Trump Doesn't Want You To See This  —  So, here you go!  —  Dan Rather and Team Steady  —  We're here today to help out an old colleague call out blatant censorship and support the First Amendment.  Late-night host Stephen Colbert found himself hard up against CBS lawyers on Monday.

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 …

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.

“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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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

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 …

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside  — Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email

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).

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Jesse Jackson's Passing Should Stir the Democracy Movement  —  The SAVE Act and other MAGA policies would destroy the civil rights legacy  —  With Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s passing, we lose one of the dwindling number of direct links to Martin Luther King, Jr. and to the mid-20th century Civil Rights generation.

‘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 …

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.

Donald Trump's AI push fuels revolt in Maga heartlands  —  Republicans fear backlash against White House agenda could undermine support in this year's midterm elections  —  On a cold Tuesday evening last week, about 200 Missourians crammed into a Methodist church to share a message …

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.