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Middle East crisis live: Iran warns of ‘devastating’ retaliation after Trump’s expletive-laden threats | US-Israel war on Iran
Interim summary Here’s a snapshot of the latest news from the US-Israel war on Iran to bring you up to speed. It’s 10.30am in Tehran, 10am in Tel Aviv and Beirut and 3am in Washington DC. Iran’s deputy foreign minister has claimed Donald Trump’s threats to destroy Iranian power plants and bridges could amount to war crimes. “The American president,…
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Other countries have 200 mph passenger trains. Why has high-speed rail not tracked here?
It’s hard to exaggerate the role of the train in the American story or the romance of train travel, those iron horses galloping down tracks of steel. Why, then, has high-speed rail — so common in other countries — not tracked in the U.S.? An ambitious state-run project connecting L.A. and San Francisco has lurched, derailed, cost billions and may…
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Rice’s whales existed before humans. Now Trump could make them extinct | Whales
Since before modern humans existed Rice’s whales have been diving to the depths of the ocean to gorge on fat-rich fish while growing to leviathan proportions, their bodies spanning the length of a bus and weighing as much as as six elephants. Unfortunately for these grand creatures, their only home became a patch of the Gulf of Mexico that the…
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This Was the Moment Donald Trump Lost His Mojo
Donald Trump on April 1, 2026, as he gave his remarks about daycare. (Screenshot via YouTube) DONALD TRUMP LAST WEEK gave an unexpectedly candid riff on his governing priorities—and, in the process, revealed that he’s losing one of his most important political skills. It happened on Wednesday, during a private Easter luncheon at the White House. Here’s what Trump said:…
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Worker for US defense contractor killed in Iraq as colleagues say they are pressured to stay | US news
A man employed by the US defense contractor V2X has been killed in a drone attack on Erbil airbase, amid concerns from colleagues that they are being placed in harm’s way and pressured to remain in Iraq despite security risks, five sources said. The worker, from Kenya, died in a night attack in his sleeping quarters on the base on…
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An Indiana man is poisoned with a root beer float. How a robbery revealed a sinister plot to kill
When Harold Allen died suddenly in his home in Freetown, Indiana, just a few days before Christmas 2022, Lieutenant Adam Nicholson, an investigator with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, says no one suspected anything out of the ordinary. Lt. Adam Nicholson: Twenty years on the job, I never thought I would see a case like this. Harold’s younger brother Matthew…
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Middle East crisis live: Trump says F-15 crew member missing in Iran is ‘safe’ after ‘dozens of aircraft’ sent to recover him | US-Israel war on Iran
Trump confirms on Truth Social rescue of second F-15 crew member US President Donald Trump has confirmed on Truth Social that the US has rescued the second crew member from a F-15 fighter jet shot down over Iran on Friday. Identifying the crew member as a colonel, Trump wrote that US forces were monitoring his location “24 hours a day”…
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Trump says the end of the Iran war is ‘very close.’ What has it accomplished?
In his first prime-time address since the start of the Iran war, President Trump declared on Wednesday that the U.S. operation in the Middle East was “nearing completion.” “We are going to finish the job, and we’re going to finish it very fast,” Trump said. “We’re getting very close.” The president went on to say that U.S. forces would “hit”…
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In rural Virginia, excitement and dread over Democrats’ redistricting plan
LOUISA, Va. (AP) — Michael Shull never imagined that a Democrat from the wealthy suburbs of Washington would represent his community in Congress. His corner of Virginia, with its sprawling farms and winding country roads, has been electing Republicans for more than three decades. Then came an unusual nationwide redistricting battle, with Democrats and Republicans redrawing congressional lines to boost…
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NC joins lawsuit over Trump’s mail-in ballot order, calling it an unconstitutional power grab :: WRAL.com
North Carolina joined more than 20 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s new executive order on mail-in voting, alleging in a federal lawsuit that the order is an unconstitutional power grab that would disrupt upcoming elections and disenfranchise voters. “The president’s latest attempt to interfere with the states’ administration of their elections is as unprecedented as it is unconstitutional,”…
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