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Donald Trump says he is “not happy” with the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new supreme leader.The United States president had warned repeatedly against electing the son of assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to lead the country as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran intensified.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“I’m not going through this to end up with another Khamenei. I want to be involved in the selection,” Trump told Time magazine on Friday.Two days later, Iran’s Assembly of Experts did exactly that – it replaced the slain Khamenei with his 56-year-old son.The decision was a show of…

One of the largest school districts in New Mexico subjects Navajo students to pervasive discrimination and a climate of fear, according to a report released last week by the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission.  The 25-page report draws on testimony from parents and community members at four public hearings in Navajo Nation communities within the school district. It urges the New Mexico attorney general’s office to release findings from a two-and-a-half-year investigation into the district’s discipline of Indigenous students. The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission’s report cited an investigation published in December 2022 by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica…

As geopolitical crisis creates a mask-off moment for business and politics, one family’s business empire is uniquely exposed to the consequences triggered by Trump’s AI-powered war on Iran. I’m referring to the Ellison family and their network of companies, including Oracle, Paramount, part of American TikTok, and seemingly Warner Bros. Discovery. Prelude: Paramount Beat Netflix for WBD I’ve been busy with election results, hasbara propaganda war, grassroots rebellions against data centers and ICE, and annual presidential speeches to update on the (seemingly final) outcome of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery between Netflix and Paramount/Skydance. TL;DR Paramount overpaid, Netflix…

The truck’s tank was full but it wasn’t with fuel.Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa Import Cargo Facility discovered nearly 1,000 pounds of liquid methamphetamine stuffed inside a commercial tractor-trailer’s fuel tank last week after spotting a white, crystalline substance on top of the tank during inspection, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.A follow-up search uncovered 29 buckets of liquid concealed inside the passenger-side fuel tank, totaling approximately 428.60 kilograms, or 944.90 pounds. A sample from the fuel tank tested positive for methamphetamine, federal prosecutors said.The driver, Oscar…

Savannah Guthrie Spotted in NYC as Mom Search Hits Week 6 Published March 9, 2026 8:13 AM PDT Savannah Guthrie was putting on a brave face in the New York chill — stepping out as the desperate search for her mom, Nancy Guthrie, stretches into the sixth week since she was last seen. The «Today» show anchor was spotted Sunday in the Big Apple with husband Michael Feldman and their son Charles … trying to keep things as normal as possible despite the turmoil that’s gripped her family in recent weeks. Even in the middle of the nightmare, Savannah managed…

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. I’m Eric Sondheimer. It’s the final week of the high school basketball season with regional finals Tuesday and the state championships Friday and Saturday at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.Basketball finalesIt’s crunch time in high school basketball. You either win and get to go on a trip to Sacramento or lose and the season is over. Let’s examine Tuesday’s regional final matchups. Dominique Bentho is all smiles after Harvard-Westlake semifinal win over St. Joseph. The Wolverines face Sierra Canyon on Tuesday for the Southern California Open Division regional basketball championship. BOYSOpen:…

PARIS — The celebrities came first, as they always do at the Paris runways. After Oprah Winfrey stole the show in the opening stretch of the nine-day week, Naomi Watts and Kai Schreiber were at Balenciaga. Rooney Mara, Diane Kruger, Alexa Chung, Elizabeth Olsen and Yseult turned up at Givenchy. Sarah Paulson and Tracee Ellis Ross watched Celine. Chappell Roan was at Vivienne Westwood and then at McQueen, where Myha’la and Sophie Thatcher were also there. Chanel was still to come Monday, and Louis Vuitton capping the season Tuesday.But this week was about more than the front row. Paris Fashion…

Nancy Keenan, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, was in San Francisco in early 2010 when she was jolted awake by a call from a Washington, DC, area code. It was 4:30 in the morning, California time. Half-asleep, Keenan answered. It was Jim Messina, deputy chief of staff for President Obama. Fellow Montanans, Messina and Keenan had known each other for years.“Keenan,” Messina said. “It’s Jim.” “Hi, Jim,” Keenan replied sleepily.Then she heard President Obama’s voice on the line.In stark terms, he laid out some of the highest stakes Keenan had faced during her six years at the helm of…

State media in Iran reported early Monday that Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been named his father’s successor. The 56-year-old, appointed by a council of clerics, is reportedly a proponent of the country’s hardline theocratic rule and is expected to continue the resistance to the regime change sought by the U.S. and Israel, according to early reports. Before the announcement, Israel warned that any successor named by the council would be a target of the ongoing joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. U.S. President Trump said Sunday that Iran’s new leader “is not going to last…

Every year, I try to write a post about books that I’ve read in the past year. This time, I found myself writing so much about some of the books, that the post was getting unmanageably large. So I’ve split it in two. This is part one; part two will follow.  Geoff Eley, Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850–2000. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to build on the traditions of radical politics, especially those in conversation with Marxism. If you read this blog, and you haven’t read this book, you should…