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(Background) US ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack speaks during a joint press conference following his meeting with Lebanon’s president at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on August 18, 2025. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images) / (Insert) US President Donald Trump speaks during the National Memorial Day Observance at the Memorial Amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images) OAN Staff Addie Davis3:00 PM – Sunday, May 31, 2026 United States Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack is gaining an expanded role in…
Two advocacy groups plan to provide “free period underwear” to participants during a “Trans Period Pride” event at the Boston Public Library next month. The June 17 event is being hosted by Massachusetts National Organization for Women (Mass NOW) and the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MA TPC) with support from the mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Advancement, Mass NOW posted Wednesday. “Mass NOW and @masstpc are bringing to the Boston Public Library (@bplboston) another consciousness raising conversation around transgender experiences with menstruation,” the Instagram post stated. The Mass NOW, MA TPC, Boston Public Library, and Boston mayor’s office did not immediately…
Israeli soldiers have captured a strategic hilltop crowned by the Crusader castle of Beaufort in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military announced on Sunday, part of the most sweeping Israeli invasion in the country in decades.The seizure of Beaufort, while hailed by Israel’s top leaders, evoked bitter memories in both countries of the deadly fighting there during Israel’s nearly two-decade occupation of southern Lebanon. Israel finally withdrew in 2000 after a bloody insurgency led by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group.Now, more than a quarter century later, Hezbollah is once again fighting a guerrilla war against invading Israeli forces; Israeli leaders openly…
The jobs report is the main event this week. But the real question is bigger than payrolls. Can household spending keep holding up when the finances behind it are deteriorating? That is the tension in the economy right now. Consumers are still spending – and on the surface, that looks fine. Consumer spending is the largest part of the U.S. economy. As long as households keep buying goods and services, businesses earn revenue, workers keep their paychecks, and the expansion continues. But spending alone does not tell us whether the consumer is healthy. What matters is how that spending is…
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