The U.S. military is in a race against time to find an airman who was in a F-15E Strike Eagle when it appears to have been shot down by Iran, according to a U.S. official. A second airman was rescued alive and taken out of the country for medical treatment, according to the official. NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports.
Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’ Teachers’ leaders have said a “masculinity crisis” is fermenting in schools across the UK, with misogynistic abuse of female staff on the increase, leaving victims “traumatised”, “demeaned” and “humiliated”. Almost a quarter of female teachers who took part in a union survey said they have been the target of misogyny from a pupil over the past 12 months – the highest proportion in the last f
Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India and Sri Lanka despite governments saying there is enough stock to go round Gurvinder Singh never thought the war in Iran would touch his quiet corner of Punjab. Yet looking out over his smallholding, where he alternates between wheat and rice crops in the state known as India’s breadbasket, the 52-year-old farmer can barely think of anything else. His anxiety over a conflict playing out thousands of miles away is crippling as
US president issues executive order as longest partial government shutdown in US history enters 49th day Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday that declares all Department of Homeland Security employees will receive pay and benefits during the agency’s partial shutdown. The “Liberating the Department of Homeland Security From the Democrat-Caused Shutdown” memo is similar to Trump’s executive order from last week which called for issuing pay to Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Pope Leo marks Good Friday with cross procession at Colosseum
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Catholic Timothy Broglio says ‘hard to cast this war as something that would be sponsored by the Lord’ The leader of all Catholic chaplains in the United States’ armed forces has questioned how righteous the US military ’s campaign in Iran is, saying that “under the just war theory – it is not”. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, told CBS News in an interview set for broadcast Sunday that while Iran “was a threat with nuclear arms”, waging
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Brendan Banfield during his double murder trial on Jan. 14, in Fairfax, Va.
Guardian - World · Oct 8
US president makes baseless claims about fraud in blue states and says JD Vance will lead clampdown as ‘fraud czar’ Donald Trump announced a fresh crackdown on “fraud” in Democratic states and tapped JD Vance to lead the charge. Officials swiftly announced a string of arrests in California. In a Truth Social post on Friday, the US president announced that his vice-president is now “in charge of ‘fraud’ in the United States”, claiming the problem is “massive and pervasive” and that Vance’s new ro
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A U.S. official confirmed that another aircraft was shot down by Iranian fire after an F-15E was downed earlier in the day. The single-pilot aircraft was an A-10 Thunderbolt, known as a Warthog, the official said. NBC News' Courtney Kube reports on the latest news coming out of the Pentagon.
