ICE Detains Tenn. Reporter, a Mom Who 'Works Tirelessly to Inform and Serve Community' by Covering Immigration She had "been following all the legal steps to citizenship." people.com/ice-detains-...

Judge orders U.S. Customs to process refunds on illegal Trump tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/j...

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says He added: "It is in our common interest to help people defend themselves and to restore stability in critically important supply routes." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just months after President Trump's mass pardons for Jan. 6 insurrectionists freed him from prison, a Florida man repeatedly sexually abused two middle-school aged children www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That The FTC appears to be explicitly acknowledging that age verification technologies involve collecting personal information from users—including children www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/f...

Judges rule hundreds of immigrants “unlawfully detained” at ICE center in Northern Michigan Most of the judges granting habeas petitions in Michigan’s Western District were appointed by Republicans www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

House committee votes to subpoena Attorney General Bondi to answer questions over the Epstein files apnews.com/article/bond...

France to boost nuclear arsenal and extend deterrence to European allies Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk referenced the decision, saying: "We are arming up together with our friends so that our enemies will never dare to attack us." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Several GOP towns and states across the country have passed laws allowing residents to sue their neighbors for getting an abortion.

Independence gives billions in tax breaks for a massive data center, despite outcry from residents www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

‘Enough Is Enough’: Sanders, Khanna Propose Billionaires Tax to Raise $4.4 Trillion “We can no longer tolerate a corrupt tax code that enables billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than the average worker" www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater directly into rivers and streams www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

Independence City Council set to vote Monday night on AI data center tax incentives. Approval would mean the data center developer would pay a fraction of the taxes it would normally owe on buildings, land and equipment. (@thebeacon.bsky.social)

Treasury Department terminates union contracts for IRS and Bureau of the Fiscal Service workers apnews.com/article/trea...

Oil prices rose sharply Monday as U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israel and U.S. military installations around the Gulf sent disruptions through the global energy supply chain apnews.com/article/iran...

RAF responding to suspected drone strike at UK base in Cyprus, MoD says It comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK had agreed to a US request to use British military bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites www.bbc.com/news/article...

Iran says US and Israel strikes hit school killing 108 The BBC has verified clips of the aftermath of the explosion www.bbc.com/news/article...

New strikes reported in Iran as Tehran hits US bases and allies across Middle East in retaliation www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters The US experienced a chemical accident that harmed humans or the environment every other day on average between 2004-2025 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon, hours after rival Anthropic was blacklisted by Trump www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/o...

ICE has been buying industrial warehouses around the country, reportedly with plans to turn them into a network of immigration detention and processing centers to hold tens of thousands of detainees. https://to.pbs.org/46sHhFt

Core wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, much more than expected For the full year, core wholesale prices accelerated 3.6%, while the headline index posted a 2.9% gain www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/p...

Democrats are calling for Trump to issue Americans tariff refunds after the Supreme Court ruling Govs. Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker called for refunds of $1,700 to American families www.businessinsider.com/democrats-de...

Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold “I would never say that. That’s not who I am, so I guess I don’t like that video because that would never come out of my mouth and never had that thought.” www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Anthropic has said it will not back down in a fight with the US Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial intelligence (AI) technology is used www.bbc.com/news/article...

Netflix CEO Sarandos visited White House right before streamer said WBD deal is off www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/n...

Trump administration ends protections for rare dancing prairie bird apnews.com/article/less...

Transgender Kansans are being informed on the eve of a new state law going into effect that their driver’s licenses will be considered invalid as of Thursday www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its rollback of vaccine recommendations for children, calling the move an illegal threat to public health apnews.com/article/chil...

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail apnews.com/article/supr...

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

NH: Proposed location for ICE facility in Merrimack sits within PFAS contamination zone www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

FedEx sues Trump administration for tariff refunds after Supreme Court ruling The shipping company said it was owed refunds for any tariffs it paid under a rule the high court found exceeded the president's authority www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Georgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law The political action committee sent out partially pre-filled absentee ballot applications www.theverge.com/tech/882838/...

The EPA is moving to scale back limits on toxic emissions from coal-burning power plants, clearing the way for them to emit more hazardous pollutants. https://to.pbs.org/474c3oe

The Department of Homeland Security struck a $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir last week, further reinforcing the software company’s role in the federal agency that oversees the nation’s immigration enforcement www.wired.com/story/depart...

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump overstepped his authority when he ordered tariffs on imports from nearly every country in the world, using a 1970s "emergency" statute www.npr.org/2026/02/20/n...

Colorado looks headed to join the congressional redistricting fight The group Coloradans for a Level Playing Field wants to put an initiative on the 2026 ballot that would allow the state to draw new Congressional maps for 2028 and 2030 www.cpr.org/2026/02/18/c...

The Department of Justice spoke four separate times to a woman who credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents newrepublic.com/post/206765/...

Trump pledged Thursday that the United States would provide $10 billion in funding for his so-called Board of Peace—without specifying where the money would come from or how it would be used www.commondreams.org/news/trump-1...

Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’ The price paid was nearly five times the property’s assessed value of $29m last year www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

U.S. military pushes more weaponry into the Middle East for possible strikes on Iran www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/u...

Leavitt says Truth Social posts are straight from Trump...a week after he blamed staffer for Obama-as-ape video www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Features like it would be expanded to “zero out crime in neighborhoods.” www.404media.co/leaked-email...

4 dead in 30-vehicle pileup in Colorado as powerful winds slam Plains, fueling multiple wildfires www.kten.com/weather/nati...

New Mexico approves comprehensive probe of Epstein’s Zorro Ranch www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84

A federal judge on Friday ruled that slot machines that have operated for years in bars, restaurants and convenience stores across Missouri are illegal gambling devices under state law missouriindependent.com/2026/02/16/f...

The Pentagon is pushing four AI companies to let the military use their tools for “all lawful purposes,” including in areas of weapons development, intelligence collection and battlefield operations, but Anthropic has not agreed to those terms www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/p...

Google announces construction underway for second data center campus in Kansas City The company broke ground on a $1 billion data center in March 2024, east of Interstate 435 near Worlds of Fun www.kshb.com/news/local-n...