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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 18th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Is the Federal Communications Commission now booking the guests on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" ? Sure seems like it after Texas State Representative James Talarico was prohibited from appearing on Monday's broadcast by CBS lawyers concerned that President Trump's FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, would take action against the network if the Texas Democrat was allowed to speak on the show. "[Talarico] was ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon, Baptist minister and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson fought on the front lines of the battle against Jim Crow segregation laws as a college student. During the 1980s and 1990s, Jackson also negotiated the release of dozens of international hostages and prisoners, and became a vocal supporter of voting and LGBTQ ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Warner Bros. Discovery announced that Netflix has granted it a limited 7-day waiver to allow WBD to talk with Paramount Skydance about its amended offer. The waiver ends Feb. 23 and is designed to allow Warner Bros. stockholders to gain clarity on their options and to allow Paramount to make its best and final offer, a press release from WBD said . Netflix still retains its matching rights ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government will not repatriate from Syria a group of 34 women and children with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday. The women and children from 11 families were supposed to fly from Syria to Australia, but Syrian authorities on Monday turned them back to Roj detention camp because of procedural problems, ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Veteran American actor admired for his roles in Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies "You smell that? Do you smell that? ... Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning," says Robert Duvall as the mad, hawkish, surf-loving Lt Col Bill Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979), Francis Ford Coppola's two-and-a-half hour nightmarish ride ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday. "Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations," Southern Command said in a statement. "Eleven male narco-terrorists were killed during these ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said the agency has filed an amicus brief in federal court to assert its authority over prediction market enforcement and regulation. The move comes just three weeks after Selig said he was prepared to draft new, clear rules to govern event contracts. Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket are currently facing legal cases in multiple states over allegations ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Billionaire says he exercised 'terrible judgment' in maintaining contact with sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell The billionaire Thomas Pritzker has stepped down as executive chair of the hotel chain Hyatt, after revelations over his ties with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Pritzker said he had exercised "terrible judgment" in maintaining contact with the sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell , who was ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., arrested an 18-year-old man Tuesday after he ran from his vehicle toward the west side of the Capitol Building armed with a shotgun. Capital Police Chief Michael Sullivan said the man, identified as Carter Camacho of Smyrna, Georgia, was arrested after he parked a Mercedes SUV near the Capitol, got out and ran "several hundred yards" toward the ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
German agrochemical giant Bayer said Tuesday its subsidiary Monsanto had proposed a class settlement of up to $7.25 billion to settle claims that the Roundup weedkiller causes blood cancer, potentially drawing a line under years of costly litigation. Under the proposed agreement, Monsanto would make a series of declining annual payments for up to 21 years, Bayer said, adding that the deal still required court ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
Washington — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused the Trump administration of a "continuing cover-up" over its handling of the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . "There's something about this administration's attitude toward this, which I think really leads us to conclude they have something to hide," Hillary Clinton told the BBC in an interview ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article As many as 15,800 local law enforcement officers have been deputized to enforce immigration law, report finds Local law enforcement agencies deputized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have exploded during Donald Trump's second administration , with as many as 15,800 police ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia gathered in Geneva on Tuesday for two days of U.S.-mediated peace talks that will focus on the main sticking point of land, with President Donald Trump pressing Kyiv to act fast to reach a deal. Trump is pressing Moscow and Kyiv to reach a deal to end Europe's biggest war since 1945, though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has complained that his country is facing the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Logan Paul's iconic Pikachu Illustrator Pokemon card has sold at the Goldin TCG auction for a whopping (almost) $16.5 million, a record-breaking number. The auction house, which is known for rare and record-breaking collectible sales, recently held a Of course, there's little surprise that things turned out this way. After all, Logan Paul is an incredibly notable figure in the world of the internet, and the Pikachu ...
Source: vice.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 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: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
The Trump administration was sued over the Feb. 9 abrupt removal of the Pride rainbow flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City. The monument is across from the Stonewall Inn, the site of the 1969 uprising that ignited the gay rights movement in the United States. The suit calls the Pride flag's removal "a textbook example of an arbitrary and capricious act." A person secures the flags during a ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
A free press depends on people who believe in it. As more outlets cave to the administration's demands to quiet opposing voices, our members enable reporting that holds firm to its values and serves the public interest. Already a member? President Donald Trump on Tuesday reacted to the death of the Rev. Jesse Jackson by taking a dig at Democrats and former President Barack Obama . Trump started his statement by ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
While no immediate danger exists, the companies have been notified and are working on fixes to protect millions of users' password vaults. Bitwarden, LastPass, and Dashlane are less secure than you might expect, at least if you go by the findings of security researchers at ETH Zurich and the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano. They've allegedly discovered serious security vulnerabilities in ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
– Georgia high school students on Tuesday testified in court about the horrors of being shot during their algebra class, and recounted through tears seeing a classmate in a pool of blood, then seeing blood on their own bodies and fearing they might die. Various students took the stand at the , the father of Colt Gray, who investigators said had carefully planned the Sept. 4, 2024, at the school northeast of ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
X is facing mounting criticism from foreign watchdogs over its generative AI chatbot, Grok. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Tuesday that it had opened an inquiry into Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter. The commission said in a press release that the inquiry was linked to the creation and publication of non-consensual, sexualized images of European Union residents on X using Grok's generative AI ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Shein under EU investigation over childlike sex dolls The European Union (EU) has launched a formal investigation into fast fashion giant Shein over possible breaches of digital law, including the sale of childlike sex dolls. The European Commission (EC), the EU's executive arm, said it will examine what systems the Chinese firm has in place to prevent the sale of illegal products "including content which could ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting ByteDance, the Chinese technology company behind TikTok , has said it will restrain its AI video-making tool, after threats of legal action from Disney and a backlash from other media businesses, according to reports. The AI video generator Seedance 2.0, released last week, has spooked Hollywood as users create ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
in his renewed push to invalidate the 2020 election. on 15 February to "prohibit the Trump administration from misusing the voter information" taken from an elections warehouse in Fulton county, Georgia, late last month. "Having already failed to overturn the valid results of the 2020 presidential election by invoking false claims of widespread voter fraud, promoting fake electors and inciting a violent ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The Israeli government is moving forward with a plan to register territory in the West Bank for the first time since it occupied the territory in 1967. The Israeli Foreign Ministry says advancing the land registration process is an administrative measure but Palestinians call it an effort to annex the West Bank and displace Palestinians. The Israeli government approved the proposal to reinstate the ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a lightning round of questions with podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama was asked, "Are aliens real?" "They're real," he answered, continuing: "But I haven't seen them. And, they're not being kept in Area 51." On ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
The Miami Dolphins are releasing star wide receiver Tyreek Hill in a cost-cutting move, multiple outlets reported Monday. Releasing Hill, an eight-time Pro Bowl wide receiver who turns 32 on 1 March, will save the Dolphins $22.8m against the 2026 salary cap, per ESPN. The reported moves by new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan come with the new league year scheduled to begin on 11 March. The Dolphins had been ...
Source: theguardian.com