Approximately 150 American troops have been wounded during the United States' conflict with Iran, Reuters reported on Tuesday. "The figure has not been previously reported and is far higher than the Pentagon's publicly disclosed figure of 8 seriously wounded U.S. forces," noted reporters Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the number of service members wounded was in that "ballpark" during a briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the "black rain" and toxic compounds in the air in Iran after Israel attacked its oil facilities could cause grave respiratory and skin problems for the Iranian people.
Iran is Another Gaza
There are increasing indications El Nino is likely to form and strengthen into potentially a significant event during the next several months, throwing weather patterns worldwide out of whack. El Nino could affect the Atlantic hurricane season (if the timing is right) and heat the planet even further, making another record warm year much more likely than it otherwise would be either this year or next.
Texas Republicans have suffered a double blow in a new poll that shows Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico running ahead of both of the GOP candidates heading to a primary runoff.
The rising threat of notably strong tornadoes has prompted the highest severe thunderstorm risk in months to be issued in parts of the Midwest. It's all part of a more widespread potential outbreak of powerful storms across the Central US on Tuesday as a new storm system develops and strengthens over the region. A Level 4 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms is in place for more than 2 million people in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, including Peoria and Bloomington, Illinois.
While all eyes look up to the sky for more bimvs to fall on Iran, another object may fall on Iran. With a 1 in 4,200 chance of falling on Iranian child or teenager, Trump will be blamed for it. Read more
A former D.C. police officer is accused of sexually assaulting nearly a dozen women across the D.C. area. Timothy Valentin is accused of drugging and assaulting women he met on dating apps. So far, police say they've identified victims in Alexandria, Prince George's County and Takoma Park. Valentin left the Metropolitan Police Department in 2022. He's accused of assaults in 2024 and 2025. In at least one case, investigators say he told a victim he was in law enforcement, and police found a gun and badge in his car. News4 found disturbing details in Alexandria court documents filed in connection with his arrest in December. Detectives found dozens of explicit videos on his cellphone. "I want to acknowledge the enormity of this moment," Alexandria Chief of Police Tarrick McGuire said at a news conference Monday. Valentin faces charges related to four victims in Alexandria. Read more
Iran's tiny community of 10,000 Jews are trying to stay safe from barbaric IDF and US air and missile strikes, as well as spreading toxic fumes and acid rain caused by Israel's destruction of Iran's oil facilities.
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In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish connected to a computer how to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, years later, the same team is leveling up as they claim their CL1 system is the "world's first code deployable biological computer," and is able to play Doom. "Pong was much simpler. There was a direct relationship: The ball went up, the paddle went up. It was a direct input, output relationship," the research team explained in a YouTube video. "Doom was much more complex."
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blandly discussed "our tone and our message" with two Republican congressmen who made hideous anti-Muslim remarks, but nevertheless defended the right of these lawmakers to oppose "the imposition of Sharia law" on the United States of America.
House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA)'s Priorities
The Israeli military illegally used white phosphorus munitions over homes in the southern Lebanese town Yohmor on March 3, posing a threat to civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Monday. "The incendiary effects of white phosphorus can cause death or cruel injuries that result in lifelong suffering," Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in the statement.
Last week, the New York Times ran an alarming house editorial called "Politicians Are Trying To Control The News," outlining how the "shadow of press repression" is now expanding to "onetime bastions of press freedom" like Hong Kong, Israel, and Donald Trump's United States. Written in the grave tone the paper brought when it published a history-altering essay by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov fifty years ago, it was all true, except it left out our country's strangest and most shameful example, one in which the Times played a regrettable part: the case of Dimitri Simes. In August, 2024, the FBI raided the Virginia home of Simes, who defected to the United States in 1973 after being expelled for protesting Soviet involvement in the Vietnam War. A huge team of agents swooped into the empty home " both Simes and his wife were away " and took almost everything ...
Jenny O'Connell-Nowain was ready to go to jail. She had been prepared to spend six months in the custody of the Shasta county sheriff's office. One of the top prosecutors in this part of far northern California had presented the evidence against her in a weeklong trial, and a jury had delivered a guilty verdict. A judge offered probation, but O'Connell-Nowain did not agree to the terms. Her crime? Sitting on the floor in front of the dais of the board of supervisors with a sign, silently protesting an official who had criticized the county elections office. The case of a former preschool teacher with no criminal history tried and convicted for a peaceful demonstration was shocking even for Shasta county, which has drawn international attention for its rowdy and radical brand of conservative politics.
President Trump has deployed military might to fight drug cartels, blowing up dozens of alleged smugglers at sea and helping Ecuador bomb an apparent criminal training camps. ... On Monday, Mexico's leader suggested Washington should focus on other steps: Containing the voracious American appetite for illicit drugs, and combating illegal arms trafficking.
Minutes later, Rep. Dave Pinto, DFL-St. Paul, the committee co-chair, compared blaming higher work pay for causing higher prices to the impact shoplifting has on higher prices. He started by mentioning a presentation on the impact of organized retail theft he'd heard in a public safety committee the day before. "There was a presentation of a group seeking to change how we address organized retail theft," he said. "And it actually had not occurred to me to ask, it probably would have been good, to make sure that they would study the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft. Because perhaps people are relying on that and using that, and maybe it's assisting them in some way." Read more
