"For the first time in decades, three aircraft carriers are operating in the Middle East at the same time. Accompanied by their carrier air wings, the USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Gerald R. Ford, and USS George H.W. Bush include over 200 aircraft and 15,000 Sailors and Marines."
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Further delaying pension payments would significantly help Mr. Mamdani as he grapples with a $5.4 billion deficit through June 2027. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has called the $5.4 billion budget deficit a "generational fiscal crisis." One idea to solve it would entail pushing off or decreasing payments to pension funds for city employees, possibly to the next generation. "Why should my child pay for his fifth-grade teachers salary and pension benefits in 2040?" said Andrew Rein, the president of the Citizens Budget Commission. Read more
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Millions more Americans might qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada's requirements that has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor. For people like Zack Loud of Farmington, Minnesota, it was a surprise to learn that under a new law, Canada already considered him and his siblings citizens because their grandmother is Canadian. Read more
The Department of Justice on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, removing a major hurdle to the Senate confirming President Donald Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace him.
Sarah Fitzpatrick, The Atlantic investigative journalist behind last week's bombshell story about FBI Director Kash Patel, has said she has since been "inundated" with messages from new sources corroborating her reporting. Fitzpatrick's story alleged that Patel drinks to excess " so much so that, in one instance, breaching equipment was ordered to break into a locked bedroom when he did not respond to inquiries about his well-being. The profile and also characterized him as deeply paranoid about being fired by President Donald Trump.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted under oath to only selling one of President Donald Trump's "Gold Card" visas for $1 million - after he claimed to have sold 1,000 of them on a podcast last year.
Ernie Dosio's home was decorated with mounts of exotic animal heads but was killed in a stampede of angry elephants earlier this month while stalking a rare deer in Africa.
Motorcycles, TVs and Couches: Israeli Soldiers Testify to Widespread Looting in Lebanon: 'Commanders Know and Do Nothing.' The looting has expanded in part because some IDF military police (MP) checkpoints at exit points from southern Lebanon were removed, while others were never set up. IDF soldiers say that 'when there is no punishment, the message is clear.'
Israel is not a good ally of the US
A huge, unstable chunk of glacier is blocking the route up Mount Everest from Base Camp in Nepal just as peak climbing season gets under way in the Himalayas. "Icefall doctors" " who fix ropes and ladders on the lower part of the route up the world's highest peak - can find no way round the 100-foot-high (30m) block of ice just under Camp 1. They say the only option is to wait for the ice block, called a serac, to melt " which they hope will happen within days. Read more
Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses approach could have more profound implications for your overall health than a first glance would suggest. According to a 2023 review that combined data from dozens of studies, distinct differences can be observed between the gut microbiomes of 'speeders' and 'slowpokes'.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly said his war against Iran is intended to prevent Tehran from ever getting a nuclear weapon. But when it comes to core nuclear issues, he risks ending up with a worse deal than the one he abandoned in his first term.
"Multi-billionaire Ken Griffin is appalled that the popular and effective Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani (D), used his 24,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse last week as the backdrop for a tax-the-rich video, triggering a subtle threat to re-evaluate his firm's investment in the city. His Honor was filmed in front of a property Griffin purchased at 220 Central Park South in 2019 for roughly $238 million, a deal that set a record for the highest-priced home ever sold in the US."
thumbs.cityrealty.com>Must be nice being a mega-oligarch
More than 120 organizations issued a travel warning for the United States on Thursday, telling those who want to visit for the FIFA World Cup to use caution amid the Trump administration's heightened immigration enforcement measures.
As you may remember, the company that owns Truth Social went public in a peculiar way, by merging with a strange existing company that was just a bag of money. The company is listed on the NYSE as DJT. Its only actual asset is Truth Social. Here is how the stock has done over the past 5 years:
Trump may send Afghan allies who were promised new lives in the U.S. to Congo instead, advocacy group says
Advocates for the refugees, many of whom fought the Taliban alongside U.S. forces, say the plan is intended to pressure them to return to Afghanistan at great personal risk.
"Gannon Ken Van Dyke (38) allegedly made more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket on the basis of classified information regarding the timing of a US military operation to capture Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela."
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