President Donald Trump says vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall ... read more
By lunchtime at a northern Virginia high school, the hallway outside the cafeteria buzzed with students finishing homework, joking with friends and playing video games. Off to the side, Tech Sgt. Omar Herrera, an Air Force recruiter, had arranged his table with the standard fare of glossy brochures, foam model fighter jets and Air and Space Force-branded water bottles students could earn with a round of pushups. The scene was strikingly low-key, almost at odds with the life-altering decision many of the teenagers wandering past his table were weighing.
... Sending people to the moon ...
One by one, stalwarts of the Democrats' old guard are falling. Members of Congress who have won elections time and again, collectively spending almost a century in office, are suddenly being ousted by challengers less than half their age. Six of the seven House members to have lost a primary this year have been forced out by younger rivals, some of them young enough to be their children or grandchildren. A generational shift is under way.
Locals are preparing for the possibility of ICE at the polls and contested election results.
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... Iran will shift to a "fully offensive" military posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to the war with the U.S. have stalled, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, as Washington ruled out extending a temporary ceasefire agreement.
Outward progress towards peace talks and a resumption of oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt, threatening to extend the conflict that the U.S. and Israel launched with attacks on Iran on February 28. ...
So, Iran is now saying publicly something that Pres Trump has taught them...
The Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz may be a more potent force to face the world than Iran possessing a nuclear bomb.
Yeah for Pres Trump!
Donald Trump Says 'We Won' Iran War (March 11, 2026)
www.newsweek.com
... President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the war with Iran had already been decided in America's favor.
He told supporters in Hebron, Kentucky, that the conflict was effectively over almost as soon as it began. Trump said U.S. forces knocked out 58 Iranian naval vessels and eliminated the country's air force.
"Let me say we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won, in the first hour it was over, but we won," the president said. ...
White House pressuring Netanyahu to condemn Israeli settler siege in West Bank
www.independent.co.uk
... White House officials are pushing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to openly condemn a settler-led siege of a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, according to U.S. and Israeli sources on Friday.
The pressure comes as settlers pitched another tent in the area before military forces intervened to dismantle it.
For nearly a week, settlers have blockaded homes in the village of Qusra. Human rights organizations report that the siege is part of an organized attempt to claim additional territory intended for a future Palestinian state.
The blockade drew rare public criticism from Washington on Thursday, with Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and a prominent proponent of Jewish settlement in the West Bank, labeling the settlers surrounding a Palestinian residence as "Israeli terrorists." ...
@#5 ... You think because you're black, your nonsense comments go unchallenged? ...
Wow.
Where did that come from?