Voters look at candidates listed on a display board before https://www.croptrust.org/who-we-are/team/juan-lucas-restrepo/ entering a voting station for the general election in Bangkok, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. And, several asylum cases filed by Somali migrants in immigration courts were suddenly fast-tracked. Analilia Mejia, co-executive director of Center for Popular Democracy, speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. An FBI employee stands inside the Fulton County election hub, near Atlanta, as the FBI executes a search warrant for 2020 election materials, on Jan. 28. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter and get our latest stories delivered straight to your inbox.

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• And, several asylum cases filed by Somali migrants in immigration courts were suddenly fast-tracked.
• The Federal Aviation Administration has halted all flights into and out of El Paso until very late on Feb. 20 for what it calls “special security reasons.”
• February 8, 2026 • Vote counting was underway in Thailand’s early general election on Sunday, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics.
• The previous cases were tossed due to a U.S. attorney’s unlawful appointment.

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