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Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 5:39 PM CST, February 12, 2026

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.” But repeated scientific studies say it’s a documented and quantifiable harm.

Again and again, research has found increasing disease and deaths — thousands every year — in a warming world.

The Environmental Protection Agency finding in 2009, under the Obama administration, has been the legal underpinning of nearly all regulations fighting global warming.

“It boggles the mind that the administration is rescinding the endangerment finding; it’s akin to insisting that the world is flat or denying that gravity is a thing,” said Dr. Howard Frumkin, a physician and professor emeritus of public health at the University of Washington.

Thousands of scientific studies have looked at climate change and its effects on human health in the past five years and they predominantly show climate change is increasingly dangerous to people.

Many conclude that in the United States, thousands of people have died and even more were sickened because of climate change in the past few decades. ...

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Don Lemon, others plead not guilty to Minn. church protest charges

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Several people charged in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church whose pastor served as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon in a St. Paul federal courtroom.

Journalist Don Lemon, who is being represented by former Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy against the right of religious freedom at a place of worship and injuring, intimidating and interfering with the exercise of the right of religious freedom at a place of worship.

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Democrat claims SAVE Act would block married women from voting; Republicans say that's wrong

  • News source: FOX News
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Trump admin rips Mamdani, local Dems as activists override gov't move at NYC monument: 'Focused on theatrics'

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A battle between elected Democrat officials and the Trump administration is developing in New York City involving a Pride flag being flown at a government monument outside the historic Stonewall Inn.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration removed a Pride flag from the national monument outside the Stonewall Inn, the site of a clash between police and patrons of a gay bar seen by many as the start of the gay rights movement in the 1960s, in a move it says is in accordance with decades-old federal code.

The administration says that only the...
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Who is on helmet that led to Ukrainian athlete's Winter Olympics ban?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Vladyslav Heraskevych's helmet depicts fellow athletes who have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion of his country.
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Leak damages 19th Century painting in latest Louvre setback

  • News source: BBC News - World
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A catalogue of incidents at the world's most visited museum have placed museum bosses come under increasing scrutiny.
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Moore says Biden "needed to do more" on immigration, blasts Trump's crackdown

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told CBS News immigration is an issue the country has "punted on for a very long time" amid the nation's heated debate over federal enforcement.

While he has publicly condemned the Trump administration's immigration policies as a "cruel and reckless political agenda," he told CBS News senior correspondent Norah O'Donnell that former President Joe Biden "did not have this right."

"We needed to do more. That, I don't think anyone can argue that we had the system worked out under President Biden – that immigration was worked...
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CEO of Dubai's largest port replaced after ties to Epstein revealed

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The head of one of the world's largest port operators has been removed from his position, following revelations from the Jeffrey Epstein files about the extent of his ties to the convicted sex offender.

On Friday, Dubai's government media office announced in a statement that it had appointed a new chairman of the board of directors and a new CEO of the company, DP World, replacing Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, one of the Middle East's most prominent business figures. The company, which is overseen by Dubai's ruling family, operates ports in the Gulf and...
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ICE director stands his ground after Swalwell blowup, says Democrats are ‘misleading their constituents’

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EXCLUSIVE: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told Fox News Digital he stands by his response to Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, after the California gubernatorial candidate demanded he resign and find work as an "otherwise employable" law enforcement officer.

Swalwell, who made the comments during a hearing this week, was the latest in a slew of Democrats calling on Lyons to resign after an immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis led to the agent-involved shooting deaths of two agitators.

"Leading this agency is a choice, and it’s one I make to...
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Trump to honor special forces behind Maduro capture at Fort Bragg as global tensions escalate

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump is visiting Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Friday to honor U.S. special forces and their families for their roles in the high-profile military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in January.

Trump will be joined by first lady Melania Trump, who also is slated to spend time with military families during the base visit — one of the largest home stations for U.S. Army special operations forces.

Trump’s social media posts ahead of the visit highlighted what he...
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Trump's Operation Metro Surge located 3,000 missing migrant children in Minneapolis, Emmer says

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The highest-ranking Minnesotan in Congress is arguing that President Donald Trump's
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Top Goldman Sachs lawyer who called Epstein 'Uncle Jeffrey' resigns

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Emails show the high-flying attorney likened the convicted paedophile to "an older brother" and accepted luxury gifts.
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Sudan war crimes saw 6,000 killed in three days, UN says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed the atrocities in the city of el-Fasher, says a UN report.
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Tom Cotton demands FDA probe into illegal Chinese ingredients in US weight loss drugs

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How Trump’s order to have the military buy coal would actually work

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President Donald Trump says the military will start "buying a lot of coal" as part of a new push to boost domestic coal production and strengthen what he describes as the reliability of the U.S. power grid. Turning that pledge into reality, however, will require navigating Pentagon procurement rules, congressional funding limits and the physical constraints of the electric grid.

A new executive order, signed Wednesday, directs the secretary of war to "seek to procure" power from coal-fired facilities through long-term power purchase agreements...
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Battle for the House runs through Virginia as court OKs high-stakes redistricting vote

  • News source: FOX News
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In a crucial decision on Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a high-stakes referendum scheduled for April 21 on congressional redistricting can go forward.

It's a victory for Democrats in Virginia, who are fast-tracking a proposed new congressional map that would give the competitive state up to four more left-leaning U.S. House districts in time for this year's midterm elections.

Virginia is the latest battleground, with Florida on deck, in the ongoing crucial battle between President Donald Trump and Republicans versus Democrats to...
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‘They were spying’: Sullivan sounds alarm on joint Russia-China moves in US Arctic zone

  • News source: FOX News
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Joint Russian and Chinese military aircraft and vessels have entered the U.S. Arctic air defense identification zone (ADIZ) near Alaska dozens of times in recent months, Sen. Dan Sullivan said in an interview with Fox News Digital, warning the activity amounts to coordinated pressure on America’s northern defenses.

Sullivan, R-Alaska, said data compiled by his office shows mostly airborne incursions — and at times joint patrols — along with several naval and "research" vessels operating inside the ADIZ, a buffer zone where aircraft must identify...
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World's rules-based order 'no longer exists', Germany's Merz warns

  • News source: BBC News - World
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"Our freedom is not guaranteed" in an era of big powers, the German chancellor tells Munich's security summit.
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Six possible effects of Trump's climate policy change

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The announcement on Thursday removes the legal bedrock for much of US environmental legislation.
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Head of Dubai-based ports giant quits after Epstein links revealed

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem’s exit comes after files showed he appears to have exchanged hundreds of emails with Epstein.
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Ukrainian slider Olympics over as helmet appeal dismissed

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych will not compete at the Winter Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed his appeal to wear a helmet depicting images of athletes killed during Russia's invasion of his home country.
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Hello Kitty designer steps down after 46 years

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Yuko Yamaguchi oversaw the feline character's rise to to global icon status.
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Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
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Iran fortifies underground complex near nuclear site, satellite images show

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The activity comes at a time of heightened tensions as talks between Iranian and US officials continue over Iran's nuclear programme.
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Watch SpaceX rocket blast off to International Space Station

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Low expectations as Ukraine, Russia confirm new round of talks with U.S.

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Kyiv — The governments of Russia and Ukraine confirmed Friday that they would participate in a third round of U.S.-mediated peace talks next week, on Feb. 17 and 18 in Geneva. There have already been two rounds of talks under this trilateral format so far this year, held in Abu Dhabi, but next week's session will be the first on European soil, and it will come just days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year.

Neither side has voiced any optimism that the negotiations will yield a comprehensive ceasefire agreement, but...
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