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Top News Stories for Saturday, February 28th 2026
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
– Former President is testifying Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender , answering for his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago. The closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York, will mark the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress. It comes a day after Clinton's wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
This article features deals sourced directly by Gizmodo and produced independently of the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. Reading time 3 minutes Now that Samsung's unveiled the Galaxy S26 series and triggered the latest battle of the endless smartphone wars , the fight isn't going to be limited to Samsung vs Apple and the other big tech competitors. It's also going ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Iran said Friday that in order to reach a deal, the United States will have to drop its "excessive demands", tempering the optimism expressed after talks seen as a last-ditch bid to avert war. The Oman-mediated talks follow repeated threats from President Donald Trump to strike Iran, and with the United States conducting its biggest military build-up in the region in decades. Trump on February 19 gave Iran 15 days ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
OTTAWA, Ontario — American hockey player Brady Tkachuk said Thursday that he did not appreciate a doctored TikTok video shared by the White House that made it look like he was disparaging Canadians after winning Olympic gold , calling it fake and something he would never say. The video includes fabricated audio of Tkachuk referring to Canadians as "maple syrup eating (expletive)," with the expletive bleeped ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
CEO Dario Amodei is still resisting US government demands to use Anthropic's AI to build autonomous weapons and conduct mass surveillance of US citizens. Faced with demands from the US Department of Defense to allow its technology to be used for purposes the company considers unsafe or antidemocratic, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei 's stance remains firm: "We cannot in good conscience accede to their request," he wrote ...
Source: cio.com
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 ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan considers itself in an "open war" with neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan's defense minister said Friday, in the worst escalation of violence since a Qatar-mediated ceasefire in October. The comments by Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif came after Afghanistan launched a cross-border retaliatory attack on Pakistan overnight that saw Islamabad hit back with airstrikes on Kabul. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
In a world where artificial intelligence isn't just a tool but a strategic asset rivaling nuclear power, the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos 2026 painted a stark picture: AI governance is no longer a tech silo—it's the frontline of global competition. As geoeconomic confrontation tops the Global Risks Report 2026, with AI anxiety skyrocketing from 30th to 5th place in long-term ...
Source: customerthink.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Nvidia investors may be overlooking a small but rapidly growing part of the AI chipmaker's business, according to one investment chief. After Nvidia's earnings beat failed to push the stock higher , Nancy Tengler — the CEO and CIO at Laffer Tengler Investments — highlighted sovereign AI as an area of Nvidia's revenue that investors may be missing. "The big takeaway from Nvidia earnings is that no one's ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
By A surprise White House meeting between New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump on Thursday is drawing widespread attention after Mamdani offered Trump an unusual gift, provoking a viral discussion about the younger leader's diplomatic methodology. The unannounced hour-long meeting between the Republican president and Democratic mayor took place at the White House and focused primarily on a ...
Source: miamiherald.com
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 ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
LONDON (AP) — An emphatic election victory for Britain's environmentalist Green Party is a nightmare for Prime Minister Keir Starmer that raises questions about how long he will continue as leader. Less than two years after winning power in a landslide , Starmer's center-left Labour Party not only lost a longtime stronghold in its northern England heartlands — it came third, finishing behind both the ...
Source: apnews.com
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 ...
Source: bradenton.com
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 ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Vice President J.D. Vance and Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Mehmet Oz are withholding "$259.5 million in funds…until [Gov. Tim] Walz can show that the state has investigated whether the money is going to the intended recipients." This announcement marks the first battle in the "war on fraud," which President Donald ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The alerts will be sent through email, text, or WhatsApp as well as a notification on Instagram - depending on the parent's settings. Instagram will start notifying parents if their children repeatedly search for suicide and self-harm content. However, a leading online safety charity criticised the update as "flimsy" and say it risks leaving parents "panicked and ill-prepared" for the difficult conversations ...
Source: news.sky.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 -
Columbia Student Arrested By ICE Released After Mamdani-Trump Meeting A Columbia University student was released from custody apparently after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke with President Donald Trump about her arrest, which allegedly happened when agents lied about their identities to enter campus housing. Elaina Aghayeva, who boasts more than 100,000 followers on both TikTok and Instagram, posted on ...
Source: forbes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
By The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill Thursday to add regulations to large-scale data centers aimed at protecting consumers from potential price increases for electricity or water. The bipartisan move came as wealthy tech companies are eyeing Florida as a potentially new frontier for the nationwide boom of data centers, the climate-controlled warehouses containing thousands of computers used to power ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's deputy foreign minister said Thursday that the island's government is communicating with U.S. officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters. Carlos Fernández de Cossío said the Cuban government is willing to exchange information with U.S. officials, adding that Cuba plans to ask them for information on the suspects involved and what means they used to ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a policy used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. to countries where they are not citizens is an unconstitutional denial of their due process rights. So-called "Third-Country Removals" were adopted as official ICE policy in a memo last year, allowing for such deportations to take place with as little as six hours' ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Just in time for the spring buying season, average mortgage rates crossed "into the fives," this past week, their lowest level in years, and one economists describe as a "psychological barrier and numeric threshold" that could bring more buyers into the market despite concerns over the economy. The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), released by Freddie Mac Thursday, shows the 30-year ...
Source: rismedia.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 -
The latest chapter in what one historian called "the ongoing horror story of American immigration enforcement" unfolded in Buffalo, New York this week after Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar , was released from a county jail where he'd been held for a year. As Buffalo-based outlet the Investigative Post reported Wednesday, the nearly blind man was found dead on Tuesday evening, five ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.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 -
President Donald J. Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2026. Kenny Holston/Pool via REUTERS A secret 17-page draft has been circulating among pro-Trump activists and the White House that would potentially give President Donald Trump the path to "unlock extraordinary ...
Source: rawstory.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 -
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 -
A new study found that heart attack deaths were up among younger adults with women more likely than men to die after a first heart attack. According to new research published today in a Go Red for Women spotlight issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association, death rates rose by a 1.2% absolute increase among adults younger than ...
Source: news-medical.net
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 -
The Justice Department announced the arrest Wednesday of a former Air Force fighter pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military personnel without authorization. Gerald Brown, 65, was arrested in Indiana after recently returning to the United States from China, where he'd been since December 2023, a Justice Department statement said . He is accused of having "conspired with foreign nationals to provide combat ...
Source: cbsnews.com
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 -
The Trump administration violated IRS rules by providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with confidential taxpayer information, a court in Washington, D.C., ruled on Thursday. In February 2025 , the nonprofit Center for Taxpayer Rights and two unions sued amid the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) campaign "to access highly sensitive information systems and dismantle and restructure multiple ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
NEW YORK from time to time when they lived in the same areas . But we don't know much about who got with whom, or why. offers some ancient gossip: The pairings were more often female humans with male Neanderthals. How exactly this happened remains a huge question mark. Did human women venture into , or were the Neanderthal males drawn to larger human enclaves? Were these interactions peaceful, confusing, secretive ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
New York's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Valve, accusing the game developer of promoting illegal gambling among young people through its use of in-game "loot boxes." Valve makes wildly popular games such as Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2. Valve's loot boxes amount to "quintessential gambling," which is prohibited under New York's constitution and penal law, Attorney General Letitia ...
Source: cnet.com