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Top News Stories for Saturday, February 28th 2026
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Former President Bill Clinton will testify to the House Oversight Committee in a high-stakes deposition for the committee's probe into Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. The closed-door meeting is expected to take place at 11 a.m. at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in Westchester County, N.Y. Chappaqua has been the Clintons' primary residence since they left the White House at ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
This article features deals sourced directly by Gizmodo and produced independently of the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. Reading time 3 minutes Now that Samsung's unveiled the Galaxy S26 series and triggered the latest battle of the endless smartphone wars , the fight isn't going to be limited to Samsung vs Apple and the other big tech competitors. It's also going ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The U.S. State Department authorized non-emergency personnel and their family members to leave Israel on Friday, citing unspecified "safety risks." The change in guidance from the State Department comes as the U.S. continues negotiations with Iran on a potential nuclear deal, which Tehran hopes will avert a potential American military assault President Trump has prepared for with a massive deployment to the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
OTTAWA, Ontario — American hockey player Brady Tkachuk said Thursday that he did not appreciate a doctored TikTok video shared by the White House that made it look like he was disparaging Canadians after winning Olympic gold , calling it fake and something he would never say. The video includes fabricated audio of Tkachuk referring to Canadians as "maple syrup eating (expletive)," with the expletive bleeped ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
CEO Dario Amodei is still resisting US government demands to use Anthropic's AI to build autonomous weapons and conduct mass surveillance of US citizens. Faced with demands from the US Department of Defense to allow its technology to be used for purposes the company considers unsafe or antidemocratic, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei 's stance remains firm: "We cannot in good conscience accede to their request," he wrote ...
Source: cio.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Netflix declined to match a superior proposal from Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery, ending its $82.7 billion acquisition bid. Paramount, backed by Larry Ellison, will acquire the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery for approximately $111 billion. Warner Bros. Discovery will pay a $2.8 billion termination fee to Netflix, which Paramount has agreed to cover. The deal creates a media conglomerate ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Pakistan struck Kabul and two other provinces hours after the Taliban launched cross-border attacks, in the latest escalation of violence between the two South Asian neighbors. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan declared "open war" Friday on Afghanistan, after the two South Asian neighbors traded overnight attacks in a sharp escalation of their long-running dispute. Both sides claimed to inflict heavy damage in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
In a world where artificial intelligence isn't just a tool but a strategic asset rivaling nuclear power, the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos 2026 painted a stark picture: AI governance is no longer a tech silo—it's the frontline of global competition. As geoeconomic confrontation tops the Global Risks Report 2026, with AI anxiety skyrocketing from 30th to 5th place in long-term ...
Source: customerthink.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Nvidia investors may be overlooking a small but rapidly growing part of the AI chipmaker's business, according to one investment chief. After Nvidia's earnings beat failed to push the stock higher , Nancy Tengler — the CEO and CIO at Laffer Tengler Investments — highlighted sovereign AI as an area of Nvidia's revenue that investors may be missing. "The big takeaway from Nvidia earnings is that no one's ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
By A surprise White House meeting between New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump on Thursday is drawing widespread attention after Mamdani offered Trump an unusual gift, provoking a viral discussion about the younger leader's diplomatic methodology. The unannounced hour-long meeting between the Republican president and Democratic mayor took place at the White House and focused primarily on a ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Reading time 5 minutes Casey Means is perhaps the most well-known person associated with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, outside of its founder, current U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And she's now inches away from becoming the nation's foremost doctor. On Wednesday, Means testified before the Senate HELP committee on her nomination for U.S. surgeon general. Though plenty of people ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Hannah Spencer elected as party's first MP in northern England as vote share for Keir Starmer's party plummets The Green party has pulled off a landmark victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection in a significant blow to Keir Starmer , who vowed to "keep on fighting" after the humiliating defeat. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green party councillor , was elected as the party's first MP in northern England ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Federal judge denies injunction against $400M White House expansion project funded entirely by private donors A federal judge on Thursday denied a legal challenge to President Donald Trump 's White House ballroom project, clearing the way for construction on the estimated $400 million expansion to proceed. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the injunction sought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ...
Source: foxbusiness.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
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: news.yahoo.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 -
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 -
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 -
Several signs suggest 2026 could be a tipping point for Florida when it comes to large-scale data centers, the facilities that house thousands of servers for AI and other tech programs. (TNS) — There are several signs that suggest 2026 could be a tipping point for Florida when it comes to large-scale data centers, the warehouse facilities that house thousands of servers for artificial intelligence and other ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
At least one U.S. citizen was killed and another was injured in the confrontation between Cuban authorities and a Florida-linked speedboat, according to media reports. The clash left four people dead and six others wounded in Cuban waters. The incident occurred Wednesday morning about one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel near Cayo Falcones in Villa Clara province, on Cuba's north-central coast. Cuban ...
Source: bnonews.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 -
Homebuyers are welcoming something they haven't seen since 2022: mortgage rates below 6%. The reduction could offer home hunters some financial breathing room as the spring home-buying season gets started. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate fell to 5.98% from 6.01% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the rate averaged 6.76%. The average rate has been hovering close to 6% ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The British pro-democracy campaigner will remain in prison because he was sentenced to 20 years after being convicted, in another case, of national security offences in Hong Kong. British pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been cleared of fraud charges. He will remain in prison after being sentenced to 20 years under China's national security law earlier this month. Lai, 78, a prominent critic of China's ruling ...
Source: news.sky.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 -
A nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, days after the United States Border Patrol left him miles away from his home following his release from a county jail, authorities said. The body of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was located by police officers in the city in upstate New York on Tuesday evening, a Buffalo Police Department spokesperson said on Wednesday. Shah Alam had ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
Google's new image model replaces the previous versions immediately. The last year has been big for Google's AI efforts. Its rapid-fire model releases have brought it to parity with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic and, in some cases, pushed it into the lead. The Nano Banana image generator was emblematic of that trend when it debuted last year , and subsequent updates only made it better. Now, Google has ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A group of right-wing activists is crafting an executive order that would let President Donald Trump unilaterally ban mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections . The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the order being drafted by Trump allies would give him "extraordinary power over voting," even though the US Constitution explicitly gives individual states the powers to run their ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
A federal judge in the United States has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information "approximately 42,695 times" to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a decision issued on Thursday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that the IRS had erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people, in apparent violation of the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination When our species and Neanderthals interbred, it may have been mostly female Homo sapiens and male Neanderthals that mated. That's the conclusion of a study of the genetic traces left in both populations by the intermixing. It isn't clear why this sex-biased mating pattern would have ...
Source: newscientist.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota, accusing it of promoting illegal gambling and threatening to addict children through its use of "loot boxes." In a complaint filed on Wednesday in a state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James said Valve's loot boxes amounted to "quintessential ...
Source: reuters.com