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Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency

Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on t ...

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NATO Scrambles Fighter Jets To Defend Against 'Massive' Russian Attack

Published Feb 26, 2026 at 02:53 AM EST updated Feb 26, 2026 at 05:50 AM EST NATO member Poland has deployed fighter jets in response to Russian attacks on Ukraine. The Polish armed forces posted on X that the aircraft had been deployed following "another massive attack" by Russia on Ukraine. It added that "ground-based air defense systems and radar reconnaissance have reached a state of maximum readiness." Poland said the deployments were preventative in nature, and &quo ...

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Wiles "in shock" over FBI phone-record subpoena

10h FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI under President Biden subpoenaed his phone records and those of Susie Wiles, who ran President Trump's campaign and is now White House chief of staff, when they were private citizens. The big picture: Trump officials familiar with the investigation tell Axios the revelations might be "the tip of the iceberg," and that the FBI may have probed more Trumpworld figures. Wiles told associates: "I am in shock." What they're saying: ...

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Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount's offer is deemed superior

Published Thu, Feb 26 2026 4:20 PM EST Updated 3 Min Ago Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board on Thursday deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be superior. Earlier this week, Paramount raised its offer to buy the entirety of WBD to $31 per share, up from $30 per share, all cash. It was the latest amendment to Paramount's multiple offers in recent months -- and since moving forward with a hostile bid to buy ...

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CEO of World Economic Forum quits after Epstein ties come to light

1h ZURICH, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, said he was stepping down on Thursday, a few weeks after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Brende, who became president of the WEF in 2017, announced his decision in a statement following disclosures from the U.S. Justice Department that showed the Norwegian had three business dinners with Epstein and had also communic ...

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Hillary Clinton's opening statement to House Oversight Committee

(Hillary Clinton) "As we all know ... too often Congressional investigations are partisan political theater, which is an abdication of duty and an insult to the American people. The Committee justified its subpoena to me based on its assumption that I have information regarding the investigations into the criminal activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Let me be as clear as I can. I do not."

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Republicans Dragged Hillary Clinton Back Into the Spotlight. They're Going to Regret It.

(Daily Beast) If you’ve noticed Hillary Clinton everywhere again, it’s not because she has launched a comeback tour. It’s because Republicans still just cannot quit her. Despite the fact that she is not mentioned in the “Epstein files,” House Oversight Chair James Comer has subpoenaed her to testify today. (Her husband, Bill Clinton, will testify tomorrow.) It seems Republicans believe that Clinton can provide a distraction—or at least a new punching bag—in the scandal that has dogged the Trump administration for months. In forcing Clinton back into the spotlight, Republicans may have accidentally handed Democrats a gift.

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Justice Department says it's reviewing whether any Epstein-related records were mistakenly withheld

(AP) The Justice Department said Wednesday that it was looking into whether it had improperly withheld documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files after several news organizations reported that some records involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public. The announcement followed news reports saying that a massive tranche of records released by the Justice Department did not include several summaries of interviews that the FBI conducted with an unidentified woman who came forward after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and claimed to have been sexually assaulted by both Trump and Epstein when she was a minor in the 1980s.

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Vance launches into Trump's 'war on fraud' by suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota

(NBC News) Vice President JD Vance got a new assignment Tuesday night: fighting a “war on fraud” that President Donald Trump declared in his State of the Union address. Vance, joined by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, announced the opening salvo in the effort Wednesday: a pause on federal Medicaid reimbursements to Minnesota.

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Republicans are freaking out over Texas Senate race

(Politico) With just days until Texas’ primary, Republicans in Washington are growing more alarmed that their increasingly vicious intraparty contest could cost them a must-win Senate seat. Sen. John Cornyn appears to be headed to an expensive and nasty 10-week runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, with a strong chance that Paxton wins the nomination even after national Republicans spent months airing his dirty laundry all over the Texas airwaves in an effort to boost Cornyn.

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