02 U.S. Politics
Last week, a man who allegedly shot the founder of a charity 10 times while he lay in bed with his wife got off without a prison sentence—because the prosecutor, backed by groups funded by Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros, agreed to let him plead not guilty by reason of insanity.
Gret Glyer had founded DonorSee, a charity platform that allowed donors to support specific people while giving video updates to show the donor’s concrete impact. Joshua Danehower, 37, who had gone on one date with Glyer’s wife Heather about 10 years previously, allegedly broke into the family’s house, snuck into the bedroom, and fired 10 shots into Gret Glyer, leaving his wife a widow and his two young children fatherless.
For a mayor who spent his campaign promising everything would be free, it sure takes a lot of money to get those free things. It’s weird how things work out like that, isn’t it?
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is mulling spending $70 million to study his proposed government-owned grocery store. This news comes just a week after he threatened to raise taxes on the middle class because the city has a budget shortfall.
According to the New York Post:
Hizzoner is proposing the new funding for the city Economic Development Corporation simply to scout potential locations for the five stores he’s pledged to open in each borough, according to sources who reviewed preliminary budget documents.
One city source with knowledge of the plans described it as a “feasibility study.”
Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce opened the Wednesday, February 25, episode of their New Heights podcast with squeals as they both rocked Team USA hockey jerseys.
“Twinsieeeesss,” Jason, 38, shouted.
“Same jerseyyyy,” Travis, 36, added.
The brothers quickly broke into a U-S-A chant before rehashing the team’s “epic” win over Canada.
The former Prime Minister of Norway has been rushed to hospital after a reported suicide attempt.
Thorbjørn Jagland was hospitalised on Tuesday, February 24, just a few days after he was charged with serious corruption offences, linked to his association with paedophile Epstein. Reports of Jagland attempting suicide were denied by his lawyer.
Jagland was charged with “gross corruption” after newly released documents appeared to reveal a transactional relationship between the ex-PM and convicted paedophile, between 2011 and 2018. Some Norwegian outlets have reported a suicide attempt, but the high-profile statesman’s legal team has insisted he was rushed to the hospital due to extreme stress instead of a deliberate act.
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon is among the defendants named in a civil lawsuit filed by a St. Paul church congregant over the disruption of a worship service on January 18, 2026, at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The same incident has also resulted in federal criminal charges against Lemon and eight other individuals.
The protest occurred during a Sunday service at Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation. Demonstrators entered the sanctuary and began chanting slogans including “ICE out!” and “Justice for Renee Good,” a reference to a local anti-ICE agitator who was shot while attempting to run over a federal agent last month.
Far-left Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), a member of the progressive “Squad,” is facing backlash after comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to the Ku Klux Klan.
During a recent interview, Pressley accused federal immigration officers of carrying out what she described as a “campaign of terror.”
Pressley has repeatedly accused ICE agents of being “racist.”
“In the same way that the KKK cannot be reformed, another, you know, masked militia group, I do not believe that ICE can be reformed and that this has anything to do with training and protocols,” Pressley said.
A 25-year-old man from Spring, Texas is jailed without bond, charged with aggravated assault after authorities say he secretly gave abortion medication to a pregnant woman against her will, causing the death of their unborn child.
Jon Rueben Gabriel Demeter faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury — family violence. Authorities indicated possible additional or enhanced charges pending further evidence processing.
The child, named Presley Mae by her mother, was stillborn at a hospital in The Woodlands.
A dozen of the world’s most advanced fighter jets touched down in Israel this week, signaling a sharp escalation in America’s military posture as President Donald Trump warned Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions or face consequences.
According to The Times of Israel, twelve U.S. F-22 stealth fighters arrived Tuesday at an Israeli Air Force base as part of the American buildup across the Middle East. Open-source flight tracking data showed the aircraft departing from Royal Air Force Lakenheath in the United Kingdom, though one jet reportedly turned back because of a technical issue before completing the trip.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from his teaching gig at Harvard University over his relationship with notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
Summers, a prominent economist at the university, announced Wednesday that he will resign from his professorship and other faculty appointments at Harvard University at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year. This decision follows increased public scrutiny related to his past associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claimed his nuclear-armed country could “completely destroy” South Korea if its security were threatened, reiterating his refusal to engage with Seoul, state media said Thursday. However, he left the door open to dialogue with Washington as he concluded a ruling party congress outlining his policy goals for the next five years.
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House members are eyeing a new phase in their monthslong investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: a race to produce results that match the stunning Epstein fallout across the globe and satisfy an electorate clamoring for accountability.
This week’s interviews of Bill and Hillary Clinton — who are scheduled to testify to lawmakers under subpoena and behind closed doors about their relationships with Epstein and his convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell — could be a pivotal moment in this effort.
Just over 30 percent of US fourth graders are considered proficient in reading.
The AI platform called Compani.AI is promoting a “homework agent” named Einstein and says it can complete assignments on behalf of students, including submitting work for them automatically. Childhood literacy rates in the US, however, are falling.
The website features a virtual version of Albert Einstein as an AI companion. According to the company, “Einstein has a full virtual computer with a browser — anything you can do, he can do.” The platform says the AI can log into the education platform Canvas on behalf of users, and once logged in, it “watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.”
“Give him a reading assignment, and he reads the full text, understands it, and writes original essays with proper citations,” the company says. It also states that the AI can watch videos and extract “key concepts” using them to “answer assignments accurately.”
The media hall monitors are fond of berating the Bari Weiss-run CBS Evening News as Trump-friendly or “MAGA-coded.” So far, the network has quite easily managed to beat those allegations. Case in point: the former Tiffany network has decided to wade into the fake controversy surrounding the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 (click “expand” to view transcript):
The allegedly “MAGA-coded” CBS Evening News has joined the ongoing attempt to gaslight America into thinking there is animosity between our respective Olympic hockey teams pic.twitter.com/KfPHwH5LzT
“It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records — along with those of now White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.”
The FBI under Joe Biden subpoenaed the phone records of now-FBI Director Kash Patel and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023, when both were private citizens. The phone records grab was part of the Biden administration’s investigation into Donald Trump.
Daly faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.
The trans nonbinary suspect accused of shooting a US Border Patrol agent in New Hampshire on Sunday has been charged with attempted murder and assault of a federal officer. Blu Zeke Daly, 26, of Manchester, previously known as “Cullen Zeke Daly,” reportedly pulled a vehicle up to a closed gate at the US-Canadian Pittsburgh Port of Entry and fired gunshots at a Border Patrol agent when approached.
Daly sustained injuries during the attack when the Border Patrol agent returned gunfire, striking the defendant in an act of self-defense. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20-years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem.
This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models.
So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T personal assistant, they reconstructed the orchestration layer. The result: A multi-agent stack built on LangChain where large language model “super agents” direct smaller, underlying “worker” agents performing more concise, purpose-driven work.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the press that the boat Cuba’s Coast Guard shot at and killed four people was not participating in a U.S. government operation.
We do not know who was on the boat. One person told The New York Post that the boat was “a US civilian boat working to get relatives out of Cuba, adding that the vessel was not a US Naval or Coast Guard boat.”
The suspects’ boat was loaded with tactical gear, assault rifles and improvised explosives, according to authorities on the island
Cuba’s Interior Ministry has released new findings from its investigation into the deadly gunfight between Cuban border guards and a US‑flagged speedboat, saying the vessel was carrying ten armed men who allegedly intended to execute a “terrorist infiltration.”
Havana said the clash erupted on Wednesday when border guards approached a Florida‑registered vessel, FL7726SH, operating roughly one nautical mile off the northern coast of Villa Clara province for an identification check. The individuals aboard the boat allegedly opened fire first, wounding the commander of a Cuban patrol craft before guards returned fire, killing four people and injuring six others.
‘WAR POSTER’ In Iran Hints At Attack On Israel If War Breaks Out | ‘America’s 51st State…’ | WATCH The Times of India
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Wednesday night that an investigation was underway after the Cuban government opened fire on a speedboat they claimed was registered in Florida, killing four people and wounding multiple others.
Rubio, speaking from St. Kitts and Nevis during a diplomatic engagement with Caribbean leaders, stated that the US learned of the incident through direct Coast Guard-level contacts with Cuban authorities before the Cuban government’s public announcement.
“We’re going to find out exactly what happened, who was involved, and we’ll make a determination on the basis of what we find out,” the secretary told reporters.
Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s guest to the State of the Union was Aliya Rahman — a woman who was arrested for impeding ICE agents.
Rahman was injured while being arrested, and she’s been going around playing the victim, ever since.
Despite the media’s attempts to play up her ‘hardship,’ ICE has the receipts:
Unfortunately for the media, we have the receipts.
As shown in our video, Aliya Rahman clearly had enough room to move herself and her vehicle out of the way. Officers even walked away from her vehicle, thinking she was going to leave the scene. Instead, she remained at the… https://t.co/1z0M4cHWbS pic.twitter.com/bin1mQGHIl
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) February 6, 2026
An Iranian opposition group took credit for a coordinated assault on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s Tehran headquarters this week, reporting “heavy clashes” with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that allegedly left more than 100 of its fighters killed, wounded, or arrested.
The Command Headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) said the operation began at dawn Monday, February 23, during the call to morning prayer, and continued into the afternoon around the Motahari Complex in central Tehran — one of the Islamic Republic’s most heavily fortified seats of power.
Another prominent public figure has just resigned over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
This time, it’s Larry Summers — Democrat ex-Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and former Harvard president.
He has resigned from his position at Harvard University.
Here are the details:
🚨 BREAKING: Former Harvard President and Democrat Larry Summers is RESIGNING from Harvard after the Trump DOJ exposed his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in the files
ANOTHER ONE! The files turned out to be a massive backfire on the left while Trump has pure vindication.… pic.twitter.com/Q4C6kUwJXa
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 25, 2026
Key Takeaways
- Indiana University School of Medicine offers a residency health track focusing on gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ patients, training residents in comprehensive, whole-person healthcare.
- Despite a 2024 state court ruling banning gender-affirming care for minors, Dr. Parsons, a program graduate, supports the effectiveness of such treatments in alleviating dysphoria based on research evidence.
- Medical advocacy groups emphasize the importance of rigorous scientific standards in medical education, cautioning against ideologically driven narratives opposing gender-affirming care for minors.
The Chagos Islands deal fell into disarray Wednesday amid conflicting U.K. government messages about whether ratification was paused for talks with the United States over the strategic Indian Ocean military base Diego Garcia.
Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer had told members of Parliament that ratification of the deal to cede the islands to Mauritius had been paused while discussions with Washington continued.
A U.K. government spokesperson later denied there was any formal suspension of the process, insisting no deadline had ever been set and reiterating that Britain would not move forward without American backing.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that the dispute between the U.S. Defense Department and Anthropic is “not the end of the world.”
His comments come after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic until Friday to loosen its rules on how the Pentagon can use its AI tools, or risk losing its government contract.
If Anthropic fails to comply, Hegseth threatened to label the company a “supply chain risk” or invoke the Defense Production Act, sources told CNBC‘s Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney earlier this week.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Wednesday defended transgender rights in her State of the State address, a day after President Trump criticized gender transition in his State of the Union address. “In Michigan, everyone deserves to be who they are and love who they love. I want to take a moment and speak directly…
from thehill.com