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Two more security checkpoints at PHL will close Wednesday due to TSA staffing shortages
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (251+ words) The partial government shutdown has led to TSA staffing shortages across the country. The checkpoints at Terminals A-West and F will temporarily close Wednesday, with A-West closing at 5 a.m. and F closing at 4:30 a.m. There is no indication when they will reopen,…...
Attorney General Pam Bondi subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Epstein files
49+ min ago (348+ words) Attorney General Pam Bondi has been subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department's sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. WASHINGTON " Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed Tuesday to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department's sex…...
Illinois voters pick a new generation of Democrats after near-record retirements
2+ hour, 15+ min ago (1129+ words) CHICAGO " Illinois voters are deciding primaries Tuesday for six open U.S. House and Senate seats that will spur a new generation of leadership in the state's heavily Democratic congressional delegation. The retirement of longtime Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat, has triggered…...
Afghanistan says more than 400 dead in Pakistan airstrike on Kabul hospital
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (876+ words) Rescue crews are digging bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul KABUL, Afghanistan " Rescuers recovered more bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul on Tuesday after officials said an overnight airstrike killed…...
Zelensky and Starmer urge continuing support for Ukraine against Russia as Iran war steals focus
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (947+ words) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seeking support from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in his country's fight against Russia's invasion LONDON " Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought support Tuesday from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, at a time when the Iran war has…...
Trump says a former president had an Iran confession. Aides to his predecessors deny recent contact
4+ hour, 13+ min ago (647+ words) President Donald Trump says a former president has told him that he now wishes he had attacked Iran when he occupied the Oval Office WASHINGTON " Twice on Monday, President Donald Trump said he'd wrangled a confession of sorts from an…...
Trump will be impeached in ’27. What for? | Will Bunch Newsletter
4+ hour, 44+ min ago (1090+ words) Plus, baseball's "joyless' Team USA mimics real USA. A political bombshell fell over the weekend. You just didn't hear it, thanks to all the real bombshells that fell across the Persian Gulf and the Middle East as Donald Trump and…...
Hundreds of migrants are vanishing in the Mediterranean. Authorities are withholding information
9+ hour, 11+ min ago (1200+ words) The beginning of 2026 ranks as the deadliest start to any year for people trying to cross the Mediterranean. ROME " Bodies washing ashore day after day. Phone calls from relatives going unanswered. Migrants" tents abandoned overnight. Migrants trying to reach Europe…...
Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat
6+ hour, 8+ min ago (248+ words) WASHINGTON " Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he "cannot in good conscience" back the Trump administration's war in Iran. Kent said on social media Iran "posed no imminent threat to our…...
Republicans are launching a voting bill debate that could last days or even weeks
9+ hour, 19+ min ago (721+ words) Republicans are launching an unprecedented effort to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a voting bill they know can't pass. WASHINGTON " Republicans are launching an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for…...