There in an important lesion to be learned from this novel written almost one century ago by Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. I draw your attention to this heated discussion between Elmer Gantry and other Bible students taking place in a seminary one evening circa 1904 (page 92, Dell 1960 paperback edition):
US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are heading to Pakistan for Iran talks on Saturday, the White House says. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is already in Islamabad to "review bilateral matters, the Iranian embassy in Pakistan says. Iranian state media report that there are currently no negotiations with the US planned for the trip.
When Mr Justin Finn's two elementary-schoolers come home, they're not turning on the TV or grabbing an iPad. Instead, they head straight to the phone -- not a smartphone, but a landline.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Ninth Circuit) ruled that immigration laws (AKA the INA) give people the right to apply for asylum at the US border and Donald Trump's executive order is therefore illegal.
Donald Trump issued this ukase the first day he seized power.
The United States has used a staggering amount of its weapons cache in the war with Iran, spending millions and blowing through a large chunk of its stockpile in the two months since the conflict began. The ongoing conflict with Iran has lasted barely eight weeks, yet in that time the U.S. has fired off a truly stunning number of missiles, a report from The New York Times found. Over a thousand Precision Strike and ground-based missiles were deployed in the war, an amount that emptied the U.S. tranche to such an extent that congressional officials and Defense Department estimates showed concern. "Since the Iran war began in late February, the United States has burned through around 1,100 of its long-range stealth cruise missiles built for a war with China, close to the total number remaining in the U.S. stockpile," the report read. "The military has fired off more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, roughly 10 times the number it currently buys each year."
A California winery owned by Representative Ilhan Omar's husband was shut down weeks after Congressional Republicans demanded answers about the reported wealth of the Minnesota Democrat's family. Omar, a member of the Squad of progressive Democrats and a political lightning rod, filed a 2024 financial disclosure that put her family assets at between $6 million and $30 million, a surge from the previous year that"at the top of that range"would have placed her among the wealthiest Democrats in the House.
More images purporting to show poorquality meals served to U.S. service members deployed amid the war with Iran have been sent by a serving officer on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The Department of Justice said on Friday it is bringing back firing squads and readopting lethal injection in an effort to strengthen the federal death penalty. Read more
"For the first time in decades, three aircraft carriers are operating in the Middle East at the same time. Accompanied by their carrier air wings, the USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Gerald R. Ford, and USS George H.W. Bush include over 200 aircraft and 15,000 Sailors and Marines."
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Millions more Americans might qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada's requirements that has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor. For people like Zack Loud of Farmington, Minnesota, it was a surprise to learn that under a new law, Canada already considered him and his siblings citizens because their grandmother is Canadian. Read more
The Department of Justice on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, removing a major hurdle to the Senate confirming President Donald Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace him.
Sarah Fitzpatrick, The Atlantic investigative journalist behind last week's bombshell story about FBI Director Kash Patel, has said she has since been "inundated" with messages from new sources corroborating her reporting. Fitzpatrick's story alleged that Patel drinks to excess " so much so that, in one instance, breaching equipment was ordered to break into a locked bedroom when he did not respond to inquiries about his well-being. The profile and also characterized him as deeply paranoid about being fired by President Donald Trump.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted under oath to only selling one of President Donald Trump's "Gold Card" visas for $1 million - after he claimed to have sold 1,000 of them on a podcast last year.
Ernie Dosio's home was decorated with mounts of exotic animal heads but was killed in a stampede of angry elephants earlier this month while stalking a rare deer in Africa.
Motorcycles, TVs and Couches: Israeli Soldiers Testify to Widespread Looting in Lebanon: 'Commanders Know and Do Nothing.' The looting has expanded in part because some IDF military police (MP) checkpoints at exit points from southern Lebanon were removed, while others were never set up. IDF soldiers say that 'when there is no punishment, the message is clear.'
Israel is not a good ally of the US
A huge, unstable chunk of glacier is blocking the route up Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal just as peak climbing season gets under way in the Himalayas. "Icefall doctors" " who fix ropes and ladders on the lower part of the route up the world's highest peak - can find no way round the 100-foot-high (30m) block of ice just under Camp 1. They say the only option is to wait for the ice block, called a serac, to melt " which they hope will happen within days. Read more
