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Sen. Elissa Slotkin says she expects the DOJ will try to indict her again after a grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers who made a video urging service members to disobey illegal orders. “Fear can be contagious, so is courage,” she says.

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Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail solved

Updated on: February 11, 2026 / 9:58 PM EST / CBS News

Newly released documents show the FBI’s scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.

The discrepancy fueled conspiracy theories about a cover-up after then-Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino promised the agency would release the original surveillance footage from Epstein’s Manhattan jail “so you don’t think there are any shenanigans.” The FBI has never offered a public explanation of how it ended up releasing a video with a gap in footage.

Last May, as a groundswell built demanding public scrutiny of the Justice Department’s records on Epstein, the agency ran into a problem: it had already destroyed its master copy of surveillance video from Epstein’s final hours in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

An FBI agent sought and was granted in June 2024 authorization to destroy an evidence item labeled 1B60, describing it as an exhibit “no longer pertinent” to the case.

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That item, according to a document among the Epstein files, was the master recording of “tapes containing the archive of [Manhattan Correctional Center] video images.” It had been stored in a Bronx warehouse.

In February 2025, an agent explained in a different document the justification for destroying the video.

“As this case was already closed and [redacted prosecutor’s name] concurred on 08/26/2024 with agency evidence handling procedures, authorization was granted to destroy Item 1B60,” the agent wrote. “Per FBI policy, if an evidence item remains undisposed, the investigative case file must remain open.”

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But by mid-2025, the Justice Department needed the destroyed evidence reconstructed. That launched a complicated scramble to rebuild the video files, according to documents included among the millions released so far in what have become known as the Epstein files.

A high-level overview of the steps taken to do so was compiled in July by an FBI digital forensics and analytics section chief.

The effort involved obtaining another copy of the footage that remained stored across two files on a NiceVision digital video recorder, the system used in the jail. One of the video files started at 7:40 p.m. The other started at 12 a.m. and ended at 6:40 a.m. On May 21, 2025, an agent used a screen capture tool to re-record the footage from NiceVision.

But 62 seconds of footage couldn’t be captured, leaving a gap from 11:58 and 58 seconds, to 12:00.

Soon after the video was released in July, members of the public noticed it jumped from about 11:59 to midnight. Rather than explain that the footage had been pieced together from a copy, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the reason for the gap was that the prison recording system had a nightly reset resulting in a lost minute every night.

“There was a minute that was off that counter, and what we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video,” Bondi said on July 8, noting that the system was old. “Every night is reset, so every night should have that same missing minute. So we’re looking for that video as well, to show it’s missing every night.”

It appears Bondi had accepted a speculative conclusion summarized by the section chief, that the system reset nightly, losing that minute. It’s a theory that appears to have been unverified.

“The Video Specialist theorized the NiceVision systems at this time required time to write files and caused a real time delay in what is recorded resulting in a gap of time not recorded right before midnight,” the section chief wrote. “The Video Specialist was unable to test the accuracy of his theory.”

Experts told CBS News in July that the time delay theory was implausible. None of the security system specialists CBS News spoke with had heard of a system that had that issue.

The Justice Department has not replied to questions about the video files.

An FBI specialist tried to merge the screen recordings using the video editing software Adobe Premiere, but “Adobe Premiere did not work with the video file format the screen capture was created in,” the section chief wrote.

The specialist then used software called Fast Forward Moving Picture Expert Group “to convert the files to a format capable to ingest into Adobe Premiere.”

That stage led to one more apparent discrepancy discovered last year by Wired, which “found that one of the source clips was approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds longer than the segment included in the final video, indicating that footage appears to have been trimmed before release.”

The Wired analysis was correct. The section chief called it “standard practice” when doing a screen capture to include “padding” to the end, extra recording time that can be pared back.

“When the screen recording was brought into Adobe Premiere the padding was trimmed,” the section chief wrote. Wired pointed out that the first video file used in the screen capture was the one with “padding.” It ended at 11:58:58, “which suggests the two (clips) would overlap.”

A CBS News investigation published in July 2025 noted a shift in the video’s appearance, known as its aspect ratio, after midnight.

The section chief explained “the aspect ratio of the file was also corrected to create a more natural appearance.”

The full footage,including the missing minute, was made public by Congress in September. It showed that nothing notable or unusual appeared on the recording during that minute.

加拿大校园枪案：警方确认18岁嫌疑人身份

2026-02-12T02:24:13.000Z / 联合早报

加拿大警方周三确认不列颠哥伦比亚省校园枪击案的嫌疑人身份，枪手为18岁的跨性别少年范鲁特塞拉尔。

不列颠哥伦比亚省塔布勒岭（Tumbler Ridge）中学星期二（2月10日）发生枪击案。警方周三确认，枪手范鲁特塞拉尔（Van Rootselaar）是开枪自尽，曾就读于事发中学，但已辍学。

据报道，范鲁特塞拉尔先在家中开枪射杀了自己39岁的母亲和11岁的继弟，随后闯入自己曾就读的中学疯狂扫射，致五名学生和一名教师不幸遇难，并在随后赶到的警察包围下开枪自尽。目前，作案动机仍在调查中。

警方在现场搜获一支长枪和一支经过改装的手枪。目前尚不清楚这些武器的合法来源及购买者。

路透社报道指，尽管加拿大的枪支管理法律远比美国严格，但在持有许可证的情况下，该国公民仍可拥有枪支。

加拿大皇家骑警发言人麦克唐纳周三在新闻发布会上说，范鲁特塞拉尔出生时为男性，约六年前开始性别转换，在社交媒体和公开场合均以女性身份活动。

根据调查，范鲁特塞拉尔曾多次被当地警方带走接受精神健康评估。案发时，他已从事发学校辍学四年。

麦克唐纳说：“我们相信嫌疑人是独自行动，但现在推测动机还为时过早。”

警方周三也更正了这起枪击案的伤亡数据，确认此次事件造成包括枪手在内九人死亡，而非此前报道的10人。

Trump directs Energy Department to issue funds to keep coal plants online

February 11, 2026 9:54 PM UTC / Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the Defense Department to purchase electricity from coal-fired power plants in his latest effort to boost the coal sector.

The move, which was announced at the White House as an executive order, calls for the Pentagon to form purchase agreements to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants for an unspecified amount.

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The president also announced that the Energy Department will provide six coal plants in Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia with $175 million for upgrades.

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Utilities had been phasing out coal-fired generators, which are major sources of carbon emissions tied to climate change. Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, has promised to fast-track energy infrastructure to meet rising electricity demand from artificial intelligence and data centers.

Trump has declared an “energy emergency” to justify moves to keep open aging coal plants that have been set for closure and exempt aging coal plants from key air regulations. Trump has also removed tax incentives for wind and solar projects and his administration has slow-walked permits for renewable energy on federal land, as well as private and state lands.

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On Thursday, Trump is set to undo the legal underpinning of most major greenhouse gas regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency called the endangerment finding. The EPA administrator has said this will be the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

On Wednesday, Trump also announced that the Tennessee Valley Authority, the country’s largest public utility, plans to delay the closure of two of its older coal-fired power plants in Tennessee.

Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Valerie Volcovici; Writing by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis, Caitlin Webber and David Gregorio

Exclusive: Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ lawyer pushed for voter fraud evidence from US intelligence agency

February 11, 2026 10:22 PM UTC / Reuters

By Erin Banco, Phil Stewart and Jonathan Landay

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WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – A lawyer leading efforts to bolster U.S. President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was

Mamdani calls for 2% tax hike on wealthy New Yorkers

By Jasper Ward
February 11, 2026 8:38 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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• New York governor opposes tax increases
• Mayor says budget gap lowered from $12 billion to $ 7 billion
• City’s preliminary budget to be released Tuesday

Feb 11 (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday has called for a two percent tax increase for New Yorkers making over a million dollars a year, along with a hike in the state’s corporate tax rate, proposals he originally championed during his campaign.

During testimony before the New York State Senate’s 2026 budget hearing, Mamdani, a Democrat, said the city’s budget gap has decreased from $12 billion to $7 billion by “assuming an aggressive posture on savings without compromising city services, incorporating updated revenue and bonus estimates, and using in-year reserves.”

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Despite a narrowing of the budget shortfall, Mamdani said, New York is “placed on a ledge.”

“I believe the wealthiest individuals and most profitable corporations should contribute a little more so that everyone can live lives of dignity,” said Mamdani, who will release the city’s preliminary budget on Tuesday.

“That’s why—along with raising the corporate tax—I’m asking for a 2% personal income tax increase on the most affluent New Yorkers.”

Mamdani said a two percent tax increase would resolve nearly half of the city’s budget deficit. He campaigned to increase the New York’s corporate rate from 7.25% to 11.5%.

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Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul would have to approve any tax increases proposed by Mamdani.

A spokesperson for Hochul did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The governor, who presented her budget last month, has reiterated her opposition to any tax hikes in the state.

“We’re able to make transformative investments in our future. Without raising taxes. Without saddling the next generation with mounds of debt,” Hochul said last month.

Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Additional reporting by Maria Tsvetkova in New York; Editing by Caitlin Webber

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US lawmakers learned Trump wanted to indict them through the press

February 11, 2026 8:47 PM UTC / Reuters

U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) winds his watch as he departs the Senate floor after an evening vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 12, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]

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• Grand jury rejected attempt to indict Democrats
• Trump has repeatedly called for punishment of those seen as enemies
• White House called video national security threat
• Some Democrats considering legal action in response

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. Congress learned only through press reports that President Donald Trump’s administration had tried – and failed – to have them charged and arrested, and some said on Wednesday they were considering legal action in response.

“This is not a good news story,” Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former astronaut and Navy veteran, told a news conference. “This is a story about how Donald Trump and his cronies are trying to break our system in order to silence anyone who lawfully speaks out against them.”

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A source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday that a grand jury had rejected an attempt by the Republican president’s administration to indict the Democrats after they urged members of the military not to comply with unlawful orders.

Trump has repeatedly called for punishment of those he sees as political enemies. Since returning to the presidency in January 2025, Trump has called for imprisoning adversaries and his Justice Department has targeted critics such as former federal officials John Bolton and James Comey.

In January, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the administration threatened to indict him over congressional testimony about a Fed building project.

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The six Democrats targeted in this probe served in the military or intelligence community. In November, they released a video telling members of the U.S. military they must refuse illegal orders, prompting Trump to accuse them of sedition and call them traitors who could face execution.

The White House, which called the video a threat to national security, later said the president did not want congressional Democrats executed.

The video did not reference specific incidents, but came as Democrats were sharply critical of military strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, and Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities.

Senate Republican Majority Leader John Thune later told reporters he thought the video was “a really dumb move” but said he did not think the lawmakers should be indicted, “No, I don’t think so. I mean, that wouldn’t have been my response to that, but we are where we are.”

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Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a former intelligence analyst and Iraq war veteran, said at the news conference she was leaving her options open when asked whether she planned to file suit.

She said the lawmakers did not know what charges the Department of Justice sought against them. “If things had gone a different way, we’d be preparing for arrest,” Slotkin said.

She said the government had opened an inquiry in December, carried it forward into January and, when the lawmakers refused to sit for a voluntary interview, went to a grand jury.

Slotkin said she had asked U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and other officials to preserve documents related to the investigation and provide confirmation that the probe is over.

Separately, a lawyer for Representative Jason Crow of Colorado, a former Army Ranger who completed three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, demanded that Pirro stop pursuing the probe and also preserve documents.

The attorney, Abbe Lowell, said the case could violate Crow’s free-speech rights under the U.S. Constitution and legal protections for members of Congress, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters.

Kelly has sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying proceedings to demote him from his retired Navy captain rank over the video violated free-speech rights.

Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; additional reporting by Andrew Goudsward; Editing by Andrea Ricci

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US pays Afghans stranded in Qatar to repatriate, plan labeled ‘betrayal’

February 11, 2026 10:17 PM UTC / By Simon Lewis / Reuters

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• Democrats criticize payments for Afghans to ‘self-deport’ ahead of camp closure
• Kapur says about 150 Afghans accepted payments
• Advocates say third-country relocation is uncertain

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has begun paying Afghans to repatriate as it attempts to close a camp in Qatar where they have been stranded for years, the top State Department official for South and Central Asia told lawmakers on Wednesday.

More than 1,100 people have been held at the former U.S. Army base Camp As Sayliyah (CAS) since at least early last year, when Republican President Donald Trump’s administration halted resettlement for Afghans who feared retribution from Taliban authorities for their links to the U.S. military.

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Advocates say the group includes civilian refugees, women who served as special operators for the U.S. during its 20-year war in Afghanistan, and family members of U.S. servicemembers, all of whom would be in danger if returned to the country.

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Trump makes good on troop pullout promise, vows return if Democrat city crime worsens

Published February 11, 2026 3:32pm EST | Fox News

The Trump administration has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from U.S. cities, following through on President Donald Trump’s announcement in December 2025 that warned “we will come back” if crime spirals in left-wing cities once again.

U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for homeland defense and coordinating defense support during domestic emergencies, states on its website that all Title 10 National Guard troops in Los Angeles Chicago and Portland, Oregon, were demobilized as of Jan. 21.

Trump federalized and deployed National Guard troops under Title 10 in June 2025, citing the need to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal property amid immigration unrest. Troops were sent to cities that also historically have struggled with spiraling crime trends, including in 2020 when the nation saw the largest single-year increase in murders since the FBI began tracking such data in the 1960s.

More than 5,000 troops in Los Angeles, approximately 500 in Chicago and 200 in Portland, Oregon, were demobilized, The Washington Post first reported Wednesday.

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All federalized National Guard troops were removed from U.S. cities by January 2026 after President Trump’s announcement on a withdrawal in December. (Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images)

The White House directed Fox News Digital to Trump’s announcement on the withdrawal in December 2025 when approached for comment on The Washington Post’s report.

“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” Trump wrote Dec. 31, 2025. “Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in.”

He added that the troops would return but likely only if crime spirals in the left-wing cities, adding he was puzzled by local liberal leaders who would want the troops to leave the city.

“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again – Only a question of time!” he wrote. “It is hard to believe that these Democrat Mayors and Governors, all of whom are greatly incompetent, would want us to leave, especially considering the great progress that has been made???”

Title 10 troops serve under federal active-duty orders, distinct from Guard forces deployed elsewhere and under different legal authorities.

For example, there is still a National Guard presence in Washington, D.C., as service members there remain on duty under a nonfederal status, while National Guard troops in New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee, also are still on the ground, deployed under separate agreements between their governors and the administration.

The thousands of National Guard troops deployed as Title 10 soldiers to Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, however, are no longer mobilized, according to Northern Command’s website.

The U.S. National Guard was deployed around downtown Los Angeles June 8, 2025, after an immigration raid protest the night before.(Eric Thayer/The Associated Press)

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Local leaders and Democrat critics in Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago slammed the administration over the move, claiming it was an unnecessary and politically charged escalation that bypassed governors, leading to lawsuits and legal roadblocks.

The Supreme Court in December 2025, for example, temporarily blocked a deployment to Chicago, saying the administration failed to “identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.”

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President Donald Trump met with National Guard members in Washington, D.C., in August 2025.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty)

“President Trump turned the National Guard against the communities they swore to serve. This is unlawful and immoral,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in October 2025 as the state legally challenged the administration over the federalization.

“The National Guard deserves better than being treated like Trump’s toy soldiers — and when they’re returned to California command, we’ll get them back to doing the real work they signed up to do.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says murders plunged to historic lows as Trump ramped up arrests, deportations and gang crackdowns, citing new crime data.(Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)

The withdrawal of the federalized troops comes as the administration touts cratering violent crime trends across the nation.

The Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) reported this month that, based on data from 67 of the nation’s biggest police departments, homicides overall fell 19% in U.S. cities, robberies by 20% and aggravated assaults by 10%.

[MURDER RATE DROPS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1900 ACROSS MAJOR US CITIES NATIONWIDE]

“This is the direct result of President Trump’s aggressive, no-nonsense approach to public safety,” the White House said Wednesday of the data.

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“By surging federal resources to Democrat-run cities that had devolved into war zones, removing savage criminal illegals from our streets, supporting police and prosecutors and rejecting the radical left’s weakness, President Trump’s decisive actions have turned the tide, saved countless lives and restored peace to communities long abandoned by Democrat politicians who prioritized criminals over citizens.”

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US government counter-drone testing disrupted DC flights in 2025

February 11, 2026 8:25 PM UTC / Reuters

By David Shepardson

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Police officers stand near an exhibition of U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) drones, at El Paso International Airport, after the FAA lifted its temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso, saying all flights will resume as normal and that there was no threat to commercial aviation, in El Paso, Texas, U.S., February… Read more

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to briefly close El Paso airport to all traffic was prompted by safety concerns over testing of a new laser-based counter-drone technology at the nearby U.S. Army Fort Bliss, sources told Reuters.

It was not the first time the issue has impacted flights.

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In March, testing of counter-drone technology near Reagan Washington National Airport by the U.S. Secret Service and Navy led to numerous flight crews receiving faulty alerts of potentially nearby aircraft, the FAA and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said.

Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, disclosed at a hearing last year that faulty alerts that caused some flights to abort landings were due to the government testing using the same spectrum band as the alerting system. That led to interference that impacted at least a dozen flights.

Cruz, a Republican from Texas, called the testing inappropriate and