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5:05 AM ET, February 23, 2026

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TMZ.com:
Armed Man Shot Dead at Mar-a-Lago Was Fixated on Epstein Files, Text Shows  —  The armed man shot and killed by Secret Service agents outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property Sunday had grown increasingly obsessed with the Epstein files and was also a vocal supporter of Trump ... TMZ has learned.
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Sonia A. Rao / New York Times:
Armed Man Shot Dead at Mar-a-Lago by Trump's Secret Service Was a 21-Year-Old From N.C.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Secret Service Shoots Armed Intruder at Mar-a-Lago; UPDATE: Identified
Associated Press:
U.S. Secret Service shot and killed armed man who entered the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Armed man shot and killed inside Mar-a-Lago perimeter, Secret Service says
Daysia Tolentino / The Daily Beast:
Keystone Kash Busted Celebrating in Olympic Locker Room on ‘Work Trip’  —  TAXPAYER'S GOLD  —  His assistant public affairs director insisted the FBI director was not in Italy for the Winter Olympics.  —  Kash Patel's taxpayer-funded work trip to Italy included a well-documented raucous …
Discussion: Raw Story and NOTUS
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Director Celebrates Hockey Victory as Bureau Stares Down Crises
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Trump Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack  —  The top negotiators plan to meet in Geneva on Thursday for last-ditch talks, debating a new proposal that could create an off-ramp as two carrier groups massed within striking distance of Iran.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Iran Could Direct Proxies to Attack U.S. Targets Abroad, Officials Warn
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Atlantic Council
Fabiola Sánchez / Associated Press:
Mexican army kills leader of powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel during operation to capture him  —  The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho, ” on Sunday, decapitating what had become Mexico's most powerful cartel …
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New York Times:
Mayhem Rocks Mexico After Most-Wanted Cartel Boss Is Killed  —  “El Mencho” was the longtime head of one of the nation's most powerful cartels.  Armed groups set fire to cars and buildings across Mexico in the wake of his death.  —  The Mexican government said it killed the nation's …
Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: New US military-led group aided Mexico's hunt for ‘El Mencho’ cartel boss
Washington Post:
Trump's talk of sending a hospital ship to Greenland puzzles leaders  —  Greenland doesn't want the help, and the U.S. doesn't appear to have any hospital ships available to send.  —  President Donald Trump's announcement over the weekend that he would be sending a “great hospital boat” …
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New York Times:
Denmark Rejects Trump's Plan to Send Hospital Boat to Greenland
Stine Jacobsen / Reuters:
Greenland prime minister says ‘no thanks’ to Trump's hospital ship
Hana Kiros / The Atlantic:
The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives  —  The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.  —  A year after the Trump administration began …
Holly Otterbein / Axios:
Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes  —  Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and RedState
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U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Mexico:
Security Alert - Update: Ongoing Security Operations - U.S. Mission Mexico (February 22, 2026)
Discussion: WXIA-TV
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Trump's Netflix threat is a warning to every CEO  — President Donald Trump wants Netflix to boot board member Susan Rice.  — Netflix wants Trump's approval for its planned purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.  — Corporate governance isn't supposed to involve the White House.
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Axios:
Dems eyeing 2028 are retreating from AI data centers  —  The AI backpedaling has begun: 2028 Democratic contenders who bet big on data centers are suddenly retreating amid a growing voter revolt. … - Just a few months ago, potential 2028 presidential candidates — including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker …
Leslie Josephs / CNBC:
DHS abruptly reverses course on suspending TSA PreCheck  —  The Transportation Security Administration said on Sunday that its PreCheck airport screening lanes are operational, hours after the Trump administration said the faster security checkpoint services would be paused amid the partial government shutdown.
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New York Times:
Trump Aides Project Confidence on Tariffs After Court Loss  —  Administration officials maintain that they can replicate the sky-high duties recently invalidated by the Supreme Court.  —  The Trump administration signaled on Sunday that it was on track to resurrect many of its punishing tariffs …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American  —  So often in the iPhone Age, the whole world is watching the ugly side of humanity as captured on video, from murder in the snowy streets of Minneapolis to a plainclothes Pennsylvania police chief appearing to place a protesting teen girl in a chokehold.
Discussion: CounterPunch
Reuters:
New Dutch PM Jetten faces uphill task as minority government installed  —  Rob Jetten became the youngest prime minister in Dutch history on Monday when his minority government was formally confirmed in power by King Willem-Alexander.  —  Jetten, 38, propelled his progressive …
Discussion: Politico
Paige Skinner / HuffPost:
A Voice Sounding Like Trump Called Into C-SPAN And His Name Was A Pseudonym Trump Has Reportedly Used  —  “John Barron” complained about the Supreme Court's ruling against Trump's tariffs.  —  A man named John Barron called into C-SPAN's “Washington Journal” on Friday morning to complain …
Emily Goodin / New York Post:
Trump to honor Laken Riley and other ‘angel families’ ahead of State of the Union address  —  WASHINGTON - President Trump will honor the family of Laken Riley and other victims of crimes by illegal immigrants on Monday by declaring an “Angel Family Day,” The Post can exclusively reveal.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
 
 
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Jason Willick / Washington Post:
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Kelly Hooper / Politico:
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Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The BBC removes BAFTAs, telecast on a two-hour delay, from iPlayer after failing to cut the N-word involuntarily shouted by an audience member with Tourette's

Matt Grobar / Deadline:
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr announces a voluntary campaign for broadcasters to celebrate the United States' 250th birthday by airing patriotic content

 
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