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"The Battalion Artist" traces Nat Bellantoni's WWII odyssey in the Pacific. Next: "Lighter Than Air" tells of my Uncle Joe in the Atlantic.
Ohio Republicans secretly awarded Google, Meta, and Amazon $600 million in tax breaks to build data centers.
The tax breaks were written to last 40 years and cannot be undone.
Jewish extremists attacked and spat on Father Firas Abedrabbo, parish priest of the Latin Church in the village of Ein 'Arik, near Ramallah in the West Bank, as he walked near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.
Father Abedrabbo filed a complaint with Israeli police. No arrest has been made.
🚨 BREAKING: Top journalist Miguel Delaney drops a massive bombshell on LBC.
He confirms the Trump administration is actively violating international World Cup contracts by completely refusing to guarantee basic freedom of movement for participating nations.
https://t.co/I4sM5EnGWP - A win for housing in Venice
Nobody wants people living on the streets.
Unfortunately, nobody also wants housing for the homeless nearby.
Such facilities need funding for supervision and services that will enable them to be good neighbors.
[I]t matters to every American.
Hegseth is injecting his own prejudices into who is trusted to lead the military When the leadership... is shaped by politics rather than excellence, the damage goes far beyond unfairness.
The military is weaker;the country is less safe.
https://t.co/kRkXMxMi19 - Hegseth's meddling with promotions endangers the U.S.
[Hegseth] is canceling results of merit-based promotion boards [telling] the force professional judgment can be overruled by ideological preference, the promotion system bent to political ends.
https://t.co/OdOCqi1cm5 - Recall issued for Target baby wipes
Back in the day, we used baby-sized cotton washcloths, warm water and a little mild soap.
In fact, we also used cloth diapers.
Toddlers were toilet trained younger b/c they could actually feel that they were wet.
Israeli forces killed nine people in Tyre in the past 24 hours after it issued forced displacement orders on the city and continued deadly attacks across southern Lebanon.
Following the Israeli settler terrorists' attack on the Christian village of Taybeh — in which fields were set on fire — the Israeli army has now raided the village and is firing stun grenades.
In June of 1944, German POWs are moved by the 2nd Ranger Battalion as they are relieved by the 29th Infantry Division only days after they scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc. 🪖
A rare photograph taken on D-Day +4.
It is worth remembering that, four days after the initial landings, Allied troops were still coming ashore on the Normandy beaches and fighting their way inland to liberate Nazi-occupied France.
"In February, Trump demanded that Canada turn over at least half the ownership of the bridge to the U.S. federal government and agree to other unspecified demands in one of his many salvos over cross-border trade issues."
Gotta love Mark Carney!
https://t.co/v3DT3X3Xrg - Bridge across Detroit River will open, Carney says
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Gordie Howe International Bridge, jointly owned by Canada and the state of Michigan, is [for]Friday; bridge itself is expected to open to traffic later this month.