Through lectures, scoldings and outright threats, President Donald Trump and his aides are ratcheting up the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants.
AP: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration wants to stop representing Eric Adams in a lawsuit that alleges the former mayor sexually assaulted a woman more than three decades ago, according to a court filing Tuesday. The move comes just a few months after Mamdani took office, following a bitter campaign season last year that had the two Democrats taking turns bashing each other in often caustic and personal terms. Read more
A bloc of House conservatives is making good on its threat to vote against even routine legislation in a bid to strong-arm the Senate into passing President Trump's signature voting overhaul bill, the SAVE America Act.
Why it matters: Conservative lawmakers are vowing to vote against any bill the Senate sends their way, no matter how bipartisan or minor " and more than three dozen of them did just that Tuesday.
Eighteen days into the conflict, Iran's Revolutionary Guards remain active despite major setbacks. Their flexible command structure sustains operations, yet analysts see signs of pressure within the power system.
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"Joshua Haymes and Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's Christian pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against US Senate candidate young James Talarico (D-TX): "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."
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President Donald Trump is facing criticism from disability advocates for saying California Gov. Gavin Newsom should not be president because he has dyslexia. "Gavin Newsom has admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia," Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
"Honestly, I'm all for people with learning disabilities, but not for my president."
"Everything about him is dumb," he added. This is at least the third time that Trump has made comments about Newsom and his dyslexia in the past week.
Al Jazeera op-ed praises US-Israel operation against Iran, says Dems, media critics are wrong. Read more
In March 2024, US Army MG Antonio Aguto (Ret.), who oversaw the US command that coordinated, trained, and equipped Ukraine's military, left a tube of classified maps on a train to Poland for more than 24 hours and was later concussed from falling after "overindulgence" in alcohol during a dinner in Ukraine.
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On March 7, Israel Flores Ortiz, an 18-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High School, was arrested for allegedly fondling the genitals of multiple female students in the hallways during school hours More than two weeks after the students reported the incidents to school officials"and only after his arrest"Fairfax High School Principal Georgina Aye sent an email notifying parents of the incident. [snip] The email notably did not disclose that the alleged perpetrator was an adult who illegally entered the country in 2024, nor that the alleged "touching" extended beyond the victims' "buttocks." One mother of an alleged victim described the delayed email as a "completely sanitized letter" that minimized the harm done.
Afroman put home footage of a police raid in music videos. Now the cops are suing him. Read more
LONDON (AP) " Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97.
President Donald Trump has floated the idea of Venezuela becoming America's 51st state, saying "good things are happening" there.
Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett is proposing that Congress eliminate the capital gains tax on home sales, arguing the money the IRS takes from sellers is "redundant" and that allowing them to keep and reinvest it would help stimulate the U.S. economy. "I'm going to prepare some legislation to take away the capital gains tax on a piece of property, and you know, it's just redundant," he said on a recent John Solomon Reports podcast. "When you tax people less, they don't stick it in a doggone pillow case under their bed. They reinvest it. They put it in a bank, and that bank loans it out to other people, or they buy something, buy an automobile, and under Trump's plan, American automobiles, the reduction is there."
President Trump's director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, announced his immediate resignation Tuesday, citing the decision to begin a war against Iran when "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."
Kent, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate last year, posted his resignation letter on X Tuesday morning, saying he "cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives."
President Donald Trump spent his first year back in power disparaging US allies. Now he wants them to help America in the Iran war - and they are none too enthusiastic.
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