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Thursday, February 26, 2026

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


The president appears to be undermining Americans' faith in the outcome, at a moment when Republicans face an uphill climb to keep control of Congress. 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


After multiple news agencies published stories which indicated that possibly three interviews with a victim that had accused the President of uncorroborated misdeeds were not included in the released Epstein files, the Associated Press is reporting that the DOJ is investigating if and why the files were not released as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act. 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


Wednesday, February 25, 2026

He said Colt shot a deer in their first outing, leading Colin Gray to believe he had "turned a corner" with his son. But the rifle Colt was using jammed, so Colin said, "We keep doing good, you're doing good, maybe Santa Claus will bring you one." read more


In a statement Omar called for an investigation into the arrest. "My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president's speech for a short period of time, part of which other guests were also standing. For that, she was forcibly removed, despite warning officers about her injured shoulders and ultimately charged with unlawful conduct'," she said. read more


The global transportation and postal company FedEx has filed a lawsuit for a "full refund" for US President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs. read more


NYT: "Internal warnings about the Iranian transactions surfaced last year, in the months before President Trump granted a pardon to Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao, who had spent four months in federal prison in 2024 for his role in the firm's crimes." read more


As Donald Trump droned on in his boring State of the Union, Democrats celebrated three wins in special elections. read more


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