Thursday, February 15

🚨NATION

📌 ICE draft plan would release thousands of immigrants in order to cover budget shortfall (CBS NEWS)

📌 Prosecutors released a "trove of new details" in Sen. Bob Menendez case, including allegations that his wife's engagement ring was part of a bribery scheme (CNN)

📌 California lawmakers try to address homelessness with new proposed encampment ban (ABC NEWS)

📌 Graffiti towers are stretching resources, LAPD says after BASE jumping stunt (NBC NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Israel launches 'extensive' strikes in Lebanon after rockets hit army base. (BBC)

📌 Appeals court upholds prison sentence for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (POLITICO)

📌 Israel pulls out of truce talks in Cairo, cites Hamas' 'delusional demands' (USA TODAY)

📌 Greece's parliament is poised to vote today on a controversial bill to legalize same-sex marriage (NPR)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn (GUARDIAN)

📌 Jeff Bezos sells $2 billion worth of Amazon stock (FOX BUSINESS)

📌 AI is shaking up online dating with chatbots that are ‘flirty but not too flirty’ (CNBC)

📌 COVID patients are 4.3 times more likely to develop chronic fatigue, CDC report finds (ABC NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 For the first time, a woman will be the voice of an MLB team as Oakland A's hire Jenny Cavnar for the play-by-play call (NBC NEWS)

📌 Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ return hits multiyear high (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 Kanye West new album ‘Uncancellable’ reaches number one on steaming despite his previous antisemitic statements (UNHERD)

📌 Beyonce and family support nephew during New York Fashion Week runway debut (PEOPLE)

📌 Public's first glimpse of Shohei Ohtani in a Dodgers uniform since record-breaking 10-year, $700 million contract (SI)