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NPR News: 02-19-2026 8AM EST

19 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.436 - 3.12 Corva Coleman

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corova Coleman.

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Chapter 2: What recent developments involve Britain's King Charles and Prince Andrew?

3.441 - 24.652 Corva Coleman

Britain's King Charles has confirmed his brother, the former Prince Andrew, has been arrested. British police said earlier they detained a man on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The U.S. Justice Department has disclosed documents suggesting Andrew passed confidential documents to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump hosts the first meeting of his Board of Peace today.

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25.093 - 29.7 Corva Coleman

NPR's Franco Ordonez reports the White House says more than 40 nations will participate.

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29.9 - 51.829 Franco Ordonez

President Trump is expected to announce that members of the Board of Peace have contributed $5 billion toward rebuilding Gaza and have committed thousands of troops to an international stabilization force for the territory. There will be representatives from Armenia, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, among many others.

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52.41 - 74.807 Franco Ordonez

The Trump administration has ambitious goals for Gaza. At a forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, shared the administration's plans to build high-end condos and business skyscrapers along the Gaza coastline. But what is unclear is what happens to the people who have homes there now. Franco, Ordonez, and PR News, the White House.

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74.872 - 88.012 Corva Coleman

The largest nurses union in the country is organizing nationwide protests today against federal immigration authorities. From member station KALW, Anna Casalme reports the protests are planned in several states.

88.332 - 109.062 Annika Salme

National Nurses United, which represents more than 200,000 registered nurses, is demanding that Congress abolish ICE and use that funding for services like Medicare and Medicaid. They say immigration enforcement agencies have become a threat to public health. Pomi Neal is a registered nurse in Santa Clara, California.

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Hospitals are places of sanctuary, and to nurses, nobody is illegal. And nobody should, you know, put off seeking care because of the threat of ICE.

119.998 - 126.327 Annika Salme

Neal says nurses are protesting either before or after their shifts, so patient care should not be affected.

Chapter 3: What initiatives is President Trump announcing for Gaza's reconstruction?

126.965 - 130.112 Annika Salme

For NPR News, I'm Annika Salme in San Francisco.

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130.332 - 148.246 Corva Coleman

A jury in Los Angeles heard testimony yesterday from the CEO of big tech company Meta. Mark Zuckerberg is defending against a lawsuit that alleges some social media platforms target children younger than 13 years old. NPR's Bobby Allen says the outcome of this civil lawsuit will affect others.

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This case is tied to 1,600 other pending cases. They were filed by parents, by school districts, all of them saying that social media caused all these mental health issues. They've been consolidated into one case.

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And depending on how this verdict in Los Angeles comes down, you know, that could potentially shape outcomes in all these other cases, meaning there's billions of dollars in monetary damages on the line and potentially major changes to the social media landscape.

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173.219 - 202.062 Corva Coleman

NPR's Bobby Allen reporting from Los Angeles. This is NPR.

202.042 - 222.645 Chloe Veltman

Netflix is the latest media giant to push back against ByteDance this week when it sent the Chinese company a cease and desist letter. Netflix accuses ByteDance of allowing its latest AI video creation tool, Seedance 2.0, to generate hyper-realistic imitations of characters from such Netflix-owned shows as Bridgerton and Squid Game.

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Industry stakeholders, including the Motion Picture Association, have also joined the backlash. The uproar began last week after a video depicting a fight scene between two figures closely resembling Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt went viral. In an email to NPR, ByteDance said it respects intellectual property rights and is taking steps to strengthen current safeguards, but did not say how.

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Chloe Veltman, NPR News.

250.838 - 273.878 Corva Coleman

The Transportation Department says more than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. will have to close The agency says the schools use unqualified instructors, don't test students properly, and show other safety problems. The Transportation Department has also been targeting schools that have provided commercial trucking licenses to immigrants who should not have obtained them.

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