In the days before proposed talks aimed at ending the war between them, President Trump and Iran's leaders exchanged a barrage of threats and insults that played out like a high-stakes game of chicken. In the end - at least, from Iran's perspective - Mr. Trump blinked first.
Palm Beach County Pilot George W. Poncy Jr is suing the State of Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), and the Florida Department of Transportation to block the planned renaming of Palm Beach International Airport, arguing the move could create confusion in aviation systems while shifting costs to taxpayers.
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The Trump administration is in advanced talks for a financing package for Spirit Airlines as the carrier is facing the risk of a liquidation, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Mythos has triggered emergency responses from central banks and intelligence agencies globally, as Anthropic decides who has access to the powerful model.
The war has not pushed Iran toward a dual structure in which civilians speak one language and the security establishment speaks another. After the war, power in Iran has become more concentrated within a military-security core, and the space for visible flexibility has narrowed.
Southern Poverty Law Center's interim CEO Bryan Fair claimed in a Tuesday video that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the organization and possibly preparing criminal charges. "Although we don't know all the details," Fair said in a video posted to the organization's YouTube account, "the focus appears to be on the SPLC's prior use of paid confidential informants to gather credible intelligence on extremely violent groups."
"Two ships came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz as tensions flared in the waterway, after President Trump said the U.S. would extend its ceasefire with Iran and continue its blockade until Tehran presents a unified proposal,'" the Wall Street Journal reports. "An Iranian gunboat fired on a containership northeast of Oman, before a second vessel reported being fired at off the coast of Iran. The two incidents within hours of each other demonstrate that while the aerial war between the U.S. and Iran is on pause, the fight for control of the strait continues."
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who once unsuccessfully ran against President Donald Trump, is reportedly "begging" the president for a top role in the administration as he seeks a new job ahead of his term ending this year. While dining with the president at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, the outgoing Florida governor allegedly asked the president to become the next attorney general, Trump told a confidant, according to Axios. However, an unnamed source told the news outlet that DeSantis was "not interested" in becoming the next AG. Rather, DeSantis would want to serve as the next Secretary for the Department of Defense, should Secretary Pete Hegseth ever leave, or his "dream job" as a Supreme Court justice, a source claimed.
U.S. intelligence is at odds with public declarations by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said the Iranian Air Force was "wiped out" and the Navy is "at the bottom of the sea."
A day after FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic, he has lost a different defamation claim, against news analyst and pundit Frank Figliuzzi. U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr. dismissed Patel's lawsuit against Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who has been an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Patel sued after Figliuzzi, appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe last year, said of the FBI director, "Well, reportedly, he's been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building."
A Murfreesboro man who was arrested last year after an armed confrontation with protesters at a Nashville "No Kings" rally faces new federal charges, including two counts of possessing child pornography. A federal grand jury in Nashville recently returned a superseding indictment against Elijah Millar, 20, adding two additional firearms charges, as well as two counts of receiving child porn and possession of art work that depicted children engaged in sex acts. A Murfreesboro man who was arrested last year after an armed confrontation with protesters at a Nashville "No Kings" rally faces new federal charges, including two counts of possessing child pornography. A federal grand jury in Nashville recently returned a superseding indictment against Elijah Millar, 20, adding two additional firearms charges, as well as two counts of receiving child porn and possession of art work that depicted children engaged in sex acts.
The Connecticut man who drowned last week in Cocoa Beach, Fla., got caught in a rip current after saving his son, his wife said Tuesday.
Virginia voters approved a mid-decade redistricting plan Tuesday that could boost Democrats' chances of winning four additional U.S. House seats in November's midterm elections that will decide control of the closely divided Congress. 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'.
Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.
NATO intercepted Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets that flew over the Baltic Sea on Monday, a muscular display of air power on the alliance's eastern flank away from the spotlight on the Middle East.
