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The last Marine to leave Vietnam has died. Juan Valdez was 88.

By Harrison Smith
Feb 28, 2026 3:14 pm - Standing on the U.S. Embassy roof as tanks rumbled toward Saigon and gunfire rang out below, Juan Valdez wondered if he and his fellow Marines might have actually been forgotten.
Trump says Iran’s supreme leader is dead

By JON GAMBRELL, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI
Feb 28, 2026 7:42 am - Israeli officials told The Associated Press Saturday that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. or Iran on his status. The assassination of the second leader of the Islamic Republic, who had no designated successor, would throw its future into doubt.
Trump raises the possibility of a ‘friendly takeover of Cuba’ coming out of talks with Havana

By WILL WEISSERT
Feb 27, 2026 7:52 pm - President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. is in talks with Havana and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover of Cuba” without offering any details on what he meant.
Trump’s ‘pretty much’ decided whom to endorse in Texas’ Senate primary but isn’t yet saying a name

By SEUNG MIN KIM and THOMAS BEAUMONT
Feb 27, 2026 7:43 pm - President Donald Trump — who has long seemed like he just can’t seem to choose among friends in the Texas Senate Republican primary — says he's “pretty much” decided whom to endorse in the critical March 3 contest.
Trump moves toward Iran attack as mediator says nuclear deal is close

By Karen DeYoung and John Hudson
Feb 27, 2026 7:12 pm - A U.S. military attack on Iran could result in regime change, President Donald Trump said Friday. “Nobody knows. … It would be nice if we could do it without” military force, Trump said, “but sometimes you have to do it with.”Trump, speaking with reporters before his morning departure from the White House for Texas and Florida, said he was “not thrilled” with how negotiations with Iran were going over his demand that it “not have nuclear weapons.”
Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and ’70s, dies at age 86

By LEANNE ITALIE
Feb 27, 2026 6:43 pm - Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n' roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died.
Trump orders all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology

By MATT O'BRIEN and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Feb 27, 2026 4:28 pm - President Donald Trump said Friday he was ordering all federal agencies to phase out the use of Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.
Sweden says it intercepted Russian drone during visit by French aircraft carrier

Feb 27, 2026 4:22 pm - A Russian drone carried out an unauthorized flight off southern Sweden earlier this week while a French aircraft carrier was docked in the port of Malmö, the Swedish military said Friday, in what the defense minister said was a violation of his country's airspace.
US military used a laser to shoot down a Border Protection drone

By Victoria Craw and Alex Horton
Feb 27, 2026 4:15 pm - The U.S. military fired a laser to bring down a drone operated by Customs and Border Protection in Texas, officials and lawmakers said, triggering a second airspace closure along the Mexico border this month and further exposing the apparent lack of coordination among government agencies.
Bill Clinton says he 'did nothing wrong' with Epstein as he faces grilling over their relationship

By STEPHEN GROVES
Feb 27, 2026 12:00 pm - Former President Bill Clinton told members of Congress on Friday that he “did nothing wrong” in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and saw no signs of Epstein's sexual abuse as he faced hours of grilling from lawmakers over his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago.

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