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The White House compares deadly conflict with video games and movies in memeified videos to win support for Iran war
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The White House compares deadly conflict with video games and movies in memeified videos to win support for Iran war

The White House’s video Friday began with a brief clip from the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It quickly transitioned to footage of the U.S. military bombing an Iranian vehicle. “Wasted” soon appeared on the screen, the same image that flashes across the game when a player dies. “L1, R1, SQUARE, R1, LEFT,...

UFC fighters head to Quantico to train FBI agents
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UFC fighters head to Quantico to train FBI agents

While the job of a UFC fighter is to “take down” an opponent, FBI agents are trained to gauge a situation and “use a minimum amount of force to subdue a person so they are no longer a threat to the agents or themselves,” he said. “Part of the nuance of the job is talking...

For a surgeon treating Lebanon’s wounded children, their horrific injuries bring back memories from Gaza
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For a surgeon treating Lebanon’s wounded children, their horrific injuries bring back memories from Gaza

BEIRUT — For British Palestinian surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and his colleagues at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, the wounds he is treating on children are an all-too-familiar sight. The number of pediatric casualties is mounting from Israeli strikes across Lebanon, targeting the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, after military operations resumed when...

NASA targets April 1 to launch astronauts trip around the moon
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NASA targets April 1 to launch astronauts trip around the moon

NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a long-awaited trip around the moon as early as April 1, the agency announced Thursday. Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said teams are on track to roll the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft back to the launch pad at...

Closing arguments begin in landmark social media addiction trial
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Closing arguments begin in landmark social media addiction trial

LOS ANGELES — In closing arguments for the first social media addiction trial to make tech giants face a jury, the plaintiff’s lawyer lambasted social platforms for profiting from users’ attention, likening their features to a Trojan horse. The plaintiff, identified in court as Kaley and in documents by her initials, K.G.M., is at the...

‘They are turning the country into ruins’
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‘They are turning the country into ruins’

Since the war started, the U.S. and Israeli military have targeted multiple locations across the country, but it is in Tehran, a bustling, densely packed metropolis of some 10 million people, where the strikes have been felt the most. As of Thursday, more than 1,200 people had been killed by Israeli and American strikes, according...

Iran’s new supreme leader delivers first public message
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Iran’s new supreme leader delivers first public message

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Democrats ask Pentagon about Iran school strike and role of AI
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Democrats ask Pentagon about Iran school strike and role of AI

A Pentagon spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the congressional outreach. “We should all feel deeply ashamed by the killing of 175 civilians, mostly little children, who have nothing to do with this awful, reckless war,” one of the lawmakers who signed the letter, Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., said in...