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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 4:55 PM ET

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Barack Obama pays tribute to 'true giant' as Jesse Jackson dies aged 84 - President Trump also remembers the civil rights leader as a "force of nature" with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

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Eleven killed in multiple strikes on alleged drug boats, US military says -- More than 130 people have been killed in these alleged "narco-trafficking operations" carried out by the US since September.

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Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files 'cover-up' in BBC interview -- "Get the files out. They are slow-walking it," the former US secretary of state says. The White House says it has done "more for the victims than Democrats ever did".

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US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran -- BBC Verify has seen US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran ahead of talks between the two countries

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'One of the greatest actors we ever had': Hollywood mourns Robert Duvall -- Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, Duvall's co-stars from The Godfather films, lead tributes to the Oscar winner.

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Obama clarifies views on aliens after saying 'they're real' on podcast -- Former US President Barack Obama says he has seen no evidence extra-terrestrials have made contact with Earth.

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Watch: Moment crew docks at International Space Station -- The crew blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

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Gasps and disbelief in US as 'Quad God's' Olympic dream crumbles -- The BBC visited the skating rink in Virginia where the 'Quad God' trains, as his closest friends and teammates expected to watch him win gold.

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Watch: How Andrew's BBC interview compares to what Epstein emails tell us now -- Following the latest release of the Epstein files, claims made by the then Prince Andrew in 2019 are under fresh scrutiny.

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How Robert Duvall became a Hollywood great -- A look at the life of the prolific actor whose many films included Apocalypse Now and The Godfather.

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Trump's new world order has become real and Europe is having to adjust fast -- European nations are asking whether traditional alliances can suffice, or whether they should be diversifying

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Trump eyes Venezuela visit – but obstacles to his oil plan remain -- The US president wants American energy firms to start extracting the crude but they are reluctant.

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Ex-church minister who admitted child sexual abuse to BBC still free years later -- Robert Corfield, who admitted abusing a child to the BBC, was a minister in a shadowy church known as The Truth.

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It's been two weeks since the 84 year old's disappearance and authorities say there have not been any arrests

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The shooting at a high school ice hockey game left two people dead and three others injured.

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Tributes poured in from politicians who described Jackson as an agent of change and transformative leader.

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A look back at the remarkable life of the US civil rights activist, who died on Tuesday aged 84.

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Two people were killed and three others were injured at a shooting at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket.

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The civil rights leader, who ran for president twice in the 1980s, leaves a lasting legacy.

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Local police say the missing woman's relatives are victims - and "to suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel".

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Both men's and women's Canadian curling teams have been accused of cheating at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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The US civil rights activist's influence spread from the churches of the Deep South to the White House.

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