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TopThu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0500

Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language. (Image credit: Elena Goncharova) A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language. A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of l…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 18:21:52 GMT

Jordan Stolz’s bid for four speed-skating golds crumbles in 1500m as Ning Zhongyan shines

American had been hoping for clean sweep in Milan Chinese skater sets Olympic record in shock win On an afternoon when the Olympic record kept falling, Jordan Stolz skated fast enough to win the gold at any other Winter Games. Just not this one. The 21-year-old American was foiled in his bid for a third gold medal in eight days on Thursday, winning silver in the 1500m in a time of 1:42.75 after lowering the Olympic marks in the 1000m last Wednesday and the 500m on Saturday and threatening to become only the second American to win more than two golds in any sport at a single Winter Games. Conti…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 19:40:18 GMT

Winter Olympics 2026: GB men in curling semi-final, figure skating and more – live

Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | And you can email Daniel The cross-country bit gets going at 1pm, and I’m looking forward to that. It’s a scientific fact that here’s no kind of race a human can devise that is uncompelling. In the Nordic, teams of two both have a go at ski jumping, and Germany have just leapt into the lead; they’ll start the cross-country portion with no time penalty, because Austria have just completed this part of things, and only landed far enough for fifth. Norway are second, Japan third and Finland fourth. Continue re…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 19:40:35 GMT

Winter Olympics women’s ice hockey final: USA v Canada – live

Email beau.dure@theguardian.com or hit him on BlueSky Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing USA 0-0 Canada, first period, 15:13 left: Poulin with the shot. Remember that she was out injured when these teams played earlier in these Games. The USA won’t want to let her have many touches. USA 0-0 Canada, first period, 15:57 left: To underscore the point, NBC commentator AJ Mleczko, fresh from calling part of yesterday’s men’s game with Snoop Dogg, recalls a year in which her US team lost once – in the Olympic final. Continue reading... Email beau.dure@theguardian.com or hit…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 05:00:56 GMT

The US is dragging Europe back to the days of white supremacism. Our leaders are playing along | Shada Islam

People like me were targets of the Islamophobia that gripped the west after the US-led ‘war on terror’. Now I fear a chilling sequel is on the way Twenty-five years ago, George W Bush persuaded European leaders to back his “war on terror”. That disastrous project cost millions of lives and caused mass displacement of people from across the Middle East. It normalised racism and hatred for Muslims, refugees and racialised minorities in the US and Europe. I fear Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, with its calls to defend white, western, Christian civilisation against supposed…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 11:00:55 GMT

Trump’s bid to name Penn Station after himself looks like a presidential shakedown | Mohamad Bazzi

The US president’s relentless self-aggrandizement spree continues amid hypocrisy and shifting explanations As a real estate developer, Donald Trump built his empire on ostentatious displays of wealth, substantial tax breaks – and lots of free publicity. As president, he has deployed the power of the state to expand his personal brand, adding his name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the US Institute of Peace, a class of new navy warships, and even investment accounts for millions of children. Trump is now eyeing yet more grandiose targets in his self-aggrandizement spree. He want…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 13:00:12 GMT

Dear Kristi Noem: you’re tracking down ICE critics? I’m one of them | Robert Reich

The homeland security department is reportedly seeking information on critical social media accounts. Look no further The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram) and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time. Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his n…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 06:17:30 GMT

Bernie Sanders rails against billionaire ‘greed’ amid California tax battle

In a fiery speech in Los Angeles, the Vermont senator criticizes ‘grotesque’ levels of economic inequality Billionaires are “treading on very, very thin ice,” Bernie Sanders warned on Wednesday during a fiery speech in Los Angeles, imploring California voters to fight “grotesque” levels of economic inequality by approving a proposed tax on the state’s richest residents. The Vermont senator railed against the “greed”, “arrogance” and “moral turpitude” of the nation’s “ruling class”, calling it “fairly disgusting” that some ultra-wealthy tech leaders have fled California – or are threatening to…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 10:00:03 GMT

Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show

Exclusive: approximately 350-acre compound planned as base for multinational force, according to records reviewed by the Guardian The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base in Gaza , sprawling more than 350 acres, according to Board of Peace contracting records reviewed by the Guardian. The site is envisioned as a military operating base for a future International Stabilization Force (ISF), planned as a multinational military force composed of pledged troops. The ISF is part of the newly created Board of Peace which is meant to govern Gaza. The Board of Peace is…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 19:15:27 GMT

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content

Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security The US has built a portal that will allow Europeans to view blocked content including alleged hate speech and terrorism, according to Reuters . The portal, “ freedom.gov ”, will allow worldwide users to circumvent government controls on their content. The site features a graphic of a ghostly horse galloping above the Earth, and the motto: “Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.” Continue reading... Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 14:30:01 GMT

Climate-driven snow drought set stage for deadly California avalanche, experts say

Eight skiers were found dead, six were rescued and one is still missing after avalanche in Sierra Nevada mountains The many weeks of a worrying snow drought in the western US is driven by the climate crisis and helped set the stage for the deadly avalanche this week in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California, according to experts. Perilous avalanches are not uncommon in the region, according to the National Avalanche Center, which maintains a map of locations where avalanche danger is highest , and the risk is now particularly high in the Lake Tahoe area. Continue reading... Eight s…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 14:40:16 GMT

Jesse Jackson showed us how love can always be a potent force in public life | Reverend William Barber

We can honor my mentor and the late civil rights icon by becoming the America we’ve never yet been Before 5am on Tuesday, Jesse Jackson Jr called to tell me his father and my friend, the Rev Jesse Louis Jackson , had died at 84 years old. I shared a prayer with the family and listened to Jesse Jr talk about how he had heard his father breathe his last breath in the middle of the night. When he called his mother to the room, he told me, she reached toward his father and said: “A mighty lion has fallen.” In Africa’s savannas, the lion is respected because he has a power that all the other animal…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 15:01:17 GMT

White House grants ICE power to detain refugees for aggressive ‘rescreening’

A new DHS memo details plan to allow federal immigration officers to detain legal refugees in the US indefinitely The Trump administration is moving to arrest thousands of people already legally admitted to the US as refugees and detain them indefinitely for aggressive “rescreening”, a report published on Thursday said. Under the new policy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that federal immigration officers can and should arrest anyone who has not yet obtained the right to permanent residence, a so-called green card, and subject them to interviews to assess their refugee claims w…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 16:14:43 GMT

Wastewater testing reveals high levels of cocaine in Nantucket, Massachusetts

Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human use of drug was found in town’s wastewater Tests on wastewater in an upscale Massachusetts ocean resort town have revealed unexpectedly high levels of cocaine – up to three times the national average. Officials in the town of Nantucket on the eponymous island off Cape Cod began testing its wastewater last summer “to monitor high-risk substances and opioids in the community”. Continue reading... Up to three times national average of metabolite produced by human use of drug was found in town’s wastewater Tests on wastewater in an…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 17:59:37 GMT

Forget the Board of Peace, Trump may be closer than thought to attacking Iran

Tehran may claim it will not negotiate under duress, but that is precisely what it is being required to do Although much attention will be given to the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington, it is the “arsenal of war” that Donald Trump has assembled in the Middle East, and what it implies for the stately pace of Washington’s negotiations with Iran, that deserves more. The well-connected Axios reporter Barak Ravid is hated in Iran – one news site on Thursday described him as a one-man psychological war operation against Tehran. But he is widely read, as was his report that the U…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 18:29:30 GMT

Troops for Gaza and money top agenda as Trump’s Board of Peace meets

US president vows multinational force and billions of dollars as autocrats and rightwing allies gather in DC The US has proposed commanding a multinational force in postwar Gaza with troops from Albania, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Morocco, as Donald Trump unveiled his ad-hoc Board of Peace in Washington to heavy international scrutiny. The US plan would require the full disarmament of Hamas and support from Israel, which has tempered expectations that the Trump-friendly committee stacked with autocrats and rightwing allies will be able to deliver on the vision of ending the conflict and…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 19:01:05 GMT

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on US law enforcement radar 15 years before UK arrest

Recently disclosed documents show name of former prince came up during 2011 inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested – live updates While Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ’s arrest by British police on Thursday came after years of uproar over his association with Jeffrey Epstein , documents show he had been on the radar of US law enforcement for nearly 15 years. Mountbatten-Windsor’s name came up during a 2011 FBI inquiry into Epstein, investigative documents recently disclosed by the justice department reveal. Mountbatten-Windsor has denied all allegations of misconduct rela…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 19:37:10 GMT

Iran deal prospects will be clear within 10 days, Trump says as military buildup grows

Second carrier strike group heads for region as US waits for Iran to respond after talks in Geneva Donald Trump has said it will be clear within “probably 10 days” whether he can reach a nuclear deal with Iran, as the US military buildup in the Middle East intensifies with the impending arrival of a second carrier strike group. The US president, speaking at the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington DC, insisted Iran could not have a nuclear weapon and emphasised that “bad things will happen” if the country continued “to threaten regional stability”. Continue reading... Second c…

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USThu, 19 Feb 2026 19:40:09 GMT

Donald Trump repeats call for Iran to end nuclear program as world leaders gather for first Board of Peace meeting - US politics live

President says US has ‘some work’ to do with Iran as representatives from more than 45 countries attend Trump-run initiative Authoritarians, strongmen and dictators: who is on Trump’s Board of Peace? Donald Trump will start his day in Washington for the Board of Peace meeting at the White House. He’ll then travel to Rome, Georgia , as part of his tour of the country to tout the administration’s affordability message. He’ll meet with local businesses there, and deliver remarks at 4pm ET. Continue reading... President says US has ‘some work’ to do with Iran as representatives from more than 45 c…

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BusinessThu, 19 Feb 2026 09:35:47 GMT

Ebay buys Depop for $1.2bn in effort to lure younger shoppers

Deal agreed to acquire British secondhand fashion resale app from Etsy as eBay attempts to fend off Amazon The online retailer eBay has agreed to buy the British secondhand fashion resale app Depop from Etsy for about $1.2bn (£890m) in cash, as eBay targets younger fashion-loving consumers. The deal comes at a time when secondhand marketplaces continue to soar in popularity , especially among gen Z shoppers – born between 1997 and 2012 – amid a squeeze on household incomes and concerns about sustainability in fashion. Continue reading... Deal agreed to acquire British secondhand fashion resale…

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BusinessThu, 19 Feb 2026 12:00:10 GMT

‘DEI is dead, equality isn’t’: experts chart path forward amid Trump’s culture war

Two law professors outline strategies for equality’s survival in a Trumpian post-DEI era in new book How Equality Wins The Trump administration’s “war on woke” seems to have claimed its biggest victim in DEI. Not so long ago, diversity, equity and inclusion was the favorite term of Fortune 500 CEOs and the political elite. More recently, it has been blamed for everything from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the deadly Los Angeles wildfires to the crash between a regional jet and a helicopter in Washington DC. “DEI means people DIE,” Elon Musk wrote last year. Cont…

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TechnologyThu, 19 Feb 2026 10:00:04 GMT

Mario Tennis Fever review – serving up banana peel-laced multiplayer chaos

Nintendo Switch 2; Nintendo This ruthlessly competitive game will have everyone from your granny to semi-pros trying to set fire to their opponent’s side of the court with powered-up ‘fever rackets’ Tennis has been a regular hobby of Mario’s for the past 30 years, beginning with the headache-inducing Mario’s Tennis on the Virtual Boy and most recently resurfacing as the surprisingly complex Mario Tennis Aces on the Switch . Now he’s back in his whites (and reds) with a charming new take on the sport that dials back the difficulty level and adds lots of fun modes and features, aiming to appease…

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TechnologyThu, 19 Feb 2026 06:00:55 GMT

TV set is most popular way to watch YouTube in UK, study finds

Television outranks laptops, tablets and smartphones across all age groups, according to audience review The television has replaced laptops, tablets and smartphones as the most common device for UK viewers to watch YouTube at home, according to data confirming the platform’s place as a living room mainstay. More than half of all YouTube viewing through a domestic wifi connection is now done through the traditional TV, making it the top-ranking YouTube device across all age groups. Continue reading... Television outranks laptops, tablets and smartphones across all age groups, according to audi…

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TechnologyThu, 19 Feb 2026 05:00:55 GMT

US funding for global internet freedom ‘effectively gutted’

Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat For nearly two decades, the US quietly funded a global effort to keep the internet from splintering into fiefdoms run by authoritarian governments. Now that money is seriously threatened and a large part of it is already gone, putting into jeopardy internet freedoms around the world. Managed by the US state department and the US Agency for Global Media, the programme – broadly called Internet Freedom – funds small groups all over the world, from Iran to China to the Philippines, who built gra…

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TechnologyWed, 18 Feb 2026 19:37:17 GMT

Zuckerberg grilled in landmark social media trial over teen mental health

Meta chief says it has improved identifying underage users but adds ‘I always wish we could have gotten there sooner’ The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testified at a landmark trial of social media companies on Wednesday. Plaintiffs’ lawyers grilled Zuckerberg about internal complaints that not enough was being done to verify whether children under 13 were using the platform. Zuckerberg claimed Meta had improved in identifying underage users but also said: “I always wish that we could have gotten there sooner.” Continue reading... Meta chief says it has improved identifying underage users but add…

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TechnologyThu, 19 Feb 2026 08:26:23 GMT

Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’

French president rejects US criticism as António Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies Business live – latest updates Europe live – latest updates Emmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe’s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from “digital abuse” during France’s presidency of the G7. Speaking at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, the French president called for tougher safeguards after global outrage over Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot being used to generate tens of thousands of sexualised images of children, and amid mounting concern about the co…

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TechnologyThu, 19 Feb 2026 13:00:12 GMT

How the anxiety over AI could fuel a new workers’ movement

New technology has workers spooked, but experts say it’s creating an opening for a resurgence in worker power In 2026, it’s a scary time to work for a living. Gone are the days of quiet quitting, the Great Resignation, and the highly visible union-organizing battles that began the decade and signaled that perhaps worker power was on the rise again in the US. Instead, much of that momentum is being crowded out of our minds by anxieties: a worsening affordability crisis, geopolitical instability, and the specter of artificial intelligence looming over the workplace. Continue reading... New techn…

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TechnologyWed, 18 Feb 2026 22:30:46 GMT

Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer

PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misogyny Deepfake nudes and “revenge porn” must be removed from the internet within 48 hours or technology firms risk being blocked in the UK, Keir Starmer has said, calling it a “national emergency” that the government must confront. Companies could be fined millions or even blocked altogether if they allow the images to spread or be reposted after victims give notice. Continue reading... PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misog…

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TechnologyThu, 19 Feb 2026 15:35:09 GMT

Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’

From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk Late last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries, videos on social media cast the fallout in frantic scenes. “Imma keep it real with you,” a Black woman said in a viral TikTok post, “I get over $2,500 a month in stamps. I sell ’em, $2,000 worth, for about $1,200-$1,500 cash.” Another Black woman ranted about taxpayers’ responsibility to her seven children with seven men, and yet…

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Finance2026-02-19 19:25:09

Earnings call transcript: Southern Company Q4 2025 sees revenue beat, stock rises

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Finance2026-02-19 19:26:53

Johnson & Johnson prepares to sell orthopedics unit for over $20 billion - Bloomberg

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Finance2026-02-19 19:31:02

Form 6K OrganiGram Holdings Inc For: 19 February

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Finance2026-02-19 19:32:31

Form 10Q Nordson Corporation For: 19 February

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Finance2026-02-19 19:37:07

U.S. stocks slip after hawkish Fed minutes; Walmart guidance falls short

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Finance2026-02-19 19:37:08

Wall Street dips as Nvidia slides and private equity stocks sink

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Finance2026-02-19 19:40:37

Form 6K MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC For: 19 February

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Finance2026-02-19 19:42:36

Johnson & Johnson explores $20 billion sale of an orthopedics unit, Bloomberg News reports

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Finance2026-02-19 19:42:51

Walgreens cuts workforce after private equity buyout, Bloomberg News reports

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Finance2026-02-19 19:48:29

Merz aims to talk about future cooperation on trip to China

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TechnologyThu, 19 Feb 2026 11:39:17 +0000

Reliance unveils $110B AI investment plan as India ramps up tech ambitions

Reliance has begun building multi-gigawatt AI data centers in Jamnagar, with more than 120 MW of capacity expected to come online in 2026. Reliance has begun building multi-gigawatt AI data centers in Jamnagar, with more than 120 MW of capacity expected to come online in 2026.

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