For decades, Dubai's sales pitch featured gleaming skylines, tax-free salaries, ease of doing business and the unspoken promise that whatever was happening elsewhere in the Middle East, this city was different.
On Saturday, that all changed. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
These U.S. soldiers were killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait over the weekend.
They are Capt. Cody Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39
Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42
Sgt. Declan Coady, 20
Two others were killed in the same attack; their names have not yet been released.
RIP.
Thousands in Iran attend burial of children killed in bombing of school. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...
03.03.2026 21:50 — 👍 231 🔁 106 💬 16 📌 13Our story: www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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Yesterday, DOJ asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to dismiss its appeals of federal judges' rulings that said the executive orders violated the law firms' rights under the U.S. Constitution: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Breaking: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REVIVES APPEALS IN LAW FIRM EXECUTIVE ORDER CASES IN SUDDEN REVERSAL - COURT FILING
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NEW from me and @tomhals.bsky.social: Importers seeking their share of more than $130 billion in tariff refunds are flocking to a little-known U.S. trade court, which must now figure out how to deal with what is expected to be an explosion of cases. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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U.S. law firm Proskauer prepared a confidential report for Duke University in March 2022 that outlined the potential risks the school faced when it came to athletes unionizing. Sportico saw the report: www.sportico.com/leagues/coll...
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One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.
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March 2 (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to drop its appeals defending executive orders that sanctioned four major U.S. law firms, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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U.S. service members killed: Another U.S. service member died Monday from injuries sustained in the initial Iranian attacks, U.S. Central Command said, bringing to four the total number of American forces killed. Two U.S. officials had told The Washington Post that the three previous fatalities were members of a sustainment unit in Kuwait. Trump warned more U.S. casualties were likely.
Four Americans were killed in the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi and it became a Republican mega-scandal for many years
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The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017-25 and the number of US billionaires jumped 50% to more than 900. Overall, the top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the GDP of the US and China combined. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
02.03.2026 14:40 — 👍 233 🔁 129 💬 17 📌 10Reuters: FOURTH U.S. SERVICE MEMBER, WHO WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED DURING IRAN'S INITIAL ATTACKS, EVENTUALLY SUCCUMBED TO THEIR INJURIES -CENTCOM
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US military says a fourth service member died after being injured in Iran's "initial" response to US-Israeli strikes. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/4bj35pG
For example, the feds didn’t speak to or subpoena Les Wexner, Leon Black or Jes Staley. They don’t appear to have interviewed anyone at JPMorgan about its 15-year relationship. They concluded that Deutsche Bank was not guilty before interviewing key employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...
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NEW: Federal investigators repeatedly missed chances to catch Epstein. In 2019 they pursued a limited case against him. And then they hardly looked at his financial and other enablers.
Why the Epstein investigations took so long and did so little. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...
Renee Good’s lawyer is fighting ICE. He learned civil rights law litigating against Chicago police. Here is our profile of Antonio Romanucci, an Italian-American success story who rose from workers comp cases to one of the country’s most prominent lawyers
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/01/a...
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
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Leading Illinois Democrats denounce President Donald Trump’s military strikes in Iran www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/28/i...
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Iran's revolutionary guards tell ships passage through Strait of Hormuz 'not allowed', EU naval mission official says reut.rs/4l4rJ0G
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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
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The judges in WV have seen enough.
They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Exclusive: Ahead of the US attack on Iran, President Trump received briefings that not only delivered blunt assessments about the risk of major US casualties but also touted the prospect of a generational shift in the Middle East in favor of US interests reut.rs/4aS6Lxi
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Israel and US attack Iran, Trump confirms 'major combat operations' - www.reuters.com/world/iran-c...
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-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
Thinking about how HYDRA's secret weapon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) is an algorithm that uses vast amounts of data to predict and target its enemies, who would be killed through automated helicarriers. youtu.be/qGpz8Q4Jq6A?...
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This is Trump's former AI adviser
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Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.
In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."
"The actions mark an extraordinary rebuke by the U.S. against one of the premier companies that has kept it in the lead on national security-critical AI, threatening to give Anthropic a pariah status that Washington until now had reserved for enemy suppliers." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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