Lead This coming Tuesday (early March 2026), a total lunar eclipse will turn the full moon a coppery red for observers across large parts of the globe. The event will be visible in the morning from North America, Central America and western South America, and again that night for Australia and eastern Asia; Africa and … Read more
Lead U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Israel on March 2–3 as President Donald Trump publicly voiced displeasure with ongoing indirect negotiations with Iran. The State Department said Rubio’s agenda will include consultations on Iran and Lebanon and steps to implement the administration’s 20-point plan for Gaza. His visit coincides with a … Read more
Paramount has engaged screenwriter Max Landis to develop a treatment for a feature adaptation of the Hasbro brand G.I. Joe, while separately commissioning Danny McBride to write a different draft, sources say. The dual-track development is intended to give the studio multiple creative routes for a major franchise property; one studio source described the two … Read more
Lead Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 23 February circulated an unclassified cable directing U.S. chiefs of mission in the Middle East to refrain from public statements, interviews or social media activity that might inflame regional audiences or complicate U.S. policy. The memo came amid last-ditch negotiations in Geneva between U.S. envoys and Iranian representatives … Read more
On February 27, 2026, the Fulton County Medical Examiner announced that Nathan Smith, known professionally as DJ Young Slade and the 27-year-old son of rapper Lil Jon, died from an accidental drowning in the context of psilocybin use. Smith’s body was recovered on February 6 in a pond near his Milton, Georgia, home about 30 … Read more
Lead: As of Feb. 27, 2026, a standoff between the Department of Defense and AI firm Anthropic intensified, with the Pentagon setting a 5:01 p.m. Friday deadline for unrestricted access to the company’s most advanced model. Defense officials say they will either label Anthropic a supply-chain risk or compel access under the Defense Production Act … Read more
Lead: The 2025–26 Champions League bracket is set after the round-of-16 draw on Feb. 27, 2026, laying out two distinct routes to the final in Budapest’s Puskás Arena at the end of May. First-leg ties are scheduled for March 10–11, with return legs on March 17–18. The draw places heavyweights such as Real Madrid, Manchester … Read more
Feb. 27, 2026 Lead Two transgender residents of Kansas asked a state court on Friday to block a newly enacted law that, as of Thursday, retroactively invalidates driver’s licenses and altered birth certificates whose gender markers do not match sex at birth. The plaintiffs, suing under pseudonyms, seek a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction … Read more
Anthropic has publicly rejected a Pentagon demand to remove limits on how the company’s AI model Claude can be used, setting up a confrontation that reached a Friday 5:01 p.m. ET deadline in Washington. The company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, said his team cannot in good conscience accept contract language that would allow safeguards to be … Read more
Lead: On February 18, 2026, Radiohead publicly condemned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s use of a choral version of the band’s song ‘Let Down’ in a social-media video posted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The group said the use was unauthorized and demanded the video be taken down, delivering an expletive-laced rebuke … Read more
Facing a unexpectedly difficult campaign at home, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delayed approval of a critical European Union loan for Ukraine and opposed a 20th package of sanctions, turning what Brussels hoped would be a show of solidarity into a public rupture. The objection came as the EU moved to approve a €90 billion … Read more
Updated Feb. 27, 2026 Netflix announced on Thursday that it will not match Paramount Skydance’s latest all-cash proposal for Warner Bros. Discovery, effectively ending Netflix’s pursuit of a deal it had agreed to in December. Netflix had negotiated to buy part of Warner Bros. Discovery at $27.75 a share — an $82.7 billion valuation — … Read more
A Columbia University student detained earlier Thursday was released after Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters he had raised the case with President Donald Trump during an unscheduled meeting and Trump said she would be freed “imminently.” Ellie Aghayeva posted that afternoon she was in a car heading home and that she was “safe and OK” … Read more
Lead Carson Beck told reporters he would be thrilled if the Cleveland Browns used a pick on him after meeting with the team this offseason. Beck, who spent three seasons working under new Browns offensive coordinator Todd Monken at Georgia, completed a formal interview with Cleveland and said the relationship with Monken makes the Browns … Read more
Sky-watchers worldwide have a chance to observe six planets visible in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, NASA says. The event — often called a planetary parade — is caused by the relative positions of the planets along their orbits around the Sun, a Marshall Space Flight Center planetary scientist explained. Mercury, Venus, Saturn and … Read more
