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In the News… quick recap of the week ending Feb. 13, 2026
Quick summary of news items of interest of this past week – locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally – with passings of note:
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY
Pete Hegseth, Director of Dept. of War, visited Quonset Point
Super Bowl trophy is made here in Cumberland, RI at Tiffany
FIFA demanding $8M licensing fee from Foxboro with tight deadline – Foxboro says they can’t pay it upfront
NH Gov. Kelly Ayotte wants to foster “the next generation of nuclear power” in New Hampshire – being on the forefront of adopting this new technology
Brown Univ. athletes will wear emblems that say “ever true” this year, to remember those who died and were injured in the Brown University shooting
Man stabbed several times in Providence, rushed into Mathewson St. Church – not believed to be life threatening – assailant still unknown
East Providence affordable housing for LGBTQ+ residents to be opened
R.I. Commerce awarded $250,000 in grants to 3 RI agencies for FIFA World Cup
Castle Hill Inn fire deemed to be accidental and related to the use of a wood-burning fireplace in an upper floor
4 MA State Police charged with death of recruit
New rule from HHS no longer permits research using human fetal tissue.
Brown U approves a 4.25% increase in undergraduate tuition and fees
MA State Education Director to leave after 3 years
Henry Winkler to speak at commencement at Emerson
Cost to attend Brown now over $97K – up by 4%
$18Million RI reserve approved for buy out deal of 2 hospitals
Homeless man dies in car on Martha’s Vineyard
Ocean House is selling their penthouse for $20M
Work on Zambarano new hospital halted as costs grow three times estimates
Sunrise Bakery burned – in New Bedford
Staff furloughed at The Steel Yard while finances may cause its closing
Rosalina Restaurant in downtown Providence closes
Trinity Brewhouse opened again
New rug at the RI State House has the name of the state as “State of Rhode Island and Providence”
Irina Kozav, 75, and her son, Stanislaw Kozav, 49, died, frozen to death, in their car, in the parking lot of The Miriam Hospital
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NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL
The Hasidic Jewish community in NYC is pitching in to remove garbage in the city
US ending Professional Military Education, fellowships, and certificate programs with Harvard University
Ørsted reported a large increase in profit for 2025 despite a number of costly impairments tied to the anti-wind policies
Neil Young cancels all 2026 tour.
22 year old daughter of Minnesota Republican Governor candidate, Dr. Jeff Johnson,, died from stab wounds, believed to be inflicted by her husband
Netanyahu coming back to DC to talk about Iran
Susan Collins of Maine will run again – she has been in Congress for 29 years and is 73 years old
Proclamation by President restores commercial fishing access to all 4,913 square miles of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, off the coast of New England.
WaPo publisher, Wil Lewis, resigns
Eddie Bauer files for bankruptcy
Gray wolf spotted for the first time in LA in over a century
Over 300 arrested in Greece for college protests
Iowa schools no longer count trans students as a 3rd gender – new regs state counting by male or female at birth
13 in NYC died of hypothermia in the past – new Mayor Mamdani institute involuntary transport for those who refuse to come in from the cold
Multiple Europeans resigning, etc. over being named in Epstein files
Lindsey Vonn crashes within seconds of her Olympics run – removed by helicopter
Lindsey Vonn’s father said if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Olympics to cheer on teammates or for anything else, Kildow said. “No, she’s not that in kind of situation,” he said. “She will be going home at an appropriate point in time.”
RealFood.gov MAHA campaign picks Mike Tyson as spokesperson for eating non-processed foods
Patriots lose to Seahawks 29-13 at the SuperBowl
Dan Bongino returns to Fox News as a contributor
Cuba no longer has fuel enough to refuel airliners
At least 4 people have died who foraged and ate mushrooms
Police in India arrested (11) people who issued over (100K) fake university degrees in medicine, nursing & engineering
Wind turbines in Finland have been frozen and covered with ice as temps dropped to below zero
Target to cut 500 jobs under new management
A group of Buddhist monks reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas
9 dead, including shooter, in a high school shooting in British Columbia, Canada – shooter identified as a woman, wearing a dress – later identified as an 18 year old girl who had dropped out of that school, and lives in the city
All flights to and from El Paso, TX banned for 10 days due to “security reasons” – then released within hours after a bogus air balloon was thought to be a cartel drone
Michelle Obama revealed she got 10 ear piercings in one sitting recently
Britney Spears has sold her entire music catalog to Primary Wave for $200 Million
SAVE America Act has passed the House – it would mean you would have to prove citizenship with photo ID to vote.
Kim Jong Un to officially designate his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, as North Korea’s next leader.
Ash Wednesday falls on Feb. 18
Kraft Heinz to remain one company for now
Goldman Sachs Legal Chief Resigns Over Epstein Document Ties
Olympic Village is rushing a new shipment of condoms – original supply ran out after the first 3 day
Wendy’s is closing several hundred U.S. restaurants, to increase its focus on value after a weaker-than-expected 4th quarter
In his first message for Lent, Pope Leo XIV asked the faithful to “cultivate kindness and respect in our families, among our friends, at work, on social media, in political debates, in the media and in Christian communities”.
The Pope is planning to go to Washington to advocate for immigrants
70%+ of grocery sold baby foods contain “highly” processed ingredients
Rosie O’Donnell came back to the US from Ireland – “to see how hard it would be for her to get in and out”
Ilia Malinin – the figure skater known as the “quad God” fails to medal at all in Olympics
Late Friday night officials raided a home 2 miles from Nancy Guthrie’s house – arrested 3 people and 1 additional in a car. One is a mother of another one – and their two children may have been arrested (developing…)
Partial government shutdown in place
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PASSINGS
Terrance Gore, 34, 3-time World Series champion
John Kinsel Sr., 107, was one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers
Tracy Scroggins, 56, Detroit Lions
James Van Der Beek, 48, actor, colon cancer
Susan Collins of Maine has been in Congress for 29 years and is 73 years old, and yet she had to stop and think whether she could vote for legislation to require that someone seeking to vote in an election must prove citizenship with a photo ID?
Members of a private club vote for their officers, not outsiders; shareholders of a company vote for directors; not the shareholders of some other company ; citizens of a nation (in this case, a democratic republic) direct the affairs of the nation by voting in elections; not citizens of another country and not persons who are in the country illegally or with no standing.
It’s so fundamental. And if you wish to vote, you can get a personal ID. I cannot see any barrier to that for any individual, and the arguments I’ve heard against ID sound like so much hogwash.
Voting has lost its sense of patriotism and importance. If you value something a lot, you’ll take care of what you need to do to do it.