Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are warning Friday that a series of joint airstrikes carried out against them by the U.S. and British militaries will “not go unanswered or unpunished.”  Houthis’ military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree issued the threat in a recording while the rebel group’s deputy foreign minister Hussein […]

Retired Army Brig. Gen. Diane Dunn has been confirmed by the Maine Senate to become the first woman to serve as the state’s adjutant general, leader of the Maine National Guard. The Senate confirmed the nomination 33-1 on Thursday. “I pledge to work hard every day, to lead with integrity, […]

Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month for the killings of 15 political opponents, has vanished after not turning himself in to authorities on Friday as planned. His wife, Ingrid Bouterse-Waldring, told reporters that she did not know where he was and […]

County education boards in West Virginia could contract with military veterans and retired law enforcement officers to provide armed security at K-12 public schools under a bill passed Friday by the Republican-controlled state Senate. Republican Sen. Eric Tarr of Putnam County said the bill was brought to him by retired […]

A far-left climate protest organization that was recently granted a private White House meeting said Friday that it had surrounded Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in New Hampshire in an effort to confront him over energy and climate policy. Climate Defiance — a Washington, D.C.-based group known for its high-profile disruptive […]

Celebrity food critic Keith Lee canceled his culinary tour of San Francisco partway through because of its unsafe conditions and bad food, some of which he said caused him to have an allergic reaction. Lee, who has nearly 16 million followers on TikTok and more than half a billion likes […]

“The View” co-hosts refused to let U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin off the hook for waiting days to disclose to the highest levels of the government that he had been in the hospital for an extended period. During the Friday episode of the ABC talk show, co-host Ana Navarro declared […]

Oregon House Republicans are sharing their plan to end the state’s voter-approved drug decriminalization experiment at the same time Democratic lawmakers are weighing a more modest re-criminalization proposal.  “The citizens of Oregon understand the failures of Measure 110,” Rep. Rick Lewis, one of the chief sponsors of the GOP bill, […]

Casey Thompson, who has played college football for three schools in his career, committed to the Oklahoma Sooners on Thursday.  Thompson, the son of former Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson, made the announcement on X.  “A blessing for me and my family. God is good. Get to do what I love, […]

President Biden is coming under fire from conservatives for posts he posted as a presidential candidate in 2020, when he condemned then-President Trump for bombing Iran without congressional approval in light of Thursday’s bombing of Yemen by the Biden administration. “Let’s be clear: Donald Trump does not have the authority […]