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Top News Stories for Thursday, February 26th 2026
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Trump administration announced Wednesday it is pausing more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid payments to Minnesota over alleged fraud, a move state officials called the latest act of political retribution against a Democratic-led state. "We are going to start very aggressively in the administration cracking down on people and the organizations that are defrauding Americans," Vice ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
: Samsung Unpacked 2026 recap: All the news on Galaxy S26 Ultra, Privacy Display, Buds 4 Pro From the Galaxy S26 to new earbuds and agentic AI, here's everything unveiled at Samsung Unpacked this week. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Samsung's first Unpacked event of the year is over, with the company launching new Galaxy S26 phones, the Galaxy Buds 4 series, and more. ZDNET is ...
Source: zdnet.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 -
Iran and the US are meeting Thursday for their third round of indirect talks as President Trump seeks to delay Tehran's nuclear program while threatening it by deploying a massive number of aircraft and warships to the Middle East. US special Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an effort to convince his country to halt its enrichment of uranium, a key step to ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Everyone says they need AI, but most aren't ready — the hard part isn't the model, it's the messy middle that makes it work. Walk into enough leadership meetings and you'll hear the same story told with different accents: "We need AI." It shows up in board decks, annual strategy documents and that one slide with a hockey-stick curve that magically turns pilot into profit. And look, I get it. AI is real. The ...
Source: cio.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong appellate court on Thursday quashed fraud convictions against onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai, a rare victory in the prominent activist's legal battles. an outspoken critic of China's ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily, will stay in prison because he was sentenced to 20 years weeks ago after being convicted in another case brought under a China-imposed ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Chipmaker Nvidia reported stronger-than-expected results for the January quarter on Wednesday. The company also projected current-quarter revenue above market estimates, fueled by strong spending on artificial-intelligence processors by Big Tech companies. The company posted sales of $68.13 billion for the quarter, up 94% from a year ago, exceeding analysts' estimate of $66.21 billion. Adjusted earnings came in at ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Government security agencies in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have urged Cisco customers to take immediate action to patch a critical zero-day bug in their SD-WAN kit that has been exploited since 2023. CVE-2026-20127 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (formerly SD-WAN vSmart) and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.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 -
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 -
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 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a barrage of 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as U.S. and Ukrainian envoys prepared to hold more talks in Geneva on ending the war that is now in its fifth year. The nighttime bombardment, which included 11 ballistic missiles, targeted critical infrastructure and residential areas across eight regions of Ukraine, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The United States will offer passport services for the first time in Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem announced in a statement Wednesday that in an effort to reach all Americans, consular officers "will be providing routine passport services in Efrat on Friday." The move is expected to draw criticism from foreign governments and human rights ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Minneapolis — A member of the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women's hockey team indicated to CBS News on Tuesday that her team's absence from President Trump's State of the Union address was due to logistical challenges and not the controversy surrounding a joke Mr. Trump made while on a video call with the U.S. men's team. "I know, like, later on, there'll be a full invite for all Team USA athletes to go ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. An eight-minute exchange at the end of Casey Means' two-hour confirmation hearing captured the potential and the predicament the MAHA movement has created for itself. Means, an entrepreneurial wellness influencer with a medical degree from Stanford, appeared on ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is asking the Justice Department for answers after NPR's investigation revealed Epstein files related to President Trump are missing from the public record. In a letter first shared with NPR , ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain why what appear to be dozens of pages of interviews and interview notes related to ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Reading time 4 minutes Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced this week that the city will be imposing a moratorium on the development of new data centers. If approved in an upcoming city council ordinance vote, the moratorium is expected to last "several months," the city shared in a press release, as officials review and create new policy around data centers. The review process will target "responsible land, ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Bill Gates apologized to staff of his foundation for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and admitted to two affairs but stated he did not participate in the convicted sex offender's crimes, according to a Wall Street Journal report. At a town hall on Tuesday, Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, said it was a "huge mistake to spend time with Epstein" and to bring Gates Foundation executives to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
The U.S. Department of Defense is in a standoff with artificial intelligence developer Anthropic over the company's refusal to let the government use its products for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of U.S. citizens. The feud presents a frightening picture of the government's agenda when it comes to AI technology—and the lengths to which it's willing to go, or at least threaten to go, in order to ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
In today's newsletter: With the latest supreme court ruling exposing the president's tariff plans as unlawful, US politicians and the American people have found them to be unworkable. Where does Trump go from here? Good morning. Let's delve into the two Ts shaping the global economy right now: tariffs and Trump. Last week, the US supreme court ruled that Donald Trump had unlawfully used executive powers to impose ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
David Ellison is taking his bid for Warner Bros. Discovery into Washington, pairing a higher cash offer with a political strategy aimed at outflanking Netflix in what could become the defining media acquisition of the decade. Paramount Skydance , the company Ellison leads after his Skydance Media acquired Paramount last year, raised its offer yesterday (Feb. 24) to $31 per share, up from $30, to buy all of WBD. ...
Source: observer.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 -
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration's policy to quickly remove people to third countries to which they have no previous connection is illegal and that people must receive meaningful notice and the chance to challenge their deportations. "This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Court to search devices itself instead of letting government have full access. A federal court will conduct a search of devices seized from a Washington Post reporter after a magistrate judge decided yesterday that the Department of Justice cannot be trusted to perform the search on its own. US Magistrate Judge William Porter criticized government prosecutors for not including key information in a search warrant ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Nobel Prize -winner and scientist Richard Axel announced he is resigning as co-director of Columbia University's premier interdisciplinary brain research center following recent revelations of his relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Axel announced in a statement that he was stepping down as co-director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute "to ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump used one of the most-watched political stages in America Tuesday night to spotlight something far removed from tax policy and border debates: battlefield valor. During his 2026 State of the Union address , Trump awarded, or announced the awarding of, two Congressional Medals of Honor, recognizing acts of heroism separated by more than seven decades but united by what the president called ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
For more than five years, the American Repertory Theater has made no secret of its ambition to become an anti-racist organization. The Harvard University-based theater has published Indigenous land acknowledgments, hired consultants, and posted a series of reports that chronicle its effort to embed "anti-racism as a core value." So it was perhaps surprising when a Black actor sued the theater last week for race ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off a two-day visit to Israel on Wednesday aimed at focusing on strengthening security, economic and technological cooperation between the two countries. The Indian leader stepped out of the plane beaming and descended the staircase to a big hug from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , accompanied by his wife, Sara Netanyahu. The warm greeting ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Even twisting an ex-employee's text to favor xAI's reading fails to sway judge. Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI trade secrets connected to its data centers and chatbot, Grok. In a Tuesday order granting OpenAI's motion to dismiss, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said that xAI failed to provide evidence ...
Source: arstechnica.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 -
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
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
NASA has shed some light on what triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of four astronauts from the International Space Station last month. On Wednesday the space agency identified longtime astronaut Mike Fincke, age 58, as having experienced the medical event that led to the decision to bring him and the other three members of NASA's Crew-11 mission home weeks ahead of schedule. "On Jan. 7, while aboard ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A massive post-blizzard in New York that ended in police officers being pelted is creating a frosty dispute between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his own police department. has downplayed the fracas in Washington Square Park as kids simply having some fun. The New York Police Department and its leader, Jessica Tisch, are taking it more seriously. The department is searching for four people — and has begun ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. In a sobering look at risk factors for heart disease and stroke, new projections estimate that 6 out of 10 women will develop at least one type of cardiovascular disease over the next 25 years. Moreover, disease will show up at younger ages. By 2050, nearly ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Man, 32, shot dead by deputy after stabbing attack was the subject of domestic violence protection orders A man shot dead by a sheriff's deputy after he fatally stabbed four people outside his mother's home near Gig Harbor, Washington, on Tuesday morning was the subject of domestic violence protection orders recording mental health and substance abuse issues stretching back at least five years. Records reviewed by ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Tony Gonzales allegedly asked his staffer what her 'favorite position' and asked her to send him a 'sexy pic' Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales has hit back at calls for him to resign, as more details continue to emerge about an alleged affair with a staffer who later died by ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Apple has introduced expanded age assurance tools to help developers comply with regulations taking effect in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana. The updates, available in beta, expand the Declared Age Range API and related App Store systems. Age-based download ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
The Trump administration sued the University of California on Tuesday, accusing its Los Angeles campus of endemic antisemitism that compromised the civil rights of Jewish employees. Filed nearly seven months after the Justice Department sought a range of policy concessions and more than $1 billion from the university, the lawsuit represented a significant escalation in the long-running dispute between the Trump ...
Source: bostonglobe.com