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Marco Rubio considers it an "overused term" while Friedrich Merz thinks it "no longer exists". But while the US Secretary of State and German chancellor may not believe in the relevance of the rules-based international order, the concept — and its potential collapse — has been at the forefront of global geopolitics of late. The phrase caught the global attention in January after a rare speech, from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, in which a world leader tackled the often unspoken concept head on. "We knew the story of the rules-based international order was partially false, that the strongest would...

Palantir announced Tuesday it has moved its headquarters from Denver to Miami – joining a slew of tech firms fleeing to South Florida as a growing number of industry leaders deem it the new Silicon Valley. Tech giants have been increasingly flocking to Florida from business hubs like New York and California in pursuit of lower taxes, warm weather and safer neighborhoods. “We have moved our headquarters to Miami, Florida,” Palantir wrote in a brief post on X Tuesday morning. The company did not immediately respond to inquiries about its reason for the move. Palantir was founded in Palo Alto,...

RARE SIGHTING OF "FAR LEFT": As you know if you get your news from "mainstream" outlets, anybody on the right is either "far right", "extreme right" or "hard right": even when as in France and Germany they're the most popular party in the country, they're still way out on the far extremist fringe, unlike the single-digit mainstream guys. Conversely, anybody on the left is simply "the left".So this BBC headline seems to have discovered an entirely new demographic grouping:Student death puts French far-left under pressureThe "French far-left"? What the hell did those starry-eyed peace-and-love idealists do to deserve that designation?...

Western influencers are allegedly taking Iran-funded “influencer trips” to help sanitize one of the world’s most brutal regimes and this episode pulls back the curtain on the scandal in jaw-dropping detail. You’ll learn how Tehran may be paying foreign activists to spread propaganda, why this could violate US and UK sanctions law and how figures like Bushra Sheikh and Calla Walsh are being accused of shilling for the Islamic Republic while ignoring the suffering of Iranian women and dissidents. From massive global protests demanding regime change to explosive criticism of media silence and UN hypocrisy, host Emily Schrader explores the...

Democrats Biden Official Who Created ‘Disinformation’ Board Appointed as FISA Court Adviser, Sparking Concern From Republican Senators Jennifer Daskal helped select the board's controversial director, Nina Jankowicz, and will now advise judges on foreign surveillance legal issues Jennifer Daskal (flickr.com/photos/newamerica/39221031875) Chuck Ross February 17, 2026 A Biden administration official who launched the Disinformation Governance Board and served as co-chair of the so-called Ministry of Truth has been appointed to advise the powerful Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, prompting concerns from some Republican lawmakers. The presiding judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review appointed Jennifer...

A family has accused Canada's laws of 'killing the disabled and vulnerable' months after their son, who suffered from seasonal depression, died by assisted suicide. Kiano Vafaeian, a 26-year-old blind man with Type 1 diabetes, died in December using Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows patients with 'grievous and irremediable' medical conditions to request a lethal drug. Eligibility was expanded in 2021 to include people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and, pending parliamentary review, potentially individuals with certain mental health conditions. Vafaeian faced mental health struggles stemming from a car accident at 17, and according to his mother,...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The Salvadoran national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to a series of African countries proposed by Department of Homeland Security officials. The government “made one empty threat after another to remove him to countries in Africa with no real chance of...

Who is moving to California or New York? Or Chicago. No one, pretty much. The only rival to Florida is Texas. Austin is an enormous tech hub, while both Dallas and Houston are economic powerhouses. Dallas has become a financial center and now has its own stock exchange. Florida and Texas are poised to be the great rivals of the 21st century, as New York and California were in the 20th. What do Florida and Texas have in common? No income tax, to begin with. That is obviously a huge factor. But it is more than that: both are competently...

An 18-year-old man armed with a loaded shotgun allegedly rushed toward the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, prompting a swift interception by U.S. Capitol Police. U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan said that just before noon, the suspect got out of a Mercedes SUV and started running toward the capitol carrying a loaded shotgun and additional rounds. Officers intercepted the man, ordered him to drop the weapon, and took him into custody, according to Sullivan. The man, whose identity has not yet been released, was wearing a tactical vest, tactical gloves and had a Kevlar helmet and...

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The unknown male DNA profile on a glove found two miles from the home of Nancy Guthrie has been run through the FBI’s DNA database – and did not result in any hits, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Fox News chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt in an interview on Tuesday. DNA recovered from Guthrie's home also did not match records in the FBI database, Nanos said. The sheriff confirmed that the DNA on the glove was different from the DNA found inside the home. The FBI confirmed the news to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. The sheriff's department later provided...

Hillary Clinton has accused Donald Trump of an Epstein files 'cover-up' - and attempted to downplay her husband Bill's friendship with the pedophile.......But seconds later, the 78-year-old added: 'We have a very clear record we're willing to talk about. My husband has said he took some rides on [Epstein's] airplane for his charitable work.'

The mystery DNA found on a potentially crucial glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home — as well as other genetic material in her house — do not match any records in the FBI’s database, officials said Tuesday.

An American tourist caught up in a twisted love triangle died after begging his Thai ex-girlfriend to take him back, according to police. Stein Cole, 54, was seen pleading with his much-younger girlfriend, Nan Phawt Ar Cho, 24, to get back together with him on Monday afternoon when things quickly turned deadly, the Mirror reported. While Cole talked with Cho, her current partner, Saw Nay Lin Oo, 26, and three other men, allegedly attacked him outside a shop in Bangkok around 4.30pm. During the vicious ambush, the group allegedly battered Cole, originally from Corcoran, California, to death with a metal...

Transgender killer Robert Dorgan murdered his son and ex-wife and critically wounded her parents at Sunday’s horrifying massacre at a Rhode Island high school hockey game, according to a family GoFundMe. “Our family has been forever changed by the tragic events at Lynch Arena, where we lost our beloved brother Aidan and their mother Rhonda, who was also my stepmother,” wrote fundraiser organizer Amanda Wallace-Hubbard on the page. “In addition to this unimaginable loss, their grandparents are currently in critical condition, fighting for their lives,” she wrote of Rhonda’s parents, who were gravely wounded in the shooting.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday delivered a blunt warning to foreign nationals entering the United States, saying visas are a privilege and will be revoked if visitors engage in activity deemed harmful to American national interests. Speaking during a joint press conference in Budapest alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Rubio emphasized that entry into the United States carries conditions that extend beyond border screening. “I’ve said this repeatedly — I don’t know why it’s so hard for some to comprehend,” Rubio said. “A visa — no one’s entitled to a visa. There is no constitutional right...

The gold medal that long eluded her finally hanging around her neck, Elana Meyers Taylor immediately laughed off any notion that she was in the middle of a life-changing moment. ---SNIP--- Both boys are deaf and Noah also has Down’s syndrome. They require therapy and special care

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 has derived a new formula for gluon interactions, overturning assumptions of zero amplitude and advancing theoretical physics. For a long, long time physicists treated this interaction as a cosmic impossibility — a mathematical dead end so absolute it was taught almost with the certainty of Newton's laws and the elegance of Einstein's equations. Zero, in quantum physics, isn't a shrug; it's a verdict. And this particular verdict had stood unchallenged for decades. But every so often, science gets a jolt — a falling apple, a bending beam of starlight… or, in 2026, an AI model that refuses to...

The story of Punch, the baby macaque, has captivated the world. Punch-kun, as he is affectionately known, was reportedly born in July 2025 but was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth. Caretakers at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan stepped in to rescue and hand-raise him, closely monitoring his growth while gradually introducing him to other macaques. However, when caretakers moved him into an enclosure with other monkeys, they noticed he was struggling to integrate into the group.

A prominent Catholic leader took on criticism against Western culture from Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and exposed its Marxist underpinnings. Bishop Robert Barron posted a video to the X platform where he first applauded Sec. of State Marco Rubio on his speech defending Western culture at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. "He was talking about the shared culture of Europe and America. He referenced gothic cathedrals and Dante and Shakespeare and even the Beatles," Barron said. "And his point was, we gotta get beyond just our political differences and find our sources in the great culture...