Biden ends French D-Day anniversary trip by honoring US war dead, drawing contrast with Trump
BERLO, France — President Joe Biden ended a trip to France by paying his respects at a U.S. military cemetery that Donald Trump famously failed to visit during his presidency, hoping his final stop on Sunday would shed sharp light on the fate of November’s election. Before returning to the United States, Biden Aisne-Marne American […]
World War II Veteran, 102, Retires After 36 Years as Crossing Guard
A 102-year-old World War II veteran has finally retired after more than 30 years as a school crossing guard. Thomas Fauset coached students across the street from Guilford County, North Carolina, schools for 36 years before embarking on a second career after the war. CBS17 report. After his military service, Faucett began working for the […]
Israeli War Cabinet Takes Massive Blow After Top Member Resigns Over Disagreements With Netanyahu
The Israeli war cabinet took a loss after Minister Benny Gantz stepped down on Sunday, according to multiple reports. Gantz, one of three voting members of the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had warned that he would leave his post this weekend if the prime minister failed to provide a post-war plan for […]
Moderate politician Benny Gantz resigns from Israeli war cabinet | Israel
Israeli politician and former army commander Benny Gantz has made good on his threat to resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet, leaving him more reliant on the far-right wing of his coalition government. Netanyahu’s main rival, Gantz, a former defense minister and leader of the center-right National Unity Party, joined the three-member […]
Benny Gantz resigns from Israel war cabinet over lack of plan for postwar Gaza
JERUSALEM — Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel’s three-member war cabinet, announced his resignation on Sunday. The move poses no immediate threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who still controls a majority coalition in parliament, but it makes him more reliant on his far-right alliance. Benny Gantz made the statement on Sunday, June 9, […]
NYC public housing residents, posh prep school kids spark playground war — with tensions going into full swing
A concrete jungle gym war has broken out on the Upper West Side. Tensions have reached a boiling point at the playground on West 90th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues, as apartment complex residents fight to keep private school families, including students from the upscale, $64,000-a-year tuition-paying Trinity School, out of the newly renovated […]
Dual US-Russian Citizen Admits To Exporting Weapons Parts To Russia Amid War In Ukraine
A dual Russian-American citizen pleaded guilty to illegally exporting weapons components and ammunition to Russia amid the country’s ongoing war in Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. Dimitry Timashev, 58, illegally exported the items from the U.S. to Russia from around July 2020 to 2023 in exchange for financing of his daughter’s […]
Judge orders University of California workers to pause strike over Israel-Hamas war
A California judge has ordered thousands of University of California employees to suspend a strike over the war between Israel and Hamas. Orange County Superior Court Judge Randall J. Sherman issued The preliminary injunction was issued Friday, just days after the University of California (UC) filed a lawsuit against UAW 4811, the union representing 48,000 […]
The Culture War Isn’t The Most Important Issue Of 2024, It’s The Only Issue
The more obvious it becomes that our domestic political struggles are actually part of a much larger spiritual war over the fate of western civilization, that we are today engaged not so much in a political fight as a religious battle between good and evil, the stronger the urge seems to be among Republican politicians […]
RFK Jr. hits Biden for invoking Ukraine war in D-Day remarks
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday criticized President Biden for referring to the Russia-Ukraine war in a speech marking the anniversary of the Normandy landings. During his speech on Friday, Biden asked several hypothetical questions about how soldiers who fought in the Normandy landings would react to the current situation in Eastern […]