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With Iran and Venezuela leaders down, Florida prepares for end to Cuban regime

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MIAMI — Two days after the U.S. and Israeli militaries killed Iran’s supreme leader, Florida politicians are calling on and preparing for regime change in Cuba.

Speaking in Miami on Monday, U.S. Rep Byron Donalds, a Naples Republican who is campaigning to become Florida’s next governor, said it was time for the “Cuban regime to come to ...Read more

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Republicans send mixed signals on Trump's Iran war objectives

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cast aside his anti-war persona by ordering U.S. military strikes on Iran and helping Israel decapitate the Islamic Republic’s government, leaving Republican lawmakers in a lurch to defend him with a number of contradictory statements.

The U.S. commander in chief on Monday, as the conflict spread across ...Read more

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Savannah Guthrie and family seen viewing memorial for their missing mom

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NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie and her sister Annie Guthrie gathered at a memorial constructed outside the Tucson home of their mom, Nancy Guthrie, who’s been missing for more than a month.

The siblings were joined by Annie’s husband, Tommaso Cioni, as they comforted each other while looking at flowers and reading notes left for them and ...Read more

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Trump's Iran war widens, forcing reluctant allies to choose

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A British base in Cyprus struck by a drone. A French facility in Abu Dhabi targeted. A base hosting Italian troops in Kuwait hit. Saudi oil facilities attacked as ships queue outside the Strait of Hormuz. Missiles over Bahrain and Qatar. Gulf airspace shut down.

In just over 48 hours since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran, the conflict ...Read more

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Colorado's House, Senate advance pair of gun control bills targeting 3-D printing, barrel sales

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DENVER — Colorado lawmakers moved closer to banning 3-D printed firearms and more tightly regulating the sale of gun barrels Monday morning.

Legislators in the House voted 40-25 to pass House Bill 1144, the 3-D printing bill. At roughly the same time, the state Senate voted 19-16 to advance Senate Bill 43, which would require firearm barrels ...Read more

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Trump says US will do 'whatever it takes' in Iran campaign

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States would keep up its military offensive against Iran for as long as it takes, outlining for the first time a set of four objectives he hopes to accomplish toward reducing the threat he said is posed by Tehran.

“We projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer ...Read more

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'I just really saw his greatness': People come to SC capital to bid Jesse Jackson goodbye

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Soldrea Roberts grew up around the corner from the late civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson’s nonprofit, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, on the south side of Chicago.

She remembers seeing him around in coffee shops, waiting rooms and at marches in her Chicago neighborhood. Roberts also said she went to the same school as his ...Read more

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Supreme Court questions denying gun rights to marijuana users in test of the 2nd Amendment

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to limit the reach of the Second Amendment and deny gun rights to "habitual" users of drugs, including marijuana.

But most of the justices sounded skeptical. They questioned whether marijuana users are so dangerous they should not have firearms.

They noted too that ...Read more

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Kentucky judge facing impeachment calls attempt 'frivolous'

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Central Kentucky circuit judge facing impeachment says the petition against her should be dismissed for several reasons, including that it would violate Kentucky’s separation of powers and the filing is incomplete.

Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman on Feb. 26 filed a 38-page response with Kentucky’s impeachment ...Read more

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Machado says she'll return to Venezuela soon, despite warning from Delcy Rodríguez

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Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado said she plans to return to Venezuela “in a few weeks” to help steer what she described as an “orderly, sustainable and unstoppable transition to democracy,” despite a sharp warning from interim Chavista President Delcy Rodríguez.

In a video message released from ...Read more

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Space Force won't launch Vulcan rockets until booster problem solved

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United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national security missions until it solves a recurring issue of booster nozzles burning off the rocket on launch.

While the Vulcan’s main first stage was able to course correct and get its Space Force payload to space on the Feb...Read more

Evidence shows that voluntary treatment for substance use disorder tends to be more effective and less risky than involuntary treatment.
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What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere

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Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response to visible homelessness and drug use.

A few months later, in September 2025, officials in Utah announced plans for a 16-acre...Read more

Free short, easily accessible programs could allow many more people to access mental health treatments. Elena Kalinicheva/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Free 10-minute online programs aimed at overcoming depression led to real improvements – new research

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A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Many people believe that to start overcoming depression, they need a therapist, medication or a radical change in their environment. However, our study shows that ...Read more

Javon Jackson, center, was able to register to vote following passage of a 2019 Nevada law that restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals. AP Photo/John Locher

The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons

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If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would create the 12th-largest state. It would be home to at least 7 million to 8 million people and hold a dozen votes in the Electoral College.

In a close presidential race, this hypothetical state of the formerly ...Read more

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'A life well lived, a job well done': South Carolina honors the Rev. Jesse Jackson

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The late Rev. Jesse Jackson is being honored in South Carolina on Monday, with a public visitation at the State House and later a memorial service at Brookland Baptist Church.

Jackson, a civil rights leader who was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, died on Feb. 17, 2026.

The Greenville native was 84. In ...Read more

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Trump says US military operations in Iran likely to last at least a month

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that military operations in Iran are likely to last four to five weeks, but he is prepared to "go far longer than that" if necessary.

Speaking at the White House, Trump did not mention plans to deploy American troops to the Middle East, but in interviews with media outlets in recent days he said...Read more

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Prosecutors appeal new murder trial for woman in viral Miami jailhouse pregnancy

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MIAMI — Miami prosecutors appealed a judge’s order granting a new murder trial for an inmate who made national headlines when she became pregnant while behind bars.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean granted Daisy Link, 30, a new trial because Link was “prejudiced” by photos that prosecutors showed jurors — hoping to discredit ...Read more

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Iran war is 'retribution against their ayatollah and his death cult', Hegseth says

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday defended the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, calling the widespread and ongoing attacks a necessary response to threats of nuclear and terror attacks even as the conflict showed signs of spreading across the Middle East.

“We didn’t start this war but under President Trump we will end it,” Hegseth said....Read more

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St. Paul schools, reeling from ICE surge, try to keep students on track as many learn from home

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MINNEAPOLIS — Sunlight streamed into a fifth-grade classroom at Wellstone Elementary in St. Paul in late February, but no kids were there — just 26 empty chairs and a teacher on her laptop in the corner of the room.

Dawn Windham delivered a virtual lesson to students afraid to go to school due to the recent ICE surge, and while happy to ...Read more

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Trump's Iran war widens, forcing reluctant allies to choose

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A British base in Cyprus struck by a drone. A French facility in Abu Dhabi targeted. A base hosting Italian troops in Kuwait hit. Saudi oil facilities attacked as ships queue outside the Strait of Hormuz. Missiles over Bahrain and Qatar. Gulf airspace shut down.

In just over 48 hours since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran, the conflict ...Read more