Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 27, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Around 2,400 new air traffic controllers have been hired at American airports in the past 12 months, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. When asked about resolving the deficit of air traffic controllers (ATC) in an April 8 interview with CNBC, Duffy said:
Washington — Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered a by-the-numbers look Wednesday of the meals and caffeine the U.S. military has consumed during Operation Epic Fury, as a fragile ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran begins to take hold. Briefing reporters hours after President Trump and Iran announced the pause
ANN ARBOR and EAST LANSING, Mich.—The left-wing Democrat running for Michigan’s open Senate seat, Abdul El-Sayed, campaigned Tuesday alongside anti-American streamer Hasan Piker. El-Sayed railed against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and what he called the “genocidal” war in Iran, suggesting that U.S. lawmakers only support the war because of money from the
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said “we’ll be hanging around” after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire with Iran, while saying that Iran knows “this agreement means that they will never, ever possess a nuclear weapon.” Hegseth announced at the start of Wednesday’s briefing that the Pentagon’s job is done in Iran. But he
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine are briefing reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon after President Trump said Tuesday night he’d agreed to an immediate, conditional two-week ceasefire with Iran. After the announcement, there were signs that shipping traffic was picking up in the vital Strait of Hormuz. “I agree to suspend
Washington — Vice President JD Vance, who is on a trip to Hungary, called the U.S.-Iran ceasefire a “fragile truce” on Wednesday. He said the Iranian foreign minister responded favorably to the agreement, but that others in the country are “lying.” “This is why I say this is a fragile truce,” Vance said in Budapest.
Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of renewed contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers, parents and students spent hours Tuesday before the state education board arguing about the reading