‘It was pandemonium;’ Residents are stunned by late-night racing in Back Bay Shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday, police responded to a flurry of 911 calls reporting a raucous scene in the stately neighborhood — more than 40 vehicles blocking off a section of Marlborough Street for ... 04/23/2024 - 8:48 am | View Link
'Best thing' is for everyone to stay 'puzzled' on last week's odd retaliation strike on Iran, Israeli president says Israel responded to an unprecedented large-scale Iranian attack with a one-off strike on an air-defense system, and that was it. 04/22/2024 - 6:05 am | View Link
Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 ... 04/21/2024 - 2:42 pm | View Link
Israeli strikes on Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group Hamas has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in an already volatile Middle East. 04/21/2024 - 12:15 pm | View Link
Nebraska baseball pelts Maryland pitching, forces mercy rule in series win Fans arrive ahead of the Maryland vs. Nebraska college baseball game at Haymarket Park in Lincoln on Friday, April 19, 2024. The University of Nebraska Board of Regents voted Friday morning to allow ... 04/21/2024 - 8:52 am | View Link
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he is “beside himself” over Speaker Mike Johnson fundraising for Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) ahead of his primary runoff next month, Punchbowl News reports.
Said Roy: “I’m being attacked. Conservatives are being attacked. Bob Good, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, is being attacked by Tony.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) talks to Politico: “It was the intelligence, it was the Europe generals who are in charge of the freedom of the world and of course it was the developments as well, everything has escalated.”
“It may seem hard to square the congressman who, only in September, opposed $300 million in Ukraine aid with the one who put his career on the line to deliver $95 billion to the battered country.
“The U. S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system, arming Washington’s top envoy with diplomatic leverage that officials hope will stop Beijing’s commercial support of Russia’s military production,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in western Austria on the anniversary of his birth, and one gave a Hitler salute as they posed for photos,” the AP reports.
“India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims ‘infiltrators’ — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election,” ABC News reports.
“Critics of the prime minister — an avowed Hindu nationalist — say India’s tradition of diversity and secularism has come under attack since his Bharatiya Janata Party won power a decade ago.
Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D) “told police that she broke into her stepmother’s home because her stepmother refused to give her items of sentimental value from her late father, including his ashes,” the AP reports.