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Ex-Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville reaches 1,000 victories to join Scotty Bowman in an elite club
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Joel Quenneville’s 1,000th career victory as an NHL head coach was so dramatic that he almost had to be reminded of the milestone when the clock finally hit zeros on the Anaheim Ducks’ 6-5 comeback win.
When Quenneville stood at center ice with his wife, his daughter and his entire team for a postgame photo moments later Wednesday night, he allowed himself a moment out of the hockey grind to appreciate history.
“I wasn’t prioritizing the number,” Quenneville said after joining Scotty Bowman in the most exclusive hockey coaching club. “I just wanted to play well tonight and find a way to win. That was the motivation, and it turned out to be a very special one as well.”
His Ducks rallied to beat two-time defending conference champion Edmonton in their return from the Olympic break, overcoming a pair of two-goal deficits and another one-goal deficit during their frenetic four-goal third period.
Cutter Gauthier scored the winner with 1:14 to play, and Anaheim hung on for its NHL-leading eighth multigoal comeback win during its first year under Quenneville, whose players all gathered at the bench to mob their coach after the whistle.
“It was an important game for us in a lot of ways,” said Quenneville, who has the second-place Ducks in the Stanley Cup playoff race for the first time since 2018. “They had the puck a lot more than we did, but at the same time, I thought we found a way to win a game. It had other meanings, but to me it was the importance of where it put us in the standings, and coming out of the break, the momentum that we could get off a win like tonight.”
The 67-year-old Quenneville received some fine bottles of wine and cigars among his postgame gifts, but he planned to celebrate just with a beer.
The second member of the 1,000-win club took a long time to join Bowman, who got his 1,000th with the Detroit Red Wings on Feb. 8, 1997 — just a month after Quenneville coached his very first game with the St. Louis Blues.
Quenneville reached the mark in his 1,825th game of a career highlighted by three Stanley Cup championships with the Chicago Blackhawks. Bowman finished his career in 2002 with 1,244 victories in 2,141 regular-season games, also winning nine Stanley Cup titles as a coach.
“He’s from a different league when I look at his company,” Quenneville said about Bowman, who was a senior advisor of hockey operations to his son, general manager Stan Bowman, during the Blackhawks’ successful run under Quenneville.
“I think he’s lonesome up there, the number he’s at,” Quenneville added. “I had Scotty and Stan in Chicago together. We had some great wins, and he’s got a lot of Cups. He’s been very successful in the game. … I’m happy to be getting the opportunity back in the game and be around a team like we’ve got now.”
Quenneville has made a successful return to the NHL this season in Anaheim after a four-year absence from the league following his resignation from the Florida Panthers in late 2021 over his inaction during the Blackhawks’ sexual abuse scandal 11 years earlier.
Quenneville’s NHL ban was lifted in July 2024, and the Ducks hired him one year later to take over a struggling franchise with no playoff appearances in seven consecutive seasons. Anaheim (31-23-3) has vaulted into the thick of the Western Conference playoff race in its first season under Quenneville, who has led his teams to the playoffs in 20 of the 22 NHL seasons he finished behind a bench.
When asked if there were times when he wondered whether he would have a chance to reach 1,000 wins, Quenneville replied: “It’s something that I don’t think about. I think my motivation, my goals were always once you win a Cup one time, you can’t wait to do it again. It’s always been the reason why we’re doing what we’re doing.”
After playing 13 NHL seasons as a sturdy defenseman with the signature bristly mustache he has sported for his entire adult life, Quenneville has been an NHL head coach for parts of 26 seasons, and he has won at every stop.
He led the Blues to seven consecutive playoff appearances before his firing. Quenneville then lasted just three seasons in Colorado despite producing two playoff teams.
He replaced Denis Savard behind the Blackhawks’ bench in 2008 and led the Original Six franchise to eight straight playoff appearances and three championships — including the 2010 Stanley Cup, which ended the NHL’s longest active drought at 59 seasons.
Quenneville joined the Panthers in April 2019, but his third season in Florida ended abruptly when the NHL banned him along with Stan Bowman and Al MacIsaac “as a result of their inadequate response upon being informed in 2010 of allegations that Blackhawks player Kyle Beach had been assaulted by the club’s video coach,” the league said.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman determined Quenneville had showed remorse for his inaction on the allegations that surfaced during Chicago’s playoff run to a Stanley Cup title. Quenneville said he also worked with advocacy groups to study the proper ways to lead in such situations.
Quenneville remained intently focused on the NHL during his four years away from the bench, watching games every night on television from his home in Florida and staying in contact with his countless friends in the game. Those friends included Pat Verbeek, his former teammate with the Hartford Whalers and the Ducks’ general manager.
Verbeek fired Greg Cronin and persuaded owner Henry Samueli to take the potential risk and the definite public-relations hit of hiring Quenneville. The move has worked out splendidly on the ice so far, with the Ducks dramatically improving their record with a talented young core gaining another year of experience.
Bowman and Quenneville could be joined in the 1,000-win club by two more veteran coaches within the next few seasons.
Paul Maurice, who won the past two Stanley Cup titles with the Panthers, has 945 career victories with five teams. Lindy Ruff earned his 933rd career victory Wednesday night with the Buffalo Sabres’ 2-1 win over New Jersey.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/joel-quenneville-1000-victories-nhl/
Fed Independence Is Sacred… Or So We’ve Been Told
Fed Independence Is Sacred… Or So We’ve Been Told
Authored by Richard Roberts via RealClearMarkets.com,
For the better part of a year, many had become convinced that the Federal Reserve’s independence was in its final days.
The narrative rested on two prongs.
First, an FOMC browbeaten by relentless public attacks, threats of removal, and a Justice Department criminal probe into Chair Jerome Powell. The pressure, many argued, had grown so intense that Fed decisions would no longer be trusted to reflect economics rather than politics.
Second, a new chair expected to arrive in May 2026, widely projected to be a Trump loyalist, would finish what the pressure campaign had started.
Both prongs have problems.
On the first, the captured FOMC: the January minutes. Several Fed officials raised the possibility that an interest rate increase might be appropriate if inflation continues tracking above target. Not fewer cuts. A hike. This from a committee supposedly beaten into submission. If the Fed has lost its spine, someone forgot to tell the Fed.
On the second, the Trump loyalist: the evidence does not support it. After an initial market jolt, analysts largely concluded that nominee Kevin Warsh represented a mainstream, independent choice. Warsh himself has said publicly that independent operations in the conduct of monetary policy are essential. Those who dismissed him as Trump’s instrument did so without the kind of evidence they would demand in other contexts. As an aside, while at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the Global Financial Crisis, I noted Warsh as a leader who was calm under pressure, analytically sharp, and unwilling to bend to the moment’s politics.
So, Fed independence seems on solid ground. The doomsday scenario looks considerably less likely than the headlines suggested.
Which Makes This the Right Moment to Ask an Uncomfortable Question
If the battle is not coming, we lose the chance to test empirically what we have long assumed: that a Fed stripped of independence would cause serious and lasting economic harm. That makes the underlying question more urgent, not less. If crisis will not force the examination, intellectual honesty should.
Do we actually have compelling evidence that the Fed must be independent in the first place, or have we simply repeated that claim long enough to mistake consensus for proof?
A moment of relative calm is exactly the right time to ask it honestly.
Correlation Is Not Causation
The story economists tell is clean and confident. Independent central banks produce lower inflation. Political interference leads to time-inconsistency problems: governments prefer cheap money before elections, stoking inflation that becomes ruinously expensive to reverse. When the Fed bent to political pressure under Arthur Burns during the Nixon years, inflation spiraled. A brutal recession was eventually required to bring it back under control. Lesson learned. Independence enshrined.
It is a compelling narrative. But compelling narratives are not robust empirical proof.
The foundational academic work, Alesina and Summers in 1993 and Cukierman’s cross-country analysis, found that more independent central banks were associated with lower inflation.
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Critically, the same research found little evidence that political control had any meaningful impact on growth or unemployment. Countries with stronger institutions tend to have both more independent central banks and better inflation outcomes for reasons that may have little to do with independence itself. After 2000, as inflation fell almost everywhere, the statistical relationship weakened further. The broader literature is not silent, but it is far from conclusive.
Yet the doctrine is treated as settled fact.
A Different World
The financial world of 2026 looks nothing like the world those models were built to describe. Capital moves instantly across borders. The dollar anchors global reserves. Inflation is driven as much by supply chains as by domestic money supply. Bond markets discipline policy in real time; the vigilantes are not a 1980s relic, they are embedded in global capital flows.
The case for independence was built on a world that no longer exists. That is not an argument against it. It is an argument for reexamining it.
What Warsh Should Do
I have previously written about modernizing inflation measurement, still relying on frameworks that predate the data revolution, and rethinking a regional Fed architecture built for a financial system that no longer exists. The independence doctrine belongs on that same list.
Warsh has an opening here, one he should take before the political noise makes any examination look like capitulation. A serious review would start with the right commission. Not an internal working group, but a balanced body drawing on academic economists, market practitioners, former Fed officials, former members of Congress, and institutional scholars, given one narrow question: is the current independence framework optimally designed for modern conditions?
Then ask the hard questions. Does the empirical evidence support the current degree of independence, or would a more structured accountability framework deliver equivalent outcomes? Are there intermediate models, enhanced transparency requirements, formal congressional review mechanisms, structured communication protocols, that preserve credibility while improving democratic accountability? What can be learned from how peer central banks, the ECB, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, structure independence differently?
Then commit to publishing findings with teeth. A review that produces conclusions no one is bound to act on is just theater.
An Honest Reckoning
I am not arguing that independence should be abandoned. I am arguing that it should not be treated as beyond question simply because it has been around for decades. The profession prides itself on empirical rigor, and it has applied that standard to almost everything except its own institutional assumptions.
If independence is truly indispensable, honest examination will confirm it. If it needs updating, better to find that out deliberately than in the middle of a crisis.
Sometimes the Fed asks hard questions about everything except itself. Warsh can change that.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/26/2026 – 08:05
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-independence-sacred-or-so-weve-been-told
Incendio en complejo agrícola de Ohio mata a unos 6.000 cerdos; humo visible a kilómetros
LONDON, Ohio, EE.UU. (AP) — Un incendio en un complejo de granjas porcinas de Ohio mató a unos 6.000 de los animales, informó un funcionario.
Una gran columna de humo podía verse a lo lejos desde Fine Oak Farms en London, indicó el miércoles en un comunicado el jefe Brian Bennington, del Departamento de Bomberos de Central Townships.
Bennington señaló que dos de los cinco grandes edificios agrícolas estaban “fuertemente afectados por el fuego” cuando llegaron los bomberos. Se llamó a varios departamentos de bomberos para ayudar. El complejo albergaba a unos 7.500 cerdos, precisó.
Los bomberos enfrentaron vientos sostenidos de alrededor de 32 km/h (20 mph), con ráfagas de hasta 56 km/h (35 mph), lo que aceleró la propagación del incendio, explicó Bennington. Se requirieron extensas operaciones de transporte de agua debido al suministro limitado en la zona rural, agregó. Tardó cinco horas controlar el incendio.
No hubo personas heridas. Los Bomberos del Estado de Ohio investigan la causa y el origen del incendio. Bennington afirmó que por el momento no hay sospechas de incendio provocado.
La granja está en el condado de Madison, a unos 40 kilómetros (25 millas) al suroeste de Columbus.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Zimbabwe Lithium Disruption Has Goldman Eyeing This Trade
Zimbabwe Lithium Disruption Has Goldman Eyeing This Trade
Earlier news from Bloomberg that Zimbabwe has suspended exports of lithium concentrates and raw minerals to force miners into local processing has caught the attention of Goldman analyst James McGeoch. He sees a potential trading opportunity in a mineral-exploration company that could be positioned for upside.
Let’s begin with the report that Mines Minister Polite Kambamura told reporters earlier that the export ban is effective immediately until further notice. Zimbabwe has one of the largest lithium reserves in Africa and is among the top global producers.
Zimbabwe Suspends Export of Raw Minerals and Lithium Concentrates.
Mines Minister Hon. Dr. P. Kambamura has ordered the immediate suspension of all exports of raw minerals and lithium concentrates, including consignments already in transit, to enforce in-country value addition… pic.twitter.com/acX0CmntoX
— Zimbabwe Economic Review (@ZimbabweReview) February 25, 2026
IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION OF EXPORT OF RAW MATERIALS AND LITHIUM CONCENTRATES
The Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Hon. Dr. P. Kambamura (MP), has announced an immediate suspension on the export of all raw minerals and lithium concentrates, effective immediately.… pic.twitter.com/Mw1Ua4yfIl
— Nick Mangwana (@nickmangwana) February 25, 2026
Zimbabwe has become a global powerhouse in supplying lithium to Chinese refineries.
The latest USGS data shows Zimbabwe produced an estimated 22,000 metric tons of lithium in 2024, versus a reported world total of 240,000 metric tons. That works out to about 9.2% of reported global mine output.
Such a disruption piqued McGeoch’s interest:
REMEMBER this : Its Africa – recetn example is Cobalt – Feb 2025 put an export ban in place, Oct 2025 they announced export quotas, rolled them forward into 2026 – end Feb they have exported c.3k tonnes v typical of 20kt. Expect the mkt will price this disruption as per the below and there was already a willingness/desire to own Lithium which will amplify basis this.
Continue to point to GSCBGLLI Index…… Want a small cap i have been keeping an eye on QTWO CN
McGeoch pointed out Zimbabwe’s trade and production data and how Chinese lithium prices are already reacting to the disruption:
In terms of production, GIR had forecast 160kt LCE (Lithium Carbonate Equivalent) of production in Zimbabwe for 2026 – this accounts for roughly 10% of ex-China supply.
To put this chart into context, in LCE terms, 2025 exports of Zimbabwe Spodumene to China totalled 160kt LCE, virtually all their production.
What does this mean for price action?
Post Chinese New Year holiday, GFEX prices were up 10% (close on close), evidence of supported prices before this headline in an already fundamentally tight market. On the Wuxi exchange (a private onshore exchange that trades around the clock), lithium carbonate prices have rallied 14% today post-headline, from roughly 160k CNY/MT to 185k CNY/MT. We expect GFEX prices (onshore lithium carbonate exchange) to move higher on this tomorrow.
McGeoch wrote in a separate note, “Zim is the marginal spodumene supplier. The ban will only be lifted if miners comply with government requirements. …Zim is 8% on our 2026 supply numbers.”
He added:
Team just running some numbers. More recently the Lithium price closed today at RMB 166k , we are 13% off the highs of 190k in Jan. Clearly will be limit up, WUXI is +12% on this headline. already …. We expect new highs without a doubt here, China came back and bought it pre this headline, now we all catch up. Its been an ESS story and i see that theme getting stronger not weaker.
Here is where China’s 99.5% battery-grade lithium carbonate prices stand after the 2021-22 boom-and-bust.
McGeoch and Goldman’s commodities desk have certainly taken an interest in lithium this morning. Professional subscribers can read the full note at our new Marketdesk.ai portal.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/26/2026 – 07:45
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/lithium-disruption-zimbabwe-has-goldman-eyeing-trade
Parlamento israelí avanza para prohibir rezos mixtos en el Muro de los Lamentos de Jerusalén
Por JULIA FRANKEL
JERUSALÉN (AP) — El parlamento de Israel ha dado su aprobación preliminar a un proyecto de ley que pondría al Gran Rabinato ortodoxo a cargo de todo el Muro de los Lamentos en Jerusalén, lo que aviva los temores entre los judíos liberales de que pronto se prohíba la oración mixta en el lugar.
Si sale adelante, el proyecto de ley amenaza con tensar aún más las relaciones entre Israel y el movimiento reformista, la corriente más grande del judaísmo en Estados Unidos.
El Muro de los Lamentos es el lugar más sagrado donde los judíos pueden rezar. Aunque su reluciente plaza principal está bajo la supervisión del Rabinato y la oración allí está segregada, el sitio cuenta también con una sección igualitaria, muy apartada hacia un costado, donde hombres y mujeres pueden rezar juntos.
Según la propuesta, cualquier oración en el muro que contravenga las especificaciones del Gran Rabinato sería considerada “profanación” y castigada con hasta siete años de prisión. Eso podría significar el fin de la sección igualitaria.
“Se está criminalizando la forma en que reza la gran mayoría de los judíos en el corazón del lugar más sagrado de la capital del Estado judío”, dijo Orly Erez-Likhovski, directora ejecutiva del Centro de Acción Religiosa de Israel, la entidad de justicia social del movimiento reformista en Israel:
El movimiento reformista es la denominación más grande del judaísmo organizado en Estados Unidos. Pero en Israel tiene una presencia reducida y el Rabinato Ortodoxo ejerce un monopolio casi total sobre cuestiones religiosas como bodas y entierros.
“Dondequiera que los ultraortodoxos tienen la ventaja o el control, intentan imponer la segregación por género. Están tratando de hacer desaparecer a las mujeres”, agregó Erez-Likhovski.
Su organización representa además al movimiento conservador, que es más pequeño, y a las “Mujeres del Muro”, un grupo que hace campaña por la igualdad de género en el lugar, en una batalla ante la Corte Suprema de Israel para presionar al gobierno a preservar y reparar la sección igualitaria.
Esa zona está en gran medida fuera de la vista y solo se puede acceder a ella a través de una pequeña puerta.
Una vez dentro, un enrejado impide a los visitantes tocar las antiguas piedras. La estructura se colocó en 2018, cuando una enorme piedra se desprendió del muro y cayó sobre la plataforma de oración, lo que llevó a su cierre inmediato, pero nunca se ha retirado.
Supone un contraste radical con la icónica explanada, repleta de placas de donantes, donde bulliciosos devotos se separan para rezar junto a las antiguas piedras del Muro.
El proyecto de ley, impulsado por el legislador de ultraderecha Avi Maoz, fue aprobado en una lectura preliminar el miércoles por la noche por 56 votos a favor y 47 en contra.
Según el Instituto de Democracia de Israel, un centro de estudios de Jerusalén, el texto se llevó a votación preliminar el miércoles para mitigar un fallo del 19 de febrero de la Corte Suprema que ordena el inicio de las reparaciones de la sección igualitaria.
El gobierno del primer ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu, acordó realizar las reparaciones hace una década como parte de un compromiso para promover la pluralidad.
Se desconoce cuándo se presentará el proyecto de ley para su votación definitiva.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Daywatch: Celebration and funeral services for Rev. Jesse Jackson begins
Good morning, Chicago.
By yesterday afternoon, the day before the first public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, long rows of barricades stretched throughout the parkway in the middle of Drexel Boulevard, where thousands are expected to gather today and tomorrow to honor one of America’s most enduring civil rights leaders.
More than a week of services and funerals in memory of Jackson will begin this morning at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization he founded on the South Side in 1971. The visitation will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 10 p.m. today and tomorrow at the coalition’s headquarters at 930 E. 50th Street.
Today is the beginning of a three-city, nine-day memorial tour, of sorts, that will also end in Chicago. After he lies in repose at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, Jackson, who died earlier this month at age 84, will lie in state on Monday at the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia. He was born about 100 miles away, in Greenville, S.C., in 1941.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Andrew Carter.
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A document that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, shows a photo of Epstein on a inmate report from the Federal Bureau of Prisons . (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Justice Department says it’s reviewing whether any Epstein-related records were mistakenly withheld
The Justice Department said that it was looking into whether it had improperly withheld documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files after several news organizations reported that some records involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public.
The announcement followed news reports saying that a massive tranche of records released by the Justice Department did not include several summaries of interviews that the FBI conducted with an unidentified woman who came forward after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and claimed to have been sexually assaulted by both Trump and Epstein when she was a minor in the 1980s.
A ComEd smart meter is installed on a home in North Riverside in 2013. (Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune)
Proposed legislation would slash $40M in ‘hidden expenses’ from Illinois utility bills
With utility rates rising across Illinois, consumer groups are backing proposed legislation to wring $40 million per year in hidden expenses out of customer bills.
Republican gubernatorial candidates Ted Dabrowski, from left, James Mendrick and Rick Heidner debate at WFLD-Ch. 32 in Chicago on Feb. 24, 2026. Previous GOP gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey, who is running again, wasn’t present. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune)
As primary looms, Illinois Republican governor candidates say they oppose abortion-is-murder bill
Opposing abortion has been an Illinois Republican litmus test for decades, but even the party’s four candidates seeking the GOP nomination for governor are walking away from recently filed legislation that would criminalize the procedure as murder and make women who undergo an abortion and those who assist her eligible for the death penalty.
Darren Bailey, Ted Dabrowski, Rick Heidner and James Mendrick have all positioned themselves as pro-life and criticized Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker’s efforts to make Illinois a haven for women seeking abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving the legality of the procedure up to individual states.
Former Oswego High School students, from left, Natalie Grimm, Anne Marie Fish, Jillian Lake and Kala Sundstrom listen as their attorney Cass Casper speaks during a news conference on Feb. 25, 2026. The four former students are suing Oswego Community Unit School District 308 for allegedly showing a “reckless disregard for student safety” and for failing to properly investigate grooming and sexual misconduct they say they experienced at the hands of Sean Staffeldt, a former teacher and coach for football, wrestling and track. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)
‘Terrifying and tortuous’: Former Oswego High School students sue district for allegedly failing to stop sexual harassment by teacher
When Jillian Lake was a student at Oswego High School she followed a routine. She woke up in the morning, got dressed and drove through the community she’d grown up in.
But inside she was consumed by fear. She worried she would be ostracized if anyone found out she’d reported harassment to the school district that she said she faced from a popular teacher. So she forced herself to put on a brave face when she walked into the building.
Night falls on Loretto Hospital in the 5500 block of West Flournoy Street on Jan. 12, 2022, in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. A delivery driver was found lying on the ground outside Loretto on Feb. 23, 2026, after a doctor had ordered Uber Eats to the hospital, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
‘Just trying to provide for his family’: Judge orders woman detained in slaying of Uber Eats driver
Early Monday morning, a doctor at Loretto Hospital ordered food delivery through Uber Eats, prosecutors said, then went outside to investigate when he didn’t receive the meal despite the app showing that the driver arrived to the correct location.
The doctor found Daniel Figueroa on the ground in a pool of blood, his face matching the photograph of the delivery driver included in the app, prosecutors told a judge yesterday.
Kendall Coyne, left, and Hilary Knight celebrate after the United States won the Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Milan. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
Hilary Knight says President Trump’s joke ‘distasteful’ and wants the focus on the US women’s Olympic success
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Bears linebacker Tremaine Edmunds celebrates with defensive tackle Gervon Dexter Sr. after Edmunds batted a fourth-down pass by Giants quarterback Russell Wilson late in the fourth quarter Nov. 9, 2025, at Soldier Field. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
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The Chicago Bears will have needs — not wants — at all three levels of their defense.
It has been obvious for some time the team has heavy lifting to do in the secondary with every safety on the 2025 roster coming out of contract. And the Bears have openly discussed needing to add to the defensive line.
Linebacker is a bona fide need, too, as the team made it clear it will be moving on from Tremaine Edmunds, who led the defense in tackles last season despite missing four games with a minor groin injury.
NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) moon rocket with the Orion spacecraft slowly rolls back towards the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
NASA moves its Artemis II moon rocket off the launch pad for more repairs
The slow-motion trek at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center was expected to take all day. The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket had spent a month at the pad ready for potential liftoff, but encountered a series of problems serious enough to require a return to the Vehicle Assembly Building, about 4 miles away.
Phil Collins performs at Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City on March 9, 2018, left, Lauryn Hill performs during the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup in Washington on Dec. 5, 2025, center, and Shakira performs during the Global Citizen Festival in New York on Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)
Phil Collins, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira get Rock Hall nominations
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Maria Bamford performs at the Den Theatre on March 14, 2019, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)
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Dinamarca convoca a elecciones parlamentarias el 24 de marzo
Associated Press
COPENHAGUE, Dinamarca (AP) — Dinamarca llevará a cabo elecciones parlamentarias el 24 de marzo, informó el jueves la oficina de la primera ministra Mette Frederiksen.
Los votantes determinarán quiénes ocuparán escaños en el Folketing (Parlamento) durante su próximo mandato de cuatro años.
Tiene 179 escaños, 175 de los cuales corresponden a legisladores que representan a Dinamarca y dos cada uno a legisladores de los dos territorios semiautónomos del reino, Groenlandia y las Islas Feroe.
Debe celebrarse una elección general al menos cada cuatro años, pero el primer ministro puede convocarlas en cualquier momento. Las últimas elecciones fueron el 1 de noviembre de 2022 y resultaron en una coalición de tres partidos que cruza la división izquierda-derecha.
Frederiksen, una socialdemócrata de centroizquierda, lidera Dinamarca desde mediados de 2019. Actualmente, lidera un gobierno con el Partido Liberal del ministro de Defensa, Troels Lund Poulsen y el partido moderado centrista del ministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, exprimer ministro.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Fusion Power Needs To Be American-Born
Fusion Power Needs To Be American-Born
Authored by Lawrence Kadish via The Gatestone Institute,
Perhaps not since Teddy Roosevelt have we had a president who thinks as big as Donald J. Trump.
From his projection of military power that protects our national interests to his understanding of how a complex economy powers the greatest nation on earth, President Trump has demonstrated a unique appreciation of what America must do to maintain its global leadership.
It is for that reason that he has assumed a quiet but strategic leadership role in advancing our country’s pursuit of fusion energy — the same process that powers the sun and one that could literally provide America with unlimited energy far into the future.
While scientists have been able to create fusion energy in a lab setting, much work still needs to be done to make it commercially viable.
For a president who has staked his legacy on American greatness, there is no more important strategic achievement than ensuring that fusion is American-born.
Trump has made this pursuit of energy a national priority — not for ideological reasons, but for deeply practical ones.
The geopolitical stakes could not be higher.
China has dramatically increased its investment in fusion research, committing billions to state-backed programs with one goal: to beat America in delivering commercial fusion power to their national electrical grid.
The country that cracks fusion first will not merely solve its own energy needs — it will hold the keys to powering our world for generations to come.
The president knows allowing China to reach that finish line first would represent one of the greatest geopolitical surrenders in American history. It is unthinkable.
Fusion energy brings total energy independence.
No OPEC with the Middle East holding us hostage. No hostile regimes choking supply routes for oil and gas. No price shocks at the pump driven by some terrorist group attacking oil tankers.
A fusion-powered America would be permanently energy independent.
Trump has much on his plate, but fusion energy is the biggest possible bet he can make on America’s future and a legacy that will be chronicled by historians for generations to come.
The race is already underway. Our nation needs to win it. Fusion energy must be American-born.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 02/26/2026 – 07:20
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/fusion-power-needs-be-american-born
Out of left field, baseball player Jack Cenar saves Libertyville in regional semifinal: ‘Give that kid credit’
Libertyville’s Jack Cenar is nowhere near the top of any opponent’s scouting report.
The 6-foot-2 senior forward is known more for performing tasks that people inside the program most appreciate, and that didn’t change in the first half of a Class 4A Warren Regional semifinal on Wednesday.
“I may have had zero points in the first half, but that wasn’t what I was worried about,” Cenar said. “I’m always trying to get my teammates open, first of all. My job on the offense is usually to set flair screens, down screens, and try to get the guys open and then cut off that.”
With the fate of the Wildcats’ season in the balance, however, Cenar took on a decidedly more high-profile role in the second half. He scored 13 points, nearly matching his career high, as fourth-seeded Libertyville pulled away from sixth-seeded Grant to win 64-49.
Cenar was the perfect complement to 6-8 senior center Bryce Wegrzyn, a Winona State commit whose ever-present production draws extra attention to him. Wegrzyn finished with game highs of 29 points and 13 rebounds for the Wildcats (16-12), who advanced to the regional final to play top-seeded Warren (29-3) at 7 p.m. Friday.
“My teammates just found me,” Cenar said. “It was off cuts and well-executed offense and flashing to the ball, getting fouled and getting to the line and from good passes from Bryce because he gets doubled a lot. I know that the flash in the middle is always going to be open since he’s so heavily pressured.”
That’s standard practice for Libertyville’s opponents, and it happened in earnest after Wegrzyn asserted himself by scoring nine points in the second quarter. The game was nonetheless tied 24-24 at halftime, which made Cenar’s push all the more significant as the Wildcats took control in the final eight minutes against the Bulldogs (15-12).
“I was very proud of Jack sparking us,” Libertyville coach Brian Zyrkowski said. “We needed a guy, especially with Bryce getting a lot of pressure, to open up and be a pressure release. You’ve got to give that kid credit. He had a lot of confidence in this game.”
Cenar scored four straight points to counter Charles Schlicht’s basket at the beginning of the third quarter, and the Wildcats didn’t trail again. Cenar scored in a variety of ways in the second half, including on the aforementioned cuts through the lane. He made all four of his free throws and even connected from long distance.
Cenar’s lone 3-pointer came during a 14-6 run in the fourth quarter that he started with two free throws and which also featured two 3-pointers by senior guard Trevor Wallace and another by Wegrzyn. The Wildcats led by at least nine points the rest of the way.
“Coach always says, ‘If you’re wide open, I don’t care if you’ve missed them before, just shoot them,’” Cenar said. “Not only my three but all of them were really open shots that the offense created.
“My guy probably lost me in the mix, and I’m not going to pass up a shot like that in whatever part of the game unless it’s borderline at the end. At that point of the game, we needed a three, and we needed a big spark.”
Cenar, whose career high is 16 points set early this season, was that spark.
“He’s big on the defensive end for us as one of our best defenders,” Wegrzyn said. “He rebounds really well, and he’s a tough guy. But I knew he could score, and this was a big game for him to step up big time like that. It helped us a lot. When I was getting doubled in the paint, I hit him, and he made shots.”
Cenar, who played in the outfield during the baseball team’s run to the 4A state title last year, understands the stakes.
“Especially now, as a senior in my last year of basketball, I know that I have to give my all, and that’s just based on effort,” he said. “So that’s how I’m going to go into all of these games.”
But Zyrkowski knows Cenar will make an impact no matter how many points he scores.
“He’s one of the most unselfish guys you’re going to see,” Zyrkowski said. “When you watch him play, he’s always doing the right thing, and he’s the type of guy that others look up to and listen to. That’s the sign of a good leader.”
Steve Reaven is a freelance reporter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/4a-high-school-basketball-libertyville-jack-cenar/
Master every shot with the best DJI drones
Which DJI drone is best?
Drones can be a blast to fly around for fun, or they can be used to capture high-quality footage — or both. In recent years, DJI has proved to be the leader in the industry, known for their quality designs and attention to detail. Before you buy a DJI drone, you should determine your price range and what features are must-haves. Our favorite is the DJI Mavic Air 2, which boasts an impressive top speed and can film 4K video. To learn more about DJI’s selection of drones, continue reading our buying guide.
What to know before you buy a DJI drone
When shopping for a DJI drone, you should first ask yourself what you hope to use your drone for. Some options include taking high-quality videos of vistas, filming yourself while you surf or ski, or simply exploring an area from a different perspective. While many DJI drones are capable of more than one of these tasks, understanding your needs will help you narrow down the key features and must-haves.
Camera quality and features
Most DJI drones are camera drones, which can record live footage and video. This gives you an extremely fun way to control your drone because you see the world from its perspective. The key factors to look for are the still-image resolution and movie resolution. The best camera drones offer 12-megapixel images and 4K video. Not all DJI drones can transmit footage wirelessly. Some DJI drones have a follow feature, which keeps a specific target in view while filming from a variety of angles.
Gimbal
The gimbal is the part of a drone that supports the camera and helps it capture stable video and images. While less expensive DJI drones may have a two-axis gimbal, DJI’s high-end drones often have a superior three-axis gimbal for smooth and steady footage.
Fight features
DJI drones tend to come with a few flight features to improve performance and reduce the chances of crashes. Collision avoidance is a great option for beginners because it can prevent crashes by halting your drone before it collides with an obstacle. Other features like the “return to home” setting and gesturing can give you a different way to control your drone, and ensure that it returns to its launch point before running out of battery.
Flight time
Drones generally have short flight times, but many DJI drones can remain in the air for 20 minutes or more.
First-time flying tips
By no means should you send your DJI drone flying off into the sunset out of the box. Here are a few tips for starting.
Keep the drone in sight at all times. Even if you have a live video feed, you should always have an eye on the drone to keep all possible obstacles in view.
Remember that you can always allow the drone to hover. If you panic, take a deep breath and come to a stop.
If you are planning an aerial shot, plan it ahead of time. Every minute is precious when you’re filming or taking pictures, and you don’t want to run out of energy while you’re up in the air.
How much you can expect to spend on a DJI drone
For a beginner-level drone that can still record high-quality video, DJI offers several drones in the $500 to $1,000 range. If 4K video and a variety of flight modes are must-haves for you, you should consider DJI’s high-end drones, which cost from $1,000 to $2,000.
DJI drones FAQ
Q. Are all DJI drones ready to fly out of the box?
A. Yes, all DJI drones come with everything you need to fly — but this doesn’t mean they all come with a remote control. Some of their drones, like the DJI Spark, use the DJI GO app on your smartphone; though a controller can be purchased separately.
Q. What do I do if a propeller breaks?
A. Many DJI drones come with spare propellers. If yours didn’t, you will have to purchase new DJI propellers. You can also purchase propeller guards to prevent accidents that could render your drone unflyable.
What are the best DJI drones to buy?
Top DJI drone
What you need to know: From the 42.5-mph top speed to the high-quality 4K camera, this is our favorite DJI drone currently available.
What you’ll love: The moderate price point is appealing to beginners, and the compact foldable design makes it easy to take this drone almost anywhere to capture stunning shots.
What you should consider: The maximum flight time of 34 minutes can be limiting.
Top DJI drone for the money
What you need to know: This low-priced drone can still take excellent video, making it a good pick for beginners.
What you’ll love: The flight features and construction are similar to those of DJI’s most popular models. It’s easy to fold up and transport.
What you should consider: The lightweight design is convenient, but it can be easily affected by the wind.
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