NEW YORK (AP) — This is not the run up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted. A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, Donald Trump is a wartime president overseeing surging energy costs and an escalating overseas conflict that many in his own…
Shailin and her siblings come from a family of dissidents who have long hoped to see the government fall. But she was enraged by the U.S. and Israel’s military campaign, which had wedged her relatives in Iran between autocracy and possible death. If her family left their houses to search for her brother, they risked…
Thirty miles south of Santa Fe, secluded in the New Mexico desert, sits Zorro Ranch, where disgraced financier and convicted sex felon Jeffrey Epstein is alleged to have abused girls and women. Mr. Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James in the Caribbean, and his seven-story New York City mansion have commanded the most attention related…
BEHIND THE LINES: By joining Iran’s war, the Houthis have opened a dangerous new arena – one that could hit global trade, oil flows, and the wider regional balance. On March 28, the Houthis organization (known also as Ansar Allah), which controls around 30% of Yemen’s territory and governs the majority of the population, joined…
One city in New York was ranked among the top 10 best places to celebrate Easter. Easter is a major holiday in the Empire State and across the country, both in religious practices and consumerism. An expected 80% of Americans will celebrate Easter this year, and consumers are predicted to spend around $25 billion, according…
The parliament, sitting for the first time since the coup, is filled with his loyalists. With the armed forces guaranteed one quarter of the seats, and the military’s own party, the USDP, winning nearly 80% of the remaining seats in an election which was tilted heavily in its favour, this was a preordained outcome. More…
The seven-month-old child is the unintended victim of a suspected gang-related shooting, officials say. Source link
The Artemis II astronauts broke out of Earth orbit and headed for the moon Thursday, firing their main engine for nearly six minutes to boost the ship’s velocity to more than 25,000 mph, the speed required to escape Earth’s gravitational clasp. Racing through the low point of a highly elliptical orbit, Artemis II commander Reid…
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender or perceived affiliation with Biden administration policies or officials, according…
RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday threw out longtime litigation over education funding in the state, a decision that’s likely to keep intact the power to decide how much money to spend and where with the legislature, not judges. The 4-3 ruling, led by Republican justices on the court, set aside…