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President Trump Honors Angel Families, Remembers American Lives Lost to Illegal Immigration – The White House

Today, President Donald J. Trump welcomed Angel Families to the White House for an emotional ceremony honoring American lives tragically taken by criminal illegal aliens who never should have been in our country. Paying solemn tribute to the second anniversary of Laken Riley’s murder, President Trump signed a Proclamation designating February 22 as National Angel

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An endless feed of celebrities eating chicken wings

Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn. We’re doing three nights across three months at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg. TICKETS ARE GOING FAST for our March 10th show, with special guest Katie Notopoulos. So grab them while you can by clicking the buttons below. Crossing The Slop Threshold Last week, I wrote about

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Rubio visiting Caribbean to reassert Trump’s interests after Venezuela strikes and Iran threats

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis this week to reassert the Trump administration’s interests in the Western Hemisphere just a month after the U.S. military operation that removed then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power. With the eyes of much of the world

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Elon Musk’s Net Worth Is So Large He Could Buy Ford, GM, Rivian And Toyota—And Still Have $141 Billion Left

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is the world’s richest person by a significant margin. While some of the other billionaires have watched their wealth decline in 2026, Musk is gaining. Here’s how his net worth stacks up compared to the automotive sector. The top 10 richest people in the world have lost

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John Oliver on Elon Musk’s X: ‘Now worse than useless’ | TV comedy

On his new episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time digging into the files related to late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, which have once again ensnared former prince Andrew. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known after being stripped of his royal titles for his connection to Epstein, was arrested last week

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‘Profoundly moving’: Netflix’s posthumous celebrity interview series is a marvel | Television

Exactly one day after the death of actor Eric Dane, a new show appeared on Netflix. Entitled Famous Last Words, it consisted of an interview with none other than Eric Dane himself. While at first the timing of the release might have seemed coincidental at best and exploitative at worst, the reality of the interview

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Wikipedia founder sees no threat from Musk’s Grokipedia

Feb. 23, 2026, 9:42 a.m. ET The founder of Wikipedia said he isn’t worried about the threat posed to the free online encyclopedia from AI-generated content, including from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, because of how error-prone the information tends to be. “Why do I go to Wikipedia? I go to Wikipedia because it’s human-vetted knowledge,” said

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Inside India’s AI Summit: Robot fraud, gridlocked roads, shirtless protests, and an AWOL Bill Gates

Yoshua Bengio, like many participants of India’s AI impact Summit, was running late.  By 6 p.m., the New Delhi roads were too gridlocked for the deep learning pioneer, known as one of the “godfathers” of AI, to successfully make it to an event discussing the International AI Safety report he chaired. Instead, he delivered his

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White House, Trump Mock Canada Over USA’s Ice Hockey Victory

The White House and President Donald Trump wasted little time in reacting to Team USA’s gold medal win against its rival Canada in the men’s ice hockey final at the close of the Winter Olympics. Hitting out at its northern neighbour, the White House posted an image of an American bald eagle trampling a Canadian

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Stocks sell off as traders realize Trump’s new tariff options could be ‘highly punitive’

The dollar declined against foreign currencies, stocks in Asia and Europe broadly sold off, and S&P 500 futures were down 0.22% before the open in New York as investors began to realize that the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s tariff decision, and President Donald Trump’s reaction to it, is going to be more complex

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Checks and balances aren’t working under Trump, growing majority says

On the eve of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, two-thirds of Americans say the system of checks and balances that divides power between the White House, Congress and the courts is not working well, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll. That’s a dramatic rise in the percentage of people who say

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China’s Xi congratulates North’s Kim on re-election, reaffirms ‘unwavering policy’ to advance ties

Published: 23 Feb. 2026, 18:07 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their talks on Sept. 4, 2025. [YONHAP]   Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on his re-election as the ruling party’s general secretary and vowed to strengthen strategic cooperation with

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Trump said he’d end Ukraine war in a single day. Is peace close?

Feb. 23, 2026, 3:01 a.m. ET WASHINGTON – Donald Trump has taken extraordinary action when it comes to confronting authoritarians in places like Venezuela, where U.S. forces captured leader Nicolas Maduro, and Iran, where he bombed nuclear sites in June and is now threatening a new attack.  But there’s one strongman Trump has consistently refused

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Stoxx 600, FTSE, DAX, CAC, Trump tariffs reaction

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a press briefing at the White House, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump had exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 20, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters LONDON — European stocks are expected to start the week in negative territory as global markets

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Supreme Court tariff ruling boosts China’s leverage before Trump-Xi summit

US President Donald Trump (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping shake hands as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will seek a truce in their bruising trade war on October 30, with

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From bakeries to beauty shops, Russian businesses are feeling the pain from a new wartime tax policy

Denis Maksimov’s bakery in suburban Moscow became famous overnight after he appeared on President Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show in December. Standing in front of the bakery — called Mashenka, after his oldest daughter -– he pleaded with Putin via video to look into new tax reforms that are significantly increasing the burden on small

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Donald Trump Sends a Message to Team USA Hockey After Gold Medal Win

Donald Trump responded publicly after Team USA secured a gold medal in men’s hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Following the team’s overtime victory over Canada in Milan, the president shared a message congratulating the players and later spoke with them directly as celebrations continued. Donald Trump congratulates team USA hockey Donald Trump congratulated the

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Donald Trump’s support with ‘bro culture’ is waning

Moments of collective unity have become rare in the United States. The country is so deeply divided that even mourning no longer brings people together. This was evident in September 2025, after the assassination of ultra-conservative activist Charlie Kirk, or in January with the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, both killed

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Bitcoin falls below $65,000 as Trump tariff moves raise uncertainty

Bitcoin fell more than 5% to below $65,000 on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to raise global tariffs to 15%. The drop came as Asian equities rose in early trade, underscoring crypto’s divergence from regional stock markets amid renewed tariff uncertainty. Bitcoin has seen a sharp sell-off since October last year when

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Trump’s new tariffs: Economists question ‘balance-of-payments crisis’

Feb. 22, 2026, 8:03 p.m. ET With his move to impose new global tariffs, U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t just trying to repair a trade policy dismantled by a Supreme Court rebuke. He’s also declaring the world’s largest economy is facing a profound balance-of-payments crisis. The potential problem for Trump and his administration with that

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