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Friday, February 27, 2026

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. read more


Thursday, February 26, 2026

A federal judge found the Internal Revenue Service has broken the law thousands upon thousands of times by sharing confidential taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. read more


The FBI has fired additional agents who worked on an investigation into President Donald Trump, this time terminating employees who participated in the probe into the Republican's hoarding of classified documents, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. read more


Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained a Columbia University student early Thursday after entering a campus residence hall by claiming they were searching for a missing person, according to the university. read more


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. 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. read more


The former secretary of State said Republicans are "fully aware" that she has no knowledge that would assist their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. read more


Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. read more


The Trump administration is considering requiring banks to collect proof of citizenship, like passports, from its customers, people familiar with the talks told Semafor. The policy would be retroactive ... read more


Recent policy changes and economic shifts have slashed 12 years off the projected life span of the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A, according to a newly updated report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). read more


Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land. read more


US Defense Secretary Pete â Hegseth has reportedly given AI company Anthropic until Friday to agree to allow its technology to be used for military applications. read more


Cuba's Interior Ministry has announced that four men on a US-registered speedboat were shot and killed after being intercepted in Cuban waters. read more


A dozen public health experts are arriving in South Carolina to help the state contain the largest U.S. measles outbreak in more than 30 years, but they're not coming from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. read more


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


FBI Director Kash Patel's taxpayer-funded trip to Italy that culminated with him chugging beer with the U.S. hockey team was revealed Wednesday to have included "long segments of personal and leisure time" after the leak of an internal schedule, a leak that the FBI condemned as a "criminal act," The New York Times reported. read more


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