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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has now been in office for a little over 100 days, and while he has not yet delivered on his campaign promises to freeze the rent or make buses free, his city-owned grocery stores are one step closer to opening. Earlier this week, Mamdani announced that a vacant lot next to La Marqueta, an East Harlem marketplace already owned by the city, will be the site of a city-owned grocery store. Mamdani said he announced this location first because it will be built from the ground up, unlike the other stores. The mayor expects…
The Washington Post spoke with US officials who said the Department of War is preparing for an invasion of Iran with American troops remaining on the ground for weeks. US officials told the outlet that the thousands of soldiers and Marines arriving in the Middle East could be used in a ground invasion of Iran, with the Pentagon developing plans for American troops to occupy Iranian territory for weeks. President Donald Trump has ordered two Marine Expeditionary Units, about 2,500 troops each, and 3,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in recent weeks. Last week, the…
From Monday’s order by Judge Brett Ludwig in Schmidt v. Naqvi (E.D. Wis.): Plaintiff Dale Schmidt is … the elected sheriff of Dodge County, Wisconsin…. Defendant Kevin Morrison is … a prior candidate for the United States House of Representatives [and currently a Cook County, Ill. Commissioner -EV]. Schmidt is suing [Sundas] Naqvi, Morrison, and unidentified Doe Defendants for falsely claiming that Naqvi was illegally detained at Dodge County Jail from March 5, 2026 through March 7, 2026. Schmidt maintains that Naqvi was never booked or detained at Dodge County Jail. He alleges that, in actuality, Naqvi arrived at O’Hare…
Israel preys on civilians as it receives deep wounds from the Lebanese Resistance A family home in Baalbek bombed by Israel without warning on the 18th March 2026. Photo: Vanessa Beeley The memory of victories following harsh periods of endurance has created a popular certainty that scenes of rubble are merely preludes to reconstruction, and that what has been destroyed will be rebuilt with greater dignity. This certainty rests on the “credibility of the resistance,” which has demonstrated, in prior instances, the truth of its slogans—particularly the promise that “it will return better than before.” Dr Mohammad Aloush for Al Akhbar,…
Trump's Blockade Is a Crisis for Iran Source link
US Central Command reports that no ships have exited the Persian Gulf carrying oil since President Donald Trump ordered a blockade on Monday. “Yesterday, an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel tried to evade the US blockade after leaving Bandar Abbas, exiting the Strait of Hormuz, and transiting along the Iranian coastline. The guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) successfully redirected the vessel, which is heading back to Iran,” CENTCOM posted on X Wednesday. “Ten vessels have now been turned around and ZERO ships have broken through since the start of the US blockade on Monday.” Yesterday, an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel tried to…
It’s not their war. But it’s becoming their political and economic nightmare. Source link
Sunday night in Budapest was glorious. The overwhelming majority of Hungarians in the country’s biggest-ever election chucked out a corrupt and oppressive regime that had transformed a once-thriving post-communist country into a listening post for Moscow and Beijing. I flew in Sunday morning hoping to witness the second great Hungarian liberation of my lifetime. Back in the late 1980s, I had been active in Hungary and other Central/Eastern European countries, working with the classical liberal Carl Menger Institute out of nearby Vienna to identify and assist people looking to escape what turned out to be the final days of Soviet-bloc…
On the relationship between the pointless cosmos and purposeful living organisms. I am a firm believer in miracles—a confession that will be immediately off-putting to readers of Skeptic. Below I will offer a definition of miracles and attempt to justify belief in them, but for the moment I will focus on a fundamental distinction between two modes of causality. I call these because-of causal mode and so-that causal mode. We can think of these as two ways of explaining an event. Because-of causal mode example: a man walks into a bank and we ask for an explanation. One explanation tells us about…
Americans feel squeezed on Tax Day. And it’s not just about tax rates, but how Washington spends the money. Source link