Tensions between Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are escalating after Saturday’s shooting at the Washington Hilton put new focus on a stalled Homeland Security funding bill passed by the Senate last month. Members of the Senate Republican leadership team said the assassination attempt against President Trump should spur House……
WASHINGTON — The US Navy’s blockade of Iranian ports, now in its third week, has stopped almost all of the country’s maritime trade, including key oil exports. But it has also ratcheted up tensions between the two sides as they hold sporadic peace negotiations. RFE/RL spoke with former US Central Command (CENTCOM) Communications Director and…
More bitter surprises may be in store in this week’s flood of results. Source link
With Cuba in dire economic crisis, people whose properties were seized by its government decades ago say it’s time to resolve thorny compensation claims. Source link
Clair Martin says she wanted to raise money for the Samaritans, who she credits with saving her life. Source link
Pogacar’s UAE-Team Emirates-XRG wealth comes from the region’s oil resources and so appears limitless, while other big-budget teams are the Netherlands’ Visma-Lease a Bike of two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard and Germany’s Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe who have Belgian superstar and Olympic road and time trial champion Remco Evenepoel. In a past three seasons, Ineos Grenadiers have…
London’s Royal Albert Hall will stage its first “Star Wars” in-concert weekender over four days in spring 2027, with the London Symphony Orchestra performing the iconic scores live to all three original trilogy episodes across two screenings each. Running from April 29 to May 2, the event takes in “Episode IV: A New Hope,” “Episode…
Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney will give evidence to the committee at 11:00 BST but first it heard from Sir Philip Barton, who was the senior civil servant at the Foreign Office, when the PM decided to send Lord Mandelson to Washington DC. Source link
At a military base outside Portsmouth, England, a 24-hour service monitors the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and part of the Indian Ocean, responding to distress calls. Source link
“The early hands-on verdicts on the Steam Controller appear to be positive, so while I don’t see it taking over the Xbox Wireless Controller as the most commonly used PC controller, I can still certainly see it selling reasonably well among the smaller group of core enthusiasts willing to pay more for such a peripheral,”…