Iran has spent the last decade quietly smuggling advanced weapons into the West Bank to arm more than two dozen militant factions responsible for a spate of recent terror attacks, experts say, culminating on Wednesday in a massive Israeli military operation to root out Tehran’s proxies. Regional analysts have been warning for some time that
Vermont’s Department of Health on Wednesday urged teachers and coaches to adopt more “inclusive language” in school by avoiding terms like “son” and “daughter.” “Use ‘child’ or ‘kid’ instead of ‘daughter’ or ‘son.’ This is gender-neutral and can describe a child who may not be someone’s legal son or daughter,” the health department instructed in
Virginia, Alabama, and Ohio also announced the removal of noncitizens from voter rolls leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Aug. 26 more than 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the state’s voter rolls in the past three years, including more than 6,500 noncitizens and 457,000 deceased
Officials at the cemetery said an incident took place. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is denying reports of an altercation between campaign staffers and an official at Arlington National Cemetery. Citing unnamed sources, several news outlets reported that after Trump participated in an Aug. 26 wreath-laying ceremony at the Virginia military cemetery, staffers pushed the
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to revive President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan, giving a boost to Republican-led states that have sued to block it. The justices rejected the administration’s request to temporarily lift a judicial decision that paused the plan, which is designed to lower monthly payments for millions of
Parents are more likely to report high levels of stress than other adults, research shows. Parents’ mental health and wellbeing is suffering more than that of other adults under the weight of economic and societal pressures, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned in an advisory published on Aug. 27. The advisory notes that age-old worries parents
The makeshift Gaza aid pier encountered many weather and security challenges that government officials had warned about before the mission began. President Joe Biden pushed for a maritime route to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip over the objections of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials, a new government watchdog report concluded. The