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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 1st 2026
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
The Department of Defense is now 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. : "Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. "In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to ...
Source: insider.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
Update : President Trump announced Saturday morning that the U.S. was involved in "major combat operations in Iran" shortly after Israel reported that it had launched a "preemptive strike" on Iran. Follow the latest live coverage here . Israel launched what it described as a "preemptive strike" on Iran Saturday morning, Israeli officials said as blasts were seen and heard across Tehran. The Israel ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
International calls for mediation are growing as Pakistan and Afghanistan engage in cross-border fighting for a third day , in the most serious flare-up in violence between the neighbours in months that Pakistan says has brought them into "open war". The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged on Saturday for the countries to bring down the temperature and enter talks, warning the violence could ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
In response, some are offering a simple proof point: They need fewer workers to get the job done. The most recent example of a CEO cutting workers en masse while talking up AI's transformative power is Block cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey. On Thursday, he announced plans to The cheapest way for a CEO to boost a company's stock price — and to signal readiness to capitalize on the AI boom — is to conduct a ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump makes a campaign stop at manufacturer FALK Production in Walker, Michigan, U.S. September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Testimony given by Hillary Clinton, and a further statement to be given by former president Bill Clinton on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, may worry Donald Trump's close allies . The 42nd President of the United States ...
Source: rawstory.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 -
Brady Tkachuk, who captains the NHL's Ottawa Senators, insists the voice heard making disparaging remarks in the video is not his, adding: "I would never say that". An American Olympic hockey star has attacked a TikTok video, shared by the White House, calling it "clearly fake" after it made him sound like he was mocking Canadians. Brady Tkachuk, from Arizona , who captains the NHL's Ottawa Senators, appears in ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
NASA on Friday abruptly said it was shaking up its Artemis lunar program that has suffered multiple delays in recent years, a bid to ensure Americans can return to the Moon's surface by 2028. That goal remains unchanged, but the US space agency is shifting its flight lineup to include a test mission before an eventual lunar landing to improve launch "muscle memory," NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said. That ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
When global leaders gathered at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 , the emphasis was not on model size or computational power. The central message, reinforced by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was that AI must be transparent, inclusive, and accountable. The summit marked a visible shift in tone: from celebrating innovation velocity to demanding governance maturity. For enterprises, that shift is not ...
Source: customerthink.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Amazon , Nvidia and Softbank collectively invested $100 billion dollars in OpenAI, which is double the amount of money the company raised in a 2025 funding round and pushes it to a $730 billion pre-money valuation. The funding round is one of the largest private funding rounds in history -- $50 billion from Amazon, $30 billion from Nvidia and $30 billion from Softbank -- and OpenAI said the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
After threatening to sever ties with Scouting America and kick the youth group off military bases worldwide, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday gave a six-month reprieve to the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts of America. Hegseth made the announcement in a video posted to X , framing it as an ultimatum to Scouting to conform to the Trump administration's anti-DEI agenda. He detailed his many ...
Source: npr.org
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 -
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 -
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 -
The week of September 8, 2022. That was the last time in which FreddieMac , the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, had the average 30-year mortgage interest rate listed under 6%. Until this week. On Thursday, the average mortgage rate for a 30-year term, according to the corporation, dropped to 5.98%, its lowest level since it sat at 5.89% in the summer of 2022. And while mortgage interest rates , overall, ...
Source: cbsnews.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 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 -
The U.S. military on Thursday used a laser to shoot down a "seemingly threatening" drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It was subsequently revealed that the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said. The case of mistaken identity prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to close additional airspace around Fort Hancock, about 50 miles southeast of El Paso. The military is required to ...
Source: c4isrnet.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) – When the Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents relating to the convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein on Jan. 30, the sheer volume of the material was dizzying. It always seemed plausible that important elements of the release would take time to emerge as reporters and researchers dug into the massive trawl. This is exactly what has happened. Major news ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A Gallup survey released Friday found that a larger percentage of Americans sympathize with the Palestinians than with the Israelis in the decades-long Middle East conflict, which has exploded over the past two and a half years with the Hamas-led attack on Israel and the latter's genocidal response—fueled by military and diplomatic support from the US government. The new poll marks the first time since Gallup ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article DHS is blocked from arresting and detaining recently resettled refugees in Minnesota as legal challenges continue A federal judge has blasted President Donald Trump's administration for turning the "American dream into a dystopian nightmare" with Homeland Security's new policy to ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
NEW YORK — Target will stop selling its entire assortment of cereal with certified synthetic colors by the end of May. The move, announced Friday, underscores the acknowledgment that American consumers and the U.S. government under President Donald Trump are paying attention to what goes into packaged foods. The Minneapolis-based discounter said it had been phasing out synthetic colors in cereals for several ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A Bolivian military cargo plane carrying money crashed Friday near Bolivia's capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles on a highway, scattering bills on the ground and leaving at least 15 people dead, an official said. Pavel Tovar, a local fire chief, did not clarify whether the dead were in the plane or in the cars on the highway near the airport in La Paz. He said there were people injured. The aircraft struck ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
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 -
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 -
The occasion will see Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune align, with some of the planets visible to the naked eye. Not one, not two, but six planets are due to line up in the night skies this weekend in a relatively rare planetary parade. The phenomenon will see Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune align, with some of the planets visible to the naked eye. This will mean a potential ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The government on Friday decided to allow global tech giant Google to transfer government-supplied high-precision map data of South Korea to its overseas facilities, contingent on supplementary measures to address security concerns. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, which oversees national mapping policy, made the decision after holding a meeting with officials from foreign, defense and other ...
Source: upi.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 -
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 -
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
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMAN MIAMI — Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism. Cuban soldiers confronted a ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com