Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/February 23 to March 1, 2025

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|On February 23, #20 texted on Truth Social that this guy will be the 20th deputy director of the FBI. He hosts The Dan Bongino Show on Rumble and previously hosted Unfiltered with Dan Bongino on Fox News until 2023.

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|A singer who had her biggest success in the 1970s with songs such as "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Feel Like Makin' Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", Roberta Flack died at the age of 88. Flack had not performed since 2018, when she fell ill during an appearance at the Apollo Theater and was later diagnosed with ALS.

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| This show starring Adam Scott continues to release new episodes on Apple TV+ until March 21.

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|After Inventing Anna had a woman lying about her background to take advantage of others, and The Dropout had a lying entrepreneur making it big in the healthcare business before being unmasked, comes a Netflix show in the same area, Apple Cider Vinegar, regarding this Australian wellness influencer who had good intentions selling healthy recipes, but had the inexcusable deceit of pretending to have terminal cancer and even promoting alternative medicine to treat tumors. Unlike Anna Sorokin and Elizabeth Holmes Gibson hasn't been sent to prison, but she still lost in the court of law for spending money she had promised to send to charity, and Gibson still hasn't paid the ensuing fines.

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|On February 24, the third anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the president of Ukraine was welcoming a dozen leaders at Kyiv, many of whom were finally taking the opportunity to announce further financial and military aid. Zelenskyy then traveled to Washington, D.C. for a meeting with #20, which devolved into a tense confrontation. Trump threatened to withdraw US support if Ukraine did not make a ceasefire agreement with Russia, in which Zelenskyy replied that such a deal is unacceptable to Ukraine without security guarantees. Trump also accused Zelenskyy of "gambling with World War III", while vice president JD Vance accused Zelenskyy of being "disrespectful" and not showing enough gratitude for US help. With Trump demanding an apology from Zelenskyy and further US-Ukraine cooperation facing an uncertain future in the aftermath of the fiery meeting, Zelenskyy flew to London, where he received a much warmer reception from Charles III and prime minister Keir Starmer, and met with more than a dozen world leaders.

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|In August 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito was murdered in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who committed suicide the next month. A Netflix docuseries about these tragedies called American Murder: Gabby Petito was released on February 17.

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|OpenAI announced Deep Research was expanded to all subscribers of the ever-popular chatbot, and released its latest language model, GPT-4.5, for those same paid subscribers.

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|A Kollywood comedy drama about a rich man being forced to return to college to clear his backlogs.

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|Apple TV+ released a movie with quite a blend of genres, giving romantic comedy overtones with an American (Miles Teller) and a Russian (Anya Taylor-Joy) who fall for each other while stationed in opposite sides of a canyon in the middle of nowhere, while it's mostly a thriller given that gorge houses a mysterious and dangerous threat (giving a chance for director Scott Derrickson to show off his horror credentials).

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|In this week’s edition of "What Did Donald Do?" (WDDD), we find #15 in quite a bind as he was berated by President Trump (and Vice President JD Vance, who was the first off the list at #26) during a meeting where he and Trump were supposed to sign a minerals agreement. The Trump administration suffered a string of several losses in lawsuits and court cases nationwide as several judges found that it was defying court orders to rescind its pause on federal funds, although the Supreme Court did halt an order requiring Trump to release all federal funds by February 26. The Donald signed a controversial executive order on March 1 designating English as the official language of the United States executive branch that he reasons will help unify the country.

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|The newly inaugurated director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was off to a wild start, as along with naming #11, in his first call to FBI officials Patel was reported to have "rattled off so many changes that employees couldn't tell if he was serious about all of them" while also announcing he would spend much time in his residence in Las Vegas, and that he planned a partnership between the FBI and the UFC!

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|One year after her conviction, the woman who had rose to fame on YouTube chronicling life with six children only to later be arrested for aggravated child abuse had her story told in the Hulu documentary Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke.

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|The latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie hasn't exactly set the world on fire, and has yet to pass the box office of 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger (which had a whole different Star Spangled Man, as there it was the original, Steve Rogers, while the new one has Sam Wilson, previously known as Falcon). There was even an unusual event: in an empty screening attended by only two people, [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/28/movie-theater-ceiling-collapses-captain-america-showing/80845317007/ the ceiling collapsed] as if the Red Hulk had decided to show up.

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|The ninth edition of this quadrennial cricket competition is being waged from February 19 to March 9 in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.

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|The third season (#9) of this acclaimed HBO black comedy/drama series premiered last week. The series has won 15 Emmy Awards (including Outstanding Limited Series) and two Golden Globe Awards (also for Best Limited Series). Series creator and filmmaker Mike White (pictured) has won three Emmys for his work on the show.