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Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — For a few hours on Friday, congressional Republicans seemed to get some relief from one of the largest points of friction they have had with the Trump administration. It didn't last. The Supreme Court struck down a significant portion of President Donald Trump's global tariff regime, ruling that the power to impose taxes lies with Congress. Many Republicans greeted the Friday morning ...
Source: apnews.com
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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump has accused Obama of sharing 'classified information' after the former president spoke about aliens on a recent podcast is directing the release of government files "related to alien and extraterrestrial life" and other similar topics. Trump announced Thursday night on Truth ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Reading time 3 minutes Today is a proud day for NASA. The agency's second attempt at a wet dress rehearsal for Artemis 2 went off without a hitch, putting the mission on track to launch as soon as March 6. In an update posted at 10:18 p.m. on Thursday, NASA said the fueling test had concluded as planned at T-29 seconds. Over the course of this two-day rehearsal, engineers loaded the Space Launch System (SLS) ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
Economists expected US GDP to grow at a 3% rate The U.S. economy grew at a much slower than expected pace in the fourth quarter, according to new data released on Wednesday. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its advance estimate for fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP), which found the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.4% in the fourth quarter, which runs from ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
NASHVILLE Today, Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and other dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium. Rolling back the new and more protective Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will allow coal - and oil-fired power plants to emit more damaging pollution that puts the public at ...
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 -
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida lawmakers this week approved renaming the international airport in West Palm Beach after President Donald Trump, just days after the Trump family company the use of the president's name on airports. The legislation to switch the name of the Palm Beach International Airport to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport awaits the signature of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after it ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Reading time 2 minutes When Amazon Web Services got hit by a 13-hour outage in December, it wasn't because a person tripped over a cord. According to a report from the Financial Times, several anonymous Amazon employees said that the outage was the fault of Kiro, Amazon's AI coding assistant—though Amazon reportedly blamed human error for the situation. According to the accounts given to the Financial Times , ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Eric Dane passed away on February 19 following a long and brave battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Months before his death , he recorded a final message for his teenage daughters. Dane and his wife, Rebecca Gayheart , shared 15-year-old Billie Beatrice and 14-year-old Georgia Geraldine. The Grey's Anatomy actor delivered some heartbreaking words for his children ...
Source: instyle.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 -
Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148 The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Three Silicon Valley engineers have been indicted on federal charges of stealing trade secrets from Google and two other companies and sending them to Iran. Samaneh Ghandali, 41, Mohammadjavad Khosravi, 40, and Soroor Ghandali, 32, all of San Jose, are facing charges of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft, theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, and obstruction of justice. They were ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
New home sales closed out 2025 on a mixed yet resilient note, pointing to steady underlying demand even as affordability pressures and limited supply continued to weigh on the market. Although sales dipped 1.7% from November to December, activity in December 2025 remained stronger than a year earlier. Data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau show that sales of newly ...
Source: nahb.org
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Utah Governor Spencer Cox acknowledged the logic to the Trump administration's plan for U.S. AI dominance, but not at the expense of state laws ensuring safety. Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox weighed in on the regulatory debate between the federal government and state governments on Thursday, supporting states' agency in regulating aspects of artificial intelligence development and deployment. Speaking ...
Source: route-fifty.com