February 19th, 2025

• Republic of Fiji decides to open embassy in Jerusalem, joining six other nations in Israel's capital
• India Outraged by Presence of Dead Hamas Leader Icons at Cultural Festival
• Hamas linked to UNRWA, aid went straight to leaders, recordings reveal
• Recordings reveal the Biden administration pressured Israel on Gaza aid despite evidence that it went to Hamas leaders
• Former Biden official says Hamas blocked previous hostage releases, says peace requires Gaza without the terror group - McGurk praises Trump for 'standing firmly by Israel' and for 'calling Hamas' bluff'
• Israel to begin allowing heavy equipment, mobile homes into Gaza, wants 6 live hostages freed
• Two Tiny Captives, Symbols of Hostage Crisis, to Go Home Dead, Hamas Says - Hamas said it would turn over the bodies of the boys, Ariel Bibas and his baby brother, Kfir, and their mother. Israel was expected to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
• News of Bibas family's tragic fate met with confusion, mourning and rage
• ABC Slammed for 'Disgusting and Vile' Coverage of Murdered Israeli Hostages
• Ex-hostage Noa Argamani: Deal must continue to ensure 'all our loved ones return to us'
• Hamas Offers to Free All Hostages for Israel's Gaza Withdrawal
• Israel forms new agency to facilitate voluntary emigration of Gaza residents under Trump's Gaza plan - New body would have Israel take oversight of voluntary relocation of Gazans to other countries
• In public comments, Saudis non-committal to Trump's Gaza plan
• Arab plan for Gaza could involve up to $20 billion regional contribution
• Egypt says Trump backs its Gaza plan, convinced by Jordan's king - Trump was 'attentive and sympathetic' in his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah
• Newly appointed Israeli ambassador to US warns of Egyptian military buildup in Sinai - Ambassador Leiter says Egypt 'in serious violation of our peace agreement'
• Israel raids UNRWA job center, shuts schools in East Jerusalem after agency banned
• Tens of thousands of Palestinians flee West Bank refugee camps
• IDF withdraws from Lebanon border villages, keeps 'buffer zone'; Lebanese army deploys
• As IDF pulls out of Lebanon, DM Katz warns: Enforcement against Hezbollah will continue 'at full strength'
• For 2nd time in days, Israelis illegally cross border into Lebanon; 4 arrested for throwing rocks at IDF troops
• Hezbollah prepares for Nasrallah funeral after IDF's withdrawal from most of Lebanon
• Top Iranian general warns Tehran will strike Israel again at 'appropriate time'
• The rabbi investigating antisemitism: 'The greatest challenge isn't stopping the hatred - it's staying Jewish in the face of it'
• 'Rooted in heresy & rebellion'? Senior Haredi leader calls for withdrawal from Zionist institutions - Rabbi Landau argues Zionism aims to establish Jewish people on secular foundation
• Far-left MK's tweet comparing Israel to Nazi Germany sparks renewed calls for impeachment
• Kanye West, back on X again, says he is 'not under Jewish control anymore' - Ye also defended selling swastika shirts on his website
• Al Qaeda-linked group member killed in US airstrike, Pentagon says
• Sudan paramilitary group kills more than 200 people in three-day attack, activists say - The Emergency Lawyers network said the RSF killed civilians south of Khartoum, with hundreds more either wounded or missing
• Pete Hegseth to Launch 'Full Investigation' of Biden's Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal: 'Accountability Will Be Coming'
• Trump snaps back at Zelenskyy, blaming Ukraine for the war
• Trump says Zelensky 'should have never started' war with Russia
• Ukraine's US veterans rail against peace plan - Veterans fighting for Zelensky's foreign legion label president a 'coward' who won't stand up to Putin
• Zelensky Abruptly Cancels Planned Saudi Visit After Being Sidelined From US-Russia Talks
• US, Russia forge ahead on peace talks, without Ukraine
• U.S.-Russia Talks Begin: Moscow Pours Cold Water On Expectations, Says No Territorial Concessions in Pre-Negotiation Positioning
• Ukraine 'ready to be carved up' by Trump and Putin as meeting 'shows where power lies' - Top diplomats from Russia and the US met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss negoitating an end to the war in Ukraine - despite not having any officials from Kyiv at the table
• 'Successful' US-Russia Talks Conclude After 4+ Hours, With No Ukraine Or EU Reps
• Trump calls for Ukraine to hold presidential election as part of peace deal with Russia - "We have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we... essentially martial law in Ukraine."
• U.S. and Russia agree to restore embassy staffing in high-level talks on Ukraine war
• Russia and US eye joint Arctic energy projects after Saudi talks
• Risking Trump wrath, Ukraine bombs US oil project in Russia
• Drone strike on pipeline could cut Kazakhstan oil exports by 30%, operator says
• Russia launches massive drone strike on Ukraine as it begins talks with US
• Trump triggers Europe economic worries, defense problems
• Congress unmasks perils of 'Beijing Biden' era: China's expanding mass espionage efforts
• Brazil's Bolsonaro accused of plot to poison Lula and kill a judge - Authorities charged Jair Bolsonaro for attempting coup to stay in office after 2022 election defeat
• Mexico threatens Google with lawsuit over "Gulf of America" label on maps
• Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel advances in full Senate procedural vote before expected confirmation
• Former FBI Official Says MAGA Supporters Should Question If They're Americans
• Palantir CEO Alex Karp: Pagans Infiltrated Our Society And Declared That Everything Good About America Is Bad
• MSNBC's Wallace: Trump Is Attempting to Be an 'Emperor'
• Musk Flails Around Comparing 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' to Rabies
• Musk opens up about dinner party that soured when Trump's name was invoked: 'Like methamphetamine and rabies' - Musk told Sean Hannity that Trump's critics have become 'completely irrational'
• Big Money Donors are Cutting Off Radical Activist Groups as Democratic Party Continues to Spiral
• It Turns Out the USAID Worker Who Told 'Heartbreaking' Story to 60 Minutes is Samantha Powers Speechwriter
• Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Defense, seeking records related to two conference calls involving then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley ahead of the January 6, 2021, election certification
• Senior U.S. prosecutor resigns, citing demands to open probe into Biden-era contract
• Top DOJ Official Who Ran Interference For Bidens in Hunter Biden Case Removed from His Post
• Trump Administration Plans DHS Shake-Up With High-Level Firings
• Social Security and FDA Officials Resign Following Clashes With Trump Administration
• Trump Puts Anti-Fraud Expert In Charge Of Social Security After Acting Chief Quits In DOGE Clash
• Union, taxpayer groups take stab at DOGE in latest lawsuit over IRS data access - Lawsuit alleges DOGE, Musk action already had 'catastrophic results'
• Federal judge temporarily halts the firing of 11 intelligence officers
• Obama Judge Reinstates Biden-Appointed Chairwoman of Merit Systems Protection Board, Says Trump Doesn't Have Authority to Fire Her
• Judge denies Democrat-led effort to block DOGE access, citing lack of proven harm
• Chutkan refuses to block Musk, DOGE from 7 federal agencies
• President Trump Goes Scorched Earth, Fires All "Biden Era" US Attorneys
• 'Star Trek' Actor Robert Picardo: 'Let's Cancel Presidents' Day' Since Trump Has Canceled 'Our Justice System'
• Thousands rally against Trump in nationwide "Not My Presidents Day" protests
• U.S. appeals court blocks Biden SAVE plan for student loans
• US postmaster to step down months after reporting billions in losses - Louis DeJoy, who has headed US Postal Service since 2020, warned in November of potential 'end of this organization'
• MSNBC Host Left Stunned When He Learns How Much Social Security Has Made in "Improper Payments" Over Eight Years
• DOGE finds nearly $40 billion in spending linked to government-issued credit cards
• National Science Foundation Fires 11% of Staff on Trump Order
• 'Good luck with that.' Trump administration terminates privacy officials at agency overseeing government hiring and firing
• Elon Musk protests to target lawmakers, Tesla dealerships as progressives decry 'extremist cuts' - Progressive group Indivisible claims a 'Tesla protest' is a powerful way to expose Musk's 'ties to the Trump coup'
• Scientists try to expel space pioneer Elon Musk from the Royal Society after accusing him of 'disreputable' behaviour
• NYT: Elon Musk Is Leading a 'Hostile Takeover of the Federal Government'
• Huh? Trump White House Claims Elon Musk Doesn't Actually Work for DOGE in Striking New Legal Filing
• DOGE Seeks Public's Help Identifying Government Waste, Sets Up over Two Dozen Affiliates
• "America will go bankrupt...": Elon Musk criticises high trade deficit, expenditure of tax money
• Elon Musk: If The Will Of The People Is Not Being Implemented That Means We Don't Live In A Democracy, We Live In A Bureaucracy
• Musk Mulls Sending All Americans $5,000 Checks Using DOGE Savings
• Meta removes Facebook ad criticizing Musk
• Placebo rocker formally charged after calling Italian Prime Minister a 'fascist Nazi'
• July 2024: Italian journalist ordered to pay 5,000 Euros in damages over Giorgia Meloni height jibe - Giulia Cortese convicted of defamation over two tweets that judge in Milan said amounted to 'body shaming'
• Elon Musk says stranded ISS astronauts were 'left up there for political reasons' by Biden
• Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have reached new high
• Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 1 in 38 chance of impact in 2032
• Over 550 earthquakes recorded at Campi Flegrei caldera, prompting school closures in Pozzuoli, Italy
• 5.7 magnitude earthquake hits near Fakfak, Indonesia
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Taltal, Chile
• 5.6 magnitude earthquake hits near Samarai, Papua New Guinea
• Twin M5.1 earthquakes hit Santorini area, Ios becomes fourth island under state of emergency, Greece
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Fakfak, Indonesia
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Mariposa, Peru
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 21,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 13,000ft
• Marapi volcano in Indonesia erupts to 12,000ft
• At least 14 dead in multi-state floods as rivers rise and rescues continue
• How a few inches of rain turned 'catastrophic' in Kentucky and West Virginia
• Major world city melts under staggering heatwave that smashes all records - Temperatures soared to 111 F, a record high in a decade since Brazil started keeping tabs on the temperature extremes
• Global Cooling: Temperatures Expected to Fall to Record 50 Degrees Below Average — Brace For 'Deadly' Winter Storms
• Slithery 'doomsday' fish washes up on beach in the Canary Islands, sparking 'disaster' fears: 'Something bad is going to happen'
• Scores of whales to be euthanised after mass stranding
• Senior DOJ prosecutor quit after being told to investigate Biden climate spending
• Exposed: The Less Safe, More Expensive 'Green' Airport Towers Biden Stuck Us With
• FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety
• Air-Traffic Union Analyzing Safety Impact of FAA Firings
• NBC News Implies Trump to Blame for Toronto Plane Crash Due to FAA Cuts
• Karoline Leavitt gives fact-check after Sen. Schumer blames Trump for upside-down Delta plane crash in Toronto - 'It's incredibly irresponsible for Chuck Schumer to say such a thing'
• String of Air Crashes in 2025 Has Rattled Travelers
• DC plane crash victim's family files claims against FAA, Army
• Massive fire at Pennsylvania aerospace manufacturer prompts shelter-in-place order
• Philadelphia ICE vehicle catches fire due to 'mechanical issues' - The vehicle was reportedly being used for deportation operations at the time of the incident.
• ICE Driver Torches MAGA's Wild Theory About Van Fire in Philadelphia
• NY Governor Hochul Threatening to Remove Mayor Adams for Cooperating on Immigration
• 'Modern-day Mein Kampf': NYC Mayor Adams under fire for Hitler reference as calls for his resignation mount - Jewish leaders slammed the mayor's remarks as 'offensive' and a 'shanda'
• NY judge orders Eric Adams, Trump DOJ officials to court over motion to dismiss corruption charges
• Judge Orders Trump's DOJ to Explain Themselves on Eric Adams Reversal
• CNN Legal Analyst Says Trump DOJ Is Causing 'Existential Crisis' With Eric Adams Case
• Over 50 NY rabbis implore mayor and governor to oppose mass deportations
• Biden admin spent $20 billion on cars, home loans, other services for migrants: report
• Nearly 300 deportees from US held in Panama hotel as officials try to return them to their countries
• Trump Administration Ramps Up Fight Against Cartels in Skies Above Mexico
• CIA uses drones to sniff out cartels and fentanyl labs in Mexico: US official
• Report: Brazilian Drug Gangs See Massive Profits from Ozempic
• The Ketamine-Fueled 'Psychedelic Slumber Parties' That Get Tech Execs Back on Track
• Trans NCAA runner Cece Tefler claims men's titles won in women's sports can't be revoked: 'that's not how the direction of progressiveness works'
• Christian girls' basketball team to face trans athlete in playoff game as California defies Trump's order
• 'Wicked' Star and Black Lesbian Cynthia Erivo Cast as Jesus in 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at Hollywood Bowl
• First openly gay DC federal judge rakes Trump admin over military trans ban
• 'Unadulterated animus': Judge spars with DOJ over Trump transgender military ban
• Crazed Biden Judge Signals She May Block Trump's EO on Transgender Troops, Says the Assertion That Only Two Genders Exists is "Not Biologically Correct"
• Federal Judge Orders Trump Executive Action Reversed, Transgender Webpages Restored
• House Oversight Committee: $241 Million Spent on Transgender Surgeries and Treatments on Animals
• Education Department slashes grants for training teachers on 'divisive ideologies'
• West Virginia takes on 'woke' language, introduces bill to ban terms such as 'pregnant person' and 'chestfeeding'
• Major Pro-Life Organizations Accused of Thwarting Bill That Would Have Recognized Abortion as Murder
• Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for 'radical transparency' from government
• Georgia woman sues IVF clinic after she says she gave birth to another family's child
• Cuomo loses attempt to block probe into his $5M pandemic book deal
• How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right
• Montana seeks to ban mRNA shots as vaccine hesitancy soars
• RFK Jr. calls for new age of 'radical transparency' at HHS, tells critics they 'can retire'
• RFK Jr. tells staff he will 'investigate' childhood vaccine schedule, anti-depression drugs
• Kennedy Says 'Nothing' Off Limits in Scrutinizing Chronic Disease - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., laying out his early health agenda, said he would examine childhood vaccines, psychiatric drugs and other "formerly taboo" topics in investigating the causes of chronic disease
• West Texas measles outbreak grows to 58 cases, including some people who said they were vaccinated
• Philippine village battles dengue by offering bounties for mosquitos - dead or alive
• USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
• Looking to slash Medicaid funding, Republicans consider cutting billions of dollars
• Minnesota declares state of emergency as diseases cripple Midwestern farms
• Pope Francis has double pneumonia, complicating his treatment, Vatican says
• Pope Warned Confidants He May Not Survive Health Scare