
Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 13, 2026, 1:48 PM
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By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will send the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East to back up another already there, a person familiar with the plans said Friday, putting more Ameri...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 12, 2026, 6:47 PM
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By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive mov...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 12, 2026, 7:30 PM
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By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appeared certain Thursday as lawmakers in the House and Senate were set to leave Washington for a 10-day break and negotiations w...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 11, 2026, 11:27 PM
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By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants fo...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 12, 2026, 12:28 AM
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By PETER SMITH, Associated Press A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission has been ousted after a hearing this week that featured tense exchanges on the definition of antisemitism. The ousted member, Carrie Prejean Boller, had defended prominent...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 11, 2026, 9:38 PM
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By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Noam Chomsky is acknowledging “serious errors in judgment” in the wake of new revelations about the couple’s ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Valeria Chomsky also says she and her husband never wi...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 11, 2026, 10:49 PM
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By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the five-week-old immigration c...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 11, 2026, 10:28 PM
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By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats took to the Senate floor Wednesday to deliver impassioned speeches denouncing the Justice Department’s attempt to indict a group of lawmakers who last year urged U.S. military members to resi...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 11, 2026, 9:57 PM
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By DAVE COLLINS Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an undergraduate as a good-looking blonde while ...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 11, 2026, 10:40 PM
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By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing to potentially slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada in what would be a symbolic rebuke of the White House agenda after Democrats, with support from ...

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 12, 2026, 7:54 PM
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By JULIET LINDERMAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO, Associated Press 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....

Sterling Journal-AdvocateFeb 12, 2026, 8:38 PM
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By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that holds extensive contracts with the agency he would lead. The nomination of Scott Socha late Wednes...