February 27, 2026

What Happened Today – February 26, 2026

February 27, 2026 by George Bounacos

Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk in his white away jersey during a game against the Seattle Kraken, March 9, 2023

Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk, who has played in Canada's capital since 2018, called the White House AI deepfake putting anti-Canadian slurs in his mouth "clearly fake." (Jenn G/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)

Eight days ago a federal judge fined a government lawyer $500 a day for defying her order. That was the warning shot. Today, Minnesota Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz threatened criminal contempt after his review found more than 200 court order violations since January. Another judge ruled the IRS broke the law 42,695 times by bulk-feeding … Read more