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ArticleA cul­ture of cor­rup­tion feeds on itself

AT the heart of cor­rup­tion lies per­pet­rat­ors who com­mit­ted sim­ilar crimes before and have never been held account­able for their actions. Repeat offend­ing is a vicious cycle that knows no end for those bene­fit­ting from ill-got­ten gains....

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Los Angeles Times

ArticleWar with Iran widens; Europe allies aid U.S.

WASHINGTON — Pres­id­ent Trump declared he would be “per­son­ally involved” in select­ing Iran’s next leader as U.S. and Israeli forces con­tin­ued their bom­bard­ment of its gov­ern­ment Thursday, even as offi­cials in Tehran insisted they could...

The Guardian

ArticleKristi Noem had assumed that obsequious loy­alty to Trump would insu­late her. It didn’t

New York Post

ArticleTehran’s tor­pedo fury

The US will “bit­terly regret the pre­ced­ent it has set” after an Amer­ican sub­mar­ine tor­pedoed an Ira­nian war­ship in an attack that left more than 80 sail­ors dead, the Islamic Repub­lic’s for­eign min­is­ter warned — while an ayatol­lah called...

The Washington Post

ArticleDemo­cratic state attor­neys gen­eral sue Trump, say­ing his tar­iffs are illegal

The Philadelphia Inquirer

ArticleJustice Dept. releases miss­ing Epstein files

The Justice Depart­ment on Thursday pub­licly pos­ted addi­tional records related to con­victed sex offender Jef­frey Epstein, includ­ing some that include alleg­a­tions against Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump, fol­low­ing sharp cri­ti­cism of the agency’s...

USA TODAY US Edition

ArticleStrikes on Iran have ripple effect for stran­ded trav­el­ers

About an hour into Sarah Gaither’s flight out of Doha, Qatar, the crew told pas­sen­gers they would be turn­ing back. The 27-year-old, who was return­ing home to Dal­las after vaca­tion on the morn­ing of Feb. 28, saw the news about U.S.-Israel...

Los Angeles Times

ArticleISRAEL ATTACKS, BEIRUT AREA A WAR ZONE

BEIRUT — The Israeli mil­it­ary issued evac­u­ation orders for entire neigh­bor­hoods of Beirut’s south­ern sub­urbs, spark­ing pan­de­monium as hun­dreds of thou­sands of people joined a pan­icked exodus out toward Lebanon’s north. On Thursday...

Miami Herald

ArticleMovie review: ‘Hop­pers,’ Pixar’s new­est anim­ated film, is a wild visit to the animal king­dom.

Politics
The Washington Post

ArticleRepub­lic­ans sell hous­ing plan and afford­ab­il­ity, not Iran war

The mes­saging dis­cord on the war in the Middle East could be summed up in just a few minutes Tues­day after­noon. Just past 2:15 p.m., the White House com­mu­nic­a­tions office blas­ted out an urgent news release tout­ing the “unre­lent­ing force of...

Los Angeles Times

ArticleU.S., Arab coun­tries seek Kyiv’s drone expert­ise

New York Post

ArticleYOU’RE RISKY BIZ

The Pentagon has reportedly told Anthropic it will be offi­cially labeled a sup­ply-chain risk — just days after the AI firm’s CEO Dario Amodei cir­cu­lated a let­ter to staffers bash­ing the Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s efforts against the com­pany. The...

USA TODAY US Edition

ArticlePub­lic anger delays vote on White House ball­room

New York Post

ArticleProm­ises made & prom­ises kept vs. enemy

The Philadelphia Inquirer

ArticleJustice Depart­ment tar­gets Cuban offi­cials

Miami Herald

ArticleU.S. calls on allies in hemi­sphere to intensify fight against drug car­tels

Senior Trump admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials on Thursday called on allied nations across the hemi­sphere to intensify their fight against drug car­tels and nar­co­traf­fick­ers, with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller com­par­ing the groups...

New York Post

ArticleLIKE FATWA LIKE SON

Iran’s next supreme leader must be vet­ted and approved dir­ectly by the White House, Pres­id­ent Trump warned — as reports swirled that slain Ayatol­lah Ali Khame­nei’s son would suc­ceed him in power. “I have to be involved in the appoint­ment, like...

Business
The Guardian

Article‘Dis­mal’ fig­ures reveal US lost 92,000 jobs last month

The Washington Post

ArticleNations across globe cut off from cru­cial energy source

Los Angeles Times

ArticleElon Musk takes the stand in Twit­ter stock case

Elon Musk took the stand in a share­holder trial in San Fran­cisco, where he’s accused of mak­ing false and mis­lead­ing state­ments that drove down Twit­ter’s stock price before he bought the social media plat­form for $44 bil­lion in 2022. The...

The Guardian

ArticleGer­man group beats Daily Mail in £575m deal to buy the Tele­graph

Axel Springer, the owner of Politico and Busi­ness Insider, is to acquire the Tele­graph after tabling a £575m deal that has scuppered a rival bid from the owner of the Daily Mail. The Ger­man com­pany, which also owns Europe’s biggest news­pa­per,...

USA TODAY US Edition

Article2026 tax sea­son a maze of com­plex­ity

Miami Herald

ArticleMeta’s Zuck­er­berg buys ‘Bil­lion­aire Bunker’ home for $170 mil­lion

The Philadelphia Inquirer

ArticleAs Trump shrank the fed­eral work­force, Pa. hired hun­dreds back

New York Post

ArticleInsists, ‘I’m not frus­trated’ by Zo tax battle KAT STANDS BY HER MAM

Tech
New York Post

ArticleNow US asks Ukraine for help vs. drones

The Washington Post

ArticleTrump unveils data cen­ter pledge amid back­lash

Los Angeles Times

ArticleNet­flix acquires Affleck’s AI film tech com­pany

In 2022, Ben Affleck became so fix­ated on AI in film pro­duc­tion that he quietly launched his own film tech com­pany, Inter­Pos­it­ive. Net­flix brought the star­tup into the spot­light Thursday morn­ing as it announced the full acquis­i­tion of the...

The Week (US)

ArticleAmazon: Data cen­ters hit by Iran

Three Amazon data cen­ters in the Middle East were hit by Ira­nian drone strikes this week, said Kelvin Chan in the Asso­ci­ated Press. Two Amazon Web Ser­vices facil­it­ies in the United Arab Emir­ates and another in Bahrain were dam­aged,...

Los Angeles Times

ArticleApple launches its first budget-friendly laptop, the Mac­Book Neo

China Daily Global Edition (USA)

ArticleShang­hai to fur­ther ramp up invest­ment cli­mate

Shang­hai will take greater efforts to make its busi­ness envir­on­ment and gov­ern­ment ser­vices bet­ter, which is con­du­cive to build­ing more whole­some indus­trial chains, said offi­cials and com­pany exec­ut­ives. The com­ments came dur­ing a...

The Borneo Post (Sabah)

ArticleChina’s over­stretched health­care looks to AI boom

SHANGHAI: Throughout her first preg­nancy, Wang Yifan had lots of ques­tions, which she usu­ally put to renowned obstet­ri­cian Duan Tao — or rather, an AI clone of the top Shang­hai-based doc­tor. Duan has cre­ated a digital double for health­care...

Amateur Photographer

ArticleNew ‘Leitzphone’ from Leica (and Xiaomi)

Leica has announced the Leitzphone, developed with long-stand­ing part­ner, Xiaomi. The ori­ginal Leitzphone was codeveloped with Sharp for the Japan­ese mar­ket in 2021 – but this is a much big­ger, inter­na­tional release. Called the ‘Leica...

Health
The Washington Post

ArticleIn defense of sugar

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. spent his first year as health and human ser­vices sec­ret­ary sup­press­ing med­ical innov­a­tion, and now he has turned his sights to another obses­sion: poli­cing what people eat. “We’re going to ask Dunkin’ Donuts and...

Los Angeles Times

ArticleWhy care is so costly here, and what to do about it

The Guardian

ArticleDon’t rely on weight-loss jabs to fix obesity crisis, says Whitty

Weight-loss drugs can­not res­cue the UK from its deep­en­ing obesity crisis and pro­duce unpleas­ant side-effects for many users, the gov­ern­ment’s chief med­ical adviser has warned. Prof Chris Whitty delivered a wider­anging cri­tique of the drugs...

The Day

ArticleSys­tem aims to speed fire­fight­ers’ response, startle less

The Borneo Post (Sabah)

ArticleJapan approves stem-cell treat­ment for Par­kin­son’s in world first

TOKYO: Japan has approved ground-break­ing stem-cell treat­ments for Par­kin­son’s and severe heart fail­ure, one of the man­u­fac­tur­ers and media reports said Fri­day, with the ther­apies expec­ted to reach patients within months. Phar­ma­ceut­ical...

Daily Tribune (Philippines)

ArticleEight bil­lion reas­ons to act

The world now holds more than eight bil­lion people. Eight bil­lion heart­beats. Eight bil­lion fam­il­ies. Eight bil­lion futures. That num­ber can feel over­whelm­ing — abstract even — until you sit across from one patient and real­ize that global...

The Week (US)

ArticleFor seni­ors, vac­cines have extra bene­fits

Amer­ica’s chil­dren aren’t the only ones to suf­fer from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “mul­ti­front war on vac­cines,” said Don­ald G. McNeil Jr. His delu­sional anti-sci­ence cru­sade also poses a major threat to Amer­ic­ans over 65. The older you get,...

Daily Mail

ArticleAdults ‘should be screened for demen­tia gene in middle age’

MIDDLE-AGED adults should be tested for a gene that is pos­sibly respons­ible for 90 per cent of Alzheimer’s cases, a study sug­gests. The APOE gene is linked to earlier cog­nit­ive decline, par­tic­u­larly in over-70s. Screen­ing before people reach...

Sports
Miami Herald

ArticleCOACH LOU HOLTZ DIES AT 89

LEGENDARY NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL COACH, COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMER AND POPULAR ESPN BROADCASTER LOU HOLTZ HAS DIED,

New York Post

ArticlePAIN IN THE KNICK

Nearly 10 months after tear­ing his Achilles in heart­break­ing fash­ion, Celt­ics star Jayson Tatum is return­ing to the hard­wood. Mul­tiple reports indic­ated that Tatum could suit up for Boston as early as this week, with the six-time All-Star...

The Washington Post

ArticleBer­ger’s bogey-free 63 sets pace at Bay Hill

USA TODAY US Edition

ArticleMcDuf­fie first block­buster trade of 2026 NFL free agency

Los Angeles Times

ArticleBow­man will sit with ver­tigo

Hendrick Motor­s­ports driver Alex Bow­man will miss the NASCAR race Sunday at Phoenix Race­way after he was dia­gnosed with ver­tigo. Bow­man was too ill to con­tinue racing last Sunday at Cir­cuit of the Amer­icas in Texas and was replaced mid-race...

The Philadelphia Inquirer

ArticleBREAKING DOWN THE STRETCH RUN

Nick Nurse recently described the teams in the middle of the East­ern Con­fer­ence stand­ings, includ­ing his 76ers, as “tightly squeezed.” And even though vet­eran guard Cameron Payne vows to go 1- 0 every day rather than look­ing too far ahead, he...

The Guardian

ArticleWomen giv­ing the boot to pat­ri­archy

The Ladies Foot­ball Club Cru­cible theatre, Shef­field ★★★☆☆ The surge of interest in women’s foot­ball con­tin­ues off the pitch in this play by Stefano Massini, adap­ted for Shef­field Theatres by Tim Firth. Like Amanda Whit­ting­ton’s The...