February 13th, 2026

• ​Diplomats insist EU, Egypt won't train Hamas-linked officers for Gaza police force
• Gaza Peace Plan Stalls Amid Reports of US Allowing Hamas to Keep Some Arms, Israel Readying New Offensive
• Hamas vows not to lay down arms until Israel's 'elimination' - "The matter of Palestinian weapons is linked to the presence or elimination of the occupation," said Osama Hamadan
• Report: Hamas fighters selling weapons, military equipment, amid severe financial crisis in the Gaza Strip - Leadership says terror group will not disarm, claims it will transfer weapons only to Palestinian state
• Hamas says jailed commander Abdullah Barghouti assaulted, starved in Israeli prison
• Culture minister backs dropping 'massacre' from Oct. 7 bill, says term reflects 'victimhood' - "The State of Israel is a strong country. The days when it was possible to massacre the State of Israel no longer exist," said Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar
• WHO data on polio vaccination program for children in Gaza challenges genocide claims
• Israelis charged with using classified information to bet on Polymarket
• Herzog: Antisemitism in Australia 'frightening'; graffiti at Melbourne U. urges his death
• Trump says Herzog should be 'ashamed of himself' for not pardoning Netanyahu
• France Urges Removal of U.N.'s Francesca Albanese After Calling Israel a 'Common Enemy'
• With 5 Arab Israelis shot dead in 12 hours, police chief warns of 'national emergency'
• Protesters hold nationwide 'day of disruption' over soaring violent crime in Arab community
• Iranian regime celebrates anniversary by burning 'Baal' statue labeled with Star of David amid cries of 'death to Israel' - President Pezeshkian claims regime doesn't want nuclear weapons but regime threatens war
• Iran fires TV boss after reporter accidentally calls for Khamenei's death - Reporter apologizes for 'blunder' after mistakenly saying 'Death to Khamenei' instead of 'Death to America' when repeating chants heard in crowd marking 1979 revolution
• Iran's FM berates Israeli daily over report of secret mass executions
• Iranian state TV airs 'hit list' of seven top Israeli officials, including Netanyahu
• Iran secretly executed thousands despite promise to US - Tehran promised to halt executions but secretly continued killing protesters while misleading Washington about willingness to negotiate on missiles and terror proxies, sources reveal
• PM Netanyahu after Trump meeting: Iran deal must go beyond nuclear issue - "If an agreement is indeed reached, then it must include the elements that are very important to Israel," Netanyahu said, citing Iran's ballistic missiles and regional proxies as key concern
• Trump Warns Iran: 'Very Traumatic' Outcome if 'Fair Deal' Not Reached over the Next Month
• Returning to Israel, skeptical Netanyahu says Trump sees possible 'good deal' with Iran
• Unpersuaded by Netanyahu, Trump insists on going 'jaw-to-jaw' with Iran and Hamas - Meeting in Washington, prime minister seemingly makes little headway with argument that talks with terror group and Tehran are futile and more military force is needed to achieve goals
• Fetterman: If Iran Strikes Needed, I'll Be the Only Democrat Who Backs Them
• US willing to accept Iranian uranium enrichment, Turkey says
• US smuggled thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran after riot and protest crackdown
• U.S. Aircraft Carrier Will Be Sent to the Middle East From Venezuela, Officials Say - The U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford is not expected to return until late April or early May
• US confirms pullout from al-Tanf base in Syria as government forces move in
• US military pulls last troops from key military facility in Syria
• Ex-prime minister's son leads Bangladesh's first election since 2024 uprising that ousted Hasina
• Burma: 80% of the Population Displaced by War
• Trump admin warns Peru it could lose sovereignty as China tightens grip on nation
• Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping Reveals 'Cyberspace Force' Base in South China Sea
• Reports: Trump to Host Anti-China Summit with Latin American Leaders
• Reports: Russia Wants to Send Cuba Oil, but Fears Trump Seizing Its Tankers
• Ukraine Claims Russia is 'Hesitating' Over Next Round of Peace Talks
• Olympics Ban Ukrainian Athlete for Helmet Depicting Athletes Killed by Russia
• Melania Trump announces third reunification of Russian, Ukrainian children with families
• Russia shuts down WhatsApp, pushes citizens to state-run app accused of being a 'surveillance' tool - WhatsApp says Russian government is trying to drive people to state-owned MAX messaging app
• NATO allies say Hegseth "missing a good party" as they meet, adjust to slimmed down U.S. role under Trump
• Trump 'permanently weakening' the US by 'quiet quitting' NATO: defense expert
• NATO launches Arctic Sentry military effort in seeking to move on from Greenland dispute
• US debt forecast to hit $64T in a decade as Trump policies widen deficit
• Mark Zuckerberg Ditches Woke California for Florida as Left's 'Tax the Rich' Agenda Drives Out Another Elite
• DHS Funding Bill Fails in Senate Ahead of Friday Shutdown Deadline
• Norway's former PM charged with gross corruption over Epstein links
• Goldman Sachs general counsel resigns over ties to Epstein, presence in files
• Brazilian professor condemned for antisemitic claim that 'Jewish lobby' funded Jeffrey Epstein
• Ehud Barak: I regret ever meeting Epstein, should have used 'more thorough judgment' - In interview, ex-PM says staying at apartment owned by sex offender wasn't illegal; hoping for 'tall and slim' Russian girls to migrate to Israel was 'unsuccessful choice of words'
• Compromised peace? Oslo Accords figure deeply linked to Epstein network - New documents reveal Terje Rod-Larsen facilitated visas for Jeffrey Epstein's victims and was listed for a $10m payout, prompting Palestinians to question whether the peace process was engineered by blackmailed diplomats.
• Cannibalism? Rep. Lauren Boebert Says Unredacted Epstein Files "Far Worse Than Imagined," Raises Questions About Alleged Code Words and 'Human Consumption'
• Democrat Rep. Jayapal Claims Attorney General Pam Bondi Monitored Her Epstein File Searches: 'Outrageous'
• Report: King Charles helped Andrew buy Virginia Giuffre's 'silence' - Before Charles became king, he reportedly helped the late queen loan Andrew $16 million to settle a lawsuit with Guiffre
• Commentary: Minnesota's fraud scandal has an Arizona sequel
• Leavitt unloads on Obama over voter ID push, accuses Dems of 'panic' - White House press secretary cites polls showing nearly 90% of Americans support voter ID requirements
• Vulnerable Dem senator slammed for requiring photo ID at rally, but not to vote - Sen Jon Ossoff said in 2025 that stricter voter ID requirements were 'nakedly partisan, totally unworkable, [and] bad faith'
• NRSC releases new digital ad targeting Jon Ossoff for requiring photo ID to attend rally, not vote
• Former North Carolina governor deletes post showing him using ID to vote in NC primary
• SAVE Act Reaches 49 Co-Sponsors - GOP Now Just ONE Vote Away from 50-Vote Threshold with Standing Filibuster
• 28% of US Voter Verifications Have No Match at Social Security Administration
• Elon Musk slams Anthropic AI models as 'misanthropic and evil' in scathing social media post
• No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents - SpaceMolt envisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch
• Strong M6.2 earthquake hits Coquimbo Region, Chile
• 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits near Khuzdar, Pakistan
• 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits near Katsuren-haebaru, Japan
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.4 magnitude earthquake hits near Yigo Village, Guam
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Levuka, Fiji
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Kuril'sk, Russia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Hihifo, Tonga
• Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 23,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 22,000ft
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 16,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Home Reef volcano in Tonga erupts to 14,000ft
• At least 11 dead as avalanches strike multiple Alpine sites in Italy and France
• Gezani forecast to reach intense tropical cyclone strength near Mozambique coast, more than 1 million at risk
• Storm Nils kills 1 in France, triggers rare Red Avalanche Alert in Savoie as 850,000 lose power
• Severe thunderstorms kill 10 in Minas Gerais, injure 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Police Charge 13-Year-Old Boy With Attempted Murder After London School Stabbing
• Over 700 arrested amid major gang and drug crackdown in Louisiana
• DHS' Kristi Noem announces 1.7B of lethal drug doses seized at San Diego border
• U.S. colleges received more than $5 billion in foreign gifts, contracts in 2025
• Qatar largest foreign source of gifts and contracts to US universities in 2025, over $1.1 billion
• Border Czar Tom Homan Announces End to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, After Weeks of Violent Leftist Protests
• Josh Hawley Calls For Indictment of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison over Ties to Somali Fraudsters
• Keith Ellison wants criminals breaking into homes arrested - but refuses to say illegal immigrants should be deported
• Activist Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Release of Three Convicted Murderers and Child Sex Predator Illegal Aliens from ICE Custody in Louisiana, DHS Calls it 'Lawless Abomination'
• Over 1.5 million illegal aliens with deportation orders in US, ICE director reveals
• Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
• Corrupt Judge Boasberg Orders Trump Admin to Return Venezuelan Illegals Deported Under Alien Enemies Act
• Italian Govt. Approves Bill Allowing 'Naval Blockades' on Illegal Migrant Vessels
• European nation votes to cap population at 10M in major immigration crackdown referendum
• Disney World 'Pride' event 'GayDays' on 'pause' for 2026 after loss of sponsorship support
• Police visited home of Canada school shooting suspect multiple times over mental health concerns - Canadian authorities seized firearms from the residence approximately two years ago but later returned them
• NBC Deletes Video After Misgendering Swedish Trans Athlete on Winter Olympics News Feed
• Bisexual Olympian Breezy Johnson Wins Gold, Lectures America On 'Straight White People'
• Female Biology Teacher Arrested for Sexual Relationship with Student at New Orleans All-Girls School
• Iowa Bill Would Ban Mail-Order Abortion Pills, Require Hospitals to Track Complications
• Puerto Rico governor signs law recognizing unborn babies as human beings
• A Sexually Transmitted Fungus Is Making Itself Cozy in the US
• Sen. Joni Ernst and White Coat Waste Hammer Pentagon-Funded Labs for Hiding Spending on Octopus Hypnosis, Monkey Mind-Reading, and Mouse mRNA Tests in Violation of Federal Law