Daily News Digest - Summary for February 18, 2026
BREAKING STUDY: MMR and MMRV Vaccines Linked to 2,657% More U.S. Deaths Than Measles Infection Since 1995
BREAKING STUDY: MMR and MMRV Vaccines Linked to 2,657% More U.S. Deaths Than Measles Infection Since 1995
We found an alarming number of deaths among infants and toddlers shortly after MMR/MMRV vaccination in VAERS — often involving SIDS, seizures, and cardiac arrest.

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
For decades, Americans have been told that measles represents a grave and ongoing threat — and that MMR vaccination is one of the safest and most effective interventions in modern medicine. Pharma-captured mass media and public health agencies have centered almost exclusively on the minimal dangers of measles infection and ignored grieving parents whose children were injured or even killed by the shots. No proper attention has been paid to signals emerging within the federal government’s own vaccine safety database…
Happily Handicapped Nation: Almost 4 in 10 Stanford Students Claim “Disability”
The ‘Handicapped’ Elite: Is the rise in disability requests a mental health crisis or a competitive strategy?

by Selwyn Duke
“I’m disturbed, I’m depressed, I’m inadequate — I got it all!” So exclaimed Seinfeld sitcom character George Costanza, trying to woo a woman he believed had a psychologically oriented Florence Nightingale syndrome. It was a funny scene in 1993, and entirely fictional. But today, a generation-plus later, life has sort of imitated art.
For unlike with George, whose appeal fell flat, having a disability has now become a way to leverage advantage…
AIPAC accused of covert campaigning as Democratic support falters
Democrats in Illinois say the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is meddling in their races.

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By Matthew Choi
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful pro-Israel organization, is masking its involvement in competitive Illinois Democratic primaries, according to candidates in those races, who accuse the interest group of trying to quietly maintain its influence as Democrats reexamine their stance on Israel.
Democrats in the state say they have seen an influx of ads focusing on issues ranging from immigration to health care by groups named Elect Chicago Women and Affordable Chicago Now. None of the ads mention Israel, and none of the groups are publicly affiliated with AIPAC. But the ads benefit candidates favored by AIPAC donors…
XAI Launches Grok 4.20 , 4 AI Agents Collaborating. Estimated ELO 1505-1535
xAI has launched Grok 4.20 live in Beta.

by Brian Wang
Estimated Arena (LMArena) Elo for Grok 4.20: ~1505–1535 provisional (Grok 4.20 analysis).
Reasoning: Grok 4.1 Thinking is already at 1483. The multi-agent council + extra inference-time compute + engineering/coding gains + hallucination reduction typically add 20–60 Elo points in crowd-sourced arenas (see historical jumps from single → agentic systems). Once fully ranked it is very likely to take #1 overall. No official provisional ranking exists yet because it is still beta/internal.
It is not one AI. It is four AI Agents…
Epstein Files Expose Israeli Occupation of America
MSM grudgingly admits Pizzagaters were on to something

by Kevin Barrett
A shorter version of this article was published in last week’s American Free Press. -KB
On January 30, the US Department of Justice released what it called “3.5 million responsive pages” in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie. Though more than a month late, redacted in bizarrely non-compliant ways, and representing only about half of the Epstein files (the other half are still being illegally withheld) the DOJ document dump provided abundant, irrefutable evidence that the “antisemitic conspiracy theorists” have been right all along: The United States of America is occupied by a Jewish supremacist crime ring based in Israel…
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