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Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told members of Congress on Thursday that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's or Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes, starting off two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton. "I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein," Hillary Clinton said in an opening statement she shared ...
Source: cleveland.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
: Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked 2026: Galaxy S26 Ultra, Privacy Display, Buds 4 Pro From the Galaxy S26 phones 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 in the rearview mirror, with the company launching new Galaxy S26 phones, the Galaxy Buds 4 ...
Source: zdnet.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 -
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 ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Pakistan bombed major cities in Afghanistan Friday, including the capital Kabul, with Islamabad's defense minister declaring the neighbors at "open war" following months of tit-for-tat clashes. The dramatic declaration came as Afghanistan's Taliban rulers claimed to have carried out unprecedented aerial attacks on multiple locations in Pakistan, including its capital Islamabad. The Taliban-run Afghan Ministry ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
When global leaders gathered at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 , the emphasis was not on model size or computational power. The central message, reinforced by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was that AI must be transparent, inclusive, and accountable. The summit marked a visible shift in tone: from celebrating innovation velocity to demanding governance maturity. For enterprises, that shift is not ...
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 -
Hannah Spencer elected as party's first MP in northern England as vote share for Keir Starmer's party plummets The Green party has pulled off a landmark victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection in a significant blow to Keir Starmer , who vowed to "keep on fighting" after the humiliating defeat. Hannah Spencer, a local plumber and Green party councillor , was elected as the party's first MP in northern England ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Feb 27th, 2026 -
Federal judge denies injunction against $400M White House expansion project funded entirely by private donors A federal judge on Thursday denied a legal challenge to President Donald Trump 's White House ballroom project, clearing the way for construction on the estimated $400 million expansion to proceed. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon denied the injunction sought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
Parents using Instagram's child supervision tools will soon receive alerts if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or self-harm related terms on the platform. It is the first time parent company Meta will proactively alert parents to searches by their child on Instagram for harmful material, rather than just block searches and direct users to external help. Parents and teens enrolled in Instagram's Teen ...
Source: bbc.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 -
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? A student at Columbia University was snatched Thursday morning by federal agents who allegedly lied about why they were on the campus. She was released from ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Several signs suggest 2026 could be a tipping point for Florida when it comes to large-scale data centers, the facilities that house thousands of servers for AI and other tech programs. (TNS) — There are several signs that suggest 2026 could be a tipping point for Florida when it comes to large-scale data centers, the warehouse facilities that house thousands of servers for artificial intelligence and other ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMAN MIAMI — Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism. Cuban soldiers confronted a ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
( 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, ...
Source: wfla.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 fired more employees Thursday linked to investigations into President Trump after terminating at least 10 Wednesday, multiple sources confirmed. Overall, the rough estimate is about a dozen in total over two days. The firings began after FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that former special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed his phone records as part of his investigation into Donald Trump, multiple ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
President Donald Trump says he plans to roll out a new type of retirement account for workers who don't have access to a 401(k) or another type of workplace plan. "Half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer," Trump said during his State of the Union address Tuesday. "To remedy this gross disparity, I'm announcing that next ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
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 ...
Source: yahoo.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 -
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 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Older adults classified as "SuperAgers" generate at least twice as many neurons in the hippocampus than their typical aging peers, a new study has revealed. These findings, released on Wednesday by the University of Illinois Chicago and Northwestern University, could help explain why SuperAgers have exceptional memory and cognitive resilience even well past 80 years old. ...
Source: foxnews.com
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 ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid the exchange of flowers and cards, genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of Pennsylvania are revisiting a particularly intimate chapter, suggesting that ancient mating patterns between modern humans and Neanderthals shaped why ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota, accusing it of promoting illegal gambling and threatening to addict children through its use of "loot boxes." In a complaint filed on Wednesday in a state court in Manhattan, Attorney General Letitia James said Valve's loot boxes amounted to "quintessential ...
Source: reuters.com