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Top News Stories for Friday, February 27th 2026
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Vice President J.D. Vance and Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Mehmet Oz are withholding "$259.5 million in funds…until [Gov. Tim] Walz can show that the state has investigated whether the money is going to the intended recipients." This announcement marks the first battle in the "war on fraud," which President Donald ...
Source: reason.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 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she has "no knowledge" that would assist the House Oversight Committee in its investigation involving late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in her opening statement before the panel Thursday. Clinton posted the prepared statement on her social media account ahead of the closed-door deposition. She said the committee didn't ask President Donald Trump under ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com President Donald Trump's long association with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is a well-documented matter of public record. Less publicly acknowledged, however, are uncorroborated allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor while in Epstein's orbit, particularly after "more than 50 pages of FBI ...
Source: theweek.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 -
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 -
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai won an appeal on Thursday over a 2022 fraud conviction, days after a court jailed him on separate national security charges. The ruling was a surprise win for Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, who was sentenced to 20 years behind bars this month on collusion charges under a Beijing-imposed national security law. The fraud case grew ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
The Supreme Court's decision is clear. The president did not have the authority to impose most of his tariffs . President Donald Trump argued that, under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, his actions were justified because of a national emergency caused by a foreign threat. In the 6-3 ruling, the court said that, on the contrary, that act provides Congress with that authority, which hadn't delegated ...
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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented President Donald Trump with a mock newspaper front page during a visit to the White House on Thursday to discuss massive new housing investments in the city. It's a tactic designed to appeal to Trump, who is keenly aware of his media coverage and, aside from being an avid viewer of cable news, is known to voraciously consume coverage in the local ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump awarded the Medal of Honor during his State of the Union address, rather than with a White House ceremony that's typically held for recipients. WASHINGTON — Less than two months ago, Eric Slover was a member of the U.S. special forces whose identity was shielded from the public as he secretly prepared for a high-stakes raid to capture the president of Venezuela. On Tuesday night, he appeared in the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump's call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill "before anything else." Trump's push for the bill, backed by House conservatives and his most loyal supporters ahead of the midterm elections, has ...
Source: apnews.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 bombardment, which included 11 ballistic missiles, targeted critical infrastructure and residential areas across eight regions of Ukraine, ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
'Wellness influencer' Casey Means heads to confirmation hearing Wellness influencer Casey Means, who left a medical residency to pursue alternative medicine, will appear today at a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on her nomination for U.S. surgeon general. Her original hearing, scheduled for October 30, 2025, was delayed by the delivery of her first child. Last May President Donald Trump nominated Means for the ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Bill Gates spoke with Gates Foundation staff members about newly released documents showing his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Gates "took responsibility for his actions," a foundation spokesperson said. The Microsoft co-founder also told staff he had an affair with two Russian women, The Wall Street Journal reported. Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, speaks at the Bloomberg Philanthropies 2025 ...
Source: cnbc.com