Date: February 13, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
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The Crosstalk news desk had much to offer this week, taking listeners across the nation and around the world as Jim reported on these and other stories:
–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump met Wednesday evening at the White House. Instead of a post meeting press conference, President Trump posted on social media his hopes that a deal can still be consummated with Iran.
–Some residents of Tehran chanted slogans on Tuesday against the Islamic republic and its supreme leader on the eve of the most significant annual commemoration of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
–The Pentagon is sending the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford from the Caribbean to the Middle East.
–Italy and Poland are among the latest European allies to snub President Trump’s newly formed “Board of Peace,” joining a list of growing nations refusing or hesitating to participate.
–The Trump administration smuggled roughly 6,000 Starlink satellite internet terminals into Iran after the regime’s crackdown on protests last month as reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
–Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has received a 70 page draft, “Interim Constitution” aimed at laying the legal groundwork for a future Palestinian state.
–U.S. military forces have completed their mission in Syria to transfer Islamic state detainees to Iraq according to U.S. Central Command.
–Venezuela has sent its first crude oil shipment in years to Israel.
–As of this past Monday, Cuba’s government says international airlines cannot refuel on the island nation.
–Counterterrorism police in Great Britain are reportedly conducting an investigation into the stabbing of two young boys at a London school on Tuesday. The alleged attacker was a 13 year old boy who reportedly cried, “Allahu Akbar!” while he stabbed the two classmates, ages 12 and 13.
–The U.S. will reportedly send some 200 troops to Nigeria in an effort to train Nigeria’s armed forces to combat Islamic terrorists.
–The Supreme Court of Panama blocked a Chinese company from operating ports on either end of the Panama canal.
–Lawmakers are leaving Washington for a break with no deal set to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
–Former CNN host Don Lemon, and others charged in connection to a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, are being arraigned today.
–White House border czar Tom Homan said he will be wrapping up the immigration surge operation in Minnesota and that 3,364 missing, unaccompanied alien children were found by ICE in Minneapolis.
