PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news - February 26

Feb 26 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- British luxury carmaker Aston Martin AML.L will cut 20 percent of its global work force as tariffs have eaten into its profitability. The carmaker did not give a timeline for the job cuts, but said it would result in annual savings of $54 million.

- Trump administration officials announced that the federal government would withhold $259 million in Medicaid funds to Minnesota, the latest effort by the government to pull funding from Democrat-led states as President Trump rails against a major welfare fraud scandal there.

- The Trump administration is seeking to limit the safeguards protecting the editorial freedom of federally funded news groups that broadcast overseas, raising concerns that it could undermine an independent source of news in parts of the world with few of them.

- Abu Dhabi's state oil giant ADNOC, reshaped under Sultan Al Jaber, is expanding aggressively beyond oil into global gas, chemicals and renewables.