MN ICE Withdrawal, Climate Protection Erased & True Love Tested - Friday, February 13, 2026
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The news to know for Friday, February 13, 2026!
We're talking about the unprecedented and controversial immigration enforcement operation coming to an end in Minnesota.
And how you could be impacted by a Homeland Security shutdown, expected to kick in at midnight.
Also, another key development in the search for Nancy Guthrie — and more fallout from revelations in the Epstein Files.
Plus, the most aggressive move by President Trump to roll back climate change regulations, all the happy, sad, and history-making moments from the Winter Olympics, and a senior couple's love story — that's inspiring romantics everywhere ahead of Valentine's Day.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, February 13th. We're talking about the unprecedented and controversial immigration |
| 0:05.9 | enforcement operation coming to an end in Minnesota and how you could be impacted by a homeland |
| 0:11.4 | security shutdown expected to kick in at midnight. Also, another key development in the search for |
| 0:17.0 | Nancy Guthrie and more fallout from revelations in the Epstein files. |
| 0:21.5 | Plus, the most aggressive move by President Trump to roll back climate change regulations. |
| 0:26.5 | All the happy, sad, and history-making moments from the Winter Olympics and a senior couple's |
| 0:31.9 | love story that's inspiring romantics everywhere ahead of Valentine's Day. |
| 0:36.1 | Those stories and even more news to know coming up. |
| 0:40.2 | Welcome to the Newsworthy, all the day's news and less than 15 minutes. I'm Lacey Evans, in for |
| 0:44.9 | Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. Let's do this. The largest immigration enforcement |
| 0:53.7 | deployment in U.S. history is coming to an end. |
| 0:56.6 | White House border czar Tom Holman announced federal immigration agents will start leaving Minnesota over the course of the next week. |
| 1:04.0 | Homan says the operation has already been a success, citing figures like 4,000 arrests. |
| 1:09.5 | But Democratic Governor Tim Walls says the operation left |
| 1:12.7 | Minnesotans with, as he put it, deep damage, generational trauma, and economic ruin. Of course, |
| 1:18.9 | federal agents' actions in the crackdown prompted criticism that reached a peak in the aftermath |
| 1:24.0 | of two deadly shootings. And some critics are still demanding more accountability. |
| 1:28.9 | For now, immigration agents are still out making arrests in Minnesota. |
| 1:32.9 | And Homan says a small footprint of agents will stay behind as others transition to their next assignments. |
| 1:38.6 | To be continued. |
| 1:41.6 | Top immigration officials were back on Capitol Hill, this time faced with questioning in the Senate. |
| 1:47.5 | And once again, the big focus was on the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Preddy in the hands of federal officers. |
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