12 sec ago - 11 hours ago The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East briefed President Trump on Thursday about the options for military action against Iran, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge of the meeting. Why it matters: This was ... (Axios)

23 min ago - Updated on: February 26, 2026 / 7:08 PM EST FedEx is pledging to return any tariff costs it charged to customers if the Trump administration refunds the delivery company for the levies. "If refunds are issued to FedEx, we will issue refunds to the s ... (CBS News)

55 min ago - February 26, 2026 6:57PM ET A Minnesota judge threatened the Trump administration with criminal contempt on Thursday over repeated ignoring of court orders. Judge Patrick Schiltz issued a scathing order Thursday, warning that he may pursue criminal c ... (Raw Story)

1 hr ago - February 26, 2026, 6:28 PM The agency tasked with protecting the nation's cyber and critical infrastructure is getting a new leader. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) is making changes to the leadership at the agency. The current ... (ABC News/AP)

1 hr ago - Feb. 26, 2026, 6:00 PM EST Several advocacy groups in Idaho this week are condemning Republican members of the state's House Business Committee for allowing public testimony from a man who appeared before the committee in brownface and has previously ... (NBC News)

2 hrs ago - Feb. 26, 2026, at 6:21 p.m. NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro asked a judge on Thursday to toss out the indictment against his client on the grounds that the United States has unconstitutionally violated ... (US News & World Report/AP)

2 hrs ago - Updated 5:54 PM EST, February 26, 2026 An estimated 32.6 million people watched President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address this week, down four million from his speech to Congress last year and the smallest audience he’s ever gotte ... (AP)

3 hrs ago - Pakistan bombed Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul and two other provinces on Friday, hours after a cross-border attack, the latest escalation of deadly violence between the volatile neighbours who signed a Qatar-mediated ceasefire in 2025. Followin ... (The Guardian)

3 hrs ago - Posted 4:43 PM, Feb 26, 2026 The Justice Department on Thursday filed federal lawsuits against five states, accusing them of failing to provide full voter registration lists. The lawsuits target Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia and New Jersey ... (Scripps News)

3 hrs ago - Thu 26 Feb 2026 10.00 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Feb 2026 16.32 EST The US Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $250,000 public relations contract to a Republican political consulting firm led by former Trump campaign officials with connect ... (The Guardian)

4 hrs ago - Feb. 26, 2026, 10:00 AM EST / Updated Feb. 26, 2026, 4:19 PM EST NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal prosecutor testified Thursday that he knew an indictment he brought against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last year, ... (NBC News)

5 hrs ago - Three memos that describe four interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor in the early 1980s with the assistance of Je ... (The Guardian)

7 hrs ago - The champagne corks may be popping right now at Paramount over the David Ellison-owned company’s successful bid for Warner Bros Discovery, but up in Sacramento the mood is far from celebratory over the latest possible Hollywood mega-merger.
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8 hrs ago - The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas. It’s not clear why the laser w ... (ktsm news)

9 hrs ago - By Gene Maddaus Feb 26, 2026 3:36pm PT The Writers Guild of America issued its opening salvo the 2026 studio negotiations on Thursday, even as its own staff continues to walk a picket line outside union headquarters. The union is preparing to sit dow ... (Variety)

10 hrs ago - Thu 26 Feb 2026 12.53 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Feb 2026 13.33 EST The family of independent UN investigator Francesca Albanese has sued the Trump administration over US sanctions imposed on her last year for her criticism of Israel’s policies ... (The Guardian/AP)

10 hrs ago - Updated 2:05 PM EST, February 26, 2026 More than 20,000 immigrant truck drivers will be able to keep their licenses in California, at least temporarily, despite efforts by the Trump administration and the state of California to revoke them, according ... (AP)

11 hrs ago - An administrative court in the western German city of Cologne on Thursday ordered the country's domestic intelligence agency to cease referring to the political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "confirmed right-wing extremist" until the designa ... (DW)

11 hrs ago - Updated Feb 26, 2026, 6:20 PM ET PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2026, 6:20 PM ET Anthropic is rejecting the Pentagon’s latest offer to change their contract, saying the changes do not satisfy the company’s concerns that AI could be used for mass surveil ... (CNN Business)

11 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to move ahead with ending legal protections for migrants from Syria, in the latest emergency appeal to the nation's highest court. The Department of Justi ... (AP)