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Top News Stories for Saturday, February 28th 2026
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Washington — 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 ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The Department of Defense is moving to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk, a significant escalation by the government that could threaten how the AI startup does business with other US-based companies. Anthropic said in a statement on Friday night that it will fight back. "We will challenge any supply chain risk designation in court," Anthropic's statement read, adding that the company had not received "direct ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Countries including the U.S., U.K. and China evacuated embassy staff in the Middle East and issued travel advisories amid concerns about a regional conflict, as President Donald Trump on Friday sounded downbeat about diplomatic talks meant to avert airstrikes on Iran. "We're not happy with what's going on. They should make a deal, they'd be smart if they made a deal," Trump told reporters at the White House. The ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Republicans said they would drop their oversight efforts of Netflix while Democrats aired antitrust concerns about Paramount buying Warner Bros. Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Netflix has decided to let go of its attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount Skydance raised its purchase offer. On Wednesday, Paramount raised its cash offer from $30 per share to $31 per share. On Thursday, WBD decided the offer was ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The rapper Flavor Flav will host a Las Vegas event in July to honour the US women's ice hockey team's gold medal at the Milano Cortina Olympics and celebrate other female Olympian and Paralympian achievement. The Hall of Fame rapper announced on X on Thursday that he will host a She Got Game weekend event from 16-19 July in partnership with MGM Resorts to honor the women's hockey team as well as other female ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Pakistan struck Kabul and two other provinces hours after the Taliban launched cross-border attacks, in the latest escalation of violence between the two South Asian neighbors. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan declared "open war" Friday on Afghanistan, after the two South Asian neighbors traded overnight attacks in a sharp escalation of their long-running dispute. Both sides claimed to inflict heavy damage in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
NASA said Friday it's revamping its Artemis moon exploration program to make it more like the fast-paced Apollo program half a century ago, adding an extra practice flight before attempting a high-risk lunar landing with a crew in two years. The overhaul in the flight lineup came just two days after NASA's new moon rocket returned to its hangar for more repairs, and a safety panel warned the space agency to scale ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
--:-- / --:-- This voice experience is generated by AI. The 1956 Dartmouth Conference invented the term "artificial intelligence." Alan Turing and other pioneers shaped the conceptualization of AI. The first systems used symbolic logic and determinism. Certain expert systems excelled but struggled in dynamic, uncertain environments. Fragility, computational capacity, and data accessibility caused "AI ...
Source: forbes.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Instagram is launching parental alerts that notify parents when their teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content on the platform. PCWorld reports the feature initially rolls out in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, targeting accounts using Instagram's teen monitoring tools. Parents receive notifications through multiple channels including app alerts, email, text, or WhatsApp, along with expert ...
Source: pcworld.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
With the start of a new month just days away and, with it, multiple factors that could impact the mortgage rate environment , borrowers may again want to consider their options. And, right now, whether you're a buyer or homeowner looking to refinance, you may be surprised at how low your current mortgage rate offers actually are. Qualified borrowers have multiple options under 6% and, with the right strategic ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Plainclothes Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Columbia University student Elmina "Ellie" Aghayeva in university-owned housing Thursday morning, sparking hours of protests and political intervention followed by the Azerbaijani national's release hours later. The ICE agents "gained entry by ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Google's new default model for generating images, Nano Banana 2 offers faster speeds, better text rendering, and higher resolutions than its predecessor. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Last year Google made a big splash in the world of AI-powered image creation with its Nano Banana model . Now the next generation has debuted. And it promises a host of ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Mamdani wooed the president with much property talk and showed the real 'art of the deal' might have been soft power via Photoshop In the hours after Zohran Mamdani met with Donald Trump for an undisclosed sit-down in the Oval Office on Thursday, a meme quickly circulated on X. It resembled the screengrab of a TikToker who doles out dubious financial advice, but instead had the mayor's picture front and center. On ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
There is a word to describe the illegal taking of money or property, followed by a refusal to return the stolen goods. Theft. Now, as a libertarian, I am effectively obligated to remind you here that, yes, all taxation is theft. Roll your eyes if you must, but it's true. The government demands payment, never asks for consent, and backs up its demands with threats of violence. At the most basic level , the ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Scouting America has adopted "key reforms" after previous concerns regarding diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), religion, and "cultural changes" that included combining Boy and Girl Scouts. A spokesperson for Scouting America, which has been around since 1910, told Military.com on Friday that they reached "a renewed, strengthened partnership with the ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Amazon is doubling down on OpenAI, announcing a strategic partnership Friday that includes a $50 billion investment in the ChatGPT maker. The companies said Amazon will start with $15 billion, with $35 billion more expected "in the coming months when certain conditions are met." The investment is part of a broader $110 billion funding round for OpenAI that includes SoftBank and NVIDIA, and brings the company's ...
Source: geekwire.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article All eyes were on Iran as the US and UK advised staff across the region to leave their homes and places of work as Donald Trump's deadline loomed with no clear progress on a nuclear deal Britain pulled its staff out of Iran on Friday amid mounting fears that the US is preparing ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rubbishes claims of Chinese interference and accuses President Donald Trump of 'intending to steal' the midterms have reacted angrily to reports that a group of MAGA activists has been circulating a 17-page draft executive order laying out ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — In the moments after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Buffalo doughnut shop, surveillance video recorded Nurul Amin Shah Alam stepping gingerly through the empty parking lot in his county-issued jail booties. He pulls up his hood against the cold as he walks past a drive-thru window, then paces away into the night. Five nights later, the nearly blind refugee from Myanmar was ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
CEO says "most companies are late" to realize how much technology will affect employment. Block, the fintech group headed by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, will cut its workforce by "nearly half" in one of the clearest signs of the sweeping changes AI tools are having on employment. Shares in the payment company soared more than 25 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday as it announced it would shed more than ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The U.S. government said it would do better to communicate between agencies after the military reportedly used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone in Texas on Thursday. Some Democratic members of Congress, including the ranking members of the House Homeland Security and Transportation committees, called the incident another example of "incompetence." It comes two weeks after CBP used a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A candidate for the United Kingdom's left-wing Green Party has comfortably won a closely-watched election for a vacant parliamentary seat, delivering an embarrassing defeat for Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party in one of its former strongholds. Results announced Friday showed the Greens' Hannah Spencer, a 34-year-old councillor and plumber, had won 40.7 percent of the vote in the by-election in Gorton and ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump administration's data-sharing agreement violated rules to protect taxpayer info, according to judge A federal judge has found that the Internal Revenue Service "violated" federal law "approximately 42,695 times" when the agency shared confidential taxpayer information with ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — At least 55 Ghanaians have died fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Ghana's foreign minister said Friday, one of the highest death tolls from among several African countries whose citizens are fighting in the war. Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said 272 Ghanaians have been lured into the battle since 2022, with two of them captured as prisoners of war, citing information from ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The supreme court has deferred to executive power for decades. Its decision on tariffs is a long-overdue warning A fter two decades of deferring to executive authority and eroding anti-bribery laws, the supreme court has suddenly limited presidential power in a way that could make one ugly form of political influence a bit more difficult to pull off. Last week's ruling did not merely strip one president of his ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Ancient hookups weren't as random as we thought. We now know that humans and Neanderthals interbred several times across thousands of years. Most people of non-African descent carry around 2% Neanderthal DNA as a testament to those ancient love affairs. But a new study adds a surprising pattern. It turns out those prehistoric hookups weren't as random as we thought. According to a provocative study published in ...
Source: zmescience.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A new report by the American Heart Association (AHA) included some troubling predictions for the future of women's health . The forecast, published in the journal Circulation on Wednesday, projected increases in various comorbidities in American females by 2050. More than 59% of women were predicted to have high blood pressure , up from less than 49% currently. The review ...
Source: foxnews.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
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has said in a report that Iran has stored most of its highly enriched uranium at an underground tunnel complex at its Isfahan facility, urging Tehran to allow inspections as it faces growing pressure from the United States over its nuclear programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, which was circulated to members Friday, confirmed earlier findings that the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Met arrests man on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage after slogans including 'Zionist war criminal' sprayed A 38-year-old man has been arrested after the statue of Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament was defaced with graffiti calling the former prime minister a "Zionist war criminal". The Metropolitan police said the man was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at same time in curved line across sky Six planets will parade across the sky this weekend in a rare celestial spectacle, experts have said. For the next few days, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at the same time in the night sky – although binoculars or a telescope will be needed to spot the latter ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Apple confirmed that the iPhone and iPad have been approved for use with classified information in NATO restricted environments. The devices will no longer require special software or settings to handle NATO restricted-level information. "This achievement recognizes that Apple has ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
US Cyber Defense Agency Switches Acting Director Amid Shutdown Turmoil The U.S. cyber defense agency is going through a major leadership shakeup - again - following months of staffing turnover, budget cuts and shutdowns that close observers say have hampered federal defenders' ability to protect government systems and critical infrastructure. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed multiple ...
Source: bankinfosecurity.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will soon no longer be one of the few countries where Google Maps doesn't work properly, after its security-conscious government reversed a two-decade stance to approve the export of high-precision map data to overseas servers. The approval was made "on the condition that strict security requirements are met," the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
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 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a barrage of 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as U.S. and Ukrainian envoys prepared to hold more talks in Geneva on ending the war that is now in its fifth year. The nighttime bombardment, which included 11 ballistic missiles, targeted critical infrastructure and residential areas across eight regions of Ukraine, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com