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Two years ago, the team set records for losing. Now they have the best winning percentage in the N.B.A. They’re doing it their own way.

After radical students overthrew Iran’s shah in 1979 and took hostages in the U.S. embassy, the Middle Eastern nation became a strident and blood-soaked adversary of what its new Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship has long called the “Great Satan.” Since then, Tehran has sponsored terrorism around the globe, including targeting the U.S. in multiple, high-profile instances. … Read more

Thousands go missing every year, including more than 5,000 Native American and Alaska Native women and girls Savannah Guthrie is moving back to New York to resume anchoring NBC’s Today show and acknowledging that her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, may not be found a month after she disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the middle … Read more

Antics of RFK Jr, Kristi Noem and others prompt derision – could their erratic behaviour prove president’s undoing? Heads bowed, linked by arms across their backs, they gathered in a solemn prayer circle. “The quiet moments are often the most important,” Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, reflected later on social media. Then Team … Read more

As coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue, current and former defense officials say that while a limited strike lasting several days is feasible, sustaining a broader confrontation — one involving potentially hundreds of incoming missiles — is far more complicated. The U.S. and Israel undertook a mission known as Operation Epic Fury, targeting … Read more

Kash Patel’s partying went viral and the US men’s team came to Washington. Now it’s all part of the culture war Ah, hockey. The most impish of sports. A bunch of blissfully beefy individuals wearing colorful sweaters zoom around in skates chasing a wee little object called, of all things, a “puck”. It’s adorable. It’s … Read more

A reporter ponders on how to repair a religious structure long thought of as good but supported by an evil underside In 1965, just shy of my junior year at the Jesuit high school of New Orleans, with good potential as an offensive end, I had an epiphany in the muddy slog of August football … Read more

News of Ali Khamenei’s killing sparks backlash from Marjorie Taylor Greene and other America First loyalists Donald Trump had come to Fayetteville, near Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina, with a promise. “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” the then US … Read more

Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say. As detainees … Read more

Plumes of smoke rose above Tehran and explosions could be heard across the city on day two of US-Israeli strikes on Iran. In a statement the Israel Defense Forces said the country’s air force was striking targets ‘in the heart of Tehran’. The strikes came after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in … Read more