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National Guard deployment in New Orleans extended

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana National Guard announced Monday that 120 troops will remain deployed in New Orleans through August. The six-month extension comes after 350 Guard members deployed to New Orleans in late December, in the run-up to New Year’s and other high-profile events like the Sugar Bowl. The troops, which had mainly clustered in the city’s historic French Quarter, had been scheduled to depart in the aftermath of Mardi Gras. New Orleans is one of several Democrat-run cities, such as Washington and Memphis, Tennessee, where the federal government deployed armed ...

Trump pushes back on mounting criticism about his Iran war battle plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back against mounting criticism that he hasn’t done enough to explain why it was necessary to start a war with Iran now or to articulate his vision for an endgame to the escalating conflict. The frustration is coming not just from the political left but also from his MAGA base, as the conflict expands, energy prices surge, and the death toll in the Middle East rises in a war that the administration suggests may only be in the opening stages. Trump also seemed to leave open the possibility for a more extensive U.S. military ...

Horoscope

Mars raises the anchor, pulls away from the dock and begins a journey at sea with today’s transit into Pisces. Action turns intuitive, guided less by force and more by feel. What if progress were more about listening than doing? What if we sensed currents and rode them? What if we gave in to the waves of imagination that are swelling all around us? ARIES (March 21-April 19). Through your gift for vivid fantasy, you feel what it’s like to live in a world filled with all you value and aspire to, and you can really see it. When you touch back to reality, you use this as a ...

Lonely in a lovely town

Dear Annie: My husband and I recently moved to a new town, and I feel lonelier than I expected to feel at this stage of life. We are new empty nesters. Our youngest left for college in the fall, and not long after that we relocated for my husband’s job. On paper, it made sense. It is a nice area, safe, pretty and full of things people say they love. But most days I feel like I am walking around in someone else’s life. Back home, I knew who I was. I had my routines, my friends, my familiar grocery store, my favorite coffee place where someone would ask how my kids were doing. ...

Hints From Heloise

Extend the uses in a tissue box Dear Heloise: I find that most of the time, I only use a very small portion of a tissue. I’ve found that I can tear them in half before using them and extend the uses out of a box this way. I also find that when applying mascara in an attempt to make my lashes look longer, it ends up looking too gloppy. I now use a previously used but washed mascara wand to comb out the application, and it looks much better! — A Reader, via email SEND A GREAT HINT TO: Heloise@Heloise.com OPENING CHILDPROOF CAPS Dear Heloise: Place the two-piece, ...

Trump expects his Fed pick and AI to deliver a replay of the ‘90s boom. Economists have doubts

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it’s 1999. They are putting their faith in artificial intelligence to duplicate what happened when another technology arrived in the 1990s: the internet. Back then, the American economy surged as businesses became more productive, unemployment tumbled and inflation remained in check. Trump is confident that his nominee to become Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, can unleash an even greater economic bonanza by jettisoning what ...