Skip to main content

Friday's top stories

Dems tell DOJ to "immediately cease" Epstein files "spying"

Male politician wearing a dark pinstripe suit and blue tie with a lapel pin, pointing and speaking during a formal meeting with a blurred man in the background and blue curtains behind.

Scoop: Cuba hardliners ask Trump's DOJ to indict Raul Castro

Raul Castro makes a praying gesture in military uniform.

Far right renews demand for Epstein answers after Bondi hearing

An image of US President Donald Trump and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein is displayed behind Pam Bondi, US attorney general, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.
Updated Feb 13, 2026 - Politics & Policy

Don Lemon pleads not guilty to charges stemming from church protest coverage

Independent journalist Don Lemon

ICE reveals $38B plan for immigrant mega-jails

The outside of ICE's El Paso Processing Center pictured in El Paso, Texas on February 13, 2025.
Updated Feb 13, 2026 - Health

RFK Jr. shakes up top health department staff

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

MAHA's midterm election test

Photo illustration of a collage featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and two voting booths and two caducei on each side of him, at different angles. One of each is upside down and one right side up.

Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Gulf amid Iran threats

Big boat
Column / Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain: Resistance rising

Photo illustration of a small President Trump looking up at a giant man in a suit with arms crossed

Inside the "complicated" Trump-Schumer relationship

This is Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer
Updated Feb 12, 2026 - Business

Top Goldman Sachs lawyer resigns after Epstein files release

Blonde woman, Kathy Ruemmler, former White House counsel, in black seated in studio with "Meet the Press" logo and blurred panel discussion background, serious expression, with black coffee cup on desk.

Trump judge slams DHS for blocking detainees' access to lawyers

President Trump in dark suit and red tie and Homeland Security Kristi Noem in blue blazer seated at table with microphones, presidential seal, U.S. flag in background, and nameplate reading Secretary Kristi Noem.
Feb 12, 2026 - Technology

Axios Finish Line: Embrace your insecurity

Illustration of a woman embracing a screen with a version of herself looking concerned with binary code behind her

Congress plunges into "no pressure" government shutdown

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer leaves the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 29, 2025, ahead of last fall's record-breaking government shutdown.
Prev
Feb 15Feb 14Feb 13Feb 12Feb 11
Next