LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge blocked the Pentagon on Thursday from reducing Senator Mark Kelly’s retired military rank and pension pay as punishment after he urged troops to reject unlawful orders. In the clip, Kelly stated: “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders.”WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) speaks with reporters in the basement of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 12, 2026 in Washington, DC. AdvertisementKelly brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration to halt the censure. Senator for his views on military policy,” Leon wrote. Trump administration lawyers had urged the judge to dismiss Kelly’s lawsuit.

Abigail Slater, who ran the antitrust division for the Justice Department for nearly a year, was forced out by the Trump administration this week, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. As its name suggests, the Justice Department’s anti-trust division enforces US antitrust laws, pursuing civil or criminal cases against companies with an eye on promoting competition. “Every antitrust case in front of the Trump Justice Department now reeks of double-dealing — Ticketmaster’s stock is already surging. In an NBC interview last week, Trump said, “I’ve decided I shouldn’t be involved. The Justice Department will handle it.” But Paramount CEO David Ellison returned to the White House last week to meet privately with Trump, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

a man who routinely — and several times just this week — shows himself unfit not only for the most powerful job in the world, but for just about any job . Obsequious Republicans won’t provide the votes in Congress to restrain or punish Trump, even when he’s usurped the lawmakers’ own constitutional powers . “‘A slap in the face’ to our Country,” Trump called it. (Contrast that with bad ol’ Bad Bunny giving his new Grammy to a young boy during the halftime show.) After the NFL championship, Trump even posted a demand that the winning Seattle Seahawks give him their trophy.

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AdvertisementAsked by The Times who serves on the LA28 executive committee, which according to recent tax documents “is delegated all the power and authority of the board,” an LA28 spokesperson did not respond. A representative for Mayor Karen Bass said her appointees on the executive committee include entertainment attorney Matt Johnson, real estate developer Jaime Lee and union leader Yvonne Wheeler. “Ultimately,” she said last week, “any decision on the LA28 leadership must be made by the LA28 Board.”Music Wasserman’s Epstein ties cause chaos at his music agency. AdvertisementAfter the emails were released Jan. 30, Olympic leaders and the LA28 board indicated they continued to back him as a stream of L.A. officials demanded he step down from the organizing committee of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Several LA28 Olympic board members are in Milan for the Olympics, as is a local delegation from the Los Angeles area.

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Yvonne Wheeler, president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, speaks at Mayor Karen Bass’ reelection launch in December. The head of the powerful Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, blasted Nithya Raman on Wednesday, calling the City Council member an “opportunist” for launching a campaign to unseat Mayor Karen Bass after previously signaling her support for Bass. Two days later, she appeared in a second campaign news release as one of Bass’ female endorsers. Raman broke with the labor federation and her colleagues in September, voting against the $2.6-billion expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center. AdvertisementBefore that vote, labor unions said the upgrade would generate much-needed construction jobs at a time when housing production has been down.

Born in 1936 to a Syrian-Jewish family in Cairo, Claudia Roden studied in London to become a painter before becoming engrossed by the stories and recipes of Britain’s expatriate Egyptian community. She began teaching Middle Eastern cooking from her home, hosting the BBC series “Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean Cookery” and becoming a prolific food journalist and cookbook author. The Book of Jewish Food won the James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Roden has updated and expanded her popular 1968 cookbook for a more savvy and knowledgeable audience. Not that every recipe is changed; many are not, but Roden does attempt not to rely too much on butter and oils.

As cheaper Wegovy options surface – from discounts to compounded pills – FDA warnings spotlight safety, trust and what longevity costs. Because as the drug gets cheaper, the system around it is getting messier and, in some cases, riskier. Among the 40 medications listed are GLP-1 drugs, including Wegovy. Still, politically and culturally, it’s clear that GLP-1 drugs are no longer niche therapies. The pill that sparked a backlashThe tension escalated further when US telehealth company Hims & Hers announced a compounded weight-loss pill priced as low as $49 for new customers.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration cannot agree with that statement. Over the last few days, former CNN news anchor and now independent journalist Don Lemon was arrested after covering an Anti-ICE protest in a church on Jan, 18. The claims made by the administration are potentially libelous and insane, we are living in a timeline where journalism is being attacked. According to Lemon, the administration went through two judges and an appeals court trying to get the charges filed against him, after continuously being denied, they finally got the go ahead after going through a grand jury. Reporting and informing the public on current happenings in their country is never a crime and this administration needs to realize that.

Democrats are expected to block a House-passed funding package this afternoon. Republicans and Democrats are also planning to block each other’s proposed stopgap funding bills, meaning the Senate will leave town for a recess week without funding DHS. “I think the White House is pretty close with this offer, to get into a kind of an agreement zone,” Thune maintained. I think the concessions on the part of the administration have been real,” the GOP leader insisted. “I don’t know that there’s any value to or benefit to keeping everybody here, as long as the White House and the Senate Democrats are continuing that discussion,” he said.

February 12, 2026 Trump’s Goal for the WTO: Stopping Taxes on Big TechBy Melanie FoleyShare FacebookTwitterEmailBlueSkyTextThreadsDownload as PDF. The Trump administration, despite its seeming hostility towards the WTO itself, is pushing hard for the WTO to make the Moratorium permanent. Now America cannot and will not accept that.”[4]The Trump administration has followed through on these threats. The U.S. has already flexed its muscle to secure wins for Big Tech — for instance, the Trump administration bullied Canada into dropping its digital services tax on Big Tech companies and is attempting to do so with several other jurisdictions. By using bilateral negotiations to whittle down opposition to the Moratorium, the Trump administration is actively pushing to secure a win for Big Tech at MC14.

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For Dodgers fans, nothing could be better than a team that makes lots of money, spends lots of money, and wins unapologetically. To Arizona fans, the enemy is not the system, even if Kendrick says the Dodgers have mastered the system rather than skirted it. To Arizona fans, the enemy is the Dodgers. “I think, on a regular-season basis — and I’m trying to be honest about the competitive atmosphere — they are a more competitive team than we are. The average crowd in Arizona for games involving the Dodgers: 43,441; for games against every other team: 27,865.