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‘I’ll Ask the Question How I Want!’ GOP Senator Rebuffs Rand Paul’s Call to Take It Easy During Wild Hearing Exchange

By News Here - 11:07

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) rejected his colleague Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) call to tone things down a bit during a wild hearing exchange with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) on Thursday.

Hawley’s questioning of Ellison in the Senate Homeland Security Committee got off to a rough start with Ellison refusing to give a yes or no answer to the senator about whether he is Minnesota’s attorney general. Things only spun out of control further as Hawley accused Ellison of having direct involvement in a group in the state committing $250 million in fraud. Ellison denied involvement and specifically reports that he took $10,000 in campaign donations from individuals tied to the Feeding Our Futures group.

“Mr. Chairman, I didn’t come here to be insulted. I came here voluntarily,” Ellison told Paul, the chair of the Senate committee, while Hawley was accusing him of enabling and benefitting from fraud in his state.

Hawley referred to audio of an exchange between Ellison and the group, obtained by the conservative group Center for the American Experiment during his time on Thursday. He also referred to records showing $10,000 in campaign contributions from people linked to the group to Ellison.

Ellison denied receiving money from the group and insisted his office assisted in their eventual federal conviction. He accused Hawley of misrepresenting transcripts from the conversation in question.

Hawley was having none of it and told Ellison he “should be indicted” and asked him if it “was worth it,” leading to Paul briefly stepping in to ask Hawley to watch his “tenor.”

“I think we’ve made the point,” the chair said.

“I’ll ask the question how I want to, Sen. Paul,” Hawley shot back.

Hawley then focused on Ellison again for another couple of minutes, and things devolved to the point where each said the other should resign their positions.

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Apple Just Patched Its First Zero-Day Security Vulnerability of 2026

By News Here - 10:54

It's once again time to update your Apple devices. The company just released a whole host of security patches, including a fix for an actively exploited zero-day affecting iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe. These updates arrived alongside the official release of iOS 26.3, which includes features like more seamless data transfer between iPhone and Android. Other security patches address bugs in Photos, VoiceOver, and Screenshots, to name a few.

iOS 26.3 patches a zero-day affecting dyld

According to Apple's latest security bulletin, the zero-day—tracked as CVE-2026-20700—is a memory corruption issue in dyld, Apple's "Dynamic Link Editor." The flaw could allow attackers with memory write capability to execute arbitrary code—or, in other words, run their own code on your device.

Apple says that the vulnerability may have been exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals" in earlier versions of iOS alongside CVE-2025-14174 and CVE-2025-43529. Those at greatest risk with this bug are likely high-profile users with access to sensitive data—users who might be inclined to use Apple's Lockdown Mode—but everyone should install the update to patch the issue.

The patch for this flaw is available for the following iOS and iPadOS devices, in addition to all Macs that run macOS Tahoe:

iPhone 11 and later
iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation and later
iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later
iPad Air 3rd generation and later
iPad 8th generation and later
iPad mini 5th generation and later

How to install the latest security update for iPhone

You should have automatic updates enabled to ensure you receive critical security patches ASAP, but you can confirm that you're on the latest OS version under Settings > General > Software Update. As a reminder, Apple won't message you urging you to click links, download attachments, or install apps related to security updates. Always go through your device settings to receive official fixes.

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Meghan McCain Thanks ‘Lunatic’ Bad Bunny Critics for Turning Her Into ‘Stan’ – And Reveals Anti-Trump Song Is Her ‘Favorite’

By News Here - 11:07

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Conservative commentator Meghan McCain revealed on Tuesday that he had been “listening to nothing but” Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny since his Super Bowl halftime performance, with a song with an anti-Trump music video being her “favorite.”

“Been listening to nothing but Bad Bunny since the Super Bowl. Congrats to all the lunatics who have inadvertently turned me into the biggest Bad Bunny stan on the planet now,” wrote McCain on social media. “My favorite song is Titi Me Pregunto & NuevaYol.”

Been listening to nothing but Bad Bunny since the Super Bowl. Congrats to all the lunatics who have inadvertently turned me into the biggest Bad Bunny stan on the planet now.

(My favorite song is Titi Me Pregunto & NuevaYol)

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) February 11, 2026

Social media users were quick to inform McCain – a supporter of President Donald Trump – of the anti-Trump nature of Bad Bunny’s song “NuevaYol,” which features a scene in its official music video where Trump apologizes to immigrants and says the United States would be “nothing” without migrants from Latin America.

“I made a mistake. I want to apologize to the immigrants of America,” says Trump in a fake presidential address in the video. “I want to say that this country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”

Bad Bunny’s performance at the Super Bowl polarized viewers, receiving condemnation from many conservative Trump supporters who highlighted the rapper’s history of anti-ICE remarks and complained that the show was in Spanish and featured foreign flags.

The president himself criticized the show in a Truth Social post, calling it “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” and an “affront to the Greatness of America.”

“Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World,” he wrote. “This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country.”

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How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?

By News Here - 10:54

Like millions of Americans, I've been watching the news of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance with concern—so I was somewhat relieved when the FBI announced they were releasing new footage of a suspect. Finally, the case had something to go on, even if it was only doorbell video of a masked stranger.

When I saw the footage, I assumed this was something the FBI had in their possession since the beginning, and had finally decided to release to the public. But that's not what happened at all. If you have been following this case closely, you may know that law enforcement had previously confirmed that Guthrie's Google Nest camera was disconnected (presumably by the perpetrator), and that she did not have a subscription that would store video either on the doorbell or in the cloud. Yet despite the fact the doorbell should have been a dead end, the FBI has seemingly produced this video out of thin air.

If you have a Google Nest device in or attached to your home, this might give you pause. Sure, it's one thing if law enforcement is able to obtain video from your subscription or from the device itself. But if you don't keep video records on your Nest, it seems it is still possible to retrieve the footage. How did the FBI do this, and what does it mean for the privacy of your Nest devices?

The FBI likely pieced the video together from fragments

The short answer is that we don't really know for sure how the FBI got the footage, but there are a few leads. According to FBI Director Kash Patel, the Google Nest footage was recovered "from residual data located in backend systems." That's pretty vague, though the FBI isn't necessarily known for its transparency_.

According to experts that spoke to NBC News, however, it is possible to obtain data from the "complex infrastructure" of cloud-based cameras, including Google Nest devices. Retired FBI agent Timothy Gallagher told NBC News that Guthrie's Nest camera might have sent images to Google's cloud service, or at least stored data points locally throughout the hardware of the device, even though she wasn't paying for a Nest subscription. The FBI could have obtained the footage from the cloud this way, or pieced together the video from those data points.

Both possibilities track, based on how Nest cameras work without a subscription: While you need to pay Google in order to save video clips from your Nest cameras, some Nest devices record event histories and store them on-device. The third-gen wired Nest Doorbell can save up to 10 seconds of clips, while the first and second-gen wired doorbells can save up to three hours of event history, all without a subscription. They also support live video feeds when motion is detected, which could impact the video data points saved to the device or cloud.

It's entirely possible the subject walking up to the camera triggered the doorbell to save an event history. But since it took the FBI so long to produce the footage, and since the director claims it was obtained from "residual data," my guess is it wasn't readily available in Guthrie's Google Home app. Maybe the event history saved to the cloud, but it wasn't clear where it was located. Maybe it was overwritten, but the FBI was able to build it back up with recovered data points. My guess would learn toward the latter, as authorities did say the camera had been disconnected. Unfortunately, we don't have a definitive answer at this time, even if the theory is sound.

I've reached out to Google for comment, and will update this piece if I hear back.

Should you get rid of your Nest camera over privacy concerns?

Based on what we know, it doesn't really seem like your Nest doorbell or camera is a fourth amendment disaster waiting to happen—but I don't blame anyone for being concerned. After all, if you don't have a Nest subscription, you might have been comforted by the thought that none of your footage was being saved anywhere, meaning law enforcement or other authorities would have nothing to seize if you somehow popped up on their radar. That doesn't necessarily appear to be the case.

That said, without a subscription, you don't have access to a collection of all clips your Nest camera has ever recorded. You might have a limited event history saved, based on motion detection, but that will be limited to three hours of data. Your device might have data points that an organization like the FBI could theoretically use to restore footage, but that's likely true for any camera or smart doorbell system—not just Nest.

Also, this is not a Ring situation—Google hasn't partnered with organizations like Flock to help law enforcement request footage from users. Nest also lacks Ring's "Search Party" feature, which can turn a neighborhood into a kind of surveillance state, and probably not just to search for lost dogs. I'm not dismissing every security and privacy concern, of course: By putting a commercially-available smart camera on your front door, you are placing your data in the hands of companies like Google or Amazon. If you want to eliminate the risk of the FBI obtaining your doorbell footage, you simply can't have a doorbell with a camera. But barring a warrant, or a Nancy Guthrie-level situation, the chances of your Nest doorbell footage actually being used against you seem rather slim.

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Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks His Admin From Michigan Voter Rolls: ‘Unconstitutional Burden on the Right to Vote’

By News Here - 12:07

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A federal judge in Michigan who was appointed by President Donald Trump dealt his administration a blow Tuesday in an opinion that ruled the state did not have to turn over its voter rolls to the federal government.

The ruling, flagged by Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney, came amid over two dozen lawsuits that the Trump administration filed in an attempt to get voter data in multiple cities and states across the U.S. The president and his administration have been making comments repeating old claims of voter fraud and arguing there should be federal control of elections — contrary to the clear language in the U.S. Constitution. In late January, Trump’s FBI conducted a raid in Fulton County, Georgia and seized ballots from the 2020 election.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Michigan has rejected the administration's attempt to obtain the state's voter rolls.

Judge Hala Jarbou, a Trump appointee, said the law does not require the state to turn them over. https://t.co/e3QwxaA8oD pic.twitter.com/JSoAWk4Ouj

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 10, 2026

Judge Hala Y. Jarbou, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, was appointed to the federal bench by Trump in September 2020, and has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2011, according to an archived version of her bio on the Oakland County, Michigan website from when she was a circuit court judge.

In her 23-page opinion, Jarbou found that the federal government had failed to show that it was entitled to the state’s records under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), or the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (CRA).

Going through each of these three laws, the judge granted the motions to dismiss filed by the defendants (the state of Michigan and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, plus a Michigan retirees advocacy group and two Michigan residents who joined the case as intervening defendants), summarizing her conclusions as “(1) HAVA does not require the disclosure of any records, (2) the NVRA does not require the disclosure of voter registration lists because they are not records concerning the implementation of list maintenance procedures, and (3) the CRA does not require the disclosure of voter registration lists because they are not documents that come into the possession of election officials.”

Specifically regarding HAVA, Jarbou rejected the Trump administration’s arguments by noting that it had failed to “allege any violations of HAVA’s substantive provisions,” and was engaging in a fishing expedition to try and “obtain information to support its (as-yet-nonexistent) claim via discovery.”

The NVRA claim failed because of well-established precedent that Michigan can withhold “sensitive voter information,” Jarbou wrote, citing over a dozen cases finding that “to require such disclosure would contradict the NVRA’s objective of increasing voter participation because the risk of having one’s personal information misused will deter people from registering to vote,” “would also fly in the face of other federal statutes protecting private information,” would undermine election security measures by making voters’ identifying information (driver’s license numbers and last four digits of their SSNs) public and thereby no longer able to be used to verify a voter’s identify when they register, and “would potentially cause the statute to impose an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote guaranteed by the First Amendment.”

“[A] natural reading” of NVRA “suggests that it requires states to disclose information regarding the process by which they maintain their voter registration list but not the list itself,” Jarbou wrote, and this interpretation “avoids the implausible suggestion that Congress intended for every member of the public to access voters’ sensitive information.”

Similarly, the Trump administration’s efforts to argue it should be able to obtain the records under the CRA were rejected, with Jarbou pointing to “the statutory text” and finding the feds’ arguments that the law did not properly cover advances in technology like computerized records.

The distinction she found between the plain text of the law and what the feds were arguing might be “overly pedantic,” Jarbou acknowledged, but “it is a pedantic distinction made by Congress, and it is Congress’s prerogative to make distinctions that may seem unnecessary to a person reading the statute over six decades after its passage.”

Citing a book co-authored by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and renowned legal scholar and Black’s Law Dictionary editor Bryan Garner, Jarbou wrote that “a court is not a ‘telepathic time-traveler,’ and thus it ‘cannot rewrite Congressional legislation to cover a situation that Congress may not have foreseen.'”

Read the opinion here.

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