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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Vladimir Putin's top aides are snickering behind Donald Trump's back because they think the Russian tyrant is playing the MAGA leader like a fiddle. British spies have repeatedly shared with their U.S. counterparts intercepted calls and texts between ranking Kremlin officials ridden with laughter at what they perceive as Trump's willingness to take Putin at his word on his invasion of Ukraine. "We have continually shown them intelligence that shows the Russians are lying," a senior UK security official told The Spectator on Thursday. "The Russians are privately mocking Trump over his naivety about Putin's intentions. Putin doesn't want to end the war."


A federal judge reprimanded Donald Trump's administration for claiming that an immigrant seeking his release from custody was convicted for marijuana possession in 2009 -- when he was 4 years old. read more


In a now-deleted X post on Sunday, Sen. Mike Lee appeared to compare masks worn by ICE agents to those worn by cartels setting fire to a gas station in Mexico. read more


Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, according to three sources and a whistleblower's account newly provided to Congress. read more


A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street, city authorities said on Wednesday. Police officers in the upstate New York city located the body of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, on Tuesday evening, a Buffalo Police Department spokesperson said. A vulnerable man ' nearly blind and unable to speak English ' was left alone on a cold winter night with no known attempt to leave him in a safe, secure location," Ryan said. "That decision from U.S. Customs and Border Protection was unprofessional and inhumane."


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