U.S.-backed Syrian forces recapture Raqqa from Islamic State group

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced Tuesday that they had captured the city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants. “Everything is finished in Raqqa, our forces have taken full control of Raqqa,” SDF spokesman Talal Sello told AFP. A formal declaration would be announced after operations to clear any remaining sleeper cells and to remove landmines in the …

Read More

Trump and the new politics of honoring war dead

WASHINGTON — After her Army son died in an armored vehicle rollover in Syria in May, Sheila Murphy says, she got no call or letter from President Donald Trump, even as she waited months for his condolences, wrote to him to say “some days I don’t want to live,” and still heard nothing. In …

Read More

Migrant-Crisis Fearmongering Wasn’t Enough to Hold George Santos’s Old Seat

Republicans famously hate “snowflakes”—overly fragile liberals who can’t handle any political heat. Some of the un-American, lily-livered ideas that snowflakes support include early-voting periods and mail-in ballots. The Republican Party, thanks to Donald Trump’s insistence that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen, actively discourages its supporters from voting in these easy and convenient ways. …

Read More

Apple’s Vision Pro buyers are returning it to the Apple Store

Thousands of people lined up outside Apple Stores on Feb. 2 to see the Vision Pro’s stunning debut, but dissatisfied customers are returning their headsets this week. Why? Apple’s 14-day return period expires on Feb. 16 for day one Vision Pro users. It looks like these bros kept their receipts, from Apple, and are …

Read More

Russian official contradicts Kremlin on Ukraine peace plan

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday said reaching a peace agreement with Ukraine “will certainly be impossible,” seemingly contradicting recent messages from the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin himself indicated a peace deal was still possible when he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson in a talk that aired on February 8. Days later, …

Read More