McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter's release from federal custody after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her mother, hoping through delays for their safe reunion. Only when he turned to the courts as a last resort did he learn that the girl had suffered alleged sexual abuse at the foster home where she'd been placed after immigration officials separated her from her mother. Read more
James Talarico delivered a sermon entitled, "Divine Losers: Resistance and Resurrection"
In my head, I maintain this list. I call it the Dead To Me List, a compendium of performers who have shown or expressed support for Donald Trump. Anybody on that list will never receive another dime of my money or second of my time for any new project in which they are top-billed. Yes, I recognize the futility of this. No, I don't flatter myself that my one-man boycott will change anything or even be noticed. It's something I do for principle. Something I do for me.
Eostre is the pagan fertility goddess of humans and crops.
679 million people watched China's robots perform fully autonomous kung fu at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala. Backflips. Nunchucks. Sword fights. Drunken boxing. No operators. No remote control. No second takes.
One year ago these same machines were shuffling across a stage waving handkerchiefs. Today they are sparring with martial arts masters, executing 7.5-rotation airflare spins, and performing three consecutive single-leg backflips in front of the largest television audience on Earth.
This video breaks down the 8 most jaw-dropping moments " from the robot that bowed to a child, to the swarm of 20 machines that moved as one organism at 4 meters per second, to the single move at the end that made a stadium go silent.
An Easter message from our first openly Muslim president.
"WE GOT HIM!" President Trump wrote on social media after spending Saturday monitoring the operation from the White House. "Over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History."
The sudden and forced departure of US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George in the middle of the illegal and expensive war against the people of Iran on behalf of Israel is devastating morale inside the Pentagon, where multiple senior officials expressed dismay over the state of the department's hideous leadership. Over the last year, Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth has been purging officers throughout the ranks, including five sitting members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS); only two holdovers remain in their posts.
This is not a good human being
ICE agents arrested the niece and grand niece of US-assassinated IRGC Major-General Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader who in 2001 fought alongside US SOF and CIA against the Taliban and helped take the city of Herat, following USSSECSTATE Marco Rubio's callous termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status.
USSECSTATE Marco Rubio Holding Press Conference at Foggy Bottom
The Trump administration is appealing a judge's order that halted construction of a $400 million ballroom, citing a "threat of grave national-security harms to the White House, the President and his family, and the President's staff."
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At a closed-door meeting in 2021, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio declared, "If we take away these health care options, kids are going to die." The scrappy litigator uttered this dire proclamation in an address at the biennial conference of USPATH, the US branch of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH. Strangio has played a pivotal role in the transgender movement's general refusal to offer concessions on the chief principles animating its cause. Most central, and controversial, has been the demand that minors identifying as transgender have access to gender-transition treatments, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. Speaking to USPATH, Strangio entreated attendees to infuse legal and political advocacy into their work as doctors and mental-health providers. This battle cry was tempered with a foreboding vision
Average US mortgage rates climbed again for the fifth week in a row, making homebuying more expensive than it was just a few weeks ago, before the outbreak of war with Iran. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 6.46% this week, jumping from 6.38% the previous week and reaching the highest level in seven months, according to Freddie Mac. Read more
Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in the New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses X-rays. At a panel held by Crain's New York Business, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York's 11-hospital public benefit corporation, made overt gestures at his desire to replace highly trained radiology experts with visual language AI models, Radiology Business reported. "We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge," Katz said at the panel. One example he gave, according to Radiology, would affect women's healthcare in particular, by automating breast cancer screening with AI tools. By sidelining radiologists until an AI system flags a reading as abnormal, Katz declared, hospitals could achieve "major savings."
A Manhattan judge Tuesday denied Rudy Giuliani's motion to dismiss a $10 million lawsuit brought by a female aide who claims the former mayor subjected her to sexual assault, "alcohol-drenched rants" and withheld $2 million in wages, instead ordering the years-old case to proceed promptly to discovery. Read more
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Jerimiah Johnston: He completed his doctoral residency in Oxford in collaboration with Oxford Centre for Missions Studies and received his PhD from Middlesex University (UK).
The next steps in the US military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions. The order to pull the US$1.5 million weapon from Pacific stockpiles was issued at the end of March, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
