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President Trump capped the nation’s semiquincentennial with a Saturday night speech on the National Mall, telling a crowd of more than 150,000 that America has been “the hope, the promise, the light, and the glory among all of the nations of the world” while warning that communism is
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The justices wrapped up their 9-month term this week, with most of the big decisions landing Monday and Tuesday. Taken together, the rulings handed President Trump a more full command over the federal bureaucracy while blocking him on a couple of his high-profile priorities. All in all, in
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Two massive earthquakes—magnitude 7.5 and 7.2—struck Venezuela within one minute of each other on Thursday, making them the country’s strongest in over 100 years. The death toll has climbed to over 900, with rescue crews arriving from around the world to race the clock searching
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We’ll start with what might possibly be good news. After months of a war that snarled global shipping, killed thousands, and rattled world financial markets, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Wednesday, and Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz, which could bring an
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Early last week, Iran fired a massive barrage of ballistic missiles into northern Israel, reportedly to retaliate against an Israeli attack in Lebanon. Israel—brushing aside President Trump's request to stand down—counter-retaliated with airstrikes on military targets in Tehran, Isfahan, and Tabriz, the most serious escalation
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Iran fired missiles and drones at Kuwait on Saturday, setting a terminal at its international airport ablaze and killing at least one person. Meanwhile, Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner made an unannounced trip Friday to the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee
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During a week of negotiations and trading limited strikes, President Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Wednesday that Iran is “very much intent” on making a deal, though he told reporters he won't let them rush him: “They thought they're going to outwait me. ... I don&
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In January, President Trump and the Trump Organization sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over the 2019–2020 leak of his tax returns by a former IRS contractor (who is currently in prison), alleging the agencies failed to prevent the disclosure. Because the president now controls both
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President Trump flew home from China on Friday after his first trip to China during his current term—a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People. Speaking aboard Air Force One, President Trump described a series of Chinese trade commitments— including promises
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Nearly 150 passengers began evacuating a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship today after the cruise ship arrived off Tenerife, Spain, ending nearly a month of confinement at sea. The first group came ashore in head-to-toe personal protective equipment and facemasks, kept strictly secluded from the public as small boats
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s congressional district map in a 6-3 decision, ruling that the state’s creation of a second majority-Black district constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The Louisiana v. Callais decision effectively narrows Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
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Contributed by Randy Schafer Isaiah 43:19: “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Recently a group of brothers and sisters from the Texas and Wisconsin
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Report from the AP: A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists’ dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into custody. The
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After peace talks last weekend in Pakistan collapsed after 21 hours of face-to-face negotiations, President Trump responded by announcing a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump posted on Truth Social that the Navy would "begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships
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Over the last 40 days, the U.S./Israeli airstrikes on Iran have killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other top officials and devastated much of Iran's military. In response, Iran has bombed Israel and states around the Gulf and closed the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.
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A partial government shutdown has left TSA's roughly 50,000 screeners without pay for over 40 days, leading to many simply not showing up. Democrats have stonewalled funding for DHS, demanding immigration enforcement reforms for ICE. The effects? Even after the spring break rush at airports across the
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Brother Nathan and Sister Regina Tittley just returned from a three-week visit to the Heritage New Zealand church. When they last visited in 2023, the region had just been devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle, leaving the community land—Mohaka River Farm—badly damaged, as well as devastating the surrounding region&
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Nearly three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. finds itself in a conflict that, at least on paper, looks like military success. Reportedly, Iran's air force has been rendered nearly useless, and its anti-aircraft systems have been largely destroyed, leaving the skies open to the
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Fourteen days into the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, at least 20 countries are now militarily involved in some capacity. Iran has struck targets in at least 10 countries. France has deployed about a dozen naval vessels, including its aircraft carrier strike group, to various locations in the Mediterranean;
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Last Saturday, the United States and Israel jointly launched Operation Epic Fury — a campaign explicitly aimed at toppling Iran's government — and preceded by the largest U.S. military buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The administration had warned Iran that failed nuclear talks
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The United States and Israel launched what the Pentagon dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” in the early hours of Saturday morning, striking targets across Iran with the stated aim of destroying the country's military capabilities, dismantling its nuclear program, and fostering regime change. President Trump announced the operation in
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In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that President Trump had exceeded his authority by imposing sweeping tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 — a law that doesn't explicitly mention tariffs. Chief Justice
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Something has shifted in the AI world, and the people closest to the technology are the ones most unsettled by it. Top safety experts at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI companies are warning — loudly and publicly — that the technology they're building is advancing faster than anyone anticipated.
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President Trump said Friday that the U.S. and Iran had “very good talks” in Oman and claimed Iran's position is more favorable regarding a nuclear deal than before last June's 12-day war. Iran, for their part, flatly refused to cease uranium enrichment, but looked