The Petersburg Post
Top News Stories for Thursday, February 26th 2026
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
( The HIll ) – President Trump delivered the first official State of the Union address of his second term on Tuesday. The speech came with the president beset by low approval ratings, especially on the economy, but seeking to rally his party ahead of November's midterms. Trump also gave his address, which clocked in at just short of one hour and 50 minutes, during a time of rising tension with Iran. The ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Hilary Knight, the captain of the US women's ice hockey team, has responded to comments made by Donald Trump after the Americans won gold at the Winter Olympics, calling the president's quip a "distasteful joke". After the US men's ice hockey team won gold on Sunday, Trump called into the locker-room celebration and invited the players to be his guests at Tuesday's State of the Union address. "I must tell you, ...
Source: theguardian.com
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 -
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 -
after several news organizations reported that some records involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public. The announcement followed news reports saying that a massive tranche of records did not include several summaries of interviews that the FBI conducted with an unidentified woman who came forward after Epstein's 2019 arrest and ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By GLENN GAMBOA and JAMES POLLARD Bill Gates addressed his connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and "took responsibility for his actions" during a town hall meeting of his nonprofit Gates Foundation on Tuesday, the nonprofit said. "Bill spoke candidly, addressing several questions in detail," a Gates Foundation spokesperson said in a statement. Gates ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the US Justice Department cannot search the devices it seized from Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post journalist whose home was raided by the FBI earlier this year as part of an investigation into a government contractor. William Porter, magistrate judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia's Arlington Division, wrote in his 22-page decision that the Trump ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
ICE agents look on as deportees are screened before boarding a GlobeX plane at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Feb. 24, 2026. latest policy of to "third countries" to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case that already reached the nation's highest court. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts agreed to suspend his decision for ...
Source: nbcwashington.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Vice-president makes announcement with Mehmet Oz, who says other states will be next after Minnesota JD Vance announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration would "temporarily halt" more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid reimbursements to the state of Minnesota, escalating Donald Trump's newly announced "war on fraud". Vance said the action was to ensure Minnesota was "a good steward of the American ...
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 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran pushed back Wednesday against U.S. President Donald Trump's pressure tactics ahead of critical talks in Geneva over Tehran's nuclear program , alternating between calling his remarks "big lies" to saying negotiations may yield an agreement through "honorable diplomacy." The remarks by two Iranian officials ahead of Thursday's talks come as America has assembled its ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
Kyiv, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the start of the fifth year of the Ukraine war by saying Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has failed to achieve his war goals. And the Kremlin agreed. In a video address that showed Ukrainians carrying out acts of resistance against Russian soldiers in the opening days of the conflict, Zelenskyy added that Ukraine was ready to do "everything" it could to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump came back to the House Tuesday to deliver the State of the Union address , his first since 2020 . There was no shortage of hot-button issues for him to talk about, from tariffs to immigration raids and ICE deployments , from deposing Venezuela's leader to threatening to annex Greenland , from inflation and the state of the economy to the Epstein file dumps . NBC News tracked the major topics ...
Source: nbcnews.com