Nightly News Roundup for Feb. 18 & 19, 2026

Tonight: A British prince gets arrested on his 66th birthday while his brother issues a statement and his sister tours a prison voluntarily, the president invokes the Defense Production Act to save a cancer-linked weedkiller from litigation while his own health secretary quietly dissolves into irrelevance, the Justice Department hangs the president's portrait on its own building and apparently sees nothing wrong with that, Trump tells a roomful of kings he might bomb Iran in ten days or possibly not while oil spikes 7% and the hedge funds start popping bottles, Palantir pays zero federal taxes on $1.5 billion in profits while billing the government for the surveillance apparatus your money built, a Texas Railroad Commission candidate refines his deportation policy down to four specific indigenous women and cannot identify a destination country for people who were here before countries existed, and Hilary Knight scored with 124 seconds left in her final Olympics because some people simply will not go quietly. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.