WASHINGTON " Construction of Donald Trump's White House ballroom is projected to cost $600 million, significantly more than the president has previously said, with taxpayers covering more than half that amount, according to a new report from the Washington Post, which cited internal government documents. Read more
Two of the U.S. Department of Education's biggest responsibilities will shift to other federal agencies: safeguarding student civil rights and supervising programs for students with disabilities.
The moves to HHS and DOJ would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close, and it would leave the Education Department with a shrinking number of responsibilities.
After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a plan was devised for both Israel and Palestine to recognize each other and share the land between them. To make the State of Palestine viable, an elevated and secure corridor was suggested to connect the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Such a highway 20 miles in length, encased by a stainless steel fence and jointly patrolled by Israeli and Palestinian police, would have cost only a few billion dollars in the 1990s. Afterwards, Palestinians could have then provided the cheap labor for Israeli construction, farming, and industry, or remain in their own country, while Israelis would have finally enjoyed their own Jewish homeland without becoming the brutal militaristic state they have devolved into, with PTSD and suicides afflicting Israeli society.
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Sailors on a Russian warship fired a warning shot at a yacht that came near it in the English Channel, the Press Association understands. The incident, at around 11.40am on Tuesday, is understood to have involved the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich in the sea between the Isle of White and Normandy.
President Donald Trump signaled a deepening rift with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by claiming "there would be no Israel" without him in a stinging rebuke at the G7 (Group of Seven) summit. Trump has displayed increasing frustration with his ally in recent weeks as the United States attempted to strike a peace deal with Iran, before an agreement was eventually reached on Sunday. Trump and Netanyahu ordered joint United States and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 with the stated aim of destroying the Islamic Republic's ability to make a nuclear weapon. Speaking alongside Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, at the summit of the world's biggest economies in vian-les-Bains, France, Trump said: "Without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did."
The National Park Service is deploying hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to combat algae growth, according to a Department of the Interior (DOI) spokesperson. This effort follows the Trump administration's controversial $13.1 million renovation of the iconic water feature on the National Mall. These renovations included repainting the base of the pool "American flag blue" and mending leaking joints. Videos shared on social media on Tuesday morning depicted workers dumping gallon bottles of the chemical into the 2,028-foot pool, which has turned green due to the algae bloom. The park service is using hydrogen peroxide in addition to an advanced filtration system that deploys ozone-injected nanobubbles to break down toxins and contaminants in the pool, the DOI spokesperson said.
The world has not reckoned with the violence visited on Iranians in 2026. Read more
AXIOS: CIA Director John Ratcliffe told President Trump and other senior officials that evidence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies raises serious doubts about Iran's willingness to make the nuclear concessions the U.S. is seeking in any final deal, according to three sources familiar with those discussions.
A string of leaders with faltering relationships with President Donald Trump walked into this week's G7 summit in France with a delicate task ahead of them: charming the U.S. leader sufficiently to avoid a meltdown and sidestep potential dustups over the Iran war and defense spending. Key to that is how they manage their personal interactions with Trump. What historically served as a gathering of the world's leading democracies to discuss the global economy has turned into a game of navigating personal relationships among them. Read more
Unable to afford to buy diapers in the dystopic US, a Woman of Color and an accomplice allegedly shoplifted them from a Wal-Mart in Senatobia, MS. During their escape, local police officers opened fire on the car, critically wounding an adult and killing a one-year-old child named Kohen Wiley.
Death Sentence for Infant of Color in the Impoverished Feudal States of Amerikkka
The Israeli Death Forces (IDF) killed nurse Mohamed al-Habil and his child Mousa al-Habil (9) with an airstrike while they were filling water tanks on the roof of their home in Gaza City, despite posing no apparent threat, amid ongoing Israeli attacks and violations of the US-backed ceasefire.
The peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer paid for these murders
Benjamin Netanyahu bet that his joint war alongside Donald Trump would topple Iran's clerical rulers and bolster himself ahead of elections at home, as the architect of a U.S.-Israeli alliance that would reshape the Middle East.
The tech industry is about to flood the market with AI glasses with cameras for multimodal AI. But the public is already turning against the idea. Who will win?
Frustrated with mounting losses in court, key officials in Donald Trump's administration were seriously considering the suspension of a centuries-old constitutional right to speed up the president's anti-immigration campaign to deport tens of thousands of people from the country. An explosive secret memo last year appears to address concerns among White House officials about a plan to suspend habeas corpus, a fundamental due process right enshrined in the constitution to allow those detained by the government to challenge their imprisonment. Trump, just months into his second presidency, was already facing desperate warnings from critics and legal scholars that his defiance of court orders had reached a dangerous constitutional crossroads. His suspension of a constitutional right would have escalated his war with a judiciary that he has seen as insufficiently deferential to his presidency and an obstacle in the way of his agenda.
We've all heard of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, but not everyone has a strong enough machine to run it smoothly. Google Earth's new browserbased flight simulator fills that gap by offering web users a lighter way to fly virtually around the globe using any computer. It runs directly inside the web version of Google Earth and uses the same 3D imagery and terrain.
The U.S. supply of emergency oil has hit its lowest level since 1983, according to newly released federal data. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is down to 340.3 million barrels, according to the data released on Monday. The last time that levels were this low was 1983, when the Reagan administration was filling up the reserve for the first time. The U.S. established the emergency oil reserve in 1975 after an oil producer embargo against the country triggered an energy crisis.
