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Feb 15 2026SPORTS

College Sports in a New Money Game

Washington State University is now part of a fast‑moving world where athletes can earn money and transfer schools at will. The old rules that kept players in one place for years have been replaced by a free‑market system. Players can now enter the transfer portal and move whenever they want, as long

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Feb 15 2026BUSINESS

Oregon’s Small Businesses Face a New Bankruptcy Surge

The state has seen a sharp rise in company bankruptcies, climbing 25 % last year to the highest level since 2013. Nationwide, many people and firms are filing for bankruptcy, but Oregon’s rate is almost four times faster than the national average. High interest rates and inflation are squeezin

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Feb 15 2026BUSINESS

A Luggage Dream That Fell Flat

The seventh season of the popular business show came in 2015, and among the hopefuls was a pair who called their suitcase “Trunkster. ” The idea was simple: a bag that rolls up and down, has a USB port, can be tracked with GPS, and even weighs itself. It was expensive – about $500 – but the founders

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Feb 15 2026ENTERTAINMENT

AI Makes Hollywood Old News

The world of film is changing fast. A new kind of artificial intelligence can create full movies from a simple description in just minutes, and it costs only pennies to run. This means that making a movie no longer needs huge budgets, large crews or big studios. Early demos show the power of this t

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Feb 15 2026POLITICS

Ukraine’s President Calls Russian Leader a “War Slave”

Zelensky delivered a sharp message at the Munich Security Conference, calling Russia’s president a “slave to war” and warning that the conflict will not end by giving up territory. He compared current negotiations to the 1938 Munich Agreement, where European powers gave in to Hitler before World War

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Feb 15 2026SCIENCE

Adolescent Minds: How Gender and Stress Shape Dissociation

Studies that look at why teens feel detached from their thoughts or surroundings often use a tool called structural equation modeling. This method lets researchers test whether one factor, like stress or social anxiety, indirectly influences another factor, such as feeling disconnected. Recent wo

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Feb 15 2026WEATHER

Rain and Snow Coming to the Dry West

The western United States is about to get a lot of rain and some snow. A big change in the weather pattern has made this possible. Early Saturday, a storm will move across the Pacific Ocean and reach northern California and parts of Oregon. It will bring heavy rain to those areas. By Sun

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Feb 15 2026POLITICS

Sudan's El-Fasher: A Tragic Week of Violence

The city of el‑Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region became the scene of a brutal assault that left more than six thousand people dead over just three days, according to a United Nations investigation. The attack was carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allied Janjaweed militia, who ove

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Feb 15 2026CRIME

A Night of Stops, Searches and No Arrests

Police in Tucson carried out a big operation last Friday night after the 84‑year‑old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her home on February 1. The sheriff’s office said a man was stopped near a Culver’s parking lot, handcuffed and later released. He had been involved in a traffic stop that was linked to a

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Feb 15 2026POLITICS

Water Wars: States Fail to Agree on Colorado River Plan

The Colorado River, a lifeline for millions, has once again stalled negotiations among the seven western states that rely on it. Arizona, California and Nevada have urged their counterparts in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming to make more concessions after missing a critical deadline for the s

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