People enjoy the spray of cool water in front of a Chicago Fire Department during a hot weather day in Chicago, Tuesday, June 30, 2026.
Group confirms it will stop opening new accounts under the name and move existing ones to Lloyds Lloyds Banking Group has announced it is axing the Halifax brand, meaning the 173-year-old former building society’s name will disappear from UK high streets. The group will stop opening new accounts under the Halifax brand, and kickstart a process of shifting existing accounts to Lloyds branding over the coming days. Continue reading...
Demonstrators rally in support of birthright citizenship outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1, 2026 in Washington, DC.
War is something we are all contemplating as tensions with Iran continue. It certainly keeps me up at night. After spending 22 years in the Army and deploying around the world, it still consumes a lot of my attention. Europe and America fought the "War to End All Wars" more than 100 years ago in the trenches of World War I. Of course, it didn’t really end wars, and it directly fed into World War II, which left millions dead and reset the global national hierarchy. In the book "1984," George Orwe
The bond between America and the Jewish people did not begin with the creation of the modern State of Israel . It predates even the founding of our great country 250 years ago. This relationship has never been simply diplomatic. It is covenantal. Long before there was a United States, there was a people learning to govern themselves by the principles God gave at Sinai. The Puritan settlers read that story not as ancient history but as their own unfolding plot. In 1630, their leader John Winthrop
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Figure in John Hutton’s west screen, considered a 20th-century masterpiece, cracked by ladder used in lighting rig Deep cracks have appeared in one of the huge angels etched into John Hutton’s west screen of glass panels at Coventry Cathedral after a major music event. It has prompted concern that the increase in cathedrals hosting outside events, a big source of revenue, risks damaging some of the UK’s most important religious architecture. Continue reading...
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it’s been intentionally botched The tangled path of US capital punishment takes a new turn on Wednesday as Idaho becomes the first state to adopt the firing squad as its primary form of execution, embracing the brutal killing technique even as concerns grow that it can inflict excruciating pain and suffering. The state’s department of corrections (IDOC) says it has met its deadline, s
Guardian - World · Oct 8
A housing shortfall, record home costs and cuts to subsidies are intensifying the US affordability crunch Of the various dimensions of the affordability crisis weighing on US families, housing probably weighs heaviest. The typical home price has risen above five times the annual income of the typical family. The monthly cost of owning a home has hit record highs . The US faces a housing shortfall of millions of homes. But builders are not rushing to meet the shortfall. The supply of new homes de
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Fans of all stripes pack the bars to sing, cheer and commiserate in city where more than 3m people were born outside US Almost 200,000 Ecuadorians and Ecuadorian Americans live in New York City, and last week quite a lot of them were in a Brooklyn restaurant called El Encebollado de Victor to watch their football team take on Germany – a traditional World Cup powerhouse. It made for quite a sight: a sea of yellow shirts under the restaurant’s blue roof, which had been adorned with red, blue and
