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Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Clinton, for her part, dismissed Mace's claims and said Republicans asked her bizarre questions about UFOs and conspiracy theories grew "unhinged" on Thursday when she sat for a deposition as part of the congressional investigation into the Epstein files , Rep. Nancy Mace claims. ...
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 Anthropic's main rivals, OpenAI and Google, voiced support for Amodei's stance in an open letter late on Thursday has ordered all federal agencies to begin phasing out the use of Anthropic technology , following the company 's unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The departure authorizations signal a new level of contingency planning as American aircraft and warships amass in the Middle East. The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday told its staff that it could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure to do so immediately, as the threat of an American strike on Iran looms. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee told embassy employees in an email that discussions with ...
Source: nbcwashington.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Warner Bros. Discovery on Friday formally signed an agreement to be acquired by Paramount Skydance, the two companies announced, setting the stage for one of the most consequential media mergers in recent history. The deal was inked just a day after Netflix abruptly announced it was pulling out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets, effectively closing the curtains on a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Former United States women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe criticized the U.S. men's hockey team for their reaction to President Donald Trump's phone call in the locker room following their gold medal win over Canada at Milan Cortina, calling the players and president "a clown" over what she said was a "trash" remark about the women's gold medal hockey team. Rapinoe, an outspoken critic of Trump, spoke at ...
Source: nypost.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Pakistani forces launched airstrikes against military targets in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as well as other provinces close to the border From The two countries share a 1,600-mile long frontier known as the Durand Line , named after the British diplomat Mortimer Durand and established in 1893. It cuts through the heartland of the tribal areas of the Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and where most ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Reading time 3 minutes NASA is overhauling its plan to return astronauts to the lunar surface, adding another test flight to prepare for landing on the Moon while attempting to standardize its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for more frequent launches. During a press conference on Friday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced major changes to the agency's ongoing Artemis program in an attempt to alleviate ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
As some of the biggest U.S. companies sue the Trump administration to obtain tariff refunds, one small company is already giving money back to consumers. Alexandra Fine, CEO of Dame Products, a sexual health and wellness company, said she is giving consumers automatic refunds for costs they incurred from import tariffs President Trump imposed last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Scouting America, the organization previously known as the Boy Scouts of America, has agreed to make several changes, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth . The group is under pressure from the U.S. Department of War, which has threatened to yank its support. In a video message issued Friday, Hegseth said he had been "very seriously considering ending our ...
Source: foxnews.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 -
Surveillance footage taken at a Tim Hortons donut shop in Buffalo, New York contradicts the US Department of Homeland Security's claim that Border Patrol agents dropped Nurul Shah Alam, a 56-year-old nearly blind Rohingya refugee, at a "warm, safe location" after he was released from jail last week, days before he was found dead. The video obtained by the Buffalo-based outlet Investigative Post late Wednesday ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares in the financial technology company Block soared more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after its CEO announced it was laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000 plus employees, reconfiguring to capitalize on its use of artificial intelligence. "The core thesis is simple. Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company," Jack Dorsey said in a letter to ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says. The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based anti-drone system. The CBP uses drones to track people crossing the border. "Congressional aides told Reuters the Pentagon used the high-energy laser system to shoot down a Customs and ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — An emphatic election victory for Britain's environmentalist Green Party is a nightmare for Prime Minister Keir Starmer that raises questions about how long he will continue as leader. Less than two years after winning power in a landslide , Starmer's center-left Labour Party not only lost a longtime stronghold in its northern England heartlands — it came third, finishing behind both the ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Sharing some taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement amounted to the IRS breaking federal law "approximately 42,695 times," a federal judge said in a court filing Thursday. That 42,695 figure refers to the number of taxpayer addresses the IRS disclosed to ICE through the process of Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) Matching , Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the ...
Source: fedscoop.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 -
At least 55 Ghanaians have been killed fighting in the war in Ukraine, with two others currently held as prisoners of war, Ghana's foreign affairs minister says. On a trip to Kyiv, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said that about 272 Ghanaians are believed to have been lured into the conflict since 2022, citing Ukrainian authorities. Ablakwa described the figures as "depressing and frightening," saying Ghana "cannot turn a ...
Source: bbc.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 -
VIENNA (AP) — Iran has not allowed the United Nations nuclear agency access to its nuclear facilities bombed by Israel and the United States during a 12-day war in June, according to a confidential report by the watchdog circulated to member states and seen Friday by The Associated Press. The report from the International Atomic Energy Agency stressed that it "cannot verify whether Iran has suspended all ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Arrest after Churchill statue defaced with graffiti A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage after graffiti was sprayed on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, the Metropolitan Police said. The statue was defaced with graffiti branding the former prime minister a "Zionist war criminal". Other phrases including "Stop the Genocide" and "Free ...
Source: bbc.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 -
REGISTER NOW REGISTER NOW Topics More from TechCrunch Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch After years of appeals, Google has finally received conditional approval to export high-precision geographic information out of South Korea, a move that opens the door to let the company provide proper Google Maps services in the country, such as walking and real-time driving directions. The move reverses a long-standing policy on data ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's deputy foreign minister said Thursday that the island's government is communicating with U.S. officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters. Carlos Fernández de Cossío said the Cuban government is willing to exchange information with U.S. officials, adding that Cuba plans to ask them for information on the suspects involved and what means they used to ...
Source: apnews.com
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 -
– Russia launched a barrage of 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as U.S. and Ukrainian envoys held more on ending the war that is The bombardment, which included 11 ballistic missiles, targeted critical infrastructure and residential areas across eight regions of Ukraine, Zelenskyy said. Dozens of people, including children, were injured, officials ...
Source: news4jax.com