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Rubio defends US ouster of Venezuela's Maduro to Caribbean leaders unsettled by Trump policies

By MATTHEW LEE and DÁNICA COTO
Feb 25, 2026 4:26 pm - BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s military operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás M...
Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy unlawful, judge finds

David Nakamura
Feb 25, 2026 4:12 pm - A federal judge in Boston ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to countries where they are not citizens is unconsti...
Surgeon general nominee faces sharp questions about vaccines, birth control and qualifications

By ALI SWENSON
Feb 25, 2026 2:38 pm - Wellness influencer, author and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means on Wednesday shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of feeding into “reactive sick care” during her confirmation hearing to become the nation's next surgeon general.
Zelenskyy says Ukrainian officials to meet Trump envoys in Geneva for more Russia talks

By KAMILA HRABCHUK
Feb 25, 2026 6:06 am - A Ukrainian delegation is set to meet Thursday with American envoys in the run-up to another round of trilateral talks with Russia, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
‘We’re winning so much.’ Trump’s State of the Union seeks to calm economic jitters ahead of midterms

By WILL WEISSERT and MICHELLE L. PRICE
Feb 24, 2026 10:28 pm - President Donald Trump declared during Tuesday's marathon State of the Union that “we’re winning so much,” saying he'd sparked a jobs and manufacturing boom at home while imposing a new world order abroad — hoping that offering a long list of his accomplishments can counter approval ratings that have been falling.
Pentagon appeals order blocking Sen. Mark Kelly’s punishment for call to resist unlawful orders

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Feb 24, 2026 9:09 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appealing a judge's order that blocks him from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders, according to a court filing on Tuesday.
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.
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.
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.

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