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Top News Stories for Thursday, February 26th 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 -
The Galaxy S26 Ultra's light-bending display is more than just a party trick; it can possibly put privacy screen protectors out of business. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The Galaxy S26 Ultra is the only model so far to feature this innovation. Let's be honest, most of the updates to the new Galaxy S26 series of phones during Samsung Unpacked ...
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 -
GENEVA (AP) — Iran and the United States began indirect talks Thursday in Geneva over Tehran's nuclear negotiations viewed as a last chance for diplomacy as America has gathered a fleet of aircraft and warships to the Middle East to pressure Tehran into a deal. President Trump wants a deal to constrain Iran's nuclear program, and he sees an opportunity while the country is struggling at home with growing ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai won an appeal on Thursday over a 2022 fraud conviction, days after a court jailed him on separate national security charges. The ruling was a surprise win for Lai, the 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, who was sentenced to 20 years behind bars this month on collusion charges under a Beijing-imposed national security law. The fraud case grew ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Chipmaker Nvidia reported stronger-than-expected results for the January quarter on Wednesday. The company also projected current-quarter revenue above market estimates, fueled by strong spending on artificial-intelligence processors by Big Tech companies. The company posted sales of $68.13 billion for the quarter, up 94% from a year ago, exceeding analysts' estimate of $66.21 billion. Adjusted earnings came in at ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Government security agencies in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have urged Cisco customers to take immediate action to patch a critical zero-day bug in their SD-WAN kit that has been exploited since 2023. CVE-2026-20127 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (formerly SD-WAN vSmart) and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.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 -
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 -
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 nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Myanmar has been found dead in Buffalo, New York, days after the United States Border Patrol left him miles away from his home following his release from a county jail, authorities said. The body of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was located by police officers in the city in upstate New York on Tuesday evening, a Buffalo Police Department spokesperson said on Wednesday. Shah Alam had ...
Source: aljazeera.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, hours before U.S. and Ukrainian envoys held 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, Zelenskyy ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 -
Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The United States will offer passport services for the first time in Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem announced in a statement Wednesday that in an effort to reach all Americans, consular officers "will be providing routine passport services in Efrat on Friday." The move is expected to draw criticism from foreign governments and human rights ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Pat McAfee covered the check after the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team racked up a hefty booze bill at Miami's E11EVEN nightclub Monday, one day after their 2-1 overtime victory against Canada in the gold-medal game at the Milan Cortina Games. While the men's team was partying inside the club, a video of the ESPN personality praising the team flashed on the screen, as seen in a TikTok video. "Boys, thank you ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
President Trump's surgeon general nominee Dr. Casey Means testified before Senate committee on Wednesday in her bid to be confirmed as the nation's top doctor. The hearing was a long time coming for Means — a wellness influencer, entrepreneur and author — who had to delay the confirmation hearing in late October because she was pregnant and went into labor. During her testimony, Means praised Health ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photo released by the Department of Justice on Dec. 19, 2025. (DOJ) President Donald Trump waves as he returns to the White House from Dover Air Force Base, in Washington, D.C., December 17, 2025. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz Records from a woman who accused both President Donald Trump and late financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of sexual assault were missing in the ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Tech company leaders will head to the White House in March to meet with President Donald Trump to pledge they will generate their own power for new data centers, saving taxpayers from picking up additional energy costs, Fox News Digital learned. "Major Tech companies will join President Trump at the White House next week to formally sign the Rate Payer ...
Source: foxnews.com
Bill Gates admits he had 2 affairs with Russian women, apologizes to staff over Jeffrey Epstein ties
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has admitted he had two affairs with Russian women while married to his now-ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, and issued a groveling apology for his links with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein . Gates, 70, told staffers at his foundation on Tuesday that he flew on a private plane with the disgraced financier and spent time with him in the US and abroad, but didn't participate in any ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Washington — The Pentagon gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Give the U.S. military unrestricted use of its AI technology or face a ban from all government contracts. At the center of the issue is a question of who controls how artificial intelligence models are used, the Pentagon or the company's CEO. The Pentagon's AI contracts The Pentagon awarded Anthropic a $200 million contract in ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Jamieson Greer warns tariffs may climb from 10% after Trump imposed global levy amid US supreme court setback The US tariff rate for some countries will go up to 15% or higher from the newly imposed 10%, Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, said on Wednesday, without naming any specific trading partners or other details. "Right now, we have the 10% tariff. It'll go up to 15 [%] for some and then it may go ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
By Warner Bros. Discovery announced Tuesday that Paramount Skydance has raised its purchase offer to $31 per share, which may top Netflix's offer. WBD last week said it would reopen talks with Paramount, and Netflix granted a seven-day waiver that ended Monday to allow shareholders a chance to get clarity on the offer. Netflix kept matching rights. Netflix and Paramount have been trying to buy WBD since October. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Discord announced Tuesday it is delaying its global age verification rollout from March to the second half of 2026. The decision follows heavy user backlash earlier this month regarding the company's initial plan to place all users into a "teen-appropriate experience" by default until they verified their age as adults. Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy acknowledged the company failed to clearly communicate its ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
The Trump administration 's controversial policy of deporting immigrants to countries they are not from without due process must stop, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on Wednesday. In the underlying case , several detained men challenged the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportation directive. The case then snowballed and generated headlines when DHS attempted to deport eight men to South Sudan ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Court to search devices itself instead of letting government have full access. A federal court will conduct a search of devices seized from a Washington Post reporter after a magistrate judge decided yesterday that the Department of Justice cannot be trusted to perform the search on its own. US Magistrate Judge William Porter criticized government prosecutors for not including key information in a search warrant ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Nobel Prize–winning brain scientist steps down over Epstein ties On Tuesday Nobel Prize winner Richard Axel resigned as co-director Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute over his decade-long association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A molecular biologist, Axel shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work revealing how the brain ...
Source: scientificamerican.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 -
For more than five years, the American Repertory Theater has made no secret of its ambition to become an anti-racist organization. The Harvard University-based theater has published Indigenous land acknowledgments, hired consultants, and posted a series of reports that chronicle its effort to embed "anti-racism as a core value." So it was perhaps surprising when a Black actor sued the theater last week for race ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended Israel's devastating war on Gaza, saying it stands by the country "with full conviction" – despite accusations of genocide against the Palestinian people. Modi gave a speech to the Knesset, or parliament, on Wednesday, on the first day of his two-day visit and received a standing ovation as he stressed India's enduring support for Israel. It was the first time an ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
The court found no evidence that any stolen trade secrets were actually used by OpenAI after the employees joined the firm. US District Judge Rita F. Lin has dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. The judge ruled that xAI's complaint does not allege any direct misconduct by OpenAI itself. Instead, the suit attributes all alleged wrongdoing to eight former xAI employees who left to join OpenAI around ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Kalshi on Wednesday said it fined and suspended an employee of the popular YouTuber MrBeast for insider trading, marking one of the first disciplinary actions within the fast-growing prediction market industry. The case involved bets related to MrBeast's videos, which were flagged by Kalshi's surveillance team for their "near-perfect trading success on markets with low odds," according to the company's ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Tech 4 min read Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition. Instead of self-imposed guardrails constraining its development of AI models, Anthropic is adopting a nonbinding safety framework that it says can and will change. In a blog post Tuesday outlining its new policy, Anthropic said shortcomings in its ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NASA astronaut Mike Fincke announced Wednesday that it was his medical issue aboard the International Space Station in January that prompted the agency to return the SpaceX Crew-11 mission to Earth early. "I experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my incredible crewmates," Fincke said according to a NASA website update. "Thanks to their quick ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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? New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani seemed to hope cooler heads would prevail after a Monday snowball melee in Washington Square Park left two police officers ...
Source: huffpost.com
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. In a sobering look at risk factors for heart disease and stroke, new projections estimate that 6 out of 10 women will develop at least one type of cardiovascular disease over the next 25 years. Moreover, disease will show up at younger ages. By 2050, nearly ...
Source: statnews.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
Wednesday, Feb 25th, 2026 -
New tool blocking underage users from accessing 18+ rated apps to be utilized in Utah and Louisiana, as well as Brazil, Australia and Singapore Apple announced a new age verification tool in the U.S. and abroad to ensure users wishing to download certain apps are at least 18 years old to comply with laws enacted by some U.S. states and foreign countries. The tool is rolling out in Utah, Louisiana, Brazil, Australia ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2026 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in California, is the latest escalation in the Trump administration's campaign to punish top universities that it says have been soft on ...
Source: pbs.org