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Top News Stories for Thursday, February 26th 2026
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
While President Trump ranted about tariffs, immigration, and hockey at his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Democrats were celebrating three local election victories in crucial swing states. Ana Tiburcio of Alleghany County and Jennifer Mazzocco of Lehigh County were elected as Pennsylvania state representatives on Tuesday, securing a Democratic majority in the state legislature—a huge win for ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Jeremy Swayman's latest round of adulation came from his Bruins teammates. Just hours after touching down in Boston, Swayman stepped onto the ice at Warrior Arena in time for Wednesday's practice. The goalie was met with fist bumps, hugs, stick taps, and a spot in the center of the stretch circle. Stick taps aplenty for gold medalist Jeremy Swayman. pic.twitter.com/cekPXzII4t — Jim McBride (@globejimmcbride) ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
--:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. Alongside the Galaxy S26 and larger S26 Plus smartphones, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 Ultra at its Unpacked event on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The new flagship offered a quietly updated design, faster charging and an improved display. But one new feature stands out above the rest. What is Samsung Privacy Display? Privacy Display is unique – nobody ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Trump's New Tariffs Could Be Higher Than 15% For Some Countries, Top Trade Official Says New 15% tariffs President Donald Trump announced in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning his sweeping Liberation Day tariffs on Friday could apply only to some countries and be higher for others, despite Trump promising new "global" 15% tariffs, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Wednesday. "It'll go up to 15 ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Larry Summers has always been BIG — big personality, big career, big presence. So it was a bit jarring to see his decades-long career at Harvard end so abruptly Wednesday. In a statement to the Harvard Crimson, the former Harvard president, former Treasury secretary — and, most recently, disgraced friend of Jeffrey Epstein — announced he is retiring from the faculty at the end of the academic ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that technology companies will be required to supply their own electricity for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, framing the move as a way to protect consumers from rising utility costs. "Many Americans are also concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills," Trump said. He ...
Source: meritalk.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Commentary Schäferle / Pixabay AI Sovereignty in South Africa: Infrastructure Without Law Is a Foundation Without Walls Edited by: JURIST Staff The author argues that while South Africa has made significant strides toward AI sovereignty, these achievements will remain incomplete without a dedicated legal framework that addresses the full AI lifecycle and reflects the country's unique social and cultural ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Critics concerned as Casey Means, aligned with RFK Jr on vaccine stance, does not have active medical license Casey Means, Donald Trump's controversial nominee for US surgeon general, appeared before the Senate health committee on Wednesday for a two‑hour hearing in which she defended her medical credentials, side-stepped direct questions on vaccine guidance, and blamed the country's chronic‑disease ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A banner of Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump hangs in Grand Park during a protest against federal migration enforcement in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S. August 2, 2025. REUTERS/David Swanson The Department of Justice on Wednesday responded to the missing FBI reports related to a woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted when she was a minor by both late financier and child sex offender Jeffrey ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has threatened Antropic with blacklisting if the AI company refuses to allow its tools to be used for autonomous drone attacks or mass surveillance – a chilling show of the Pentagon's priorities. In a meeting with the company on Tuesday, Hegseth said that the company must lift its demands for the safety restrictions by Friday at 5:01 pm . Otherwise, officials warned, the ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Bill Gates apologized to staff of his foundation for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and admitted to two affairs but stated he did not participate in the convicted sex offender's crimes, according to a Wall Street Journal report. At a town hall on Tuesday, Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, said it was a "huge mistake to spend time with Epstein" and to bring Gates Foundation executives to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
David Ellison is taking his bid for Warner Bros. Discovery into Washington, pairing a higher cash offer with a political strategy aimed at outflanking Netflix in what could become the defining media acquisition of the decade. Paramount Skydance , the company Ellison leads after his Skydance Media acquired Paramount last year, raised its offer yesterday (Feb. 24) to $31 per share, up from $30, to buy all of WBD. ...
Source: observer.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
FBI agents executed search warrants at the home of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and the district's headquarters Wednesday, the LAUSD said. from the district provided no details about the raids. Law enforcement officials also declined to confirm the reason, "The district is cooperating with the investigation, and we do not have further information at this time," the statement ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
In a lengthy blog post from its CTO and co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord announced it will delay and refine changes to the way the company handles content and communications for younger users, including adding age verification features. Earlier this month, the real-time chat and message board service announced it was going to default all user accounts to a Teen setting. This would restrict access to ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
By Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) stock has lost about 18% in the past month, at the time of writing, Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 25, according to Yahoo Finance . Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index ( SPY ) is up about 0.4% in the same period. The stock crashed following its Q4 earnings report on February 3. It closed at $242.11, and the following day it closed at $200.19, losing about 17% in a single day. I covered ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a multimillion-pound fine to Reddit for GDPR non-compliance, but experts have warned that its rules pose a risk to user security and privacy. The UK's data protection regulator said on February 24 that its £14.47m ($19.6m) fine was levied for two main reasons. First, Reddit failed to put "robust" age verification measures in place, which meant it did ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A federal judge has rejected the Justice Department's request to search the seized devices of a Washington Post reporter as part of an FBI investigation into leaked classified documents. In a 22-page opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter of the Eastern District of Virginia criticized the government's handling of the case, reversing course in part after previously authorizing the seizure of ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
ICE agents look on as deportees are screened before boarding a GlobeX plane at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Feb. 24, 2026. latest policy of to "third countries" to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case that already reached the nation's highest court. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts agreed to suspend his decision for ...
Source: nbcwashington.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! During Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Donald Trump accused members of Maine's Somali community of committing fraud on a level that's "even worse" than what's ...
Source: pressherald.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Ornate packaging paired with enticing advertisements that claim expensive shampoos are elixirs to all hair woes can leave one wondering: Are the higher prices really worth it? Should I abandon my $8 drugstore mainstay for a $42 premium brand? Experts say affordable shampoos and conditioners found in grocery stores and pharmacies can do the job as well as the pricey versions with tempting messaging and testimonials ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Millions of private-sector workers without employer-sponsored retirement savings plans could gain access to new tax-advantaged plans similar to one in place for federal workers, President Donald Trump pledged in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. The new 401(k)-type plan would be modeled after the low-fee federal Thrift Savings Plan, or TSP, to remedy what Trump termed "the gross disparity" between the ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Tony Gonzales allegedly asked his staffer what her 'favorite position' and asked her to send him a 'sexy pic' Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales has hit back at calls for him to resign, as more details continue to emerge about an alleged affair with a staffer who later died by ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
– A helicopter pilot wounded in the raid that received the Congressional Medal of Honor during President Donald Trump's Tuesday evening. Trump said Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover, who appeared using a walker, was the pilot of the lead CH-47 Chinook helicopter that descended on the "heavily protected military fortress" that that, while successful, left seven U.S. service members with gunshot wounds ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives a speech at the Knesset Plenum on Feruary 25, 2025. (source: GPO) praised the shared bond between Israel and India during a Knesset plenum address on Wednesday, while outlining plans to strengthen relations by working together in innovation, technology, and economic advancement. "The friendship between Israel and India remains a source of strength in an uncertain ...
Source: jpost.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Nobel laureate Richard Axel announced resignation as co-director of Columbia University's neuroscience institute Dr Richard Axel, a molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, has announced that he is stepping down as the leader of a prestigious neuroscience institute at Columbia University over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Axel, who has taught at Columbia for 53 years, said in a statement on Tuesday that he would be ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its partner agencies in the Anglophone Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group have warned users of Cisco Catalyst Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) to take immediate action after identifying a cluster of threat activity targeting the widely used products. The activity appears indiscriminate in its targeting, but the modus operandi is largely the same ...
Source: computerweekly.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated" last summer, but he now says the U.S. may have to bomb Iran again over its nuclear ambitions. As American forces mass in the region, he and his administration have offered varying assessments of Iran's military capabilities and intentions. In the latest turn after many zigzags, on Tuesday night Trump spelled out what he called the Islamic ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Nvidia Corp. sailed past analysts' earnings expectations again as revenue in its core data center business jumped more than 75% from a year earlier, sending its stock higher in after-hours trading. Once again, the company delivered solid fourth-quarter results across the board. Net profit jumped 94% from a year ago, to nearly $43 billion, or $1.76 per share, easily beating Wall Street's target of $1.53 per share. ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
NEW YORK – Light snow moved through parts of the Northeast on Wednesday as people heading to work and school were trying to navigate their way out of that dropped piles of powder on streets and sidewalks from Maryland to Maine. One to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 centimeters) of snow was expected — a far cry from — but any snow that melted likely froze overnight, resulting in patchy black ice to make for ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A grand jury on Wednesday rejected indictments over the fatal shooting last year of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent during a traffic encounter in Texas, prosecutors said. The shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez on March 15, 2025, by a Homeland Security Investigations agent wasn't publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security until The Associated Press and other media outlets reported it last ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
NASA revealed that astronaut Mike Fincke was the crew member who suffered a medical incident at the International Space Station in January, which prompted the agency to carry out the first evacuation due to a medical issue in the space station's 25-year history. The rare decision to cut a mission short and bring Fincke and three other crew members home early made for a dramatic week in space early this year. In a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
An editor who works for YouTube's biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi and reported to federal regulators for insider trading, Kalshi officials said on Wednesday. It's the first time the company has publicly revealed the results of an investigation into market manipulation on the popular app. The MrBeast employee, who Kalshi identified as Artem Kaptur , traded ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
In August 2021, YouTube started a pilot test for a new Premium Lite subscription in a few European markets. While the company eventually decided to phase it out for the current YouTube Premium experience, of its YouTube subscription in March 2025. Focused on providing ad-free viewing for most videos, it lacked two of the main features available on Premium: background play and the ability to download videos to play ...
Source: bgr.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
BEIJING (AP) — There are many things that China and Germany do not see eye-to-eye on — notably Russia's war in Ukraine — but the leaders of the world's second and third largest economies nonetheless pledged Wednesday to work to deepen ties in an era of global turbulence. Both countries have been buffeted by the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, who lauded his import tariffs in a State of ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A man convicted of killing a Palmetto grocery store owner during a 1986 robbery was executed Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. Melvin Trotter, 65, received a lethal injection after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant last month . A medic declared him dead at 6:15 p.m., the department said. Trotter declined to make a final statement. About two dozen ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge. Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI trade secrets connected to its data centers and chatbot, Grok. In a Tuesday order granting OpenAI's motion to dismiss, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said that xAI failed to provide evidence ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Man, 32, shot dead by deputy after stabbing attack was the subject of domestic violence protection orders A man shot dead by a sheriff's deputy after he fatally stabbed four people outside his mother's home near Gig Harbor, Washington, on Tuesday morning was the subject of domestic violence protection orders recording mental health and substance abuse issues stretching back at least five years. Records reviewed by ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Without better prevention and early detection, the number of women living with cardiovascular disease will increase substantially in the coming decades, the American Heart Association said Wednesday. Using historical trends from two national health surveys and census estimates of population growth, the heart association forecast that the percentage of women with at least one type of cardiovascular disease will ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Tuesday that Russia has not "broken Ukrainians" nor triumphed in its war, four years after an invasion that has severely tested the resolve of Kyiv and its allies and fueled European fears about the scale of Moscow's ambitions. In a show of support, more than a dozen senior European officials headed to the Ukrainian capital to mark the grim ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
Castmates and family members are mourning Robert Carradine, part of a famous Hollywood family and star of "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Lizzie McGuire." Carradine died at 71. Ever Carradine "Growing up in the 70s and 80 with a single dad in Laurel Canyon is not exactly the recipe for a grounded childhood, but somehow mine was. Whenever anyone asks me how I turned out so normal, I always tell them it's because of my ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
Washington — President Trump will deliver the 2026 State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, laying out his agenda for the year ahead and touting his accomplishments since returning to office. The address comes days after the Supreme Court ruled he does not have the authority to impose sweeping tariffs under an emergency powers law, dealing a significant blow to his trade ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
LONDON — British actor and comedian Russell Brand pleaded not guilty in a London court on Tuesday to two additional charges of rape and sexual assault allegedly committed against two women nearly two decades ago. Brand, once one of Britain's most high-profile broadcasters and former husband of U.S. pop singer Katy Perry, appeared at Southwark Crown Court where he denied raping one woman and sexually ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
Consumers' perception of the economy plays as vital a role in shaping market activity as hard economic data, as consumers will want to know whether the economy is on solid footing before they make a major financial decision (such as buying a home). The latest report on Consumer Confidence from the nonprofit Conference Board—based on data collected up to February 17—found that confidence had inched ...
Source: rismedia.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president's feud with California The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus. The lawsuit claims UCLA violated Title VII of the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
Ozempic and Wegovy prices will drop by 35% and 50%, respectively, in 2027 as company faces growing competition from cheaper alternatives Novo Nordisk on Tuesday announced plans to cut the list price of its popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy by as much as 50% in the U.S. next year. The Danish drugmaker indicated the price cuts will be effective on Jan. 1, 2027, and the timing will ...
Source: foxbusiness.com