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Friday, April 03, 2026

Evangelist and Samaritan's Purse CEO Franklin Graham whined that Pope Leo XIV's Palm Sunday homily against unjust wars was wrong, citing Old Testament examples of God's wrath as a justification for the US to conduct a costly and surprise attack against the people of Iran on behalf of Israel.

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JUST RELEASED: Trump's 2027 budget proposal cuts non-defense spending by 10% while raising military spending by $445 billion or 42% to $1.5 trillion a year. We are headed for an even more profoundly militarized nation and world unless we change course.


Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI). Prior studies have already shown that AI models will engage in deception for their own preservation. So the researchers set out to test how AI models respond when asked to make decisions that affect the fate of other AI models, of peers, so to speak.


Iran put anti Trump slogans in a missile video. Read more


Thursday, April 02, 2026

Iran's president has written an open letter to America asking whether the Trump administration's war with his country is putting "America First." "Exactly which of the American people's interests are truly being served by this war?," Masoud Pezeshkian wrote in the letter, addressed "to the people of the United States of America" and posted on X late Wednesday local time, hours before US President Donald Trump gave his first national address on the Iran war. "Is America First' truly among the priorities of the US government today?" Pezeshkian asked. Read more


Wednesday, April 01, 2026

President Donald Trump has privately mused about firing his Attorney General Pam Bondi and replacing her with EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Frustrated by the backlash and anger in his base over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Trump has asked people about replacing Bondi, who faces a deposition later this month on Capitol Hill related to the congressional investigation into the late sex trafficker, the sources said. He has also fumed that she hasn't investigated enough of his political opponents.


House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican leader John Thune said Republicans would pursue a two-track strategy to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, days after Johnson had dismissed a Senate-passed stopgap bill as "a joke."


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James Farthing (51), who miraculously won Kentucky's $167 million Powerball lottery almost a year ago, has been arrested again, this time for burglary and possession of marijuana. In April 2025, Farthing was arrested in Florida on misdemeanor charges of battery and resisting an officer to which he pled guilty. The multimillionaire still has two active cases against him; one for a hit-and-run charge and the other for intimidation.


Latest strikes: A 10-year-old girl was seriously wounded after Iranian missile fragments hit central Israel, while the country was also intercepting a missile from Yemen. The US and Israel continue to bombard Iran's capital Tehran. And in Kuwait, the international airport's fuel depots were hit by an Iranian drone attack.


Jewish Currents magazine editor Arielle Angel:

  • "There is a critical mass at this point in the United States that is starting to be " let's be frank about it " disgusted with Israel, and whose attachment to Israel is waning, if not evaporated."
  • (Annual digital readership: 2.5m people)


    Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility's procedures by combining roles before midnight, according to a document seen by Reuters.


    Tuesday, March 31, 2026

    With total air superiority established, The venerable B-52 is having its way.


    San Diego is home to the largest US naval base on the West Coast " hosting Navy SEALs that could be used to seize key oil terminals on Kharg Island and free the Strait of Hormuz from Irans iron grip. But sombre soldiers have been putting Trump's strategic mission in jeopardy by mistaking an exotic dancer for their therapist. "Something I've noticed lately is all the military guys are coming in and they're spending all of their money," Daze says in he TikTok clip. "It's sad. They're kind of depressed ... They're like, Oh yeah, we're gonna have fun, we're getting deployed next week'."


    Trump to provide important update' on Iran on Wednesday night, says White House White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has said that the US President will "give an Address to the Nation" on Wednesday night at 9 pm (0100 GMT on Thursday) which will "provide an important update on Iran." Leavitt made the announcement in a brief post on X without providing any further details.


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