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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.
Fire leaves Hoffman Estates townhouse uninhabitable but causes no injuries

By Eric Peterson
Feb 24, 2026 6:18 pm - No injuries were reported after Hoffman Estates firefighters extinguished a townhouse blaze within a half-hour of arriving Tuesday afternoon, but the home was left uninhabitable.
‘Where pride lives’: Construction to begin this week on new Larkin High School stadium

By Rick West
Feb 24, 2026 6:04 pm - Larkin High School broke ground Tuesday on a new stadium that will allow the Elgin school to host home football games on its campus for the first time in 63 years.
Bears bill passes Indiana House; Pritzker says competing legislation in Springfield is ‘in a good place’

By Christopher Placek
Feb 24, 2026 6:02 pm - As Indiana’s House passed its Bears stadium bill Tuesday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said there is agreement on competing Springfield legislation that’s been crafted during closed-door discussions, but now it’s up to legislators.
5th congressional hopefuls air views on health, education, energy

By Steve Zalusky
Feb 24, 2026 4:47 pm - Two candidates vying for the Republican nomination in the 5th Congressional District covered a wide range of issues, including health, education and energy policy, at a recent League of Women Voters forum at the Barrington Area Library.
Relocating Schaumburg YMCA seeking Cook County tax break to help renovate new site

By Eric Peterson
Feb 24, 2026 4:45 pm - The relocating Golden Corridor Family YMCA in Schaumburg is seeking a Cook County tax incentive to assist with its planned $1 million upgrade to its new facility.
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.

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