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Top News Stories for Thursday, February 26th 2026
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Trump administration announced Wednesday it is pausing more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid payments to Minnesota over alleged fraud, a move state officials called the latest act of political retribution against a Democratic-led state. "We are going to start very aggressively in the administration cracking down on people and the organizations that are defrauding Americans," Vice ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
: Samsung Unpacked 2026 recap: All the news on Galaxy S26 Ultra, Privacy Display, Buds 4 Pro From the Galaxy S26 to new earbuds and agentic AI, here's everything unveiled at Samsung Unpacked this week. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Samsung's first Unpacked event of the year is over, with the company launching new Galaxy S26 phones, the Galaxy Buds 4 series, and more. ZDNET is ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
By and Jeffrey Epstein didn't beat the justice system by accident. For decades, the New York financier curated a network of influential people — politicians, business titans, media figures and academics — whom he leveraged to build his fortune and restore his reputation after he had been accused of preying on underage girls in South Florida in 2008. While much of the spotlight has been on the elite ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who has developed a reputation for improving academics and graduation rates while leading two major U.S. districts, had his home searched Wednesday by the FBI as part of a federal investigation. Agents served search warrants at the home as well as the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District and a location near Miami, where Carvalho was ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
, a leader in distributed edge and remote infrastructure, announced it has joined the VAST Cosmos Community, a global community of developers, builders, and experts in innovative AI solutions, through strategic collaboration with VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, to deliver a new generation of private, distributed, and global AI factories. Together, the companies provide an integrated solution ...
Source: aithority.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
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. The Make America Healthy Again movement, which has turned dissatisfaction with mainstream medicine into a disruptive political movement, was poised on Wednesday to put one of its leading figures, Casey Means, at the top of the U.S. medical system. Means, an ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice has not released summaries and notes from three separate interviews the FBI conducted with a South Carolina woman who alleged she was a sexual assault victim of Jeffrey Epstein and also made sexual abuse allegations against President Donald Trump , according to an NBC News analysis of the Epstein files and information provided by a source familiar with the investigation. ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
In Virginia, home to more than a tenth of data center capacity in the entire world, lawyers who benefit from the complex work of bringing these massive projects to life see signs of a tipping point. The costs of building in the state may soon outweigh the benefits—whether due to local opposition, the possibility of vanishing state tax breaks , or simply because power supplies can't keep up with demand. "It's ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has apologized to staff at his philanthropic foundation over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein , telling attendees at a Gates Foundation town hall on Tuesday that mistakes he made had overshadowed the work of the group, but denying that he was complicit in or had knowledge of Epstein's crimes. While not directly confirming the apology, a spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told CBS News ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
David Ellison is taking his bid for Warner Bros. Discovery into Washington, pairing a higher cash offer with a political strategy aimed at outflanking Netflix in what could become the defining media acquisition of the decade. Paramount Skydance , the company Ellison leads after his Skydance Media acquired Paramount last year, raised its offer yesterday (Feb. 24) to $31 per share, up from $30, to buy all of WBD. ...
Source: observer.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Washington — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Department of Homeland Security policy that allows immigration authorities to deport migrants to "third countries" that are not their own, without first giving them notice or the opportunity to object, is unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts sided with a group of noncitizens who filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department ...
Source: cbsnews.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
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
President Donald Trump presented Chief Warrant Officer Five Eric Slover, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot wounded in the audacious raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro , with the Medal of Honor on Tuesday during his State of the Union address. As Slover, 45, and his wife entered the chamber, they received a standing ovation while chants of "USA, USA, USA" rang out. The scene struck a bipartisan ...
Source: militarytimes.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
NASA has shed some light on what triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of four astronauts from the International Space Station last month. On Wednesday the space agency identified longtime astronaut Mike Fincke, age 58, as having experienced the medical event that led to the decision to bring him and the other three members of NASA's Crew-11 mission home weeks ahead of schedule. "On Jan. 7, while aboard ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A massive post-blizzard in New York that ended in police officers being pelted is creating a frosty dispute between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his own police department. has downplayed the fracas in Washington Square Park as kids simply having some fun. The New York Police Department and its leader, Jessica Tisch, are taking it more seriously. The department is searching for four people — and has begun ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Man, 32, shot dead by deputy after stabbing attack was the subject of domestic violence protection orders A man shot dead by a sheriff's deputy after he fatally stabbed four people outside his mother's home near Gig Harbor, Washington, on Tuesday morning was the subject of domestic violence protection orders recording mental health and substance abuse issues stretching back at least five years. Records reviewed by ...
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
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
The Department of Justice is suing UCLA over claims of vile antisemitic acts at the school — including death threats, swastikas scrawled on university buildings and a statue depicting a pig holding a Jewish star and a bag of money. The lawsuit outlined what it described as a pattern of the university failing to address antisemitism and protect Jewish and Israeli employees. During the 2023–2024 academic ...
Source: nypost.com