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The professor also admits to calling the chapter "dog sh*t grifters."
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Neil Sedaka, Legendary Singer-Songwriter Behind ‘Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,’ ‘Bad Blood’ and ‘Love Will Keep Us Together,’ Dies at 86
Feb 27, 2026 1:48pm PT
Neil Sedaka, legendary singer-songwriter behind hits like “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” “Bad Blood,” “Laughter in the Rain” and “Calendar Girl,” has died, a rep confirms to Variety. He was 86.
“Our family is devastated by the sudden passing of our beloved husband, father and grandfather, Neil Sedaka,” a statement from the family reads. “A true rock and roll legend, an inspiration to millions, but most importantly, at least to those of us who were lucky enough to know him, an incredible human being who will be deeply missed.”
A Brooklyn native and a veteran of the legendary “Brill Building” hit factory of the early ’60s, Sedaka scored three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and nine in the Top 10, primarily during his peak years in the early 1960s and a mid-’70s comeback assisted by Elton John (who performed with him on the 1975 No. 1 “Bad Blood”).
Sedaka also wrote many songs that were hits for other artists, most notably Connie Francis’ 1958 hit “Stupid Cupid” and, 17 years later, the Captain and Tennille’s breakthrough chart-topper “Love Will Keep Us Together.” He continued to tour and record for many years after his commercial peak.
Over the course of his six-decade-plus career, Sedaka was nominated for five Grammy awards (including one at the second-ever edition of the show in 1959). In 1983, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and in 1978 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“This is a gift I was born with,” Sedaka wrote on his website. “My main objective is to always top the last collection, raise the bar and reinvent Neil Sedaka.”
A member of the same Brooklyn generation that produced Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Carole King and many others, Sedaka was born on March 13, 1939 and grew up in the borough’s Brighton Beach neighborhood. He showed early musical aptitude and his second-grade teacher recommended piano lessons; within a couple of years he had successfully auditioned for a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music’s Preparatory Division for Children, and continued at Julliard through his teens.
While he initially pursued classical music, he was bitten by the pop music bug as a teen. At the age of 13, a neighbor heard him playing piano and introduced him to her son, Howard Greenfield, who was three years older. However, the pair began a songwriting partnership that was to take them to the top of the pop charts multiple times over the following 25 years.
Sedaka began performing during his years at Abraham Lincoln High School, and after graduating he formed a doo-wop group with classmates called the Linc-Tones, named after the school. The group released several singles that were local hits before Sedaka left in 1957 to launch a solo career; the Linc-Tones evolved into the Tokens, who scored a global smash in 1961 with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
But by that time Sedaka and Greenfield were staples of the Brill Building, along with Diamond, King, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann and many others. He and Greenfield scored their first hit with Francis and “Stupid Cupid,” who followed with another song from the duo, “Where the Boys Are,” which would be her biggest hit.
Sedaka is survived by his wife, Leba Strassberg, whom he married in 1962, and his two children, Marc and Dara.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/neil-sedaka-dead-singer-songwriter-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-1236675098/
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NEWS: Iran has agreed to give up its stockpile of enriched material - zero accumulation - & allow for full verification by the IAEA of its nuclear program according to US-Iran talks mediator, Oman's foreign minister Badr al Busaidi.
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WATCH: After meeting with Vice President JD Vance, Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi – a key mediator in the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks – tells @margbrennan "the peace deal is within our reach.” He also said, “I don't think any alternative to diplomacy is going to solve this
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28 Feb, 2026 00:39
Bill Clinton said he ‘did not have sex’ with mystery woman in Epstein’s jacuzzi – media
The former US President did not address the press following his testimony before the House Oversight Committee
Former US President Bill Clinton allegedly told congressional investigators that he did not have sex with a woman photographed with him in a jacuzzi, and does not even know her name, according to CNN and NBC sources familiar with the testimony about his links to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Clinton’s closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Friday lasted roughly six hours and concluded without the former president or his legal team addressing the press. The former president chose to manage the public response through social media, asserting inhis opening statement that he “saw nothing”and “did nothing wrong.”(Captain Shultz)
Several members of the committee told reporters outside the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center that the session was “productive” andsaid Clinton at times spoke more candidly than his attorneys preferred.
“He did attempt to respond to every single question asked, even when his attorney told him to shut up,” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said. Rep. Nancy Mace thanked the former president for cooperating.
Lawmakers questioned Clinton extensively about his appearances in newly released Epstein files, including photographs showing him alongside Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a prison sentence for sex trafficking offenses.
At one point, Clinton was asked about photographs released by the Justice Department showing him in a hot tub with a woman whose face was redacted, according to CNN.
Clinton allegedly said he did not know the woman and denied having any sexual relationship with her.He also repeatedly told investigators that he never visited Epstein’s private island.
The inquiry also examined Clinton’s presence in Epstein flight logs and White House visitor records from the 1990s. Clinton has previouslyacknowledged traveling on Epstein’s private jet but has described their relationship as brief and said he was unaware of Epstein’s criminal conduct.
Clinton was represented during questioning by longtime attorney David Kendall, while spokesperson Angel Urena issued a written statement criticizing the Justice Department’s handling of Epstein-related evidence files. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who unlike her husband briefly spoke to reporters following her own testimony a day earlier, described the inquiry as “political theater.”
Video recordings and transcripts of both Clintons’ depositions are expected to be released in the coming days, pending legal review. The testimonies form part of a wider congressional effort to examine individuals connected to Epstein’s network. Comer said additional subpoenas are expected but declined to identify future witnesses.
https://www.rt.com/news/633149-clinton-epstein-jacuzzi-woman/
11 Feb, 2026 22:09
AI safety researcher quits with a cryptic warning
“The world is in peril,” the head of Anthropic’s Safeguards Research Team wrote in his resignation letter
A top artificial intelligence safety researcher has resigned from Anthropic with an enigmatic warning about “interconnected crises,” announcing his plans to become “invisible for a period of time.”
MrinankSharma, an Oxford graduate who led the Claude chatbot maker’s SafeguardsResearch Team, posted his resignation letter on X Monday, describing a growing personal reckoning with “our situation.”
“The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote to colleagues.
The departure comes amid mounting tensions surrounding the San Francisco-based AI lab, which issimultaneously racing to developever more powerful systemswhile its own executives warn that those same technologies could harm humanity.
It also follows reports of a widening rift between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the military’s desire to deploy AI for autonomous weapons targeting without the safeguards the company has sought to impose.
Sharma’s resignation, which lands days after Anthropic released Opus 4.6 – a more powerful iteration of its flagship Claude tool – hinted at internal friction over safety priorities.
“Throughout my time here, I’ve repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions,” he wrote. “I’ve seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most, and throughout broader society too.”
The researcher’s team was established just over a year ago with a mandate to tackle AI security threats including “model misuse and misalignment,” bioterrorism prevention, and “catastrophe prevention.”
Sharma noted with pride his work developing defenses against AI-assisted bioweapons and his “final project on understanding how AI assistants could make us less human or distort our humanity.” Now he intends to move back to the UK to “explore a poetry degree” and “become invisible for a period of time.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has repeatedly warned of the dangers posed by the very technology his company is commercializing. In a near-20,000-word essay last month,he cautioned that AI systems of “almost unimaginable power”are “imminent” and will “test who we are as a species.”
Amodeiwarned of “autonomy risks” where AI could “go rogue and overpower humanity,” and suggested the technology could enable “a global totalitarian dictatorship” through AI-powered surveillance and autonomous weapons.
https://www.rt.com/news/632333-anthropic-ai-safety-researcher/
27 Feb, 2026 21:09
Ukraine ‘has no interest’ in restarting oil supplies – EU state’s PM
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused Kiev of cutting off Russian deliveries via the Druzhba pipeline
Kiev has no interest in resuming the flow of Russian crude through the Druzhba (Friendship) oil pipeline, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has concluded after a phone call with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.
The Soviet-era pipeline, part of which passes through Ukraine, stopped delivering oil last month. Kiev has attributed this to damage from Russian strikes, which Moscow has denied.Hungary and Slovakia, which are both heavily dependent on the fuel deliveries, have accused Ukraine of deliberately cutting off them off for political reasons.
In a statement on X on Friday, Fico saidhe spoke with Zelensky and told him that his “decision to stop the transit of oil is causing [Slovakia] logistical difficulties and economic damage.”
Slovak intelligence “confirms that the pipeline is not damaged and nothing prevents the transit of oil,” yet theUkrainian leader “insisted that repairing the pipeline requires a long time,” he said.
From the conversation… I gained a clear impression that the Ukrainian side has no interest in resuming the transit of oil.
The prime minister also said he informed Zelensky that Bratislava and Budapest will push foran “inspection group composed of experts nominated by the European Commission and EU Member States”to check the allegedly damaged areas of the pipeline.
The Druzhba oil pipeline
Kiev has so far blocked the Slovak ambassador in Ukraine from carrying out such an inspection, Fico said.
Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orban has also argued that Kiev simply shut off the pipeline.
“Let me be clear… Zelensky is lying,” he wrote on X just hours prior. “We know that there is no technical reason oil cannot flow to Hungary through the Friendship pipeline. They refuse inspections and hide the truth.”
Last week, in response to what he called Ukraine’s “political blackmail,” Orban vetoed Brussels’ planned €90 billion ($106 billion) emergency loan for Kiev, as well as the EU’s 20th package of sanctions on Russia.
Earlier this week, he ordered additional Hungarian military and police to patrol energy infrastructure at the border with Ukraine, citing intelligence from Budapest’s security services about potential attacks.
https://www.rt.com/news/633144-ukraine-shut-oil-pipeline-fico/
27 Feb, 2026 20:34
IMF approves $8.1 billion loan for Kiev
The decision comes as a €90 billion package from the EU is still being blocked by Budapest
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) hasapproved a new four-year loan for Ukraine, which is currently facing an acute budget deficit. A much larger sum offered by Brussels and backed by EU taxpayers remains blocked by Hungary’s veto.
The IMF has allocated $8.1 billion, with $1.5 billion to be disbursed immediately, the UN financial institution said in a statement published on Friday. The sum would still be insufficient to cover the Ukrainian government’s needs, it admitted.
Kiev will have a budget deficit of $52 billion in 2026 alone, growing to $136.5 billion over four years, according to the fund’s estimates. It expects the gap to be “closed through committed donor support and flow relief from debt operations” and named the EU and the G7 as potential financial donors.
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgievastill warned that the risks “are exceptionally high” and Kiev’s ability to repay depends on the “continued support by the international community,” as well as its “determination in implementing… structural reforms.”
Last month,the fund demanded Ukraine end electricity and heating subsidies.Ukraine is ranked among Europe’s poorest countries, andgovernment support for electricity, heating, and gas have long been crucial for households.
In October, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the situation, thatthe IMF had been pressuring Ukraine to devalue its currency, the hryvnia, to secure a new loan.
Meanwhile, a €90 billion ($106 billion) interest-free loan to Ukraine for 2026-2027 promised by Brussels remains blocked due to Hungary’s opposition. Budapest vetoed the plan earlier in February, accusing Kiev of jeopardizing the “security of Hungary’s energy supply” by deliberately blocking the Soviet-era Druzhba oil pipeline.
Hungary and Slovakia also announced plans for a joint probe to examine damage to the pipeline, which went offline in late January. Kiev claimed it was damaged in Russian strikes – accusations Moscow has denied. Both Budapest and Bratislava believe the pipeline is not damaged.
https://www.rt.com/news/633145-imf-approve-loan-kiev/