Here's everything that happened February 25, 2025:
So let’s go ahead and get started with the overnight update:
5:33pm - Chris Japer, of The Isley Brothers, died at 73 years old
8:05pm - Cleveland Guardians baseball team owner, Lawrence J. Dolan, died at 94 years old
Now, onto the news of today:
3:07am - Denny’s announced that some locations will start adding an “egg surcharge” to their prices, given the shortage of eggs right now from bird flu
8:00am - A new trailer for the final season of “YOU” dropped today. The season premiers April 24th
8:04am - Coco Jones announced her “Why Not More?” tour
8:14am - Ayo Edibiri is said to be in talks to write and start in A24’s live-action “Barney” movie
8:16am - More than 20 civil service employees announced their resignation from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying that they refuse to dismantle critical public services
8:25am - Taylor Swift made history as the first female artist to surpass 100 billion streams on Spotify
8:40am - Influencer Summer Wheaton surrendered to arrest over a fatal car crash that killed a 44-year-old man last July
10:14am - A Southwest plane jet nearly collided with a smaller jet in Chicago.
10:23am - The White House announced that the Correspondents Association will no longer determine which press can attend briefings, but instead, the White House Press Team (aka the people who report directly to Trump) will decide who gets to attend the briefings
10:55am - A federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order pausing the US Refugee Admissions Program, saying it appeared to “cross the line” into “nullification of congressional will”
2:04pm - WNBA star Diana Taurasi announced her retirement from basketball
2:19pm - Trump announced a gold card - like a green card, but for rich people
2:20pm - Zendaya was spotted filming for Euphoria Season 3 where her character, Rue, seemingly works at a smoke shop
2:28pm - Actor John Lithgow confirmed today that he’s said yes to playing Dumbledore in the Harry Potter TV series on HBO Max
2:34pm - Ukrainian officials have agreed on a framework for an economic deal that would grant the U.S. access to rare earth minerals
3:36pm - North Dakota Republican Senator Kevin Cramer is recovering at home after being diagnosed with a severe concussion, a seizure, and a slight brain bleed after slipping on ice
3:54pm - Blackwater founder Erik Prince - Blackwater is a private military contractor - has offered to privatize mass deportations for the White House
5:31pm - Republicans in the House just passed their budget bill, including potentially massive cuts to Medicaid, all in order to deliver on Trump’s promise of trillion-dollar tax cuts for billionaires across the US
5:50pm - Alix Earle’s podcast, “Hot Mess”, has been dropped from Alex Cooper’s “Unwell” network
