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Feb 10, 2026 - World

Judge rules that law discriminates against federal government because it does not apply to state authoritiesA federal judge on Monday blocked a California law from going into effect that would ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces, but they will still be required to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number.California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings under a bill that was signed by Gavin Newsom, the governor, in September, following last summer’s high-profile raids by ICE officers in Los Angeles. Continue reading...

Feb 10, 2026 - World

Investigation in apparent abduction enters second week as deadline for purported ransom note demanding $6m loomsTelevision host Savannah Guthrie issued a desperate plea for anyone who might know anything about her missing mother to contact law enforcement on Monday, as the search for Nancy Guthrie entered its ninth day.“We need your help,” said Savannah Guthrie, eight days after her mother was first reported missing. Investigators returned to search Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home this weekend. They appear no closer to finding her, or identifying an alleged abductor. Continue reading...

Feb 10, 2026 - World

President says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is ‘fully compensated’ – and makes bizarre hockey claimAs Democrats prepare to force a vote in the US House this week on Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, the president posted a lengthy diatribe on his social media platform in which he threatened to block a bridge connecting the US and Canada and made a bizarre false claim that increased trade between Canada and China would include a ban on Canadians playing ice hockey.Trump began his latest screed against the US’s second-largest trading partner by claiming that “everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades”. Continue reading...

Feb 10, 2026 - World

Officials say rescuers searching for lone survivor after latest attack on what Pentagon says are suspected drug smugglersThe US military’s Southern Command, which oversee operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced that it carried out another deadly strike on Monday, killing two suspected drug smugglers in the eastern Pacific.The statement said that the latest in what legal experts have called a series of extrajudicial killings by the Pentagon was carried out “at the direction of” the Florida-based combat unit’s new commander, Gen Francis L Donovan, who was sworn in at a Pentagon ceremony last Thursday. Donovan takes over after a US navy admiral, Alvin Holsey, chose to retire over reported disagreements over the boat-strike policy. Continue reading...

Feb 10, 2026 - World

Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested as part of the government’s targeting of students protesting against Israel’s war on GazaAn immigration judge has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University PhD student, who was arrested last year as part of its targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists, her lawyers said on Monday.Lawyers for the Turkish student detailed the immigration judge’s decision in a filing with the New York-based second US circuit court of appeals, which had been reviewing a ruling that led to her release from immigration custody in May. Continue reading...