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The New York Times is once again suing the Pentagon over its press rules, this time challenging a policy implemented in March that requires reporters to be escorted by Defense Department officials. In a lawsuit filed Monday, The New York Times argues the rules are “patently retaliatory, utterly unreasonable, and manifestly arbitrary and capricious.” The lawsuit is the latest development in the fight over press access at the Pentagon during the second Trump administration. Last fall, the Defense Department asked members of the press corps to agree to a new policy or “lose access to press credentials and Pentagon workspaces,”…

President Donald Trump said he was giving Iran one more opportunity to submit a workable proposal to end the war.  “We’d have to open the [Strait of Hormuz]. That would open immediately,” the President told reporters on Wednesday. “So we’re going to give this one shot. I’m in no hurry.”  Negotiations between the US and Iran appear to have stalled. The two sides have exchanged proposals with Pakistan acting as a mediator, but remain far apart on key issues. Trump went on to express skepticism that Tehran would send Washington an acceptable proposal.  “I just wonder whether or not they…

Canada Lynx. Photo: USFWS. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Council on Wildlife and Fish, and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Custer/Gallatin National Forest to stop them from sacrificing habitat for lynx, grizzly bear, elk and whitebark pine trees just north of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, just north of Yellowstone National Park to subsidize the timber industry. It’s unfortunate to have to take a federal agency to court a third time over this logging project, but federal agencies have to follow the law, just like the rest of us. The groups first sued…

The Justice Department indicted the former Cuban President Raúl Castro on charges including murder Wednesday, marking another significant escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against the Cuban government. Castro, along with five other Cuban leaders, is being charged with seven counts, including four counts of murder, for his alleged role in Cuba’s shooting down of two planes in 1996. The planes were flown by members of Brothers to the Rescue, an organization that regularly flew planes over the waters between Cuba and the United States in an effort to help Cuban refugees seeking to escape to the U.S. On one…

The bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization bill released earlier this week by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would reform an obscure safety rule that has served as a de facto ban on driverless commercial trucks.  The BUILD America 250 Act would allow driverless truck operators to use cab-mounted beacons to warn drivers of a disabled truck on the road. Current federal regulations require that roadside warning placards be placed around disabled trucks.  That requirement has been a serious source of grief for autonomous trucking companies, as it effectively requires a human operator to be on board to place those warning…

U.S. Indicts Raul Castro, Brother of Fidel, on Murder Charges Source link

Yesterday, Lord Daniel Hannan tweeted: A man is stabbed to death by someone who accuses him of being a racist — and the first thing the police do on arrival is to handcuff the dying man. Hannan speaks to a kind of reverse Stephen Lawrence syndrome, whereby conservative commentators view police as institutionally biased against […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Ron Gochez, Union del Barrio, addresses rally in support of Ethnic Studies teachers at LAUSD’s Downtown Business Magnet (5/14/26). Photo credit: Colin Hernandez. Censorship Rocks Los Angeles School District–“Teachers Told to Remove Palestine & BLM Flags” The second largest school district in the country has brought down the hammer on social justice educators following last year’s passage of AB 715, an “antisemitism” bill sponsored by the California Israel lobby and rubber-stamped by its minions in the state legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) with over 500,000 students has ordered Ethnic Studies and social studies…

President Donald Trump and his party need things to go their way this summer to have a chance in the fall. Source link

Kevin Warsh and the Return of Monetarism Source link