would remain open since they have been funded for the rest of the fiscal year.

Notably, that includes air traffic controllers, who are part of the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration. Typically, a major pain point during a shutdown is the snarling of flights due to staffing issues among controllers. But that wouldn’t be an issue if funding for DHS lapses after Friday.

CNN’s Aileen Graef, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox contributed to this report.

Oklahoma executes inmate who admitted to killing 2 young men: “I apologize for murdering your sons”

Updated on: February 12, 2026 / 12:29 PM EST / CBS/AP

A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma’s first execution of the year.

Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:19 CT following a three-drug injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, prison officials said. He was convicted of killing Anthony Jones, 19, and Glen Palmer, 20, by firing into their car following an altercation at an Oklahoma City nightclub.

Simpson, who had fled to Oklahoma City from the devastated city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, admitted to the killings during a clemency hearing last month. He apologized to the victims’ families and to a third man who was in the vehicle when Jones and Palmer were shot.

“I apologize for murdering your sons,” Simpson said at the hearing. “I don’t make any excuses. I don’t blame others, and they didn’t deserve what happened to them.”

Despite his apology, the state’s five-member Pardon and Parole Board narrowly voted to deny Simpson clemency. And on Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court had no comment as it rejected a late appeal to block the execution.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, a strong supporter of the death penalty, had urged the parole board to deny Simpson’s clemency petition. In a formal request submitted to the board late last year, Drummond said that Simpson failed to demonstrate genuine remorse or take accountability for his crimes. A statement from his office also accused the inmate of continuing “to embody the violent behavior that led a jury to unanimously impose the death penalty.”

Simpson’s attorneys had argued that he suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder stemming from chronic trauma in his childhood years growing up in a New Orleans housing project.

“Kendrick is a man worthy of your mercy and compassion,” his attorneys wrote in his clemency application. “The death penalty is supposed to be reserved for the worst of the worst offenses and offenders. Kendrick and his case represent neither.”

Randy Bauman, of the American Civil Liberties Union in Oklahoma, wrote a detailed editorial for the organization’s website in which he described Simpson as intelligent, personable, funny and kind, among other positive attributes.

“It’s been a privilege to get to know Kendrick,” Bauman wrote in the piece.

On the night of the killing in January 2006, prosecutors say, Simpson had placed an assault rifle in the trunk of a vehicle that he and his friends drove to a club in northwest Oklahoma City. After an altercation at the club between Simpson and Palmer, prosecutors say Simpson and his friends followed Palmer and Jones from a nearby gas station and that Simpson pointed the gun out the window and fired about 20 rounds into their car. Both victims were shot multiple times.

Some of the victims’ family members told the board they supported his execution.

“Do I believe this man should live and be able to breathe and take out the rest of his life behind a cell?” Palmer’s sister, Crystal Allison, wrote in a letter to the panel. “He made the choice for him so I stand here today to make the choice for my family. Yes, we would like to see him executed for what he did — he executed my brother.”

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond commended the board for denying Simpson clemency, calling him a “ruthless and violent killer who hunted his victims without remorse.”

The state uses the sedative midazolam, followed by vecuronium bromide to halt the breathing and potassium chloride to stop the heart.

Simpson’s scheduled execution was to be the second of the year in the United States. Florida, which conducted a state record of 19 executions in 2025, put Ronald Palmer Heath to death with a three-drug injection on Tuesday for his conviction in the 1989 killing of a traveling salesman he and his brother met at a Gainesville bar.

A total of 47 people were executed in the U.S. in 2025, with Florida leading the way with a flurry of death warrants signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. Alabama, South Carolina and Texas tied for second place with five executions each that year.

Florida is scheduled to carry out the next execution in the U.S. on Tuesday, the planned lethal injection of Melvin Trotter for the killing of a grocery store owner during a robbery.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/why-states-are-turning-to-execution-methods-like-firing-squads-and-nitrogen-gas/

番茄腐烂食用油重复用 印度麦当劳接警告

2026年2月12日 23:24 / 联合早报

印度的麦当劳等大品牌连锁餐厅鲜少出现食品安全漏洞。图为在印度西部城市孟买的一家麦当劳快餐连锁店。 （路透社）

印度食品安全官员发现斋浦尔（Jaipur）一家麦当劳门店的食用油不适宜食用，且储存的番茄腐烂，监管机构已发出警告，并已抽取样本进行检测。

印度食品安全官员乔特瓦尼星期四（2月12日）向路透社透露，星期一（9日）在位于拉贾斯坦邦沙漠旅游胜地斋浦尔的一家麦当劳门店进行检查时，检查人员发现40升食用油反复用于烹饪，且不适宜食用。

乔特瓦尼说，这违反了食品安全规范，“官员们已采集油样进行进一步检测”。

乔特瓦尼称，麦当劳已收到警告，必须在14天内整改门店的运营，否则将面临进一步的“严厉”处罚。官员们将“检查市内更多麦当劳门店”。

麦当劳美国发言人在工作时间之外未回复路透社的问询。

麦当劳在印度北部和东部的特许经营商康诺特广场餐厅（Connaught Plaza Restaurants）说，他们正与食品安全部门合作，并“严格遵守”其指导方针，同时也遵循“麦当劳严格的全球标准”。

麦当劳是印度广受欢迎的连锁餐厅之一，拥有数百家门店。食品掺假事件在印度屡见不鲜，但像麦当劳这样的大品牌出现食品安全漏洞的情况却很少见。

番茄腐烂食用油重复用 印度麦当劳接警告

发布/2026年2月12日 23:24

印度的麦当劳等大品牌连锁餐厅鲜少出现食品安全漏洞。图为在印度西部城市孟买的一家麦当劳快餐连锁店。 （路透社）

印度食品安全官员发现斋浦尔（Jaipur）一家麦当劳门店的食用油不适宜食用，且储存的番茄腐烂，监管机构已发出警告，并已抽取样本进行检测。

印度食品安全官员乔特瓦尼星期四（2月12日）向路透社透露，星期一（9日）在位于拉贾斯坦邦沙漠旅游胜地斋浦尔的一家麦当劳门店进行检查时，检查人员发现40升食用油反复用于烹饪，且不适宜食用。

乔特瓦尼说，这违反了食品安全规范，“官员们已采集油样进行进一步检测”。

乔特瓦尼称，麦当劳已收到警告，必须在14天内整改门店的运营，否则将面临进一步的“严厉”处罚。官员们将“检查市内更多麦当劳门店”。

麦当劳美国发言人在工作时间之外未回复路透社的问询。

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麦当劳在印度北部和东部的特许经营商康诺特广场餐厅（Connaught Plaza Restaurants）说，他们正与食品安全部门合作，并“严格遵守”其指导方针，同时也遵循“麦当劳严格的全球标准”。

麦当劳是印度广受欢迎的连锁餐厅之一，拥有数百家门店。食品掺假事件在印度屡见不鲜，但像麦当劳这样的大品牌出现食品安全漏洞的情况却很少见。