First Amendment rights collide with protest in a Minnesota church

Last week, a state judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by government watchdog Common Cause, which sought to stop the release of voter information to the federal government, including dates of birth, addresses and partial Social Security numbers. The 32-page legislation would require states to obtain documentary proof of citizenship “in person,” such as American passports or birth certificates, from people in order to register them to vote in a federal election. An annual meeting at the White House between governors and the president — which has been scheduled for Feb. 20 — has in recent days emerged as a major source of conflict after National Governors Association officials said Trump was planning to include only Republican governors at the session. President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today, discussing nuclear talks with Iran and the Gaza peace effort.

“Regardless, your unprecedented abuse of power will not intimidate Senator Slotkin, who will continue to represent the people of Michigan and to stand up for the fundamental principles of our constitutional system of government.” Trump told NBC News last month that he’s prepared to be in Venezuela for years, and he has not given а target date to hold new elections. He has also said he wants to rebuild Venezuela’s oil industry, bringing production back to benefit the United States and the people of Venezuela.

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As NBC News first reported, DOJ prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to indict the members of Congress — which included Slotkin — despite a push from the Trump administration. Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado, recently said she intends to be president one day. Later in the day, he will hold discussions with Rodriguez, the interim president, and other top Venezuelan officials. U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodriguez at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday. Energy Secretary Chris Wright touched down in Caracas today, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Venezuela after the Trump administration ousted President Nicholas Maduro last month.

February 12, 2026 • Concerns about the tactics of federal immigration agents remain front of mind for some key voters who supported President Trump in 2024. People demonstrate against federal immigration enforcement outside the Minnesota governor’s residence in St. Paul on Feb. 6. Citizenship and Immigration Services will appear for their second oversight hearing this week and as lawmakers tussle over their funding. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons are sworn in to testify during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday. February 12, 2026 • Stolz received his gold for winning the men’s 1,000 meters at the Milan Cortina Games in an Olympic-record time thanks to a blistering closing stretch.

Meanwhile, hard-line Republicans also threatened to hold the package up in hopes of attaching an unrelated bill that would require a proof of citizenship in federal elections known as the SAVE Act. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democratic leaders voted against the package that passed Tuesday afternoon — a deal that was negotiated by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the White House. The TSA, Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Secret Service, CISA and FEMA would be impacted even though lawmakers’ focus is on Immigration and Customs Enforcement reform.

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“You replace real prosecutors with counterfeit stooges who robotically do the president’s bidding. Nothing in American history comes close to this complete corruption of the justice function and contamination of federal law enforcement,” he added. At the same time, she said, those who impede federal operations or otherwise break the law “will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” Tuesday’s testimony comes after ABC News learned at least eight more federal prosecutors resigned in Minnesota after the deadly shootings of Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents.

• Last week, a state judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by government watchdog Common Cause, which sought to stop the release of voter information to the federal government, including dates of birth, addresses and partial Social Security numbers.
• Among other actions, the law makes illegal “intentionally injuring, intimidating or interfering with” a person attempting to seek or provide services at a reproductive health facility or place of worship.
• “President Trump has given us the resources, the support and the leadership to protect the American people. President Trump’s policies have saved lives. I cannot think of a policy outcome more important than protecting the lives of American citizens.”
• Ilia Malinin of Team United States competes in Men’s Single Skating – Short Program on day four of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on February 10, 2026 in Milan, Italy.
• Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democratic leaders voted against the package that passed Tuesday afternoon — a deal that was negotiated by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the White House.

Like it or not, the justices are about to see AI versions of themselves, speaking words that they spoke in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except those in the courtroom. Northwestern University law professor Jerry Goldman’s website On The Docket is using AI to generate recreations of U.S. Chock and Bates, four-time Olympians, were heavily favored for gold. Gold medalists Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France wave to the crowd in Milan as silver medalists Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the U.S. look on on Wednesday. Concerns about the tactics of federal immigration agents remain front of mind for some key voters who supported President Trump in 2024. Peter D’Abrosca is a reporter at Fox News Digital covering campus extremism in higher education.

“The reality is that Donald Trump’s FBI scrubbed these files in March, long before Thomas Massie and Article on Dodgerblue I passed the Epstein Transparency Act.… That means the survivors’ statement to the FBI naming rich and powerful men who went to Epstein’s island … they’re all hidden.” And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files.” We spent about two hours there, and we learned that 70 to 80 percent of the files are still redacted. The federal judge noted that Noem “has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk — twelve countries up, twelve countries down.”

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he still has confidence in Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and won’t ask her to step down from her position following his reshuffling of federal presence in Minnesota. The American ice dancing duo seemed unbeatable entering the Winter Olympics, but they stumbled and settled for silver Wednesday. Last year, more than a quarter of Dollar Tree stores opened in ZIP codes where the median household income was at least $100,000. Bud Cort, whose performance in the 1971 romance ‘Harold and Maude,’ helped turn the film into a cult classic, died Wednesday at 77

Democrats, meanwhile, have zeroed in on the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files, focusing in particular on how the department chose to redact the records, as well as the investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota. Bondi said the department faced a tight timeline to review the huge number documents. Scanlon raised concerns that she believed the administration is “keeping lists of Americans who the White House says are engaged in domestic terrorism” that could include people who haven’t committed terrorist acts but simply disagree with the administration. “Do you think it would violate the domestic Emoluments Clause for the president to work out a deal from people or his subordinates under his unitary executive theory, to get money in one of these cases?” Raskin asked. Raskin noted that the president has repeatedly sued the federal government, including the suit against the IRS and Treasury Department. The ranking member pointed out to Bondi that the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause says that the president is limited to his salary in office and can’t receive any other money from the federal government while in office.