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Top News Stories for Tuesday, February 17th 2026
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Former President Barack Obama has clarified that during his term, he saw "no evidence" that aliens are real, after declaring the existence of extraterrestrials in a podcast clip that blew up over the weekend. Obama sat down with podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen for an interview that was released Saturday . Toward the end of the interview, Cohen asked Obama a series of questions in what he called a "lightning round" ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
The entertainment giant described the infringement as a "virtual smash-and-grab" involving its most valuable intellectual property. Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, accusing the company of using copyrighted Disney characters to train its recently released Seedance 2.0 AI tool without permission, according to Axios . In the letter, Disney described the alleged infringement as a "virtual ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times When Robert Duvall was floundering around in college, his father, a career Navy man who retired with the rank of rear admiral, told him to shape up — and start acting. "I wasn't pushed into it but suggested into it," Duvall once told an interviewer. "They figured I did skits around the house. They figured I had a calling, or ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
We're not ready to hand the company keys to AI anytime soon. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways True AI autonomy is still only seen in a minority of companies. The buzz about artificial intelligence taking over everything has reached a fever pitch. The latest panic-inducing essay was just published by AI entrepreneur Matt Shumer, who suggested AI will ...
Source: zdnet.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
The Israeli government's decision to approve the land registration process in the occupied West Bank as "state property" has drawn widespread condemnation from regional countries and international organisations. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday the measure would enable "transparent and thorough clarification of rights to resolve legal disputes" and was needed after unlawful land registration in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Sheriff Chris Nanos of Pima County, Arizona, tells CBS News that investigators searching for Nancy Guthrie believe the clothing and face mask worn by the suspect in the chilling doorbell video released last week were purchased at Walmart. They are still working to identify each brand. CBS News first reported that the suspect's backpack, identified as a black Ozark Trail Hiker, was sold exclusively at Walmart. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
A letter sent to Congress by Attorney General Pam Bondi included a list of high-ranking politicians as well as celebrities - though being named in the files does not suggest wrongdoing. The Trump administration has been accused of "purposefully muddying the waters" after releasing a list of hundreds of names mentioned in the Epstein files. A six-page letter sent to Congress by Attorney General Pam Bondi over the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Presidents Day, which falls on Monday, Feb. 16, this year, was established to honor the birthday of the nation's first president, George Washington. The official name of the holiday is Washington's Birthday, although it's now more commonly referred to as Presidents Day. While most grocery stores and food establishments will remain open, some businesses will be closed and services suspended on Presidents Day, which ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
— The Department of Homeland Security remains officially shut down since funding ran out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, after Congress failed to pass a bill to fund its operations before a stopgap measure lapsed. Without funding, some DHS functions will cease, although the impact will likely be more widely felt after President's Day weekend ends. says that during a funding lapse, the department "may only continue ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Michael Jordan, a six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion, is now a Daytona 500 winner too. Tyler Reddick won "The Great American Race" on Sunday with a last-lap pass at Daytona International Speedway that sent Jordan into a frantic celebration. The NBA Hall of Famer bear-hugged Reddick in the victory lane and then jointly hoisted the Harley J Earl Trophy with the 23XI Racing driver. Jordan, who ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The world's best basketball players participated in what could've been the most unusual game of their careers Sunday, in a generally well-received mini-tournament that included welcomed doses of energy, a tad of confusion and perhaps one foreseeable flaw. A team of younger American standouts, dubbed "USA Stars," beat the veteran "USA Stripes" squad 41-21 in the radically revamped 75th NBA ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Logan Paul just made millions off a Pokémon card . The influencer turned wrestler sold his one-of-one Pikachu Illustrator card — one of 41 ever distributed and the only one graded the highest quality by collectibles company PSA — at auction Monday for a jaw-dropping $16.492 million. The winner? AJ Scaramucci, the founder of venture capital firm Solari Capital and the son of former White House ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
The Veronica III left Venezuela on the same day as Nicolás Maduro was seized in an American military operation, with Washington declaring the tanker had tried to 'defy President Trump's quarantine'. US forces have boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean as part of efforts to target illicit oil tankers linked to Venezuela. Military personnel boarded the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
GENEVA — Iran's top diplomat met with the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency on Monday, ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States over Tehran's nuclear program. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and said he would also meet with Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi of Oman, which is hosting the ...
Source: military.com
Sunday, Feb 15th, 2026 -
The wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale nearly 150 years ago has been discovered, searchers announced last week, completing a quest that began nearly 60 years ago. Shipwreck World , a group that works to locate shipwrecks around the world, revealed Friday that a team led by Illinois shipwreck hunter Paul Ehron found the wreck of the Lac La Belle in October 2022. It was found about 20 miles ...
Source: cbsnews.com