T he death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the Iran war generated hope that the regime change ...

This is Colossus: a data center that Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, xAI, is using as a training ground for Grok, one ...

Fashion shows in Paris, continued fighting across the Middle East, scenes from the the 2026 Winter Paralympics, and much more ...

Now Donald Trump has finally ousted Noem, but in her place, he is sending them Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma. Mullin is a former mixed-martial-arts fighter, a current fighter for ...

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O ne of Pete Hegseth’s first actions after taking charge at the Pentagon was to fire top lawyers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force—senior officers who the defense secretary sai ...

Please don’t take him just because you can.” The Jolene Doctrine sounds like the corollary to the way a senior administration official described the president’s approach to Goldberg back in 2018: “The ...

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People often use condo as a synonym for apartment, but it refers to a particular arrangement: Residents own their unit and share possession of their building’s common areas and the surrounding ...

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Back in the early 1970s, psychologists at Northwestern University performed an experiment that, on the surface, looked like a child’s fantasy. The researchers gathered 45 college women and asked some ...

Hegseth mainly berated news outlets for failing to cover the war in the propagandistic fashion that he’d practiced as a Fox News talking head. He quoted a CNN chyron that read Mideast War Intensifies.