Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared annoyed Tuesday after a reporter asked him when President Trump decided to capitulate on his initial demands for Iran to surrender unconditionally.
Lawmakers said the Justice Department has indicated Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon -- a candidate to replace Pam Bondi as attorney general -- will represent her in a transcribed interview later this month, raising ethical concerns. read more
Alberta separatists said Monday they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada. The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the province to consider such a vote.
OpEd: When Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in February that the Defense Department would sever ties with Harvard University, he framed the move as an act of ideological hygiene. read more
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@#44
Major religious groups
en.wikipedia.org
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Largest religious groups
Christianity: 2.3 billion
Islam: 2.0 billion
Hinduism: 1.2 billion
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I just saw this ...
Trump pauses effort to escort ships in Strait of Hormuz, citing deal progress
www.reuters.com
... U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would briefly pause an operation to help escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, citing "great progress" toward a comprehensive agreement with Iran.
Hours earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had outlined the effort that began on Monday to escort stranded tankers out of the Gulf. The strait has been virtually shut since the conflict began, blocking some 20% of world oil supplies and igniting a global energy crisis. ...
Trump announces 'Project Freedom' will pause as US seeks a final deal with Iran
www.scrippsnews.com
... President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the U.S. would pause an effort it began on Monday to provide security for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. He said the pause would give time to evaluate whether the U.S. could reach a lasting peace deal with Iran.
"We have mutually agreed that, while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom (The Movement of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz) will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed," the president wrote on social media.
The president said Pakistan and other countries had requested that "Project Freedom" be paused. ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that Iran no longer controls the Strait of Hormuz. He said "hundreds" of ships from around the world are now lining up to pass through the waterway. ...
Trump sees himself as a world-historical figure -- like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon
attentiontotheunseen.com
... Had President Trump, we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through -- just maybe -- the works of ... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel?
Impossible.
And yet.
Hegel's theory of "world-historical individuals," men who redirected the course of humanity, focused on three figures: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Hegel described them as unlikely "heroes of an Epoch" for upending established orders that had previously seemed fixed.
They were "practical, political men" who were each condemned in their age for smashing norms and for other conduct "obnoxious to moral reprehension" -- as Trump has been accused of, centuries later.
And though Trump has long compared himself to America's two greatest presidents, we were recently told by two people who are in a position to know such things -- a senior administration official and a longtime Trump confidant -- that the president had, in private conversations, begun thinking about himself less as a peer of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and more as an addition to Hegel's immortal trifecta.
"He's been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live," the confidant told us.
"He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn't do, because of his sheer power and force of will." ...
Why?