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Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accused the Trump administration of unleashing a "campaign of retribution" against his state after Vice President JD Vance announced a temporary pause in Medicaid funding there. Vance's announcement was made after President Donald Trump railed against fraud in Minnesota on Tuesday evening in his State of the Union address. Vance said ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The base S26 and S26+ models received a $100 price hike to $900 and $1,100, a move Samsung attributed to a worldwide shortage of RAM components. Samsung held its latest Unpacked event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on Wednesday, unveiling the Galaxy S26 smartphone lineup and redesigned Galaxy Buds 4 earbuds. The event took place ahead of Mobile World Congress, positioning the new devices for immediate ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
U.S. women's hockey star Hilary Knight wasn't a fan of a comment that President Trump made about her team days after it claimed Olympic gold at the Milan-Cortina Games . "I thought it was sort of a distasteful joke, and unfortunately, that is overshadowing a lot of the success of just women at the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having amazing gold medal feats," Knight said Wednesday during an appearance on ...
Source: latimes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The closed-door interview, which will be videotaped, is set to take place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons have a house. The committee will meet with former President Bill Clinton the next day for a similar deposition. The in-person interviews come after months of bitter back-and-forth between the former first couple and the committee, which at one point threatened to hold the of Congress for failing to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The talks — a third round of indirect negotiations — come after Trump made his clearest case yet for a possible attack as he oversees a sweeping Two people familiar with the talks told NBC News that from the Trump administration's perspective, the discussions were "positive." The sources declined to share details of the negotiations. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also had a positive view of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she has "no knowledge" that would assist the House Oversight Committee in its investigation involving late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in her opening statement before the panel Thursday. Clinton posted the prepared statement on her social media account ahead of the closed-door deposition. She said the committee didn't ask President Donald Trump under ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Pentagon officials on Wednesday night sent Anthropic their best and final offer in negotiations for use of the company's artificial intelligence technology, just ahead of a government-imposed deadline, according to sources familiar with the discussions. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth set a deadline of Friday evening for the company to grant all lawful use for its AI technology or face the loss of its business ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article House Oversight Committee investigating whether FBI 'illegally' withheld interviews The Department of Justice said Thursday it is "currently reviewing" documents that appear to be missing from its public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files that detail unverified allegations ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Update: Shortly after this story was published, Netflix announced that it would not raise its bid for WBD. Paramount Skydance may finally have the upper hand on Netflix in the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery . The WBD board announced on Thursday afternoon that it believes Paramount's improved offer to buy the entire company for $31 per share is better than Netflix's proposal to buy its streaming and studio ...
Source: businessinsider.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 -
The Trump administration is expected to call on major U.S. technology companies and data center developers to voluntarily commit to a compact designed to ensure power-needy data centers do not raise household electricity prices or undermine grid reliability. [1] The initiative comes amid a nationwide surge in energy demand, driven largely by the rapid proliferation of data centers that power the artificial ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Instagram said Thursday it will start alerting parents if their kids repeatedly search for terms clearly associated with suicide or self-harm. The alerts will only go to parents who are enrolled in Instagram's parental supervision program. Instagram says it already blocks such content from showing up in teen accounts' search results and directs people to helplines instead. The announcement comes as Meta is in 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 -
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Cuban soldiers confronted a speedboat carrying 10 people as the vessel approached the island and opened fire on the troops, who fired back, killing four and wounding six, according to the Cuban government. The Cuban Ministry of the Interior said the people aboard the boat Wednesday were Cubans living in the U.S. and accused them of trying to infiltrate the country to engage ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump says he plans to roll out a new type of retirement account for workers who don't have access to a 401(k) or another type of workplace plan. "Half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer," Trump said during his State of the Union address Tuesday. "To remedy this gross disparity, I'm announcing that next ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Over the past year there have been plenty of media reports discussing artificial intelligence failures and highlighting the negative aspects of it. I'm of the belief that AI will eventually be infused into every aspect of our lives and change the way we work, live and learn. This is similar to the impact the internet had, although the scope and impact of AI will be much bigger than that technology transition. Like ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
With the administration challenging the Court and Congress, independent reporting is the only thing standing between you and the noise. Your membership funds the courage to ask the hard questions. Don't let the truth be sidelined, join Huff Already a member? A student at Columbia University was snatched Thursday morning by federal agents who allegedly lied about why they were on the campus. She was released from ...
Source: huffpost.com
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 -
Nvidia — the most valuable company in the world thanks to its place atop the AI food chain — generated a staggering $120 billion in profits last year. This includes an eye-popping $43 billion during the three-month period ending in January, one of the strongest quarters of any business ever recorded. Investors didn't seem to care. Shares of Nvidia fell more than 5% Thursday, following the results. With ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison Thursday for attempting to withdraw some funds from his daughter's insurance policy, in the first case against a family member of a pro-democracy advocate wanted by the city's authorities brought under a national security law . Kwok Yin-sang, 69, was found guilty earlier this month of attempting to deal ...
Source: apnews.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 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Astronaut Mike Fincke announced Thursday that he was the member of Crew-11 who experienced a medical event and needed to return to Earth early last month. Fincke did not disclose the type of medical event he experienced and said it was not an emergency. He said in a statement that he needed to come home "to take advantage of advanced medical imaging not available on the space station." "On Jan. 7, ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Google couldn't let Samsung have all the fun and attention this week. The Gemini-maker dropped Nano Banana 2 on Thursday, the second generation of its viral AI image editing tool. You might remember Nano Banana from last fall, when it made many fans and shocked AI users with its photorealistic capabilities. It quickly leapfrogged AI image tools from competitors like Midjourney and OpenAI, particularly with ...
Source: cnet.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 -
Ongoing reports and analysis Following the U.S. Supreme Court's seismic ruling last week against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, there is little evidence of a Republican clamor on Capitol Hill to make those import taxes legal, even as the president claims that congressional action isn't necessary. It's too early to tell if Republicans have taken to heart the admonishment they received from the high court, ...
Source: foreignpolicy.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 -
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 -
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday and pitched him on a massive housing project for the city where he spent much of his life as a real estate magnate. It was their second sit-down since Mamdani, who identifies as both a Democrat and a democratic socialist, was elected in November. "I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon," Mamdani ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
An Oregon company is recalling nearly 56,000 pounds of frozen blueberries due to possible Listeria contamination, which federal regulators this week classified as the most serious type of recall. In an online notice , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Oregon Potato Company distributed the product in Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin and Canada. The agency said the blueberries were not sold to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A former U.S. Air Force officer was arrested and charged for allegedly imparting unauthorized defense services to Chinese military pilots. Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. was arrested Wednesday in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and charged in violation of the Arms Export Control Act , which provides the Secretary of State with the legal authority to control the export of defense articles and services, according to a Wednesday ...
Source: militarytimes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid the exchange of flowers and cards, genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of Pennsylvania are revisiting a particularly intimate chapter, suggesting that ancient mating patterns between modern humans and Neanderthals shaped why ...
Source: news-medical.net
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump awarded the Medal of Honor during his State of the Union address, rather than with a White House ceremony that's typically held for recipients. WASHINGTON — Less than two months ago, Eric Slover was a member of the U.S. special forces whose identity was shielded from the public as he secretly prepared for a high-stakes raid to capture the president of Venezuela. On Tuesday night, he appeared in the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump's call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill "before anything else." Trump's push for the bill, backed by House conservatives and his most loyal supporters ahead of the midterm elections, has put new pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune as he tries to navigate an effort from inside and ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Ukrainian and U.S. officials gathered in Geneva for talks on post-war reconstruction on Thursday despite a deadlock in peace negotiations with Russia, which pounded infrastructure across Ukraine with drone and missile strikes overnight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched 420 drones and 39 missiles in another night of attacks on energy and other critical infrastructure. Dozens of people ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump administration's reduced vaccine schedule "throws science out the window." Scientists have long warned that a warming world is likely to hasten the spread of infectious diseases, making vaccination even more critical to safeguard public health. And though most scientists hail vaccines as one of public health's greatest achievements, they have provoked fear, distrust, and contentious resistance since Edward ...
Source: arstechnica.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 -
Tommy Schaefer spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend's mother in Bali. Indonesia has freed and deported an American man after he spent 11 years in jail for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend's mother, in a case known as the Bali "suitcase murder". Tommy Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the 2014 murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, the mother of Heather ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A pair of brothers who were prominent Brazilian politicians have been convicted in the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro councilor Marielle Franco. João Francisco Inácio Brazão, a former congressman, and Domingos Inácio Brazão, a former adviser to Rio de Janeiro's court of auditors, were each sentenced to 76 years and three months in prison. They were convicted of ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A new report from a major press freedom group has found that a record 129 journalists were killed in 2025, and that Israel was responsible for two-thirds of the worldwide total. The Tuesday report from the Committee to Protect Journalists says that the Israeli military has cumulatively killed more journalists than any other government since CPJ started tracking reporter deaths in 1992, with the vast majority being ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Health Well, That Didn't Sound Like Casey Means The nominee for surgeon general kept her most eccentric wellness beliefs largely in check at her confirmation hearing. Tom Brenner / AP February 25, 2026, 8:02 PM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 7:23 Casey Means has, to say the least, modified her tone. When she testified today in front of the Senate's health committee, the nominee for surgeon general didn't, ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
With the administration challenging the Court and Congress, independent reporting is the only thing standing between you and the noise. Your membership funds the courage to ask the hard questions. Don't let the truth be sidelined, join Huff Already a member? on Tuesday apologized to staff at his charitable foundation for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and for engulfing them in the scandal surrounding the late ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Discord, the popular online communication platform for gamers, said Wednesday it will delay its global age verification rollout after it received user criticism. Discord announced a phased rollout for new and existing users this month that would implement video selfies to determine a person's age group. Users could also submit a form of identification to their vendor partners. The rollout, which was supposed to ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Reading time 4 minutes Kalshi has temporarily banned two people from betting on its platform, a video editor for MrBeast and a former gubernatorial candidate in California, over allegations of insider trading, according to a new blog post from the company. The two men have been issued fines, and their cases are being referred to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Kalshi didn't name the two men in its ...
Source: gizmodo.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
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Anthropic is scaling back its safety policy amid increased artificial intelligence (AI) competition and government pressure. The AI startup announced Tuesday (Feb. 24) that it had overhauled Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), its framework for managing catastrophic risks posed by advanced AI systems. The decision was first reported by TIME, which said the changes include ending a pledge not to release AI models if ...
Source: pymnts.com