Thursday on FNC’s “Hannity,” House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) downplayed President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal indiscretions.

According to Comer, given Trump’s tenuous relationship with the Biden Department of Justice, any “dirt” regarding Trump would have leaked.

“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday evening signed an “amnesty law” criticized by local human rights organizations over its limited reach for all of the socialist regime’s remaining political prisoners.

Rodríguez signed the bill into law moments after it was approved by the National Assembly — a parliamentary body entirely controlled by the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and led by Delcy’s brother Jorge Rodríguez.

LONDON (AP) – The lobbying firm co-founded by Peter Mandelson, a former U.K. ambassador to the United States, collapsed into a form of bankruptcy Friday in the wake of the scandal surrounding his links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Billionaire Les Wexner was scolded by his own lawyer during a recent deposition before the House Oversight Committee regarding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

A hot mic caught the moment attorney Michael Levy leaned close to Wexner’s ear and bluntly instructed him, the New York Post reported Friday.

Actor Matthew McConaughey warned actors that AI has and will become a major force in the entertainment world, advising them to own their likeness as much as possible to combat copyright.

“It’s coming. It’s already here,” McConaughey said during a CNN town hall discussion at the University of Texas at Austin.

LONDON (AP) – Police searched the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor again on Friday, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) has seen the future, and it is not good if Democrats do not reverse their destructive policy of wide open borders.

In a Thursday interview with the far-left New York Times, Masto was asked if Democrats holding up funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might make them look weak on immigration and border issues.

A fifth of Europeans surveyed said that they would in some circumstances prefer to live under a dictatorship amid growing dissatisfaction with the current democratic order or indeed lack thereof in their countries.

According to a poll from AboutPeople of voters in France, Greece, Romania, Sweden, and the U.K. found that 22 per cent, or one in five people, would prefer a dictatorship over democracy, POLITICO reported.

While those familiar with these pages and the over five million who opted to watch Turning Point USA’s counter-programming will almost certainly disagree, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell thinks the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show went great.

Wow why might the Atlantic be so interested in minimizing the importance those who were found to have close relations with Epstein?

Anyway, here's the Atlantic's owner getting chummy with Ghislaine Maxwell https://t.co/rgjjrJwJbu pic.twitter.com/ZojvcEPftG

— The American Tribune (@TAmTrib) February 16, 2026

Academy Award-winning movie titan James Cameron penned a letter Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) warning that Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery could lead to the death of cinema.

In the letter, obtained by CNBC, Cameron warned Lee, who chairs the Senate subcommittee on antitrust, that Netflix successfully acquiring Warner Bros. could lead to the death of movie theaters, exhibition cinema, and the loss of thousands of jobs.

Did politics destroy journalism, or was it the other way around?

Author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, host of The Drill Down, sees the case for both but believes journalism has done more damage to itself than politicians could manage to do to them.