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Bangladesh After the Revolution On February 12, 2026, Bangladesh held its first election since the Gen Z-led mass protests of 2024 that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign after 15 years in power. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by Tarique Rahman, won a landslide with 212 seats...

10 Cats Infected. Raw Pet Food Still Legal. Between December 2024 and September 2025, Los Angeles County recorded a cluster of 10 cat H5N1 infections — 9 confirmed, 1 suspected. The infections were traced to three sources: raw milk, raw pet food, and raw meat. Multiple cats died. Over 130...

Messy Milan The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics have been branded "Messy Milan" on social media, and the name fits. Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Laegreid confessed to infidelity on live television during the Games, creating a viral moment that overshadowed the actual competition. His...

The Numbers Are Screaming From February 2 to 6, 2026, global stock markets experienced a flash crash that wiped trillions of dollars in market value. U.S. indices dropped sharply before partially recovering. The event lasted days, not minutes, which makes calling it a "flash crash" generous. It...

Eileen Gu: Stanford, San Francisco, and $6.6 Million From Beijing Eileen Gu was born in San Francisco. She grew up in San Francisco. She attends Stanford University. She is an American citizen. She competed at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics representing...

Fifty Years of Nuclear Limits Are Over On February 5, 2026, the New START treaty between the United States and Russia expired. No replacement has been negotiated. No extension was agreed upon. For the first time since the early 1970s, there are no legally binding limits on the world's two...

DHS Shutdown. ICE Keeps Running. On February 14, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security shut down after Congress failed to fund the agency's 260,000-person workforce. This is the third government shutdown in months, but unlike previous shutdowns that affected the entire federal government...

Patagonia Is Burning Wildfires across Argentina's Patagonia region have scorched over 50,000 hectares — more than 450 square kilometers — including parts of Los Alerces National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Four national parks are simultaneously under threat. Ancient alerce trees, which...

Casey Wasserman and the Epstein Files The Epstein Files Transparency Act released communications showing that Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA28 Olympic organizing committee, exchanged emails with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003. In one email, Wasserman asked to "book that massage." The fallout...

The Biggest Media Deal in History Netflix agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio assets for $83 billion — $27.75 per share in cash and stock. Before the ink dried, Paramount launched a competing hostile tender offer of $108.4 billion at $30 per share in cash. Two of the...

Zuckerberg on Trial On February 18, 2026, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the witness stand in a Los Angeles courtroom in the first trial from approximately 1,600 lawsuits accusing social media companies of causing addiction in children and teenagers. TikTok and Snap settled before trial, leaving...

Hollywood vs. the Machine In mid-February 2026, ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, an AI video generation model that produced hyperrealistic 15-second video clips indistinguishable from professional film footage. A viral clip showed Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt in a scene that neither actor had...

15 Days On February 20, 2026, President Trump gave Iran "10 to 15 days" to agree to a nuclear deal or face "really bad things." The United States is deploying a second carrier strike group — the USS Gerald R. Ford with Carrier Strike Group 12 — to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln...

Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs. Trump Ignores the Ruling. On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that President Trump violated federal law by imposing sweeping global tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the...

Car Into Cat Rescue On August 17, 2025, a driver accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and crashed into the ASTRO Foundation, a nonprofit cat and dog rescue in Oakdale, California. The vehicle smashed into the cage-free cat room where 15 cats and a volunteer were present. One cat...