Day: February 20, 2025

Hegseth orders Pentagon to make plans for major budget cuts to align with Trump DOGE priorities

8:29 am February 20, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the agency to develop plans to slash 8% from the Department of Defense budget in each of the next five years to align with President Donald Trump’s priorities, specifically to achieve peace through strength, officials said. Hegseth is asking for plans in an effort to identify offsets from […]

Ninth Circuit rejects Trump’s bid to reinstate birthright citizenship order

8:26 am February 20, 2025

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request for emergency relief from an injunction blocking its birthright citizenship executive order, the latest in a string of legal defeats. The judges ruled unanimously that the administration failed to make a strong showing it was “likely to succeed on the merits” of […]

NASA looking for ways to destroy asteroid that could strike Earth, kill city

8:14 am February 20, 2025

The chances of a giant space rock striking the Earth have decreased, but NASA and other space agencies are still devising a plan to obliterate it. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a recently discovered planetoid, now has a 1.5% probability of making impact with Earth, according to NASA. Even though the new probability is down from the […]

‘Reba’ actor Christopher Rich says stroke and brain injury felt like being hit with ‘atomic bomb’

8:09 am February 20, 2025

Seven years after he suffered a massive stroke and was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, former “Reba” star Christopher Rich is getting back into acting. “I’ve basically taken the last decade off and if anybody was going to drag me out of the dark corner of the closet it would be the redhead,” Rich, […]

Coast Guard intercepts ‘panga’ boat with 20 suspected illegal migrants in waters off San Diego

7:33 am February 20, 2025

A Coast Guard crew on Tuesday found 20 illegal migrants in the waters off the Southern California shores. The crew of the Cutter Haddock intercepted a 30-foot panga-style vessel 21 miles off Point Loma, the Coast Guard said. The boat was spotted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations patrol aircraft […]