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Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after White House only invited Republicans​

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, STEVE PEOPLES and STEVEN SLOAN
Updated 11:02 AM CST, February 10, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Governors Association will no longer hold a formal meeting with President Donald Trump when the group of state leaders meet in Washington later this month after the White House planned to invite only Republicans.

“NGA staff was informed that the White House intends to limit invitations to the annual business meeting, scheduled for February 20, to Republican governors only,” Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who is the chairman of the NGA, said in a Monday letter to fellow governors obtained by The Associated Press. “Because NGA’s mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for that event, and it is no longer included in our official program.”

The NGA is scheduled to meet in Washington from Feb. 19-21. Representatives for Stitt, the White House and the NGA didn’t immediately comment on the letter.

The governors group is one of the few remaining venues where political leaders from both major parties gather to discuss the top issues facing their communities. In his letter, Stitt encouraged governors to unite around common goals. ...

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Democrats demand new restrictions to Trump's immigration crackdown and threaten a DHS shutdown

Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete and insufficient” as they are demanding new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and threatening a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.
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US lawmakers accuse justice department of 'inappropriately' redacting Epstein files

Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna say the DOJ is not complying with their transparency law.
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Democrats reject GOP counterproposal on ICE changes as shutdown deadline nears

Details of the GOP counteroffer have not been made public.
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Ghislaine Maxwell declines to answer questions from lawmakers in testimony and seeks clemency from Trump

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers on Monday. (Produced by Elaine Carroll)
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Senate races to avert third shutdown as DHS deal takes shape

Department of Homeland Security faces a potential shutdown affecting TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard, as Senate Democrats push for immigration enforcement changes.
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Backlash to Trump emboldens Democrats on DHS and ICE as partial shutdown looms

Surveys show Americans are souring on Trump's immigration crackdown, and Democrats are drawing a hard line on funding as they seek changes to rein in ICE and CBP.
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Masks emerge as symbol of Trump's ICE crackdown and a flashpoint in Congress

The images of masked federal officers has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations.
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Trump threatens to block opening of new bridge between US and Canada

Trump appears to be referring to the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a six-lane project that is set to connect Windsor and Detroit.
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Malinowski concedes to Mejia in Democratic US House special primary in New Jersey

Former congressman Tom Malinowski concedes to Analilia Mejia in New Jersey’s Democratic primary for the U.S. House special election.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson says Supreme Court justices "get along well": "A model for learning how to disagree"

Ketanji Brown Jackson told "CBS Mornings" that the justices "have learned how to adapt to being in an environment with people who have very strongly held but different views."
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Ex-Florida police chief claims Trump told him ‘everyone’ knew what Epstein was doing in 2006

Former police chief Michael Reiter claims Trump also said ‘thank goodness you’re stopping’ Epstein in 2006 phone call
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'This is how a wave starts': Democrats win another special election

On the heels of a state legislative win in Texas, Democrats saw a 37-point swing that kept a Louisiana state House seat in their ranks
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Latest Jeffrey Epstein file disclosures rock the rich and powerful: Top takeaways

The more than 3 million files that were released reveal how business titans looked the other way at the convicted sex offender's history.
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New York GOP’s midterm problem: No money, no bench — and Trump

The hard-knock life of a blue-state Republican looks even worse this midterm.
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Russia can’t attack NATO this year but plans to boost its own forces, an intelligence chief says

A senior European intelligence chief says Russia cannot launch an attack on NATO this year or next but is planning to increase its forces significantly along the alliance’s eastern flank, depending on the outcome of the war in Ukraine.
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Trump threatens to block opening of Gordie Howe border bridge between Detroit and Canada

President Trump said Monday he would block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit and Canada "until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them."
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Conservative columnist says Donald Trump has lost the country. It’s complicated.

Trump's approval rating reportedly drops to 37% as conservative columnist Ross Douthat argues the president has "lost the country" amid challenges.
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House Dem explodes on top Trump immigration official, says he ‘better hope’ for pardon from president

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Progressive Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., exploded on U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, calling federal immigration officers "thugs" and telling the commissioner he "better hope" for a presidential pardon during a particularly heated House hearing on Tuesday.

Thanedar, who is originally from India and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980’s, drilled into Scott, saying, "You better hope you get pardoned because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year."

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DOJ signals crackdown on synagogue protesters using abortion clinic statute

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The Justice Department is signaling a broader use of federal civil rights law against protesters accused of disrupting religious worship, with officials pointing to synagogue cases as a model for future enforcement.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said the department has applied the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act — a law historically associated with abortion clinic protests — to cases involving disruptions at Jewish houses of worship.

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Mamdani’s antisemitism czar once slammed post condemning Hamas terror attacks

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new antisemitism czar once said she was "floored" by a social media post condemning Hamas for firing rockets toward civilian population centers in Israel.

In 2021, Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, criticized a post by then-mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, who scolded Hamas terrorists, the New York Post reported.

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Trump administration pressed to close Cuba embargo loophole with oil set to run out within days

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EXCLUSIVE: Three members of Congress representing heavily-Cuban-American districts are demanding the Trump administration shut off the remaining commercial "valves" of support for the Communist Castro/Díaz-Canel regime in Havana, after effectively blockading key oil imports in recent days.

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Fox News Poll: Beyond red vs. blue, finding me + you across the political divide

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Encouraging news this Valentine’s Day — love and humor transcend politics, plus an increased number of people say they believe in love at first sight.

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AI power players pour cash into competitive primaries as 2026 midterms heat up

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FIRST ON FOX — A political group backed by leading AI companies and innovators is starting to dip into its formidable war chest to back candidates in competitive primaries in this year's midterm elections.

Fox News Digital has learned that the group, called Leading the Future, is infusing half a million dollars to launch an ad blitz in support of former Defense Department official Laurie Buckhout, who is running in next month's GOP primary in North Carolina's 1st Congressional District in the race to challenge incumbent Democratic Rep. Donald Davis...
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Shutdown clock ticks as Schumer, Democrats dig in on DHS funding demands

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Senate Democrats aren't ready to concede in their push for stringent reforms to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and are ready to buck Senate Republicans' plans to avert a partial shutdown.

Their resistance comes as Senate Republicans and the White House have floated a counteroffer to Democrats’ proposed DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reforms. But the two sides remain far apart on a deal to fund the agency, and they are quickly running out of time.

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Trump DOJ appointee Thomas Albus tapped to lead Fulton County search warrant fight

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The Justice Department has installed a Missouri-based U.S. prosecutor to head the Trump administration’s election probe in Fulton County, Georgia, according to recent court records, marking the latest instance in which an out-of-state prosecutor has been tasked with a leading role in a politically charged case.

The involvement of Thomas Albus, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, was revealed last month when he signed off on a Fulton County search warrant that authorized the FBI’s raid of a key Georgia election hub. The warrant...
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Democratic congresswoman sparks online outrage over 'deranged' question to ICE director about 'going to hell'

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Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver, who is currently facing charges related to interfering with ICE officers at a detention facility, is facing strong pushback online over her line of questioning to ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons in a heated hearing Tuesday.

"How do you think Judgment Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?" McIver asked Lyons during a hearing in which Democrats lashed out on multiple occasions against ICE and President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda in general while highlighting the deaths of Renee Good and Alex...
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Trump's reaction to new footage of Guthrie abduction was 'pure disgust,' Leavitt says

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Newly released FBI footage of a masked, armed person at Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home on the morning of her disappearance drew an immediate response from the White House on Tuesday, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying the president reacted with "pure disgust."

Minutes before the White House briefing, the FBI released photos and video of a masked person seemingly tampering with a Nest security camera outside the 84-year-old's Tuscon front door on Feb. 1, the day she vanished, while armed with what appears to be a handgun.

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Democratic governors excluded from typically bipartisan White House gathering

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President Trump is excluding Democratic governors from typically bipartisan events held at the White House during the annual gathering of state leaders in Washington, D.C.

No Democratic governors were invited to a formal business meeting that was to take place Feb. 20 between governors, the president and White House officials while they are in town for the National Governors Association conference. A source familiar with the White House's planning said this was deliberate — President Trump does not want them there.

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NATO to shift 2 commands from U.S. to European leadership

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As President Trump continues to press Europe to contribute more to its own defense, NATO announced two Joint Force Commands would transition from U.S. leadership to European in the coming years.

The move "is part of a shift to more fairly sharing responsibility within NATO, with European allies taking on greater leadership roles in NATO's command structure," NATO said in a statement ahead of a meeting of defense ministers this week. The statement also noted that the U.S. would continue to maintain the role of supreme allied commander Europe, or...
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Congress moves to set national rules for self-driving cars, overriding states

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Lawmakers led by Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, teed up consideration of how Congress approaches the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs) Tuesday, pressing the case for national safety standards that, if successful, will override budding state-level restrictions on the developing technology.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced the SELF DRIVE Act in a 12–11 vote Tuesday, a piece of legislation that Latta, its sponsor, framed as a way to fill in the blanks on questions of public and passenger safety.

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DOJ moves to wipe Steve Bannon's contempt conviction tied to Jan 6 probe

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The Department of Justice moved Monday to toss out Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction, a rare request that served to undo yet another element of the Biden-era investigations and prosecutions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro made the request to dismiss Bannon's case in the district court in Washington, D.C. The dismissal would scrap Bannon's conviction, despite the former Trump adviser and War Room podcast host already completing his prison sentence.

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House hearing raises red flags over former tech mogul's ‘CCP network’ allegedly funding far-left groups

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During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Tuesday, former U.S. tech mogul Neville Roy Singham was regularly named in the discussion and debate as to how foreign adversaries help fund U.S. agitator groups through what one witness described as "foreign dark money."

Singham, a U.S. citizen who sold his IT consulting company for $785 million before moving to Shanghai, was accused by multiple members of Congress as the man behind the "Singham [Chinese Communist Party] network," a phrase coined by committee chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo...
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FBI reviewing Fulton County vote-count ‘deficiencies,’ court docs reveal

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The FBI is investigating Fulton County’s handling of the 2020 election, according to newly filed search warrant affidavits outlining alleged ballot irregularities and record-keeping failures.

The FBI special agent who wrote the affidavits, which were filed Tuesday in federal court by the Department of Justice, described a wide-ranging probe into missing ballot images, inconsistent recount totals and chain-of-custody problems, raising allegations long leveled by President Donald Trump and his base.

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Dem rep labels federal immigration agents 'thugs' in tense hearing

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Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., unleashed a blistering attack on federal agents Tuesday, calling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers "thugs" and accusing them of criminal conduct during a heated House hearing.

The Democrat's comments came during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversight.

"I have heard and seen enough. I'm just sick and tired of your agents running around in our cities, in our streets, causing illegal activities," Thanedar told ICE acting director Todd Lyons...
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Progressives notch another win over Democratic moderates as Sanders-AOC ally nears Congress

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A progressive organizer backed by left-wing champions Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one step away from winning a seat in Congress.

Analilia Mejia, who has made rebuilding the Democratic Party a central pillar of her campaign, is the front-runner in an April special congressional election for a blue-leaning district in New Jersey after pulling off a major upset in last week's Democratic primary.

The ballot box showdown, where Mejia narrowly edged out front-runner former Rep. Tom Malinowski, was the latest face-off between...
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Georgia Republicans hammer Ossoff over silence after ICE detainer in alleged child rape case

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Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, a vocal critic of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who is running for re-election in November, is facing heat from Georgia Republicans over his lack of public comment until today on news that ICE lodged a detainer for a Georgia illegal immigrant accused of a heinous crime.

On Jan. 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced it placed a detainer on Mexican national Kenneth Moreno Guzman after he allegedly broke into the back door of a Georgia family’s home earlier that month and raped an 11-year-old girl while...
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Ex-police chief said Trump told him in 2006 'everyone' knew of Epstein's behaviour

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The now-president allegedly called police in Florida who were investigating Epstein and said "thank goodness you're stopping him".
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Under-fire Trump commerce secretary confirms he visited Epstein's island

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Howard Lutnick says he had lunch on the island in 2012, contradicting previous claims he had cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005.
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14-year-old girl allegedly zip-tied in raid, raising questions about ICE tactics

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Wilder, Idaho — When Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue described the October raid on a popular community horse racing venue here, he hailed the detention of 105 undocumented immigrants and flatly rejected allegations that agents used zip ties to restrain some of the dozens of children present.

Then he was presented with photographic evidence. Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents...
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Democrats split on shielding Coast Guard, Secret Service as DHS shutdown threat nears

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Democrats are split on whether to spare the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and other agencies from the possibility of a government shutdown as lawmakers remain gridlocked over Democrats' demands for funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

"The lawless, reckless people who are marauding bands wild on our street — to hell with that," Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital, referring to the agents carrying out President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

"But let’s take care of those agencies that are doing the right thing."...
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GOP mutiny forces House Speaker Mike Johnson to delay vote on key piece of Trump’s agenda

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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a key vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday as GOP leaders work to quell a burgeoning mutiny within their ranks.

House Republican leaders had planned for a measure in the early afternoon that, if successful, would block the House from voting on reversing President Donald Trump's tariffs.

It comes after Democrats planned to force such a vote specifically targeting Trump's Canada tariffs sometime this week.

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National Governors Association reportedly cancels meeting with Trump after White House snubs Democrats

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An association representing governors from across the country will not be holding a formal meeting with President Donald Trump after the White House reportedly snubbed Democrats, only inviting Republican governors to attend.

"The bipartisan White House governors meeting is an important tradition, and we are disappointed in the administration’s decision to make it a partisan occasion this year. To disinvite individual governors to the White House sessions undermines an important opportunity for federal-state collaboration," Bandon Tatum, CEO of the...
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