Ninety-eight hostages remain in Gaza. They include Israelis and foreigners, civilians and soldiers, men, women, two children, and the elderly.
Day: January 13, 2025
The star Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin resigned from the paper Monday and took a parting shot at Jeff Bezos, its billionaire owner. Driving her departure was recent executive decisions at the Post, she told CNN. That included its refusal to publish a satirical cartoon showing Bezos bending at the knee for Donald Trump and its blocking of a planned Kamala Harris endorsement last fall. Rubin often pens columns from a conservative…
A new poll out of Greenland found its residents agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that the country join the United States. Trump is the latest U.S. leader to attempt to bring Greenland and its population of over 50,000 people among its territories. Greenland’s location is a concern for Russian naval activity. The Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom […]
When Wg Cdr Clive Beadon, a Second World War pilot, died in 1996 he left behind an impressive collection of war medals. His only son who had inherited them allowed his stepmother to keep them at her home for safekeeping. When she died three years later, the home which the late Wg Cdr Beadon shared with his second wife was packed up and sold by a ho…
By Catalina Jaramillo, D’Angelo Gore and Robert Farley As wildfires continued to rage in Southern California, President-elect Donald Trump took to social media with several false and misleading claims casting blame on California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, and President Joe Biden. ―Trump claimed that Newsom had “refused to sign” a declaration that would have allowed […] The post Fact-checking Trump’s blame claims about wildfire response…