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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 18th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert slammed his soon-to-be-former network CBS for pulling an interview with Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas, a frequent critic of President Trump. Colbert lambasted CBS after its lawyers advised "The Late Show" it could not air the Monday sitdown with the pol, one of many Dems running to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). In a segment that did air ...
Source: nypost.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
One of the US's most prominent civil rights leaders who was a protege of Martin Luther King and a presidential hopeful The veteran civil rights activist Jesse Jackson , who has died aged 84, made history when he stood for the White House in 1984 and 1988. He was not the first African American to seek the US presidency, but he was the first to mount a serious challenge, breaking through racial barriers, securing ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
"No amount of terrorism talk renders this slaughter lawful," said one policy analyst Tuesday after the US Department of Defense announced it had killed 11 people on three boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean—bringing the total number of people killed by the Trump administration in the region to at least 145 as the White House claims to be combating drug trafficking at sea. The US Southern ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker will step down as the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after details of his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in documents related to the burgeoning investigation of ties between the notorious sex trafficker and the elite and powerful. Pritzker, in a prepared statement, said he deeply regrets his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, a long time ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
nuclear talks may fail due to both nations' red lines – but that doesn't make them futile The latest rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran are going well enough for now, according to the steady drip of public statements from the main parties involved. "I think they want to make a deal," said U.S. President Donald Trump on the eve of the latest round of discussions held in Geneva on Feb. 17, ...
Source: theconversation.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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The Justice Department insists it has already released all of its Epstein records in compliance with a 2025 law has accused the Trump administration of carrying out a "cover-up" in its handling of the Epstein files , while the president claims the files "totally exonerated" him ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
GENEVA (AP) — Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv were in Geneva on Tuesday for another round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, a week before the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government's delegation was in Switzerland, and Russian state news agency Tass said the Russian delegation also had arrived. Talks, due to be held over two ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers on Tuesday moved closer to placing President Donald Trump's name on the Palm Beach International Airport despite turbulence over state funding, trademarking rights and his personal conduct. The Republican-controlled House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport (HB 919) as a similar ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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? The Trump administration has been sued over from the historic Stonewall National Monument in New York City this month. A lawsuit , filed Tuesday in federal court by a group of ...
Source: huffpost.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 Trump said 'no other president' had tried to pass criminal justice reform or long-term funding for historically Black colleges and universities, which was supported by Jackson President Donald Trump used the death of Reverend Jesse Jackson to highlight his personal accomplishments ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Civil rights organizations are demanding that a federal court place restrictions on the Trump administration's use of materials seizedduring its unprecedented raid on an elections center in Fulton County, Georgia in January. Five groups—the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Atlanta branch of the NAACP, and the Georgia Coalition for the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
The Israeli government has approved a plan to begin land registration in the occupied West Bank, meaning it will be able to seize land from Palestinians who cannot prove ownership. For the first time since Israel's occupation of the West Bank in 1967, it will register such land as property of the state – also known as settlement of land title – in Area C of the occupied West Bank. Area C is the part of ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Former United States President Barack Obama has clarified remarks related to the existence of extraterrestrial life made on a podcast, after appearing to claim that he knew aliens are real. During a rapid-fire question-and-answer segment as a guest on left-wing political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen's programme, which was released on Saturday, the podcaster asked Obama whether he believes extraterrestrials are ...
Source: aljazeera.com