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February 17th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• Snapchat is launching "Creator Subscriptions" on February 23rd, allowing fans to pay monthly fees to their favorite creators for exclusive Snaps, Stories, priority replies, and ad-free access

• President Trump announced three major energy projects are underway, strategic oil and gas developments in Texas, power generation initiatives in Ohio, and critical minerals extraction in Georgia

• Rev. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights leader, minister, and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, has died at the age of 84

• U.S. Capitol Police arrested an 18-year-old man around 12:30 p.m. ET near the West Front of the Capitol building after he parked a white Mercedes SUV, donned a tactical vest and gloves, and moved toward the building while brandishing a gun…he complied with officers' orders to drop the weapon and lie down, posing no ongoing threat with no accomplices identified, though his motive is under investigation

• Births to unmarried women aged 40 and older in the U.S. have doubled since 2007, now accounting for over 1% of all infants born in 2024

• Meta and Nvidia have announced a multiyear strategic partnership to accelerate AI infrastructure development, focusing on the large-scale deployment of Nvidia's advanced CPUs and GPUs across Meta's data centers worldwide

• CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, announced he is leaving 60 Minutes after nearly 20 years as a correspondent

• Palantir Technologies announced that it has relocated its headquarters from Denver, Colorado, to Miami, Florida

• Goldman Sachs plans to eliminate DEI-related criteria, such as race, gender identity, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, from its board candidate evaluation process, replacing them with a focus on professional qualifications, experience, and broader diversity like viewpoints and military service

• One in four unemployed Americans, which is about 1.8 million people, have been job searching for over six months, a share that's risen for three straight years despite overall job growth…read more here

• DOW up .07% / S&P up .10%

• In Geneva, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held indirect talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, reaching understandings on guiding principles for future nuclear negotiations despite gaps over uranium enrichment, ballistic missiles, and proxies

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