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Top News Stories for Tuesday, February 17th 2026
Tuesday, Feb 17th, 2026 -
The Rev. Jesse Jackson , an American civil rights leader, minister, and politician, who was a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and in the 1980s reshaped Democratic politics with two galvanizing presidential campaigns, died Tuesday at the age of 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 ...
Source: npr.org
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 -
As the talks began, local media announced that Iran had fired live missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz Reading Time: 3 minutes Iran fired live missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz while its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that the US warship deployed in the Gulf could be sunk, as nuclear talks between the two countries started. "We constantly hear that they [the US] have sent a warship towards ...
Source: scmp.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 -
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
Monday, Feb 16th, 2026 -
Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Former President Barack Obama readdressed the existence of aliens after saying on a podcast that they are real over the weekend. In an Instagram post on Sunday Obama said he has not seen evidence of the existence of aliens despite earlier saying that they are real. The clarification followed his appearance on a podcast with political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen on Saturday. "Statistically, the ...
Source: upi.com
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 -
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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DAYTONA BEACH — Sporting new bling on his right hand, Daytona 500 winner Tyler Reddick had joined an exclusive club — not only in his sport, but in 23XI Racing's garage. When you drive for Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin's team , championship rings are the standard. A six-time NBA champion, Jordan was eager to be fitted for another one as he celebrated with ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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