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The “ceasefire” was supposed to be the moment the world exhaled. Twenty points of a Trump peace plan, signed and sealed last October, promising an end to the nightmare. Six months later, exhale if you can. The air over Gaza is thick with smoke, flies, and the stench of broken promises. Nobody’s paying attention anymoreContinue reading “Trump’s Gaza peace plan is failing as Palestinian genocide slows, not stops”

The Army Recreation Machine Program operates more than 1,800 slot machines at 79 overseas military locations, including bases in Japan and Germany, generating tens of millions of dollars each year to fund gyms, libraries, and family support services for service members. Managed by the U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM G-9), the program generated $91Continue reading “Slot machines on overseas bases rob $91 million annually from Army troops”

A man reported missing last month was found dead inside a Walnut Avenue residence, and authorities have ruled his death a homicide, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said. Anthony D. White, 35, of Cuyler Avenue in Trenton, was reported missing by family members on March 19, 2026. Police responded to a home at 409 WalnutContinue reading “Murder victim found in Trenton, authorities investigating”

As the widening conflict involving Israel, the United States and Iran approaches the one-month mark, international attention has shifted sharply toward the risk of regional escalation. But human rights monitors and legal experts warn that the pivot has obscured continued Israeli military operations in Gaza Strip, where a growing number of observers argue that theContinue reading “As Iran War passes six week mark, scrutiny grows over Gaza campaign as genocide allegations intensify”

In the narrowest House majority in nearly a century, the Democratic path to reclaiming power runs through 14 districts. The party’s fate rests on the reelection of a group of incumbents who, in any other political climate, might be facing primary challenges from their own base because they rely on Republican money and support policiesContinue reading “For 14 ‘must-win’ Democrats, the road to the House majority runs through AIPAC”

by Ted Sherman, MinnPost I’m no stranger to experiencing European criticism of the United States, but recent conversations revealed genuine fear, disbelief and horror over the U.S. under Trump. The best way to understand your own country can be to experience it from afar, which I recently had the chance to do while traveling inContinue reading “The American decline as seen through European eyes”

By Russell Blackford, University of Newcastle Talia Lavin’s Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America is an angry response to the rise of American Christianity’s far-right fringe, which she depicts as a theocratic menace to secular government and liberal freedoms. As Lavin shows in abundant detail, the US Christian Right adheres toContinue reading “The Christian Right is taking over America, according to Talia Lavin – but what is the best response?”

In the black hours before dawn Sunday, hundreds of American special operations troops punched deep into hostile Iranian territory, extracted a wounded Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down 48 hours earlier, and flew him to safety in a mission so perilous it required blowing up two of their own transport planesContinue reading “U.S. commandos rescue Air Force weapons officer from inside Iran”

by Mary F. Foskett On Easter Sunday, festively decorated churches across the United States will be filled with worshippers eager to celebrate the most important day in the Christian year. While some will attend services led by pastors who are women, the overwhelming majority of worshippers will not. Women constitute 23.7% of professional clergy inContinue reading “Women were the first to proclaim the resurrection, but rarely lead churches today”

Five weeks into President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, bombs have fallen on petrochemical plants and bridges, on missile silos and nuclear facilities, but there is no end in sight. as the White House asked Congress to approve a $1.5 trillion military budget for the 2027 fiscal year, the highest spending level in modern history.Continue reading “Trump’s losing his war against Iran”

A war of bombs and missiles grinds on across West Asia, claiming thousands of lives and destabilizing the global economy but, on the digital battlefield, the most effective weapon of all might just be a toy steering wheel. By resorting to satire, the Iranian Embassy in South Africa has transformed the official X account ofContinue reading “With savagely funny memes & AI animations, Iran is winning on the digital battlefield”

by Jonathan Shorman, New Jersey Monitor President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail ballots faced a fresh challenge on Friday, as a coalition of Democratic states filed a lawsuit seeking to block an order that experts say is an extraordinary attempt by the president to assert authority over elections. More than 20 states — ledContinue reading “Democratic states sue Trump over mail-in ballot order, joining rush to courts”

The euphoria that echoed from the Pentagon press room in early March has curdled into the acrid smell of burning jet fuel and diplomatic wreckage, and the thing most likely to die from President Donald Trump’s impetuous Middle East war is NATO. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, standing alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air ForceContinue reading “Truth & teamwork obliterated as ‘weak’ Iran fights back in ‘uncontested’ airspace”

by Nikita Biryukov, New Jersey Monitor New Jersey officials condemned an executive order issued by President Donald Trump this week that purported to direct the U.S. Postal Service not to deliver mail-in ballots sent by individuals who do not appear on a federal registry, alarming voting advocates and elected officials. Critics say the order isContinue reading “Civil rights groups, NJ Democrats condemn Trump mail ballot order as ‘power grab’”

Let us sit down and talk plainly about what just happened, because the facts are strange enough without the embroidery. The former homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, who was fired by the president last month for reasons that remain as clear as Mississippi mud, has now discovered that her husband of thirty-four years has beenContinue reading “Kristi Noem’s cuckholded husband caught in cross-dressing scandal”

President Donald Trump has fired his own hand-picked Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Before you go feeling a single drop of sympathy for the departing lady, let’s be clear about what’s what. She was a disgrace. An absolute abomination in the job. But the reason she got the boot? That’s the part that ought to chillContinue reading “Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi”

As the Republicans plot to deploy boots on the ground in Iran without an exit strategy, American veterans are being rewarded with a disaster created by the Trump administration. It is a quiet catastrophe unfolding across this nation, from Spokane to San Antonio, and it wears the uniform of honor while being stabbed in theContinue reading “Veterans who were given a promise, got sold down the river”

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has been conscious for the past decade and a half, the Democratic Party has once again traded a handful of beans for a cow, then traded the cow for a handful of beans, and announced to the press that this constitutes a victory for the AmericanContinue reading “Democrats capitulate again, dropping demands made after Gestapo murders”

He arrived ten minutes early, a president who has spent his life believing that presence alone can bend rooms to his will. He sat in the front row, hands clasped, red tie knotted tight, ready to watch nine justices take his measure and find him wanting. By the time the other side’s lawyer rose toContinue reading “The first president to attend oral arguments, Trump storms out of the Supreme Court”