Hundreds more flights cancelled as world faces worst travel chaos since Covid pandemic

Swiss National Bank reports annual profit of $34 billion reut.rs/4l0tax0

BREAKING: Fire and smoke rise from inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait after an Iranian attack. Video obtained by The Associated Press showed the smoke with an alarm wailing.

Ship insurers cancel war risk cover due to Iran conflict reut.rs/4bhRW8B

BREAKING: Several U.S. warplanes crashed in Kuwait, the country’s defense ministry said, with all the pilots safely bailing out. The ministry did not elaborate on what caused the crashes but it came during an intense period of Iranian fire targeting the country.

A blood-red moon will soon grace the skies for a total lunar eclipse. The spectacle will be visible Tuesday morning from North America, Central America and the western part of South America. https://to.pbs.org/4rA0Y6E

As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators are flooding north in search of cheap and plentiful energy. www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

President Trump tells reporters that the Cuban government is "in a big deal trouble" and says that there might be a "friendly takeover" of Cuba.

UnitedHealth caps employee pay raises to 2%, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4l30xiQ

Aviation industry is running out of the people who keep planes flying https://fascinating.news/r/GgiN8CD0

Ordinary Americans are still on the hook for funding the U.S. data center boom despite Trump’s promises at the State of the Union.

Hospitals fighting measles confront a challenge: Few doctors have seen it before https://fascinating.news/r/zhT0InHa

Roughly 35 million people are under blizzard warnings from Maryland to New Hampshire as a historic and powerful winter storm threatens to bring up to 2 feet of snow and strong winds to parts of the region.

Novo Nordisk's obesity drug CagriSema falls short against Eli Lilly's in trial reut.rs/46pUQFI

The continued drain of personnel from the already strained immigration court system has contributed to depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs — and floundering due process. n.pr/3OmZD4F

⚡️14 hospitalized in Lviv terrorist attack allegedly linked to Russia Three victims are in serious condition and receiving intensive care, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported on Feb. 23.

European foreign ministers have taken multiple swipes at Hungary over Budapest’s plan to block the EU’s latest round of sanctions against Russia.

U.S. and other security officials say they are monitoring increasingly worrisome signs that Iran could direct proxies to conduct retaliatory terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in Europe and the Middle East if President Trump orders large-scale strikes against Iran.

History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks. www.wired.com/story/say-go...

The Trump administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger effort to boost the coal industry. Two Colorado utilities are pushing back. n.pr/4kPwRpj

Millions of people in New York City and a large swath of the northeastern U.S. were stuck at home under road travel bans and blizzard warnings on Monday as a fierce winter storm barreled into the densely populated region with heavy snowfall and high winds.

Carmakers push toward ‘eyes-off’ driving, raising questions of safety, liability reut.rs/3OCZLgf

PANTHEON MACRO: “.. Real after-tax incomes stagnated in the second half of 2025, so strong gains in households’ spending were driven entirely by people slashing their saving rate to just 3.6% by December, a low seen before only during the mid-2000s credit boom ..”

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it will end a 30-year practice of reporting veterans who require fiduciaries to a Federal Bureau of Investigation database that screens and prohibits people from buying and possessing firearms. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

Denmark's military says its arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment. n.pr/4rwqZny

America desperately needs new privacy laws

Ukraine condemned “ultimatums ⁠and blackmail” by the governments of Hungary and Slovakia yesterday, after Budapest and Bratislava threatened to stop electricity supplies to Ukraine unless ⁠Kyiv restarts flows of ​Russian oil.

Research shows that having a sense of purpose can lower stress levels and boost our mental health. Finding meaning may not have to be an ambitious project. n.pr/3MoAtC5

Canada's injured captain Crosby not dressed for men's ice hockey gold medal game reut.rs/4c2keoy

EU lawmaker urges delay to US trade deal vote after tariff upheaval reut.rs/4tNV7Mz

Police officer killed, 24 people wounded in bomb explosions in Ukraine's Lviv reut.rs/3MnJuLF

US DHS to pause TSA PreCheck and Global Entry as shutdown continues, Washington Post reports reut.rs/4tKe7f7

Measles cases are four times as high as they were this time last year.

NORAD scrambled several fighters this week after tracking five Russian aircraft operating in the Alaska air defense zone.

By typing simple, text-based commands into Windows' PowerShell, you can quickly install apps directly from the Microsoft Store—all without the typical ads or clutter. www.wired.com/story/instal...

Breaking News: The EPA is allowing coal-burning power plants to release more heavy metals like mercury, a powerful neurotoxin linked to brain damage.

KKR explores $1.5 billion sale of BMC Helix, sources say reut.rs/4rm65r0

The fatal nervous system disease known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, killed actor Eric Dane less than a year after he announced his diagnosis.

Ministers to consider removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from line of succession

What happens to billions in tariff money already paid? Supreme Court leaves refunds unsettled.

A key inflation gauge accelerated in December to the fastest pace in nearly a year, showing how prices are still rising more quickly than most Americans would prefer — and faster than the Federal Reserve's target of 2% a year. https://to.pbs.org/4kIyTay

Both the House and the Senate are out of town this week, but what they have heard from constituents at home will matter when they return on Monday. https://to.pbs.org/4kHJrqq

NASA's new boss is blasting Boeing and the space agency for Starliner's botched flight that left two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station.

Shares of Blue Owl Capital, the giant private lender, plunged after the company announced that it was changing how investors can get their money out from one of its funds, raising fresh concerns about potential problems lurking in the private credit industry.

“The former Prince Andrew acted as he did because he lived in a world in which someone like him never faced consequences. That isn’t true anymore,” @helenlewis.bsky.social argues. She examines why, in Britain, the Epstein story is a corruption scandal:

JPMorgan Chase hit back at President Donald Trump’s debanking lawsuit against the company and CEO Jamie Dimon, filing to move the case from Florida state court to federal court and arguing the president’s initial lawsuit “fraudulently” included Dimon.

US economic growth likely slowed to a still-brisk pace in fourth quarter reut.rs/3MxcnoH

Dollar set for best week in four months on hawkish Fed, geopolitics reut.rs/4qK6TVu

Trump's first Board of Peace meeting had the hallmarks of a Trump political rally – Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” blaring over speakers and red “USA” hats handed out to participants. But the event in Washington, DC was meant to mark a major moment in global governance.

Amazon's cloud unit hit by at least two outages involving AI tools, FT says reut.rs/4c3OQpN