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Democratic Texas Congressman James Talarico speaks at the U.S. Senate campaign launch rally on September 9, 2025 in Round Rock, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesStephen Colbert has accused CBS of banning him from airing an interview with Texas Congressman James Talarico, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, on his late-night TV show.”You know who’s not my guest tonight? That’s Texas Congressman James Talarico,” Colbert told the show’s studio audience on Monday night’s episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.””He was supposed to be here, but our network’s attorney called us directly and told us in no uncertain terms that…

The judge said the Trump administration has made “a series of empty threats” to deport Salvadoran nationals to Africa.listen to this article | 2 minutesinformationPublished February 17, 2026February 17, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareA U.S. federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot remand Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was wrongfully deported last year and who the federal government was seeking to deport again.U.S. District Judge Paula Kishinis said Tuesday that 90 days in custody have passed without the government offering a viable plan to deport Abrego-Garcia. Garcia’s lawyers argue that he was…

Ronda Rousey is set to make a surprise return to mixed martial arts later this year.It’s been nearly 10 years since Rousey last competed in the UFC, but she will be fighting her first MMA bout since 2016 when she takes on Gina Carano on May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. Rousey is a pioneering mixed martial artist with a record-setting career as the UFC’s first and most dominant female fighter and bantamweight champion. She became the first woman to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame and catapulted the WWE women’s division toward its first-ever…

Nearly 20 U.S.-based AI startups have raised more than $100 million in mega-rounds in 2026, and we’re less than two months away. If the first few weeks of 2026 are any indication, the AI ​​startup market will see another year of monster funding rounds at eye-popping valuations. U.S. AI startups raised more than $76 billion through mega-rounds in 2025, according to a tally by TechCrunch. Will startups achieve similar success in 2026? Time will tell. Here are all the US-based AI startups that have raised $100 million or more to date. February Simile, which builds AI that mimics human decision-making,…

Hispanorism | E+ | Getty ImagesExperts expect supply to increase in the used car market this year, but consumers probably won’t find much comfort in pricing.Dealer inventories continue to improve gradually, but the combination of high-priced cars on the used car market and wholesale prices that rose in January could limit the amount of additional supply that translates into cheaper cars.According to the Consumer Price Index, used car prices in January fell by 1.8% compared to December, and by 2% compared to the same month last year, but they are slowing down from their record highs. According to J.D. Power,…

Jim Cramer’s CNBC Investment Club hosts a “Morning Meeting” livestream every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET. A recap of Tuesday’s big moments. 1. Stock prices are little changed to start the shortened business week, with the Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Dow all trading near the flatline. The Dow and S&P 500 are coming off their fourth of the past five weeks of declines, while the Nasdaq just posted its fifth straight negative week. This decline is due to volatility in software names such as Salesforce, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and ServiceNow. The weakness extended to blockbuster tech trading on Tuesday,…

caracas, venezuela — It’s been less than two months since U.S. special forces captured Venezuela’s longtime authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro in a nighttime raid in Caracas, but it’s difficult to overstate how different the South American country feels right now. There’s a new buzz and optimism that, frankly, we’ve never seen before. I moved to Caracas in 2016. Over the next decade, Venezuela saw it all. A quarter of the population escaped a devastating economic collapse. Crime rates exploded, but gradually declined in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. Anti-Maduro protesters have taken to the streets every year, only to…

Henry Arundel, who avoided a red card in England’s Guinness Six Nations defeat to Scotland, will play on a free transfer against Ireland on Saturday.Arundel were shown two yellow cards in the first half of their 31-20 loss to Murrayfield in the second round, the second of which resulted in a 20-minute red card and was cited. However, at a disciplinary hearing held on Tuesday, it was decided that “the player’s sending off is a sufficient sanction, and no further sanction is appropriate.” Arundel were initially penalized for breakdown offense and given their marching orders just before half-time for taking…

Amazon is rolling out a new user interface for its Fire TV streaming devices designed to put more focus on content while simplifying navigation. The update will initially be available to Fire TV owners in the United States and is the first major Fire TV redesign in years. This change comes as the explosion of streaming content makes it increasingly difficult to know what’s available on which services, and streaming platforms like Fire TV need to act as discovery hubs rather than just tools to launch streaming apps. The company first previewed the new design at the Consumer Electronics Show…

After the rest of the world outperformed the US in 2025, Rob Citron predicts that the country’s stocks will become even more relatively weak going forward. The billionaire hedge fund manager said he is short the U.S. market and long stocks in certain international markets. Appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Tuesday, the Discovery Capital Management founder and portfolio manager explained why he believes overseas emerging markets, particularly some markets in Latin America, have further upside potential in 2026. Some of that is simply the already high valuations of U.S. stocks, he said. “The U.S. is trading at a premium…