Here’s what happened February 13:
OVERNIGHT:
6:10pm - Missouri’s Attorney General is suing Starbucks over DEI practices, claiming that they raise prices and slow service because they aren’t hiring the most qualified workers
6:20pm - Joann’s Fabrics is looking to close 500 stores across the US amid bankruptcy claims
9:56pm - Country singer Lainey Wilson and her boyfriend Devlin “Duck” Hodges are officially engaged
11:06pm - Carmakers Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi are dropping their merger talks
THURSDAY:
2:27am - Hamas said that it will release Israeli hostages as planned on Saturday, apparently resolving a major dispute that threatened the ceasefire deal in Gaza
6:32am - A group of federal taxpayers sued Elon Musk & the Treasury Department for allegedly allowing Elon Musk’s team to have access to sensitive Treasury information on Americans
7:01am - Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, Blue Origin, announced a large round of layoffs
7:35am - Halsey announced her “For My Last Trick: The Tour” tour
8:00am - Redfin announced the layoffs of 450 employees after striking a new partnership with Zillow
8:00am - Washington Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has introduced a Constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United
8:01am - Minnesota Democratic Senator Tina Smith announced that she will not run for reelection in 2026
8:03am - The New York Jets have informed Aaron Rodgers that they will “be moving in a different direction at quarterback”
8:16am - Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have teased a new music collaboration
8:23am - Anti-vax conspiracy theorist and former 2024 Democratic presidential candidate turned Independent turned Trump flacky RFK Jr. has officially been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 52 to 48, with, just like Tulsi Gabbard yesterday, all Democrats voting no and only one no from a Republican Senator, Mitch McConnell from Kentucky.
8:44am - HBO Max has announced the February 17th release of a Luigi Mangione documentary called “Luigi Mangione: The CEO KIller”
9:24am - Brooke Rollins was confirmed as Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture
9:25am - Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan already threw her name in the ring for the newly open Minnesota Senate seat.
9:39am - Madonna teased new music
11:07am - Donald Trump signed a new plan to increase tariffs to match the tax rates that other countries charge on imports
11:20am - Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have rejected mediation in their lawsuits, saying that settlement talks would be “premature”
11:59am - Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Censori, have split up and are heading for divorce
12:47pm - A Federal judge in Baltimore paused Trump’s order aimed at restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth
2:00pm - NBC News has obtained a letter from then-acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Danielle Sassoon alleging that NYC Mayor Eric Adams' attorney proposed a "quid pro quo" to Trump's Justice Department
2:16pm - FL Democratic Congressman Maxwell Frost and CT Democratic Senator Chris Murphy have reintroduced legislation to bring back the Office of Gun Violence Prevention
2:24pm - We learned that the Trump Administration is deporting migrants from countries in Africa and Asia to Panama
3:03pm - Wendy Williams speaks out from behind the glass of an assisted living facility
3:32pm - Trump’s border czar and NYC Mayor Eric Adams will hold a joint interview with Fox and Friends tomorrow
3:45pm - There’s a new video of a humpback whale swallowing a kayaker off Chile before releasing him
3:55pm - 14 states have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and Donald Trump, arguing that the authority granted by the White House to Musk and DOGE is unconstitutional
4:01pm - Selena Gomez announced a new album & the last song on the album is the Benny Blanco collab
5:05pm - TikTok is back in the Apple and Google app stores.
