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Top News Stories for Friday, February 27th 2026
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 -
There were plenty of references to AI at today's Galaxy Unpacked event . But Samsung isn't alone; nearly every major smartphone launch in recent years has included new AI features or partnerships with AI companies. Samsung launched its latest iteration of Galaxy AI, debuting it alongside Galaxy S26 phones . This follows weekend news that the company plans to integrate Perplexity's AI agent -- and ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
WELLESLEY — The Boston Fleet aren't interested in outside distractions, including the recent slight of the gold medal-winning US women's hockey team by President Trump . Three Fleet players — goaltender Aerin Frankel and defenders Megan Keller and Haley Winn — were part of the team that won gold in Milan on Keller's overtime goal against Canada. A few days later, after the US men's team also beat ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Iran and the US are meeting Thursday for their third round of indirect talks as President Trump seeks to delay Tehran's nuclear program while threatening it by deploying a massive number of aircraft and warships to the Middle East. US special Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an effort to convince his country to halt its enrichment of uranium, a key step to ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
– Former Secretary of State is testifying before U.S. House lawmakers in New York on Thursday as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender , starting off two days of depositions that will also include former President The closed-door depositions in the Clintons' hometown of Chappaqua, a typically quiet hamlet north of New York City, come after between the former high-powered Democratic ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Pentagon officials on Wednesday night sent Anthropic their best and final offer in negotiations for use of the company's artificial intelligence technology, just ahead of a government-imposed deadline, according to sources familiar with the discussions. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth set a deadline of Friday evening for the company to grant all lawful use for its AI technology or face the loss of its business ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com President Donald Trump's long association with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is a well-documented matter of public record. Less publicly acknowledged, however, are uncorroborated allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor while in Epstein's orbit, particularly after "more than 50 pages of FBI ...
Source: theweek.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Netflix Inc. dropped out of the fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. , clearing the way for rival bidder Paramount Skydance Corp. to clinch its $111 billion deal for the historic Hollywood studio. The streaming industry leader said that while it believed its deal would have passed muster with regulators and created shareholder value, it didn't want to keep bidding. "We've always been disciplined, and at the ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District will meet in a closed session on Thursday to discuss the superintendent , a day after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district's headquarters. The calendar for the Board of Education notes a special afternoon meeting to discuss Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, but there were no additional details. The district ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The Trump administration is expected to call on major U.S. technology companies and data center developers to voluntarily commit to a compact designed to ensure power-needy data centers do not raise household electricity prices or undermine grid reliability. [1] The initiative comes amid a nationwide surge in energy demand, driven largely by the rapid proliferation of data centers that power the artificial ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Instagram will be adding a new feature in the coming weeks that will notify parents if their teen may be at risk for self-harm. Meta announced the new feature on Thursday that will begin sending parents alerts next week if their teen has searched for terms related to suicide or self-harm. It is also working on a feature to recognize and alert over similar conversations with AI. Parents will be ...
Source: upi.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 -
At least one U.S. citizen was killed in an incident in Cuban waters Wednesday and another was injured, two U.S. officials told NBC News. Cuban officials had said its military killed four men and captured six others who were injured after they entered Cuban waters aboard a Florida-registered boat near the island nation's northeastern coast. The Cuban government said they were armed and initiated the firefight. Cuba ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump's State of the Union address could be good news for hopeful retirees. President Donald Trump proposed an expansion of retirement savings for Americans without 401(k)s and other employer-provided retirement plans during his Tuesday speech. He said the federal government will soon match individual savings up to $1,000 a year. Over 40 million Americans who work full-time don't have a retirement plan, and nearly ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Over the past year there have been plenty of media reports discussing artificial intelligence failures and highlighting the negative aspects of it. I'm of the belief that AI will eventually be infused into every aspect of our lives and change the way we work, live and learn. This is similar to the impact the internet had, although the scope and impact of AI will be much bigger than that technology transition. Like ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Condemnation has poured in after Columbia University in New York said United States immigration enforcement agents "made misrepresentations" to gain access to one of the school's residential buildings to detain a student. A statement from Columbia University's acting president, Claire Shipman, said federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered the building about 6:30am (13:30 GMT) on ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
By Mortgage rates have fallen below 6% for the first time in more than three years, offering a glimmer of hope that a frozen housing market may be set to thaw. The average 30-year mortgage rate in the United States fell to 5.98%, the mortgage-financing giant Freddie Mac said Thursday, down from nearly 7% around the same time last year. The last time the rate was below 6% was in September 2022. "That amounts to ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Nvidia — the most valuable company in the world thanks to its place atop the AI food chain — generated a staggering $120 billion in profits last year. This includes an eye-popping $43 billion during the three-month period ending in January, one of the strongest quarters of any business ever recorded. Investors didn't seem to care. Shares of Nvidia fell more than 5% Thursday, following the results. With ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Follow Earth on Google Heart disease is on track to become an even greater threat to women's health in the United States. A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association warns that, if current trends continue, millions more women could be living with cardiovascular disease in the coming decades. The full report, published in the journal Circulation , looks at national health data and predicts what ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
An appellate court in Hong Kong reversed fraud convictions against former media tycoon Jimmy Lai. It was a rare victory for the prominent pro-democracy activist, who is a fierce critic of Beijing and has faced a litany of legal battles. Lai, 78, an outspoken critic of China's ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily, will stay in prison because he was sentenced to 20 years weeks ago ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
"Spaceflight is an incredible privilege and sometimes it reminds us just how human we are," said astronaut Mike Fincke. NASA has revealed details of an incident aboard the ISS that prompted the first medical evacuation in the space station's 25-year history. On 7 January, astronaut Mike Fincke "experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my incredible crewmates", according to a statement by ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Google LLC today introduced a new image generation model, Nano Banana 2, that offers higher output quality and better performance than its predecessor. The company will make the algorithm available in more than a half-dozen products. The original Nano Banana made its debut in August. Google followed up the model with an enhanced version, Nano Banana Pro, in November. The latter algorithm will continue to be ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Nurul Amin Shah Alam had been in custody for a year following an incident in which he had become disorientated and allegedly failed to comply with police commands An almost blind refugee who vanished after being left miles from home by U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead in ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The Supreme Court's decision is clear. The president did not have the authority to impose most of his tariffs . President Donald Trump argued that, under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, his actions were justified because of a national emergency caused by a foreign threat. In the 6-3 ruling, the court said that, on the contrary, that act provides Congress with that authority, which hadn't delegated ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Older adults who remain cognitively sharp as they age have a genetic advantage over their peers, new research shows. Scientists at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago found that so-called super-agers generate twice as many new neurons in the hippocampus — a part of the brain critical to learning and memory — as typical older adults. Their research was published Wednesday in the ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani traveled to Washington, D.C., Thursday to meet with President Trump, with a proposal to build more city housing on the agenda. It's at least the second time the two have met at the White House. Their first meeting , prior to Mamdani's swearing in, was marked by a friendly and cooperative tone that surprised many observers. The two have since kept in touch. The meeting ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
An Oregon company is recalling nearly 56,000 pounds of frozen blueberries due to possible Listeria contamination, which federal regulators this week classified as the most serious type of recall. In an online notice , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Oregon Potato Company distributed the product in Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin and Canada. The agency said the blueberries were not sold to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A former U.S. Air Force officer was arrested and charged for allegedly imparting unauthorized defense services to Chinese military pilots. Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. was arrested Wednesday in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and charged in violation of the Arms Export Control Act , which provides the Secretary of State with the legal authority to control the export of defense articles and services, according to a Wednesday ...
Source: militarytimes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Genetic evidence hints that there was a strong bias for male Neanderthals and female humans to mate, rather than any other combination When our species and Neanderthals interbred, it may have been mostly female Homo sapiens and male Neanderthals that mated. That's the conclusion of a study of the genetic traces left in both populations by the intermixing. It isn't clear why this sex-biased mating pattern would have ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump awarded the Medal of Honor during his State of the Union address, rather than with a White House ceremony that's typically held for recipients. WASHINGTON — Less than two months ago, Eric Slover was a member of the U.S. special forces whose identity was shielded from the public as he secretly prepared for a high-stakes raid to capture the president of Venezuela. On Tuesday night, he appeared in the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
At his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Donald Trump made his latest push for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act to overhaul elections by falsely claiming that "the only way" Democrats get elected "is to cheat." And he appeared to single out Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., by adding, "We have to stop it, John." Thune and Senate Republicans have been under an avalanche of pressure from the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a barrage of 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as U.S. and Ukrainian envoys prepared to hold more talks in Geneva on ending the war that is now in its fifth year . The bombardment, which included 11 ballistic missiles, targeted critical infrastructure and residential areas across eight regions of Ukraine, ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Trump administration's reduced vaccine schedule "throws science out the window." Scientists have long warned that a warming world is likely to hasten the spread of infectious diseases, making vaccination even more critical to safeguard public health. And though most scientists hail vaccines as one of public health's greatest achievements, they have provoked fear, distrust, and contentious resistance since Edward ...
Source: arstechnica.com
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 ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
of beating his then-girlfriend's mother to death with a fruit bowl and hiding the body in a suitcase more than a decade ago pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges in the U.S. Tommy Schaefer was sentenced in Indonesia to 18 years in prison in connection with the 2014 murder of Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack while on vacation in Bali with the woman and her daughter, Heather Mack. According to ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A pair of brothers who were prominent Brazilian politicians have been convicted in the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro councilor Marielle Franco. João Francisco Inácio Brazão, a former congressman, and Domingos Inácio Brazão, a former adviser to Rio de Janeiro's court of auditors, were each sentenced to 76 years and three months in prison. They were convicted of ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A new report from a major press freedom group has found that a record 129 journalists were killed in 2025, and that Israel was responsible for two-thirds of the worldwide total. The Tuesday report from the Committee to Protect Journalists says that the Israeli military has cumulatively killed more journalists than any other government since CPJ started tracking reporter deaths in 1992, with the vast majority being ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
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 -
Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, is postponing its controversial age verification policy after receiving swift backlash from users with concerns about their privacy. The global rollout of the system is now delayed to the second half of 2026, Discord's chief technology officer and co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy wrote in a Tuesday blog post acknowledging that the company "missed the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A leading molecular biologist who won the Nobel prize for his work studying how the human brain processes smells has stepped down from a prestigious post at Columbia University over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein . Richard Axel said in a statement that he will resign as a co-director of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute to focus on his own research and teaching. He is the latest in a string of public figures ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces its policies. A former candidate in the 2026 race for governor of California and a popular YouTuber have been kicked off Kalshi's platform for alleged violations related to insider trading, the popular prediction market revealed Wednesday. In a blog ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
A new suit filed by the New York attorney general seeks to stop Valve Software's use of "loot box" mechanics in its popular PC games, accusing the Bellevue, Wash.-based company of making billions of dollars by luring children and teenagers into gambling on rare Counter-Strike skins. The lawsuit alleges that Valve's first-party games are essentially an illegal gambling operation aimed at younger players. It seeks to ...
Source: geekwire.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Anthropic is scaling back its safety policy amid increased artificial intelligence (AI) competition and government pressure. The AI startup announced Tuesday (Feb. 24) that it had overhauled Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), its framework for managing catastrophic risks posed by advanced AI systems. The decision was first reported by TIME, which said the changes include ending a pledge not to release AI models if ...
Source: pymnts.com