News for February 21, 2026

Iranian students held new anti-government protests at several universities as tensions rose over President Donald Trump’s threats of possible US military action.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe ordered the agency to retract or revise 19 intelligence reports after a review by the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board found possible bias and tradecraft problems.

President Donald Trump said he will raise his new global tariff to 15% after the Supreme Court struck down most of his earlier tariff plan.

New records say Texas U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot by a Homeland Security Investigations agent during a late-night traffic stop last year, and the shooting was not publicly disclosed at the time.

The Trump administration fired James W. Hundley hours after federal judges in Eastern Virginia appointed him as interim top prosecutor, deepening a fight over who controls the role.

Cuba’s health minister says the U.S. fuel blockade is pushing the country’s health care system to the edge of collapse and putting many patients at risk.