News for February 6, 2026

A Maricopa Superior Court judge ordered Arizona to stop enforcing older abortion restrictions that conflict with the state’s voter-approved constitutional right to abortion.

A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to bring back three migrant families deported under President Donald Trump’s second term, saying the removals broke a prior settlement tied to the family separation policy.

Donald Trump removed a social media video after it drew backlash for showing a racist clip of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

Emails show that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2019 trip to Samoa was tied to vaccine concerns, undercutting his claim that the visit had nothing to do with vaccines.

ICE and other Department of Homeland Security agents are using facial recognition and phone-based scanning in street operations, raising concerns about privacy, intimidation, and broad surveillance of bystanders.

The article says Jeffrey Epstein’s emails show how powerful men like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel helped drive an anti-#MeToo culture that pushed back against accountability.

The FBI has invited state election officials to a briefing on midterm election preparations, but the move comes amid rising tension with the Trump administration and questions about federal involvement in elections.

Negotiations led by Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and John Thune to change DHS and ICE policy are stalled, raising the risk of a shutdown next week.

The Trump administration moved to make it easier to fire up to 50,000 federal workers by reclassifying some career employees and stripping away key job protections.