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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 1st 2026
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump said in an 8-minute video posted on his Truth Social that the U.S. has begun "major combat operations in Iran." He claimed Iran has continued to develop its nuclear program and plans to develop missiles to reach U.S. and appealed to the Iranian people to "take over your government." LIVE UPDATES: U.S. and Israel attack Iran Here's Trump's address in full: A short time ago, the United States ...
Source: pbs.org
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
erupted into public view this week as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brusquely terminated Anthropic's work with the Pentagon and other government agencies, using a law designed to counter foreign supply chain threats to slap a scarlet letter on a U.S. company. President Donald Trump and Hegseth accused rising AI star Anthropic of endangering national security after its CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down over ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's military, backed by artillery and air power, struck more military installations deep inside Afghanistan overnight and into early Saturday, after Pakistan said it was in "open war" with its eastern neighbor. Pakistan claimed more than 300 Afghan forces had been killed since fighting erupted Thursday night during a broad Afghan cross-border attack into Pakistan. Afghanistan rejected ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
By OpenAI just broke its own record. The company behind ChatGPT announced Friday it has raised $110 billion in new funding, nearly tripling the $41 billion round it closed in March 2025, which was itself the largest private tech fundraise in history at the time. The company said Amazon ( AMZN ) is investing $50 billion , with Nvidia ( NVDA ) and SoftBank committing $30 billion each. The deal values OpenAI at $730 ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
The US and Israel's strikes on Iran have thrown global air travel into chaos . In the aftermath of the strikes, at least 145 flights in the Middle East have been diverted to 73 destinations. Business Insider has compiled a map showing where some of the diverted planes have ended up as of 9:30 a.m. EST. To compile the data, we looked at Flightradar24's arrivals lists for five major airports in the region: Dubai ...
Source: businessinsider.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
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in Israeli attacks , with U.S. support, on Saturday. He was 86 years old. President Trump announced the Iranian leader's death on social media , saying Khamenei could not avoid U.S. intelligence and surveillance. A source briefed on the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran told NPR earlier Saturday that an Israeli airstrike killed Khamenei . During his 36-year rule, ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The death toll rose to 22 on Saturday from the crash of a military plane carrying 18 tons of new banknotes a day earlier near Bolivia's capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles and scattering bills on the ground, a police commander said Saturday. Another 29 people were injured, mostly passengers traveling on public transportation where the plane crashed. Among the dead are 12 men, ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
Caspar San Giorgio to appear in court after defacing London statue with slogans including 'Zionist war criminal' A 38-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after Winston Churchill's statue outside the Houses of Parliament was sprayed with graffiti labelling the former prime minister a "Zionist war criminal". The Metropolitan police arrested Caspar San Giorgio, of no fixed address, shortly after 4am on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
In opening remarks posted on social media, the former President said he didn't have any knowledge of Epstein's sex trafficking operation — despite anyone's "interpretation of those 20-year-old photos." Clinton posted the remarks ahead of his closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York, before members of the House Oversight Committee, which has been investigating Epstein's connections to powerful people. , ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
NASA is reworking its Artemis moon program to add a test mission for commercial lunar landers in low Earth orbit next year, with a crewed lunar landing to follow in 2028 at the earliest. The revised plan raises the profile of the Blue Moon lander that's being built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture. "We're all in!" Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said in a post to X . NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who took up ...
Source: geekwire.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 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? WASHINGTON (AP) — Scouting America will alter several policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, Defense ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
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 -
Second time in two weeks military used laser to attack what it mistakenly thought was a threat, disrupting air traffic Democratic members of Congress have expressed astonishment and anger at what they claim is the incompetence of the Trump administration after the US military used a laser on Thursday to shoot down what it thought was a threatening drone on the US-Mexico border in Texas but later turned out to ...
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 -
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
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — New polling released on Friday reveals that more Americans say they sympathize with Palestinians than they do with Israelis, a new statistic coming several months after Israel and Hamas struck a deal to pause their devastating war in the Gaza Strip. Gallup found that 41 percent of Americans sympathize with the Palestinians compared to the 36 percent who say they sympathize with the Israelis. ...
Source: wfla.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