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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, February 12, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. Onto the Senate airspace closed, beautiful clean coal and your Olympics update. That's all coming up. And Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the House passed the SAVE act, where it's now onto the Senate, where Mike Lee said there are 44 supporters of it. It will need 50 to pass if the Senate forces a talking filibuster. The bill says that you must prove you are a citizen to register to vote and bring a photo ID to the polls and mail in ballots must have a copy of your photo ID as well. Mike Johnson said that we are hoping some Democrats come to their senses and do the right thing. Otherwise, you have a lot of explaining to do. Only one Democrat in the House voted for it, Even though over 70% of Democrat voters support it. That one Democrat vote. By the way, the one Democrat in the House who voted for the SAVE act is a Democrat from Texas who Trump pardoned back in December on bribery charges. We have a mess of reports at the moment, but Sean Duffy, our transportation secretary, and some officials from the White House say that Mexican cartel drones breached US Airspace, prompting a temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, which shut down the El Paso airport. Some sources are saying the shutdown was prompted by the Defense Department's use of a new counter drone technology, and they shut down the airspace because of risks that it could pose to our aircraft in the area. The Trump administration has warned for months about Mexican cartels using drones at the border to surveil border agents and smuggle drugs. The director of the counter drone program at DHS testified in front of Congress that U.S. officials detected more than 60,000 drone flights within 500 meters of our border just in the second half of 2024. That's 326 flights a day. The president signed an executive order directing the Department of War to enter into agreements to purchase electricity from coal power plants to power military operations. The president said the purpose of this executive order is to ensure that we have more reliable power and a stronger and more resilient power grid. The president's executive order also directed the Department of Energy to distribute $175 million to fund upgrades at six coal plants in Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. In 2023, coal accounted for only 16% of U.S. electricity in the year 2000. It was more than 50%. An Olympics update yesterday, a disappointing silver medal in ice dancing, but America went 12 in women's moguls and we won the gold in the men's 1000 meter speed skating. Also second place at men's super G today. Men's hockey has their opening game and against Latvia. The medal total so far, Norway in first place with 13 total medals and America coming back second place right now with 12. Norway has seven gold though we only have four. But there's 10 more days to go. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next Lifelock, how can I help?