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Trump takes questions in the Oval Office President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday delivered remarks from the Oval Office. The President announced the SBA will be taking over the student loan portfolio. Trump and Hegseth also announced that Boeing in St. Louis will building the new F-47 fighter jet. “The F-47 will be the most advanced, most capable, most lethal aircraft ever built. An experimental version of the plane has secretly been flying for almost 5 years and we’re confident that it massively overpowers the capabilities of any other nation,” President Trump said. WATCH: .@POTUS: “The F-47…

Topline A sliver of bracket submissions for this year’s NCAA March Madness men’s tournament remained perfect Friday afternoon, during the second day of the college basketball competition, as entrants face near-impossible odds of perfectly predicting the outcomes of the tournament’s 63 games. Over half of the brackets submitted to the NCAA were busted after game one of the tournament. (Photo … [+] by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)Getty Images Key Facts The NCAA said Friday that of the over 34 million brackets submitted at the start of March Madness, approximately 8,000 remained perfect. No. 9 Baylor University’s win over No. 8…

An actor and comedian with dwarfism has explained perfectly why people with her condition feel “erased” as entertainment giant Disney prepares to release its Snow White movie with computer generated characters replacing real, human actors for its depiction of the seven dwarfs. Comedian, model, and social media creator Fats Timbo recently posted a video in which she explains how Disney so badly dropped the ball for people with dwarfism by eliminating an opportunity to hire seven actors with her condition for the movie that is on the verge of release. “I used to get made fun of all the time.…

President Volodymyr Zelensky was quick to rubbish President Donald Trump’s suggestion to take tension over nuclear plant possession off the table by simply making them American-owned, insisting the plants “belong to the people of Ukraine”. The largest nuclear power station in Europe, Zaporizhzhia, is technically Ukrainian owned but has been occupied by Russian forces for over three years and its fate has emerged as a bone of contention in Ukraine War peace negotiations. This week, President Trump offered a novel approach to answering whether it should be Ukrainian or Russian, by offering to make it American instead, taking the problem off…

“No one tells Boston how to take care of our own,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared Wednesday at her annual address in Fenway. “Not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies,” WCVB-TV reported. Wu took direct aim at President Donald Trump and used her state of the city speech at MGM Music Hall to attack the president and to reassert her support for illegal migrants. In another segment, Wu exclaimed, “We stand with immigrants,” repeated the line in Spanish, and the n exclaimed, “Boston doesn’t back down.” The Trump administration has placed Boston…

Satellite imagery obtained by The War Zone confirms that ammunition and weapons storage bunkers at Russia’s Engels Air Base were destroyed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Thursday. The attack resulted in a massive fireball and mushroom cloud. You can read our initial story about it here.A high-resolution image, taken today by Maxar Technologies, shows most of the damage occurred at storage areas about a mile east of the runway. At least a dozen storage facilities and other nearby buildings were destroyed in the attack. It also created several large craters. The severe damage was caused by massive secondary explosions…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina appeals court judges listened to arguments Friday about whether votes on tens of thousands of ballots in an unsettled state Supreme Court election from November should remain in the tally or could be discarded.A three-judge panel of the intermediate-level Court of Appeals will decide if the State Board of Elections in December properly dismissed the formal protests of those ballots by Republican Jefferson Griffin. A trial judge upheld the board’s actions last month.After two recounts, Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs leads Griffin by 734 votes from more than 5.5 million ballots cast in the Supreme…

Three months after reopening, the Social Development Commission is once again under fire.A stern letter from the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families released on Friday says SDC has continually given the department inaccurate information about its financial health and hasn’t been compliant with state and federal requirements since the agency closed its doors in April last year.As a result, the department is declining to fund SDC in 2025 and aims to remove its designation as a “community action agency,” which will destroy the organization’s ability to receive federal Community Services Block Grant money in the future.”It is clear to…

Budapest’s diplomats will not be invited to sign bloc statements on the Ukraine conflict, sources have told the outlet The EU has found a way to issue so-called “joint” statements on the Ukraine conflict, by bypassing Hungary’s objections to the bloc’s continued support for Kiev, Politico has reported.Hungary refused to endorse a bloc statement following Thursday’s European Council meeting in Brussels, which reaffirmed Brussels’ stance on the Ukraine conflict, and the bloc’s intentions to continue arming Kiev.However, a document ignoring Hungary’s position was published as a formal European Council conclusion, bearing signatures from only 26 member-states, instead of 27. The…

A suspect accused of setting a man on fire in Times Square has fled to Egypt, according to the New York Police Department. On March 16, 2025, Mark Whyte, 45, was left in critical but stable condition with severe burns after being lit on fire by an attacker. The NYPD has identified the suspect as a 23-year-old food cart worker, but his name has not been officially released. Police say the suspect and Whyte, a club promoter, had got into an argument at approximately 4 a.m. The suspect allegedly grabbed a gasoline canister from a nearby food cart, covered Whyte…