Lead: Five European countries — France, Poland, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy — announced a joint program on Friday to build low-cost air-defense interceptors and autonomous drones using combat-tested Ukrainian know-how developed over four years of war with Russia. The initiative, named Low-Cost Effectors and Autonomous Platforms (LEAP), aims to field inexpensive kinetic and … Read more
Lead Phoenix Suns guard Dillon Brooks suffered a broken left hand during Saturday’s double-overtime win over the Orlando Magic and is expected to miss an extended period, sources told ESPN. Team doctors planned a Sunday meeting to set a precise recovery timetable. The injury compounds an already strained backcourt: the Suns announced before Saturday’s game … Read more
On February 21, 2026, former President Donald J. Trump used Truth Social to urge Netflix to remove board member Susan Rice — the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and national security adviser — after comments she made about holding companies accountable if Democrats return to power. Rice had told Preet Bharara’s podcast this … Read more
On Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026 at the Marriott Center in Provo, No. 23 BYU delivered its season-defining victory, defeating No. 6 Iowa State 79-69. The win moved BYU to 20-7 overall and 8-6 in Big 12 play and snapped the Cougars’ 0-6 record versus top-15 teams this season. A decisive late first-half run, dominance on … Read more
Lead Arrokoth, a reddish, peanut-shaped object in the Kuiper Belt visited by NASA’s New Horizons in 2019, appears to be a contact binary formed by gentle assembly rather than violent collision. A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues that gravitational collapse of pebble clouds can produce such multi-lobed bodies. The … Read more
Lead President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Netflix to remove board member Susan Rice, posting that the company should act “immediately, or pay the consequences.” The comment accompanied a screenshot of a social post that criticized Rice’s remarks on accountability for corporations in a November 2024-era podcast interview. Rice, a former U.S. National Security Advisor … Read more
Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters dominated the 53rd Annie Awards on Saturday night, taking every category in which it was nominated, including Best Feature, Direction (Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans) and Voice Acting (Arden Cho). The film also claimed technical and creative prizes — Production Design was its first film award of the evening — and … Read more
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday used his official social account to declare he was “banning” musician Kid Rock from the state after a shirtless workout video of Kid Rock and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. circulated online. The clip, shared by Kennedy, shows the pair performing exercises—set to Kid Rock’s 1999 hit “Bawitdaba”—and includes shirtless … Read more
In spring 2025 Foo Fighters announced they would continue without drummer Josh Freese after a period of internal discussion and a band-wide decision. Frontman Dave Grohl told Apple Music 1 that the choice was made collectively during a break in 2024 and communicated to Freese directly; no single reason beyond a new direction was presented. … Read more
Lead On Feb. 21, 2026, students at multiple Iranian universities — including Sharif and Amirkabir in Tehran and campuses in Mashhad — held demonstrations on the first day of the new semester. Marches and sit-ins, many participants wearing black to mourn those killed in earlier unrest, revived public agitation a month after a lethal government … Read more
Lead: Scrubs returns to ABC on Feb. 25 with series regulars Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison reprising J.D., Elliot and Turk. The nine-episode revival also features Judy Reyes (Carla) and John C. McGinley (Dr. Cox) as recurring players because both are contracted to other series. Reyes confirmed she appears in four episodes and … Read more
Former Purdue standout and NFL wide receiver Rondale Moore died on Saturday in New Albany, Indiana, the Minnesota Vikings said. He was 25. Local police told WHAS11 he was found in a garage with a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound; Floyd County Coroner Matthew Tomlin said an autopsy was scheduled for Sunday and released no further … Read more
Samsung is reshaping Galaxy AI into a system-level multi-agent platform after internal research showed nearly eight in 10 users regularly rely on more than two AI agents. The company says the change will let different AI agents run cohesively across the OS so users won’t need to switch apps or repeat commands. The first external … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed it will suspend expedited traveler programs at airports and U.S. ports of entry beginning 6 a.m. ET Sunday. The pause affects the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA PreCheck and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry, removing the faster security and entry lanes for enrolled travelers. DHS said the action … Read more
Lead: On Saturday night in Las Vegas, WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios defended his title against Ryan Garcia in a high-profile main event that began on Feb. 21, 2026. The bout represented Garcia’s opportunity to win the first world title of his career and Barrios’ bid to validate his position after being elevated from interim … Read more
