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A storm system sweeps across the Southeast triggering tornado watches and damaging winds

Feb 15, 2026 3:55 pm - ATLANTA (AP) — A weekend storm system sweeping across the Southeast brought tornado warnings to Mississippi and Louisiana, and then took aim at parts of Georgia and Flori...
Four astronauts arrive at the International Space Station to replace NASA’s evacuated crew

By MARCIA DUNN
Feb 14, 2026 8:24 pm - The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who bailed early because of health concerns.
MSF suspends some work at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital due to presence of armed men

By SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY
Feb 14, 2026 8:19 pm - Doctors Without Borders has announced the suspension of some operations at one of Gaza 's largest functioning hospitals after patients and staff reported seeing armed, masked men roaming parts of the building.
US military reports a series of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria

Feb 14, 2026 8:12 pm - The U.S. military on Saturday reported a series of strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria in retaliation for the December ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter.
First major protests since capture of Maduro test Venezuela’s new leader

By Andrea Hernández Briceño and Ana Vanessa Herrero
Feb 14, 2026 8:09 pm - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Venezuela’s capital and across the country this week for Youth Day, asserting their right to demonstrate and calling for acting president Delcy Rodríguez to release political prisoners.
Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with dart frog toxin, European nations say

By JILL LAWLESS
Feb 14, 2026 8:02 pm - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a rare and lethal toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs, five European countries said Saturday.The foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analysis in European labs of samples taken from Navalny's body “conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.”
Iranian security use dragnet spanning the entire country to arrest protesters

By AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY
Feb 14, 2026 4:59 pm - The Iranian security agents came at 2 a.m., pulling up in a half-dozen cars outside the home of the Nakhii family. They woke up the sleeping sisters, Nyusha and Mona, and forced them to give the passwords for their phones. Then they took the two away.The women were accused of participating in the nationwide protests that shook Iran a week earlier, a friend of the pair told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity for her security as she described the Jan. 16 arrests.
TSA agents are working without pay at US airports due to another shutdown

By RIO YAMAT
Feb 14, 2026 4:46 pm - A shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that took effect early Saturday impacts the agency responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports across the country. Travelers with airline reservations may be nervously recalling a 43-day government shutdown that led to historic flight cancellations and long delays last year.
White House, RFK Jr. shake up health leadership after controversies

By Lauren Weber, Rachel Roubein and Dan Diamond
Feb 14, 2026 3:02 pm - The White House and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shaking up the health department’s leadership team ahead of the midterms, pushing out several deputies while elevating others in hopes of stabilizing an agency rattled by internal fights and controversial messages, according to more than half a dozen people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel matters.
A man was running from police. Eight llamas caught him.

By Maggie Penman
Feb 14, 2026 2:54 pm - Heidi Price pulled up to her home last week after a long day working as a psychiatric nurse and found her road in Derbyshire, England, lit up by police cars.When she got out of her car, she saw officers and her partner, Graham Oliver. “I was met at the front door,” Price said, “being told my llamas were heroes.”

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