Jim Grech, the chairman of the National Coal Council, who also spoke, thanked Trump for the work his administration is doing to propose building new coal fuel power plants in the U.S. “We have a new group of people that we’re very close to, come very close to, and that’s called Venezuela,” Trump said. Burning fossil fuels unleashes carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the planet’s atmosphere. Coal is considered the dirtiest fossil fuel, and it has been the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. “This case threatens the unprecedented and unlawful release of highly sensitive information of every Nebraska voter,” lawyers for Common Cause wrote in a brief seeking the injunction. The Republican-controlled House voted today to pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping election bill that Trump is pushing Congress to enact.

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Jordan Stolz won gold in the men’s 1,000 metres at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday, delivering the United States’ first speed skating title at Milano Cortina. The 41-year-old American came out of retirement to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics and crashed seconds into her downhill race on Sunday. Cardi B appeared during Bad Bunny’s halftime show at the Super Bowl, but one prediction market says it’s unclear whether she sang. In an exclusive interview with CBS News, the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara said the public support he received gives him hope for the future. Team USA star skier Breezy Johnson talks with CBS News about her broken Olympic medal, a superstition, and what keeps her motivated on the slopes.

Democrats, meanwhile, have zeroed in on the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files, focusing in particular on how the department chose to redact the records, as well as the investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota. Bondi said the department faced a tight timeline to review the huge number documents. Scanlon raised concerns that she believed the administration is “keeping lists of Americans who the White House says are engaged in domestic terrorism” that could include people who haven’t committed terrorist acts but simply disagree with the administration. “Do you think it would violate the domestic Emoluments Clause for the president to work out a deal from people or his subordinates under his unitary executive theory, to get money in one of these cases?” Raskin asked. Raskin noted that the president has repeatedly sued the federal government, including the suit against the IRS and Treasury Department. The ranking member pointed out to Bondi that the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause says that the president is limited to his salary in office and can’t receive any other money from the federal government while in office.

House GOP pushes strict proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters

• GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, one of Trump’s staunchest allies, was one of the first prominent Republican to call out the president, calling the post “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.”
• And as a result, this critical infrastructure project was frozen during that shutdown, in which the entirety of the federal government, you know, was depleted of funds.
• Six people in Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are dead in what police say is a cross-state murder spree by the same suspect Wednesday morning.
• Bondi responded a few hours later on X that she was assigning the task to Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Approval of Trump’s sweeping deportation policies dropped steeply after federal agents killed two Americans last month in Minneapolis. The new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey finds nearly 3 in 4 U.S. adults support some changes to ICE, with 29% saying it should be abolished outright. In newly released documents from the Epstein files, it was revealed that a former Palm Beach police chief said Trump called him two decades ago to warn about Epstein. There are 44 lawmakers on the committee, and each member will receive five minutes for questions. The department recently released millions more pages of documents related to Epstein, but critics are urging more transparency in releasing additional documents and uncovering certain redactions.

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