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Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch pulled no punches in taking aim at his colleagues on the Supreme Court for a lack of consistency in approaching broad assertions of presidential power made by Joe Biden and Donald Trump. on Friday, but he wrote a separate 46-page opinion that chided several of his fellow justices over how they approached the case. His colleagues were effectively applying the same ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Feb 21st, 2026 -
The British government is weighing new legislation that could remove the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, from the line of royal succession, according to reports. Officials in the United Kingdom, speaking on condition of anonymity to the BBC on Friday, said the decision could follow after the police finish their investigation into the ex-prince's ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . "The ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of "tremendous interest." Trump made the announcement in a social media post hours after he accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing "classified information" when ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
Nasa has sharply criticised Boeing's Starliner programme following an investigation into the spacecraft's troubled 2024 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), that led to astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore being stuck in space for months. The agency blamed both technical flaws and management shortcomings for the incident. The US space agency designated the test flight a "Type A mishap" — ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
NASA could launch four astronauts on a mission to fly around the moon as soon as March 6th. That's the launch date that the space agency is now working towards following a successful test fueling of its big, 322-foot-tall moon rocket, which is standing on a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "This is really getting real," says Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator of NASA's exploration systems ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
MILAN — The last time the United States and Canada met for Olympic gold, at Vancouver 2010, it drew more American viewers than any hockey game since the culmination of the Miracle on Ice. The last time the US and Canada faced each other, a year ago Friday in the 4 Nations Face-Off, it was the most-watched NHL-sanctioned game in US history . Given the factors at play — the NHL's return to the Olympics ...
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 -
The Trump administration on Friday finalized its rollback of clean air regulations limiting mercury and other toxic pollutants from power plants, sparking condemnation from public health and environmental advocates who warned that the move will increase the risk of death or serious illness for millions of people in the United States . The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it is repealing the Mercury and ...
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 -
Behind the scenes, real journalism faces real resistance. We keep reporting anyway. Member support protects our independence and keeps tough stories in the light. Join today to help defend a free press. Already a member? In what turned out to be one of his last on-camera interviews before his death, Eric Dane spoke candidly about the "fortuitous" evolution of his relationship with his wife, Rebecca Gayheart , while ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
The conflict between the Trump administration and the judicial branch over who can lead the Justice Department's office in the Eastern District of Virginia reached a new stage Friday, after a panel of judges appointed an interim top prosecutor — and the administration fired him soon after. It's the second time this month that the administration has quickly sacked a prosecutor who was picked by federal judges, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 20th, 2026 -
MILAN — Behind a flurry of goals and near-constant control of the puck, the U.S. cruised through the men's hockey semifinal at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Friday to keep alive its dream of winning its first Olympic gold medal since 1980. The U.S. scored twice in the first period and added three more goals in the second period on its way to dispatching Slovakia, 6-2, at Santagiulia arena. Follow along ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Behind the scenes, real journalism faces real resistance. We keep reporting anyway. Member support protects our independence and keeps tough stories in the light. Join today to help defend a free press. Already a member? The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from entering her department's headquarters after at least two women accused him of sexual assault, according to multiple reports ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
Avalanche Deaths Are Mounting This Season — Here's What Backcountry Travelers Need to Know By At least 16 people have died in avalanches during the 2025-2026 season so far, a number already tracking toward some of the worst seasons on record with winter still ongoing. KEY FACTS: According to The New York Times , while scientists are careful not to blame climate change for any single weather event without ...
Source: miamiherald.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 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 -
The Trump administration plans to sue states for their artificial intelligence laws, but how the push is affecting work on future legislation depends on a state's politics. (TNS) — The Trump administration plans to sue states for their artificial intelligence laws, but how the push is affecting work on future legislation depends on a state's politics. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in ...
Source: govtech.com