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.
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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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India celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, “early versions of true super intelligence” could emerge, Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, said this week.
Feb. 20, 2026, 7:03 AM PST
By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court delivered a major blow to President Donald Trump, ruling Friday that he exceeded his authority when imposing sweeping tariffs using a law reserved for a national emergency. The justices, divided 6-3, held that Trump's aggressive approach to tariffs on products entering the United States from across the world was not permitted under a 1977 law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The ruling invalidates many, but not all, of Trump’s tariffs.
