Paris is a city of great pleasures, but one of the best is sitting on the exterior terrace of a cafe, drinking something delicious, and puffing away on a cigar. It’s a pretty complete experience — two kinds of intoxicants entering the bloodstream, the bustle and hum of the city as it passes by, the […]
I’ve told you about U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nick Mitchel, who earned his combat action ribbon on his first day in the war in Afghanistan. Months of regular combat, and then … Sometimes things happen in the military that seem more like a novel or a Hollywood movie than real life. Mitchel, six other Marines, […]
Many political analysts did not believe Republicans could pass a single, sprawling bill encompassing much of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda using the budget reconciliation process. The majorities in both Houses of Congress were too narrow and the coalitions too diverse to achieve agreement, they argued. But Trump, with major assists from Republican leadership, continued […]
🏫 Plus: Trump ratchets up culture war, attacks on Harvard {beacon} IT'S LINING UP to be a crucial week of diplomacy for President Trump, with Russia, Gaza and the president’s trade wars speeding toward new inflection points. Trump this week is venting frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Congressional Republicans urge him to...
There’s a new trade on Wall Street: the TACO trade for “Trump Always Chickens Out.” The term was coined by Robert Armstrong, a writer for the Financial Times, and is intended to capture how markets have fallen on Trump’s vow to impose steep tariffs on imports to the United States and then jump back up...
A second individual has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and torture of a man held for weeks over access to his Bitcoin password. The arrest of 32-year-old William Duplessie on Tuesday comes after police say a 28-year-old Italian national escaped from weeks of captivity in a New York City apartment. Prosecutors said the...
Defense Department civilian employees will no longer have to submit a weekly “five things” productivity reports that were imposed in February, during billionaire Elon Musk's run overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency. Instead of the reports, the Pentagon told employees in an email on Friday, they must submit by Wednesday each week at least one...
The top health authorities of the U.S. and Argentina are launching what they call an "alternative international health system" separate from the World Health Organization (WHO). On the first day of his second term, President Trump signed an executive starting the year-long process of withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO. In February, Argentinian President Javier...
A pair of Senate Democrats are urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to secure the release of journalists detained while reporting overseas on behalf of taxpayer-funded media outlets like Voice of America. Citing President Trump's recent executive order scaling back funding and operations for VOA, Radio Free Europe and other government-funded media operations, the Democratic...
A judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration effort to kill New York City's congestion pricing program, which imposes a significant toll on cars entering part of Manhattan. Federal judge Lewis Liman issued a temporary restraining order barring the administration from getting rid of the program, according to The New York Times. The Times quoted Liman,...
The Colorado River Basin's groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human pumping activities, a new study has found. The critical Western system has lost about 42 million acre-feet of water storage since 2003 — with 65 percent of those declines, or 28 million acre-feet, attributable to groundwater depletion,...
In an era of growing public skepticism of a president's health, it is time for the annual physical to be performed by a panel of independent physicians, who would then release their findings and face the press for questioning, ensuring the integrity of the medical assessment.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) believes it is time for President Trump to throw his support behind sanctions against Moscow in order to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin it's “game over,” as peace talks to end the war in Ukraine stall. “I believe president trump was sincere when he thought his friendship w Putin wld end...
North Korea on Tuesday slammed President Trump for his plans to create the Golden Dome missile defense system. Officials in Pyongyang dubbed the effort “the height of self-righteousness, arrogance, high-handed and arbitrary practice” read a memorandum issued by the Institute for American Studies, according to state media. The country now joins Russia and China in...
