Bruno J. Navarro

Coffee prices in the U.S. were up 18.3% in January from a year ago, according to the latest Consumer Price Index released on Friday. Over five years, the government reported, coffee prices rose 47%. https://apnews.com/article/coffee-inflation-prices-starbucks-1a809b2d3e650d5e92e2c0f5a5f4f85b

The order to share information, which was recently communicated verbally to workers at certain SSA offices, marks a new era of collaboration between SSA and the Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency.

The SSA and DHS did not reply to requests for comment.

https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-appointment-details-ice/

The pardons were announced by White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson. Ex-NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon were granted the clemency. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pardons-football-b6497288ae05c2cc2a3598918fe4679b

Amazon’s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety.

The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after a 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras, sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society. https://apnews.com/article/amazon-flock-super-bowl-surveillance-privacy-32b7d32a06d369bffe3ffdcdd31962a1

The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-working-expand-effort-strip-citizenship-foreign-b-rcna255427

“It’s likely that global temperatures are [already] as warm as, or warmer than, at any point in the last 125,000 years and that climate change is advancing faster than many scientists predicted.”

It is also likely that carbon dioxide levels are the highest they have been in at least 2m years. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points

A federal judge agreed Thursday to block the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-kelly-hegseth-illegal-orders-lawsuit-f028eade00c78123263bc3e28b3caa0e

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations. https://apnews.com/live/trump-immigration-climate-change-2-12-2026

Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the federal government’s ongoing investigations. https://www.propublica.org/article/kevin-moncla-election-researcher-fulton-county-georgia

The Department of Justice needed yes votes from 12 grand jurors — on a panel of 16-23 members — in order to indict six Democratic members of Congress in connection with a video in which the lawmakers urged troops to refuse illegal orders.

They reportedly got none. https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/every-single-grand-juror-rejected-trump-dojs-case-for-indicting-dem-lawmakers-report/

About 400 people, including U.S. citizens and children, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-immigration-raid-zipties-aclu-lawsuit-ice-rcna258611

Why, given the reality of the role, should ICE officers be armed at all?

If you truly want to re-imagine ICE, it’s not entirely clear why what is actually a civil matter — immigration enforcement — should be considered armed federal law enforcement at all? https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-masks-are-all-a-lie

The Department of Justice has been redacting Ohio billionaire Les Wexner’s identity from materials released about Jeffrey Epstein, according to the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, who says that’s precisely why he was subpoenaed to testify. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/doj-redacted-les-wexner-identity-in-epstein-documents-lawmaker-says.html

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told Axios in an interview Tuesday that when he searched Trump's name in the unredacted Epstein files the previous day, it came up "more than a million times." https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/trump-epstein-files-jamie-raskin-unredacted

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations. https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/