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From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being the designated survivor is like

By WILL WEISSERT
Feb 24, 2026 9:05 pm - They typically start the day as low-profile Cabinet secretaries. They end it that way, too, God willing. But when the rest of the government is gathered together for a big event, like President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, a designated survivor is kept away to ensure someone in the line of leadership succession stays alive.
Northeast US digs out from brutal snowstorm that disrupted flights and canceled school

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MIKE CATALINI
Feb 24, 2026 7:59 pm - Millions across the northeastern United States on Tuesday contended with treks to school and work as they dug out from a major — and in some areas record-breaking — storm that blanketed the region with snow, canceled flights, disrupted transit and downed power lines.
Cartel violence fuels doubts about FIFA World Cup games in Mexico

By MEGAN JANETSKY
Feb 24, 2026 7:54 pm - Hugo Alejandro Pérez was in his house a few miles from the Mexican stadium that is slated to host FIFA World Cup games when gunfire and explosions erupted just outside his door.The 53-year-old restaurant owner was already skeptical about his city, Guadalajara, hosting the international sporting event.
House rejects bill requiring aircraft locator systems to prevent midair collisions like last year’s

By JOSH FUNK
Feb 24, 2026 7:30 pm - The House failed to approve a bill Tuesday that was crafted after last year’s tragic midair collision near Washington, D.C., to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent such crashes. The collision of an airliner and an Army helicopter killed 67 people in January 2025.
Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP sources say

By MATT O'BRIEN, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and DAVID KLEPPER
Feb 24, 2026 7:24 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic's CEO a Friday deadline to open the company's artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, according to a person familiar with their meeting Tuesday.
Labor secretary’s spouse not charged but remains banned from agency

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Kadia Goba and Meryl Kornfield
Feb 24, 2026 7:19 pm - A local police investigation of a report that Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband sexually assaulted a female staffer has been closed after police found no evidence of a crime. But Shawn DeRemer remains banned from the Labor Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., amid an inquiry by the office of the department’s inspector general.
Ex-ICE instructor testifies that agency slashed officer training, lied to Congress

By David Nakamura and Sarah Blaskey
Feb 24, 2026 4:39 pm - A former instructor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday accused the agency of dramatically slashing training standards for new officers and lying to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to rapidly expand its mass deportation operation.
Zelenskyy says Putin has ‘not broken’ Ukrainians as he marks 4 years since Russia’s all-out invasion

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Feb 24, 2026 4:33 pm - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared Tuesday that Russia has not “broken Ukrainians” nor triumphed in its war, four years after an invasion that has severely tested the resolve of Kyiv and its allies and fueled European fears about the scale of Moscow’s ambitions.
Satellite imagery shows rapid increase of US military planes near Iran

By Meg Kelly and Imogen Piper
Feb 24, 2026 3:54 pm - The U.S. military has rapidly increased its presence near Iran, shifting more than 150 aircraft to bases in Europe and the Middle East since a second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran ended without a breakthrough on Feb. 17, according to publicly available flight tracking data and satellite imagery reviewed by The Washington Post.
Iranians worry over American military buildup as last-chance round of talks nears

By JON GAMBRELL
Feb 24, 2026 3:44 pm - As the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East, Iranians are warily awaiting the next round of talks with the U.S. in Geneva this week — negotiations that many see as a last chance for their ruling theocracy to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.

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