“Our Achilles heel, our blessing and our curse, is our bread,” co-owner Brian Perrone said. 

Nothing about Operation Epic Fury occurred within a thousand miles of Tokyo. Yet no capital in the world stands to gain more from the wreckage of Khamenei’s regime than the one sitting across the East China Sea from Shanghai.

The results were stark. The range between the most expensive and least expensive mainstream supermarkets was a wallet-walloping 33%. If you counted warehouse clubs, the gap was even bigger. Those baskets carried the lowest price tags at Costco Wholesale and BJ’s Wholesale Club, both of which came in at 21% cheaper than Walmart. 

As of February 23, 2026, of the 6,571 homes destroyed by the Palisades Fire in unincorporated Los Angeles County, a total of 13 homes have been rebuilt.

“I think it’s really, really nice to see a new shape. I do find (the barrels) appropriate,” commission member Jessica Klehr said. “I find them scaled well. And I think it would be thrilling to see this.”

Josh Mandel: Every patient has a right to their complete Electronic Health Information — but there’s rarely an API or in-portal button to request it. I built an AI skill that handles the request workflow via fax, finding the right form, filling, signing, and submitting with a cover letter explaining the request in vendor-specific terms. Here’s how it works, how to try it, and why I built it as a “Skill” rather than an app.

The City of Starbase is teaming up with SpaceX to help protect more than 1,000 acres of South Texas coastal plains through the Rockhands Mitigation Bank. A conservation committee will care for this land and ensure its wildlife and habitats are preserved for generations to come. SpaceX will provide funding and resources to support the City’s role as long-term caretaker, ensuring this unique coastal environment remains protected far into the future.

In the letter, Andy Walz, Chevron’s president of downstream, midstream, and chemicals wrote “the proposed regulation will cripple the survivability of the state’s remaining refineries.”

Both Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) ran for the Senate in 1996 by promising to never serve more than two terms, insisting career politicians are bad for the country. Here they are 30 years later, still haunting the Senate, seeking more and more years.

WOW… JB Pritzker’s blind trust bought Centene stock. Then Centene got $20 BILLION in Illinois Medicaid contracts. Then Pritzker met personally with Centene executives. Then he claimed he knew nothing.

However, Murphy’s abandoned phone was picked up during the break and found to be recording. I was told the court yanked her press credential and sent her packing. Talk about contempt!

The 26-year-old woman who cops said was set on fire by a lunatic with a lengthy rap sheet on a Chicago L train earlier this month has been identified as Bethany MaGee.

“It is definitely more expensive to shoot down a drone than to put a drone in the sky,” said Arthur Erickson, the chief executive and a co-founder of Hylio, a drone manufacturer in Texas. “It’s a money game. The cost ratio per shot, per interception, is at best 10 to one. But it could be more like 60 or 70 to one in terms of cost, in favor of Iran.”. Iran has fired off more than 2,000 one-way drones since the United States and Israel started attacking it on Saturday, and some reached their targets, despite billion-dollar air defense systems. It’s a looming problem — not just in the Middle East, but everywhere. In a world where attack drones are cheap, and defending against them expensive, the bill could become unsustainable over time.

The head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power stepped down Wednesday as part of a “planned leadership transition,” Mayor Karen Bass’ office announced. Janisse Quiñones, who took the helm at DWP in 2024, is returning to Puerto Rico, where she is from, to help modernize the island’s electric grid.

Preservation Chicago released its annual Most Endangered Buildings list Wednesday. The nonprofit, which advocates for the preservation of local architecture, has released editions of the list since 2003, spotlighting buildings and structures that are “endangered” by demolition or neglect.

Burchett asked Ellison why didn’t he prosecute these nonprofits criminally. Ellison replied in the moment that he has no power to do so. That answer from Ellison contradicted statements he made under oath earlier in the hearing, admitting he does have the power to prosecute frauds, including frauds other than Medicaid cases.

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Jeff Bezos wants AI to approve Miami building permits in 10 seconds: “Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit and it should give you a yes or a no in 10 seconds. Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.”

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A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.

In 1979, Atari and Texas Instruments (TI) established a new category of computer, which hybridized the features of the personal computer and video game console. Like a video game system, they had dedicated graphics and sound chips and cartridge-based software, but they were also programmable and expandable, with peripherals like tape cassette drives and printers. But neither of their computers hit the “everyman” price point that would clearly put them in a new market segment—the Atari 400, at $550, cost nearly as much as two well-established personal computers (the TRS-80 and Commodore PET), and the TI-99/4 had a budget look but a premium price: at $1150, it was in the same ballpark as the Apple II.

“Over the next five years, he expects data centers to shift away from bespoke construction toward more modular, repeatable designs — standardized blueprints capable of being replicated globally at unprecedented speed.”

During the 2022 transformation of the former Glenway Golf Course into The Glen Golf Park, the focus was on making the course more accessible to first-time and older players while still offering a challenge to experienced golfers, Beck said.

I got to try two banh mi sandwiches at Dreamy Teazy this past week, a barely spicy sesame fried chicken and the more classic barbecued pork. This cafe at 1297 N. Sherman Ave. (next to a Klinke Cleaners) is making the best banh mi I have had in the city so far — crusty yet pillowy bread, lightly pickled radish and carrot, plus tangy mayo make this one of my absolute favorite sandwiches. They’re $12 and huge.

Considering your position, it would really be appreciated if you could engage in the Supreme Court race for Lazar. Post on Milwaukee restaurants really aren’t helpful in that regard.

A similar change has taken place in Venezuela. Once a star of world oil and one of the founding members of Opec, today it can hardly even be called a petrostate. It produces less oil than the US state of North Dakota and a quarter as much as neighbouring Brazil.

For decades, the abiding image of American healthcare interoperability has been the fax machine—a whirring, beige anachronism sitting in a basement medical records department, spitting out unreadable PDFs. But while policymakers were busy trying to kill the fax, a new and far more complex combatant entered the arena. The next era of health data won’t be defined by paper, or even by human beings clicking through portals and EHRs. It will be defined by “agents”—autonomous AI software designed to read, analyze, and act on medical records without a human ever touching a keyboard.