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Top News Stories for Friday, February 27th 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 -
The closed-door interview, which will be videotaped, is set to take place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons have a house. The committee will meet with former President Bill Clinton the next day for a similar deposition. The in-person interviews come after months of bitter back-and-forth between the former first couple and the committee, which at one point threatened to hold the of Congress for failing to ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Everyone says they need AI, but most aren't ready — the hard part isn't the model, it's the messy middle that makes it work. Walk into enough leadership meetings and you'll hear the same story told with different accents: "We need AI." It shows up in board decks, annual strategy documents and that one slide with a hockey-stick curve that magically turns pilot into profit. And look, I get it. AI is real. The ...
Source: cio.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 -
Casey Means holds no active medical license and promotes alternative medicine. Casey Means, President Trump's nominee for surgeon general, will appear before the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday and is likely to face scrutiny over her qualifications for becoming the country's top doctor. Though Means holds a medical degree from Stanford Medical School, she dropped out of her medical residency and holds no ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
With the administration challenging the Court and Congress, independent reporting is the only thing standing between you and the noise. Your membership funds the courage to ask the hard questions. Don't let the truth be sidelined, join Huff Already a member? WASHINGTON – Democrats are pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi for the reason the Justice Department has withheld documents potentially related to an FBI ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — In a nod to voter frustration over rising electricity prices, President Trump on Tuesday said he was negotiating pledges from major tech companies to pay a greater share of the energy costs associated with new data centers. Silicon Valley is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build power-hungry data centers for artificial intelligence as demand for electricity is increasing across the ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 Microsoft co-founder spoke candidly at a Gates Foundation town hall about his past association with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and says sorry for introducing executives to him has apologized to staff at his charitable foundation over his past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein , also ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Feb. 25 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump awarded the nation's highest military decoration to two American service members during Tuesday night's State of the Union address. Before a joint session of Congress on the U.S. Capitol, Trump announced Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover and retired Navy Capt. Elmer Royce Williams as recipients of the Medal of Honor. Slover is on active duty, and received the ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke , the commander of the International Space Station, revealed that he was the crew member whose medical issue required a group of space station fliers to cut short their mission and return early to Earth in January. Fincke, 58, did not provide details about the medical issue, but wrote on LinkedIn that a "full range of terrestrial imaging and diagnostic evaluations — capabilities ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A New York City snowball fight gone wrong leaves Mayor Mamdani at odds with police What started as an innocent snowball fight during the New York City blizzard has, in fact, snowballed, landing Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city's police leadership in a row. Video taken Monday afternoon in Washington Square Park shows a snowball fight following an epic snowstorm devolving into some parkgoers apparently targeting ...
Source: bbc.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 Trump administration on Tuesday sued the University of California, alleging that UCLA administrators have "routinely ignored" and "failed to report" employee complaints of antisemitism since the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's war in Gaza spurred a surge in pro-Palestinian campus activism. The Department of Justice alleged in court documents that UCLA has an ongoing, "severe and pervasive" antisemitism ...
Source: latimes.com