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Meta Chief Zuckerberg Testifies in High-Stakes Social Media Addiction Trial in Los Angeles
Attorneys for the plaintiff questioned the CEO on allegations that his products targeted young people despite known harms.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Los Angeles Superior Court after testifying in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2026. Wally Skalij/Getty Images
Beige Luciano-Adams
2/18/2026|Updated: 2/18/2026
LOS ANGELES—On the most anticipated day yet of a landmark social media addiction trial that began Feb. 9, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18 to answer allegations that he engineered his social media platforms to be addictive to children despite knowing the potential harms.
Plaintiff’s attorney Mark Lanier wasted no time setting the moral tone, opening with the suggestion that there are different ways to deal with vulnerable people—help them, ignore them, or, he said, pulling on the last words in his honeyed Southern drawl, “prey upon them.”
At the center of the case is a 19-year-old California woman identified in court documents by the initials “K.G.M.” or “Kelsey G.M,” who is accusing tech giants of engineering products that rewire young people’s brains and trap them in a cycle of addiction and mental illness.
The complaint alleges the plaintiff became addicted to Instagram as a child and suffered resulting harms, including depression, anxiety, and body dysmorphia.
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NEWSMAX
Munich 2026: A Transatlantic Reset Begins
Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves as he boards a plane Thursday to attend the Munich Security Conference. (Getty Images)
By Robert Semonsen | Wednesday, 18 February 2026 07:31 AM EST
There was little doubt that this year's Munich Security Conference would be something more than business as usual.
Long-standing geopolitical certainties seem to be eroding faster than new structures can be established. Old alliances appear increasingly strained, trust in established institutions has been weakened, and the once unshakable transatlantic relationship — long the anchor of Western stability — is being reassessed from every angle, by every relevant actor.
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RedState
Is the SAVE America Act Worth Nuking the Filibuster? Signs Now Point to Yes.
By Ward Clark | 5:30 PM on February 18, 2026
The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.
AP Photo/Richard Drew
I was always a proponent of keeping in place that Senate institution, the filibuster. I always thought it should have gone back to a talking filibuster, where one had to actually stand up there and hold the floor for however long it took, instead of the current silent thumbs-up-their-fourth-points-of-contact version, but I was always in favor of keeping the filibuster in place. The Senate, after all, is the upper chamber of Congress. It's not supposed to be prey for the passions of the moment, like the larger and more volatile House of Representatives, although that role as a "cooling saucer" was in part nullified by the ill-advised 17th Amendment. The Senate, after all, was supposed to represent the various state governments, not the population; another notion that got whacked by the 17th Amendment. But the filibuster remained, and I always was a supporter of that.
You'll notice I used the past tense in all that. I'm changing my mind on the filibuster now; here's why, and I'm going to tell you.
Our elections are a mess. Mail-in voting, no ID requirements, people who shouldn't be voting, voting, shady vote-counting processes; it's hard to have much, if any, faith in our elections. The SAVE America Act aims to fix that, in large part by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and requiring the presentation of a government-issued ID to vote. States are already free to put those practices into effect; here in Alaska, at least in the Mat-Su, we have to show an ID to vote, and also have to sign off on the voter registration log. But some of our larger states, some of our bluer states, are working to make elections as fuzzy as possible. The SAVE America Act will change that - if we can get it passed. That's where the filibuster comes in.
A recent piece at the American Spectator makes some good points:
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Congress officially broken; fire them all
They can't even do their main job
Firing members of Congress illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times more >
By Joseph Curl - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
OPINION:
Imagine, if you will, a world where you could simply decide not to do the one core function of your job, yet still expect your direct deposit to hit your account every two weeks like clockwork.
If a barista decided making coffee was just too much of a hassle, or a pilot decided landing the plane was a drag, they would be looking for new employment before lunch. Yet here we are watching the federal government shut down again because Congress — our collective, elected employee that we pay — can’t manage to do its job.
The new fiscal year kicked off on Oct. 1, but Congress didn’t pass any of the dozen annual appropriations bills required to fund the government. It didn’t even manage to pass a stopgap spending bill to buy itself a little more procrastination time.
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The U.S. must get out of the U.N.
Don't pay the corrupt fat cats one more cent
The United States of America leaving the United Nations illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times more >
COMMENTARY
By Jed Babbin - Tuesday, February 17, 2026
A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday.
OPINION:
More than 20 years ago, while researching my book about the United Nations, I asked British historian Paul Johnson about the international body. He told me, “The U.N. is now a central problem for the world because we take too much notice of it.”
That dismal assessment has been proved correct again and again, and the United Nations has only become worse.
Thanks to President Trump’s reining in of the budget, the U.S. reportedly paid nothing to the United Nations in 2025. Now, Ambassador Mike Waltz has said the U.S. is “in arrears” and will be paying the United Nations a lot of money in a matter of weeks. Indeed, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said earlier this month that the world body faced “imminent financial collapse” if nations (meaning the U.S.) didn’t pay up.
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NEWSMAX
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill, May 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
DOJ Issues New Subpoenas in Russian Election Interference Response
Tuesday, 17 February 2026 07:44 PM EST
The Justice Department has issued new subpoenas in a Florida-based investigation targeting individuals who pursued actions against President Donald Trump, as well as examining the U.S. government’s response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
An initial wave of subpoenas in November asked recipients for documents related to the preparation of a U.S. intelligence community assessment that detailed a sweeping, multiprong effort by Moscow to help Trump defeat Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Though the first subpoenas requested documents from the months surrounding the January 2017 publication of the Obama administration intelligence assessment, the latest subpoenas seek any records from the years since then, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press to discuss a nonpublic demand from investigators.
The Justice Department declined to comment Tuesday.
The subpoenas represent continued investigative activity in one of several criminal inquiries the Justice Department has undertaken into Trump's political opponents.
An array of former intelligence and law enforcement officials have received subpoenas and lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan, who helped oversee the drafting of the assessment, have said they have been informed he is a target but have not been told of any “legally justifiable basis for undertaking this investigation.”
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Trump Announces 3 Projects Backed by Investment Under US–Japan Trade Deal
Investments totaling $36 billion will fund critical mineral, energy, and oil projects in Georgia, Ohio, and Texas, respectively.
President Donald Trump visits the Fort Bragg U.S. Army base in Fort Bragg, N.C., on Feb. 13, 2026. Nathan Howard/Getty Images
Travis Gillmore
2/17/2026|Updated: 2/17/2026
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has announced three new projects, worth a total of $36 billion, as the first stage of a trade deal with Japan that ultimately includes more than half a trillion dollars of funding for U.S. manufacturing and energy development.
“Our MASSIVE Trade Deal with Japan has just launched!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Feb. 17.
“Japan is now officially, and financially, moving forward with the FIRST set of Investments under its $550 BILLION Dollar Commitment to invest in the United States of America — part of our Historic Trade Deal to REVITALIZE the American Industrial Base, create HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of GREAT American Jobs, and strengthen our National and Economic Security like never before.”
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Townhall
TIPSHEET
Scott Jennings Blasts Dems’ Munich Showing, Says Rubio ‘Gave the Speech of a Lifetime’
Dmitri Bolt | February 17, 2026 12:30 PM
Business Wire
Scott Jennings slammed Democrats for what he described as an embarrassing showing at the Munich Security Conference, arguing that high-profile figures like Gov. Gavin Newsom and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demonstrated they are out of their depth on foreign policy. In contrast, Jennings said Secretary of State Marco Rubio dominated the stage, delivering what some supporters have called one of the strongest political speeches of their lifetime.
_____________________________________________🚨 BOOM! Scott Jennings just ABSOLUTELY ROASTED the Munich meltdown.
Marco Rubio delivered the SPEECH OF A LIFETIME while AOC completely CRAPPED THE BED on the world stage!
“Marco Rubio just gave the speech of a lifetime. Dems sent their ‘brightest’ in AOC and she CRAPPED THE… pic.twitter.com/XbHgzdmMsE
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 17, 2026
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"The Munich conference put on full blast the fact that we've only got one adult political party in the United States right now, and it's the Republican Party," Jennings said. "Marco Rubio gave the speech of a lifetime over there. He laid out a clear foreign policy vision that defends Western values and Western civilization, and the brightest Democrat over there, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, crapped the bed, okay."
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THE EPOCH TIMES
Google Warns Chinese and Russian Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Companies
In some instances, Google’s own AI software, Gemini, was used during cyberattack attempts, the company said.
A hacker types on a computer keyboard, in this photo illustration taken on May 13, 2025. Anna Varavva for The Epoch Times
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
2/17/2026|Updated: 2/17/2026
An analysis released by Google this month showed that the U.S. defense industrial base—a network of public and private entities used to develop or maintain military weapons systems—has sustained cyberattacks from groups and criminal organizations from China, Russia, and North Korea in recent months.
The report, released on Feb. 10 by Google Threat Intelligence, found that the Chinese regime and associated groups continue “to represent by volume the most active threat to entities in the defense industrial base,” which it said can pose “significant risk to the defense and aerospace sector.”
Google’s report added that it “has observed more China-nexus cyber espionage missions directly targeting defense and aerospace industry than from any other state-sponsored actors over the last two years,” as such groups have “used a broad range of tactics in operations.”
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Anderson Cooper announces 60 Minutes departure amid CBS shake-ups
By Timothy Nerozzi
February 16, 2026 8:43 pm
VIDEO
News anchor Anderson Cooper is ending his tenure on the CBS investigative series 60 Minutes.
After appearing on the program for nearly two decades, Cooper said in a statement announcing his resignation that ultimately he found it impossible to juggle his role at CBS with his job at CNN and his family life.
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Journalist Anderson Cooper arrives for the trial of former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/Pool Photo via AP)
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