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Top News Stories for Sunday, March 1st 2026
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
"We voted for America First and ZERO wars," former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X, calling the administration "a bunch of sick fucking liars" Major figures associated with the Make America Great Again movement — including former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , conservative commentator Tucker Carlson , far-right figure Alex Jones , and infamous manosphere influencer Andrew Tate — are ...
Source: rollingstone.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
– A high-stakes dispute over military use of artificial intelligence erupted into public view this week as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brusquely terminated Anthropic's work with the Pentagon and other government agencies, using a law designed to counter foreign supply chain threats to slap a scarlet letter on a U.S. company. President Donald Trump and Hegseth accused rising AI star Anthropic of endangering ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
International calls for mediation are growing as Pakistan and Afghanistan engage in cross-border fighting for a third day , in the most serious flare-up in violence between the neighbours in months that Pakistan says has brought them into "open war". The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged on Saturday for the countries to bring down the temperature and enter talks, warning the violence could ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
By OpenAI just broke its own record. The company behind ChatGPT announced Friday it has raised $110 billion in new funding, nearly tripling the $41 billion round it closed in March 2025, which was itself the largest private tech fundraise in history at the time. The company said Amazon ( AMZN ) is investing $50 billion , with Nvidia ( NVDA ) and SoftBank committing $30 billion each. The deal values OpenAI at $730 ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
Chaos as key transit hubs in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha close, and more than 1,000 flights by major Middle Eastern airlines cancelled America and Israel's attack on Iran disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond as countries around the region closed their airspace and three of the key airports that connect Europe, Africa and the west to Asia halted operations. Hundreds of thousands of travellers were ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
In response, some are offering a simple proof point: They need fewer workers to get the job done. The most recent example of a CEO cutting workers en masse while talking up AI's transformative power is Block cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey. On Thursday, he announced plans to The cheapest way for a CEO to boost a company's stock price — and to signal readiness to capitalize on the AI boom — is to conduct a ...
Source: insider.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
When targeted by nationwide protests early this year, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei unleashed the bloodiest crackdown of his nearly four decades in power. But now a U.S. or Israeli military strike may have ended his rule. There was no immediate Iranian comment about him Saturday after President Donald Trump said Khamenei was killed in a major new attack by U.S. and Israeli forces. Trump also urged ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The death toll rose to 22 on Saturday from the crash of a military plane carrying 18 tons of new banknotes a day earlier near Bolivia's capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles and scattering bills on the ground, a police commander said Saturday. Another 29 people were injured, mostly passengers traveling on public transportation where the plane crashed. Among the dead are 12 men, ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Feb 28th, 2026 -
Caspar San Giorgio to appear in court after defacing London statue with slogans including 'Zionist war criminal' A 38-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after Winston Churchill's statue outside the Houses of Parliament was sprayed with graffiti labelling the former prime minister a "Zionist war criminal". The Metropolitan police arrested Caspar San Giorgio, of no fixed address, shortly after 4am on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Washington — Former President Bill Clinton will appear before the House Oversight Committee in New York on Friday as part of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, marking the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress under subpoena. The closed-door deposition is a victory for Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Plans to return humans to the moon will come in later mission as agency grapples with delays and glitches Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon. The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency's recently confirmed ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
The Pentagon is pulling back on plans to cut ties with Scouting America, as long as the nonprofit organization adopts policies that echo new military directives, including eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and banning transgender youth from the Scouts. In a video posted to X Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he had been "very seriously considering" cutting all military support to ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge on Friday extended an order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported, saying a Trump administration policy turns the "American Dream into a dystopian nightmare." U.S. District Judge John Tunheim granted a motion by advocates for refugees to convert a temporary restraining order that he issued in ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Donald Trump Got Exactly What He Wanted Out of the U.S. Men's Hockey Team The drama has concluded its final act. to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Sunday, Brady Tkachuk won an Olympic gold medal in Milan when the U.S. beat out Canada in the men's hockey final. On Tuesday, he was grinning and gripping in the Oval Office, feted by Donald Trump, ...
Source: slate.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says. The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based anti-drone system. The CBP uses drones to track people crossing the border. "Congressional aides told Reuters the Pentagon used the high-energy laser system to shoot down a Customs and ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
There is a word to describe the illegal taking of money or property, followed by a refusal to return the stolen goods. Theft. Now, as a libertarian, I am effectively obligated to remind you here that, yes, all taxation is theft. Roll your eyes if you must, but it's true. The government demands payment, never asks for consent, and backs up its demands with threats of violence. At the most basic level , the ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will soon no longer be one of the few countries where Google Maps doesn't work properly, after its security-conscious government reversed a two-decade stance to approve the export of high-precision map data to overseas servers. The approval was made "on the condition that strict security requirements are met," the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
( The Hill ) — New polling released on Friday reveals that more Americans say they sympathize with Palestinians than they do with Israelis, a new statistic coming several months after Israel and Hamas struck a deal to pause their devastating war in the Gaza Strip. Gallup found that 41 percent of Americans sympathize with the Palestinians compared to the 36 percent who say they sympathize with the Israelis. ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer Target will stop selling cereals containing synthetic colors by the end of May. The Minneapolis-based discounter said Friday it had been phasing out synthetic colors in cereals for several years. Right now, 85% of its cereal sales already come from products made without synthetic dyes. Target said it has worked with national brands ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com