19 min ago - 02/26/26 11:02 AM ET A prominent Supreme Court litigator who published a popular blog on the high court and moonlighted as a high-stakes poker player was convicted Wednesday of tax evasion and other charges tied to his secretive gambling lifestyle. T ... (The Hill)

31 min ago - For more than a year, Elon Musk has repeatedly said Tesla is months away from launching a driverless robotaxi service in California – once state regulators give their blessing. Tesla did nothing to secure that approval in 2025, according to prev ... (Reuters)

1 hr ago - Updated 12:10 AM EST, February 26, 2026 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon late Wednesday ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest in order to help salmon, saying ... (AP)

1 hr ago - Controversy has engulfed Wyoming’s state legislature after a conservative activist was photographed handing checks to Republican lawmakers on the state house floor, in an incident that has highlighted intra-conservative divisions and the role of ... (The Guardian)

1 hr ago - Cuban forces killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed into its waters onboard a Florida-registered speedboat and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the country's government said, at a time of heightened tensions with the US. Cuba's interior m ... (The Guardian)

1 hr ago - 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 connections to Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser to DHS secretary Kristi N ... (The Guardian)

1 hr ago - Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called “Patty,” is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation bu ... (The Verge)

2 hrs ago - Thursday 26 February 2026 01:44 EST Sarah Palin's eight-year-old defamation claims against The New York Times are being heard anew by a Manhattan jury this week, following their revival by an appeals court last year. Lawyers for the one-time Alaska g ... (The Independent)

2 hrs ago - February 25, 2026 9:55 PM EST Updated 5 hours ago WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice Admiral Fred Kacher has been removed from his position as director of the Joint Staff after only taking the post in December, three sources familiar with the m ... (Reuters)

3 hrs ago - Updated Feb. 25, 2026, 10:21 p.m. ET Fire crews are battling a wildfire in South Florida that has grown to nearly 25,000 acres on Wednesday, Feb. 25, as the blaze burned near the state's mass detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" and caused ... (USA Today)

3 hrs ago - By Bay City News Service Feb 25, 2026 San Francisco Superior Court clerks will begin an indefinite strike Thursday, the union announced Wednesday evening. "The San Francisco Superior Court clerks' contract negotiations team was hopeful Tuesday that t ... (SF Gate)

3 hrs ago - Evacuations have been lifted for areas in Thornton impacted by a fire that sparked Wednesday afternoon. The 10-acre blaze closed I-25 in the north Denver metro for about an hour and forced residents from their homes before being fully contained. Fire ... (CPR)

4 hrs ago - Feb. 25, 2026, 6:52 PM EST / Updated Feb. 25, 2026, 10:57 PM EST Members of Team USA's women's hockey team say they don't want their Olympic gold medal achievement to be overshadowed by the backlash over President Donald Trump's joke about having to ... (NBC News)

4 hrs ago - Updated 9:25 PM EST, February 25, 2026 WASHINGTON (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 so ... (AP)

5 hrs ago - Trump Takes Credit For Biden-Era $1,000 Match For Low-Income Retirement Plans It was one of the few policy proposals in Trump’s record-breaking, 108-minute State of the Union speech. It was also signed into law by his predecessor four years ago. ... (huff Post)

5 hrs ago - Updated on: February 25, 2026 / 7:27 PM EST Federal immigration agents arrested 261 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, according to official U.S ... (CBS News)

5 hrs ago - February 25, 2026 6:36PM ET The U.S. Department of Agriculture will transfer a large office building to the General Services Administration in a step toward shrinking the department’s footprint in and around Washington, D.C., Secretary Brooke Ro ... (Raw Story)

6 hrs ago - Feb 25th, 2026, 5:51 pm Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) went off on Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff unilaterally negotiating various peace agreements around the world on behalf of the United States without having ever been confirmed to any official national ... (MEDIAite)

6 hrs ago - Wednesday 25 February 2026 22:56 EST The FBI, under the leadership of Kash Patel, has fired at least 10 employees who worked on the investigation into classified documents at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, according to multiple media rep ... (The Independent)

6 hrs ago - February 25, 2026, 5:23 PM Customs and Border Protection agents are attempting to return unaccompanied migrant children -- including some protected by a federal court order -- to their home countries before they can meet with an attorney or appear be ... (ABC News)