Issue 2026-02-21
Stories
- Trump Floats Iran Fork: Accept ‘Token’ Enrichment or Risk Khamenei Decapitation Strike
- EU Sends Observer, Declines Membership in Trump’s New Board of Peace
- Trump Floats ‘Limited’ Iran Strike After Ordering USS Gerald R. Ford Into Gulf
- Budapest Veto Stalls €90 B EU-Ukraine Rescue Loan
- Nvidia Replaces Unexecuted $100 B Supply Pact with One-Shot $30 B Equity Stake in OpenAI
- Lagarde Floats 2026 Departure to Lock-In Successor Before French Vote
- India Signs Pax Silica Declaration, Joining US-Led Silicon & AI Supply-Chain Bloc
- Leak-Free Wet Dress Rehearsal Clears Artemis II for Early-March Launch Despite Unresolved Heat-Shield Risks
- NASA Labels 2024 Boeing Starliner Crewed Test a 'Type A' Mishap After 9-Month Astronaut Stranding
At a Glance
- Leaked 21 Feb 2026 briefings show Trump simultaneously dangling a narrow nuclear deal that permits only symbolic Iran...
- On 16 Feb 2026 Brussels said Commissioner Dubravka Šuica will attend the Board of Peace’s inaugural Washington meetin...
- Between 17–20 Feb 2026, President Trump extended the USS Gerald R. Ford’s deployment to rush a second U.S. carrier st...
- On 20 Feb 2026 Hungary’s EU envoy single-handedly blocked the unanimous budget tweak needed to let Brussels raise a €...
- On 20 Feb 2026 Nvidia agreed to invest a lump-sum $30 billion for OpenAI shares, scrapping the September 2025 plan fo...
- A Financial Times leak says ECB President Christine Lagarde is considering resigning roughly a year early—late-2026 i...