News for February 14, 2026

Sen. Mark Kelly’s lawyer is urging the Justice Department not to try again to indict him over a video about refusing illegal orders.

Bin Shao, the driver of a tour bus that crashed in western New York and killed five people, has been indicted on homicide charges.

Simon Cowell says he no longer works on Fridays because he thinks it is pointless, and the article says research backs up the idea that Fridays are often low-productivity workdays.

NBC News says several top Trump administration officials appear in Jeffrey Epstein-related files, raising fresh questions about their past ties to the disgraced financier.

A partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security has begun after Congress and the White House failed to agree on funding tied to Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.

The Homeland Security Department has run out of funding as President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders negotiate changes to immigration enforcement.

The U.S. Southern Command said it carried out a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, killing three people.

President Donald Trump said he may use an executive order to require voter ID in the midterm elections if Congress does not pass his election bill.

U.S. immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to expand detention capacity to 92,600 beds, while ICE buys warehouses to turn them into detention and processing sites.