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In a victory for the fossil fuel industry, a set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases is being reversed by the Trump administration. The changes would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming, as well as remove industrial reporting obligations and roll back emissions standards for cars and trucks. Environmental engineer Gretchen Goldman helped author those emission standards while working for the Department of Transportation under the Biden administration. Now as the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, she says their repeal will not only increase what drivers pay at the pump but also set U.S. innovation back on the world stage. “We’re really seeing the abdication of U.S. leadership on climate, and that has huge implications, both for our immediate ability to reduce heat trapping emissions globally … but also in terms of our standing and contribution in the world.”

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We continue our conversation with Texas Congressmember Al Green as he plans to reintroduce impeachment proceedings against President Trump over “infusing his hate into policy.” Green currently represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District, which was recently redistricted by the Texas state Legislature in favor of Republican voters. He says his seat, which he has held for over two decades, was targeted for redistricting in part because of his opposition to Trump. Green is now running for reelection in Texas’s neighboring 18th Congressional District.

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House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. “These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,” says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. “This is more than authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,” says Texas Congressmember Al Green, who also spoke at the hearing.

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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• Democratic Lawmakers Grill the Heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS on Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign
• Immigrant Family Files a Lawsuit Claiming Their Toddler Was Returned to an ICE Jail Amid a Measles Outbreak
• ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Law Enforcement for Mass Immigration Raid in Idaho
• Democratic Congressmember Khanna Accuses the DOJ of Improperly Redacting Names of Wealthy Men in the Epstein Files
• Former Palm Beach Police Chief Says Trump Told Him in 2006 That "Everyone" Knew of Epstein's Behavior
• Commerce Secretary Lutnick Testifies He Visited Epstein's Island
• Trump Admin Removes Pride Flag from Stonewall National Monument in New York City
• Trump Admin Plans to Cut $600 Million in Public Health Funds
• Trump Threatens to Send Another Aircraft Carrier to Strike Iran
• WSJ: Pentagon to Send 200 U.S. Troops to Nigeria
• UNICEF Warns More Than Half of All Children in North Darfur Are Acutely Malnourished
• FAA Reopens El Paso Airport After Abruptly Halting Flights
• At Least Nine People Killed in a Mass Shooting in British Columbia, Canada
• FBI Raid of Fulton County Election Office Based on Debunked Claims from Election Deniers
• Federal Grand Jury Declines to Indict Six Democratic Lawmakers for Urging Service Members to Refuse Unlawful Orders
• Progressive Analilia Mejía Wins House Democratic Primary in New Jersey

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A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico, detains an estimated 3,500 people, more than half of them children. “I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here. … Once I go back to Honduras, a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and I,” a 14-year-old detained at Dilley, Ariana Velasquez, told ProPublica. There are also mounting reports of psychological abuse by guards, some of whom have allegedly threatened families with separation. “Many of the children who are now being sent there are being arrested by ICE around the country, and some of them, like Ariana, have been living [in the U.S.] for years,” says Mica Rosenberg, investigative reporter at ProPublica.

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Senate Democrats have reportedly begun tentative negotiations with the White House just days before funding for the Homeland Security Department is set to expire at midnight on Friday, threatening another partial government shutdown. Joaquin Castro, a Democratic congressmember from Texas, visited the family immigration detention center in Dilley where 5-year-old Liam Ramos was held. Kids have been “traumatized by the experience,” says Castro.

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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased. As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files, a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein. “The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this,” says Carole Cadwalladr, award-winning investigative journalist. “I have been shocked — deeply, deeply shocked — by the absence of headlines.”

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Democracy Now! Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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Democracy Now! 2026-02-10 Tuesday

• Headlines for February 10, 2026
• Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite's Veil of Silence
• Rep. Joaquin Castro Slams ICE "Prison" Where Children as Young as 2 Months Old Are Held
• "I Have Never Felt So Much Fear": Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX

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• Pentagon Says It Killed 2, Leaving 1 Survivor, in Attack on Boat in Eastern Pacific
• Airlines Suspend Flights as Cuba Runs Out of Jet Fuel Amid U.S. Oil Blockade
• Israel's Security Cabinet Expands Control Over Illegal West Bank Settlements
• Israel's Latest Gaza Ceasefire Violations Leave 7 Palestinians Dead
• Thousands Protest as Israeli President Isaac Herzog Visits Sydney, Australia
• Ghislaine Maxwell Pleads the Fifth in Deposition to House Oversight Committee
• 53 Are Dead or Missing After Boat Carrying Migrants Sinks Off Libyan Coast
• Federal Court Strikes Down California Law to Unmask Federal Agents
• Family Demands Answers After Leqaa Kordia Is Hospitalized in ICE Detention
• Immigration Judge Rejects Trump Admin's Efforts to Deport Tufts University Student Rümeysa Öztürk
• WSJ: Trump Admin Planning to Repeal Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas "Endangerment Finding"
• Nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore Reach Tentative Deals on New Contracts
• San Francisco Public School Teachers Striking for Salary Increases and Family Health Benefits

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