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Airstrikes may have destroyed Iran's last F-14s, ending a long, strange saga

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The final catapult launch of the F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt on July 28, 2006. The U.S. military retired the plane that year.

The F-14 was made famous in Top Gun. The U.S. sold the planes to Iran in the 1970s, only for the two countries to become enemies. Iran kept its F-14s flying for decades in the face of U.S. sanctions.

(Image credit: U.S. Navy)

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No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing

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The Division 9 Maximum Security Dormitory of the Cook County Department of Corrections — where inmates have been found using deadly illicit drugs — saturated onto paper — in the pages of books, letters from family and legal documents.

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Canada’s Military Wants to Prove It Can Defend the High Arctic

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Canadian soldiers transported M777 howitzers to the High Arctic to show their ability to fight in an increasingly contested part of the world. It did not go as planned.
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Not All Malls Are Struggling

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A certain type of shopping mall has become a surprising bright spot for real estate investors.

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The Billionaire Funding France’s Far Right

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Pierre-Édouard Stérin is financing projects to make France less Muslim, more Catholic and more capitalist. He says his program has trained thousands running for municipal office on Sunday.

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Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son.

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Silicon Valley’s young coders are getting creative with this new technology. They also worry they’re not spending enough time with it.
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