Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
A public showdown between the Trump administration and Anthropic is hitting an impasse as military officials demand the artificial intelligence company bend its ethical policies by Friday or risk damaging its business. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew a sharp red line 24 hours before the deadline, declaring his company "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's final demand to allow unrestricted use of its ...
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Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Netflix declined to match a superior proposal from Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery, ending its $82.7 billion acquisition bid. Paramount, backed by Larry Ellison, will acquire the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery for approximately $111 billion. Warner Bros. Discovery will pay a $2.8 billion termination fee to Netflix, which Paramount has agreed to cover. The deal creates a media conglomerate ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Company says cuts will help 'reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities' E-commerce giant eBay announced Thursday it is slashing hundreds of jobs, just days after the company dropped $1.2 billion in cash to acquire a trendy Gen Z fashion app and settled a federal stalking lawsuit involving former executives. Multiple outlets have reported that eBay will cut a total of 800 ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — Mortgage rates fell below 6% on Thursday for the first time in over three years, marking an opening for home buyers as inflation cools. Currently, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is averaging 5.98, down .03% from last week, according to Freddie Mac . Last year, the rate averaged 6.76%. "This lower rate environment is not only improving affordability for prospective homebuyers, ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Regulatory and legislative hurdles, along with a slew of unanswered practical questions, will pose significant challenges as the Trump administration seeks to turn its newly announced 401(k) expansion plan into a reality. President Donald Trump during his State of the Union address said he would act next year to offer Americans without employer-sponsored 401(k)s "access to the same type of retirement plan offered ...
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Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Isaac Schorr 3 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Activists are working with the White House on a draft executive order to declare a "national emergency" over America's elections, claiming foreign interference as a basis for extraordinary presidential power. President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in the upcoming ...
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Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
More than 55,000 pounds of frozen blueberries have been recalled due to the risk for a potentially fatal Listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration update . The Oregon Potato Co. first issued a recall of its IQF Blueberries on Feb. 12, but the FDA on Tuesday upgraded that recall to a "Class I," which, according to the agency, means there is a "reasonable probability that the ...
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Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
NEW YORK (AP) — A social media content creator was arrested Thursday after New York City police said he was one of a number of people who pelted officers with snow and ice during a massive snowball fight in Washington Square Park this week. Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was charged with obstructing governmental administration, a misdemeanor, and harassment, a non-criminal violation. He appeared in handcuffs and ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A federal judge in the United States has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information "approximately 42,695 times" to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a decision issued on Thursday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that the IRS had erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people, in apparent violation of the ...
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