"No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas," Trump said.
Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth's pastor, Doug Wilson, wants to criminalize homosexuality by overturning Obergefell v. Hodges, abolish Islamic minarets, prohibit statues of Hindu deities or other non-Christian religious symbols in public spaces, and punish adulterers with legal penalties. Public celebrations of LGBTQ+ identity would be banned, as would a married woman's right to vote.
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Republican Congressman Andy Ogles IV (R-TN) has introduced legislation that would require American flags to be flown at half-staff nationwide in observance of Good Friday. "Christ is King of America, and we should honor Him accordingly," he bleated.
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Aerospace startup Hermeus is moving its headquarters to El Segundo from Atlanta as it aims to build autonomous hypersonic aircraft for the military, the latest sign of revival in the region's aerospace and defense sectors. The company, valued at $1 billion, is opening executive offices and a facility where it will design and build its next prototype, a supersonic plane intended to hit Mach 3 " faster than any modern warplane. The company's goal is to eventually develop a hypersonic plane reaching Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and Southern California has the engineering talent base to help achieve that, executives said.
A federal judge upheld a previous ruling that that a Reconstruction-era federal ban on home distilling of alcoholic spirits is unconstitutional.
Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs received medical care at various Sutter and MemorialCare facilities. During those visits, medical staff used Abridge AI.
ROME (AP) " In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the "delusion of omnipotence" that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace.
Leo presided over an evening prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica on the same day the United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations in Pakistan and as a fragile ceasefire held.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards later released a statement threatening to deal "severely" with any military vessels transiting the strait, according to Agence France-Presse. Read more
Standing on the steps of the state Capitol Friday morning, everyone from Gov. Ned Lamont and Sen. Richard Blumenthal down to members of the local school board rallied to the cause of a Cheshire High School student detained by federal immigration officials earlier in the week. Meanwhile, 135 miles away, 19-year-old Rihan sat inside a county jail in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where he's been held since Monday.
4 ways the war in Iran has weakened the United States in the great power game
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte's maxim may well have been in the minds of policymakers in Moscow and Beijing these past weeks, as the U.S. war in Iran dragged on.
And now that a 14-day ceasefire between Tehran and Washington is in effect " with both sides claiming "victory" " Russian and Chinese leaders still have an opportunity to profit from what many see as America's latest folly in the Middle East.
A Tennessee county school board voted unanimously Wednesday to censure a member who told a student, "God, you're hot" at a public board meeting last week.
Today is a day for celebration. Over the last two years, we've been building an incredible campus in Spring, Texas, just outside Houston. As the new headquarters for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, our campus leverages everything we have heard from team members and learned from the pandemic to create a truly next-generation collaboration and culture center that meets the evolving expectations of our teams. Now as we open our doors to the public, I'm excited to share new details about our vision, and give you a peek inside. Read more
In early April, producers are eagerly awaiting or have already started their spring planting. Though other considerations like soil moisture, air temperature, and the weather forecast play important roles, the adage of waiting for morning 4-inch soil temperatures to hit the 50-degree-Fahrenheit mark is important, too. That line is currently crossing into the southern Corn Belt, and the coming forecast should bring that northward throughout the next week.
A former Yolo County Sheriff's Office lieutenant is one of five people charged with murder following a fireworks warehouse explosion that killed seven workers in the rural Northern California community of Esparto last summer, authorities said. Samuel Machado is accused of illegally having 1 million pounds of fireworks on his property at the time of the blast and using his law enforcement position to shield the illicit operation from scrutiny for years, according to the Yolo County district attorney's office. Machado was placed on administrative leave following the violent July 1 explosion, which was felt by residents up to 20 miles away, destroyed a family farm and sparked a 78-acre grass fire.
Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson warns people "not to make the mistake of overcomplicating [President] Donald Trump."
First, the good news: A ceasefire has been agreed upon in a war threatening a level of devastation unimaginable when President Donald Trump ordered five weeks of bombing and missile strikes in an effort to collapse the Islamic regime in Iran. But while critical questions remain ahead of talks set for Saturday on a longer-term deal -- not least, whether the truce fully takes hold -- the war has left Mr. Trump facing a sobering paradox.
