At 5:15 a.m. EST (10:15 UTC) on February 13, 2026, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

Aboard are:

● NASA astronauts Jessica Meir (commander) and Jack Hathaway (pilot)

● ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot
Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev

The four-person crew is en route to the International Space Station for an approximately eight-month mission as part of Expedition 74/75. Docking is targeted for 3:15 p.m. EST on February 14.

This marks the 12th operational crew rotation under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The Falcon 9 first stage successfully returned to Landing Zone 40.

Leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a far-right group advocating for Alberta's independence from Canada, stated they held three meetings in 2025 with “very, very senior” Trump administration officials, primarily at the U.S. State Department, with a fourth meeting planned.

Topics reportedly discussed included:

● Adopting the U.S. dollar
● Border security
● Taxes and national debt
● Alberta’s pension system
● Potential development of an independent Alberta military, including U.S. cooperation

The group emphasized they are not seeking for Alberta to become the 51st U.S. state, but rather a sovereign nation.

The claims appear in a Daily Beast report, following earlier coverage by outlets like the Financial Times and NBC News on similar meetings since April 2025.

U.S. officials have described the encounters as routine staff-level discussions with civil society groups, denying any commitments or support, and indicating no future high-level meetings are planned.

The revelations have sparked controversy in Canada, with some officials criticizing the engagements amid strained U.S.-Canada relations.

Why did you send the 2nd aircraft carrier?

"In case we don't make a deal (with the regime in Iran), we will need it"

"They even talk about the discombobulator because they never got a shot off. The Russian equipment didn't work, the Chinese equipment didn't work, everyone's trying to figure out why it didn't work. Some day you're gonna find out."

Do you want a regime change in Iran?

If they give us the right deal, we won't do that — but, you know, historically, they haven't done that. I will say they want to talk — but so far, they do a lot of talking and no action.

It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen.

For 47 years they have been talking and talking, in the meantime, we lost a lot of lives while they talk... Let's see what happens.

You said that the Iranian nuclear sites have been totally obliterated. What is left to go after?

You could get whatever the dust is down there. If we do it, that's really the least of we mission.

But we would probably grab whatever is left.

Who would you want to take over Iran?

There are people.