4 min ago - 11 hours ago The US is preparing to largely withdraw its remaining troops from Syria over the next few months, a senior White House official has told the BBC. The official said the Syrian government had agreed to take the lead combatting terrorism w ... (BBC)

25 min ago - Updated Feb 18, 2026, 7:53 PM ET PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2026, 5:00 AM ET New York - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled Wednesday about whether his company intentionally designed Instagram to be addictive, in front of the young woman accusing Meta and Yo ... (CNN Business)

59 min ago - February 18, 2026 8:45 PM EST Updated 7 hours ago Feb 18 (Reuters) - A federal judge threw out on Wednesday an administrative board's decision endorsing the Trump administration's policy of subjecting thousands of people arrested during its immigrati ... (Reuters)

1 hr ago - Updated on: February 19, 2026 / 1:33 AM EST / CBS News A Minnesota federal judge ordered a government attorney to be held in civil contempt of court for violating an order requiring the Justice Department to turn over identification documents to a ma ... (CBS News)

2 hrs ago - 02/18/2026 05:42 PM EST SACRAMENTO, California — Los Angeles lawmakers with the biggest stake in the 2028 Olympic Games called on Casey Wasserman to step down as chair of the LA28 committee after the longtime entertainment executive appeared in ... (Politico)

2 hrs ago - Updated 6:13 AM EST, February 19, 2026 LONDON (AP) -- U.K. police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Thames Valley Police, an agency that covers areas west of London, including Mountbatten-Win ... (AP)

2 hrs ago - 02/18/26 5:31 PM ET The Hennepin County, Minn., attorney’s office on Wednesday demanded that the federal government hand over records and evidence related to the killing of U.S. citizen Alex Pretti by federal officers during a federal immigratio ... (The Hill)

2 hrs ago - Wednesday 18 February 2026 17:11 EST The Department of Defense can ban recruits living with HIV from joining all branches of the U.S. military after a conservative federal appeals court struck down a decision that removed barriers that disqualified p ... (The Independent)

3 hrs ago - Updated 5:01 PM EST, February 18, 2026 GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — As an attorney, Thomas Goldstein routinely argued cases before the Supreme Court and published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court. Unbeknownst to friends and colleagu ... (AP)

3 hrs ago - Feb 18, 2026 4:57 PM EST More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issu ... (PBS News/AP)

4 hrs ago - February 18, 2026 3:56 PM EST Updated 8 hours ago WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hat ... (Reuters)

9 hrs ago - By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Updated 5:55 PM CST, February 18, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — A red, white and blue color scheme championed by President Donald Trump will become the new look for Air Force One, the U.S. military said Thursday. The Air Force sai ... (AP)

9 hrs ago - The chair of the US’s top media regulator claimed on Wednesday that journalists had been tricked into covering claims by the late-night host Stephen Colbert that he had been blocked by his network from interviewing a Texas Senate candidate. Bren ... (Guardian/US)

11 hrs ago - by Rachel Frazin - 02/18/26 5:19 PM ET A group of 13 states that did not support President Trump in the last election sued the administration on Wednesday over canceled federal climate funds. The lawsuit challenges the Trump administration’s ca ... (The Hill)

11 hrs ago - Feb. 18, 2026, 11:18 AM EST A new Colorado group launched an effort Wednesday to place an initiative on the ballot this year to pave the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats for the 2028 and 2030 elections. Coloradans for a Leve ... (NBC News)

12 hrs ago - Feb 18th, 2026, 11:12 am Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his former co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to order the "constitutional expungement" of special counsel Jack Smith's re ... (Law & Crime)

12 hrs ago - French President Emmanuel Macron said the free speech defense of social media platforms is “pure bullshit,” pushing back against a key foreign policy goal of President Donald Trump. European nations including the UK and Germany are weighing ... (Bloomberg)

12 hrs ago - Feb 18th, 2026, 4:03 pm The Department of Justice admitted in a recent court filing that it had violated over 50 court orders in immigration cases — and that stunning figure was just since Dec. 5 and only included cases in New Jersey. The tacti ... (MEDIAite)

12 hrs ago - Two years before Robert Dorgan opened fire at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket, the shooter’s son set fires at a predominantly Black church in North Providence. Robert Dorgan, who also used the name Roberta Esposito, was the biological fat ... (WPRI,com 12)

13 hrs ago - 02/18/26 12:18 PM ET A government watchdog group is suing the FBI to force the release of a tape that reportedly shows border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe. MSNOW reported in September that before President Trump won the election ... (The Hill)