The Air Force is promoting a policy shift that effectively goes against more than a hundred years of precedent, and is facing significant opposition to it. The crux of the policy change is that the relevant Air National Guard units would be folded into the U.S. Space Force, but governors are the heads of their […]
Multiple tornadoes battered Oklahoma on Sunday night, leaving a path of destruction across the Sooner State. The storms were first reported in western Oklahoma with one tornado touching down in Roger Mills County and another hitting the town of Custer City, according to News 9. A tornado destroyed a house in Blaine County late Sunday […]
Ed Dwight was named a candidate for NASA’s astronaut corps by President John F. Kennedy in 1963. On Sunday, he finally made it to space. Dwight, 90, traveled to space aboard a capsule with Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by Jeff Bezos. The flight departed from West Texas and lasted about ten minutes, according […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan — New Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te promised to provide stability for Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific during his inaugural address, despite China‘s desire to unify the island with the mainland. “Democracy and freedom are Taiwan’s unwavering commitment,” Lai said, through a translator, during his inaugural address on Monday. “Peace is the only option. And […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is believed to be dead after a helicopter he was on crashed in the Islamic Republic’s East Azerbaijan province. Iranian state media reported Monday morning local time that there was “no sign of life” at the crash site. Raisi, 63, had been serving as Iran’s president since August 2021 and was […]
Rapper and producer Sean Combs, also known as Diddy and Puff Daddy, offered an apology on Instagram Sunday for assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassandra Ventura, or Cassie. Combs took to social media just one day after the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced that the assault, while caught on tape, “occurred beyond the timeline where a […]
Presidential candidate Donald Trump was speaking to the National Rifle Association when he made the suggestion he could serve a third term in office. Trump rallied the Dallas, Texas, crowd by asking them what they thought of a third term. “You know, FDR 16 years, almost 16 years, he was four-term. I don’t know, are […]
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Katie Britt (R-AL) are unveiling legislation Monday that would ensure in vitro fertilization access is “legally protected nationwide” by making the practice a condition for states to receive federal Medicaid funding. If state legislatures or courts moved to ban IVF, those states would be ineligible to receive Medicaid funding under […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that the Senate will vote this week on bipartisan border legislation that failed several months ago, but he acknowledged the difficulties the bill faces from both sides of the aisle. In a “Dear Colleague” letter sent on Sunday, Schumer underscored the need for the legislation “to secure our […]
President Joe Biden was in Georgia over the weekend thanking supporters for voting for him in 2020 because the state was “the reason I’m president right now.” The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation held a fundraiser for Biden on Saturday ahead of his speech at the Morehouse College commencement Sunday. Biden made several stops around […]
