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Top News Stories for Friday, February 27th 2026
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The state of the union is strong, in President Donald Trump's telling, but also predatory and dangerous. An undercurrent of Trump's speech this week was that the "golden age of America" calls for a cold-eyed understanding of the threats that the nation faces and the resolute actions needed to defend itself. Undocumented immigrants lurking within the country are looking to plunder and kill, the president says. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
If you have a Samsung Galaxy S24 or are upgrading from an older phone, you may wonder if the new Galaxy S26 is worth the splurge. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Anytime a new phone comes out, it can be hard to tell if it's actually worth upgrading, especially when it comes to navigating all the new features. Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy S26 series during its Unpacked event ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
After their historic Olympic win, men on the team came under fire for laughing at President Trump's disparaging remarks about the US women's team. Is this a turning point for women's sports in culture? 6 min read Going into the Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games, the United States hockey teams had it all. Riding high on the enthusiasm and viewership spike following the phenomenon that was Heated Rivalry , an ...
Source: harpersbazaar.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced he is resigning from his professorship at Harvard University, according to reports, the latest high-profile individual to lose his job in connection with his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Summers announced in a statement that he will resign from teaching at the end of the academic year, CNN , CNBC News and The New York ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — As U.S. forces mass in the Middle East, Iran faces the threat of major strikes by the world's most powerful military, potentially targeting its leaders, military, nuclear sites and critical infrastructure. Iran has nowhere near the same capabilities, and is even more vulnerable after last year's war launched by Israel and recent anti-government protests. But it could still inflict pain on ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Hilary Clinton stopped her deposition on Jeffrey Epstein after her photo from the House Oversight Committee was leaked to Conservative commentator Benny Johnson through Republican Rep Lauren Boebert. It was called a potential violation of rules to take and leak the photo of the ex-secretary of state in the middle of her testimony. "The hearing just went off the record for a moment," a staffer for Clinton told ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Ideas The High-Stakes Fight Between Hegseth and Anthropic Even when companies vow to develop AI responsibly, geopolitics may force them to abandon that commitment. Andrew Harnik / Getty February 26, 2026, 1:18 PM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + Seek 0:00 10:57 Humanity's real problem, the great biologist Edward O. Wilson once remarked, is that "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike ...
Source: theatlantic.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 -
Netflix has declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery after the company's board determined a higher bid from Paramount Skydance constitutes a superior proposal. On Thursday, Netflix said it would not match Paramount Skydance's latest $31-per-share offer. Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of Warner Bros. studio and the HBO Max streaming platform, had previously entered into a merger agreement ...
Source: bnonews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who has developed a reputation for improving academics and graduation rates while leading two major U.S. districts, had his home searched Wednesday by the FBI as part of a federal investigation. Agents served search warrants at the home as well as the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District and a location near Miami, where Carvalho was ...
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 will begin notifying parents when their teenagers repeatedly attempt to search for suicide or self-harm content, the company said Thursday . The new feature will alert parents enrolled in the parental supervision tool to repeated searches in a short time period and offer expert resources about how to talk to their teens about the issue. The function will start to roll out in the coming weeks in Australia, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US federal court rules third-country removal policy unlawful A US federal court ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration's third-country deportation policy is unlawful because it fails to provide migrants a chance to object or raise safety concerns. The case, before the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, came out of a class action lawsuit ...
Source: jurist.org
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
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump's State of the Union address could be good news for hopeful retirees. President Donald Trump proposed an expansion of retirement savings for Americans without 401(k)s and other employer-provided retirement plans during his Tuesday speech. He said the federal government will soon match individual savings up to $1,000 a year. Over 40 million Americans who work full-time don't have a retirement plan, and nearly ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Expect trouble and make sure you can avoid it. Nobody in the tech world is as unimpressed with AI as the experts. In a recent case, an Australian Woolworths AI agent called Olive digressed into a chat about its mother while a customer was trying to place an order. That's already folklore. The excuse was that an employee was trying to make Olive sound more human. Pretty lame. Utterly useless. I've used Olive. It ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
U.S. Long-Term Mortgage Rates Drop Below 6% For The First Time In Nearly Four Years The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. fell below 6% this week, reaching the benchmark for the first time in nearly four years as affordability for homebuyers has improved in the last few years but has not yet recovered from a mortgage rate spike in 2022. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage average in the U.S. hit 5.98% on ...
Source: forbes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
By SAN FRANCISCO -- Nvidia's profit for the last 12 months hit $120 billion, the chip giant said Wednesday, providing ample evidence that it is cashing in on the tech industry's artificial intelligence boom more than any other company in the world. Only a handful of companies, including Alphabet, Microsoft and Apple, have made a profit as large as $100 billion in a year. And none of them has grown as quickly. Just ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LAURA UNGAR, AP Medical Writer Lori Sepich smoked for years and sometimes skipped taking her blood pressure medicine. But she never thought she'd have a heart attack . The possibility "just wasn't registering with me," said the 64-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, who suffered two of them 13 years apart. She's far from alone. More than 60 million women in the U.S. ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 just debuted Nano Banana 2, an updated version of its AI image generator. It combines the abilities of Google's previous release, Nano Banana Pro —like text rendering and web searching—with speedier image generation. This tool will be the new default in Google's Gemini chatbot . The first image model from Google under the Nano Banana moniker dropped last August, and the Pro version arrived three ...
Source: wired.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 -
The Supreme Court's decision is clear. The president did not have the authority to impose most of his tariffs . President Donald Trump argued that, under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, his actions were justified because of a national emergency caused by a foreign threat. In the 6-3 ruling, the court said that, on the contrary, that act provides Congress with that authority, which hadn't delegated ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Older adults classified as "SuperAgers" generate at least twice as many neurons in the hippocampus than their typical aging peers, a new study has revealed. These findings, released on Wednesday by the University of Illinois Chicago and Northwestern University, could help explain why SuperAgers have exceptional memory and cognitive resilience even well past 80 years old. ...
Source: foxnews.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 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump met for a second time Thursday afternoon in Washington, D.C. — and it looks like the president's unlikely affection for Mamdani hasn't abated. The mayor confirmed the sit-down with the president on social media, sharing a photo of the two of them in the ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
More than 55,000 pounds of frozen blueberries have been recalled due to the risk for a potentially fatal Listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration update . The Oregon Potato Co. first issued a recall of its IQF Blueberries on Feb. 12, but the FDA on Tuesday upgraded that recall to a "Class I," which, according to the agency, means there is a "reasonable probability that the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The Justice Department announced the arrest Wednesday of a former Air Force fighter pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military personnel without authorization. Gerald Brown, 65, was arrested in Indiana after recently returning to the United States from China, where he'd been since December 2023, a Justice Department statement said . He is accused of having "conspired with foreign nationals to provide combat ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Scientists say DNA evidence indicates male Neanderthals and human females interbred more often than opposite Tens of thousands of years ago, as modern humans migrated into northerly territories inhabited by our ancient cousins, the Neanderthals , the two species met – and sometimes mated. Now, genetic evidence has revealed a striking imbalance in these prehistoric trysts, suggesting that interbreeding was ...
Source: theguardian.com
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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements 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 ...
Source: apnews.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 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons State coalition sues Trump administration over reversal of childhood vaccine recommendations A coalition of 14 state attorneys general and Pennsylvania's governor jointly filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration's overhaul of the federal childhood immunization schedule. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of ...
Source: jurist.org
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 -
Senators questioned US surgeon general nominee Casey Means about her stance on vaccinations, her financial ties, and her willingness to buck the Trump administration during her rescheduled confirmation hearing Wednesday. Means, who appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, walked a narrow line on public health issues as she attempts to shore up enough support to be confirmed by the ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has apologized to staff at his philanthropic foundation over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein , telling attendees at a Gates Foundation town hall on Tuesday that mistakes he made had overshadowed the work of the group, but denying that he was complicit in or had knowledge of Epstein's crimes. While not directly confirming the apology, a spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told CBS News ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
In a lengthy blog post from its CTO and co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord announced it will delay and refine changes to the way the company handles content and communications for younger users, including adding age verification features. Earlier this month, the real-time chat and message board service announced it was going to default all user accounts to a Teen setting. This would restrict access to ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Dr. Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, said he is stepping down as co-director of Columbia University's Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute on the heels of his association with notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein drawing public attention. "My past association with Jeffrey Epstein was a serious error in judgment, which I deeply regret," Axel said. Axel won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
A new suit filed by the New York attorney general seeks to stop Valve Software's use of "loot box" mechanics in its popular PC games, accusing the Bellevue, Wash.-based company of making billions of dollars by luring children and teenagers into gambling on rare Counter-Strike skins. The lawsuit alleges that Valve's first-party games are essentially an illegal gambling operation aimed at younger players. It seeks to ...
Source: geekwire.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