Pentagon to Allow Apple, Samsung Devices The Department of Defense is expected in coming weeks to grant two separate, security approvals for Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, along with iPhones and iPads running Apple's latest operating system. More
Collins' big test will be walking into locker room Now that Jason Collins has made history as the first active player in any of the four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay, the 7-foot center is facing another big step.... More
U.S. believes Syria used chemicals The United States has evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday. But numerous questions remain about the origins of the chemicals and what impact their apparent use could have on the ongoing Syrian civil war and international involvement in it. More
France Approves Same-Sex Marriage The passage of the “marriage for all” law came after months of sometimes angry debate and a series of major protests. More
Iowa lawmakers move to ease ethanol transition for gas stations The federal Environmental Protection Agency recently approved a request from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and other Midwestern governors to permanently waive a summer restriction on E15 and sell it year ... 03/20/2024 - 7:45 am | View Link
Israeli airstrikes kill 20 in Gaza, Palestinian officials say Twenty Palestinians were killed in the early hours of Tuesday in Israeli air strikes on Rafah and central parts of the Gaza Strip, Gaza health officials said. 03/18/2024 - 1:56 pm | View Link
Niger ordered US troops to leave after Biden officials warned about ties to Russia, Iran: Pentagon Biden administration officials are aware of this and are “working through diplomatic channels to seek clarification,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters. But just ... 03/18/2024 - 9:25 am | View Link
Gambia lawmakers refer a repeal of the ban on female genital cutting to more committee discussions Lawmakers in Gambia referred an attempted repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions on Monday. 03/18/2024 - 3:12 am | View Link
Australia’s Southeast Sweats in Heatwave, Lifting Bushfire Risk Large swaths of Australia on Saturday sweated through severe heatwave conditions that lifted bushfire risk in the country's southeast. The nation's weather forecaster on Saturday had heatwave alerts ... 03/8/2024 - 5:47 pm | View Link
Even before most Americans woke up to the news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had "really" happened were running rampant online. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports on some.
CNN's Katelyn Polantz breaks down the argument Donald Trump's lawyer made about the First Amendment to get the judge to dismiss Trump's election subversion case in Georgia.
Paul Ryan is warning Republicans of the negative effect that Trump will have on down-ballot Republican candidates. Not quite sure I understand why, unless it's to set himself up as a party leader after Trump crashes the party. Via MSN.com:
“I think we’re going to lose more seats than we otherwise would with Trump because there are just too many suburban swing voters that just don’t like him, that therefore vote against Republicans,” Ryan said in an interview with Southern Methodist University’s student-run Daily Campus on Tuesday.
Former GOP hopeful Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the Republican primary race after Super Tuesday, would have been a more unifying presidential candidate, he suggested.
Ryan said he didn’t subscribe to the nationalist populism of Trump, which is where “the bulk” of Republicans are right now, and also called the current GOP a cult of personality tied to Trump rather than based on a set of principles.
I'll give him credit for this: The granny-starver was one of the first Republican leaders to read the writing on the wall and get out of Congress.
A telling little clip from Mediate, where TV financial pundit Jim Cramer is basically urging Trump to cash in his chips, relinquish control or at least partial control and get a big fat payday. In theory, that sounds like sound advice. One small problem with that is what he's advocating is not technically legal.
driftglass: The revelation according to Chuck.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: No labels, no logic.
Blue Virginia: Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoes numerous bills that would have made Virginia safer.
Rewire: College students don't know their schools' abortion services.
Equal Justice Initiative: Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which explores the legacy of slavery and the lives of enslaved people.
This installment by Batocchio.
Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of the world's largest asset management firm, wrote in his annual letter to investors on Tuesday that it is "a bit crazy" that 65 is viewed as a sensible retirement age in the United States, drawing swift backlash from Social Security defenders and policy analysts.
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, replied that the CEO of BlackRock apparently doesn't know the U.