Red State,
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Bob Hoge
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2/27/2026 2:15:58 AM
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On Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel made the bombshell revelation that the Federal Bureau of Investigation spied on both him and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023. Former President Joe Biden occupied the Oval Office at the time, and Patel and Wiles were both private citizens.
It was all part of the mission by Biden, his crusading Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Garland’s attack dog, former Special Counsel Jack Smith, to “get” Trump at any cost.
Ten agents were reportedly fired in the aftermath of the discovery, and more could soon be on their way out as well.
Red State,
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Ben Smith
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2/27/2026 2:01:34 AM
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Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) isn’t just leading in the Texas Democrat U.S. Senate primary anymore. She’s pulling away, and she’s doing it as early voting is already underway.
The latest statewide survey, conducted Feb. 2 through Feb. 16 among likely Democrat primary voters, shows the Dallas congresswoman expanding her edge over state Rep. James Talarico. Early voting began Feb. 17 and runs through Feb. 27 ahead of the March primary, which means this shift is happening while ballots are being cast.
“Crockett leads Talarico 56 percent to 44 percent among likely Democratic primary voters statewide.”
Mediaite,
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Michael Luchiano
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2/27/2026 1:56:10 AM
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Jake Tapper broke some unique news to viewers on Thursday’s edition of The Lead, telling them that Paramount Skydance is poised to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, and potentially CNN.
On Thursday, Netflix said it would not match Paramount’s bid of $111 billion for WBD. Netflix reached a tentative deal to acquire much of WBD – including HBO and the Warner Bros movie studio, though not CNN – but Paramount countered and Netflix declined to offer more. The acquisition will require regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe.
However, Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly told the Trump administration that he would “make sweeping changes to CNN” were his company to acquire it.
CNN,
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Sophia Saifi *
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Islamabad — Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with Islamabad’s defense minister saying his country’s patience had “run out” and declaring “open war” on its Taliban-run neighbor.
It’s the latest flare-up in an on-off conflict that pitches Pakistan’s well-funded, powerful and nuclear-armed military against hardened Afghan Taliban fighters with decades of battle experience – including victory over US and NATO forces in 2021 after years of insurgency.
Here’s what we know about the latest violence, which threatens to exacerbate instability in the region.
Deadline,
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Ted Johnson
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2/26/2026 9:23:48 PM
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Within minutes of Netflix announcing that it would not try to match the $31 per share Paramount offer, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) was out with an invite to Paramount CEO David Ellison: Testify before an already planned Senate hearing next week.
An aide to Booker, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, noted that Ellison had offered to appear were it to acquire WBD.
“In light of today’s announcement that Warner Bros. Discovery has designated Paramount’s offer a Company Superior Proposal, next week’s hearing presents a timely and appropriate opportunity for Mr. Ellison to make good on that commitment,” Booker’s aide said.
Fox Business News,
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Joseph Wulfsohn
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Netflix dropped its bid to buy Warner Bros. after the studio announced Paramount's latest bid to buy the entire company was "superior."
"The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we've always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid," Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said in a statement.
"Warner Bros. is a world-class organization, and we want to thank David Zaslav, Gunnar Wiedenfels, Bruce Campbell,
National Review,
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James Lynch
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2/26/2026 9:16:47 PM
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An extraordinary fight between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon is coming to a head over the Department of Defense’s plans to use the company’s models for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
The Pentagon has already taken steps to blacklist Anthropic and its industry-leading AI model Claude as punishment for the firm’s refusal to give in to the administration’s demands. Simultaneously, the Trump administration has threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel Anthropic to allow the military to deploy Claude as it sees fit.
The Hill [DC],
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Ashleigh Fields
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2/26/2026 5:55:59 PM
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Mortgage rates fell below 6 percent on Thursday for the first time in more than three years, marking an opening for homebuyers as inflation cools.
Currently, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is averaging 5.98 percent, down .03 points from last week, according to Freddie Mac.
Last year, the rate averaged 6.76 percent.
“This lower rate environment is not only improving affordability for prospective homebuyers, it’s also strengthening the financial position of homeowners,” Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief economist, told NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network.
Breitbart,
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Jasmyn Jordan
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2/26/2026 1:24:31 AM
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National media coverage of Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Texas Senate campaign has led to direct confrontations with journalists, including the removal of an Atlantic reporter from a rally and a call to Capitol Police over a CNN reporter’s visit to a campaign office.
Semafor shared that security personnel directed Atlantic reporter Elaine Godfrey to leave a campaign rally for Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas on Monday. The outlet wrote that Godfrey has reported on Crockett in depth and that the coverage appeared to “frustrate” the congresswoman. Crockett had previously agreed to participate in a profile with the reporter last year, but later informed her that she was “shutting down
Power Line,
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John Hinderaker
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2/26/2026 1:20:38 AM
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The Democrats’ attempt to imprison Donald Trump, their number one political opponent over the last decade, is unprecedented in American history and is more redolent of a banana republic than the American political tradition. Democrats in New York and Georgia largely did their party’s dirty work, charging Trump under state laws.
Democrats maintained the pretense that these bogus prosecutions were independent of the Biden administration, but we now know that wasn’t true. The effort to end Trump’s political career through farcical criminal charges was orchestrated from the top.
On behalf of its client Just the News, America First Legal has pried loose 8,000 pages of documents
PJ Media,
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Rick Moran
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2/26/2026 12:48:05 AM
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I've got good news and bad news about AI. The good news is that the dreaded "Skynet" takeover of our nuclear weapons systems isn't going to happen soon. The bad news is that if it ever does give us a Terminator scenario, we're toast.
A war game exercise carried out by Kenneth Payne at King’s College London, using three teams running simulations on Chat GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash. The teams "played 21 war games against each other over 329 turns," according to Implicator.AI's Marcus Schuler. "They wrote roughly 780,000 words explaining why they did what they did," he noted.
No model ever chose
Newsbusters,
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Curtis Houck
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2/26/2026 12:30:26 AM
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As we’ve documented recently at NewsBusters, CBS’s flagship newscasts have shown little wholesale changes under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss that we both initially saw and as had been reported. Instead, it’s been more of the same liberal drivel. But ironically, there have been a few moments at NBC where it’s come across as this was the network she actually leads and such was the case on Wednesday’s Today in reacting to President Trump’s State of the Union address. While NBC was far from perfect, they were devoid of the negative descriptors and bellyaching we usually see elsewhere at ABC and, as we’ll see in a future post, CBS.