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King Charles III will reflect on "the increasing pressures of conflict" across the world in a "time of great challenge" during a speech planned for Monday, according to multiple reports. "We join together on this Commonwealth Day at a time of great challenge and great possibility," a preview of the 77-year-old’s Commonwealth Day speech says. The king's speech continued: "Across our world, communities and nations face the increasing pressures of conflict, climate change and rapid transformation. Yet it is often in such testing moments that the enduring spirit of the Commonwealth is most clearly revealed." The speech will come a...

Just got a call from a Senate staffer. GOP leadership can't allow the disclosure of sex harassment settlements right now. The reason? It would harm John Cornyn. I'm told: that particular settlement was paid to another man.

President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a “deliberate assault on international law”. President Connolly’s comments come after the US and Israel’s conflict with Iran entered its second week. She said that “violations of the UN Charter cannot be ignored” and described what is being witnessed as “shocking and numbing”. In a statement marking International Women’s Day, President Connolly said: “What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years....

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday sought to create a wall between his leadership of New York City and the private views of his wife, Rama Duwaji, after being asked about her social media activity surrounding the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Ms. Duwaji liked posts on Instagram that were supportive of the Palestinian cause immediately after the attacks, in which roughly 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage, according to the Israeli authorities. Israeli military forces responded with military action in Gaza that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry. The...

IDF Chief Spokesman Brig, Gen. Effie Deffrin revealed the strike in a March 3 press conference, though doubts had persisted about how critical the site was for Iran's nuclear program.

The Los Angeles Marathon has two finish lines this year — and people aren’t happy about it. With temperatures expected to climb higher than 80 degrees, organizers said runners can finish their race early at the 18th mile and still receive their medal if they are “having a tough day.” “If you’re having a tough day and want to end your race before [mile] 26.2, you can choose to take the turn at Mile 18 and head into the finish line early,” The McCourt Foundation, which is hosting the event, announced on its website Friday. “You do not need to...

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In this news video from the San Diego affiliate of NBC News, video shows that after a violent serial criminal named Arturo Gonzalez told Desi Sullivan, the principal of King Chavez High School, that he was running from ICE, the principal violated school policy by unlocking the door, and allowing this violent serial criminal to enter the school while students were inside the school.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt89ADHwhHUhttps://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/man-runs-into-school-after-ice-encounter/3991377/This tweet from ICE San Diego says that Gonzalez is “a known agitator with a long criminal history including… assault with a deadly weapon… and a 2023 restraining order stemming from a domestic violence arrest.”https://x.com/EROSanDiego/status/2030320342389170539

An exit poll puts the Greens ahead of the Christian Democrats by 1 point; but, the Christian Democrats and the third place Alternative for Germany (AfD) will constitute a clear majority in the state legislature.

Gas prices will dip below $3 a gallon “again before too long,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright promised Sunday — as he denied the US was targeting energy infrastructure in Iran. “The Trump administration has been all in on lowering energy prices, and I would say quite successfully,” Wright told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “We have seen a dramatic decline in gasoline prices, in diesel prices. Soon, you will see it in electricity prices as well.” The national gas price average is $3.45 a gallon as of Sunday, per the American Automobile Association. It was just below $3...

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War is the continuation of politics by other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz Seven days into the U.S.–Israel war with Iran, the central question is not simply what has happened on the battlefield, but whether the strategy behind the war is working. In classical strategic terms, war must always be evaluated through the relationship between political objectives and military action. The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz argued that the political objective determines the military means used to achieve it. The success of a war cannot be measured simply by explosions, missile launches, or headlines. It must be measured by...

Greens are projected to hold on to power, edging the Christian Democrats. Also, the Christian Democrats plus the Alternative for Germany (AfD) fall short of a majority; and, the Free Democrats fall short of the 5 percent threshold.

A Pakistani man has been convicted of planning to kill Donald Trump and other prominent US politicians. The trial showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil. Asif Merchant, 47, was accused of trying to recruit ‌people in the US in a plan targeting Mr Trump and others after Washington's killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020, during his first term. Then president Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, who ran ​against Mr Trump that year for the Republican presidential nomination, were also targeted in the ​2024 plot. ...

MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it would respond if Finland ​placed nuclear weapons on its territory, saying such a move would make the Nordic country more vulnerable. ‌The Kremlin reacted sharply after NATO member Finland said on Thursday it was planning to lift a longstanding ban on hosting such weapons, in a move that could open the door to placing them there during times of war. "This is a statement that leads to an escalation ​of tensions on the European continent," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "This statement adds to Finland's vulnerability, a ​vulnerability provoked...

Global oil prices could breach the $100 (£74) a barrel mark within days, and reach $150 a barrel by the end of the month, without a solution ​to the severe disruption in crude flows through the strait ‌of Hormuz, Goldman Sachs has warned. Oil exports via the vital trade route linking the world’s biggest oil producers to buyers in the global market have fallen further than the US investment bank had initially expected after the US-Israeli attack on Iran a little over a week ago. Goldman Sachs had anticipated that flows of crude through the strait would fall to 15%...

US Central Command (CENTCOM) issued a safety warning on March 8 to civilians in Iran, stating that the Iranian regime is endangering its own population by conducting military operations from heavily populated civilian areas.According to the statement, Iranian forces have been launching one-way attack drones and ballistic missiles from locations surrounded by civilians in cities including Dezful, Esfahan, and Shiraz. CENTCOM warned that the use of civilian areas for military activity places residents at risk, noting that locations used for military purposes can lose their protected status under international law and may become legitimate military targets. US forces urged civilians...

U.S. and Israeli airstrikes alone are unlikely to result in the ouster of the Iranian government, according to an expert in air campaigns, who said that the risks are growing for a more drawn-out war that could spread beyond the Middle East. Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago who has studied air power for three decades, told CBS News 24/7 that history does not support the idea that bombing alone can unseat a regime and install a more friendly leader. "The fact of the matter is, for over a century, states have been trying...

Special bonus edition: Does Trump have a plan to avert an oil crisis that could end his presidency, or is it all just chaos and reckless brinksmanship? The pundits say chaos. Here's another take. Good morning, loyal C&C supporters, it’s Sunday— and if you woke up panicking about Iran, this post is your antidote. Welcome to Daylight Saving Time (DST). Change your clocks, and congratulations if you are like Michelle (i.e., certifiable) and love the extra hour of daylight after dinner in exchange for two months of jet lag and brain fog. Today we have an emergency special edition roundup,...