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Carrying the weight of a one-sided friendship

Dear Annie: I am writing about a friendship that has weighed on my heart for quite some time. I have known this woman for more than 20 years, and in many ways, she has been a loyal and lively part of my life. We have celebrated happy occasions together, seen one another through disappointments and shared the kind of history that is not easily replaced. But in recent years, our friendship has begun to feel less like a comfort and more like a burden. Nearly every conversation revolves around her troubles, her grievances, her worries and the endless complications of her daily life. When ...

Hints From Heloise

Giving thanks for a gift is important Dear Heloise: I cannot go without responding to Bob, in Santa Ana, California, who said that not thanking someone for a gift is somehow acceptable. I feel confident that most people don’t give gifts to receive a thank-you note, as he implies. Gifts are defined with the caveat of “not expecting anything in return.” But extending acknowledgement and appreciation is just plain common courtesy and decency, especially if a request is involved as it is in a wedding registry. There was certainly time and motivation required to devise and post a ...

Horoscope

The Sagittarius moon aims the arrow toward adventure with lunar trines to Neptune and Saturn, lit by Aries fire. Ideas travel faster under this sky. Plans that once felt theoretical suddenly have wings. Adventure begins with a question and ends with so many more questions, but try to follow the first one through. It just may zip open the world. ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re attracted to what’s interesting, and what’s interesting is attracted to you. So there’s no work to be done. Magnets don’t have to work to come together. Their nature does all the pulling. TAURUS ...

Aid groups warn Iran war is hindering food and medicine from reaching millions

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions of people around the world in need, and that the suffering will deepen if the violence continues. Not only has the conflict cut off vital shipping routes, creating a global energy crisis, it’s also disrupting supply chains for aid groups, forcing them to use costlier, more time-consuming routes. Key pathways such as the Strait of Hormuz have been effectively shuttered and routes from strategic hubs such as Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi have ...

U.S. carries out daring rescue of service member in Iran

(AP) — The United States pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, plucking the pilot from behind enemy lines before setting off a complicated extraction of the second service member who hid deep in the mountains as Tehran called for Iranians to help capture him. The CIA looked to throw off Iran’s government before the crew member was found, launching a deception campaign to spread word inside the Islamic Republic that the U.S. had already located him. Even as President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials described an almost cinematic ...

Trump issues a fiery, expletive-filled threat against Iran

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline, after American forces rescued a wounded aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines. A defiant Iran struck infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and threatened to restrict another heavily used regional waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the Arabian Peninsula. Trump on social media vowed to hit Iran’s power plants and bridges and said the country would be ...