As the rhetoric intensifies between the United States and Iran, recent reports indicate that President Donald Trump has been privately contemplating the possibility of regime change in Iran, emboldened by what he perceives as successes in foreign policy in Venezuela. However, this path toward military action carries grave consequences—not just for geopolitical stability, but for the lives of countless service members and their families.
The Greek Courier
22/02/26
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) — The Pima County Sheriff's Department is facing heightened public scrutiny and significant online outrage following its recent announcement that critical DNA evidence in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance case contains "mixed samples," requiring an extended analysis period. This revelation, indicating the presence of DNA from more than one individual, has fueled widespread frustration over the pace of the investigation and raised pointed questions about the initial handling of the high-profile case.
NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has formally acknowledged in a recent court filing that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses a month after the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack. This admission is the latest development in a high-stakes legal battle where Trump is suing the nation’s largest bank and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, for at least $5 billion, alleging "political debanking." [1][2]
By Gregory Svirnovskiy
02/20/2026
Werder Bremen, a top German soccer team, is canceling its planned trip to Minnesota this summer, after violence and political chaos engulfed Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s major immigration enforcement push in January.
WASHINGTON—With negotiations seemingly headed nowhere, a new conflict with Iran looks increasingly likely, if not inevitable. The United States has gathered the most air power in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq war. A US military operation in Iran would likely be a massive, weeks-long campaign that would look more like a full-fledged war than the early January operation to remove Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro from power.
CBC News
RCMP say platform reached out after shooting, but say OpenAI only flagged account internally at first
Akshay Kulkarni · Posted: Feb 20, 2026
OpenAI, the American company behind ChatGPT, has said that it banned the account associated with the teenager behind a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., last June.
President Trump announced on Saturday that he would raise his new, global tariff to 15 percent, a day after he took steps to replicate some of the punishing duties that had been struck down by the Supreme Court.
DUBAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States are sliding rapidly towards military conflict as hopes fade for a diplomatic solution to their standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme, officials on both sides and diplomats across the Gulf and Europe say.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Sentenced to Life in Prison for 2024 Martial Law Declaration
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, February 19, 2026, after a Seoul court found him guilty of leading an insurrection stemming from his brief and "baffling" imposition of martial law in December 2024. [1] The ruling marks a dramatic culmination of South Korea’s most severe political crisis in decades. [2]
A limited U.S. strike on Iranian military or nuclear targets is the likeliest outcome.
That’s what Morningstar thinks, according to the company’s equity director Joshua Aguilar, who outlined in a note sent to Rigzone late Thursday that this scenario “would mean no impact on global physical flows, so the global surplus would remain intact”.
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