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Israel has mounted airstrikes on Iran, US confirms, as Tehran plays down attack An Iranian official told the New York Times that his country believed the attack was carried out with small drones, possibly launched inside ... struck targets in Iraq and Syria, and explosions ... 04/18/2024 - 6:20 pm | View Link
Moscow strongly condemns Israeli airstrikes inside Syria According to TASS, Nebenzya said at a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, "The Russian Federation strongly condemns the ongoing airstrikes on the sovereign territory of Syria, viewing them as ... 04/3/2024 - 12:14 am | View Link
Israeli airstrikes on Syria’s Aleppo result in civilian and military casualties, Syrian state media reports A series of Israeli airstrikes targeting areas close to the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday have led to casualties among both civilians and military personnel, according to the Syrian state news ... 03/28/2024 - 4:28 pm | View Link
California U. S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey’s (R) property taxes are being paid by Sisters in Christ LLC, an organization that includes his sister-in-law as a manager, the Sacramento Bee reports.
It’s not clear what Sisters in Christ’s activities include.
“The Biden administration said Tuesday that it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer,” the AP reports.
“Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that he is open to allowing states to restrict access to birth control and promised to release a ‘comprehensive policy’ on the issue soon,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly, and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting.
Politico: “Hogan’s first general election ad is set to air Wednesday, and it’s entirely about abortion. In it, the former governor goes direct-to-camera as he endorses codifying the abortion protections the nation had under Roe v. Wade.”
Said Hogan, in the ad: “With Roe overturned, many have asked what I’ll do in the United States Senate.
And unsealed filing in Donald Trump’s classified documents case says there were two rounds of documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago after the FBI conducted its search.
Jacob Heilbrunn: “Mr. Trump’s economic and foreign policy nationalism would subvert the preponderance of power that America has enjoyed since 1945 and that he has promised to bolster. It has been threatened from without but never from within.”
“As he vows to upend America’s relations with the rest of the globe, the danger is not that Mr.