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Top News Stories for Wednesday, February 25th 2026
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
By Joan Vennochi President Trump's approval ratings are down, and he knows it. So at least at the start of his State of the Union address, he seemed to be adjusting to that uncomfortable reality by showing a little more restraint and displaying a little less invective. He spent a lot of time talking up the economy, or at least the economy as he sees it: falling gas prices, better mortgage rates, and tax relief, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
CIO Monica Caldas sits with Martha Heller, CEO of Heller, to discuss balancing integrity with experimentation, avoiding pilot purgatory, and change management at the $50 billion insurance giant. Liberty Mutual's approach to gen AI reflects a deeper understanding of enterprise transformation in that the hardest challenges aren't technical but human. So global CIO Monica Caldas focuses on the central priorities of ...
Source: cio.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
ESCONDIDO, Calif. – Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers training at a local gun range largely went unnoticed by residents of one Southern California city for more than a decade, until and the recent fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents. The arrangement in Escondido, a city of about 150,000 people north of San Diego surrounded by farms and horse ranches, has sparked weeks of ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
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 -
NEW YORK – Light snow moved through parts of the Northeast on Wednesday as people heading to work and school were trying to navigate their way out of that dropped piles of powder on streets and sidewalks from Maryland to Maine. One to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.6 centimeters) of snow was expected — a far cry from — but any snow that melted likely froze overnight, resulting in patchy black ice to make for ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are barred from conducting an "unsupervised, wholesale search" of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post reporter's Virginia home while investigating allegations that a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information to the journalist, a magistrate judge ruled Tuesday . U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter said he will independently review ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee announced Tuesday that an investigation will be opened into the US Department of Justice's withholding of Epstein files related to an alleged sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl committed by President Donald Trump decades ago. "For the last few weeks, Oversight Democrats have been investigating the FBI's handling of allegations from 2019 of sexual assault on a ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
Castmates and family members are mourning Robert Carradine, part of a famous Hollywood family and star of "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Lizzie McGuire." Carradine died at 71. Ever Carradine "Growing up in the 70s and 80 with a single dad in Laurel Canyon is not exactly the recipe for a grounded childhood, but somehow mine was. Whenever anyone asks me how I turned out so normal, I always tell them it's because of my ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
WBD's board said Paramount's offer "could reasonably be expected" to "lead to" a superior proposal to Netflix's. However, WBD added that its board had "not made a determination" yet as to whether Paramount's latest bid is actually better. , and doesn't want its cable channels. While Netflix could stand pat, doing so could put its dream of buying HBO at risk. WBD hadn't been impressed with Paramount's prior offers, ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in California, is the latest escalation in the Trump administration's campaign to punish top universities that it says have been soft on ...
Source: pbs.org
Monday, Feb 23rd, 2026 -
The celebrity doctor Peter Attia is stepping down as a contributor to CBS News amid growing scrutiny on his email exchanges with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Attia, best known for his social media content about longevity science, told CBS he would resign from the position effective immediately, and the news division's booking department informed CBS News staff Monday, according to a source ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Feb 23rd, 2026 -
Collins is also set to produce the film, which is not a remake of the classic 2 min read Today it was announced that Lily Collins will be playing Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming film about the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's —so technically not a remake, but a movie about the making of a movie. I get it, we are living in the age of IP movies and to be fair, Collins is an excellent casting choise for the ...
Source: harpersbazaar.com