Unbiased headline news for Thursday March 15, 2024 – Israel’s Knesset endorsed a 2024 military funding plan in a divisive session Wednesday with a 62-55 vote. The war cabinet and National Unity Coalition could disband as the right-wing New Hope party withdraws.
As per Ynet, Minister Gideon Sa’ar declared Tuesday night that he has chosen to terminate the partnership with Israel’s Blue and White Party to re-establish the right-wing New Hope faction independently because, he stated, the perspectives of the right are not being heeded in the current war cabinet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin articulated Wednesday he would redeploy military forces along the border with Finland in response to the country joining the NATO alliance in April.
Putin voiced the threat in an interview with state media in reaction to what he termed Finland and Sweden’s “utterly senseless move from the viewpoint of securing their own national interests.” He remarked, “It is up to them to decide. That’s what they decided. But we didn’t have troops there, now we will.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in five U.S. cities commenced wearing body cameras Wednesday as mandated by an executive order from President Joe Biden.
ICE agents in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, Buffalo and Detroit are sporting the cameras in the first deployment phase for the devices. The cameras are initially being donned by Homeland Security Investigations officers and Enforcement and Removal Operations agents.
The judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s felony gun case in Delaware has tentatively set his trial for June 3 — just weeks before his Los Angeles-based tax trial is scheduled to begin on June 20.
At a brief scheduling conference, Judge Maryellen Noreika proposed the parties request the California-based federal judge overseeing the tax case to consider rescheduling a June 3 pretrial hearing to accommodate the commencement of the Delaware case.
The U.S. and Japanese militaries will resume flights of Osprey aircraft in Japan after completing necessary maintenance and training following a fatal crash in southern Japan last November, officials said.
The Osprey aircraft, which can take off like a helicopter and then fly like an airplane, has had a troubled history, including numerous crashes. The entire U.S. Osprey fleet was grounded Dec. 6, a week after that crash. Japan’s military also grounded all of its 14 Ospreys.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. has confirmed that among his potential vice-presidential prospects is New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who in private conversations shared deranged conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting not being real.
CNN knows of two people with whom Rodgers has enthusiastically shared these stories, including with Pamela Brown. Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party.
A landslide reduced a Los Angeles house under renovation to a jumble of lumber, pulled the pool and deck away from a second home, and left the pool at a third residence on the edge of a huge fissure.
The slide occurred just before 3 a.m. in Sherman Oaks, a neighborhood of expensive homes about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of downtown. An initial search found no victims, but several people were evacuated from one house, the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement.
Doors are closing for 1,000 Dollar Tree and Family Dollar locations after the discount variety store chain announced an unexpected surprise fourth-quarter loss in its earnings report Wednesday.
Dollar Tree plans to shutter 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of fiscal 2024. Over the next several years, the company intends to close 370 more Family Dollar locations, as well as 30 Dollar Tree stores. At the opening bell Wednesday on Wall Street, Dollar Tree shares fell 14% in value on the news.
