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Top News Stories for Friday, February 20th 2026
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the one-time Duke of York, was arrested in the UK on Thursday after facing scrutiny over his ties to late billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. News of the arrest first came when the Thames Valley Police Department announced that it had "opened an investigation into an offense of misconduct in public office" and had arrested "a man in his sixties from Norfolk." King Charles III ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
The deep, powdery snow and rugged terrain of the backcountry attract skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers. But wild ranges and slopes also carry the risk of avalanches. This week, the perils of the winter befell a broad swath of the Sierra Nevada in California, as rapid snowfall teamed up with strong winds to blanket an area near Castle Peak. Forecasters had warned of avalanche conditions in the northern Sierra ...
Source: sltrib.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Stephen Colbert claims CBS told him not to broadcast an interview with Senate candidate James Talarico Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has clapped back at Stephen Colbert after he claims CBS told him not to air an interview with a Democratic ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
House Speaker Matt Hall unveiled details Thursday of a property tax cut proposal that would slash taxes across four different categories for an estimated total of nearly $5 billion. The Kalamazoo County Republican told reporters he planned to hold schools and local governments harmless with the tax cuts, but acknowledged it would result, overall, in less revenue for the state. The speaker initially estimated the ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
In a closed-door session at his Ohio home on Wednesday, billionaire Leslie Wexner faced mounting questions from United States lawmakers about Jeffrey Epstein's rise to wealth and influence – and the role he may have played in that ascent. Five members of the House Oversight Committee had travelled to depose the 88-year-old after Democrats subpoenaed him in the wake of the latest US Department of Justice ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other Democrats are demanding that the Federal Reserve turn over information on recent changes to its bank supervision division following a media report that Fed staff are unhappy with those changes, the Wall Street Journal reported The newspaper reported in January that former and current staff have expressed concerns about the leadership of Fed Vice Chair for Supervision ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
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Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
Vermont senator and former labor secretary rip top earners' 'greed,' 'addiction' as they push for wealth taxes Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich are escalating their attacks on America's wealthiest individuals, accusing the "billionaire class" of having an "addiction" to greed as they push aggressive new tax hikes in solidly Democratic states like California and New York. "Governors Hochul ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
A new investigation found proposals for data centers across southwest Ohio are coupled with apprehension from local communities. The facilities are resource-hungry and subsidized by tax breaks. (TNS) — When Angie Markham first heard that a data center was planned about half a mile from her home in Trenton, her first words to her husband were, "We're going to have to move." The plans, reviewed by this news ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
Bad Bunny to make lead acting debut in film inspired by Puerto Rican revolutionary Singer Bad Bunny is to take on his first lead acting role, starring in a film alongside Javier Bardem and Edward Norton. Porto Rico, described as a love letter to the 31-year-old's home of Puerto Rico, will be directed by rapper René Pérez, known as Residente. The film, which has been in development since 2023, is ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a panel made up of President Donald Trump's appointees, on Thursday approved his proposal to build a ballroom larger than the White House itself where the East Wing once stood. The meeting was supposed to be on the design, with a final vote expected at next month's session. But the chairman, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., made a motion to also vote on final approval, ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
West Virginia's attorney general filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing Apple of allowing its iCloud service to become a vehicle for distributing child sexual abuse material. The state alleges that the company facilitated the spread of child sexual abuse material by declining to deploy tools that scan photos and videos and detect such material in iCloud users' collections. JB McCuskey, a Republican, accused Apple of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
At the January 2026 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the voting body chose to leave interest rates unchanged . The Federal Reserve's dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment have been at crossroads the past few months; inflation has trickled up, but the labor market shows signs of softness. At the January meeting, concerns about inflation won, as documented in the now-published ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
The 911 call reported an apparent suicide. A 55-year-old Cuban "tried to hang himself," a federal contractor alerted emergency responders last month from a sprawling El Paso immigrant detention center. By the next day, records show that Geraldo Lunas Campos had died at the facility, marking the second fatality in weeks at the hastily constructed Fort Bliss Army tent structure known as Camp East Montana. Immigration ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 -
The U.S. federal agency that enforces workplace civil rights is suing a regional Coca-Cola bottler for sex discrimination, alleging the company discriminated against male employees by only inviting women to a company-sponsored networking event. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit on behalf of a male employee of Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast who complained about a two-day networking ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will review a messenger RNA (mRNA) flu vaccine for approval, according to its maker, Moderna . The decision is a dramatic U-turn for the agency, which, only about a week ago, had publicly rejected Moderna's application to get the shot reviewed. When it initially rejected the application, the FDA had said Moderna's clinical trials were lacking. On Wednesday, Moderna said it had ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Feb 18th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Wednesday's court proceedings marked the first time Mark Zuckerberg has appeared at a civil trial Leer en Español Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a Los Angeles courtroom to testify in a civil trial on social media addiction, a closely-watched case that could have ...
Source: independent.co.uk