Blackout Nation: Cuba’s Long Decline Reaches a Breaking Point

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There is a darkness settling over Cuba that is no longer metaphorical. On Monday, the island’s electrical grid failed completely — a “total disconnection,” in the clinical language of the Ministry of Energy and Mines. Eleven million people lost power. It was not the first time. It will not be the last. The outage is the latest convulsion in a crisis that has been building for years, driven by fuel shortages, decaying infrastructure, and an economy that has been losing ground for decades. President Miguel Díaz-Canel disclosed last week that Cuba had not received an oil shipment in more than

The Cards Are on the Table — And Tehran Is Holding a Losing Hand

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There is something almost classical about what Washington did Friday. An act of statecraft that is also, in its way, a statement of belief. The State Department announced it will pay up to $10 million to any Iranian citizen who comes forward with information on the whereabouts of senior leaders in the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus. Those who help could also earn something worth more than money: a path to American shores. The program targets ten figures tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an organization the United States government has designated a terrorist enterprise. The names are significant. Iran’s

Four Deportations, One Veteran, One Question: Who Failed Richard Williams?

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He came back four times. Bairon Hernandez, 34, a Honduran national with at least 15 arrests on his record — aggravated assault, weapons possession, domestic violence, drug charges, obstruction — was deported from the United States four separate times. The last time was in 2020. He came back anyway. On Sunday, federal officials say, he walked into the Lexington Avenue station at 63rd Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and shoved two strangers onto the tracks. One was Jhon Pena, 30. The other was Richard Williams, 83 — a veteran who served his country in the United States Air Force

Late Night’s One-Way War: 94% of Iran War Jokes at America’s Expense: Report

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MRC drops a not-so-shocking report.
MRC drops a not-so-shocking report.

War breaks out — and so do the court jesters. America’s late-night comedians responded to the outbreak of the Iran conflict with a week of disapproval and an even sharper imbalance in their punchlines. A new study from the Media Research Center found that 94 percent of the jokes about the war were aimed not at Iran but at the United States and its allies. The analysts examined twenty episodes aired between March 2 and March 5 across five shows: Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Tonight

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