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Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
— Former President Bill Clinton will appear before the House Oversight Committee in New York on Friday as part of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress under subpoena. The closed-door deposition is a victory for Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
This article features deals sourced directly by Gizmodo and produced independently of the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. Reading time 3 minutes Now that Samsung's unveiled the Galaxy S26 series and triggered the latest battle of the endless smartphone wars , the fight isn't going to be limited to Samsung vs Apple and the other big tech competitors. It's also going ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Having amassed vast military power in the Middle East, spearheaded by two aircraft carrier strike groups and scores of F-35, F-22 and F-16 warplanes, US imperialism is locked and loaded to unleash a criminal war on Iran in the coming days, if not hours. Such a war would have catastrophic consequences for the beleaguered people of Iran, and quickly set the entire region ablaze. In off-the-record briefings, Trump ...
Source: wsws.org
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
OTTAWA, Ontario — American hockey player Brady Tkachuk said Thursday that he did not appreciate a doctored TikTok video shared by the White House that made it look like he was disparaging Canadians after winning Olympic gold , calling it fake and something he would never say. The video includes fabricated audio of Tkachuk referring to Canadians as "maple syrup eating (expletive)," with the expletive bleeped ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A public showdown between the Trump administration and Anthropic is hitting an impasse as military officials demand the artificial intelligence company bend its ethical policies by Friday or risk damaging its business. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew a sharp red line 24 hours before the deadline, declaring his company "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's final demand to allow unrestricted use of its ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Netflix declined to match a superior proposal from Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery, ending its $82.7 billion acquisition bid. Paramount, backed by Larry Ellison, will acquire the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery for approximately $111 billion. Warner Bros. Discovery will pay a $2.8 billion termination fee to Netflix, which Paramount has agreed to cover. The deal creates a media conglomerate ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan considers itself in an "open war" with neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan's defense minister said Friday, in the worst escalation of violence since a Qatar-mediated ceasefire in October. The comments by Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif came after Afghanistan launched a cross-border retaliatory attack on Pakistan overnight that saw Islamabad hit back with airstrikes on Kabul. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Secure your place at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, March 23-25 Edward Jones is beginning to test agentic AI to make its marketing more efficient. The financial institution has recently entered into a handful of multi-year pilots with multiple AI companies, but is hesitant to commit long-term before seeing results. It's a quiet, measured approach that speaks to a larger industry trend: agentic AI is still ...
Source: digiday.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Nvidia investors may be overlooking a small but rapidly growing part of the AI chipmaker's business, according to one investment chief. After Nvidia's earnings beat failed to push the stock higher , Nancy Tengler — the CEO and CIO at Laffer Tengler Investments — highlighted sovereign AI as an area of Nvidia's revenue that investors may be missing. "The big takeaway from Nvidia earnings is that no one's ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
By A surprise White House meeting between New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump on Thursday is drawing widespread attention after Mamdani offered Trump an unusual gift, provoking a viral discussion about the younger leader's diplomatic methodology. The unannounced hour-long meeting between the Republican president and Democratic mayor took place at the White House and focused primarily on a ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Reading time 5 minutes Casey Means is perhaps the most well-known person associated with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, outside of its founder, current U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And she's now inches away from becoming the nation's foremost doctor. On Wednesday, Means testified before the Senate HELP committee on her nomination for U.S. surgeon general. Though plenty of people ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Hannah Spencer elected as party's first MP in northern England as vote share for Keir Starmer's party plummets The Green party has pulled off a landmark victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection in a significant blow to Keir Starmer , who vowed to "keep on fighting" after the humiliating defeat. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green party councillor , was elected as the party's first MP in northern England ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A federal judge has declined to block President Donald Trump's plan to build a massive ballroom on the site of the now-demolished East Wing of the White House, after preservationists challenged the move. On December 12, the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit against the plans, deeming them unlawful. However, in Wednesday's ruling, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Company says cuts will help 'reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities' E-commerce giant eBay announced Thursday it is slashing hundreds of jobs, just days after the company dropped $1.2 billion in cash to acquire a trendy Gen Z fashion app and settled a federal stalking lawsuit involving former executives. Multiple outlets have reported that eBay will cut a total of 800 ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the federal government is withholding $259.5 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota. The move is part of the "war on fraud" that Trump announced during his State of the Union address. It's the latest action aimed at Minnesota in response to an unfolding fraud scandal in the state's social services, which the Trump administration also used to justify the ...
Source: nextgov.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Instagram will soon alert some parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short period. Instagram owner Meta said on Thursday that it's rolling out the new notifications to parents in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, with other regions to follow later this year. Thursday's update follows the 2024 introduction of teen accounts . It applies to ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District will meet in a closed session on Thursday to discuss the superintendent , a day after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district's headquarters. The calendar for the Board of Education notes a special afternoon meeting to discuss Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, but there were no additional details. The district ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A Columbia University student was detained Thursday morning by immigration agents who misrepresented themselves by saying they were looking for a missing child to get access to a residential building, the university's top administrator said. Elmina Aghayeva, who is from Azerbaijan, was later released, but the school's acting president, Claire Shipman, and others condemned the agents' actions in the alleged 6 a.m. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
By The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill Thursday to add regulations to large-scale data centers aimed at protecting consumers from potential price increases for electricity or water. The bipartisan move came as wealthy tech companies are eyeing Florida as a potentially new frontier for the nationwide boom of data centers, the climate-controlled warehouses containing thousands of computers used to power ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's government said late Wednesday that the 10 passengers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the U.S. who were trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism. The announcement came hours after Cuba said its soldiers killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-registered speed boat that had entered Cuban waters and opened fire on the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a policy used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. to countries where they are not citizens is an unconstitutional denial of their due process rights. So-called "Third-Country Removals" were adopted as official ICE policy in a memo last year, allowing for such deportations to take place with as little as six hours' ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
By Mortgage rates have fallen below 6% for the first time in more than three years, offering a glimmer of hope that a frozen housing market may be set to thaw. The average 30-year mortgage rate in the United States fell to 5.98%, the mortgage-financing giant Freddie Mac said Thursday, down from nearly 7% around the same time last year. The last time the rate was below 6% was in September 2022. "That amounts to ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai won an appeal on Thursday over a 2022 fraud conviction, days after a court jailed him on separate national security charges. The ruling was a surprise win for Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, who was sentenced to 20 years behind bars this month on collusion charges under a Beijing-imposed national security law. The fraud case grew ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The FBI has fired roughly 10 members, all of whom participated in a probe into Donald Trump's handling of classified documents after his first term. Their termination on Wednesday, confirmed by the BBC's US partner CBS, was announced shortly after FBI director Kash Patel told Reuters that federal agents subpoenaed his phone records when he was a private citizen during the documents investigation. Susie Wiles, now ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The latest chapter in what one historian called "the ongoing horror story of American immigration enforcement" unfolded in Buffalo, New York this week after Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar , was released from a county jail where he'd been held for a year. As Buffalo-based outlet the Investigative Post reported Wednesday, the nearly blind man was found dead on Tuesday evening, five ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump's State of the Union address could be good news for hopeful retirees. President Donald Trump proposed an expansion of retirement savings for Americans without 401(k)s and other employer-provided retirement plans during his Tuesday speech. He said the federal government will soon match individual savings up to $1,000 a year. Over 40 million Americans who work full-time don't have a retirement plan, and nearly ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Google just debuted Nano Banana 2, an updated version of its AI image generator. It combines the abilities of Google's previous release, Nano Banana Pro —like text rendering and web searching—with speedier image generation. This tool will be the new default in Google's Gemini chatbot . The first image model from Google under the Nano Banana moniker dropped last August, and the Pro version arrived three ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2026. Kenny Holston/Pool via REUTERS A secret 17-page draft has been circulating among pro-Trump activists and the White House that would potentially give President Donald Trump the path to "unlock extraordinary ...
Source: rawstory.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Blueberries are a delicious fruit that is known for being high in antioxidants. And while these berries are best enjoyed fresh for their full nutritional benefits, many people opt to eat frozen berries during the off season when it's harder to get your hands on the newly harvested fruits. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning customers against eating certain berries after one company ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A social media content creator was arrested Thursday after New York City police said he was one of a number of people who pelted officers with snow and ice during a massive snowball fight in Washington Square Park this week. Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was charged with obstructing governmental administration, a misdemeanor, and harassment, a non-criminal violation. He appeared in handcuffs and ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Heart disease is on track to become an even greater threat to women's health in the United States. A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association warns that, if current trends continue, millions more women could be living with cardiovascular disease in the coming decades. The full report, published in the journal Circulation , looks at national health data and predicts what ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Politics Trump's Favorite Voter-ID Bill Would Probably Backfire Congressional Republicans are trying to pass a strict "election integrity" law that seems almost custom-designed to disenfranchise their own supporters. Save On the surface, the debate over the SAVE America Act is familiar, even predictable. At Donald Trump's urging, Republicans are pushing yet another voter-ID bill, ostensibly to prevent fraud and ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The Justice Department announced the arrest Wednesday of a former Air Force fighter pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military personnel without authorization. Gerald Brown, 65, was arrested in Indiana after recently returning to the United States from China, where he'd been since December 2023, a Justice Department statement said . He is accused of having "conspired with foreign nationals to provide combat ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Older adults who remain cognitively sharp as they age have a genetic advantage over their peers, new research shows. Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago found that so-called super-agers generate twice as many new neurons in the hippocampus — a part of the brain critical to learning and memory — as typical older adults. Their research was published Wednesday in the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A federal appeals court this week denied a request from immigrants' rights groups to bar the IRS from continuing to share taxpayer names and addresses with ICE. The three-judge D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in an opinion issued Tuesday that Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, Somos Un Pueblo Unido, and Inclusive Action for the City were "unlikely to succeed on the merits" of two ...
Source: fedscoop.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
NEW YORK from time to time when they lived in the same areas . But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. offers some ancient gossip: The pairings were more often female humans with male Neanderthals. How exactly this happened remains a huge question mark. Did human women venture into , or were the Neanderthal males drawn to larger human enclaves? Were these interactions peaceful, confusing, secretive ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — New York's attorney general has sued video game developer Valve, claiming the "loot boxes" found in Counter-Strike and other popular video game franchises illegally promote gambling. State Attorney General Letitia James said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York state court that games such as Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2 and ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com