Colbert's James Talarico Interview Hits 3 Million YouTube Views, Surpasses Bad Bunny Appearance  —  “The Late Show” aired the interview straight to YouTube after alleged pressure from CBS over the FCC's equal-time rule  —  Stephen Colbert's sit-down with Texas State Rep. James Talarico …

“Corrupt,” “cruel”: Americans send Trump, GOP a midterm warning  —  Nearly half of Americans would describe President Trump as “corrupt,” “racist” and “cruel” in new polling full of midterm warning signs for Republicans. … - About 47% of those surveyed said they would use “racist” to describe the president.

STAT+: FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna's flu vaccine  —  WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.  —  The agency told Moderna earlier this month …

Scoop: Dems eye forced vote to censure Randy Fine  —  House Democrats are discussing a forced vote to censure Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doesn't take action, Axios has learned. … - While the increasingly irreverent and partisan use of censure in recent years …

Republicans are eyeing major election changes.  Trump's mail voting crackdown isn't one of them. … But other Republicans don't see it that way — many of their own voters have voted by mail consistently for decades.  So far, the type of blanket ban on mail voting Trump wants has not gained traction …

Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody … That crystallized over the weekend in Massachusetts, when Djeniffer Benvinda Semedo, a Cape Verdean national who is six months pregnant, was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for emergency care.

Angry Trump Humiliated as Effort to Prosecute Dems Backfires Again  —  Let's start with some good news: Donald Trump's efforts to jail his Democratic enemies have thus far mostly been marked by ham-fisted, buffoonish failure.  The targeting of people like Senator Adam Schiff …

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment  —  After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.  —  Copy HTML

2/18/26☀️ AM: … Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson has held out on redistricting even as the state House has passed the measure by overwhelming margins. … Over the last six months, D.C. Republicans unleashed a tidal wave of TV ads boosting Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments  —  The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism.  It's part of a series of actions the agency …

Liberal Media Outlets Refuse To Call Rhode Island Shooter ‘Transgender’ As Number of Transgender Killers Grows  —  Liberal media outlets have refused to identify the perpetrator who went on a shooting spree at a Rhode Island youth hockey game on Monday as transgender.

Trump moves closer to a major war with Iran  —  The Trump administration is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize.  It could begin very soon. … - The sources noted it would likely be a joint U.S.-Israeli campaign that's much broader in scope …

Deadly DC crash involving a US Army helicopter caused by ‘systemic failures,’ NTSB says  —  WASHINGTON — A series of systematic failures caused a U.S. Army helicopter to crash into a passenger jet near Washington, D.C. last year, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Extremist rhetoric is often found in government messaging.  Who's the target?  —  A recent social media post from an account belonging to President Trump prompted enough outcry over its use of a familiar racist trope that the White House deleted it.  The Truth Social post included an image …

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to ‘crimes against humanity,’ UN experts say  —  Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity …

Our running list of judges who have ruled on ICE's mass detention policy … This “mandatory detention” push — an unprecedented reinterpretation of decades-old laws — has resulted in thousands of people, most without criminal records, being detained, even if they have lived in the country for decades without incident.

‘Professor Uthmeier’: Inside Florida attorney general's $100k teaching job at UF  —  Within months of Gov. Ron DeSantis handpicking him as Florida's new attorney general last winter, James Uthmeier landed a lucrative side gig: a $100,000-a-year teaching assignment at University of Florida's law school …

Where Christian nationalism is most dominant in the U.S.  —  Christian nationalism is now deeply entrenched inside today's Republican Party, according to a sweeping 50-state survey. … - The divide reflects a broader clash over whether America's future is pluralistic or rooted in a singular religious-national identity.

Doug Wilson Preaches at Pentagon, Compares Services to Day of Pentecost  —  Controversial Christian Nationalist preacher Doug Wilson stood at a podium inside the Pentagon on Tuesday (Feb. 17) as the guest preacher for the latest monthly Christian worship service held there for leaders of the U.S. military.

Billionaires Gone Wild  —  Understanding the oligarchs' power grab and the dire threat to American democracy  —  A few stories about centibillionaires — men whose net worth exceeds $100 billion — and their role in our society:  —  · In 2022 Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, purchased Twitter.

Why voters hate Trump's (pretty decent) economy  —  President Donald Trump spent much of the past year engineering price increases, financial panics, and trade wars.  —  Nonetheless, despite his best efforts, he is presiding over a pretty good economy.  Or so the headline statistics would suggest.

DHS spokesperson to leave Trump administration amid agency turmoil … Noem released her own statement saying “McLaughlin has served with exceptional dedication, tenacity, and professionalism.”  —  But the news led House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to say, “Another MAGA extremist forced out of DHS.

Air Force One jets to be repainted in Trump's preferred colors  —  Air Force One jets are expected to receive a new paint job in President Trump's preferred colors of red, white, gold and dark blue, The Hill's sister network NewsNation has confirmed.  —  Both the luxury jet donated by Qatar …

Trump picks his White House assistant for panel reviewing ballroom  —  Chamberlain Harris, a 26-year-old White House aide and the president's longtime executive assistant, is set to be sworn in Thursday.  —  When Congress created the Commission of Fine Arts more than a century ago …

Exclusive: Rubio's secret squeeze on Raul Castro's Cuba  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been holding secret talks with the grandson and caretaker of Cuba's aging de facto dictator, Raul Castro, as the U.S. puts unprecedented pressure on Havana's regime, three sources tell Axios.