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US says Taiwan needs to become a hornet nest of drones
Taiwan needs a “hornet’s nest” of drones to help deter conflict and provide security, says the top United States ?diplomat to the self-governing island that China claims as part of its territory. Speaking at a forum on drones in the central city of Taichung, Raymond Greene, director of the American Institute in ?Taiwan and the de facto US ambassador, said on Thursday that drones represented a “game-changing opportunity” to enhance Taiwan’s security and reinforce peace in the broader region. The US, Taiwan’s most important international backer and arms supplier despite their lack of formal diplomatic ties, has strongly supported the government’s military ?modernisation plan and increased defe… |
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Oil prices are skyrocketing but companies will not rush to drill in California
If you are an oil producer with wells in California and global oil prices have risen to over $100 a barrel in the last week, are you going to drill new wells? It’s a question that touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of Californians who either live near oil wells or receive royalty checks as mineral rights owners. Experts said probably not, given this state’s aging fields and the unpredictability of global prices. It’s too early for data that will show if companies have ordered more drilling rigs on their fields — known as the rig count — since the U.S. and Israel invaded Iran and sent oil prices soaring. But analysts and producers say only if prices stay above $80 for at least a year … |
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Trump and US officials targeted by accused shooter
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are investigating what they describe as a targeted attack near the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner after a man opened fire Saturday evening outside the secured perimeter of the event, prompting a rapid response from Secret Service agents and other law enforcement. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that investigators believe the suspect intended to target President Donald Trump and members of his administration who were attending the annual dinner, one of Washington’s highest-profile political gatherings. According to Blanche, the suspect traveled from California to Washington, D.C., by train, passing through Chicago along the way… |
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Pope Leo not afraid of Trump and we should not be either
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “I’m not afraid.” With these three words Sunday morning, Pope Leo XIV offered as powerful a rebuke of President Trump and everything he has wrought on the world as anyone ever has. Three words to inspire all good people to fight against Trump — because if a mild-mannered man of God such as Leo isn’t afraid, no one should be. Pope Leo’s words thrilled me as an American—becauseially as a Catholic. His quiet, confident witness since becoming pontiff in May had already reignited a spiritual light in me to adhere closer to the faith I was brought up in. Rather than cower before a despot who makes the Pharaoh in … |
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Philippine politician wanted by the International Court
Philippine Senate President claims that a lawmaker wanted by the International Court (ICC) is no longer in the Senate building, where he had been taking sanctuary, fearing his arrest. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, former national police commander and main enforcer of the murderous “war on drugs” under former President Rodrigo Duterte, has been ?shielded by the Senate, he is wanted for crimes against humanity, the same allegations that Duterte faces. Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano informed reporters on Thursday that the sergeant-at-arms verified he is not in the building anymore. The declaration came a day after shots rang out in the Senate, where Dela Rosa remained locked up. Confusion and … |
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The fourteen-Year-Old American Boy Who Invented Television
I was fourteen, and most days I smelled like dirt, grease, and hay. That’s what happens when you grow up on a farm in Idaho—you work, you sweat, you get yelled at for tracking mud into the kitchen. My family expected me to plow fields, not invent anything. But I had a habit of thinking while my hands were busy, and that habit changed the world. The tractor was waiting that afternoon, already hot from the sun. I climbed on, gripped the wheel, and started across the field. The job was simple: drive straight, turn, line up, cut another row. Over and over. Mary Elaine was standing in the field watching me like she had nothing better to do. She was my girlfriend, though she’d never admit it out l… |
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Latest Epstein files include emails between Ghislaine Maxwell and LA28 Olympics head Casey Wasserman
The latest cache of investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein released Friday include personal emails exchanged more than 20 years ago between Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA28 Olympics organizing committee, and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s former romantic partner. In emails sent in March and April 2003, Wasserman — who was married at the time — writes about wanting to see Maxwell in a tight leather outfit, she offers to give him a massage that can “drive a man wild,” and the pair discuss how much they miss each other, according to files released and posted online by the U.S. Department of Justice. Representatives for Wasserman did not immediately respond to The Times… |
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Catherine OHara as The Girl Who Became Our Comic Conscience
Catherine O’Hara stunned the world when she chose to walk away from Saturday Night Live. It was an incredible opportunity, one that could launch a career overnight, but she declined it. The stakes were high—she risked fading into obscurity before anyone recognized her name—yet that choice demonstrated her determination to forge her own path. She grew up in Toronto, the youngest in a large family, surrounded by the noise and warmth of siblings who never let her fade into the background. Catherine was quick to laugh, quicker to make others laugh, and she discovered early that humor was her way of connecting. She would mimic voices, invent characters, and turn ordinary afternoons into small per… |
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The Assassination of Malcolm X
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X woke up alone in a suite at the Hilton Hotel in New York City.He was, in the most literal sense, a guy without a home. The week before, someone had set fire to his house in the East Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens in the middle of the night. His wife, Betty Shabazz, and his four small children were all well, but for their own protection, they were currently residing with friends in a secret location.Malcolm was sure that his old coworkers from the Nation of Islam (NOI), led by Elijah Muhammad, were responsible for the firebombing. He used to be the second most influential person in the religious and political movement, but now he had to watch out for the milit… |
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The Epstein Files and the Machinery of Forgetting
Editorial The first instinct of power, when threatened, is not denial but delay. Delay until outrage exhausts itself, until headlines thin, until the public grows bored or distracted or numb. The newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein-related documents land in public view with the weight of something both familiar and unfinished, a reminder not merely of a disgraced financier and the crimes that orbited him, but of how expertly the machinery of forgetting has been engineered. These files do not arrive as a revelation in the cinematic sense. There is no single smoking gun, no neat moral closure. Instead, they arrive like sediment, layer upon layer of testimony, allegation, recollection, and evasion. … |
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A few Senate races will decide the future of America
Editorial The American presidency draws the cameras, the rallies, the chants. The Senate decides what survives the morning after. Long after the campaign buses pull away and the victory speeches decay into archive footage, it is the upper chamber that writes the terms of governance: who gets confirmed, which laws live or die, whether crises are met with action or theater. Control of the United States Senate is not a procedural detail. It is the difference between a country that can act and one that performs its arguments until time runs out. This election cycle is saturated with noise—culture war skirmishes, personality feuds, the endless re-litigation of the last decade. Yet the Senate map … |
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Steve McQueen Almost Died the Night of the Manson Murders
Steve McQueen moved fast, decided fast, lived like the next moment might be the one he'd lose. And he nearly died. August, 1969. Los Angeles was heavy with heat and something less visible, something people would only recognize later as tension. Hollywood still floated on its own myth—parties, open doors, the sense that everyone important was only one introduction away. McQueen was in that orbit, not circling it. Inside it. Known, wanted, expected. That night, there was a house on Cielo Drive where people were gathered with friends, acquaintances, drifting connections—the kind that defined that era of Hollywood, loose and overlapping. McQueen had reason to be there. Not as an outsider, not as… |
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Trump says US will not allow Iran to reach enriched uranium
In an interview with the syndicated TV show Full Measure that aired on Sunday, Trump appeared to play down the significance of the uranium, which is believed to be buried under the rubble of nuclear facilities, remaining in Iran for now. “We’ll get that at some point, whenever we want. We have it surveilled,” Trump said. “I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching. If somebody walked in, he could tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge … If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up.” Iran’s highly enriched uranium is one of the major sticking points between Washington and Tehran in ceasefire negotiations to end the 10-week US-Israe… |
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100 year old fighter pilot from Escondido receives Medal of Honor
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump honored two storied military veterans during his State of the Union address, including 100-year-old veteran Royce Williams of Escondido, who survived what is believed to be the longest dog fight in military history. The former Navy fighter pilot, who was seated next to First Lady Melania Trump in the Capitol during the president’s address Tuesday night, flew more than 220 missions in World War II as well as the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Trump called Williams “a living legend” before describing his war-time heroics. “In the skies over Korea in 1952, Royce was in the dogfight of a lifetime, a… |
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Three Family Lives Brutally Taken in a Single Night
The small Alabama town of Wilmer has been plunged into grief after the discovery of three lives brutally taken in a single night. Inside a modest home, investigators found a mother, her young son, and a pregnant teenager—all bound with zip ties, all slain in acts of chilling precision. The silence of that house now echoes with the weight of tragedy, a place once filled with love now marked forever by violence. It was a phone app alert that led loved ones to the scene, a digital whisper that revealed horror beyond imagination. Lisa Ferguson, 46, her 17-year-old daughter Keziah Luker, who was eight months pregnant, and 12-year-old Thomas Cordelle were each confined to separate rooms, their fin… |
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CTCARE in Saigon refused a disabled girl who traveled 300 km to buy a wheelchair battery
A disabled girl from Dalat was left humiliated, stranded, and emotionally devastated after traveling hundreds of kilometers to Ho Chi Minh City in search of a replacement wheelchair battery, only to encounter hostility and confusion at a local mobility equipment dealer, CTCARE. The girl, who relies entirely on an electric wheelchair for mobility and survives on government assistance, believed she had purchased her wheelchair several years earlier from CTCARE, a wheelchair and mobility equipment business in Saigon. When the battery failed, she contacted the company seeking to by a replacement. She saved her money, but apparent pride and stubbornness from the owner refused her. She had a frien… |
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Lost in the Flood they Found Each Other Years Later
Human Interest They met the way people used to meet before algorithms pretended to know our hearts better than we did—by proximity and boredom and youth. Two teenagers in New Orleans, same neighborhood, different schools, running into each other at a corner store that smelled like dust and sugar and summer. There was nothing cinematic about it at first. He made her laugh. She remembered what he ordered every time. They walked streets that would later be mapped by disaster, unaware they were standing on a fault line between before and after. They dated for a year. Long enough to feel permanent. Short enough to believe permanence was guaranteed. Then, in August 2005, the city broke open. When … |
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What happened to Lorraine Blondina Bird will shock you
Lorraine Blondina Bird was a woman who lived her life like a flame—bright, stylish, impossible to ignore. Born in East Los Angeles, she clawed her way into success, becoming one of Redondo Beach’s most respected Realtors. She wore silk scarves, kept her nails manicured, and drove a silver Mercedes with a vanity plate that announced her presence: LBBIRD1. She gave her children the kind of life she had never known—ski trips, fine dining, a college education. She was proof that ambition could rewrite destiny. But in the end, Lorraine’s story did not close with champagne and sunsets. It ended in the Mojave Desert, her body curled inside a pile of graffiti-splashed boulders, stripped nearly bare,… |
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Will Marco Rubio Last As Secretary Of State
Editorial A cabinet room is not built for silence. Cameras hum, chairs shift, the choreography of agreement unfolds before anyone speaks. Praise is currency there, but it is never free. When Donald Trump turned toward Marco Rubio after the Munich speech, smiling, approving, and joking that he was doing so well he might be fired, the line landed the way these lines always do—laughter first, interpretation later. The remark lived in that peculiar space Trump has mastered, where humor is both shield and message, where admiration carries a reminder about gravity: the center must remain the center. Rubio smiled. Politicians learn that smile early, the one that acknowledges the joke while absorbin… |
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US and Israel bomb Iran with talks and threats leading up to attacks
The United States and Israel have launched strikes on Iran despite ongoing talks between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s nuclear programme. Iran responded to Saturday’s attacks with missile and air strikes across the region, including in Israel, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq. Israeli officials said their strikes targeted Iran’s military and nuclear-related infrastructure, while airspace across Israel was closed and emergency measures imposed. Several other countries in the region also announced the closure of their airspace. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said Washington has begun a “major combat operation” in Iran, aimed at “eliminating threats from th… |