A federal commission approved President Trump’s massive memorial arch near Arlington National Cemetery, but a judge quickly halted construction for at least 14 days as Virginia and Washington, DC, challenge the project in court.
The Learjet crash that killed nine people has renewed scrutiny of private aviation, where lower experience requirements, uneven safety practices and fewer operational safeguards accompany a fatality rate far above that of commercial airlines.
A photograph queue dispute at China’s Five-Coloured Pond viewing platform turned violent, leaving three people injured. Police said both parties later acknowledged their mistakes, apologized to each other and reached an agreement through mediation.
Trump is weighing renewed strikes while Qatar presses a diplomatic proposal involving sanctions, frozen funds, nuclear inspections and the Strait of Hormuz. American military preparations continue, but Washington has issued no new combat directive.
CAIR halted its Florida operations and stopped accepting donations from state residents after a federal court rejected its bid to block domestic terrorist designations approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet.
Steve Deace says Republican leaders dismissed their base, failed to deliver on populist promises, and allowed Democrats to campaign on GOP themes, leaving voters betrayed and the party facing the prospect of even more losses.
Pressed by CNN’s Kate Bolduan about voters who questioned his support for the Jewish community, Abdul El-Sayed defended his opposition to Israel aid, invoked Palestinian children, and insisted his position comes from love rather than hate.
Eva Geller, a Holocaust survivor who was 90, died nearly a year after she was wounded at a Chanukah celebration in the Bondi Beach antisemitic terror attack, raising the massacre’s death toll to 16.