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The Wall Street Journal - February 17, 2026

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February 17, 2026

Miniature Nuclear Reactor Airlifted

The U.S. military airlifted a miniature nuclear reactor for the first time, part of President Trump's push to deploy nuclear power across the country.

1 mins

For No Apparent Reason, Mexico Has Fallen for the Capybara

The giant rodent became a national obsession long after the craze swept other countries

3 mins

Turnover In CEOs Is Most In Over A Decade

Companies are changing bosses more often, and hiring younger ones

3 mins

North Korea Defector Explains Cyber Scam

On a California-based company’s internal directory, he was just another face in the grid of remote workers—a prolific software developer with a polished LinkedIn profile and an IP address tracing back to the Midwest.

4 mins

Farmers Are Aging. The Family Business Is in Peril.

Rising costs, weak prices and a trade hit are pushing more farms to the brink, making it harder to find successors

7 mins

Deep Rifts Leave U.S., Europe In a Tense Marriage

MUNICH-Ask a European official who attended the weekend’s Munich Security Conference about the state of the trans-Atlantic relationship, and you are likely to hear metaphors about dealing with a troubled, possibly abusive, spouse.

4 mins

Companies, Beset by Costs, Are Jacking Up Prices Again

Higher tariffs, labor and health expenses force brands to act across many sectors

4 mins

Economic Signs Point to a Soft Landing

Inflation is easing, jobs are holding up and growth is solid, defying predictions

4 mins

'Godfather' Legend Plaved Iconic Roles

In the early 1960s, when Robert Duvall was struggling to make it in New York City, he palled around with a couple of fellow actors also trying to find their way in the business.

1 mins

Massachusetts Debates Rent Control

A fight is heating up in Massachusetts over what could become one of the nation's strictest rent-control measures.

3 mins

Despair Mounts in Tucson Over Guthrie

Desert city is on edge, locals hunt for clues as the search enters its third week

4 mins

Massachusetts Debates Rent Control

A fight is heating up in Massachusetts over what could become one of the nation's strictest rent-control measures.

3 mins

Big NYC Deficits Put a Squeeze on Mayor

Fiscal pressure comes as Mamdani needs new revenue streams to pay for his agenda

3 mins

A Top FDA Scientist Who Quit Warns of Politicized Drug Approval

Dr. Richard Pazdur, a top federal drug regulator, wasn’t on board.

3 mins

Tax Deadlines Accidentally Got Turned Off for 3 Years

Attorneys are racing to file claims before new deadlines expire.

3 mins

Navalny Died From Poison-Frog Toxin

Opposition leader was given substance while in Russian jail, investigation finds

1 mins

Ukraine Crews Battle To Keep Lights On

It was late January, and an elite Ukrainian team grabbed their tools for a special operation critical to their country’s resistance against Russia: an underwater drone, a hammer and a chisel.

2 mins

Low-Tech Balloons Make Comeback High Above Battlefields Worldwide

A military technology from the French Revolution is finding new life on the modern AI-powered battlefield.

3 mins

Gaza Hospital at Center of Care Dispute

Doctors group halts noncritical care after an increase in 'unacceptable acts'

3 mins

Teen Suspect in Canada Shooting Had a Turbulent Life

Days after a deadly mass shooting devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, police are still searching for clues as to why the suspect, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, would have turned violent, and how she could have carried out her attack.

2 mins

Alberta Flexes Its Oil Muscle As Talk of Independence Grows

In Canada, President Trump’s provocations like making the country a 51st state are largely unpopular.

3 mins

Europeans Seek Clues on U.S. Midterms

MUNICH—On stage, top leaders at the weekend’s Munich Security Conference focused on the war in Ukraine and Europe’s changing relationship with President Trump.

3 mins

Rubio Tries to Reassure Europe

Secretary of State Marco Rubio made an unapologetic defense for U.S. might and pursuit of national interests Saturday while seeking to recast President Trump’s sharp disputes with Europe as a form of tough love with the U.S.’s closest allies.

1 mins

Farmers Search for Successors

315 farms filed for bankruptcy, up 46% from 2024, U.S. court data shows.

7 mins

Ski Retreats Reveal the Office 'Moguls'

Being an alpine ace can help you stand out at work, especially when companies organize outings on the slopes

3 mins

'Send Help' Movie Is Today's Workplace Revenge Fantasy

TODAY'S OFFICE IS, some might say, a horror show.

3 mins

Travel Tips From a Road Pro

Hilton Hotels & Resorts CEO Chris Nassetta estimates he spends about 80% of his time on the road.

3 mins

When Home Security Cameras Become a Dragnet for Everything

These devices, which provide homeowners with peace of mind, come with a trade-off: When companies store our footage, we don't always have control over how it's used or shared

4 mins

HAPPENINGS FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 17

A working-class man who was disowned by his uberrich family as a baby sets out to get his inheritance by making sure none of his relatives can claim it, even if it means resorting to unsavory tactics.

2 mins

Blandly Shouted Shakespeare

An off-Broadway 'Coriolanus' is performed with a monotony that flattens the text's complexity

3 mins

Policies and Prosperity

How Africa Works

4 mins

Jimmy Lai and Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize

Say this for Donald Trump: It isn’t hard to figure out what he wants, because he tells us.

3 mins

Governors Who Refuse Education Dollars

Thanks to a new federal tax credit available in 2027, governors have begun signing up their states to access billions of additional dollars for education.

2 mins

Iran's Crisis Is Trump's Sweet Spot

The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group cruised the Caribbean last month as American forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

3 mins

Ocasio-Cortez Does Geopolitics

President Trump absorbs the world’s media oxygen and he likes it that way, so let’s check in with the political competition for a change.

1 mins

Europe Can Resist Future Russian Aggression

Regarding “Wargame Shows EU Vulnerability to Russian Attack” (World News, Feb. 6): The more relevant lessons should be drawn from Ukraine's real-world experience rather than from a wargame built on sensational assumptions designed to maximize attention.

1 mins

Antisemitism at a Religious Liberty Hearing

Your editorial “Hijacking Trump’s Religious Liberty Council” (Review & Outlook, Feb. 11) is right to lament the behavior of Carrie Prejean Boller at a hearing of the White House Religious Liberty Commission, before which I was called as a witness.

1 mins

Americans Feel the Weight of Trump’s Tariffs

Regarding “Foreign Countries Bear the Burden of Tariffs” (Letters, Feb. 11):

1 mins

Rubio’s Tough Love for Europe

His message is better than Vance’s, but then there’s Ukraine.

2 mins

Judge Leon Educates Pete Hegseth

The military version of lawfare loses in embarrassing fashion.

2 mins

End the SEC's Access Rule, Don't Mend It

Of the thousands of rules and regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, none are as divisive as the Shareholder Access Rule.

3 mins

America Needs AI That Can Do Math

Language skills won't be enough to stay ahead of China in the economic sectors that matter.

$America Needs AI That Can Do Math41$

4 mins

In Munich, Rubio Points to a Path Forward for the GOP

Marco Rubio’s elegantly bravura speech at the Munich Security Conference Saturday sharpens the question for Republicans back on this side of the Atlantic: What sort of party do they want to be?

3 mins

When the Games Get Super Weird

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics has been a showcase of athletic virtuosity. And more than a little bit of strangeness in Northern Italy.

3 mins

Olympics Are Fun Again

For an entire decade, the Olympics couldn’t stop getting it wrong.

3 mins

Curling Is Rocked After 'Double-Touch' Results in an Uproar

The Olympics are where human beings accomplish the impossible.

2 mins

Smithfield Plans to Build Its First New Pork Plant in Decades

Smithfield Foods plans to build a large hog slaughterhouse in South Dakota, marking the first new facility built by America’s top pork producer in decades.

2 mins

Micron Spends Big On Giant Chip Plants

BOISE, Idaho-Every day at around 4:30 p.m., the ground here shakes from controlled explosions to flatten out the ground underneath a gigantic new semiconductor factory.

3 mins

Detroit's EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion

The costs are piling up as U.S. automakers are pulling back on their electric-vehicle business.

2 mins

Investors Learn to Handle Surprise

Unexpected events that swing markets have become a trading fixture

3 mins

Goldman To Scrap DEI Criteria For Board

Last year, Goldman Sachs dropped a commitment to support board diversity for clients it was taking public.

1 mins

Marketplaces Are Next Frontier In Publisher-AI Firm Deals

A cottage industry to spur licensing deals among AI companies and news publishers is taking shape, with businesses including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Dow Jones’s Factiva planting their flags.

2 mins

Hyatt’s Pritzker Retires Over Epstein Ties

Hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker is retiring as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, saying he wanted to protect the company after new documents were released detailing the extent of his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

1 mins

Casey Wasserman’s Agency Is for Sale

Casey Wasserman is putting his eponymous talent and marketing agency up for sale, he said in a memo to staff Friday night.

2 mins

Anderson Cooper Set to Leave ‘60 Minutes’ After This Season

Correspondent and CNN anchor wants to spend more time with his family

1 mins

China AI Titans Go Big on Lunar New Year

Alibaba, ByteDance and others offer giveaways in their race to lock in users

3 mins

Stock Futures Fall Ahead of a Busy Week

Early gains for U.S. stock futures faded, suggesting investors remain cautious ahead of a data-heavy week.

1 mins

Starboard to Stir Up Tripadvisor Board

Activist investor Starboard Value plans to push for a shakeup of Tripadvisor’s board, according to a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people familiar with the matter.

1 mins

Irish Watchdog Opens Probe Into X Over Grok

Ireland’s data-protection watchdog said on Tuesday it is investigating X over concerns the social-media platform could be breaching European Union privacy rules.

1 mins

Elliott Builds Norwegian Cruise Stake of Over 10%

Activist Elliott Investment Management has built a more than 10% stake in Norwegian Cruise Line and plans to push for changes to turn the struggling cruise-ship operator around, according to people familiar with the matter.

1 mins

Big Bank CEOs Saw Their Pay Rise a Collective 21% Last Year

The chief executives of the largest U.S. banks together raked in $258 million in compensation for 2025, after a strong economy and buoyant Wall Street propelled their businesses to record levels.

2 mins

How to Trade This Ozempic Moment

In the past few weeks, one sector after another—software, wealth management, data, insurance, real estate and trucking—has sold off because new artificial-intelligence tools threatened to upend their business.

2 mins

Drugmakers Face Napster-Like Reckoning

The free-for-all era of copycat weight-loss drugs is ending, but will likely morph into something else

3 mins

Ivy League Has Doubts About Investing in Private Capital

Private equity is on academic probation.

3 mins

ENTERTAINMENT

THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST ECONOMY

1 mins

What's Your American Culture IQ?

Test your knowledge with this WSJ quiz about books, music, movies and more

3 mins

The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture

For most of the 20th century, pop culture was the glue that held the U.S. together. But what will it mean now that everything has splintered?

8 mins

The Tech Devices That Transformed Entertainment

Player pianos, microphones, jukeboxes. Here's a look at 10 seminal innovations that changed the culture.

4 mins

From Singing 'Yankee Doodle' to Streaming 'Avengers': That's Been Entertainment!

How Americans spent their leisure time has varied widely through the centuries, but some things have remained constant

8 mins

From Singing ‘Yankee Doodle’ to Streaming ‘Avengers’: That’s Been Entertainment!

How Americans spent their leisure time has varied widely through the centuries, but some things have remained constant

6 mins

Key Moments in the History of Videogames (And No, 'Pong' Wasn't First)

How videogames became the world's most profitable pastime-from 'Spacewar' to 'Roblox'

4 mins

The Most Influential American Films of the Past 110 Years

Starting with 'The Birth of a Nation' in 1915, these are the movies that defined cinema-and the U.S.

7 mins

How Popcorn Took Over the Movies

At first, theater owners wanted nothing to do with the noisy snack. But then came the Depression. 'The show starts in your nostrils.'

4 mins

The Story of American TV Shows, From 'I Love Lucy' to 'Stranger Things'

We picked one popular television show that defined each decade, and which spoke volumes about the country as well

6 mins

Defining Moments in TV History You've Probably Never Heard About

Many of the most-important events have slipped from our collective memories. But their impacts live on.

8 mins

What's Your American Culture IQ?

SEE QUIZ QUESTIONS ON PAGE R2

1 mins

Meet Fanny Fern, the Original Carrie Bradshaw

In the mid-1800s, she was a feminist firebrand-and the highest-paid newspaper columnist of her time

5 mins

Harry Belafonte: The Making of a Radical Performer

The country's first Black pop superstar, Belafonte shattered barriers and fought for racial justice, paving the way for a future generation of singers and actors

8 mins

Seven People Who Changed the Course of American Entertainment

From P.T. Barnum to Walt Disney, these pioneers reimagined how the public wanted to be entertained-before the public realized it themselves

7 mins

How Theme Parks Turned Nostalgia Into Historical Landmarks

Amusement parks flourished after World War II, as the economy grew and families needed child-friendly entertainment

5 mins

20 Songs That Reveal America

The biggest hit of each decade since the 1840s—and what it said about the country

5 mins

The Quest to Define Superman

Movies and TV have long tried to make the character more than a Boy Scout. But he has always been difficult to figure out.

4 mins

Will Streaming Kill the Protest Song?

The genre has a rich history in the U.S. But it has become harder for musicians to reach a mass audience.

4 mins

How Pro Football Turned Into America's National Obsession

It’s unscripted—yes, we think it is—and still pretty violent. America can’t get enough of it.

6 mins

When the American Theater Became Truly the American Theater

For decades, British and European imports dominated the theater scene in this country. But eventually, homegrown artists took center stage.

6 mins

5 Young Writers on the Early American Authors They Most Admire

The classic works from the early years of the country still provide the creative spark that inspires those who carry the literary torch these many years later

6 mins

How Cooking Became Entertainment

There was a time when cooking was about, well, cooking. Then it became something much more.

5 mins

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