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Originally I was going to call this post “The New York Times coddles faith again,” but there is not all that much coddling in this review of Christopher Beha’s new book Why I am not an Atheist. From my post:Even the title of this New Yorker article is dumb: “faith in atheism” is an oxymoron, for a lack of belief in gods is not a “faith” in any meaningful sense. But it plays well with the progressive New Yorker crowd (same as the NY Times crowd) in being soft on religion and hard on atheism. That is something Egan apparently documents in his own book and is, of course, the subject of Beha’s book. Instead, Egan’s take is anodyne, for one simply cannot get away with pushing nonbelief in the New York Times.

A United Airlines passenger jet bound for New Jersey safely returned to Los Angeles International Airport this morning after a possible engine fire. A Monday morning United Airlines flight departing Los Angeles International Airport had to turn around and make an emergency landing back at the airport after an engine fire was reported, officials said. Firefighters were alerted about an aircraft problem at 11:05 a.m. as the plane headed back to Los Angeles, said LAFD spokesperson Lyndsey Lantz. AdvertisementA total of 256 passengers were on board the plane, as well as a 12-person crew, a spokesperson for United said. A brief ground stop was initially placed by the Federal Aviation Administration, but a spokesperson for Los Angeles World Airports said that has since been lifted.

The slain Americans were part of a sustainment unit in Kuwait, two U.S. officials told The Washington Post. Trump has said in multiple social posts since the operation began that he is committed to a long-term military operation against Iran. In 2024, three U.S. soldiers were killed and others wounded in a drone attack on their base in Jordan. Commanders and personnel failed to properly detect and intercept an Iranian-made drone that smashed into the troops’ living quarters. Investigators later found senior leaders denied a request to position an air defense system there.

In Jebel Ali Port, near Dubai, video showed an explosion producing a giant fireball rising dozens of feet in the air. Ask The Post AIDive deeperIranian munitions also hit Zayed Port in Abu Dhabi, where the French navy has a permanent base. Two drones struck a commercial port in Duqm, a port town along Oman’s southeast coast, according to the country’s state news agency. An attack drone struck a high-rise residential tower in Bahrain on Feb. 28 as Iranian forces carried out retaliatory strikes. (Video: Verified by The Post)A British tourist vacationing at a Dubai beach club posted a video of munitions being intercepted on Saturday.

This is read by an automated voice. Michael B. Jordan’s awards are stacking up. The “Sinners” star won the Actor Award for lead actor for portraying the film’s twin ex-mob enforcers turned juke joint owners, Smoke and Stack. “I wasn’t expecting this at all,” Jordan said as he accepted his award Sunday evening. “Sinners” received a record 16 nominations, many of which are sure to turn into wins at the March 15 ceremony.

BEIT SHEMESH, Israel — Even before U.S. and Israeli warplanes struck Iranian targets, officials in Washington and Jerusalem were bracing for retaliation. By Monday, less than 72 hours after the first strikes, the conflict had ricocheted well beyond the original targets in Iran, Israel and Iraq. Militias aligned with Tehran claimed strikes from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. “The regional spillover is already happening,” said Shira Efron, a Tel Aviv-based fellow at Rand, the security think tank. Drones even struck a port in Oman — long a quiet intermediary between Washington and Tehran — an attack Iranian officials blamed on a targeting mistake.

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The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina concluded on Feb. 22, capping what was a dominant showcase from the women of Team USA. The most notable wins came from Alysa Liu in Figure Skating and the incredible tournament by the USA Women’s Hockey team. Across all nations, these Games featured the highest female participation in Winter Olympics history, with 47 percent of athletes being women. As the United States’ medal count continued to rise, the spotlight shifted to the U.S. Women’s Hockey team. The U.S. Women’s Hockey team went on the most dominant Olympic hockey tournament run in history.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) on Monday will unveil new legislation that would raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s roughly 1,000 billionaires, aiming to roughly halve their fortunes. Sanders’s new legislation, which expands on his prior efforts, calls for an annual 5 percent wealth tax on America’s billionaires. Gavin Newsom, widely viewed as a top Democratic presidential candidate, has objected to a billionaire tax currently being proposed in his state. The total wealth of America’s billionaires rose last year by roughly 20 percent, according to Americans for Tax Fairness, a left-leaning organization. Sanders argues that the measure is an essentially conservative compromise that would leave most billionaires’ fortunes intact.

NationalHegseth and Caine hold briefing at the Pentagon after Iran strikesMarch 2, 2026 | 12:50 PM GMTDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, are set to hold a rare on-camera media briefing on March 2.

The Trump administration has decided to drop its prolonged court fights against four law firms with ties to Democrats, after it had sought and failed to cut out the firms’ access to the federal government as part of an apparent retribution campaign by President Donald Trump. Each of the firms, Trump said, had employed lawyers who had investigated or opposed him personally. He attempted to use the powers of the presidency to deprive the firms’ lawyers of access to federal buildings, secured classified information and meetings with federal agencies – all mainstays of Washington-based legal work. Advertisement AdvertisementThe firms were notified by the administration this weekend that it was dropping its appeals, according to a source familiar with the decision. Advertisement AdvertisementThough the executive orders didn’t survive in court, they have widely curtailed large American law firms’ willingness to oppose the administration and represent progressive causes publicly.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Department of Justice is dropping its appeals of cases that struck down President Donald Trump’s executive orders punishing law firms, per multiple reports, officially marking a defeat of the president’s vindictive campaign to cow law firms into obedience. Trump’s executive orders, intended to undermine the ability of major law firms to challenge his administration, were some of the earliest actions he took upon retaking office in 2025. President Donald Trump targeted multiple law firms with punitive executive orders. Top law firms pulled back from representing pro bono clients, such as immigrants targeted by the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies in the immediate wake of the orders. This was all part of an autocratic plan to force elements of civil society ― law firms, nonprofits and universities ―to bend the knee through legal threats, sanctions and the removal of funding.

Witness recounts Austin mass shootingCNN's Ed Lavandera speaks with 22-year-old University of Texas at Austin student Nathan Comeaux, who recorded video capturing what he says was police firing at a suspect in Sunday's deadly shooting in Austin, Texas. The FBI is investigating a "potential nexus to terrorism" in the attack, which left two people dead and 14 others injured.

Days after the US and Israel first launched strikes against Iran, the conflict is widening by the hour, drawing in other countries across the region, sparking fears for the global economy and leaving thousands of travelers stranded. Later Monday, Israel launched further strikes across Lebanon, after earlier issuing evacuation warnings that spurred hundreds of people to flee the south of the country. Similarly, missiles from Iran were intercepted in the skies above both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Monday morning. Inside Iran, the regime is battered, bereft of its supreme leader, but still able to launch attacks across the region. Don’t come to this region,” he said in comments aired by the official Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.