At least 10 FBI employees were fired after working on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, according to a news report Friday.
The firings occurred after news broke on Wednesday that the FBI obtained phone records for now-director Kash Patel during the Biden administration in 2022, and current White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles' phone records in 2023, while they were both private citizens.
The New York Police Department on Thursday arrested a suspect on assault charges for an alleged attack on officers earlier this week with snow and ice.
Police said that Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was taken into custody Thursday morning, Fox News reported.
U.S. and Iranian officials are meeting Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, for a third round of nuclear talks in an effort to reach a deal and avoid military conflict.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in an effort to get Iran to agree to halt its enrichment of uranium and curtail its production of long-range missiles, NewsNation reported.
World Economic Forum CEO and President Borge Brende said he was resigning Thursday, after an investigation was conducted into his ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister who became WEF president in 2017, announced his decision in a statement following the Justice Department's release of Epstein files that showed he had three business dinners with the disgraced financier and had also communicated with him via email and text, Reuters reported.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday indicated that he might ask Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify before the committee as part of his probe into Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.
🚨 JUST IN: House Oversight Chair James Comer says he might bring in Secretary of Commerce HOWARD LUTNICK to be deposed in the Congressional probe into Epstein
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 26, 2026
“That's very possible. His name will likely arise in questioning. This isn't just about Democrats,” Comer said pic.twitter.com/d2jhN2RcSz
Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says that a new U.S.-Canadian bridge "will open" after President Trump recently threatened to block it.
“For the first time in over a century, a new bridge connecting Michigan to Canada, the Gordie Howe International Bridge, will open,” Whitmer said Wednesday during the Michigan State of the State address, according to news outlet The Hill.
In a win for the fight against ESG, Vanguard has agreed that it will not attempt to direct its business strategy toward portfolios that reduce carbon emissions. It has also agreed to make its proxy voting transparent for investors and its role in climate groups.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced Thursday that House Democratic leadership will force a vote next week on the Iran war powers resolution, which would require President Donald Trump to make his case to Congress before attacking Iran.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters Thursday after her deposition to the House Oversight Committee that she told lawmakers that she did not know Jeffrey Epstein and only knew his associate Ghislaine Maxwell as an "acquaintance."
President Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated a court decision to throw out a challenge to his construction of a ballroom at the White House.
"Great news for America, and our wonderful White House! The Judge on the case of what will be the most beautiful Ballroom anywhere in the World, has just thrown out, and completely erased, the effort to stop its construction," Trump posted on Truth Social. "As everyone knows, not one dollar of Taxpayer money is being spent, but rather, all money necessary to build this magnificent building is being put up by Patriot Donors and Contributors."
Netflix decided Thursday to drop its bid to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery after declining to match a bid from Paramount.
The two streamers have been locked in a war over Warner Brothers after Paramount launched a hostile bid to take over the company after the WBD board approved a bid from Netflix. The WBD board accepted Netflix's offer of $27.75 per share for Warner Bros. and HBO in an auction late last year, but Paramount has offered $30 per share.
Mortgage rates dropped to under 6% this week for the first time since 2022, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac on Thursday.
Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey showed the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 5.98% from last week's reading of 6.01%, FOX Business reported.
