Thursday, February 20

🚨NATION

📌 Kash Patel confirmed as FBI director by the Senate despite Democratic doubts (MO NEWS)

📌 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could soon fire or remove generals and senior officers (CNN)

📌 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul won't remove NYC Mayor Adams (POLITICO) Judge appears on track to let DOJ dismiss Adams case (POLITICO)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Egypt and its neighbors working on alternative to Trump's Gaza plan that wouldn't displace Palestinians (CBS)

📌 Spain's ex-soccer boss Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for World Cup kiss (USA TODAY)

📌 South Korean President Yoon appears in two different courts while defending his martial law decree (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Delta offering $30K to passengers aboard flight that crashed, flipped in Toronto (CBS)

📌 Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone (AP)

📌 OpenAI says ChatGPT users jumped 33% in three months to 400 million (THE WRAP)

📌 Italian chemist Francesco Rivella, the inventor of Nutella, dies at 97 (NY POST)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 A$AP Rocky and Rihanna promise to name their next baby after rapper's lawyer following no guilty verdict (E!)

📌 James Bond shake-up: Amazon takes creative control of franchise from Broccoli family in new deal (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

📌 TONIGHT: U.S. and Canada to face-off in politically-charged four nations hockey final (TIME)