Trump vows to bypass Congress and impose new tariffs after the Supreme Court blocked his import taxes. The U.S. president said in a press conference he is “absolutely ashamed” of the six Supreme Court justices who ruled against him “for not having the courage to do what’s right for our country.” […]

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down President Trump's tariffs in major blow to his economic agenda. @CBSNews reports: "While the ruling restricts the president's ability to use IEEPA to set his sweeping duties, it does not prevent the president from imposing tariffs under different trade […]

Are the U.S. and Iran barreling towards war? President Trump now says Iran has 10 to 15 days to reach "a deal." @AssociatedPress has a live blog with the latest: https://flip.it/ECGj4s #iran #news #trump #politics

The U.S. Justice Department now bears a huge photograph of Donald Trump's face. "While Trump banners have been hung outside other agencies across Washington, the decision to place one on the storied Justice Department building amounted to a striking symbol of the erosion of the department’s […]

What is misconduct in public office, which Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested for today, his 66th birthday? Here's more from @BBCNews. https://flip.it/Xgk3YZ #uknews #andrewmountbattenwindsor #jeffreyepstein

In the UK, the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, has been arrested and is in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The charges relate to Andrew's long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. @BBCNews has a live blog with the latest: https://flip.it/-9mbYw #princeandrew […]

The first sign of what was to come from Trump 2.0 may have been in the North Idaho town of Coeur d’Alene, where barely a month after the inauguration, black-clad private security officers violently dragged protestor Teresa Borrenpohl from a Republican town hall. For @motherjonesmag, Michael […]

Polling has Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy trailing his political rival and the country’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, in a hypothetical race for leadership. While Zaluzhnyi hasn’t revealed political ambitions, he talks to @AssociatedPress about his deeply strained […]

A group of 33 Australians — 10 women and 23 children — was scheduled to fly home from Damascus, Syria. But the group was turned back due to a member’s alleged ties to the Islamic State. Read more from @npr https://flip.it/gEjT7B #australia #isis #islamicstate #syria #middleeast #damascus

What is the fallout from the Epstein files? @newyorktimes is tracking resignations, investigations and other repercussions for people in academia, business, law and politics. [gift link] https://flip.it/TNXtYh #news #politics #jeffreyepstein

RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/116042202707563457 Update: After @ProPublica published this article sharing letters and drawings from children at Dilley immigration center, an immigration reporter says staff have begun raiding dormitories and confiscating letters. Pablo Manríquez, editor […]

There hasn't been enough of a look back at agencies that have seen significant attrition during Trump's assault on the federal workforce. Today we do that with a profile on those who departed the VA health care system, many of them vets themselves. The system is struggling to survive.

U.S. late-night TV host Stephen Colbert isn’t backing down from public dispute with CBS bosses. From @AssociatedPress: Colbert claims the network's "lawyers told him he couldn’t show an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico." CBS now denies that […]

New study: "Our results also show #ai #search surfaces significantly fewer long tail information sources, lower response variety, and significantly more low credibility and right- and center-leaning information sources, compared to traditional search." https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13415

Six people rescued as efforts for missing continue following California avalanche. Ten backcountry skiers are still missing. @abc has the latest: https://flip.it/D5aJCh #avalanche #california #news

Marisa Kabas is doing some of the best reporting on the Trump regime's abuses of law and people. In this case, she explains the chicanery involved in a massive program to build new concentration camps -- in warehouses. (Big Journalism hasn't noticed, of course.) […]

For decades, China has been building up villages in disputed border areas as part of an effort to lock in control of the locations with military bases and a population that acts as the country’s “eyes and ears.” With India’s plans to build “border villages” of its own falling flat, China is […]

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a U.S. civil rights icon, dies at age 84. @abc reports: "Jackson ran for president twice, both times as a Democrat, placing third for the party's nomination in 1984 and second in 1988." https://flip.it/1.dYHk #jessejackson #civilrights #news #uspolitics #history

An Islamist party has become Bangladesh’s main opposition party for the first time in the country’s history after election results were finalized. Jamaat-e-Islami won 77 of 300 seats in parliament, a surprising result for a party that opposed its country’s independence from Pakistan 55 years ago […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inaugurated a new housing district in Pyongyang for the families of troops who died fighting overseas. The country has sent 14,000 soldiers to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine, and over 6,000 of those soldiers were killed or wounded during their […]

DNA from glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s home appears to match those worn by suspect in security video. Reporting from NBC News: https://flip.it/qIzVbj #news #nancyguthrie #savannahguthrie #usnews #usa #missingpeople

Addressing the Munich Security Council on Sunday, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas pushed back on the notion that Europe faces “civilization erasure.” @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/XA6Vat #news #europe #europenews #worldnews #eu

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on Western allies to speed up weapons deliveries to his country at the Munich Security Conference. Zelenskyy added that there were cases in which missiles to ward off Russian airstrikes were delivered "just before an attack and sometimes at the last […]

“Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a rare lethal toxin found in poison dart frogs from South America, according to a joint statement from the UK, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany.” ABC News reports: https://flip.it/mGPAkA #news #worldnews #russia #navalny […]

What to know about the U.S. Homeland Security shutdown starting this weekend, from @AssociatedPress. One key point: "The work of ICE and CBP will mostly continue unabated during a shutdown." https://flip.it/iAfpLY #dhs #ice #news #immigration #shutdown #uspolitics

As the news industry implodes, @Flipboard is doing everything we can to help independent media and journalists who are starting their own publications. Here's my ode to indy journalism, perfect for Valentine's Day ... or Galentine's ;) […]

FBI releases new details about the man seen on the porch of Nancy Guthrie’s home the morning she disappeared. NBC News reports: https://flip.it/5dCmIa #news #nancyguthrie #savannahguthrie #kidnapping #usa #usnews

“We need European champions,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a meeting of EU leaders in a Belgian castle. They were there to agree on an “action plan” to restructure the bloc’s economy as it faces antagonism from Russia, China and the United States. Read more about […]

Two Israelis have been charged with using classified information on military operations to place bets on the prediction platform Polymarket, authorities say. Read more from @NBCNews https://flip.it/DA._Yn #israel #polymarket #military #betting #gambling #army

South Korea’s spy agency says it believes the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is close to being designated as the country’s next leader, which would extend the family dynasty to a fourth generation. Read more from @npr https://flip.it/5YWFvO #southkorea #northkorea […]

Since the United States ousted and captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela earlier this year, citizens there have become emboldened to openly protest their government. “Little by little, people are losing their fear — I’ve certainly lost mine,” one protester said. Read more from @NBCNews […]

Since the United States ousted and captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela earlier this year, citizens there have become emboldened to openly protest their government. “Little by little, people are losing their fear — I’ve certainly lost mine,” one protester said. Read more from @NBCNews […]

An appeals court is set to make a final decision this summer in far-right French politician Marine Le Pen’s challenge to her corruption conviction. Le Pen’s ability to run for president next year hinges on the ruling. Read more from @AssociatedPress https://flip.it/Czn5CZ #france #lepen […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna's application for an mRNA flu vaccine. The company has applied for the vaccine's approval in Europe, Canada and Australia. Here's more from @AssociatedPress. https://flip.it/v1C5u0 #health #science #mrna #flu #usnews

Resistance art can be thought-provoking, shocking, funny, moving, subversive, and sometimes all of those in one. @RacketMN talked to some of the people in Minnesota who are making it. https://flip.it/8iXfVP #art #minnesota #resistance #ice #immigration

Those of us who work in the news business are highly aware of the perilous situation for local outlets, and how bad that could be for communities and democracy. The general public. however, don't seem to know or care. Here's NiemanLab's story on the results of new survey of adults who live in U […]

For unknown reasons, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights. @AssociatedPress reports: "The shutdown is likely to create significant disruptions given the duration and the size of the metropolitan area. El Paso, a […]

10 people including the suspect are dead after a mass shooting at a school and home in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Here's @cbcnews's liveblog. https://flip.it/N07z2m #canada #news #canadanews #britishcolumbia #bc

The Trump administration has removed a large Rainbow Flag from the Stonewall National Monument at Christopher Park, New York. A spokesperson for the National Park Service told Gay City News that this change was made because government guidance dictates that "only the U.S. flag and other […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/116043425320462330 Update: a 14-year-old U.S. citizen who was attending the Idaho horse race federal agents raided has described being zip-tied there. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today highlighting the […]

French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have both stated that the European Union needs to re-engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin if it wants the war in Ukraine to end. However, other countries, such as Germany and Estonia, insist that Russia must make […]

According to @WSJ, the Trump administration plans to reverse the finding that says greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. This would remove regulatory requirements around emission standards for vehicles and reporting obligations for some industries. Here's the full story [gift […]

Last week's cuts at The Washington Post were even worse than initially reported. An accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, says nearly half the paper's newsroom was eliminated. Here's more from Washingtonian. https://flip.it/c9PXlk […]

Democrats demand new restrictions to Trump’s immigration crackdown and threaten a Department of Homeland Security shutdown. @AssociatedPress has the latest: https://flip.it/sdKZZw #dhs #ice #news #immigration #uspolitics

The town of Wilder, Idaho, may have thought its deep-red politics could insulate it from the Trump administration's immigration raids. It was wrong. Federal agents swarmed a horse track last October, rounding up more than 100 people and later deporting 75. The town has a population of just 1,725 […]

Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years, is married to a U.S. citizen, has no criminal record, owns a business and holds a valid work permit as part of an application for a green card. Yet he's been in detention in Texas for nearly five months. The Irish Times […]

King Charles says he will be supportive of police investigations into allegations against his brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice suggest that Mountbatten-Windsor shared confidential information with his friend, convicted sex-offender Jeffrey […]

Substandard education, bad food and water, inadequate medical care, constant boredom, and the anguish of being ripped from their lives. @ProPublica's Mica Rosenberg talked to the children of Dilley immigration detention center about what they are experiencing. https://flip.it/rZ73Zb #trump […]

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro convincingly won Portugal's presidential runoff yesterday against far-right leader André Ventura with 66.7% of the vote, though Ventura recorded his strongest result to date. Seguro will serve a five-year term. Here's more from @euronews […]

There's way too much nonchalance about the fact that California is hurtling toward electing a MAGA governor, even if 65% of its voters vote for a Democrat in the primary. Harold Meyerson reports on the top-two primary setting conditions for an election at odds with voter preference.