Do you eat steak? You're killing the planet! So say climate activists. Silly media agree: Vox warns that beef is the "worst thing we eat when it comes to global warming." The World Economic Forum, which says it's "committed to improving the state of the world," released a video promoting a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Markwayne Mullin moved a step closer to becoming President Donald Trump's next homeland security secretary after a Senate committee Thursday narrowly advanced his nomination. The 8-7 vote came after a contentious hearing Wednesday and sent the Cabinet nomination to ...
Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2026. There are 286 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1995, in Tokyo, packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were opened and dispersed on five separate subway trains in a terror attack by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, causing 14 deaths and injuring more than 1,000. Also on this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was first published in book form ...
The reason why we have the Fifth Fleet, one of the most awesome naval forces ever assembled in the history of mankind, is to protect the sea lanes in the Middle East. That the Strait of Hormuz is now effectively closed is not just a blow to the global economy and a key point of leverage for ...
PARIS (AP) — We've long had your back, now it's our turn. That is how the famously transactional U.S. President Donald Trump is framing his demands that allies help him with the Iran war. He wants to call in IOUs for decades of U.S. security guarantees. The string of refusals indicates his ...
Today is Thursday, March 19, the 78th day of 2026. There are 287 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2003, President George W. Bush announced in a televised address that coalition forces had begun an invasion of Iraq. (Bush would declare victory just over five weeks later in his "Mission Accomplished" speech, though the main U.S. troop withdrawal would not be completed until 2011.) Also on this date: In 1931, Nevada Gov. Fred B. Balzar signed a measure that made the state the first to legalize gambling. In 1945, during World War II, more than 800 service members were ...
