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Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to help it strike American military forces in the Middle East, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing U.S. officials familiar with the matter. One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the information sharing as a “pretty comprehensive effort,” though the full extent of Russia’s assistance remained unclear, the newspaper noted. The targeting information is said to have included the locations of U.S. warships and aircraft. Iran’s own ability to locate American forces has been degraded since the United States and Israel began launching devastating attacks on the country this weekend, the officials...

Explanation: Do young stars blow bubbles? The larger view shows a stellar field observed with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and the inset highlights HD 61005, a star like our Sun, only 120 light-years away. Much younger than the Sun, at just about 100 million years old, it blows a fast and dense stellar wind that pushes out the cooler dust and gas that surrounds it, forming a bubble called an astrosphere. The star-blown bubble was detected with the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and it has a diameter roughly 200 times the Earth-Sun distance. Our Sun has a bubble...

Canada performed thousands of same-day assisted suicides, as it was revealed one elderly woman was killed despite withdrawing her request the day before. The medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program was approved in 2016 and has since been expanded to include requests from patients whose deaths are 'not reasonably foreseeable,' and will soon include those with mental illness. More than 200 people in Ontario alone chose to die within 24 hours of their approval in 2023, a 2024 Ontario report found, The Free Press first reported. Of the 219 deaths, 30 percent of them chose a same-day procedure. In 2024...

If you remember Alan Greenspan becoming chair of the Federal Reserve System, you are almost certainly over 50. He was nominated in June 1987, the same month in which President Ronald Reagan, visiting West Berlin, urged Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.” It is language from another era: West Berlin, the Soviet Union, glasnost and perestroika. Alan Greenspan was born in Washington Heights in New York City in 1926, just over 10 miles from Donald Trump’s birthplace of Jamaica Hospital in Queens. There ends any significant similarity. Greenspan’s parents, Herbert and Rose, were Jews of Eastern European descent. He...

Russia giving Iran intelligence info in ‘comprehensive effort’ to attack US in Middle East. By Emily Crane and Samuel Chamberlain. Published March 6, 2026 Updated March 6, 2026, 11:29 a.m. PST Russia has been sharing intelligence with Iran about the location of US forces in the Middle East in an attempt to help Tehran fight back against “Operation Epic Fury”. The Kremlin has passed the Islamic Republic the locations of American warships, aircraft, and other military assets since American and Israeli airstrikes began Feb. 28, three sources told the Washington Post Friday. “It does seem like it’s a pretty comprehensive...

Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts and Sheriff Pat Labat disagree on how to resolve the unconstitutional conditions at the Rice Street jail, legally required by an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. However, they are working together. In February, the court-appointed consent decree monitor, Kathleen Kenney, reported that Rice Street’s inmate levels are not sustainable given existing staffing shortages, warning that a court-mandated population cap may be necessary to maintain safe conditions. Since 2021, more than 30 people have died in custody at Fulton County’s main jail. Violence against inmates and detention officers, burst pipes, and fires have...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new initiative on Mar. 5, 2026, to encourage medical schools to expand their nutrition education programs in the upcoming fall as part of an agreement with the Trump administration. Secretary Kennedy and Education Secretary Linda McMahon reached the agreement as part of the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative. Prior to the agreement, Secretary Kennedy spent months urging schools to expand their nutrition education programs, arguing that doctors are not well-versed in nutrition, which leads health professionals to treat chronic diseases with medication rather than preventing them through patients’ diets. A...

Philadelphia police say an 11-year-old boy fatally shot his mother's boyfriend during an altercation between the couple. The 911 call came in around 11:40 p.m. on Thursday, when police were called to the 1100 block of Peach Street in Southwest Philadelphia. Arriving officers and medics say they found the 30-year-old boyfriend lying on the bedroom floor with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead a short time later. Police have identified him as Jaimeer Jones-Walker of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Investigators say Jones-Walker showed up at the house where his girlfriend lives with her children and began assaulting her...

Police Scotland has refused to release the number of call-outs to asylum hotels over fears the data could spark violence and "heighten community tensions". The national force was slammed for dodging a "reasonable request" from the Scottish Daily Express to reveal the true scale of crime at migrant hotels in Scotland. Police bosses admitted they are concerned that releasing the data will result in more angry scenes outside the hotels, after a number of high-profile protests and counter-protests across Scotland last year. Our Freedom of Information request asked for the number of incidents, including crimes recorded, police call-outs and arrests...

LOS ANGELES – Twelve members and associates of 18th Street – Los Angeles’s largest street gang – were arrested today on criminal charges, including the murder of a drug trafficker who failed to pay the gang’s extortionate “taxes,” and further alleging that the gang controlled the city’s MacArthur Park as an open-air drug marketplace, using tents to blend in with the homeless population and avoid detection by law enforcement. Five of the defendants arrested today are expected to make their initial appearances and be arraigned this afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. During this investigation, federal...

President Trump said he will make a "decision fairly shortly" but that he wants "to have the full and complete Save America Act (which Includes trans issues now)

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Netflix has officially cut ties with Meghan Markle’s polarizing lifestyle brand, As Ever, Page Six can confirm. “Her show did not go on so it did not make sense to continue the partnership,” an industry source exclusively told Page Six, referring to Markle’s two-season series, “With Love, Meghan.”

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton possibly committed a crime when he brought an illegal immigrant to President Trump's State of the Union address on February 24, and then hid the illegal immigrant — Marcelo Gomes daSilva — in his office when daSilva's presence was made known. ICE arrested daSilva last May.But the plot now thickens. The Milford Police shared information that daSilva was reportedly mentioned in police reports involving "sexual assault and juveniles."WOW. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the illegal alien guest that Rep. Seth Moulton (D) brought to the State of the Union address, was reportedly mentioned in police reports involving...

Could bacteria replace your eye drops? Mice study says maybeIn A Nutshell -Researchers engineered a naturally occurring eye bacterium to secrete an anti-inflammatory healing protein directly on the eye’s surface -In mice, a single course of three bacterial applications kept the microbes active for 12 weeks and sped corneal wound healing -The bacteria preserved the eye’s normal immune defenses and did not increase susceptibility to infection -A human version of the therapy showed early promise in lab tests, but clinical use in people is still years away Forget the eye drops. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have engineered a...

The war in Iran is not only going to show us how evil the regime actually is, but it's also going to open the eyes of Western nations to just how many sleeper terrorists they've imported thanks to their lax immigration policies. There is real concern that Iranian and other Islamic sleeper cells may retaliate for the Iran strikes, while Democrats continue to keep the Department of Homeland Security shut down. In Austin, a Senegalese immigrant named Ndiaga Diagne killed several at a bar before being taken out by police. Diagne was wearing a hooded sweatshirt that read "Property of...

The U.S. administration has decided to focus its foreign policy on the Western Hemisphere by creating new strategic alliances. In this context, President Donald Trump will host the "Shield of the Americas" summit on March 7 in Miami, Florida. This event will bring together Latin American leaders who share an ideological affinity, marking a remarkable political shift in the region. Washington's approach seeks to consolidate a bloc that defends common interests and traditional values in the face of external pressures. The National Security Strategy 2026 outlines a plan for identifying and working closely with "ideologically trusted partners." This tactic is...

If you’ve got some frozen Asian food in your freezer, you may want to double check it. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a “Class I” recall of Ajinomoto Foods North America products that had been sold across the country under various labels. In total, an eye-watering 36,987,575 pounds of frozen foods are being recalled. The USDA noted that “various ready-to-eat (RTE) and NRTE chicken and pork fried rice, ramen, and shu mai dumpling products” are included in this recall. Of note, this is an expansion of an already-existing Ajinomoto recall. The expanded recall now includes products made...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Faced with the threat of their total annihilation, the Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly contacted the White House on Thursday to ask if they could "please have Joe Biden back." White House officials confirmed that Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader of Iran, dialed the White House switchboard demanding to speak to whoever was in charge of picking the president so he could see about getting Joe Biden back in the Oval Office. "He is, uh, a great leader. We will listen to him," Khamenei reportedly said of the former president. "You put him back in...

Olbermann continued a pattern of controversial social media postsFormer ESPN broadcaster Keith Olbermann once again incited backlash on social media Wednesday after he called late legendary college football coach Lou Holtz a "legendary scumbag" in an X post on the day Holtz was announced dead. "Legendary scumbag, yes," Olbermann wrote in response to a clip of Holtz criticizing former President Joe Biden in 2020 for supporting abortion rights. Olbermann received scathing criticism in response to his post on X. SNIP One user echoed that sentiment, writing to Olbermann, "You're the real scumbag here. Lou Holtz had more class, integrity, and...