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Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Former President Bill Clinton is set to face questions Friday from members of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, making him the first sitting or former president to testify before members of Congress in more than 40 years. He will be deposed in a closed-door setting one day after the committee questioned his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , for around ...
Source: nbcnews.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 has launched air strikes on Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, and other cities, as clashes escalate along the two countries' shared border. On Friday, Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Islamabad's patience had run out with the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, declaring that the two countries are now at "open war". The declaration came hours after Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Secure your place at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Vail, March 23-25 Edward Jones is beginning to test agentic AI to make its marketing more efficient. The financial institution has recently entered into a handful of multi-year pilots with multiple AI companies, but is hesitant to commit long-term before seeing results. It's a quiet, measured approach that speaks to a larger industry trend: agentic AI is still ...
Source: digiday.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 -
Gov. Tim Walz denounced the Trump administration's latest threat to withhold federal funds from Minnesota as another step in a "retribution" campaign as he unveiled a package of legislation Thursday intended to fight fraud in public programs, a persistent problem that provided an impetus for the federal government's immigration crackdown in Minnesota. The Democratic governor made the announcement a day after the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Meta-owned Instagram will soon alert parents if their teenage child uses the app to search for content related to suicide or self-harm, the technology company's latest effort to shore up safety features as it faces heat over how social media impacts young people. Meta said that, starting next week, parents who use Instagram's supervision tools will get a message — either via email, text or WhatsApp, as ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
On Thursday morning, federal agents detained Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva after gaining entry to her university-owned apartment building, apparently under false pretenses. Hours later, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he had brought the matter up with President Donald Trump, who told him Aghayeva would be freed imminently. Just got off the phone with President Trump. In our meeting earlier, I shared my ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Data center titans Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI are headed to the White House next week to sign a commitment to fund their own energy infrastructure costs, CNBC reported today. The deal, teased by President Trump during Tuesday's State of the Union address, arrives as the massive power requirements of generative AI become a flashpoint for voters frustrated by rising utility bills. ...
Source: geekwire.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's deputy foreign minister said Thursday that the island's government is communicating with U.S. officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters. Carlos Fernández de Cossío said the Cuban government is willing to exchange information with U.S. officials, adding that Cuba plans to ask them for information on the suspects involved and what means they used to ...
Source: apnews.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 -
Just in time for the spring buying season, average mortgage rates crossed "into the fives," this past week, their lowest level in years, and one economists describe as a "psychological barrier and numeric threshold" that could bring more buyers into the market despite concerns over the economy. The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), released by Freddie Mac Thursday, shows the 30-year ...
Source: rismedia.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong appeals court overturned Jimmy Lai's 2022 fraud conviction and sentencing Thursday in a rare legal victory for the pro-democracy activist. Lai, 78, a media tycoon and longtime critic of China's ruling Communist Party, remains in prison under a 20-year sentence he received this month in a separate national security case. Though the national security case was the biggest one against Lai, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The FBI fired more employees Thursday linked to investigations into President Trump after terminating at least 10 Wednesday, multiple sources confirmed. Overall, the rough estimate is about a dozen in total over two days. The firings began after FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that former special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed his phone records as part of his investigation into Donald Trump, multiple ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
Regulatory and legislative hurdles, along with a slew of unanswered practical questions, will pose significant challenges as the Trump administration seeks to turn its newly announced 401(k) expansion plan into a reality. President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address said he would act next year to offer Americans without employer-sponsored 401(k)s "access to the same type of retirement plan offered ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Google couldn't let Samsung have all the fun and attention this week. The Gemini-maker dropped Nano Banana 2 on Thursday, the second generation of its viral AI image editing tool. You might remember Nano Banana from last fall, when it made many fans and shocked AI users with its photorealistic capabilities. It quickly leapfrogged AI image tools from competitors like Midjourney and OpenAI, particularly with ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo President Donald Trump's supporters handed him a 17-page draft proposal on how to declare a national emergency to seize control of state election administration, ...
Source: rawstory.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Blueberries are a delicious fruit that is known for being high in antioxidants. And while these berries are best enjoyed fresh for their full nutritional benefits, many people opt to eat frozen berries during the off season when it's harder to get your hands on the newly harvested fruits. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cautioning customers against eating certain berries after one company ...
Source: greenmatters.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 -
Follow Earth on Google Heart disease is on track to become an even greater threat to women's health in the United States. A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association warns that, if current trends continue, millions more women could be living with cardiovascular disease in the coming decades. The full report, published in the journal Circulation , looks at national health data and predicts what ...
Source: earth.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 -
Older adults who remain cognitively sharp as they age have a genetic advantage over their peers, new research shows. Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago found that so-called super-agers generate twice as many new neurons in the hippocampus — a part of the brain critical to learning and memory — as typical older adults. Their research was published Wednesday in the ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid the exchange of flowers and cards, genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of Pennsylvania are revisiting a particularly intimate chapter, suggesting that ancient mating patterns between modern humans and Neanderthals shaped why ...
Source: news-medical.net
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