Donald Trump is raising a few eyebrows after he made a facepalm comment about presidential libraries (and libraries in general).
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned the targeting of civilian infrastructure. "Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender," he said in a statement posted on X, adding that such actions "convey the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray". Read more
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The late Ted Bundy, one of the most famous and prolific serial killers in U.S. history, has claimed another victim. New DNA testing confirmed Bundy was responsible for the 1974 killing of a 17-year-old Utah girl who disappeared after leaving a party alone on Halloween night, the local sheriff's office said Wednesday. Laura Ann Aime was found dead on the side of a highway in American Fork Canyon about a month after her abduction. She was bound, beaten and without clothing. Read more
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Iran put anti Trump slogans in a missile video. Read more
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
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.
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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.
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'."
