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Trump weighs options, floats limited strike by Francesca Chambers and Cybele Mayes-Osterman USA TODAY Updated Feb. 21, 2026, 2:46 p.m. ET via usatoday.com USA Congress War Powers Resolution - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. ch. 33) is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress via wikipedia.org Europe - aims to rely less on US defence after Trump's Greenland push By Andrew Gray, John Irish and Sabine Siebold February 15, 2026 8:33 AM PST via reuters.com Americans' Gloom - What a new Gallup poll shows about the depth of Americans' gloom - By LINLEY SANDERS Updated 6:36 AM PST, February 10, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans' hope for their future has fallen to a new low, according to new polling. Understanding The Future Way of: Space Space Flights 2026 - 6 spaceflights ahead in 2026, from NASA moon missions to SpaceX Starship by Eric Lagatta USA TODAY Dec. 22, 2025 Updated Jan. 2, 2026, 7:11 a.m. ET via usatoday.com {LOWER ATMOSPHERE SPACE}Anduril's unmanned jet "Fury" makes first flight via @60minutes on youtube.com  "We Do Fail... a Lot" - Defense Startup Anduril Hits Setbacks With Weapons Tech Story by Shelby Holliday, Heather Somerville, Alistair MacDonald, Emily Glazer via The Wall Street Journal on msn.com Problematic Challenges - Anduril's autonomous weapons stumble in tests and combat, by Connie Loizos WSJ reports via techcrunch.com Starship | Tenth Flight Test via @SpaceX on youtube.com Space Flights 2050 - What Might Space Look Like in 2050? via rand.org Understanding The Future Way of: Energy  StoreDot and Polestar showcase world's first 10-minute electric car charge with si-dominant cells via @StoreDotLtd on youtube.com Oregon-Nevada High Desert Border - World's Largest Lithium Deposit Ever Worth $1.5 Trillion Was Confirmed Under a U.S. Supervolcano Story by Arezki Amiri via Daily Galaxy on msn.com XFC Battery - StoreDot and Andretti II Merge to Launch XFC Battery Co. December 9, 2025 via battery-tech.net Innovations - The Clean Industrial Revolution has arrived... Subatomic - The Future of Energy is Subatomic... via gatesnotes.com - 'FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media hotline: 503-813-6018 PacifiCorp Announces Settlement of All Federal Claims for Damages from 2020 Labor Day Wildfires and 2022 McKinney Fire - Portland, Ore. (February 20, 2026) - PacifiCorp has reached a comprehensive settlement for $575 million' - Enhanced Safety Settings in Bend, Oregon - Bend area has experienced 14 recent power outages due to Pacific Power's 'enhanced safety settings' to curb wildfire risk By Barney Lerten Published July 15, 2025 11:07 am via ktvz.com Pacific Power explains safety system behind recent power outages across Bend, Oregon via @ktvznews on youtube.com - {Editor's Note: since the Pacific Power unit of Berkshire Hathaway Energy replaced some of their older equipment on 9/10/2025 within the Mountain View neighborhood of Bend, electricity service has stablized from 'unrelated-enhanced safety setting' power outages within a subdivision of the neighborhood} Safety System - Pacific Power explains safety system behind recent power outages across Bend - BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- With multiple power outages affecting thousands of Bend residents in recent weeks, some are becoming worried - not just about inconvenience, but about what they call a lack of both communication and balance from their power company. KTVZ News spoke with Bend resident, Mark Mariotti, who has recently experienced two two-hour outages within one week. "I'm really concerned of what the future is going to be like. You would think Pacific Power would be concerned about that too," said Mariotti. By Claire Elmer July 6, 2025 6:17 pm Published July 6, 2025 12:08 pm via ktvz.com Enhanced safety setting power outages causing business losses via Central Oregon Daily News on youtube.com  Power Outages - Pair of power outages hit 1,000s of Bend-area Pacific Power customers, Central Electric Co-Op members Washington Blackouts - Letter: Pacific Power's needless blackouts are unacceptable by Forbes Mercy Jun 19, 2025 via yakimaherald.com Pacific Power - Asks for 21.6% {initial request to the Oregon Public Utility Commission} Rate Increase for 2025 SDG&E - San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) Press Releases Electricity Bills - increased almost 10% since the start of the year and could rise another $170 per year for households by 2035 thanks to the repeal of clean energy tax credits, new tariffs and rapid expansion of electricity-hungry data centers to fuel a boom in artificial intelligence, multiple reports have shown via forbes.com How Much Electricity Does a House Use? - as well as life saving medical equipment, security, lighting, water heating of homes, HVAC Systems Dominate Energy Bills: air-heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning account for 52% of home electricity usage via solartechonline.com Next-Gen of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) - Amazon on Wednesday said that it was investing in small nuclear reactors, coming just two days after a similar announcement by Google, as both tech giants seek new sources of carbon-free electricity to meet surging demand from data centers and artificial intelligence via msn.com Kairos Power - The Kairos Power FHR (KP-FHR) is a novel advanced reactor technology that leverages TRISO fuel in pebble form combined with a low-pressure fluoride salt coolant. The technology uses an efficient and flexible steam cycle to convert heat from fission into electricity and to complement renewable energy sources via kairospower.com Kemmerer, Wyoming USA - We just broke ground on America"s first next-gen nuclear facility Kemmerer, Wyoming will soon be home to the most advanced nuclear facility in the world by Bill Gates| via gatesnotes.com Understanding The Future Way of: Entertainment  Media Insights via MediaTheFutureWay on fmpartnersonline.com - A LOT of us find ourselves asking 'Why don't they make Movies like they used to?' - or - 'They don't seem to make movies for me anymore.' MATT DAMON gives us his take on why via @michaelwarburton1 on threads.com - Tremendous hurdles for creatives and investors profit (Film P&L) - Perhaps the next project is a play, presented locally, then streamed to a global audience - Broadway Theater Play Airing Live - George Clooney's Broadway Adaptation of 'Good Night and Good Luck' Aired Live on Saturday, June 7, 2025 on CNN Guillermo del Toro - says he'd "rather die" than use Artificial Intelligence in his films - Guillermo del Toro stands firm against the rise of artificial intelligence in filmmaking defending the soul of storytelling with passion and warning that true creativity must remain deeply human driven by heart imagination and understanding via FCCE entertainment on msn.com Keanu Reeves' next project is a play - Scruffy Keanu Reeves cut a lonely figure during a morning stroll in Manhattan on Monday ahead of the opening of his Broadway show, 'Waiting for Godot' via Daily Mail on msn.com Alicia Vikander's next project was a play - Simon Stone's production of 'The Lady from the Sea,' starring Alicia Vikander and Andrew Lincoln at the Bridge Theatre in London Tom Hanks Exposes the Broken System of Hollywood via @SHARE_Platform on youtube.com  'This World of Tomorrow' (play in-development) - Tom Hanks Will Co-Write, Star in World Premiere Play This World of Tomorrow at Off-Broadway's The Shed via playbill.com WE ARE THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT - Empowering Filmmakers With Creative Freedom via theshareplatform.com Streaming Media - How streaming consolidation could impact upfront deals via thecurrent.com Quentin Tarantino Turns From Filmmaking to the Stage for Next Project via @hollywoodreporter on youtube.com  Quentin Tarantino - Why He Pulled Plug on Planned Last Film via msn.com next project is a play - with a possible film adaptation in the future via collider.com Deus ex machina - Imagine the future way for drama & comedy entertainment takes a look back at the conventions of ancient Greek theater, where actors who were playing gods were brought on stage using a machine via wikipedia.org - Placing a focus on robust new story telling and extremely efficient technological advances, we can extrapolate that bold new ideas can return to theater. Stage/Screenplay backgrounds, locations, animation and live event presentation capture, can be edited and streamed to an entire global audience in a much more cost-effective and robust manner. Hollywood 2032 far-out future of entertainment - 'As long as humans are living on the surface of the planet in 2032,' says Seth Rogen, 'movies will still be a thing.' via ew.com [ (Legion M) the world's first FAN-OWNED entertainment company (DISCLOSURES) ] Understanding The Future Way of: Travel Traveling Insights via TravelingTheFutureWay on fmpartnersonline.com First Piloted eVTOL Air Taxi Flight Between Two Public Airports via @JobyAviation on youtube.com Future Tech Vehicles That Will Change the Way We Travel via @gotechworlds on youtube.com Pacific Coast Amtrak Roomette & First Class Dining Travel Trends - For cultural futurist Jasmine Bina, CEO of Concept Bureau and an experienced analyst of consumer behaviour, they are a signifier of our deepest longings. "Travel trends are a window into what people really desire when the rules of everyday life are suspended," she says. "Right now, what they really want is to feel transformed." via bbc.com California High-Speed Rail - hits new milestone on $3.5 billion contract Story by Alia Shoaib via Newsweek on msn.com California route between Sacramento and San Diego - California high-speed rail will connect the mega-regions of the state, contribute to economic development and a cleaner environment, create jobs and preserve agricultural and protected lands. The system will run from San Francisco to the Los Angeles basin in under three hours at speeds capable of over 200 miles per hour via ca.gov Las Vegas and Southern California Project - Brightline West will be America's first true high-speed passenger rail system. The modern, eco-friendly system will redefine train travel in America and connect two of our most iconic destinations. The 218-mile passenger rail service will operate from Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga, California with the majority of the alignment within the median of the I-15 via brightlinewest.com BREAKS GROUND - HIGH-SPEED RAIL PROJECT via brightlinewest.com USA train routes - USA: Understanding America's train routes Amtrak plans to upgrade its overnight trains - USA'S car-centric culture has considerably slowed the progress of communal forms of transport, but Amtrak has announced that it has taken the first steps to upgrade its overnight trains for the first time in 40 years via lonelyplanet.com - Europe's railway system is undergoing a wonderful renaissance, many European-Based entertainers travel via the exceptional systems Alicia Vikander travels via Belmond - "I love trains. Oh my God, all the Belmond trains going around Europe, I know all the destinations," she said of memorizing the map via wwd.com Understanding The Future Way of: Technological Social Innovations  ASML: The Secret Dutch Monopoly That Controls the Future of AI & Chips 2050: A Peek into Our Future Way of Living via youtube.com 'Notes on Being a Man' - Scott Galloway addresses the male loneliness crisis in his new book - "Our economy is attached to one objective, and that is to evolve a new species of asocial, asexual males" via cnn on msn.com Top 20 New Technology Trends That Will Define the Future via @AI.Uncovered on youtube.com ChatGPT - Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's on role in suicides, delusions Story by Amanda Silberling via TechCrunch on msn.com Robust Generative AI Models - Innodata's red teaming solution delivers rigorous adversarial testing to expose and address vulnerabilities in language models. By stress-testing models with malicious prompts, we ensure their safety, security, and resilience against harmful outputs via innodata.com Robots Take Over - Amazon may replace 600,000 warehouse jobs with robots; Buffett unfazed Story by Silas Redmond via The Daily Overview on msn.com Humanoid Robots - Top 24 Humanoid Robots in Use Right Now - They're already here and they're ready to work. Written by Jacob Biba via builtin.com Custom AI Companion: Using a custom agent via @Zoom on youtube.com  The AI companion - cares, always here to listen and talk, always on your side via replika.ai Have a conversation with your future self via Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on youtube.com Smart Glasses - Warby Parker partners with Google as they take on AI-powered glasses via warbyparker.com Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 15 Risks and Dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - AI has been hailed as revolutionary and world-changing, but it's not without drawbacks. Written by Mike Thomas via builtin.com Inner Mind's Eye Visual Imagery When you hear someone talk, do you see the words in your mind's eye? Or do you see what they're saying as a movie? via theconversation.com Visualization also called mental imagery, is essentially seeing with the mind's eye or hearing with the mind's ear via psychologytoday.com Visualization Techniques to Add to Your Meditation Practice via healthline.com What's The Future Of American Politics? via @MonsieurDean on youtube.com  Voice of the Citizens - Democracy for All Project: Is Democracy Working? The Charles F. Kettering Foundation and Gallup have launched the Democracy for All Project, a landmark national survey and research initiative exploring how Americans perceive and experience democracy via The Charles F. Kettering Foundation and Gallup on gallup.com USA Voters Partisan Identification - The partisan identification of USA registered voters in 2024: identify as Republicans, at 27% - identify as Democrats, at 27% - Independents, meanwhile, have continued to rise, tying a high of 43% - Voters Who Identify As Independents Skyrocket - As Democrats And Republicans Dwindle By Brian Bushard - Jan 12, 2024 via forbes.com 2024 General Election Turnout - 63.86% of U.S. adults identified as Voting-Eligble actually voted via ufl.edu USA Religious Demographics - Religious Demographics in Motion {two-thirds of Americans (65%) continue to identify as Christian}: Updates and Analysis The 2024 PRRI Census of American Religion is an annual update to the 2023 PRRI Census of American Religion, which provides reliable, comprehensive county-level estimates on religious affiliation and diversity across the United States. View the 2023 PRRI Census of American Religion county-level estimates via prri.org America in 2050 - Americans are narrowly hopeful about the future of the United States over the next 30 years but more pessimistic when the focus turns to specific issues, including this country"s place in the world, the cost of health care and the strength of the U.S. economy via pewresearch.org What Will America Look Like in 2050 - Within the next 40 years, most Americans believe, the United States will get the bulk of its energy from sources other than oil. Computers will converse like people. Cancer will be cured, and artificial limbs will outperform natural ones. Astronauts will land on Mars, and ordinary people will travel in space via smithsonianmag.com 2054: A Novel - explosive work of speculative fiction - From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America's violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the world by Elliot Ackerman (Author), Admiral James Stavridis USN (Author) via amazon.com U.S. Social Security Commissioner: I have no concern about the future via @CNBCtelevision on youtube.com  How is Social Security financed? - through a dedicated payroll tax. Employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent of wages up to the taxable maximum of $176,100 (in 2025), while the self-employed pay 12.4 percent. Total income, including interest, to the combined OASI and DI Trust Funds amounted to $1.351 trillion in 2023. ($1.233 trillion from net payroll tax contributions, $51 billion from taxation of benefits, and $67 billion in interest). The payroll tax rates are set by law, and for OASI and DI, apply to earnings up to a certain amount. This amount, called the contribution and benefit base, or taxable maximum, rises as average wages increase via ssa.gov AI Tax - Beware The Coming Artificial Intelligence Tax By James Broughel, Contributor. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Jan 16, 2024, 12:59pm EST via forbes.com {Editor's Note: a proposed tax on AI 'robot tax,' that aims to tax companies (similar to the funding of the FDIC via its bank members), could replace the loss of (OASIDI) tax revenue from the current workforce reduction from AI that replace workers with machines and AI, the tax is intended to fund unemployment aid and equivalent Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) SSA trustees estimate that if policymakers take no further action, Social Security's combined Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) and Disability Insurance (DI) trust fund reserves will be depleted in 2034 (a current guesstimate, by 2035 during the future way of beneficiaries payments the ability to pay only 77% of scheduled benefits) and with an estimated 30 percent of current work hours in the U.S. could be automated by 2035 via AI, foretells a very bleak future for an exact estimate of benefits} Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees - The Designated 'OASDI Combined Trust Fund' - If the OASI Trust Fund and the DI Trust Fund projections were combined, the resulting projected fund (designated OASDI) would be able to pay 100 percent of total scheduled benefits until 2034 via ssa.gov 69 Million Americans - 8 Numbers That Tell the Story of Social Security How more than 69 million Americans came to rely on the program - and why it's now in trouble By Andy Markowitz, AARP Reviewed by Joel Eskovitz, AARP via aarp.org Former Head of Medicaid Exposes America's Insurance Crisis  Medicare 2026 Projection - Sep 26, 2025 Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Programs Expected to Remain Stable in 2026 via cms.gov CDC Immunization Practices - CDC adopts new recommendations for COVID-19, MMR and chickenpox shots via healio.com Health Insurance 2026 Bend, Oregon - Staying in-network: St. Charles Health System reaches insurance agreement with PacificSource By Barney Lerten November 13, 2025 11:31 am via ktvz.com {Editor's Note: the monthly premiums for PacificSource's Medicare Advantage have doubled within some of their plans, while now becoming the only Medicare Advantage choice within Central Oregon} Health Insurance 2026 USA Medicare - The official U.S. government Medicare handbook via medicare.gov West Coast Health Alliance - Wednesday, 9/3/2025 Govs. Tina Kotek, Bob Ferguson and Gavin Newsom, of Oregon, Washington and California, respectively, announced the creation of the West Coast Health Alliance - a group to share public health information 'to ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics.' via koin.com Health Insurance Basics - This document explains key health insurance concepts that may be helpful to consumers in understanding their health coverage as well as to consumer advocates who help individuals resolve medical billing problems via cms.gov ABOUT ADVISORY BOARD - Reimagining healthcare, together via advisory.com Healthcare Industry Trends - in 2025 via westmonroe.com   (adTech) VPS Hosting - Get total control with SSD-powered VPS Hosting that gives you full root access and optional control panels, backups with performance monitoring, unlimited traffic and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.     Domain Registration - Each and every domain name comes with all you need to get online.     WordPress - Our WordPress Hosting provides automatic setup, backups and software updates paired with 24/7, award-winning support. 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