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What Happened Today – February 17, 2026

President Donald Trump holds up a printed photo labeled "Kilmar Abrego Garcia MS-13 Tattoo" showing tattooed knuckles while seated in the Oval Office

Donald Trump held up a digitally altered photograph in the Oval Office claiming it proved Kilmar Abrego García's MS-13 membership; PolitiFact, BBC Verify, and a federal judge all concluded otherwise. (Official White House photo)

They’re rewriting the stories they don’t like. DOJ expanded its probe into the officials who documented Russian election interference in 2016, not because seventeen agencies and a Republican Senate committee got it wrong, but because this administration didn’t like what they found. Six groups sued the Interior Dept. today for stripping slavery, climate, and Indigenous … Read more

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