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US ice hockey star Hilary Knight aimed a barb at Donald Trump during an appearance on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. Knight led the US women to gold at last month’s Olympics, scoring the Americans’ first goal as they beat Canada in overtime. But after the US men’s team won gold Trump joked that he

President Donald Trump addresses the American people following strikes by the U.S. and Israel on Iran. The fallout of the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran led to the highest-ever activity on X, the platform’s owner Elon Musk confirmed on Sunday. Musk made the statement in reply to Nikita Bier, the head of product at X.

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Believe Trump? Seriously? John L. Evans’ letter in Friday’s Sentinel (“Take Trump seriously”), encourages us to listen to what Donald Trump says with a grain (or a block) of salt, while also taking him seriously. While this apparent conundrum is making my brain hurt, it also gives me hope. According to the letter-writer’s formula, now,

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and a billionaire, on Sunday, March 1, declared that the X platform witnessed its record usage to date as the US and Israel launched joint airstrikes on Iran on February 28. Elon Musk stated that X experienced unprecedented usage amid US-Israel airstrikes on Iran. The platform’s traffic surged as

The coordinated strikes on Iran launched by the United States and Israel in the early hours of Saturday morning formally reignited a conflict that had been simmering since last summer’s 12-day war. They targeted key command structures and killed senior figures, most notably Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who had been in power since 1989.

Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the United States have lined up to laud the strikes on Iran, as responses to the president’s war have largely split along partisan lines. Despite the rise of a noninterventionist wing within Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Republican opposition to the war on Iran remains scant, underscoring the

Olympic gold medal winners from the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams crashed Connor Storrie‘s SNL monologue on Saturday, with the two on the women’s team taking a shot at Donald Trump for his dismissive comment about them. Storrie, who stars in the hockey-themed Canadian television series Heated Rivalry, was talking about learning about how

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This is an adapted excerpt from MS Now’s Feb. 28 special coverage. Early Saturday morning, the United States started a war with Iran for some reason. Your guess is as good as anyone’s as to why the president of the United States did this. In terms of pure rational deduction about what he’s doing here,

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On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned that artificial intelligence could trigger mass unemployment and deepen inequality and pose existential risks. AI Job Loss Warning: Nearly 100 Million Jobs At Risk Speaking on the Senate floor, Sanders called AI and robotics “the most profound technological revolution in world history,” arguing Congress is “way, way behind”

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Despite a second-term pledge to end US involvement in costly and destructive foreign wars, President Donald Trump has initiated a full-scale offensive to topple the Iranian government just more than a year after returning to office. The attacks on Iran, considered a violation of international law, mark the most aggressive escalation yet of Trump’s embrace

President Donald Trump claimed Iran posed an “imminent” threat to the US and its allies as he joined Israel in launching an operation to topple the Iranian regime. Trump said Saturday that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, although Tehran said he was alive and that its government continued to function. Iran responded

Berkshire Hathaway has released its final quarterly results under Warren Buffett, reporting a nearly 30% drop in operating earnings, while new CEO Greg Abel issued his first, longer shareholder letter affirming continuity in culture and capital discipline. Abel’s emphasis on retaining earnings over dividends and his reassurance that Berkshire’s very large cash pile is not

Alan Eyre, a longtime Iran watcher at the State Department, now at the Middle East Institute in Washington, told me that Trump’s “stated objective for these attacks—imminent threat—is not believable, and his real objective—regime incapacitation if not regime change—is unlikely.” Operation Epic Fury, he went on, may not be able to destroy by air “the