A journalist in Cuba caught US embassy staff hoovering up insane amounts of gasoline while the island is blocked by the U.S. from importing oil. The U.S. responded by sanctioning the journalist. We are doing all this for freedom, of course.

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Robert Duvall, a titan in American cinema who anchored some of the greatest films of the 20th century, has died at the age of 95.

Jesse Jackson hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 1984 and came back with a cameo appearance in a 1991 #SNL show (that was hosted by Michael Jordan) to famously read a portion of “Green Eggs & Ham” on Weekend Update days after the death of Dr. Seuss. #RIPJesseJackson

Stephen Colbert claims his scheduled interview with Texas state representative and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Monday night's episode of the Late Show was canceled by CBS network lawyers, who raised concerns that it could violate the FCC's equal time rule. "I

Watch the new trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars movie in seven years. consequence.net/2026/02/mandal…

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by Mica Rosenberg et al for ProPublica: propublica.org/article/ice-di…

🚨 BREAKING: Not a single Republican showed up for Les Wexner’s deposition today — the billionaire longtime Epstein associate whose name appears repeatedly in the files. Zero. Oversight. From the GOP. Wexner also says the FBI and DOJ have never contacted him. After years of

Wow, this really is a hoo boy. It may be the clearest documented example we have of Jeffrey Epstein directly exerting leverage over elites through sexual entanglements. What appears to be happening here is that Joshua Fink, the son of Larry Fink of BlackRock, was involved with

This is pretty astonishing. When Jean-Luc Brunel, who ran Epstein’s “modeling agency,” was about to get an immunity deal to spill the beans on the operation, hush money negotiations began. The first person Epstein turned to for advice was Kathryn Ruemmler, a key member of Obama’s

🚨NEWS: Palantir's abrupt move to Florida comes just after the state's GOP lawmakers boosted corporations’ power to prevent workers from leaving their jobs for competitors — and as Palantir is in court right now trying to enforce noncompete clauses against its former employees.

I am not a fan of Tucker Carlson. I disagree a lot with Carlson. But as an interviewer, Carlson actually, brilliantly, asks follow-up questions, and keeps going, in a way that pretty much no US TV interviewer has done with pro-Israel guests since Oct 7. And Huckabee falls apart.

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC MAGA Inc. With Matina Stevis-Gridneff: nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/…

Donald Trump is demanding that Susan Rice, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, resign from Netflix's board of directors, or that the company will "pay the consequences." The president's threat comes as Netflix pursues a potential acquisition of Warner Bros.

19-year-old Palestinian-American Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a Philadelphia native, was shot and killed by an armed Israeli settler during a raid on the West Bank village of Mukhmas on Wednesday, February 18. Witnesses told journalist Jasper Nathaniel that roughly 30 masked settlers,

With Rep. Wasserman-Schulz opposing unauthorized war in Iran, AIPAC Dems Gottheimer & Moskowitz should be nervous They hoped more Dems would defect and join them — and vote with House Republicans against blocking Trump's Iran war They'd be wise to listen to their voters and reconsider

Most Jewish Americans don’t want annexation fantasies from Trump ideologues like US Ambassador Mike Huckabee. We want a secure Israel, equal rights for Palestinians and a real path to peace.

Watch as Gary Palmer accuses this reporter of “taking Iran’s side” for simply asking why a war is necessary to destroy that country’s nuclear weapons when the administration claimed they had already done so last summer

.FLAVOR FLAV has once again come up big for Team USA, this time offering to host the women’s gold medal hockey team after they were disrespected by Donald Trump. consequence.net/2026/02/flavor…

Turner Classic Movies is counterprograming the State of the Union with an airing of Gaslight, the 1944 film about a woman being slowly driven mad by the manipulations of her husband. Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and a very young Angela Lansbury, the film considered