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Conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. An enemies list.

Spend the shortest month of the year with a book that is worth your time. The best new books to read in February include best-seller Ali Hazelwood’s latest romance, transgender activist Jennifer Finney Boylan’s second memoir, and Virginia Feito’s blood-soaked

The tariffs would also invite retaliation. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, has already vowed to counterpunch by pulling American alcohol off store shelves in the Canadian province.

Three Israeli hostages, including dual US and French citizens, set for release in Gaza on Saturday  Reuters Hamas Turns Hostage Releases Into a Humiliating Spectacle for Israel  The Wall Street Journal American and father of youngest hostages among those due for release

January should be a great month for television, as brutal cold makes captive, couch-potato audiences of us all. Sadly, in practice, a long holiday hangover tends to limit new releases; platforms’ reticence to compete for attention with an inevitable regime-change

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the first execution in the United States this year. Marion Bowman Jr, 44, was sentenced to death in 2002 for the

Target announced last Friday that it would join other American brands in scaling back their DEI goals and activities, which have come under attack from conservatives and the new White House of President Donald Trump.

Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that more than 40 bodies have been pulled from the river as the massive recovery effort continues Friday.

The men include Yarden Bibas, who is the father of the youngest captives held in Gaza. He, Keith Siegel and Ofer Kalderon have all become household names in Israel since their abduction.

Father of youngest hostage among three men to be released on Saturday, Hamas says  BBC.com Hamas Turns Hostage Releases Into a Humiliating Spectacle for Israel  The Wall Street Journal American and father of youngest hostages among those due for release from Gaza