Advocacy groups for military personnel and families are pressing the Pentagon to handle moldy, infested or otherwise dirty and dangerous barracks on U.S. bases across the globe. Hots&Cots, the group leading the effort, said the “substandard” living conditions that many service members face are “unacceptable.” “From barracks with mold issues to outdated HVAC systems and...
Special counsel Jack Smith has refined his election interference case against former President Trump, keeping the bulk of his original indictment in the wake of a Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity. The first words of Smith’s indictment no longer identify Trump as the 45th president of the United States and instead...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ex-running mate, Nicole Shanahan, criticized Democratic attacks against Kennedy, saying that members of the party have “lost their soul” during a Fox News interview on Tuesday. “They’ve lost their soul, they’ve lost their direction,” Shanahan said on Fox News’ Jesse Watters on his primetime show. "And, you know, if you're going...
Ukraine’s unexpected incursion into Russia’s Kursk region — and Moscow's inability to marshal a serious response to it — has shaken public sentiment within Russia.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was freed from police custody on Wednesday and will appear in court following days of questioning over allegations that his messaging platform is being used for criminal activity, the Associated Press reported. “An investigating judge has ended Pavel Durov’s police custody and will have him brought to court for a first...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he would eventually present a peace plan to President Biden and the current White House candidates, Vice President Harris and former President Trump. Zelensky, while speaking at a news conference in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, touched on the four-stage plan, stating that the country’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk...
The U.S. surgeon general is warning that parenting can be harmful for your mental health because mothers and fathers face dangerous levels of stress. In an advisory issued Wednesday, Dr. Vivek Murthy said he is blessed to be a father of two, but notes how difficult he finds parenting for himself and others. Being a...
Former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) left the House earlier this year due to a toxic political climate and a particularly harrowing threat to his family, which involved an anonymous call claiming that Gallagher had been shot and his wife and two young daughters were taken hostage.
The Biden administration pushed ahead with the construction of a humanitarian aid pier off the coast of Gaza despite internal warnings that such an effort would face serious challenges, a government watchdog report said. The Tuesday report from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Insector General (OIG) said discussions before the...
The top House Republican with oversight of foreign affairs is calling for President Biden’s national security adviser to sit for public questioning in September about the decisionmaking behind the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, coming upon the three-year anniversary of America’s chaotic exit from the country. The demand to hear from Jake Sullivan comes as former...
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz addressed members of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Wednesday at their convention in Boston. The union reports that they represent some 350,000 firefighters and emergency workers in 85 percent of U.S. and Canadian communities. Walz, Minnesota's governor, is coming off the Democratic convention where he impressed his party...
An innocent person entered a plea just to avoid a death sentence he doesn’t deserve; now, he is stopped from proving his innocence by the government’s negligence.
Vice President Harris gained more ground on former President Trump when it comes to the issues of economy and crime, according to a new survey. The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Tuesday, found that the former president’s plan for employment and the economy was backed by 43 percent of registered voters compared to the vice president’s agenda,...
