Monday, March 17

🚨NATION

📌 Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says (POLITICO)

📌 At least 40 killed as dozens of tornadoes, storms swept the country over the weekend (NBC)

📌 Trump to release remaining classified JFK assassination files Tuesday (MO NEWS)

📌 Sen. Chuck Schumer's book tour postponed amid funding vote controversy (ABC)

 🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 From France comes a call for Trump’s America to return Lady Liberty. Here’s why it won’t happen (AP)

📌 Trump says Iran will suffer 'dire' consequences for any more Houthi attacks (ABC)

📌 Popular singer shot dead by hitmen in Peru, prompting state of emergency in capital over extortion killings (CBS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less (ABC)

📌 NASA astronauts stuck in space are set to depart space station Tuesday (NBC)

📌 Forever 21 to close all U.S. stores, files for bankruptcy again (MO NEWS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Justin Bieber is 'drowning,' feels 'unsafe' to acknowledge the hate he feels (FOX)

📌 Deadline looms for Homeland Security to release Harry's US visa records (BBC)

📌 Conan O’Brien to return as Oscars host for 2026 awards ceremony (GUARDIAN)

Friday, March 14

🚨NATION

📌 DHS arrests another student involved in Columbia university protests on immigration charges (ABC)

📌 Big March storm system threatens US with tornadoes, blizzards and wildfire risk (AP)

📌 Dr. Oz Testifies at Confirmation Hearing (C-SPAN)

📌 Migrants held In Guantánamo flown back to U.S. after facility & budget shortfalls (MO NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Hamas agrees to release Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage (FOX)

📌 China, Russia back Iran as Trump presses Tehran for nuclear talks (AP)

📌 A U.S. influencer outrages Australians by snatching a baby wombat from its mom (NPR)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 After canceling meeting of independent advisers, FDA issues 2025-26 flu vaccine recommendations (CNN)

📌 Gold reaches $3,000 as trade war escalates, economic uncertainty rises (MO NEWS)

📌 FTC asks to delay Amazon trial over 'dire' resources, then quickly backtracks (NPR)

📌 Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users (VERGE)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 March Madness Brackets Released Sunday: A Preview (NPR)

📌 Warriors star Stephen Curry makes history with 4,000th career 3-pointer (NBA)

📌 Dwyane Wade opens up about kidney cancer diagnosis and urges proactivity with health concerns (CNN)

📌 ‘Freakier Friday’ trailer: Jamie Lee Curtis & Lindsay Lohan return 22 years later (DEADLINE)

Thursday, March 13

🚨NATION

📌 21 Democratic Attorneys General sue over gutting of Education Department (NY TIMES) Federal student loan site down Wednesday (AP)

📌 Layoff plans are due Thursday. Feds are terrified. (POLITICO) Judge orders Trump admin to reinstate probationary workers fired at 6 agencies (FOX NEWS)

📌 Protesters arrested after storming Trump Tower to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil (CNN)

📌 White House withdraws CDC director nomination just before his Senate confirmation hearing (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates (CNN)

📌 Putin backs Trump's push for Ukraine ceasefire in principle, but says "there are issues" to discuss with U.S. (CBS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Dow slides and S&P enters correction territory as Trump’s trade war escalates (CNN)

📌 Meta stops ex-director from promoting critical memoir (BBC)

📌 SpaceX delays flight to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts after launch pad problem (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Disney holds small-scale Snow White premiere amid controversy (BBC)

📌 Meghan Markle announces her new podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder” (VOUGE)

📌 Blake Lively wins confidentiality order for sensitive information in Justin Baldoni suit (VARIETY)

Wednesday, March 12

🚨NATION

📌 Senate Democratic leader says Democrats will refuse to back a GOP stopgap bill to fund the government through Sept. 30 (NY TIMES)

📌 EPA head says he’ll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change (AP)

📌 Immigrant detention centers are at capacity, Trump admin officials say (NBC)

📌 Steve Bannon to Gavin Newsom on latest podcast: ‘You Love All the Oligarchs, and Particularly Elon, Until They Flip’ (THE WRAP)

📌 NYC Mayor Eric Adams reveals he stopped reading news (NY POST)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 EU retaliates against Trump’s trade moves and hits beef, whiskey, motorcycles with targeted tariffs (AP)

📌 Greenland’s center-right opposition wins closely watched election dominated by Trump’s annexation threat (CNN)

📌 Putin expected to stretch out Ukraine talks to seek better terms (BLOOMBERG)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Inflation receded in February, here’s the inflation breakdown in one chart (CNBC)

📌 Chuck E. Cheese’s rebrand means no more animatronic band (TODAY)

📌 U.S. budget deficit surged in February, passing $1 trillion for year-to-date record (CNBC)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Woman who accused Jay-Z of rape heard on recording saying lawyer pushed her to sue (ABC)

📌 Ne-Yo introduces ‘my pyramid,’ the four women with whom he’s in a polyamorous relationship (CNN)

📌 Cheating scandal shocks ski jumping, topples Olympic champions and shakes Norway’s lofty reputation (AP)

📌 Spotify says it paid nearly 1,500 artists $1 million or more in royalties for 2024 streams (CNBC)

Tuesday, March 11

🚨NATION

📌 Republicans advance a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown despite Democratic opposition (AP)

📌 'There's a serious safety issue', investigators say following DCA mid-air collision (NPR)

📌 Trump admin launches new app with "self-deport" feature (AXIOS)

📌 Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’ (POLITICO)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 With Trump and independence on their minds, Greenlanders vote in parliamentary elections (AP)

📌 The list of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities is out. All but one are in Asia (CNN)

📌 Man arrested in connection with tanker-container ship collision in North Sea (ABC)

📌 Philippines' former president arrested on ICC warrant (AXIOS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Goodbye free bags on Southwest Airlines, company to eliminate perk for most customers (MO NEWS)

📌 Kennedy gives food company CEOs an ultimatum on artificial dyes (POLITICO)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Billy Joel postpones concerts for 4 months due to ‘medical condition’ (FOX)

📌 Gigi Hadid reveals she and Bradley Cooper met at a kid's birthday party, says he's 'very romantic' (YAHOO)

Monday, March 10

🚨NATION

📌 Supreme Court takes up challenge to Colorado conversion therapy ban (NBC)

📌 Los Angeles DA Nathan Hochman asks to withdraw predecessor's motion to free Menendez brothers (FOX)

📌 DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ plaza from street near White House (AP)

📌 Rubio says Trump administration canceling 83% of programs at USAID and intends to move remaining ones to State Department (CNN)

📌 Dominican authorities think missing college student may have drowned. Her family isn't so sure (PEOPLE)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump’s trade war (AP)

📌 U.S. says Ukraine partial ceasefire plan 'has promise' ahead of talks in Saudi Arabia (BBC)

📌 Tanker and cargo vessel in fiery collision off English coast, triggering explosions and fuel leak (NBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Dow tumbles 800 points, Nasdaq falls 3.9% as market sell-off intensifies on recession fears (CNBC)

📌 Washington Post to overhaul newsroom structure (AXIOS)

📌 What to know about March's full "Blood Worm Moon," a total lunar eclipse (CBS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Amazon to begin streaming Trump's 'The Apprentice' (NBC)

📌 Ariana Grande sets ‘Eternal Sunshine’ deluxe release date for this month (VARIETY)

Friday, March 7

🚨NATION

📌 Trump administration must pay debts to USAID partners by Monday, judge rules (NBC)

📌 $400 million in federal grants and contracts pulled from Columbia over allegations of antisemitism (AXIOS)

📌 New day, new tariff threat: Trump’s proposed 250% tax on Canadian dairy, lumber (CNN)

📌 Trump sends letter to Iran's leader proposing nuclear deal (MO NEWS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 China’s foreign minister blasts the US over tariffs at his annual meeting with journalists (AP)

📌 Unexploded WWII bomb in Paris halts Eurostar travel to London and trains to northern France (ABC)

📌 Court orders South Korean President Yoon released from jail for his criminal trial over martial law (NBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft explodes midflight for a second time, disrupting Florida air traffic (CNN)

📌 US employers add a solid 151,000 jobs last month though unemployment up to 4.1% (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 $10M reward offered for arrest of former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug lord (ABC)

📌 Sam Bankman-Fried calls Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'kind' in jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson (MO NEWS)

Thursday, March 6

🚨NATION

📌 10 Democrats join with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green for Trump speech protest (CNN)

📌 Republicans can't meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says (NBC)

📌 Elon Musk comes to Capitol Hill to meet with Republicans who discuss turning DOGE cuts into law (AP)

📌 Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports (POLITICO)

📌 Less than half in U.S. now sympathetic toward Israelis (GALLUP)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 France’s Macron says Europe must be prepared to go it alone in defending Ukraine, entire continent against Russia (MO NEWS) About 20 countries could join Ukraine coalition, UK says (BBC)

📌 Schools are closed and public transport has stopped as rare cyclone approaches Australian coast (AP)

📌 Trump issues ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all hostages, as US holds direct talks with Hamas (CNN)

📌 Romania foils ‘revolution’ of pro-Russia group featuring a 101-year-old man (POLITICO)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Layoffs across the U.S. soar to highest level since 2020, led by DOGE cuts (CBS)

📌 Mortgage rates have declined but could stay at a level that makes it tough to afford a home (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Pamela Bach, Baywatch actor and David Hasselhoff’s ex-wife, dies (PEOPLE) 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine' musician Roy Ayers dies at 84 (ABC)

📌 T-shirts, thongs and perfect twerking: Anora spent $18m on marketing – three times its budget (GUARDIAN)

📌 Cybercriminals arrested for stealing hundreds of concert tickets through StubHub exploit (VERGE)

Wednesday, March 5

🚨NATION

📌 Divided Supreme Court reinstates order requiring Trump administration to release frozen foreign aid (AP)

📌 Sylvester Turner, Democratic congressman and former Houston mayor, dies at 70 (CNN)

📌 DC Black Lives Matter Plaza to get new look, replace street mural as part of 'evolution' (FOX)

📌 Trump to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs (PBS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 U.S. and Israel reject plan agreed by Arab states proposing alternative to Trump's Gaza 'Riviera' (NBC)

📌 U.S. stops sharing intelligence with Ukraine (CBC)

📌 Trump issues final warning to Hamas (NY POST) US holding secret talks with terror group (AXIOS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Trump grants automakers one-month exemption from tariffs (CNBC)

📌 Apple unveils new MacBook Air models with $100 price cut despite tariffs (VERGE)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 LeBron James first with 50K points in regular season, playoffs (ESPN)

📌 Common tries, fails to protect Jennifer Hudson while sitting courtside at Knicks game (SI)

📌 Harvey Weinstein addresses Adrien Brody's Oscars speech about his kids 'accepting' actor into life with Georgina Chapman (EW)

Tuesday, March 4

🚨NATION

📌 Hegseth directs DOD civilian workforce to comply with Musk’s DOGE productivity email (FOX)

📌 Andrew Cuomo jumps into New York mayor’s race, attempting political comeback (MO NEWS)

📌 Democrats invite fired federal workers to Trump’s Tuesday primetime Congressional Address (GUARDIAN)

📌 South Carolina governor declares state of emergency as wildfires erupt in Carolinas, Georgia (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Hegseth suspends offensive cyber operations against Russia (AXIOS)

📌 Israel says it will block Gaza humanitarian aid until Hamas agrees to new conditions (CNN)

📌 A driver rams a car into crowd in Germany, leaving 1 dead and others injured (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 RFK Jr. urges Americans to get measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak (MO NEWS)

📌 Bitcoin tumbles 9% after rallying following Trump’s crypto reserve announcement (CNBC)

📌 'We're on the moon': The private Blue Ghost spacecraft makes a historic lunar landing (NPR)

📌 Driverless race car sets a new autonomous speed record (VERGE)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Oscars 2025 Winners: ‘Anora’ Leads With 5 Wins Followed by ‘The Brutalist’ With 3 (VARIETY)

📌 Adrien Brody sets world record for longest acceptance speech in Oscars history (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 Kieran Culkin says wife owes him a 4th kid for winning an Oscar (ABC)

📌 Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa’s bodies test negative for carbon monoxide; Hackman’s pacemaker stopped on Feb. 17 (VARIETY)

Monday, March 3

🚨NATION

📌 Hegseth directs DOD civilian workforce to comply with Musk’s DOGE productivity email (FOX)

📌 Andrew Cuomo jumps into New York mayor’s race, attempting political comeback (MO NEWS)

📌 Democrats invite fired federal workers to Trump’s Tuesday primetime Congressional Address (GUARDIAN)

📌 South Carolina governor declares state of emergency as wildfires erupt in Carolinas, Georgia (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Hegseth suspends offensive cyber operations against Russia (AXIOS)

📌 Israel says it will block Gaza humanitarian aid until Hamas agrees to new conditions (CNN)

📌 A driver rams a car into crowd in Germany, leaving 1 dead and others injured (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 RFK Jr. urges Americans to get measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak (MO NEWS)

📌 Bitcoin tumbles 9% after rallying following Trump’s crypto reserve announcement (CNBC)

📌 'We're on the moon': The private Blue Ghost spacecraft makes a historic lunar landing (NPR)

📌 Driverless race car sets a new autonomous speed record (VERGE)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Oscars 2025 Winners: ‘Anora’ Leads With 5 Wins Followed by ‘The Brutalist’ With 3 (VARIETY)

📌 Adrien Brody sets world record for longest acceptance speech in Oscars history (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 Kieran Culkin says wife owes him a 4th kid for winning an Oscar (ABC)

📌 Gene Hackman, Betsy Arakawa’s bodies test negative for carbon monoxide; Hackman’s pacemaker stopped on Feb. 17 (VARIETY)

Friday, February 28

🚨NATION

📌 Trump fires hundreds working on weather forecasts, satellite data and radar systems (NPR)

📌 Trump to make English the official language of the U.S. (MO NEWS)

📌 White House restrictions on media signal ‘worrying’ precedent, Fox News’ Baier says (SEMAFOR)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Israeli team returning from Cairo as result of Hamas rejecting proposal to extend 1st phase of deal (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

📌 Hundreds of thousands protest across Greece over deadly train crash (MO NEWS)

📌 Pope Francis on breathing machine after suffering sudden respiratory episode (CNN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 TONIGHT: Seven planets to be visible Friday night in rare cosmic alignment (SEMAFOR)

📌 Citi mistakenly credits $81 trillion to customer account (CBS)

📌 Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again (NPR)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa's body had signs of 'Mummification' when discovered (PEOPLE)

📌 Blake Lively claims “tailored” win in Justin Baldoni telecom subpoenas skirmish; hires crisis PR vet (DEADLINE)

Thursday, February 27

🚨NATION

📌 Trump says Mexico, Canada tariffs will start March 4, plus additional 10% on China (MO NEWS)

📌 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul orders CUNY college to remove Palestinian Studies professor job listing (ABC) Pro-Palestinian protesters at Barnard College force entry into campus hall and injure employee, school says (NBC)

📌 Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight (CNN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Andrew Tate and brother, charged with rape and trafficking in Romania, leave country and land in Florida (CNN)

📌 Israeli military report shows Israel misread Hamas for years ahead of October 7 (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

📌 FBI accuses North Korean-backed hackers of stealing $1.5 billion in crypto from Dubai-based firm (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Elon Musk says upgrade of FAA’s air traffic control system is failing and SpaceX needs to take over Verizon’s contract (CNN)

📌 Amazon debuts Alexa+, its next-generation AI assistant (AXIOS)

📌 Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit (NPR)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez to go to space on next launch from Jeff Bezos' rocket company (NBC)

📌 Zendaya joins Shrek 5 cast as first footage reveals Shrek & Fiona's teenage daughter (NBC)

Monday, February 24

🚨NATION

📌 Trump names right-wing podcaster and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino to be second-in-command at FBI (POLITICO)

📌 FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier (AP)

📌 Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and two other military officers (CNN)

📌 Idaho woman forcibly dragged from local Republican town hall by private security (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Conservative opposition wins German election and the far right is 2nd with strongest postwar result (AP)

📌 Pope Francis resting on day 10 in hospital for lung infection that led to early stages of kidney insufficiency (FOX)

📌 France faces its largest child abuse trial, weeks after country was rocked by Pelicot case (CNN)

📌 Israel halts release of Palestinian prisoners over ‘humiliating’ hostage handovers (TIME OF ISRAEL) Israel sends tanks to the West Bank for the first time in 20 years (CNN)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Apple, facing tariffs on Chinese imports, says it will invest $500 billion in US facilities (CNN)

📌 Joy Reid leaving MSNBC after her show is canceled (AP)

📌 Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor of 'NBC Nightly News' after a decade (NBC)

📌 Home buyers are finally getting the upper hand again (WSJ)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer, dead at 88 (CNN)

📌 Two-week-old report regarding Eagles’ supposed plan to skip White House visits catches fire (NBC)

📌 Legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan announces final North American tour, kicking off in June (AP)

Friday, February 21

🚨NATION

📌 Los Angeles mayor removes fire chief in wake of massive wildfires (ABC)

📌 Trump administration to replace acting ICE director (WSJ)

📌 Senate adopts $340 billion budget blueprint for Trump's agenda (NBC)

📌 Judge adjourns case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, stops short of dismissing the charges (FOX)

📌 Luigi Mangione set to appear in court in New York state case today (ABC) Fans pack NYC court ahead of hearing (NY POST)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Supreme Court deals a severe blow to Holocaust survivors’ lawsuit against Hungary (AP)

📌 U.S. envoy praises Zelenskyy after Trump’s censure of the Ukrainian leader (AP)

📌 Pope Francis ‘not out of danger yet,’ will stay in hospital at least another week (CBS)

📌 Russia could concede $300 billion in frozen assets as part of Ukraine war settlement (US NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Odds of recently discovered asteroid hitting Earth drop nearly to zero (SPACE)

📌 U.S. consumer sentiment plunges over tariff and inflation fears (CNN)

📌 Shortage of popular drugs Wegovy and Ozempic is over, FDA says (USA TODAY)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Jenny Slate filed ‘It Ends With Us’ complaint over producer’s comments about motherhood (YAHOO)

📌 Diddy lawyer quits amid federal sex crimes charges (USA TODAY)

📌 Steve Martin blames ‘SNL 50th COVID curse’ after Martin Short and Maya Rudolph test positive (NBC)

Thursday, February 20

🚨NATION

📌 Kash Patel confirmed as FBI director by the Senate despite Democratic doubts (MO NEWS)

📌 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could soon fire or remove generals and senior officers (CNN)

📌 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul won't remove NYC Mayor Adams (POLITICO) Judge appears on track to let DOJ dismiss Adams case (POLITICO)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Egypt and its neighbors working on alternative to Trump's Gaza plan that wouldn't displace Palestinians (CBS)

📌 Spain's ex-soccer boss Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for World Cup kiss (USA TODAY)

📌 South Korean President Yoon appears in two different courts while defending his martial law decree (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Delta offering $30K to passengers aboard flight that crashed, flipped in Toronto (CBS)

📌 Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone (AP)

📌 OpenAI says ChatGPT users jumped 33% in three months to 400 million (THE WRAP)

📌 Italian chemist Francesco Rivella, the inventor of Nutella, dies at 97 (NY POST)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 A$AP Rocky and Rihanna promise to name their next baby after rapper's lawyer following no guilty verdict (E!)

📌 James Bond shake-up: Amazon takes creative control of franchise from Broccoli family in new deal (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 TONIGHT: U.S. and Canada to face-off in politically-charged four nations hockey final (TIME)

Wednesday, February 19

🚨NATION

📌 Trump administration terminates approval of New York City congestion pricing (POLITICO)

📌 Trump signs order to expand White House control of independent agencies (THE HILL)

📌 RFK Jr. tells staff he will 'investigate' childhood vaccine schedule, anti-depression drugs (ABC)

📌 Millions under winter alerts as major snowstorm and dangerous cold freeze U.S. (NBC)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Brazil’s Bolsonaro slams ‘vague’ accusations after attempted coup indictment (BBC)

📌 QR-code stickers mysteriously appear on 1,000 Munich graves. Police are now investigating (AP)

📌 More than 150 false killer whales stranded on a beach in Australia's Tasmania state (NPR)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Walmart is getting a bump from a surprising cohort: Wealthier shoppers (CNBC)

📌 West Texas measles outbreak grows to 58 cases, including some people who said they were vaccinated (CNN)

📌 mRNA vaccines show promise in pancreatic cancer in early trial (NBC)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Cassie Ventura expecting her third child (CNN)

📌 Mindy Kaling gets sweet surprise from her three kids after Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony (PEOPLE)

📌 Cynthia Erivo to host 2025 Tony Awards (THE WRAP)

Tuesday, February 18

📌 Death toll in Kentucky storms rises to 14 as state braces for another round of winter weather (NBC)

📌 Leonard Peltier released from prison after Biden's sentence commutation in FBI killings (CBS)

📌 Senior DOJ prosecutor quit after being told to investigate Biden climate spending (CNN)

📌 Hamas says it will return bodies of four hostages including Bibas family (MO NEWS)

📌 Vatican cancels audiences, Holy Year events as pope remains hospitalized with pneumonia in both lungs (AP)

📌 South Korea accuses Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of sharing user data with TikTok owner ByteDance (BBC)

📌 Head of FDA's food division resigns after dozens of terminations at the agency (FOX)

📌 Asteroid now has a 3% (1-in-32) chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (FOX WEATHER)

📌 Nike teams up with Kim Kardashian shapewear brand Skims as it looks to reach more women (CNBC)

📌 Meghan unveils As Ever, her renamed lifestyle brand (CNN)

📌 ‘White Lotus’ Season 3 premiere scores 2.4 million viewers (VARIETY)

Thursday, February 13

📌 Judge declines to block Trump administration's resignation offer to federal employees (NPR)

📌 House GOP releases budget calling for trillions in cuts to taxes and spending (NBC)

📌 White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf of America’ (AP)

📌 Hamas indicates it will now followthrough with hostage deal, and free three captives on Saturday (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

📌 Austria’s political crisis deepens as far right pulls plug on coalition talks (POLITICO)

📌 Ten million Indians take holy dip on key day of Kumbh Mela festival (NBC)

📌 Here's the inflation breakdown for January 2025 — in one chart (CNBC)

📌 Egg prices shot up 15% in January as retailers limit customer purchases (CBS NEWS)

📌 Mariah Carey, Chubby Checker, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast and Phish get Rock Hall nominations (AP)

📌 ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ star Teddi Mellencamp reveals she has ‘multiple’ brain tumors (CNN)

Wednesday, February 12

📌 House and Senate GOP go to war over budget (AXIOS)

📌 DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students’ academic progress (AP)

📌 A potent winter storm is thumping 1,500 miles of the US. Two more are right behind it (CNN)

📌 27 religious groups sue Trump administration over immigration enforcement policy (NPR)

📌 FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order (AP)

📌 White House announces wrongfully detained American teacher Marc Fogel released from Russia in an ‘exchange’ (CNN)

📌 Rebels attack DR Congo army ending lull in fighting (BBC)

📌 Nonstop Quakes Leave a Santorini Empty and Its Residents on Edge (NEW YORK TIMES)

📌 Chocolate prices are up 20% this Valentine’s Day as cocoa prices hit record (CNN)

📌 FEMA officials fired after Musk claims they paid to house migrants in 'luxury' NYC hotels (ABC)

📌 Rep. Nancy Mace accuses ex-fiancé and associates of assaulting her and raping others in House speech (AP)

📌 New Yorkers raced to get tickets to Paul McCartney’s surprise show on Tuesday (GOTHAMIST)