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Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Mr Trump's 'reciprocal tariffs', imposed under an emergency powers law, were overturned by the US Supreme Court has announced a 10 per cent global tariff on "all countries" to replace ones struck down by the Supreme Court , calling the ruling "terrible" and branding the justices ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
Police continue searches at Mountbatten-Windsor's former Windsor home after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office Buckingham Palace will not oppose plans to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the royal line of succession, the Guardian understands, as police confirmed a search of his former Windsor home would continue over the weekend. Royal sources indicated on Saturday that King Charles would not ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
President Trump says he hasn't decided whether he'll launch a military strike on Iran. But he now has a wide range of options. An American military buildup over the past month means the U.S. now has an expansive naval and air presence across the Middle East. The size of the U.S. force suggests the military would be capable of carrying out a bombing campaign that could last weeks or even longer. The president has ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
RAYAK, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on eastern Lebanon have killed eight members of the militant Hezbollah group, including several local officials, two officials with the group said Saturday. The Lebanese Health Ministry put the death toll at 10, but did not distinguish between militants and civilians. The Hezbollah officials told The Associated Press that the eight militants were killed in strikes near ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
The India AI Impact Summit is a major tech event in the country and drew a host of prominent tech and world leaders to New Delhi. U.S. tech companies made moves to deepen ties with India's tech ecosystem. While India's public markets are booming, private capital is still lacking, according to an analyst. In this article Tech giants have committed to funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into Indian AI efforts, ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie took a dig at US President Donald Trump after the latter announced plans to release government files related to aliens and unidentified flying objects and said the move could serve as a distraction from the ongoing controversy surrounding the Epstein documents. Massie, who represents Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, reacted sharply to the announcement on X, writing: ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
NASA has been investigating the now-infamous Boeing Starliner incident since the story dominated headlines in late 2024 and early 2025. The Starliner suffered malfunctions that stranded now-retired astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore for months . The agency has now released a report on what happened, taking responsibility for its role in the mission's failure. "The Boeing Starliner spacecraft has ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA aims to send astronauts to the moon in March after acing the latest rocket fueling test. Officials announced the decision Friday, two weeks ahead of the first targeted launch opportunity on March 6. "This is really getting real, and it's time to get serious and start getting excited," said Lori Glaze, NASA's exploration systems development chief. Administrator Jared Isaacman ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
MILAN — It was only fitting that Hilary Knight was in the middle of it all. As the United States women's hockey team prepared to receive their gold medals Thursday after a 2-1 win over Canada in overtime, the players lined up in numerical order. There was No. 21 in the center, with 12 teammates on one side and 10 on the other. Knight was in the middle of it an hour earlier, too, when a shot from Laila Edwards ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
GDP grew 1.4% last quarter, down from economists' forecast of 3%, though AI and tax cuts could boost growth this year US economic growth slowed more than expected in the fourth quarter amid disruptions from last year's government shutdown and a moderation in consumer spending, but tax cuts and investment in artificial intelligence were expected to support activity this year. Gross domestic product (GDP) increased ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on "Grey's Anatomy" and "Euphoria" and who later in life became an advocate for ALS awareness, died Thursday. He was 53. His representatives said Dane died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known also as Lou Gehrig's disease, less than a year after he announced his diagnosis. "He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Advocates warn of more toxic pollution, asthma attacks, and premature deaths, especially in communities living near coal plants. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a repeal of the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) – a move that will allow coal - and oil-fired power plants to emit more brain-damaging mercury, other harmful heavy metals, and dangerous soot. Those emissions put ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons West Virginia attorney general sues Apple over encryption, child porn West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey filed suit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that the company turned a blind eye to iCloud encryption methods that facilitate mass transmission of child pornography. The suit focuses on Apple iCloud and its use of end-to-end encryption, which makes digital files ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Democrats cry foul at change to airport closest to Mar-a-Lago days after president's lawyers trademarked new name Democrats in Florida have condemned Republican colleagues in the state legislature who approved renaming the airport in West Palm Beach to the "President Donald J Trump International Airport", less than a week after lawyers for Trump sought to trademark the name . Only the signature of Florida's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Blames "user error, not AI error" for incident in December involving its Kiro tool. Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools, leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assistants. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
( KTLA ) – Actor Eric Dane's final words are being revealed in an interview he agreed could be aired only after he passed. Prior to his death, he sat down with Brad Falchuk for the Netflix documentary series "Famous Last Words." The premise is a notable figure sits down for an in-depth conversation knowing it won't be aired until they pass, giving the person "a chance to shape their own legacy." The "Grey's ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
2 min read Just hours after the federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia appointed a new interim US attorney to replace Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan, the administration said he is fired. The judges on Friday unanimously appointed James Hundley, a Virginia defense attorney with more than three decades of experience, to lead the influential prosecutors' office after Halligan, President Donald Trump's ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
MILAN (AP) — Zach Werenski and his U.S. teammates tried not to look ahead at a potential gold-medal game against Canada at the Olympics . After each went unbeaten in group play, there was no way the North American rivals could meet before the final, but there was work left to do. After routing Slovakia 6-2 in the semifinals on Friday night, the much-anticipated but never guaranteed U.S.-Canada showdown for ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
The U.S. military said that it struck an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three people. U.S. Southern Command said the strike in the eastern Pacific was against a boat that was traveling along a drug trafficking route. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Sexual assault allegations against Shawn DeRemer, the husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, got him barred from the Labor Department's headquarters and prompted a police investigation, The New York Times and other news organizations reported Thursday, citing a Jan. 24 police report and people ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Families of political prisoners await prison releases as Venezuela signs amnesty law Venezuela's acting president has signed into law an amnesty bill that could see hundreds of politicians, activists and lawyers released soon, while tacitly acknowledging what the country has denied for years – that it has political detainees in jail. The law, signed on Thursday, in effect reverses decades of denials in the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
a man snowmobiling with his young son was killed when an avalanche broke free Feb. 18, 2026, in a popular area for backcountry recreation, according to the Wasatch County Sheriff's Office. A child was killed on Feb. 19, 2026, after getting caught in an avalanche while skiing with her family at the Brighton Ski Resort. Avalanche deaths are rare inside the boundaries of ski resorts , but the risk rises in the ...
Source: sltrib.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
New guidance issued by the Trump administration's top immigration judge this week could result in continued denial of bond hearings for detainees in Fifth Circuit states—Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana—as judges in other jurisdictions may choose to grant the hearings, immigration attorneys and law professors say. Chief Immigration Judge Teresa Riley, in response to a scathing ruling Feb. 18 from Judge ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON ( The Hill ) — Billionaire retail mogul Les Wexner's lawyer was caught on microphone threatening to "kill" Wexner for giving long answers during a Wednesday deposition related to his involvement with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "I will f‑‑‑ing kill you if you answer another question with more than five words, OK," Wexner's lawyer said more than four hours into the ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Federal prosecutors say the San Jose residents used their tech company positions to steal confidential information and obstruct justice Three Silicon Valley engineers were arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets from Google and other U.S. technology firms and transferring sensitive data to unauthorized locations, including Iran, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Samaneh Ghandali, 41, Soroor Ghandali, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
New home sales ended 2025 on a mixed but resilient note, signaling steady underlying demand despite ongoing affordability and supply constraints. The latest data released today (and delayed because of the government shutdown in fall of 2025) indicate that while month-to-month activity shows a small decline, sales remain stronger than a year ago, signaling that buyer interest in newly built homes has improved. The ...
Source: eyeonhousing.org
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
As delegates from dozens of nations attending a key artificial intelligence summit in India prepare to deliver a statement Saturday on how humanity should handle development of the rapidly evolving technology , the Trump administration stood out for opposing centralized regulation of generative AI. "We are barreling into the unknown. AI innovation is moving at the speed of light—outpacing our collective ...
Source: commondreams.org