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Top News Stories for Thursday, February 19th 2026
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Stephen Colbert, once again, is accusing his network of censorship . On his late-night show on Tuesday night, the host revealed that his planned interview with Democratic state representative James Talarico of Texas—who is running for U.S. Senate—would no longer air. CBS reportedly barred the segment due to new FCC rulings that require talk shows to give equal airtime to both candidates. So Colbert, who ...
Source: esquire.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
An avalanche — a mass of snow moving down a slope — happens most often in the wilderness. Watching for forecasts, bringing the proper gear and getting training to prepare for them can help with outings, according to the National Avalanche Center. Each winter, about 25 people on average die in avalanches in the United States, the center says, adding, "Some days are dangerous and some days are not." ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson's accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era — or any era. One of the most famous photographs of Martin Luther King Jr shows him standing on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, with three of his top aides — Ralph Abernathy, Hosea ...
Source: jacobinmag.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Trump admin's vaccine chief overruled FDA scientists to initially reject the shot. The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its shocking refusal to consider Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine for approval. The refusal was revealed last week in a sharply worded press release from Moderna. Subsequent reporting found that the decision was made by political appointee Vinay Prasad, the Trump administration's top vaccine ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a Los Angeles court in the United States as part of a landmark trial examining Instagram's impact on the mental health of its young users. While on the stand on Wednesday, Zuckerberg pushed back on allegations made by Mark Lanier, the lawyer for the woman who has accused Meta of harming her mental health while she was a child. The case revolves around the story of a woman ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Washington — Billionaire retail tycoon Les Wexner, a longtime benefactor of Jeffrey Epstein, told House lawmakers that he was "duped by a world-class con man" and knew nothing of Epstein's crimes, according to his prepared testimony before the House Oversight Committee. Wexner, who hired Epstein to manage his money, was among members of Epstein's inner circle who were subpoenaed for testimony last ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Threat of 9.5% property tax increase puts pressure on Governor Hochul, who is seeking re-election this year Zohran Mamdani, New York's democratic socialist mayor, has unveiled two new budget proposals for the city – one to raise income and corporate taxes, or another to raise property taxes – triggering resistance from some political figures in and out of the state. Mamdani's two proposals include ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has killed 11 people in recent strikes on three boats allegedly transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea. The boats were attacked late Monday, U.S. Southern Command said in a statement , which alleged that the three boats were operated by designated terrorist organizations. No proof was provided. A 39-second video published online by Southern Command ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
FORT WORTH, Texas — Sen. John Cornyn is spending the homestretch of his primary warning Texas Republicans that if he loses the contest to state Attorney General Ken Paxton, GOP candidates up and down the ballot in November will pay a steep price. "If Ken Paxton is the nominee, we could well experience a massacre and the first Democrat elected since 1994 in the state of Texas," Cornyn told supporters at the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
GENEVA — The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine ended Wednesday with no sign of a breakthrough and with both sides saying the talks were "difficult," as the war's fourth anniversary approaches next week. The negotiations in Switzerland were the third round of direct talks organized by the U.S., after meetings earlier this year in Abu Dhabi ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) is not waiting for the courts to sort out who regulates prediction markets. In the span of a couple days, CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal [1] making the affirmative case for federal oversight of event contracts, and the Commission filed an amicus brief in North American ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
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Source: livescience.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Mikaela Shiffrin , the U.S. skiing star who's also her sport's most decorated athlete of all time, broke her medals drought at the 2026 Olympics on Wednesday, taking home the gold in the women's slalom. The 30-year-old appeared stunned and visibly emotional over her triumph after completing a smooth second run in the slalom, which is her best event. She finished with a combined time of 1:39.10, beating ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The fall in U.K. inflation was in line with economists' expectations. The decline was driven partly by a decrease in petrol prices, the ONS said. The Bank of England expects the inflation rate to fall sharply to near its 2% target in April. In this article A customer looks at goods on a shelf in a supermarket on January 15, 2025 in London, England. The U.K. inflation rate cooled to 3% in January, according to ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The restaurant can keep menu term despite claim product is 'essentially chicken nuggets', Illinois ruling says A customer who sued the US restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings after finding out their "boneless wings" were not in fact made of wings has been told by a US judge that his claim has "has no meat on its bones". Buffalo Wild Wings can continue using the term "boneless wings" on its menu even though the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The two non-negotiables of secure legal AI How government legal professionals can confidently embrace AI innovation without compromising data security. Highlights Secure legal AI requires tools that never train on customer data, ensuring government case information stays fully protected. Government legal teams gain both security and operational confidence by choosing AI built for federal compliance and ...
Source: legal.thomsonreuters.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
United States President Donald Trump has criticised the United Kingdom's plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a day after his administration gave its official approval of the deal. Trump said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was "making a big mistake" in the agreement to transfer sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius and lease the island of Diego Garcia, which is home to a UK-US ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Feb. 18 (UPI) -- Tesla will stop using the term "Autopilot" in marketing of its vehicles in California, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles announced. In December, a judge ruled that the company was using deceptive wording in its marketing of the cars in California and recommended a suspension of sales and manufacturing in the state. But the DMV allowed the company 60 days to change its wording. Autopilot is ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Ukraine's sports minister has condemned the decision to allow six Russians and four Belarusians to compete under their nation's flags at next month's Winter Paralympics as "disappointing and outrageous" and said Ukraine officials will not attend the opening ceremony or other official events as a result. "The flags of Russia and Belarus have no place at international sporting events that stand for fairness, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Users reported seeing a blank black screen with only the sidebar visible, or a "Something went wrong" message accompanied by pixel art. YouTube experienced an outage affecting thousands of users in the United States and other countries on February 17, 2026. The issue began around 8 PM Eastern Time and was reported by users in Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia, and Russia. Downdetector recorded 338,000 ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 4 minutes We use words like "candy bar" or "slab" to describe our full-screen smartphones, but Google has designed what is likely the slabbiest phone of the modern era. During an hour-long hands-on with Google's all-new Google Pixel ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Google LLC today introduced an artificial intelligence model called Lyria 3 that consumers can use to generate short tracks. The algorithm is rolling out to the company's Gemini app and Dream Track, a music generation feature in YouTube's creator toolkit. Files generated with Lyria 3 will contain an imperceptible watermark generated by a Google technology called SynthID. Users can check whether a track contains the ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The European Union is going after Shein for hooking customers with what it calls "addictive design." In a press release on Tuesday, the European Commission announced that it had launched a probe into Shein under its Digital Services Act. The Commission said it would investigate Shein for "addictive design, the lack of transparency of recommender systems, as well as the sale of illegal products, including child ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between. Ask anyone what Nvidia makes , and they're likely to first say "GPUs." For decades, the chipmaker has been defined by advanced parallel computing, and the emergence of generative AI and the resulting surge in demand for GPUs has been a boon for the company . But Nvidia's recent moves signal that ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The Paris prosecutor's office said it was opening two new lines of inquiry, one into alleged human trafficking and the other into possible financial wrongdoing related to Epstein. LONDON — The global fallout from the Epstein files widened Wednesday, with French authorities urging survivors to come forward and British police assessing private flights to and from London connected to the late financier and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Actor allegedly also made remarks to man who dresses in drag, and was seen dancing on Bourbon Street after arrest The actor Shia LaBeouf allegedly aimed homophobic slurs at two men – one who identifies as queer and the other who dresses in drag – as the Transformers star was arrested for purportedly battering them at a bar early on Tuesday morning in New Orleans, the victims said. Jeffrey Damnit – ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
2 min read Bad Bunny is leaning into his leading man era. It was announced on Wednesday that the Grammy winner will star in an upcoming "epic Caribbean western" and historical drama film titled Porto Rico . The upcoming feature is directed by fellow Grammy winner, renowned Puerto Rican rapper, and close friend of Benito's, René "Residente" Pérez Joglar. According to Deadline , Residente co-wrote the ...
Source: harpersbazaar.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
We might have assumed that gravity always remains steady and unchanging. But that might not be true after all. The strength of gravity actually changes from place to place across Earth. Scientists have found that one of the weakest spots is beneath Antarctica. In a new study published in Scientific Reports , researchers state that the "gravity hole" formed due to the rock's extremely slow movements deep inside the ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
New research shows intermittent fasting is no more effective for weight loss than receiving traditional dietary advice. Intermittent fasting has become a buzzword in nutrition circles, with many people looking to it as a way to lose weight or improve their health. But new research from the Cochrane Collaboration shows intermittent fasting is no more effective for weight loss than receiving traditional dietary ...
Source: zmescience.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Big Tech's Claims That AI Can Help Fix the Climate Crisis Are "Greenwashing" They distract, a new report says, from the energy-gobbling chatbots and video generation that make up the core business. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. This story was originally published b y the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk ...
Source: motherjones.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump family company has filed to trademark the use of the president's name on airports but says it doesn't plan on charging a fee — at least for a proposed renaming of one near his Florida home. Applications filed by the Trump Organization with the federal trademark office are seeking exclusive rights to use the president's name on airports and dozens of related things found there, ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Christy Carlson Romano is opening up about a potential health battle. On Feb. 17, the Disney Channel alum revealed that she received positive results from a preliminary cancer screening. "I got the results back a little bit before filming down in Florida," she said in an Instagram video . "My husband's came back completely negative. Mine did not come back negative." Romano explained that her results are not an ...
Source: bustle.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Waiver from Netflix allows film company to engage with rival bidder if it could lead to a 'reasonably superior offer' Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) has reopened talks with Paramount Skydance , giving the company seven days to table its best and final offer and top an existing agreement with Netflix. WBD has so far stuck to its binding agreement with Netflix and rejected a series of sweetened offers from Paramount, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Bayer, the German bio-tech giant, has proposed paying $7.25bn (£5.35bn) to definitively resolve a legal battle in the US over whether its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The possible settlement is part of a broader push to secure closure over the claims, which have weighed on the company since it bought Monsanto, the American-maker of the widely used but controversial herbicide. Bayer has already paid ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — An 18-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after he began rushing toward the U.S. Capitol with a loaded shotgun , police said. Officers challenged the man, who was wearing a tactical vest and gloves, and ordered him to drop his weapon, which he complied with, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan told reporters. Sullivan said the man laid down the weapon and then lay down on the ground before ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Jesus H. Christ on a Jet Ski, how does this horrible person still have a job? Okay, rhetorical question. But still. From NBC News : The tension between some Coast Guard officials and [Kristi] Noem began after a 23-year-old Coast Guardsman went overboard into the Pacific Ocean from the cutter Waesche on Feb. 4 last year, shortly after the Senate confirmed Noem into her role, according to the two U.S. officials, the ...
Source: esquire.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
GENEVA (AP) — Iran announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday for live fire drills in a rare show of force as its negotiators held another round of indirect talks with the United States over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program. It was the first time Iran has announced the closure of the key international waterway, through which 20% of the world's oil passes, since the U.S. ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump issued a statement Tuesday on the death of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson that included insults directed at former President Barack Obama and Democrats in general. The statement, posted on Trump's Truth Social account , started with the president saying he knew Jackson well. Trump described Jackson as "a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and 'street smarts.'" Related story: A ...
Source: mlive.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. Seattle-based real estate company Zillow has partnered with the company behind the long-running online game World of Warcraft in order to showcase players' creativity by exhibiting their virtual homes. A new microsite, " Zillow for Warcraft ," allows users to explore an assortment of designs for ...
Source: geekwire.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
The Pride flag's removal from New York's Stonewall National Monument by the Trump administration without first notifying the public or considering the ramifications for the historic property violated federal law, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan on Tuesday. The federal government removed the flag on Feb. 9, saying it was necessary to comply with Department of Interior and National Park Service ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com