The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2026-02-13

Domestic

Border czar Tom Homan announced the end of the ICE operation in Minnesota in the coming days following weeks of operations by federal law enforcement in the state.

Customs and Border Patrol officials closed airspace around the El Paso airport this week after firing an anti-drone laser, and failing to coordinate with the Federal Aviation Administration.

And President Donald Trump ordered pride flags at New York City’s Stonewall National Monument, a prominent site in LGBTQ history, removed as part of a larger campaign to change displays at national parks around the country.
Interview: 

https://the1a.org/segments/homan-minnesota-stonewall/

International 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week meeting with President Donald Trump. Items on the agenda were Iran, its ballistic missiles, and Iranian nuclear capabilities.

Meanwhile, European leaders gathered in Belgium to counter economic pressure from China and military threats from Russia.

And the Trump Administration threatened to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Memorial Bridge over disputes with the Canadian government. The structure, which connects Michigan and Ontario, took several years and billions of dollars to build.
Interview: 

https://the1a.org/segments/netanyahu-trump-canada/

Pride flag reinstated at Stonewall after it was removed by Trump administration

"We won't let Trump erase LGBTQ+ history. Stonewall was a rebellion. Stonewall was a beginning. Today, Stonewall is a call to action once again," Nadler said in a statement posted online. "I'm proud to be at Stonewall today as we re-raise the Pride flag. It's flying once again." 

The removal of the flag marked the latest effort by the Trump administration to rewrite the country's history by removing material the president and his allies find disagreeable from US national parks and museums. National Park Service workers recently removed panels about enslavement from the walls of the President's House in Philadelphia in response to a presidential executive order…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/pride-flag-reinstated-stonewall

 

House Passes "Worst Voter Suppression Bill Ever" in Latest Push to Help trump take over elections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZG6NNzfy64

 

Judge orders Trump administration to help dozens of deportees return to the US - POLITICO

 Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the administration to pay for airfare and provide documents to facilitate travel for any of 137 deported men who are currently outside Venezuela...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/trump-boasberg-venezuela-deportations-00778458 

 

FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’

"It's all pretext and obfuscation when the real agenda is rejecting conventional science and serving a predetermined anti-vaccine agenda," said Richard Hughes IV, a partner with Epstein Becker Green and law professor at George Washington University. 

Dorit Reiss, professor of law at UC Law San Francisco, said "personally humiliating a company is not a legitimate reason to refuse to review a submission", and the refusal needs to "address substantive reasons". Angela Rasmussen, an American virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan, says "they're just coming up with reasons to not approve mRNA anything, and they're going to eventually do it to all these vaccines"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/fda-moderna-flu-vaccine

 

Justice department moves to drop charges against men accused of hitting ICE officer in Minnesota

 Prosecutor says 'newly discovered evidence' in case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis 'materially inconsistent with the allegations against them'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-alfredo-alejandro-aljorna-julio-cesar-sosa-celis-ice-minnesota

 

Our Rigged Economy in One Graph

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PpI6X7ugaqM

 

What is happening at the Department of Justice under Attorney General Bondi

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0PpVGHZrDEo

 

Jared Kushner emerges as focus of intel whistleblower complaint about Gabbard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1WTDIaYCSg

 

New Religion-biased Guidance by the Department of Education

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7aigUfWtS0g

 

3 AM Calls from Trump | Paula Poundstone

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3aGKxMET4hg

The US Government Will Not Stop Sharing Nazi Propaganda – Mother Jones

There has been not one, but two posts from our government institutions that reuse a phrase ripped straight from William Gayley Simpson's book Which Way Western Man?. It was published and promoted by the National Alliance—considered one of the "best organized" neo-Nazi groups in the United States. The book is antisemitic, racist, and explicitly states that Adolf Hitler was right...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/nazi-propaganda-trump-white-house-dhs-kristi-noem-social-media/ 

 

Murphy Grills Unqualified Trump Nominee On His White Nationalist Views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1dQboF6TlY

 

Charts show how Trump is isolating the US on world stage

Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump's isolationism rears its head at the United Nations…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/these-charts-show-how-trump-is-isolating-the-us-on-the-world-stage

 

Where’s the red line?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hM-n8PGDt28

 

PolitiFact | Can the chickenpox vaccine cause shingles? We answer questions about the infections and protection

The varicella-zoster virus causes both chickenpox and shingles infections. Initially, the virus causes a chickenpox infection. 

If it reactivates later, shingles can develop. The chickenpox vaccine contains a live, weakened version of that virus but studies show it's uncommon for it to reactivate and cause shingles. 

Shingles is less common among children who are vaccinated against chickenpox than among unvaccinated children…

https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/feb/13/chickenpox-shingles-vaccines-FAQ/ 

 

Ohio Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Essentially Ban Solar and Wind Projects – Mother Jones

SB 294 ​"will destroy competition by declaring renewable energy unreliable, and it's picking winners and losers."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/ohio-lsb294-bill-ban-solar-wind-alec-projects/ 

 

'It Sounds Like You Have A Racial Hierarchy': Cory Booker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VYq-ntaH1k

SAVE Tool Keeps Mistakenly Flagging Voters as Noncitizens, Sparking Confusion for States — ProPublica

Widespread Errors: An expanded federal tool for identifying noncitizens on voter rolls is making persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing citizenship for people born outside the U.S. 

 Banned From Voting: In Missouri, state officials told local clerks to temporarily ban flagged voters from casting ballots, even though hundreds turned out to be citizens. 

Texas Confusion: As errors emerged in SAVE data, local clerks said the state hadn't provided them with clear guidance and worried about disenfranchising eligible citizens...

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/save-voter-citizenship-tool-mistakes-confusion/ 

 

History Minute (095): The Civil Rights Act of 1875 enacted

 In 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Civil Rights Act. It had two critical sections:

• Section 1: “…all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.”

This meant that private business owners of public accommodations such as theaters, trains, hotels, and restaurants, could not legally refuse service to customers merely because they were Black. All commercial and social life access had to be offered without regard to skin color.

• Section 2: “…any person who shall violate the foregoing section…shall for every such offense forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered in an action of debt, with full costs; and shall also, for every such offense, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than one year…”

This meant that if a business owner discriminated against you, they could be found guilty of a misdemeanor, imprisoned for at least 30 days, pay a fine of at least $500 (a huge amount in 1875) — and pay you directly another $500 for each instance of discrimination.

This Civil Rights Act also prohibited racial discrimination in the selection of jury members, or the fact that they had dark skin or were previously enslaved. This was important because in the South, all-white juries habitually acquitted White defendants accused of crimes against Black citizens. A more impartial justice system was the intended outcome. 

Read more: https://uslawexplained.com/civil_rights_act_of_1875