Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Iraq on Monday for his first official visit in more than a decade as Ankara seeks greater cooperation from Baghdad in its fight against a Kurdish militant group that has a foothold in Iraq. Other issues also loom large between the two countries, …...Read More
Turkish President makes first official visit to Iraq in over a decade
Poland is 'ready' to host NATO members’ nuclear weapons to counter Russia
Poland’s president says the NATO member would be ready to host the nuclear weapons of the military alliance's other members in response to Russia’s moving its nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus. President Andrzej Duda made the comments in an interview published Monday in the Fakt tabloid. POLISH PRESIDENT PUSHES NATO …...Read More
Michael Rapaport speaks out against anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia, says they're 'bullies,' 'cowards'
Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport spoke outside Columbia University on Monday at a pro-Israel event against the anti-Israel protesters occupying the university's campus and called them "bullies" and "cowards." "If these people were screaming at any other group of people, this would be taken care of," Rapaport said of the …...Read More
Trump rails against Manhattan DA Bragg, says 'numerous other agencies' didn't push case
Former President Donald Trump railed against the historic trial in Manhattan criminal court Monday, asking why the District Attorney's office picked up the case after other law enforcement bodies did not pursue charges. "If this were such a great case, why didn't the Southern District bring it? Who looked at …...Read More
Supreme Court sharply divided over enforcing municipal homeless camping ban
The Supreme Court appeared deeply at odds on Monday over a small city's ban on homeless people sleeping in public places, with emotional statements from the bench over society's competing civic responsibilities. It comes as jurisdictions across the nation – but especially in the West – struggle with a record …...Read More
European Space Agency welcomes 5 new astronauts to its fourth class after receiving over 20,000 applicants
For the past year, five fit, academically superior men and women have been spun in centrifuges, submerged for hours, deprived temporarily of oxygen, taught to camp in the snow, and schooled in physiology, anatomy, astronomy, meteorology, robotics, and Russian. On Monday, the five Europeans and an Australian graduated from basic …...Read More
Anti-Israel protests sweep across elite universities just before Passover
Anti-Israel encampments swept across elite universities on Monday, as antisemitic and pro-terror demonstrations at Columbia University reached a fever pitch at the start of Passover. As Columbia held classes remotely following a weekend of hateful rhetoric surrounding it pro-Gaza encampment on the South Lawn, where incidents have included a young …...Read More
Hollywood handbag designer sentenced to 18 months in prison following arrest in 2022
A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the "Sex and the City" TV series was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in Miami federal court on charges of smuggling crocodile handbags from her native Colombia. Nancy …...Read More
Kevin Bacon returns to high school where ‘Footloose’ was filmed 40 years later
Kick off your Sunday shoes, because Kevin Bacon has returned to the school where the 1984 cult classic, "Footloose" was filmed over 40 years ago. Bacon, who starred as Ren McCormack in "Footloose," visited Payson High in Utah, the school that was the setting of the 1984 film. He was …...Read More
Bird rescue results in catch of loud, squawking peacock that spent months on the run
A peacock that spent more than six months roaming a village and hopping from house to house and fence to fence — most recently squawking loudly in search of a mate — has been caught at last. Residents of Gravesend, Kent, in the U.K. had grown fond of the bird …...Read More
