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BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports.

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Marco Rubio declares war on non-white peoples worldwide Rubio's Munich speech affirmed white Christian supremacy, linking America's racist founding to Europe's imperial past and evangelical expansionism today

In Munich, Rubio declared to America's white European allies that had it not been for the Americans and Western Europe, Soviet communism - not Nazism and fascism of Western Europe - would have destroyed "thousands of years of Western civilization".

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Chaos and Panic Grip Tehran as Airstrikes Shake City Iranians were beginning their workweek as U.S. and Israeli strikes sent people fleeing parts of the capital and parents racing to collect children from schools.

Just as Iranians began their workweek on Saturday morning, U.S. and Israeli strikes sent panicked residents of Tehran into the streets and parents racing back to schools where they had just dropped off their children. nyti.ms/4rN74Ri

Here’s What World Leaders Are Saying About the U.S.-Led Attack on Iran Governments around the world urged restraint after the United States and Israel launched a major assault, and Iran vowed retaliation.

Governments around the world urged restraint after the U.S. and Israel launched a major assault, and Iran vowed retaliation. Here’s what other governments are saying. nyti.ms/3OQRWUi

A map titled "Where the U.S. and Israel Attacked Iran." It shows scattered red explotion marks across the country, including Tehran, Urmia and Minah.

The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in a major assault that threatened a broader regional conflict. Iran vowed to retaliate and several Arab states that host U.S. military bases said they had been attacked. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4cDmanV

A group of people standing on the roof of a beige building in Iran. A headline reads: "Chaos and Panic Grip Iran As U.S. Airstrikes Are Reported Across the Country" Photo by Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday sent panicked residents of the capital, Tehran, into the streets and parents racing back to schools where they had just dropped off their children. Follow live updates. trib.al/yRLAlzO

Multiple Gulf Arab states that host US assets targeted in Iran retaliation Iran confirms targeting US bases across the Middle East.

Iran confirms targeting US bases across the Middle East.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

NYC Gets an Old School Snow Day as Blizzard Blasts Big Apple Mayor Mamdani declares a state of emergency, with travel restrictions starting Sunday evening.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency and issued a travel advisory starting 9 p.m Sunday.
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Mayor says NYC schools fully closed Monday, no online classes https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-says-nyc-schools-fully-closed-monday-no-online-classes

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New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected ...

NEW: Powerful Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage. The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected to sign it into law.

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Trans teens across New York City scramble after NYU Langone shutters care NYU Langone is ending its program for trans youth as the Trump administration threatens funding.

“For these young patients, gender-affirming care is life-affirming care, and it’s my hope that other health care providers will step in immediately to continue to provide this critical treatment,” said Manhattan Borough President Brad Holyman-Sigal.
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“Given the recent departure of our medical director, coupled with the current regulatory environment, we made the difficult decision to discontinue our Transgender Youth Health Program,” Steve Ritea, a spokesperson for NYU Langone Health, said Wednesday.

The Trump administration in December proposed new rules that would prohibit Medicare or Medicaid funding from flowing to hospitals that provide such gender-affirming treatments to patients under 18. Hospitals rely heavily on these massive public insurance programs for revenue.

Trans teens across New York City scramble after NYU Langone shutters care NYU Langone is ending its program for trans youth as the Trump administration threatens funding.

“They’re just completely abandoning trans youth and it's disgusting and it's dangerous,” Rachel, a Brooklyn mother whose 16-year-old son has been receiving hormone therapy at NYU Langone Health, said. “These kids need care.”

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Over two years, Israel has spent billions killing tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, destroying homes, farms, and infrastructure in a genocidal war.

Now it joins Trump’s Board of Peace, ostensibly to “rebuild” the same territory where it committed genocide.

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Mamdani Promised a New Era for Parks and Libraries. His First Budget Falls Short. The new mayor pledged to dedicate 1% of the city budget to parks and 0.5% to libraries. His preliminary spending plan delivers less.

Mamdani had pledged to break that cycle, including reiterating his support for the 0.5% target at a December appearance at a New York Public Library branch.

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Library funding has long been subject to what advocates describe as a recurring “budget dance,” with mayors proposing cuts or inadequate increases before restorations are negotiated later.

Spending for the city’s library systems comes in below the 0.5% benchmark advocates sought and Mamdani endorsed on the campaign trail, landing at about 0.39% of the budget instead.

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

“This is about as big as it gets,” Trump said at the White House as a smiling Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, stood by. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Reversing the endangerment finding has been seen as the holy grail for those who deny the science of climate change. That’s because if the repeal is upheld in court, it could also prevent future administrations from restoring regulations to curb greenhouse gases.

Trump, whose 2024 campaign got a boost of as much as $450 million from the oil and gas industry, has worked to make it cheaper and easier to keep burning fossil fuels while throttling efforts to build cleaner energy sources such as solar and wind.

Recent research has found that if the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke would kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050. Another study found that deaths from extreme heat in the United States have more than doubled in recent decades.

The US is currently the world’s 2nd largest climate polluter (after China) but it has pumped the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. That distinction matters because past emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases significantly contribute to current warming.

The added pollution could lead to as many as 58,000 premature deaths and an increase of 37 million asthma attacks between now and 2055, the group said.

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

The repeal of the endangerment finding is expected to increase the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent over the next 30 years, according to the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Trump Posts Video Portraying Obamas as Apes

In the video, several Democrats — including Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani , Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — were shown as various animals, while Trump was depicted as a lion. The video ended with the animals bowing down to Trump.
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“Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.” — Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said criticism of the video was “fake outrage.”

“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King.”