“complete-what-we-started”:-leaked-ring-emails-suggest-controversial-tech-won’t-stop-at-finding-pets

Ring was recently pushed to terminate a surveillance tech partnership over backlash to its Search Party feature Nights and Weekends Editor Published February 18, 2026 6:21PM (EST) Doorbell cameras are everywhere. An Amazon proposed partnership and Super Bowl ad reveals fears about personal privacy. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) AudiencesContinue Reading

new-seismic-data-challenges-beijing’s-nuclear-test-ban-claims

A senior U.S. arms-control official says seismic data from June 22, 2020, point to a suspected low-yield nuclear test at China’s Lop Nur test site. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw pointed to data from a monitoring station in Kazakhstan that detected a magnitude 2.75Continue Reading

the-us-gives-iran-an-ultimatum:-two-weeks-to-make-a-deal

After indirect talks in Geneva, Vice President JD Vance issued a blunt warning: Iran has two weeks to meet U.S. demands. He said the negotiations failed to produce a breakthrough and that Tehran has not agreed to what he called the administration’s core requirements. The U.S. is insisting Iran haltContinue Reading

tucker-carlson-says-he-was-detained-in-israel

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson—perhaps the right’s most prominent Israel critic—says he was detained by Israeli authorities in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.  Carlson told the  Daily Mai l that while attempting to leave  Ben Gurion International Airport, he and his staff had their passports taken, and his executive producer was interrogatedContinue Reading