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Man pleads guilty to bringing explosives to a D.C. church

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he brought dozens of homemade explosive devices to a Washington, D.C., church that was preparing for an annual Mass celebrating the start of the Supreme Court’s term, court records show. Louis Geri of Vineland is scheduled to be sentenced on July 27 by U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss. Geri remains jailed until sentencing after pleading guilty to two felony counts: illegal possession of a destructive device and extortion by wrongful use of force, violence or fear. Geri and the government agreed that a ...

U.S. Postal Service expects to run out of cash in a year without help from Congress

(AP) — The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview. If it doesn’t, the Postal Service might not be able to pay its employees or vendors by February 2027, with potentially dire consequences for mail delivery, Postmaster General David Steiner told The Associated Press. “How long are employees going to work and vendors going to show up if we’re not paying them?” Steiner said in an interview on Wednesday. The postmaster general ...

On Iran, Trump officials say the U.S. mission is ‘that simple’

(AP) — Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Its ballistic missiles. Its proxies. The ruling Islamic theocracy. Israel. All of the above are part of the Trump administration’s shifting rationale for pummeling Iran and killing its leader without first seeking the buy-in of Congress and U.S. allies. There’s more that’s unclear about the widening war launched by the president and Board of Peace leader — including an exit strategy, a timeline and who President Donald Trump wants to take control of Iran from what he calls the “sick people” who run it now. What makes the latest ...

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. Bernard LaFayette, III, said his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. On March 7, 1965, the beating of future congressman John Lewis and voting rights marchers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge led the evening news, shocking the nation’s conscience and pushing Congress to act. But two years before “Bloody Sunday,” it was LaFayette who ...

We are living in the age of missile defense

We officially live in the age of missile defense. The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been the showcase for missile-defense systems — interceptors, radars, and complex command and control —that are extremely robust and have largely defanged Iran’s foremost military threat to Israel, U.S. forces and other countries around the region. If it weren’t for these defensive systems, the U.S. and Israel probably wouldn’t have dared launch this military campaign, or at the very least would have done it knowing Iran could exact an enormous cost on the Israeli population and U.S. ...

Inferno of regulations

Last year, California wildfires destroyed 13,000 homes. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced: “We are 100% committed to getting this neighborhood rebuilt again!” Gov. Gavin Newsom echoed that, saying his officials were “responding to it at scale, with efficiency ... addressing building codes, permitting issues, and moving forward to rebuilding.” Great! It sounded like bureaucrats would get out of the way and let fire victims rebuild quickly. But no. Not when government bureaucrats are in control. More than a year later, fewer than 30 of the 13,000 destroyed homes have ...