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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 28, 2025

Washington-Kyiv Relations Implode Spectacularly (Updated)

Christian town in Syria keeps Aramaic alive, amid fears for future under new regime

WHO Is On the Verge of Collapse

New York Advances Gas Ban, Sidelines Other Green Building Rules. The state is pushing ahead on all-electric buildings, but a draft update to the building code leaves out other key recommendations from the state’s climate plan.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 27, 2025

‘All means are kosher’: A look at the IDF’s controversial Hannibal Directive

“Current Policy Baseline” Gimmick Could Explode the Debt

Greece gripped by massive strikes as suspicion and anger boil over

Human Bird Flu Hospitalizations Now Reported in Wyoming and Ohio

Doctors report upticks in severe brain dysfunction among kids with flu

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has revoked a waiver granted post-election by the Biden administration that allowed New York Governor Kathy Hochul to impose a “congestion fee” toll on roads built and maintained with federal funds in Manhattan.

Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 26, 2025

The U.S. and Ukraine have finalized a natural resources deal. Here are its key terms.

Iran’s stock of near-bomb-grade uranium grows sharply, IAEA reports show

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office has proposed charging up to $1.5 million for Chinese-built vessels entering U.S. ports as part of its investigation into China’s growing domination of the global shipbuilding, maritime and logistics sectors.

US East and Gulf Coast Dockworkers Ratify New Six-Year Contract

Bill to Make Right-to-Repair a Federal Law Reintroduced by Bipartisan Coalition

Appeals Court: Parents Have No Right To Be Told When Their Child ‘Socially Transitions’ Sex In School

Trump Wants Lower Natural Gas Prices for New Yorkers

WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system

Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2025

Ukraine agrees to minerals deal with U.S. after Trump administration ‘drops toughest demands’

Limpet Mines Eyed as Likely Cause of Blasts on Two Tankers in Mediterranean Sea

Foreclosure of Armenian Patriarchate properties threatens Christians in the Holy Land

Trump’s Missile Defense Initiative’s Name Changed From Iron Dome To Golden Dome

Wild West 2025: Audacious Train Robberies Reported in Mojave Desert

House Passes GOP Budget Despite Mid-Day Revolt

Joann To Close All 800 Stores After Second Bankruptcy In 10 Months

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 24, 2025

Ukraine Situation Report: Massive geopolitical shifts have resulted in great uncertainty but also hope for an end to the nightmare.

How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history

Natural Gas Prices Surged 160%—And They’re Not Coming Down Soon

Lessons from the Earmark Moratorium for the DOGE Era

Hochul Administration Stalls on All-Electric Building Code

Green Gamble Goes Bust

Friendship in America is in steep decline: We’re more disconnected from each other than ever, and the gulf between us is only growing.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 22, 2025

A newly leaked database contains details about 166,000 wounded Russian soldiers. Here’s what it reveals.

“Hamas murdered the Bibas kids and attempted to conceal the evidence of the murders by making the bodies look as if they had been bombed by the IDF.”

The main thing of note about this is that it is from Politico. Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.

Senate Republicans Again Show They Aren’t Serious About Cutting Spending

With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by.

Doctors find worms squirming through teen’s neck. There are two charming categories of hookworms to keep in mind.

Why Ice Delays Recovery

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 21, 2025

U.S.-Ukrainian Mineral Deal Getting Close To Fruition

A Timeline of Suspected Underwater Sabotage Incidents in the Baltic Sea

China’s Sudden Live Fire Naval Drills Off Australia Rattle Canberra

Is It Time to Rethink the Culling of Poultry in Response to Bird Flu?

By Blocking Federal Funding Freeze, Judge Kept Millions Flowing to a Non-Profit He Headed

The Trump administration, eager to force local officials to collaborate with ICE, is coming for a Tompkins County sheriff who released a man who’d served his sentence.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 20, 2025

Trump may keep pursuing Ukrainian minerals deal, seeking ‘simplified’ agreement first and details later

Ecuador Says Will Ask Allied Countries for Special Forces to Fight Drug Gangs

70 Christians Decapitated in Church in Democratic Republic of Congo

NY prison ‘riot’ erupts, all visits canceled at 42 state prisons as union strikes rage

The Biggest Issue Behind the New York Prison Guard Strike

LA Tow Truck Crime Ring That Held Crashed Cars Hostage Busted by Police

Senate Confirms Kash Patel as FBI Director

The Civil Service’s Partisanship Problem