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2026 is being celebrated by Toho as Mothra Year, as this year marks both 65 years since Mothra first appeared on screen, and also 30 years since the Heisei-era Mothra trilogy.
Mothra's my girl (my wife knows, and she's okay with it). 😍
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news…

Thirty-six horses were killed in a barn fire in North Carolina on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze broke out around 12:45 p.m. at the Callicutt Stables on Highway 220 Alternate in Randolph County, multiple fire departments said.
By the time firefighters got to the stable, the 15,000-square-foot barn was already engulfed in flames.
Several fire departments were called in to battle the blaze.
Crews were at the stable for five hours on Sunday.
Despite firefighters’ effor…

36 horses die in fire that engulfed boarding stable, officials say
The fire marshal is investigating the cause of the blaze that destroyed the 15,000-square-foot facility.

Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi

Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding
Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi founded Ankar which counts L'Oreal and Vorys among early customers

#Pakistani news reporter Zain Malik falls off roof and dies while kite flying in #Basant accident... was in this weekend, marking controversial return of a kite flying festival after a 19-year ban that had been imposed over safety concerns.

Federal data belatedly released Tuesday shows that the
US unemployment rate
rose to the highest level in four years last month
as Donald Trump’s administration continues its assault on the government’s workforce
and American corporations lay off workers at a level not seen in decades.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November,
up from 4.4% in September,
according to the Labor Department report, whose release was delayed due to the recent governme…

Trump Economy 'Stalling Out' as Unemployment Rate Hits Highest Level in 4 Years | Common Dreams
"Trump may give himself an A++++ on the economy, but these latest jobs numbers are failing working families."

Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…

Legal AI Startup Legora Eyes $400 Million Raise At $5 Billion-Plus Valuation
As investors double down on the promise of automating legal work, the company is in talks to raise $400 million following two rounds in late 2025.

The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

Filing: Nvidia unloaded 1.1M Arm shares, worth about $140M based on Arm's closing price on Tuesday, sometime in Q4, bringing Nvidia's stake to zero (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/…

The debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified
following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania
(Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December).
As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe the current discourse misses a vital distinction:
the difference between prohibited diagnosis and legitimate observation.
The Goldwater rule was designed to prevent …