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The White House on Friday proposed a sweeping fiscal year 2027 budget that would dramatically increase military spending to roughly $1.5 trillion while cutting billions from domestic programs, marking a sharp shift in federal priorities toward national security and border enforcement. The proposal outlines roughly $1.5 trillion in total defense resources, a figure the administration … Read more
Researchers warn the high-pressure conditions could disrupt marine life and ecosystems if it continues Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox For more than a century, shoreline stations operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have measured water temperatures along the California coast. This year, they are … Read more
Nurul Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, was left alone in a Buffalo parking lot. His death has been ruled a homicide – what now? On 19 February, the second day of Ramadan, Mohamad Faisal Nurul Amin and his family gathered to pray before sunrise in their apartment on the outskirts of Buffalo, New … Read more
As the partial government shutdown enters day 50, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a presidential memo to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees, including more than 35,000 Coast Guard, FEMA and cybersecurity workers. They have not been paid since Feb. 14 because of the shutdown that centers on a battle over immigration enforcement … Read more
President has affixed his name to institutions and edifices, and his visage now glowers from several federal buildings The US has a history of naming things after its presidents. Washington DC has the Ronald Reagan airport, while John F Kennedy international airport is New York’s main air transport thoroughfare. The Hoover Dam straddles Nevada and … Read more
Jesse Watters gave a litany of reasons why women shouldn’t lead before denying he agreed. But peddling these ideas normalizes them Oh dear, it looks like Jesse Watters’ mother needs to give him a good talking to again. The Fox News host regularly spouts so much deliberately provocative nonsense that his mum, a liberal, has … Read more
The White House on Friday requested $152 million to begin reopening Alcatraz as an operational prison. The funding proposal, included in the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2027 budget request, would cover the initial phase of rebuilding the long-closed facility into what officials describe as a “state-of-the-art secure prison facility.” Congress will ultimately decide ultimately decide … Read more
Beyond rising costs of gas and air travel, experts say this is likely just beginning of higher prices amid global volatility Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox As consumers watch the price of gasoline and airline tickets rise, experts say that the war in Iran will … Read more
As Trump’s administration aims to bring ‘warrior culture’ back to the military, young service members express anxiety and snark online over potential deployment If posts coming from the White House were to be believed, the US-Israel war on Iran looks something like scenes from Top Gun, Braveheart and Deadpool – or how a fifth-grade boy … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security revealed that a suspect who fled to China after allegedly planting a deadly explosive device at an important military base is the child of two Chinese illegal immigrants. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Chinese nationals Qiu Qin Zou and Jia Zhang Zheng, both of whom were living in the … Read more
