WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump. That’s according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official. They said Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the…… MORE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats are preparing their final show of resistance against a mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map. Democratic state Sen. Carol Alvarado said on social media that she plans to stage a filibuster that would push a Senate vote into Saturday in a last-ditch bid to delay passage. The filibuster…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city. Trump and his allies are confident that his decision to dispatch soldiers to a key American city with no…… MORE
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli defense minister is warning that Gaza’s largest city could be destroyed unless Hamas yields to his country’s terms. Israel Katz spoke Friday, the same day that the world’s leading authority on food crises said that Gaza City is gripped by famine from fighting and an Israeli blockade.…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job. The remarkable turn of events makes the U.S. government one…… MORE