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Top News Stories for Friday, February 27th 2026
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The US spent months promoting a false case for the invasion of Iraq. This time, we're in the dark about Washington's goals I n October 2002, George W Bush laid out his case for taking the US to war against Iraq in a half-hour speech televised around the world. Bush warned that Saddam Hussein's regime could attack the US "on any given day" with chemical or biological weapons, including anthrax, mustard gas or the ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
A federal judge has declined to block President Donald Trump's plan to build a massive ballroom on the site of the now-demolished East Wing of the White House, after preservationists challenged the move. On December 12, the National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a lawsuit against the plans, deeming them unlawful. However, in Wednesday's ruling, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ...
Source: bradenton.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 -
News , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons US federal court rules third-country removal policy unlawful A US federal court ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration's third-country deportation policy is unlawful because it fails to provide migrants a chance to object or raise safety concerns. The case, before the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, came out of a class action lawsuit ...
Source: jurist.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 -
President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2026. Kenny Holston/Pool via REUTERS A secret 17-page draft has been circulating among pro-Trump activists and the White House that would potentially give President Donald Trump the path to "unlock extraordinary ...
Source: rawstory.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 federal appeals court this week denied a request from immigrants' rights groups to bar the IRS from continuing to share taxpayer names and addresses with ICE. The three-judge D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in an opinion issued Tuesday that Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, Somos Un Pueblo Unido, and Inclusive Action for the City were "unlikely to succeed on the merits" of two ...
Source: fedscoop.com