President Donald Trump just isn’t giving up on his thought to add a 51st state. First, he floated annexing Canada. Now, he’s focusing on a country in South America.
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The Iran struggle has price the US $29 billion up to now — an estimate that’s greater than the $25 billion determine the Pentagon offered to Congress simply two weeks in the past. However, one struggle budgeting knowledgeable instructed NCS that the battle will in the end price US taxpayers at the very least $1 trillion. Read more.
WATCH: Trump: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation”
The CIA is escalating a secret struggle on drug cartels with lethal operations inside Mexico, NCS reported Tuesday. The company’s involvement has diverse, in accordance to sources, from extra passive intelligence sharing and offering basic help to direct participation in assassination operations. After the story was revealed, the CIA referred to as the reporting “false” however didn’t specify which particulars it was disputing. Read more.
With grim reminiscences of the Covid-19 pandemic nonetheless contemporary, federal and state officers have repeatedly assured the general public that hantavirus just isn’t a comparable risk. It is true that it’s no Covid, however some well being consultants say the messaging has at occasions been overly assured and too fast to dismiss the likelihood of a risk. Read more.
President Trump will start a multi-day state go to to China at present that carries world penalties. Trade, Taiwan and the struggle in Iran are all prime objects on the agenda when he meets with Chinese chief Xi Jinping. Read more.
ALSO: The elaborate preparations for Trump’s visit
5️⃣ ICE rebrand
President Trump thinks Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, wants a rebrand — beginning with a brand new title: National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or NICE. He’s teased the thought repeatedly on social media and in interviews, leaning right into a softer acronym for one of the administration’s hardest-edged companies. Read more.
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Two English siblings are battling for a major title this week. Fittingly, the showdown is unfolding simply exterior Pennsylvania’s City of Brotherly Love.
It marks her first overseas royal trip since her most cancers therapy.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ditched an almost 10% property tax hike in his price range proposal. NCS’s Katherine Koretski explains what it means for residents.
She was one of essentially the most highly effective ladies within the artwork world. Three works from her assortment may quickly fetch nearly $150 million at auction.
The nation the place you don’t put on a rolex — you eat it
When Emmanuel Jonathan Okello determined to open a restaurant, he already knew the star of the menu: Rolexes.
Basketball world mourns two losses
Jason Collins, the NBA’s first overtly homosexual participant who went on to turn into a pioneer for inclusion and an envoy for the league, has died at age 47 after battling an aggressive kind of a mind tumor, his household mentioned Tuesday.
Separately, tributes are pouring in for Memphis Grizzlies ahead Brandon Clarke after his workforce and company introduced his sudden passing. He was 29.
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Is Gen Z simply discovering out about scientology?
NCS’s Julia Vargas Jones explores how the “Scientology speedrun” TikTok pattern, that the Church of Scientology calls “harassment,” has launched the controversial group to a brand new era.
A brand new TikTok pattern has young people racing into Scientology buildings for laughs and viral movies. But the prank may include authorized penalties.