Wednesday, February 18, 2026

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Walz’s $10M Anti‑ICE Loans Initiate COVID Fraud Comparisons

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s $10 million forgivable loan plan for businesses purportedly affected by ICE operations sparked immediate criticism and comparisons to Minnesota’s pandemic-era fraud scandal.  Walz announced the program during a Thursday press conference in response to the Trump administration’s withdrawal of federal agents from the state.  Critics, including...

Entire Portions of Nations Flooded into U.S. During Biden Administration

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A graphic showing the percentage of border entries during the Biden administration has gone viral on social media, highlighting that a significant portion of some countries’ populations made their way into the U.S.  The graphic, created by data scientist Jonathan Pallesen and shared Friday via X, shows that between four and six percent of the populations of Nicaragua, Cuba, Honduras, Haiti, Guatemala and Venezuela...

Trans-led School Massacre in Canada Sparks Media Spin

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Some news outlets in Canada rushed to protect the preferred gender identity of the unhinged suspect behind one of the deadliest school shootings in their country’s history.  The suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar—a biological male who identified as transgender—killed six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday. Rootselaar killed himself shortly after the mass shooting.  Critics online...

Trump Has ‘Very Good’ Meeting With Netanyahu

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that “nothing definitive” was reached during what he described as “very good” talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. “I have just finished meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, of Israel, and various of his Representatives,” Trump wrote...

Report: US Smuggled Thousands of Starlink Terminals Into Iran During Protests

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US smuggled thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran in January to support anti-government protesters inside the country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The report said that the State Department purchased 7,000 Starlink terminals several months ago with the aim of providing them to anti-government...

Trump Says It Will Be ‘Very Traumatic’ for Iran if a Nuclear Deal Isn’t Reached

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Thursday that it would be “very traumatic” for Iran if Washington and Tehran don’t reach a nuclear deal, echoing threats he made last year in the lead-up to the 12-Day War. “We have to make a deal with Iran, otherwise it’s going...

Just How Much Are Those Olympic Medals Worth?

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) It’s really exciting watching those Olympic athletes go for those silver medals, eh? No, you don’t need to send me emails telling me there is a typo in the first line of my article. I meant what I wrote. They are going for silver. Now,...

The Government Job Eraser Strikes Again!

(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The Federal Reserve put interest rate cuts on pause at the January meeting. The central bankers cited expanding economic activity and a stable labor market as reasons for the pause. The official FOMC statement asserted that while “job gains have remained low, the unemployment rate...

Goldman Sachs’ Top Lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to Resign After Emails Show Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

(Headline USA) Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at storied investment bank Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, announced her resignation Thursday, after emails between her and Jeffrey Epstein showed a close relationship where she described him as an “older brother” and downplayed his sex...

WATCH: Trump Terminates Obama-Era Climate Change Policy

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The Trump administration on Thursday terminated the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Endangerment Finding,” a landmark policy that led to sweeping climate change regulations and higher costs across the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr0qpvMs5Ms "This action will eliminate over $1.3 trillion in regulatory costs and help bring car prices tumbling down...

Gun Maker to Pay $1.75M Over Accessory Used in 2022 New York Shooting

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) A Georgia-based gunmaker has agreed to stop selling a high-capacity magazine accessory used in the 2022 Buffalo mass shooting after settling a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Under the settlement, announced Wednesday, Mean Arms, also known as Mean LLC., has also...

FBI Named High Profile Man “Co-Conspirator’ to Epstein, Files Show

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice unredacted portions of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein files with mentions of high profile figures at the request of Congressional leaders. On Monday, U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., visited the Department of Justice to view several...
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