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Missing Epstein Docs, Trump’s Surgeon General Pick, Loosening AI Guardrails and more
CNN 5 Things
Feb 25, 2026
We start the political strategy behind the longest State of the Union speech yet. President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, a MAHA influencer, was grilled on Capitol Hill today. A CNN investigation found nearly 100 documents appear to be missing from the Justice Department’s investigation on Jeffrey Epstein. The US Embassy is offering diplomatic services to a Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank. Plus, we explain why AI company Anthropic is ditching its core safety principal.






