Tehran demonstrators gathered to protest what they described as a United States threat to an oil route, JQJO reported today. Participants voiced opposition to actions they said imperil a transit line used for energy shipments, and the report said the gathering reflected broader public concern about disruptions to energy transit....
Amherst, Massachusetts. Hampshire College announced Tuesday that its Board of Trustees voted to close the college later this year after the fall semester, citing increasingly complex financial pressures. Administrators said efforts to increase enrollment, refinance debt and generate revenue through land sales fell short, prompting the decision to end operations. The...
Washington — The US Treasury Department announced Tuesday it will not renew a temporary authorization that allowed the sale and delivery of Iranian crude and other petroleum products already loaded onto ships before March 20, saying the short-term authorization, set to expire in a few days, will not be extended...
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma — On April 8, Principal Kirk Moore tackled a 20-year-old former student, Victor Hawkins, in the school's lobby after the suspect entered shortly before 2:20 p.m. Video released this week shows Hawkins pointing a firearm, which investigators say jammed, and Moore rushing from a side door to...
Washington: Israeli and Lebanese envoys met at the US State Department on April 14 for direct talks, with Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter describing a two-hour, 'wonderful' exchange and saying both sides are 'on the same side' in opposing Iran-backed Hezbollah; Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh also attended the meeting and the...
Wichita, Kansas — On Tuesday the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that seven Kansas communities will receive $11,018,000 in grants and loans through the USDA Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program to modernize drinking and wastewater systems and install emergency generators and SCADA upgrades. Corpus Christi officials said this...
WASHINGTON. President Donald Trump publicly criticized Pope Leo XIV this week after the pontiff condemned U.S. and Israeli military actions in the Iran war; Trump posted a social-media message and an AI-generated image and spoke to reporters on Monday and Tuesday, accusing the U.S.-born pope of being 'WEAK' on crime...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Federal prosecutors charged 36-year-old Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez on Tuesday with assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon after an April 7 targeted traffic stop in Patterson, Stanislaus County, during which ICE agents fired at him and struck him multiple times, according to reporting and agency...
U.S. officials said Vice‑President J.D. Vance led talks in Islamabad on April 12–13 in which the United States proposed a 20‑year suspension of all Iranian nuclear activity and Iran countered with a proposal for up to a five‑year suspension. Sources familiar with the negotiations said the U.S. position was not...
Annapolis, Maryland. Maryland Democrats declined a mid-deapolitical attempt to redraw the state's congressional map late Monday as the legislative session ended, leaving the proposal in committee; Gov. Wes Moore had supported the effort intended to make a Republican-held U.S. House seat more vulnerable. Washington saw related turmoil as Rep. Eric...
