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Mar 02, 2026
Global air travel chaos intensified on Monday as the U.S. and Israel continued to bombard Iran, which struck back at targets across the Middle East, leaving airports closed and stranding travelers including those in faraway areas who were scheduled to transit through the region.
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Mar 02, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday spoke to widening concerns that the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring, "This is not Iraq. This is not endless."
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Mar 02, 2026
A reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted on federal charges in Chicago alleging he ran security and helped the sons of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman-Loera smuggle and distribute large quantities of narcotics into the U.S.
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Mar 02, 2026
The U.S. Congress is about to launch a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances — he has already done it, and the country is essentially already at war.
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Mar 02, 2026
Pritzker Traubert Foundation is awarding $5 million to train and place Chicagoans into 1,000 health care jobs over the next three years.
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Mar 02, 2026
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Mar 02, 2026
The United States and Israel targeted Iran in coordinated attacks over the weekend that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other senior figures. Here's where things stand.
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Mar 02, 2026
Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran.
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Mar 02, 2026
Just as Waymo autonomous vehicles were spotted video mapping Chicago streets, Niles voters will weigh on whether self-driving taxis should be allowed in their town.
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Mar 02, 2026
Thornton, Rich, Orland and Palos townships are asking voters if the state should provide annual property tax rebates to homeowners.
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Mar 02, 2026
Likely escapees of the exotic pet trade, the birds first put down roots in some south suburbs in the 1960s and Hyde Park in the 1970s.
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Mar 02, 2026
Of the 21 judges who worked at the city's immigration court in January 2025, nine judges have resigned, taken buyouts or been terminated, a Tribune review found.
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Mar 02, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 2, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 02, 2026
On March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks' more famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a Black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.
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Mar 01, 2026
The fire in Green River State Wildlife Area quickly grew to a five-alarm level because of dry, warm and windy weather.
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Mar 01, 2026
After six months of negotiations, Pace and Niles village leaders have approved a new contract to continue the free bus service in the community.
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Mar 01, 2026
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran rattled world markets early Monday, with U.S. futures falling more than 1% and oil prices soaring.
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Mar 01, 2026
Over $1.5 million was raised by Polar Plunge attendees Sunday to benefit Special Olympics Illinois.
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Mar 01, 2026
Many in Chicago's Iranian community are in high spirits after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was reported dead following a major attack Saturday by the United States and Israel.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. attacks on Iran, the military announced Sunday.
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Mar 01, 2026
President Donald Trump has taken the United States into war with Iran despite decades of self-professed aversion to foreign entanglements, particularly in the Middle East.
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Mar 01, 2026
A woman and a man died of smoke inhalation in a Friday morning apartment fire that erupted in the Miller section of Gary
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Mar 01, 2026
The Lake County Coroner's Office released the identities of the two people who died in a likely murder-suicide in Merrillville on Friday.
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Mar 01, 2026
Six people were injured in a three-car crash in the North Center neighborhood early Sunday morning, Chicago police said.
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Mar 01, 2026
The Read to a Dog program is usually held on Fridays after school hours. Bonner feels this gives children and teens who come into the library "a calming break after a full day/week of school."
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Mar 01, 2026
The president of Iran's soccer federation says he does not know if the national team can play World Cup matches in the United States following the surprise bombardment of his country.
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Mar 01, 2026
Over a decade after finishing a stint in federal prison for a campaign finance scandal, Jesse Jackson Jr. says he has learned his lesson and wants that old seat back.
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Mar 01, 2026
The trio of former South Carolina players are among about a half dozen former WNBA players who are playing basketball in Israel.
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Mar 01, 2026
A senior White House official said Sunday that Iran's "new potential leadership" has suggested it is open to talks with the United States after American and Israeli forces launched a major attack against Tehran.
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Mar 01, 2026
President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it's 1999.
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Mar 01, 2026
World leaders urged peace and a return to talks Sunday as the military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran raised concerns that the violence could spread across the region.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three officers were minorly injured in the crash late Saturday night, Chicago police said.
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Mar 01, 2026
Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Sunday left at least 10 people dead and more than 50 others injured.
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Mar 01, 2026
Violent clashes between protesters and security forces in the Pakistani port city of Karachi left at least nine people killed and more than 50 others wounded on Sunday, after hundreds of demonstrators attempted to storm the U.S. Consulate, authorities said.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three people were killed, including the alleged gunman, and 14 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a popular bar in the Texas capital of Austin, authorities said Sunday.
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Mar 01, 2026
Three people were killed, including the alleged gunman, and 14 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a popular bar in the Texas capital of Austin, authorities said Sunday.
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Mar 01, 2026
This time it was Hilary Knight's turn to provide a big laugh in the wake of a weeklong dust-up involving the United States women's and men's Olympic gold medal-winning hockey teams.
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Mar 01, 2026
Israel and Iran traded strikes Sunday as part of a widening war after the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment a day earlier.
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Mar 01, 2026
Israel and Iran traded strikes Sunday as part of a widening war after the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment a day earlier.
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Mar 01, 2026
In the rush by the Indiana legislature to bring the Chicago Bears to the state, lawmakers gushed over the proposal. One group was conspicuously absent from comments: taxpayers who opposed the plan.
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Mar 01, 2026
Potential Chicago Bears stadium near Wolf Lake just the latest story for a place thats long balanced nature, recreation and industry.
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Mar 01, 2026
"Litigating against the city of Chicago is probably one of the greatest schools of learning you could go to," Antonio Romanucci said.
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Mar 01, 2026
W.I.T.C.H., or the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, staged satirical protests around Chicago in 1969 and 1970.
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Mar 01, 2026
Postponing the closure of the Schahfer coal plant also means continued exposure to toxic emissions and leaks for nearby communities like Wheatfield.
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Mar 01, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 1, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Mar 01, 2026
On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps; since its establishment, over 240,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers.
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Feb 28, 2026
Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Iran's armed proxies like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Feb 28, 2026
President Donald Trump, whose fierce denunciation of military adventurism abroad fueled his unlikely rise to the top of the Republican Party, risks becoming ensnared by that very type of conflict.
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Feb 28, 2026
Four lucky winners raced through the Forest Park grocery store, gathering everything from meat to laundry detergent.
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Feb 28, 2026
America and Israel's attack on Iran disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond Saturday as countries around the region closed their airspace.
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Feb 28, 2026
A high-stakes dispute over military use of artificial intelligence erupted into public view this week as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brusquely terminated Anthropic's work with the Pentagon and other government agencies.
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Feb 28, 2026
The United Nations chief condemned the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and called for an immediate return to negotiations "to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink."
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Feb 28, 2026
Mexican authorities returned the body of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," to his family after he was killed by the Mexican army last week, officials said on Saturday.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Saturday, and U.S. President Donald Trump called on the Iranian public to "seize control of your destiny" by rising up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. military's strikes on Iran provided added impetus for leading Illinois Democrats to step up their criticism of Republican President Donald Trump's leadership.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday in what President Donald Trump said was a massive operation to destroy the country's military capabilities and eliminate the threat of it creating a nuclear weapon.
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Feb 28, 2026
Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump's military attack on Iran unless the administration wins their approval for what they warn is a potentially illegal campaign.
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Feb 28, 2026
Kane County held its first major recycling event of the year - dubbed "The Big One" - in St. Charles on Saturday morning, which offered a chance to recycle a wide variety of items from batteries and electronics to clothes and bicycles.
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Feb 28, 2026
World leaders have responded cautiously after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran raised fears of a wider war.
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Feb 28, 2026
The USW president said in a statement that the country's trade system needs revamped after the U.S. Supreme Court's recent tariff decision.
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Feb 28, 2026
Conservation advocates shared findings in the 2025 "State of the Birds" report at the Indiana Statehouse on Feb. 17.
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Feb 28, 2026
The Indiana legislature completed the 2026 session Friday evening with final approvals of bills dealing with the creation a "military police force" within the Indiana National Guard, fiscal matters, and doxing. The bills go to Gov. Mike Braun's desk for signature.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Saturday, and President Donald Trump urged the Iranian public to "seize control of your destiny" by rising up against the Islamic leadership that has ruled the nation since 1979.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Saturday, and President Donald Trump called on the Iranian public to "seize control of your destiny" by rising up against the Islamic leadership.
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Feb 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Saturday, and President Donald Trump called on the Iranian public to "seize control of your destiny" by rising up against the Islamic leadership.
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Feb 28, 2026
A 30-year-old man was pronounced dead after he was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting overnight in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
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Feb 28, 2026
Beverly artist Dorothy Straughter's quilts evoke painful and often ignored historical realities related to slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration and racist advertising.
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Feb 28, 2026
The choice to replace an ousted Columbus statue in Chicago's Little Italy with a new statue of Italian-born St. Cabrini is a complicated outcome for some Little Italy residents and local Italian Americans.
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Feb 28, 2026
Come May 3, the Chicago Snowballs will put their spin — a la the Savannah Bananas — on America's pastime, a moment owners say already has thousands of fans on a waitlist to score tickets.
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Feb 28, 2026
Illinois has positioned itself as a national safeguard for reproductive rights. But new case raises questions about how those principles are applied in Illinois behind prison walls.
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Feb 28, 2026
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 28, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Feb 28, 2026
On Feb. 28, 1993, a gun battle erupted at a religious compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to arrest Branch Davidian leader David Koresh on weapons charges; four agents and six Davidians were killed as a 51-day standoff began.
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Feb 27, 2026
The arrests of two people in the infamous overnight raid of an apartment building in South Shore were among more than 30 Operation Midway Blitz cases where immigration agents violated a 2022 consent decree limiting so-called warrantless arrests, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Feb 27, 2026
After years of financial turmoil, Hawthorne Race Course filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Chicago on Friday.
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Feb 27, 2026
Chicago Public Schools hosted the Transition Fair, a two-day event that connects students with disabilities to post-secondary opportunities.
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Feb 27, 2026
Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes wrote an apology letter to Marla Rose, who he was accused of pepper-spraying in 2024 as she attempted to ring the doorbell of his west suburban home.
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Feb 27, 2026
Court news from Lake County.
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Feb 27, 2026
A Lowell will on home monitoring and probation for sending threatening texts to the Lake County prosecutor and a police officer.
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Feb 27, 2026
Candidates Beau Bayh and Blythe Potter participated in Thursday's forum, where they answered questions about their goals for the office.
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Feb 27, 2026
A Cedar Lake man is facing new child molesting charges less than two weeks after his sentencing in another case.
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Feb 27, 2026
Valparaiso High School students walked out Friday in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement violence and deportations.
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Feb 27, 2026
The new "Tourism Improvement District" backed by hotel, labor and business groups would allow dozens of large Chicago hotels to impose a new 1.5% tax on overnight stays.
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Feb 27, 2026
Merrillville Police were called at around 8:15 a.m. Feb. 27 to the 7600 block of Van Buren Street for a firearm assault, officials said.
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Feb 27, 2026
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Feb 27, 2026
The Orland High School District 230 board spent more than an hour Thursday discussing a proposal to add Arabic as a world language in district classrooms, after stalling its vote on the curriculum in January. Several board members maintained their position there are several barriers to installing the curriculum and said it is the board's […]
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Feb 27, 2026
Scouting America will alter several policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday as he pushes a campaign against military support for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
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Feb 27, 2026
The Chicago Tribune has won the Toner Prize for local political reporting for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.
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Feb 27, 2026
Police accountability advocates from across the city gathered on the Southwest Side Thursday evening, continuing their calls for a public hearing with Chicago Police Department leadership to address CPD's response to — and relationship with — the federal government and it's immigration crackdown.
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Feb 27, 2026
Police said the suspect arranged to meet the victims after coming into contact with them on social media apps.
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Feb 27, 2026
Will County sheriff primaries feature Democrats Patrick Jones and Dan Jungles, Republicans Justin Fialko and James "Jim" Reilly.
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Feb 27, 2026
For the report, Northwestern researchers aimed to analyze violent deaths of Illinois children ages 10 and younger who died at the hands of caregivers between 2015 and 2022.
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Feb 27, 2026
An Indiana bill aimed at eliminating welfare fraud received final approval by the Senate Wednesday and heads to Gov. Mike Braun's desk for signature.
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Feb 27, 2026
James Clifford Broadway kept using an expletive during a hearing that Porter Superior Court Judge Michael Fish described as "combative."
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Feb 27, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make a quick trip to Israel early next week, the State Department said, as tensions between the United States and Iran remain high after their latest nuclear talks and American forces gather in the region.
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Feb 27, 2026
The U.S. Embassy in Israel on Friday told its staff that it could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure to do so immediately, as the threat of an American strike on Iran looms.
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Feb 27, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's "not happy" with the latest talks over Iran's nuclear program but indicated he would give negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East.
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Feb 27, 2026
Pakistan and Afghanistan traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries that Pakistan's defense minister said Friday means they are now in "open war."
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Feb 27, 2026
Former President Bill Clinton is testifying Friday before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, answering for his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago.
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Feb 27, 2026
Former President Bill Clinton started his deposition before members of Congress investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday by telling them he "did nothing wrong" and saw no signs of Epstein's abuse.
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Feb 27, 2026
As wounded anti-government protesters poured into an Iranian hospital during last month's crackdown, a young doctor hurried to the emergency room to help treat a man in his 40s who had been shot in the head at close range.
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