President Trump on Wednesday threatened to bomb Iran again after the United States reportedly hit two water facilities in the country that served 20,000 people.
“We hit ’em hard yesterday. We’re gonna hit ’em again hard today, in case you don’t turn on your television set,” Trump said in the Oval Office while signing a $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement. “And we’ll see what happens…
Israel struck military targets and a petrochemical plant in Iran on Monday, defying pressure from US President Donald Trump not to respond to a wave of ballistic missile attacks by the Islamic Republic on Sunday night. The exchange marked the first direct confrontation between Israel and Iran since a ceasefire took effect in April.
Iran and Israel then announced today that they’d halt…
A group of men waving a flag with a swastika and hurling antigay slurs showed up at a Pride parade in Georgia on Saturday.
About 10 white men in matching red and black outfits, with about half wearing black masks, appeared at Athens PrideFest and marched to boos from attendees, according to videos shared on social media. In one video, a person can be heard shouting, “Show your face, you…
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As a longtime Mac user, I’m actually pretty happy with the state of macOS. All things considered, the Mac is in a pretty good place right now, and while Tahoe has some wrinkles, the platform as a whole is solid. But the key to continued success is continued progression, that the Mac evolve to address the needs of users.
On Monday, Apple will announce macOS 27, the next major version of…
Rep. Robert Garcia, one of the most prominent gay lawmakers in Congress, advanced Tuesday to California's November general election, putting him on a path to represent a city that has spent the past several years turning itself into a national symbol of conservative resistance to LGBTQ+ visibility.
Garcia won a decisive 51.74 percent of the vote with 61 percent of votes counted, according to…
Have you ever heard of “biblical economics”? At first blush, you might presume that the phrase must involve the application of love-thy-neighbor moral teachings to business practices and economic policy. There is indeed a long and varied tradition of applying various principles associated with Christianity to matters of economic concern. Some American Protestants of the late nineteenth century,…
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The MacBook Neo shook up the budget laptop market with its combination of performance, design quality, and price, and it’s “captivating customers all around the world,” according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Windows PC makers, who sat around putting out crap for too long, are scrambling to do something while Apple takes away their sales.
The latest company to respond to the MacBook Neo is…
A profile of Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden, 1 of 4 Republicans running for South Dakota governor. "We needed a bold outsider to step up."
The “Broadview Six,” the anti-ICE protesters whom the federal government tried to slap with felony conspiracy charges carrying a maximum sentence of six years in prison, had their case thrown out last week after District Judge April Perry determined top federal prosecutor Andrew Boutros botched the case.
Things are now getting even worse for Boutros and his team.
Christopher Parente, an…
The charges against the remaining “Broadview Six” protesters were dropped Thursday, in a win for anyone who has protested ICE activity under the Trump administration.
The six protesters were hit with felony conspiracy charges carrying a maximum sentence of six years in prison after they surrounded an ICE agent’s car in the Chicago suburb of Broadview in September in an attempt to slow it down.…
The country’s poultry and swine processing plants, already incredibly dangerous workplaces, are poised to get a green light from the Trump administration to vastly speed up the work. In February, the Department of Agriculture released two proposed regulations to increase evisceration line speeds for hogs, chickens, and turkeys. The swine plant proposal removes the current maximum of 1,106 hogs an…
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As the specter of the U.S.-led regime change grows, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released photos of agency chief John Ratcliffe meeting with Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday.
Ratcliffe and several U.S. officials—some of whose faces were blurred by the CIA in images posted to X—held talks Thursday with…
Keir Starmer’s UK government missed a court-ordered deadline to compensate the families of the killed coal miners.
Miguel Trindade Deramo is running for the Washington, D.C., City Council in one of the most politically progressive neighborhoods in America. But the candidate says a year, marked by federal crackdowns, immigration sweeps, armed patrols, and fear spreading through Washington’s queer nightlife corridors, revealed how unprepared the nation’s capital was to protect many of the people who live…
President Donald Trump accidentally just handed Democrats another sound bite they can use to destroy him.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly was asked to explain Trump’s thinking about high energy prices.
Kelly claimed Trump was “clear-eyed” about the rising gas prices, adding that Iran had been “incredibly decimated” militarily and “totally crippled”…
President Donald Trump delivered a meandering, campaign-style speech on Friday in The Villages, a popular retirement community in central Florida, blending economic promises aimed at seniors with sharp attacks on transgender Americans and a renewed embrace of the disco hit “Y.M.C.A.”
The event, held before a largely retired audience, was billed as a push to eliminate taxes on Social Security…
Senate Republicans are looking to funnel nearly $70 billion with absolutely no strings attached to Donald Trump’s lawless immigration enforcement campaign.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley unveiled the legislative text Monday night for the Republicans’ reconciliation package, directing $38.2 billion to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The bill also allocates $26 billion…
Items are scattered across grocery store aisle floors in Fallon, Nev., after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake on April 13.
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By Rong-Gong Lin II
Staff Writer
May 4, 2026 3 AM PT
A recent series of earthquakes in Nevada has served as a jolting reminder of the state’s seismic risk.
It started with a scary earthquake near Reno, then more unsettling shaking…
A Minnesota women’s soccer team has signed its first out transgender player, adding a decorated goalkeeper to its roster as debates over gender and athletics continue to reverberate nationwide.
Minnesota Aurora FC, a pre-professional club in the USL W League, announced the signing of Isaac Ranson, a transgender man who was assigned female at birth and starred at Cal State Fullerton,…
The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Saturday issued an alert for glacial lake outburst floods (Glof) in the upper regions of the country, including Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as a result of an expected westerly wave this weekend.
A Glof refers to the sudden release of water and debris from a glacial lake, leading to the loss of lives, property, and livelihoods in…
The Trump administration has opened civil rights investigations into 36 Illinois school districts over lessons involving sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Justice Department announced Thursday that its Civil Rights Division will investigate whether districts exposed students to what the administration calls “sexual orientation and gender ideology” content without adequately…
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Pope Leo XIV announced the new heads of several dioceses across the U.S. on Friday, including a former illegal immigrant and staunch defender of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
The line-up includes Father Robert Boxie III, who was selected as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington,…
RightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.
Senate hearing highlights Baltic Sea activity, legal gaps and global risks to underwater cables and energy networks.
In the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that curtailed states’ ability to prohibit so-called “conversion therapy” outright, Colorado lawmakers are advancing a bill to deter the practice through civil liability rather than direct bans.
The proposal, House Bill 26-1322, would allow people who say they were subjected to conversion therapy to sue licensed mental health providers, as…
Earlier this month, someone at the FBI made an extraordinary decision: to send a plane to Cuba to bring home an American child who had allegedly been kidnapped. It was a possibly unprecedented intervention, apparently connected to a family member’s reported fear that the child’s alleged kidnappers sought “gender reassignment surgery” for the 10-year-old. On April 21, federal prosecutors announced…
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House Democrats forced a breakthrough Wednesday in their fight to question former Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, filing a civil contempt resolution after she skipped a subpoenaed deposition and prompting Republicans to announce, within hours, that she will now testify next month.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the gay ranking Democrat on…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday expressed displeasure at the lack of functional early weather warning systems for protection against climate risks in Gilgit-Baltistan and ordered an inquiry into the matter.
He issued the directive while chairing a review meeting on pre-monsoon strategy and climate preparedness.
During the meeting, the premier expressed displeasure at the…