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Top News Stories for Tuesday, February 17th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights activist, Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 84. "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," the Jackson family said in a statement. "We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
The investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has uncovered several notable pieces of evidence as authorities in Arizona continue to search for the mother of "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie . Investigators believe Nancy Guthrie, 84, was forcibly taken from her Tucson home in the middle of the night before being reported missing Feb. 1. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed Monday that all of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Temporary Exclusion Orders allow the home affairs minister to stop a person entering for up to two years, but there is a high bar for the powers Home affairs minister Tony Burke is "taking advice" from security agencies on whether Australian women and children in a Syrian detention camp should be temporarily banned from returning, but it is unclear how many in the cohort such an order would apply to. On Monday ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Fresh negotiations get under way in Geneva, Switzerland, between the United States and Iran to resolve their long-running nuclear dispute. Donald Trump has warned Iran of "consequences" if a new phase of talks on Tehran's nuclear facilities does not produce an agreement. Washington has sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East and is preparing for a possible military campaign if the negotiations in Geneva, ...
Source: news.sky.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 -
– Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv met in Geneva on Tuesday for another round of , a week before the fourth anniversary of of its neighbor. However, expectations for any breakthroughs in the scheduled two days of talks in Switzerland were low, with neither side apparently ready to budge from its positions on key territorial issues and future security guarantees, despite the United States setting a for a ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Robert Duvall, who starred in such classics as "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II," "M*A*S*H," "Apocalypse Now" and "Tender Mercies," for which he won the Academy Award, has died, his wife announced in a social media post Monday. He was 95. Luciana Duvall said in a statement that her husband died Sunday at their home "surrounded by love and comfort." "To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
Barack Obama says a secretive US base isn't holding extraterrestrials - unless a massive conspiracy kept him in the dark Reading Time: 2 minutes Former US president Barack Obama said in a podcast interview on the weekend that aliens are real, but they aren't at Nevada's Area 51. During an appearance on YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen's show, Obama said he hadn't seen extraterrestrials but that they existed. "They're not ...
Source: scmp.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 -
Critics say what was once a showpiece for the league has turned into a glorified practice session. But there are signs an updated version may have worked Basketball Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady flashed a look of disdain when recalling last year's NBA All-Star Game. "The All-Star Game that we witnessed last year was not an All-Star game," McGrady told the Guardian. "I don't know what that was." Prior to Sunday ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Several civil rights groups are suing the Trump administration to prohibit it from misusing voter information that it seized from Fulton County, Ga., last month. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, the NAACP and Atlanta and Georgia State Conference branches of the NAACP filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District ...
Source: upi.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 -
Transcript Audio The fallout continues from the release of the Epstein files. On Saturday, the Justice Department sent a letter to Congress that included a list of names of "politically exposed persons" mentioned in the files of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Justice correspondent Ali Rogin reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for ...
Source: pbs.org
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Government offices, the stock market and schools are closed Monday in observance of Presidents Day , but most big retailers are open. When in doubt, call ahead or look up more specific schedules online for stores in your neighborhood. Here's a rundown of what's open and closed on Presidents Day 2026: Government offices Federal and state government offices are closed. Courts and most schools are also closed. The ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
By and C. Isaiah Smalls II The Miami Dolphins new regime began the process of releasing players to trim the team's payroll in an effort to fix the franchise's troublesome cap situations. Along with pass rusher Bradley Chubb and receiver Tyreek Hill, which were two easily predicted cuts because of substantial cap savings their departure creates, offensive lineman James Daniels and receiver Nick Westbrook-Ihkine, two ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
The winner? AJ Scaramucci, the founder of venture capital firm Solari Capital and the son of former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Scaramucci appeared on Logan Paul's livestream early Monday after auction house Goldin announced him the winning bidder in the auction, which closed at 1:14 am ET. "My ambition for the card is just a small story," Scaramucci said at the event. "The real story is ...
Source: insider.com
Sunday, Feb 15th, 2026 -
Shipwreck hunter found Lac La Belle steamer, one of 'most sought-after missing ships', after nearly 60-year search Searchers recently discovered the wreck of one of the "most sought-after missing ships" in Lake Michigan, that had sunk to the bottom of the lake over 150 years ago. A shipwreck hunter and scuba diver named Paul Ehorn made the discovery after having searched for the Lac La Belle passenger steamer for ...
Source: theguardian.com