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Top News Stories for Friday, February 27th 2026
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Iran said Friday that in order to reach a deal, the United States will have to drop its "excessive demands", tempering the optimism expressed after talks seen as a last-ditch bid to avert war. The Oman-mediated talks follow repeated threats from President Donald Trump to strike Iran, and with the United States conducting its biggest military build-up in the region in decades. Trump on February 19 gave Iran 15 days ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
LONDON (AP) — An emphatic election victory for Britain's environmentalist Green Party is a nightmare for Prime Minister Keir Starmer that raises questions about how long he will continue as leader. Less than two years after winning power in a landslide , Starmer's center-left Labour Party not only lost a longtime stronghold in its northern England heartlands — it came third, finishing behind both the ...
Source: apnews.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
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 -
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 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Imprisoned Hong Kong newspaper magnate and democracy activist Jimmy Lai on Thursday won an appeal against a fraud conviction for which he was serving an almost six-year sentence handed down in 2022. The convictions of Lai, who is a British citizen, and codefendant Wong Wai-keung on charges they illegally sublet office space in a government-owned media park were quashed and their sentences set aside ...
Source: upi.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 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 -
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 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