- An Oklahoma judge gave a woman a lenient jail sentence because she sterilized herself. [Link]
- Trump introduces a $4.4 trillion budget. The budget includes a $1.4 trillion in infrastructure spending. [Link] Trump also plans to expand the US nuclear weapons arsenal. [Link]
- VP Mike Pence on North Korea, “If you want to talk, we’ll talk.” [Link]
- Justin Raimondo explains how Mattis is pushing Trump to keep troops in Afghanistan and Somalia. [Link]
- Trump says he is “not sure if Israel truly wants peace.” [Link]
- An Israeli Member of Parliment introduced a bill that would effectively annex the West Bank. [Link] Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu lied and said he was discussing the annexation with Trump to delay the Parliment from pushing forward with the bill. The US announced that Trump was not in talks with Israel about annexing the West Bank. [Link]
- In Somalia, al-Shabaab is stealing aid money given to displaced people by the UN through taxes. [Link]
- A mayor in Mali was freed after being held by militants for three weeks. [Link]
- The US is now bombing Uighurs in Afghanistan. [Link]
- The Riyadh Ritz-Carlton reopens after the Saudi Crown Prince used the hotel as a prison. [Link]
- At least 31 Turkish troops have been killed in Operation Olive Branch. [Link]
- Russian mercenaries among 100 killed by a US coalition airstrike in Syria on Feb. 7th. [Link]
- 500 civilians have been killed or injured in Raqqa by ISIS mines since the SDF forced ISIS from the city. [Link]
- Venezuela oil production down 20% from a year ago according to an OPEC report. [Link]
