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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
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“Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says.”
Dow falls 900 points as oil resumes surge toward $80 a barrel amid Iran conflict: Live updates
so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries
This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.
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they speak through history with one voice
Flights between islands routinely cost thousands of dollars on routes run by just a handful of airlines. Even between the U.S. Pacific Islands, a flight from Hawaii to Guam averages about $2,000 — more expensive than flying all the way to Japan, the Philippines or Australia.
At a potentially historic business and diplomatic conference last week in Hawai'i, leaders from Pacific Island nations and territories talked to American business leaders about how to connect their remote islands — and their people — with the global economy www.staradvertiser.com/2026/03/02/h...
Leaders from Pacific Island nations and territories gathered this week in Hawaii for what may prove to be a historic diplomatic and business summit aimed at promoting private sector investments and contracts across island communities in Oceania. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/25/h...
Important piece from @wesleymorgan.bsky.social and Matthieu Aikins: "They Fought for the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. In America, They’re Living in Fear. A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/m...
I notice you frequently invoke Kwajalein as a place to banish/punish people. Did you have a negative experience in the Marshall Islands?
Interesting argument that joins the corruption/attack Taiwan reasons for Xi's removal of top leaders. The corruption is so pervasive it creates "rational pacifists" who know that war will kill their business. So the anti-corruption drive is aimed at Taiwan.
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Interestingly, I tried asking the free-tier of Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to identify the original source of this image for me, and all of them failed quite miserably (and all except Claude initially assumed it was a movie still).
As the U.S. military eyes China, it has big plans for arms manufacturing in the Pacific — and Hawaii sits at the center of its vision. www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/16/h...
After the fall of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan regime promise amnesty and reconciliation — but for hundreds still jailed and thousands facing charges, justice remains uncertain. n.pr/4c0zHFL
One thing that's sticking with me is the absolute carelessness the government had about redacting the names of victims (they exposed two survivors whose identities had been sealed for 20 years), juxtaposed against the precision with which they hid the names of alleged perpetrators.
News: The Bari Weiss-led CBS News is set to slash its staff by at least 15% in the coming months, according to people briefed on the network's layoff plans.
More details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...
this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes
Honolulu’s Mayor is reaching out to Taiwan’s President asking him to renovate the crumbling Chinatown Cultural Plaza, which is owned by Taipei.
A reminder of Hawaii’s very international politics www.staradvertiser.com/2026/02/08/h...
OK so now the former CEO of Tumblr is running the Washington Post. Tumblr. A company whose history is a textbook case study in corporate value destruction.
To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
This is probably hyped up a bit, but it's not unrealistic to think the current administration may pick a fight with Vietnam. I mean, Nigeria for crying out loud.
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I think that depends on where you live man. Out here in the islands, the price of groceries is a pretty regular topic of conversation.
The Economist's excellent Mark Tully obituary observes Indians revered him because, unlike the country's own broadcasters, he "told them on the BBC what was going on in their own country". Underscoring Auntie's huge mistake in creating a paywall for today's users of BBC News online in America...
$40 an hour for what would probably be one of the sixty most accomplished fiction writers in America
Greg Bovino appears to be driving back to California after being reassigned from Minneapolis.
Eagle-eyed observers spotted Bovino in South Dakota and Wyoming as he travels west in a convoy of SUVs.
Xi’s Military Purge May Set Back His Taiwan Ambitions
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"This glacier alone represents about 2.5 feet of sea level rise all over the world." @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
