Chinese car companies make more vehicles than anyone else on Earth and export more as well. He said multiple Chinese automakers have shown “readiness to come to the US, to build in the US.”That would be helpful for American car buyers. Chinese cars shipped to America come with a 100% tariff, by far the highest tariff rate for any import. BYD and other leading Chinese automakers did not respond to questions from CNN about their plans for entering the US market. That’s a prescription for lower prices, as has been the case in Europe since Chinese automakers entered that market, according to experts.

AdvertisementRubio addressed the conference a year after Vice President JD Vance stunned the same audience with a harsh critique of European values. But he and other European officials made clear that they will stand by their values, including their approach to free speech, climate change and free trade. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio today made a conciliatory but not uncritical speech to Europe at the Munich Security Conference. “And I’m here today to make it clear that America is charting the path for a new century of prosperity. President Donald Trump gives remarks to the troops in Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026.

Palestinian citizens of Israel are descendants of those who were not expelled or forced to flee their homes when Israel was established in 1948. Ammar Awad/ReutersAttendees told CNN it was the largest demonstration the Arab community has seen in years, culminating a multi-day general strike from shop owners. “If you look at the Palestinian Arab community in Israel, how many are being killed daily and for no reason?” Awad said. Like many others in his community, Awad believes the Israeli government intentionally neglects crime perpetrated against Palestinian citizens. The Mosawa Center, a group advocating equal rights for Palestinian citizens, called it a “dangerous political step” that would do nothing to combat crime.

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A top New Mexico official is calling for an investigation into public land near Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch after a newly released email alleged that two foreign girls were buried there. The email, sent to a conservative radio host, claimed that two girls were buried on public land leased near the ranch. “There was a very disturbing allegation that came out that could potentially be linked to state land,” Garcia Richard said. “If state land was used for criminal activity, that is definitely something New Mexicans need to know,” she said. Garcia Richard said technology exists in New Mexico to conduct searches for possible unmarked graves, including ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs.

Matt Goodwin is standing to be Reform’s ninth MP in the Gorton and Denton by-election, which will take place on February 26, in the three-horse race against the Greens and Labour. AdvertisementMancunian newspaper The Mill reported on Saturday that multiple members of Goodwin’s team have posted problematic content on social media. It alleged that Adam Mitula – Reform’s interim campaign manager in Tameside – had alleged “60-70%” of transgender people are paedophiles, claimed he would “never touch a Jewish woman” and used of the n-word. Labour’s deputy leader and Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell wrote a letter to Goodwin urging him to reject their support. His campaign team includes those with extreme, racist views.

But then, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s advisory board opened its proceedings in an unusual way: with a Christian prayer. The benediction was delivered by a White House official. Trump established the panel last year to identify “threats” to religious liberty across faiths. Dan Patrick and includes former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, longtime Trump faith adviser Paula White, and orthodox rabbi and writer Meir Soloveichik, among others. Trump addressed the White House Religious Liberties Commission during the event.

Danish PM: Trump's desire to own Greenland 'the same'The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump's repeated interest in acquiring Greenland during a panel at the Munich Security Conference. “Everybody asks us, do we think it’s over?” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. “No, we don’t think it’s over.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donald Trump. Left: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg/Getty Images; Right: Evan Vucci/Associated PressRepresentative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a dire warning about President Donald Trump’s apparent ambition to destroy the international rules-based order and let authoritarians “carve out the world” — as long as he gets the Western Hemisphere. “They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarianism, of authoritarians, that can carve out the world where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere and Latin America,” she continued. Ocasio-Cortez added that Trump sees the entire Western Hemisphere as “his personal sandbox.”Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”“I don’t need international law,” he continued at the time.

Wasserman has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing in relation to Epstein. Wasserman rode on Epstein’s plane and exchanged suggestive messages with Maxwell, the files the DOJ released show. Maxwell, Epstein’s former girlfriend, was convicted of sex trafficking and other crimes in 2021 and is serving a 20-year sentence. In Friday’s memo, Wasserman said he only had “limited interactions with those two individuals,” referring to Epstein and Maxwell. Since the release of the latest files, singer Chappell Roan announced she was leaving Wasserman’s agency.

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Kelley Curtis Dunlap, CRPC™ of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. has been named to the Forbes 2026 Best-in-State Women Wealth Advisors list, marking the fifth consecutive year she has earned that honor. This year’s Best-in-State Women Wealth Advisors list spotlights approximately 2,852 top advisors across the country who were researched, interviewed and assigned a ranking within their respective states. Dunlap was also named to the Forbes Best-in-State Women Wealth Advisors and Best-in-State Wealth Advisors lists in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and The Curtis Team was named to the Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Team in 2024, 2025 and 2026. Dunlap began her investment industry career in 2002 with Merrill Lynch and moved to Stifel in 2011. READ ALSO: UA Little Rock Bringing Back Planetarium, Thanks to $1.2M Gift

Joining McMorris in the final, currently scheduled for Wednesday, will be 2018 champion Red Gerard and 2022 silver medalist Su Yiming. Most of the news in slopestyle, however, revolved around McMorris and a schedule change. But with a big storm approaching, organizers pushed the qualifier up by a day, scrambling plans and costing everyone a day of training. “It made for a better level of riding,” McMorris said of the ability to ski on a bluebird day in Livigno. “I found out in the sauna,” Menzies said of the change on the qualifier.

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The battle for control of the House of Representatives in 2026 will be decided primarily in Trump country. Voters cast their election ballots at the Santa Ana Methodist Church in Santa Ana, California, during the 2018 midterm election. President Donald Trump talks with reporters before he and first lady Melania Trump leave the White House on February 13. The remaining 187 House Republicans this year, or 85% of their conference, are in districts where Trump ran at least 5 points better than his national 2024 percentage of the vote. “That’s because it matters a lot who holds what districts.”If anything, heading into the midterm House Democrats hold more politically tenuous seats.