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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.
A city blanketed in fear: Accountability Commission hears shocking testimony about ICE

By Maggie Dougherty
Feb 24, 2026 8:43 pm - The state commission that has been investigating actions by federal immigration agents heard from health, education and community safety advocates at its third public meeting Tuesday.
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.
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.

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