A group of flight attendants walked into a Starbucks in Seoul and set down their bags, taking over nearly all the seats. They ordered drinks, picked them up & left — leaving their belongings. They returned hours later and got their bags, which had been untouched. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? California Billionaires. California’s wealthiest residents are strategizing to reduce their net worth in case a billionaire tax becomes law. Some may even try to drop below $1 billion on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Party balloon down. It was the first known domestic use of the weapon by federal officials outside of a controlled environment, and it was done without the F.A.A.’s approval, in a possible violation of the law. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

They’re just out there setting records at everything.

“You Up???” Inside Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein’s Disturbingly Close Friendship

Exclusive: Casey Wasserman is putting the talent agency that bears his name up for sale after the latest Epstein revelations.

CNN: Trump railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott for calling him out on the racist Obama video. He denounced Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, using expletives and declaring that she was dead to him. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

‘We know where you live.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

TikTok collects sensitive and potentially embarrassing information about you even if you've never used the app. That’s because it has trackers on some of the world's top websites www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts It sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on ICE, officials and tech workers said. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Disney has sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance over new AI video model Seedance 2.0 “ByteDance’s virtual smash-and-grab of Disney’s IP is willful, pervasive, and totally unacceptable”

A 7-year-old in Oregon who seeking treatment for a nosebleed A 5-year-old who was at a laundromat in Chicago with her mother A teen who had been living in the US for a decade and was getting ready for school one morning ICE took them 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

New images of Trump's ballroom show it would match White House’s height www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is an amazing, brutal, frightening read [gift link]

😂😂😂😂 He is 6-2, 180 pounds with a 31-in waist. His biacromial width is 19.5 ins. He has a midface ratio of 1.07. His chin-to-philtrum ratio is 2.6. These things make him handsome. Just not as handsome as Matt Bomer. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/s...

WSJ: ⁠Anthropic’s ‌AI tool Claude was used ⁠in the ​U.S. military’s ‌op ​to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. The use of Claude occurred through Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir, whose tools are used by the Defense Dept and federal law enforcement www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Whaaat www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...

Trump says there will be voter ID for the midterm elections "whether approved by Congress or not!"

The Trump admin will free up the frozen federal funding for the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson River, lawyers for the administration told a federal judge Friday , ending a four-month halt to work that had forced the project to lay off 1,000 workers www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

'They All Tried to Break Me’: --Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

When ICE's story falls apart www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has launched an investigation to The Meadow, a planned Muslim-centric development in northern Dallas-Fort Worth, over possible violations of fair housing laws.

The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shaking up the health department’s leadership team ahead of the midterms, pushing out several deputies while elevating others in hopes of stabilizing an agency rattled by internal fights and controversial messages 🎁 wapo.st/4agHHB1

Many many many people are sharing this thing www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis made quite a sartorial choice for #MSC2026, showing up in socks featuring Abraham Lincoln, who was president during the American Civil War. This did not imply America was “in a civil war” with Europe, he assured the crowd. Live: #[politi.co/468VN4Z

Another one www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

Video appears to contradict key aspects of a federal indictment’s descriptions of former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s actions at a protest inside a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to a Wapo review www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

(Reuters) - ⁠The Trump ‌administration filed a new lawsuit ⁠on Friday ​against Harvard, accusing ​it of failing to comply with a federal investigation and seeking documents related to its ‌admissions process, ‌according ‌to ‌a filing ⁠in a federal ​court in ⁠Massachusetts.

www.axios.com/2026/02/12/t... Who’d have thunk it

U.S. inflation eased more than expected at the start of this year, to 2.4 percent, providing a reprieve to the Fed as it contends with yet another year of consumer prices rising far faster than the central bank’s target www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/b...

The suspect in the British Columbia shooting posted about mental health problems and a fascination with weapons. She visited a site with uncensored videos of extreme gore, including beheadings and suicides, and said she found violent videos “addictive.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

OPENAI’S PRESIDENT AND cofounder Greg Brockman doesn’t consider himself political, which is surprising, because he was one of Trump’s biggest individual donors of 2025.

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of child molestation in Florida and accused of trying to silence one victim be dangling a payment from an anticipated $10 million payout from the Trump administration. www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...

"The Department of Homeland Security now operates like the secret police. They do their best to blend in, to look like the people they terrorize, and in this, they often fail. Everyone knows that they’re there, that they’re watching." 🎁

Israel has become the latest country to join President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.

Ukrainian officials say the Trump administration is ramping up pressure on them to make concessions to Russia in a push to end the war by early summer, as the US midterms approach www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

“.. Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Tech to Its Smart Glasses In an internal memo, Meta said the political tumult in the United States was good timing to distract critics from the feature’s release. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Trump pardoned 5 former professional football players, including Super Bowl champions, a Hall of Famer and a Heisman Trophy winner, for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking. The players: Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Billy Cannon and Travis Henry. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

FT Exclusive: Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler said she will resign this summer after documents released by the US Department of Justice revealed the extent of her ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ft.trib.al/E7RdaEU

NY officials on Thursday reinstated the Pride flag removed from the Stonewall National Monument after a directive from the Trump administration, in a defiant response to the assault on diversity initiatives at a federal site honoring the L.G.B.T.Q. movement www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The decision likely ends a yearslong legal battle over the girl’s fate. apnews.com/article/afgh...

Variety: CBS News is considering new layoffs affecting at least 15% of the staff variety.com/2026/tv/news...

In Munich, Europe’s Leaders Wonder if They Can Ever Trust America Again. Our take. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

If there was any doubt 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

NEW: Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring 25 in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada created a Roblox game that allowed players to simulate a mass shooting in a level that looks like a shopping mall, Roblox has confirmed.

Ask ChatGPT which state has the laziest people, and the chatbot will refuse to say. But researchers at Oxford and the University of Kentucky forced the bot to choose. ChatGPT ranked Mississippi as having lazier people compared with other states. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

DHS has increasingly sought to remove legal immigrants from the U.S. by revoking thousands of visas, including for some people who participated in pro-Palestinian protests, and trying to deport green card holders www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

That whistleblower complaint about Tulsi Gabbard limiting who could see a report on a classified intercept involving Iran and blocking wider distribution among the nation’s spy agencies? The name of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, came up. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...