President Donald Trump's approval rating has turned negative among Catholics and Protestants, even as support among white evangelicals has strengthened, according to new Fox News polling.
Global protests against Donald Trump took place on Saturday as millions of people vented fury over what they see as his authoritarian bent and cruel, law-trampling governance.
It is the third time in less than a year that Americans will take to the streets as part of a grassroots movement called No Kings, the most vocal and visual conduit for opposition to Trump since he began his second term in January 2025
The Trump administration can only confirm that it has destroyed about one-third of Iran's missile arsenal and drone capacity, despite the president saying Iran has "very few rockets left." Intelligence sources told Reuters that another third of Iran's missile arsenal was probably damaged, destroyed, or buried underground, but their status was less certain. Assuming that is the case, most of Iran's missiles would be destroyed or inaccessible, but a significant inventory remains, according to Reuters. Read more
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 800 points today, and the broader benchmark S&P 500 Index just posted its fifth straight weekly loss, marking its worst streak since 2022. The culprit is the war in Iran, which has spread to other parts of the Middle East and lifted crude oil futures back over $99 per barrel, as of this writing. The market started the week on a promising note, as President Donald Trump publicly said the U.S. had a strong intent to reach an agreement with Iran and end the conflict. The U.S. reportedly sent Iranian officials a 15-point plan to end the war. However, mixed signals persisted all week, with Trump suggesting a deal was close, while Iran, through its state media and its foreign minister, said it had no plans to negotiate with the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. deployed troops to the Middle East, leaving some wondering if further escalation is ahead. Read more
Democratic lawmakers and one Republican colleague on Friday demanded answers from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about why sanctioned Russian lawmakers visited the U.S. and toured the U.S. Capitol building this week, a visit organized by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.). The letter, signed by Reps. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), Jim Costa (D-Calif.) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), called the lawmakers' visit to meet with some members of Congress and other officials "deeply concerning." "Because these individuals are subject to U.S. sanctions imposed in response to Russia's full-scale, unjustified invasion of Ukraine, their entry into the United States would have required the issuance of sanctions waivers," the letter reads.
President Donald Trump is toying with renaming one of the world's most critical shipping routes after -- who else -- himself. Speaking at an investor forum in Miami on Friday night, Trump casually referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the "Strait of Trump," before quickly correcting himself, then insisting it wasn't a slip.
"Under the Labor government of Israeli PM Gold Meir, the Mossad attempted to expel 60,000 Palestinians to Paraguay soon after occupying the Gaza Strip in 1967. Tel Aviv would pay authoritarian General Alfredo Stroessner's Paraguayan government a fee of $33 per deportee, including an advance of $350,000 for the first 10,000. Almost six decades later, Israel's methods and objectives to ethnically cleanse Palestinians remain eerily similar."
Two-state solution masquerade exposed
Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth is disingenuously invoking national security concerns to try to exempt the greedy oil industry from protecting endangered Rice's whales in the Gulf of Mexico where less than 100 of these poor cetaceans face an incredibly high risk of extinction.
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Unauthorized drones were spotted flying over Barksdale Air Force Base (BAFB) in Bossier multiple times during the week of March 9, Air & Space Forces Magazine reported. On March 9, BAFB implemented a "shelter-in-place" order following reports of unmanned aircraft flying within the base's airspace. BAFB is a B-52 bomber base that is home to the 2nd Bomb Wing and the Air force Reserve's 307th Bomb Wing. A 2nd Bomb Wing spokesperson confirmed on March 20 that "multiple unauthorized incursions" have happened since the initial drones were seen, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once made a peculiar pit stop to collect a dead raccoon's penis, according to New York Post investigative reporter Isabel Vincent. Vincent relayed the strange tale this week in an excerpt from her forthcoming book, "RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise." Her reporting is based on three of Kennedy's private journals spanning more than 1,200 pages. In a passage exploring Kennedy's fascination with animals, Vincent revealed an unusual event chronicled in one of his journals: "In his diary, he writes about cutting off the penis of a road-killed raccoon in 2001, while his kids waited patiently in the car,' so that he could examine it later." Read more
VPOTUS JD Vance: "So, we actually think that [Congresswoman] Ilhan Omar (D-MN) definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America. And I talked to Stephen Miller about this actually recently. "We're trying to look at what the remedies are. That's the thing that we're trying to figure out is what are the legal remedies now that we know that she's committed immigration fraud. "How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually do the thing? How do you build the case necessary to get some justice for the American people?"
Dummkopf Trumpf War on Somalis
"I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better," said Trump. "I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success." Read more
The USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier, a floating airbase that can carry over 80 aircraft, will be deploying to US Central Command in the Middle East, multiple sources tell the BBC's US partner CBS News. The massive carrier and its strike group completed pre-deployment training earlier this month, and now could be joining US operations in Iran, US officials tell CBS. Two guided missile destroyers - the USS Donald Cook and the USS Mason - also departed the US this week en route to join US operations in Iran. And another, the USS Ross, has also left the US this week, though its destination is not yet public.
The sea ice is crucial to Earth's climate because without it reflecting sunlight, more heat energy goes into the oceans.
In a remarkable 24 hours in Washington, House Republicans snubbed a bipartisan funding deal cut by their own Senate GOP counterparts and instead approved an entirely different plan " prolonging the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Then, they left town. Now, there's no end in sight for the 42-day shutdown that has hobbled airports across the country with TSA shortages. With the House GOP's plan going nowhere in the Senate, even Republicans acknowledge it's not clear how to end the standoff now until there's a breakthrough with at least some Democrats. Read more
Mexico has launched a search and rescue operation for two sail boats that vanished at sea while attempting to deliver food, medicine and other aid to Cuba. Nine people were on board the vessels, which were meant to deliver humanitarian relief to the island nation this week as part of a larger maritime convoy. A US oil blockade intended to pressure the Cuban government has plunged the country deeper into crisis, with food shortages and days-long electrical blackouts. Read more
