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US launched airstrikes against Iran early on Wednesday after blaming Tehran for the crash of an American attack helicopter. Iran launched missile and drone attacks on US bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz. The escalation casts doubt on prospects for a deal to end the war which began on 28 February with joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran. President Donald Trump said Iran had taken too long to negotiate a deal and would now "have to pay the price".
Masked rioters torched homes and vehicles in Belfast on Tuesday night after a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder following a knife attack. Pastor Jack McKee said some members of his church had their house attacked, windows smashed and houses beside them burned. The violence comes amid heightened racial tensions in Britain amplified by far-right figures and social media. Northern Ireland’s police force said an extra 200 officers would be on the streets. Some schools in the city planned to close early and public transport set to halt early Wednesday evening.
Graham Platner won 72% of the vote in the Democratic Senate primary election in Maine. He will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November. President Donald Trump helped his party to defeat a politician who had pushed for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Four states – Maine, Nevada, South Carolina and North Dakota – are holding primaries ahead of November’s midterm elections. The results offered mixed signals about the direction of the two major parties. In Maine, Governor Janet Mills suspended her own campaign weeks ago, clearing the way for Platner's nomination. Nancy Mace lost her primary in South Carolina.
Karmelo Anthony, 19, has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17, at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas last year. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Tuesday and will be eligible for parole after serving at least half of that time. The trial began Thursday morning in Collin County, Texas. If convicted, Anthony will not face the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Graham Platner won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Maine on Tuesday and is expected to win the general election against Republican Sen. Susan Collins. His ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, accused Platner of being physically abusive during their relationship. Platner denies this. He also denied that he knew that the skull-and-crossbones tattoo he got in 2007 was a Nazi symbol used by the SS. The New York Times reported that Platner had exchanged sexual messages with several women outside his marriage.
The U.S. military launched airstrikes on Iran in response to the downing of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated with strikes on Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan. The attacks imperil a shaky ceasefire that was announced by the two countries in April. Since the war began on February 28, it has shaken the global economy, driven up energy prices around the world and made many basics, including food, more expensive. Officials have been unable to turn the April ceasefire into a deal to end the conflict.
Bill Gates is testifying before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. He will answer questions about his relationship with late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges involving underage girls. The documents released by the Justice Department raised new questions about Bill Gates' contacts with Epstein. A 2013 draft email from Epstein suggested he had helped Mr. Gates manage the fallout from extramarital affairs, including by seeking antibiotics after a sexually transmitted infection.
Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson advanced to a Republican primary runoff in the race to be South Carolina's next governor. The runoff will take place on June 23 after no candidate won more than 50% of vote. Rep. Nancy Mace conceded the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary race Tuesday less than two hours after polls closed. She was trailing Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evetter by double digits, with 29% of the vote compared to 26%.
Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agencies early Friday morning, 52-47. The House passed the $70 billion immigration enforcement reconciliation bill on Tuesday without any legislative restrictions on the proposed $1.776 billion pot of money. Some Republicans wanted a prohibition on Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund, but that didn't make it into the legislative package. The package also does not include funding for Trump's White House ballroom project.
Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton are the top two vote-getters in California's jungle primary for governor. Billionaire Tom Steyer is running third, about 6 points behind Hilton. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will advance to a run-off against Hilton. The winner will succeed Democrat Gavin Newsom who is limited to two terms. Vox's John Sutter reports that it was a good night for normie Democrats and a bad one for self-funded campaigns. It was also a mixed bag for state legislators aspiring to higher office.
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Iran launched missile and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for American strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump said Iran will "have to pay the price" for stalled negotiations with the United States. The US launched airstrikes against Iran early on Wednesday after blaming Tehran for the crash of an American attack helicopter. It is one of the most significant escalations since Washington and Tehran agreed to a ceasefire in April. For weeks, Trump had downplayed the slow pace of talks on a peace deal.
Masked rioters torched homes and vehicles in Northern Ireland on Tuesday night after a Sudanese man was charged following a knife attack. The violence comes amid heightened racial tensions in Britain amplified by far-right figures and social media. Hadi Alodid, 30, appeared in a Belfast court on Wednesday accused of carrying out the stabbing on Monday, which was captured on camera and shared widely online. A male victim in his 40s suffered stab wounds to his eyes, face and back and lost an eye during the attack. On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters gathered at several locations across Belfast, setting fire to a bus and several cars. Michelle O’Neill, the first minister of Northern Ireland, slammed the protests and urged calm.
Geoffrey Wall, 59, of Barrie, Ontario, is alleged to have operated as an airline captain between 2009 and 2025 without a license to fly large commercial passenger planes. He is said to have flown more than 900 flights domestically and internationally without the required license. Air Canada confirmed that one of its pilots held a valid commercial pilot license, but was promoted to captain without the necessary airline transport pilot license. The airline said a pilot was removed from active duty once it was discovered that he did not have the correct license.
Xi Jinping has arrived in North Korea for a two-day trip, his first in nearly seven years. He and his wife Peng Liyuan were greeted at Kim Il-sung Square in central Pyongyang by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and Ri Sol-ju. It was the second summit between Xi and Kim since Kim visited Beijing to attend a military parade in September 2025 commemorating the 80th anniversary of China’s victory in World War II. Next week, Xi will travel to North Korea next week for a rare visit just weeks after he hosted US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
The UN human rights office will deploy a team of investigators to Lebanon next week to assess potential violations of international law by all parties during the current war in the country. It's the first time that the UN is sending this assessment mission. The mission will collect information and evidence on alleged violations committed since the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2. More than 3,600 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon and more than one million Lebanese are displaced. U.S. declared a ceasefire on April 16 but fighting has continued.
Ukraine launched extensive drone attacks against Russian refineries and military facilities around the city of St Petersburg on Saturday. The strikes hit targets 600 miles from the Ukrainian border on the last day of an international forum. It’s the second time in the past few days that scores of Ukrainian drones have targeted the Leningrad region. Russia said it downed about 60 over the region early on Wednesday, hours before the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). A month ago, Kyiv agreed not to attack near the Kremlin during the annual Victory Day parade overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
At least 12 people were shot dead in an informal settlement in the Cleveland suburb of Johannesburg on Tuesday night. The victims were nine men and three women, according to police. Eleven died at the scene and another victim died in the hospital. A search was launched for the suspects but no arrests have been made yet. Informal settlements in South Africa are unplanned residential areas that are common in and around big cities where people looking for housing live in shacks or other makeshift structures.
France and Germany have abandoned the fighter jet portion of the Future Combat Air System project. The project was launched in 2017 to develop a next-generation combat aircraft intended to replace France's Rafale fighter and Germany and Spain's Eurofighter fleets by 2040. Airbus is set to present its plan for a new generation fighter jet in Berlin on Thursday. It will replace the Franco-German FCAS project that was scrapped this week. A group of eight companies dubbed "Team Gen 6" plans to hold a signing ceremony at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA).
Pakistan launched new airstrikes on Afghanistan early Wednesday. The strikes shattered more than a month of calm in the war. Taliban says 13 people were killed, including 11 children, one woman and an elderly man. Pakistan confirmed it carried out strikes but said they were "precise and calibrated," targeting militant hideouts and infrastructure linked to recent terror attacks inside Pakistan. Pakistan and Afghanistan have engaged in deadly fighting since late February. Several rounds of internationally mediated peace talks have failed to produce a lasting truce. Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring militants that carry out deadly attacks within Pakistan.
Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday charged seven people and two building companies with offenses including manslaughter and conspiracy to defraud over the city's deadliest fire in decades. The massive blaze engulfed seven apartment buildings and killed 168 people on Nov. 26, 2025. Former residents and relatives of the dead have been waiting for answers for months after the fire shattered the close-knit community of Wang Fuk Court. Will Power Architects Company and Prestige Construction & Engineering Co. were involved in a major renovation project at the time of the fire.
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IBM shares fell 13% on Monday, February 23, 2026. It was their worst daily percentage decline in more than 25 years. Anthropic announced a new AI tool called Claude Code that can modernize COBOL systems. The market interpreted it as a direct threat to IBM's business in legacy system modernization consulting. Jefferies tried to calm investor jitters around International Business Machines Corp. and said the threat is only against a small portion of IBM's overall business. They maintained a 'Buy' rating with a $370 price target.
The Powerball jackpot is $159 million for Wednesday's drawing. The next Powerball drawing is on Saturday, Feb. 21. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. The deadline for purchasing a Powerball ticket varies by state so don't wait until the last minute. The last Powerball winner was from North Carolina on Jan. 21 when a lottery player in North Carolina won a $209.3 million jackpot. The Mega Millions jackpot stands at $438 million with a cash option of $203 million.
Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala, 38, has been sentenced to 4 years and 8 months in prison for a £40m global fraud involving the sale of fake aircraft engine parts from his home office in Surrey. His company, AOG Technics, sold more than 60,000 parts worth £6.9m between 2019 and 2023. Planes were grounded around the world after the scam was discovered. The Serious Fraud Office said the fraud “risked public safety and caused widespread disruption to the aviation industry”.
Domino's Pizza reports fiscal fourth-quarter 2025 results on February 23 before market open. Global retail sales growth of 5.4% for the year and 4.9% in Q4, excluding foreign currency impact. US Same Store Sales Increased 3% for a year and 3.7% in four months. US Carryout Comparable Sales Up 6.5% in q4 and 5.6%. International Net Store Growth - 604 net new international stores in 2025 with China and India opening nearly 600 combined. Board of Directors approves 15% increase in quarterly dividend to $1.99 per share.
The Food and Drug Administration Monday unveiled the details of a new policy designed to make it easier for patients with very rare diseases to get cutting-edge treatments. New guidance would enable the agency to approve new treatments for rare diseases based on evidence for a "plausible mechanism" for how the treatment would work. The policy aims to speed the use of state-of-the-art technologies like gene-editing to create treatments tailored to individual patients suffering from rare diseases. Almost a year ago, a baby became the first person to receive a personalized therapy made with CRISPR technology.
Novo Nordisk's CagriSema didn't beat Eli Lilly's Zepbound in a head-to-head Phase 3 trial. Novo shares fell 15% on the U.S. market in pre-market trading Monday. CEO Maziar Mike Doustdar defended CagRISema and his broader clinical program after an analyst referred to the drug as “obsolete” in light of the data. The FDA is expected to make a decision by late 2026.
The national average 30-year mortgage rate is 6.01%, according to Freddie Mac. The 15-year fixed-rate mortgage rate dropped 9 basis points to 5.35%. It's the lowest level since September 2022. Realtor.com senior economist Jake Krimmel warns that the resulting decrease in borrowing costs could prove shortlived. Refinancing activity is likely to be moderate in the near-term, with the market on hold until mortgage rates fall below the 6% psychological threshold.
Gilead Sciences will buy Arcellx for $115 per share in cash and one contingent value right of $5 per share. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory clearance. Gilead's Kite Pharma unit has a collaboration on anitocabtagene autoleucel (anito-cel), an investigational BCMA-directed CAR-T cell therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
The U.S. installed a record 57.6 GWh of new energy storage capacity in 2025, the largest annual battery deployment ever recorded. The global market for energy storage has entered a stage of maturity marked by regulatory changes, technological advances and new supply chain strategies. Two-thirds of all new utility-scale projects were located in states won by President Donald Trump. Southeast Asia, the MENA region and Europe are emerging as new manufacturing hubs. Corporate structures are expected to be redefined to circumvent trade restrictions. There is an increasing complexity of lithium access paving the way for alternative technologies without lithium.
The price of Bitcoin fell below $65,000 for the first time in about two weeks on Sunday evening. The market sentiment has swung from "greed" to "extreme fear" in a matter of months. Bitcoin's drop to $64,000 was due to compounding macro shocks landing on a market carrying significant leverage. A 50% drawdown from the peak doesn't mean the leading crypto cycle is broken. Decrypt revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now.
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Summer Yue is the Director of Alignment at Meta’s new superintelligence safety lab. She used OpenClaw, an open-source autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by Peter Steinberger, to clean and delete emails from her Gmail inbox without taking permission from her. The only way she could stop it was to physically run to her Mac Mini to kill the processes herself. Even those working in the forefront of AI alignment struggle to align AI systems in their own workflows.
Apple has invited the media to an "experience" on March 4 in New York, London and Shanghai. Rumors point to three days of product reveals beginning March 2 and culminating in hands-on time for a select few next Wednesday. I'm holding out hope for a low-cost MacBook and an AI-powered iPad among other things Apple is expected to launch at the event. The iPhone 17e could also be unveiled. It's been rumoured that it will come in a variety of colors.
Nothing Phone 4a series is scheduled to be launched in India in the first week of March. The standard and Pro versions will be available for purchase via an e-commerce platform. Nothing posted a teaser for its base Phone 4A model a week before launch. According to the latest rumors, the Nothing Phone (4a) will most likely launch with a 6.78-inch AMOLED display, up to 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and a 5,400mAh battery with 50W wired charging support.
Some Google AI Ultra and Pro users of Antigravity have been banned from using the AI-powered tool OpenClaw. Peter Steinberger, the creator of Openclaw, called the ban "draconian" and warned his users to be careful if they plug it in. Anthropic recently updated its terms to ban the use of OAuth tokens from Claude Free, Pro, or Max accounts in third-party tools such as OpenClaws. Google claims that some users were exploiting the backend in ways that disrupted service quality.
Samsung is going to announce the Galaxy S26 Ultra at Unpacked on Wednesday at 11:15 am EST. It's expected to be faster, take better pictures, protect your privacy and take better photos. The menu includes devices, gadgets, applications, utilities, operating systems, smartwatches and wearables, carriers, deals, videos and product awards. Mark Jansen has almost a decade of experience reporting on mobile technology. He used to work previously with Digital Trends.
ARC Raiders Reveals Two New Enemies for February's Shrouded Sky Update. It will be published on February 23, 2026 at 7:01 p.m. EST. Kyle Knight completed a degree in Film, Television and Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. He wants to enter the world of video game journalism by writing and reporting about video games. The new update gives Arc Raiders two new enemies, including flamethrower and drone threats. Sign in now and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
Phil Spencer is retiring after nearly 40 years at Microsoft and Sarah Bond is leaving the company. Asha Sharma has been appointed as the new CEO of the Xbox games business. Kotaku's Zack Zwiezen believes Xbox is dead, because it took six years to deliver Fable. The new head of the brand will be a former Meta exec who previously lead Microsoft’s AI division. It's February 20th, 2026 for the official death of Xbox.
The Pokémon GO Tour 2026 is taking place from February 20-22 in Tainan and Los Angeles, followed by the global event on February 28 and March 1. It's Niantic’s annual celebration of a specific Pokémon generation. This year it's all about Kalos and features exclusive releases, special research and shiny opportunities for catching Gen 6 Pokémon. Mega Night is an evening in-person event that runs from 6 to 8 p.m., an hour after Go Tour ends. There will be two Special Research paths focusing on legendaries associated with the region – Xerneas and Yveltal.
Steam Next Fest is taking place from February 23rd to March 2nd. This year's edition is stacked with roguelike and roguelite demos. The first one is Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors. Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite will be released on May 8th for PC (Win). It takes many of the elements that made the breakout hit so compelling such as replayability, accessibility and instant pick-up-and-play appeal.
Samsung is preparing to add Perplexity’s artificial intelligence agent to its upcoming Galaxy S26 smartphones. The integration is expected to be announced in detail at Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event, which is scheduled to take place shortly. According to Samsung, the agent will work with core Samsung apps such as Notes, Clock, Gallery, Reminder and Calendar. Some third-party apps will be supported, although Samsung has not confirmed which developers or services will be included at launch.
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