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Almost 2,000 years ago, a Roman soldier of Celtiberian origin completed his military service at the northernmost edge of the Empire and set out on the long journey home to the lands that today make up the Castilian-Leonese province of Soria, in Spain. In his luggage he carried more than souvenirs: a small, exquisite enamelled bronze cup that reproduced, in miniature, the most remote frontier in which he had served. This piece, found by chance centuries later in Berlanga del Duero, is today the subject of a study published in the journal Britannia by a team of researchers with the…
An armed man with guns and knives opened fire near the ballroom where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, where US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were present. Videos circulating online show agents covering Trump, before escorting him and Melania Trump out of the room. The shooting suspect—who Trump posted a photo of on his Truth Social media platform—was identified as a 31-year-old man from California, according to law enforcement officials. He is facing two firearm-related charges, including a count of assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. Immediately after the…
Conservative television broadcasters are getting bigger under Donald Trump — and thanks to his top communications regulator, they may get enhanced power to mute the president’s critics. The Federal Communications Commission’s approval of a $6.2 billion merger between the TV station owners Nexstar and Tegna is one step toward agency chair Brendan Carr’s goal of boosting local broadcasters’ market heft, a shift that can help them counter the programming decisions of networks such as NBC and ABC. For his next move, Carr is considering ways to make it easier for local stations to preempt network programs without triggering breach-of-contract penalties, he told…
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“JD Vance is a fantastic vice president, and Marco Rubio is a great Secretary of State,” said Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz. “[Rubio] could have gone one of two routes after the 2016 campaign. He could have gone the route of John Kasich and begin to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome and fade into the abyss,” said Bruesewitz, referring to the former Ohio governor who ran against Trump in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.Rubio, Bruesewitz, said, “chose the route of embracing MAGA and becoming one of MAGA’s staunchest allies and advocates.”A senior White House official, who like others in…
“This is going to be the top emerging issue” in finance, said House Financial Services Chair French Hill, an Arkansas Republican whose committee plays a critical role in overseeing the regulation of financial markets. Members are trying to get up to speed on the issue and “not trying to prejudge,” he said at an event Friday. “We’re all going to be dealing with it.”The episodes could prove to be a tipping point for Congress, regulators and President Donald Trump’s administration to impose new guardrails on a deep-pocketed industry that has quickly become a Washington powerhouse.Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is stepping down after his party’s landslide election defeat earlier this month, said on Saturday that he is giving up his seat in Hungary’s parliament but intends to remain leader of the Fidesz party. In a video posted on Facebook, Orbán said the decision followed a Fidesz meeting during which party leaders agreed to carry out a major restructuring of the parliamentary faction after the heavy election loss. He said he would seek reelection as party leader in a vote scheduled for June. In the April 12 parliamentary election, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won…
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Hegseth opened his remarks by saying that the operation is not an endless war like Vietnam or Iraq and Afghanistan, all of which dragged on for years amid shifting or unachievable strategic goals.Despite that, the U.S. has “all the time in the world” to achieve victory, he added.“The real endless war is the war Iran has waged on the United States for 47 years,” Hegseth said.For his part, President Donald Trump has said from the start of the war that the U.S. had already won, while also threatening to bomb critical infrastructure and eradicate Iran’s “whole civilization.”But rather than winding…
“France is Greece’s true ally,” Mitsotakis said, adding that “the highlight of the Greece-France agreements is the commitments to mutual assistance.” On top of a broader “enhanced comprehensive strategic partnership,” the two governments signed agreements in areas from education to scientific research to nuclear energy. During the visit, French defense giant MBDA also signed a contract to continue support for the Greek army’s Mica missiles. In parallel, the two leaders insisted on the need to clarify how the EU’s mutual defense clause — Article 42.7 of the Treaty on the EU — would work in practice, while stressing that the…