CWG Live updates: Cooler but still mild today and Saturday ahead of a brief cold snap  The Washington Post

US Postal Service chief urges employees not to get distracted after Trump takeover rumors  Reuters

What did the Washington Wizards get by trading for AJ Johnson and Colby Jones?  The Athletic

Governor Ferguson recommends $4B in cuts to Washington budget  Cascade PBS News

Drinking water from La Verkin Hot Springs? This county wants to find out if that’s feasible.  Salt Lake Tribune

Weekend events: Seattle Cocktail Week, Mardi Gras and vintage collectibles  MyNorthwest

"The truth of it is I honestly can't believe we were able to do as much as we did in this window." The post Revolution’s Curt Onalfo on the club’s busy offseason, leveraging MLS rules for New England’s benefit appeared first on Boston.com.

Top tight ends to watch at the NFL Combine for Washington Commanders  Sports Illustrated

Montgomery County to Hold Public Meeting on Washington Grove Connector Trail Project  The MoCoShow

Odine Announces the Establishment of OdineLabs Inc. in the United States to Strengthen Its Global Presence  Yahoo Finance

Consumer sentiment has turned south as high prices weigh on households. Could that crimp big pieces of the president’s economic agenda, including tariffs?

The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, presented President Trump with a royal invitation and scored several political wins. But his top goal — a security guarantee for Ukraine — remained elusive.

Free rent. A city grant. This celebrity chef’s downtown S.F. cafe still lost $300K  San Francisco Chronicle

Here’s what new data on S.F.’s latest drug market intervention shows  San Francisco Chronicle

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear helped define the sound of youthful, ramshackle indie rock. On Noah Lennox's eighth album, Sinister Grift, the artist focuses on the shifting relationships and faltering memories of midlife, with a fleshed out band behind him.

Ultima Gaming reopens next to Level 99 Arcade in Washington Square Mall in Detroit Lakes  Detroit Lakes Tribune

Iowa has the second highest incidence rate of cancer in the country, and it is already feeling Trump's cuts to the workforce and research institutions trying to solve the rural cancer problem.

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

If you're having friends over to watch Hollywood's biggest night, we've got 10 recipes that will at least work on a conceptual level.

Trump and Zelenskyy are expected to meet today in Washington, D.C., to sign a preliminary deal. And, AOC tells NPR why she believes the government only works for the wealthy.

SS United States appears ghostly on voyage to become artificial reef  FOX 29 Philadelphia

Religious affinity groups shape workplace culture in the United States  La Croix International

Stop the Omnibus and Let Us Off – Members of U.S. Congress and State Officials Call for Action Against the EU CSDDD and CSRD  Ropes & Gray LLP

Charlotte Hornets vs Washington Wizards Predictions, Odds, Bets & Stats – 03/01/2025  The Playoffs

A good rapport but mixed signals on Ukraine: Takeaways from Keir Starmer's trip to Washington  ABC News

Australia is in the grip of a severe housing shortage. Many people are finding it extremely difficult to find a place to live in the face of rising rents and property price surges. Homelessness is rising sharply. Tent cities are becoming more common.

Before Trump, this president ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts  The Washington Post

Trump wants to deport some foreign students. These activists want to help  Reuters

Column | South Africans balk at Trump’s refugee offer to Afrikaners  The Washington Post

Federal workers could get a second email Saturday. It might require a response.  The Washington Post

Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shared the message "Make Iraq Great Again!" The congressman has indicated that Iran controls Iraq.

Zelenskyy remains adamant about NATO membership for Ukraine because it means that other security guarantees are more likely, experts say.

Democrats in the state believe the impact being felt by the job cuts on the federal level by the Trump administration might sway voters and flip the governor seat.

What are Ukraine’s critical minerals actually worth? No one knows.  The Washington Post

President Trump will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday after falsely asserting that Ukraine started the war with Russia and calling him a “dictator without elections.”

The New York Times interviewed more than 60 people familiar with Mr. Musk’s effort to piece together new details about it.

Or with the 10 best picture nominees, at least. But what seems clear is that Hollywood is celebrating the kinds of movies it doesn’t make. (Weird, right?)

The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

Canadians are shunning American products and abandoning trips to the United States to protest the economic punishment President Trump has threatened to impose with tariffs.

Having lost the election, Democrats now want to nullify the result by sprinting to the federal courts to obtain restraining orders and injunctions against President Trump.

Americans voted against the woke left and 80% oppose gender craziness. But that hasn't stopped liberals from even pushing the term "inseminated person" instead of "mother."

Marketers followed consumers to social media and their phones. “Low Buy 2025” influencers are sharing tips for how to resist them.

Sen. Tim Scott knows how hard it is for many Americans. He grew up poor, raised by a single mother. That taught him people need help to escape poverty. He has a plan to do just that.

Three years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S., in a split with its European allies over the war, sided with Russia at the U.N.

The Trump administration's immigration positions — including mass deportation — have put businesses that employ people without legal status on notice.

There are 10 movies in the running for best picture. Our critics are split over whether Anora or Nickel Boys should take home the prize.

Stephanie Silva is running Boston to raise funds for Haymakers for Hope, which hosts charity boxing and running events to fight cancer. The post ‘I am running for myself, for those still fighting, and for those we have lost along the way’ appeared first on Boston.com.

Big Tech’s restrictions on adult content are crippling businesses and organizations focused on sexual health, according to a new report shared exclusively with WIRED.

President Donald Trump appointed Hung Cao to under secretary of the Navy and Paul Dabbar to deputy secretary of commerce late Thursday.

Lawsuit filed against Washington Department of Natural Resources for commercial net pen ban  The Fish Site

Men's Hoops Grabs Pivotal Win in Game of the Year at Saint Martin's  Alaska Fairbanks Athletics

The headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development was closed weeks ago. On Thursday, those who worked there were allowed to return briefly to pick up their things.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Andrew Natsios, former head of USAID under President George W. Bush, about the dismantling of the international aid agency.

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins Friday night. NPR hears from Muslim American parents preparing their young kids for their first Ramadan fast.

Joann, the major national retailer of fabric and craft supplies, is going out of business and closing all of its roughly 800 stores. What does that mean for professionals who relied on the chain?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Trump in Washington on Friday, where they are expected to sign a deal on U.S. access to some of Ukraine's critical raw materials.

Cardinal McElroy, incoming Washington archbishop, has no plans to meet Trump  National Catholic Reporter

A flight passenger says he/she saw how American Airlines is cracking down on its "gate lice" policy. "Gate lice" refers to passengers who attempt to board before it's their turn.

The world waits to see what could come from a key deal between Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and President Trump that could open Kyiv's minerals to the U.S. in exchange for security.

Helion may have found its fusion reactor site in Washington for 2028  New Atlas

The Vatican press office has released a statement saying the pope had a peaceful evening of rest in hospital and is continuing his recovery in the hospital on Friday.

Meta on Thursday said it had laid off 20 workers for leaking information to the media, as the social media giant faces pressure over the recent political shift of its boss Mark Zuckerberg towards US President Donald Trump.

“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said that Trump voters keep coming back for the same unappetizing thing they’ve been served time and again.

When does Indiana basketball play Washington? Start time, preview, expert prediction, channel for March 1  IndyStar

Trump signals U.S. and U.K. could reach 'real trade deal' without tariffs  CNBC

Seattle House's twin residential towers top out in the Denny Triangle  Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Trump administration layoffs at NOAA spark concerns in Washington  KHQ Right Now

Safety concerns for Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood fuel well-attended meetings  KING5.com

Hung Cao announced as United States Under Secretary of the Navy  WAVY.com

Las Vegas police investigate suspected DUI crash on Nellis, Washington  Fox 5 Las Vegas

Washington has too few police officers. This proposal could help cut the crime rate | Opinion  Tacoma News Tribune

President Donald Trump’s comments about the war in Ukraine and future peace talks have reverberated throughout Boston’s Ukrainian community. The post As Ukraine marks third anniversary of invasion, local advocates fear outcome of war appeared first on Boston.com.

It's the first face-to-face meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump since Trump's inauguration, and it comes about a week after Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator and repeated Kremlin talking points, including suggesting that Ukraine started the war with Russia.

Washington Street blocked on Indy's east side due to house fire  WTHR

Five former defense secretaries have criticized President Donald Trump in a letter for firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officers.

Plus, Conan O’Brien on hosting the Oscars.

The Palestinian Authority wants to prove it can handle security in Gaza, even if it means working in parallel with a destructive Israeli campaign that has displaced tens of thousands.

The report is the Israeli military's first official account of mistakes that preceded the 2023 attack, which launched Israel's subsequent war against Hamas in Gaza that killed more than 48,000 Palestinians.

Two of the 170 migrants authorities recently held for two weeks at the Guantanamo Bay naval base described the conditions in the detention facilities.

Let the sport of kings stand on its own.

Which stores closed and which shows were canceled? Who (or what) was reborn after being hit by a Cybertruck? And is that asteroid going to hit us or what?

City of Seattle Awards Cascade $92,000 to Reduce Food Waste through Pedaling Relief Project  Cascade Bicycle Club

Comedian Jason Scoop recalls Alec Baldwin's wife, Hilaria, running to the actor's defense.

The administration fired tens of thousands of federal workers with "probationary" status, apparently because that made them easier targets. But those workers have rights and protections too and firing them may have been illegal.

The Princeton, New Jersey, man known as a star student in high school who is now accused of killing his brother likely had a mental breakdown, an expert said.

Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wednesday, with questions unanswered surrounding their deaths.

The EU's chief diplomat has warned President Trump that Russian President Putin "doesn't really want peace" as Trump heads into a deal with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.

U.S. Army veteran Ramiro Céspedes speaks out after his father was killed by a cartel-linked improvised explosive device (IED) on the Mexico side of the southern border.

District Attorney Keith Higgins announced, following the GBI's findings, they will not seek criminal charges against a Georgia sheriff’s deputy involved in a 2023 fatal shooting.

Kristin Crowley appeals Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ decision to fire her as LAFD chief  New York Post

Federal prosecutors said they had proposed a new charge against Mayor Eric Adams. Court filings suggest it related to the conduct of an aide who was charged with witness tampering.

Two teenagers suspected in involvement in Carthay assault arrested  NBC Los Angeles

Judge Hilary Unger set bond at $3 million for Ronnie Palmer, who is charged with capital murder and aggravated assault in the death of Harris County Deputy Fernando Esqueda.

Right after Lawrence won best actress in 2013 for “Silver Linings Playbook,” she was doing an interview with George Stephanopoulos backstage when Nicholson stopped by to pay his respects.

For 2026 World Cup traveling fans, U.S. visa policy, wait times present roadblocks  The Athletic

A Minnesota volleyball athlete told Fox News Digital that she is standing up to "bullying" in girls’ sports.

Is it healthy for people to eat protein-packed meals all the time? Fox News Digital reached out to two nutrition experts about the popular trend — and about smart eating tips to follow.

A federal court dismissed an appeal from Massachusetts parents who filed a lawsuit against Ludlow Public Schools after officials concealed their child's gender identity.

The federal EV tax credit, worth up to $7,500, saw big changes in 2024. For buyers, the credit typically became easier to get. But if their dealers skipped a step, it was a different story.

An audit requested by GOP lawmakers shows Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s administration grossly underestimated the $1.6 billion price tag for state health programs for illegal immigrants.