Here’s what happened 2/11:
OVERNIGHT
4:50pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a new memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina BACK to Fort Bragg.
5:10pm - A federal judge temporarily blocked the NIH from enacting Trump’s cuts to research funding in 22 states.
5:20pm - 15 cases of measles have been reported in a small West Texas county.
6:20pm - The CDC says that a new strain of bird flu has been detected in a Nevada dairy worker.
8:51pm - Donald Trump stopped all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the DOJ.
9:36pm - Elon Musk’s team said they slashed more than $900 million in Education Department contracts.
10:02pm - The jet in Scottsdale, AZ is owned by lead singer of Motley Crue.
12:42am - The EU officially vowed that the US tariffs on steel and aluminum “will not go unanswered”.
TUESDAY
4:31am - Pope Francis sent a letter to US bishops decrying mass deportation in the US.
4:36am - The Trump Administration decided they will ignore the court order from last night, maintaining the funding freeze at the NIH, in defiance of TWO federal court orders.
5:06am - Former Biden Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland officially launched her bid for governor of NM.
6:00am - Investigators discovered the Chinese spy balloon was secretly equipped with US-made technology.
6:12am - More than two dozen US religious groups have sued the Trump Administration to protect houses of worship from immigration raids.
7:18am - Trump ally and right-wing podcaster and provacatur Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to first-degree scheme to defraud in his Manhattan case, admitting he scammed supporters of Trump’s immigration policies during his first term.
8:04am - Duolingo announced that their sassy owl mascot passed away.
8:11am - BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced that BuzzFeed is developing a new social media platform aimed at spreading joy and enabling playful creative expression.
8:28am - Georgia Republican Congressman Buddy Carter introduced legislation “authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland”.
8:32am - UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company.
9:04am - A federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to restore public health webpages that it abruptly deleted last month until further litigation plays out.
9:04am - “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Jennifer Affleck announced she and her husband are pregnant with their 3rd baby.
9:23am - Whistleblowers have come forward to say that Trump Head of FBI nominee Kash Patel directed the purge of FBI employees and lied to Congress in his confirmation hearing.
9:35am - Diddy has been accused of raping a male street performer in a new lawsuit.
9:36am - Actress Jackie Cruz - best known for her role as Flaca in “Orange is the New Black” – is pregnant with her 3rd child, with her husband.
9:52am - Armie Hammer revealed that he once took a bite out of a living animal’s heart, saying it was “a male rite of passage”.
10:20am - The White House announced the release of Marc Fogel, an American teacher detained by Russia.
11:20am - The FDA released a notice that canned tuna sold at Trader Joe’s, Costco, and H-E-B with best-by dates in 2027 and 2028 are being recalled.
11:33am - Bon Iver announced a new album, “fABLE”, out April 11, & a new single, “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” out Friday.
12:10pm - NBC’s “Dateline” will be expanding to Telemundo.
12:50pm - Donald Trump signed an EO directing federal agencies to comply with all the DOGE stuff that Elon Musk is doing.
1:14pm - Singer Colton Pack and his wife gave birth to their 3rd baby.
1:31pm - “Even Stevens” Actress Christy Carlson Romano was shot in the face and the shot was less than 1mm from permanently blinding her.
1:32pm - The AP was banned from covering an event in the Oval Office today with Trump because they were told they had not aligned their editorial standards with Trump’s EO on changing the name of Gulf of Mexico.
