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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Russian drone attack on Ukraine´s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia´s key Black Sea port for oil exports. The nighttime attack on Odesa heavily damaged an apartment block, killing the women and a 2-year-old child, officials said. Rescuers working under floodlights pulled four people from the rubble. Eleven people were hospitalized, including a pregnant woman and two children – the youngest less than a year old, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X. Russia has pounded civilian areas…

New orders for services rose to their highest level in more than three years in March, the Institute for Supply Management reported Monday, as strong demand across the economy proved resilient to the spike in energy prices driven by the U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran. The ISM index for the services sector registered 54 percent, down from 56.1 percent in February but still comfortably in expansion territory for the 21st consecutive month. The slight pullback in the headline number masked what was arguably the most important signal in the report: the barometer of new order surged to its highest reading…

President Donald Trump holds a press conference at the White House to discuss the rescue of two U.S. airmen in Iran on Monday, April 6. An American F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran on Friday, and while the pilot was recovered quickly, the weapons system officer on board had been separated by several miles upon ejection and waited for recovery until Saturday night in a massive rescue mission. “WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one…

Four NASA astronauts currently aboard the Artemis II mission to the Moon have captured stunning images of Earth. Making these pictures even more impressive, they were taking using an iPhone 17 Pro Max, not the latest tech wizardry dreamed up by NASA. NASA has confirmed that several recently published photographs from the ongoing Artemis II mission were captured using iPhone 17 Pro Max smartphones. The confirmation came through the space agency’s official Flickr page, where three images showing Earth through the windows of the Orion spacecraft capsule were attributed to the Apple devices. A view of Earth captured by an iphone…

Nigerian Christians experienced deadly suspected jihadist attacks in at least five states on Easter Sunday, the holiest day on the Christian calendar – involving direct attacks on Easter services, mass abductions, and indiscriminate firing on local victims. The attacks followed a massacre that killed at least 30 people on Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter that marks the opening of Holy Week, in Plateau state, one of the deadliest places in Nigeria to practice the Christian faith. Human rights experts routinely rank Nigeria the deadliest place in the world to practice Christianity as a result of the large annual death…

Speaking to the media during Monday’s Easter Egg Roll, President Donald Trump made clear that he is looking for a total victory in Iran. “Hopefully it [the war] can be over with quickly. Again, there are lots of different alternatives. We have many alternatives,” the president said. He added, “We could leave right now and it would take them 15 years to rebuild what they have … But I want to finish it up. Iran CANNOT have a nuclear weapon. They are lunatics — and you can’t put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic.” After 70 or so…

Russia had warned about the “dangerous” consequences of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said The US-Israeli war against Iran has set the Middle East “on fire,” reflecting Russia’s warning about the dangerous consequences of the move, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.On Sunday, US President Donald Trump escalated the tensions by issuing an expletive-laden demand to Tehran to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, which has remained effectively shut since the conflict began on February 28.“Open the f**king strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell,” he wrote on social media, threatening to demolish…

First Lady Melania Trump writes in an op-ed that AI “could improve teaching and help deliver a world-class education to our children,” and emphasized that “we should embrace AI now in order to ensure America’s children outpace the global community.” “As we transition into an AI technology-driven future, equipping our youth with the skills to navigate and leverage AI is crucial to their success,” Melania Trump wrote in an op-ed for Fox News. “Every parent seeks the best education for their child,” the First Lady continued, adding that AI “provides access to an elite education — the highest level of human…

LONDON (AP) — Pressure was mounting Sunday on American rapper Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a London music festival this summer, after criticism from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Pepsi already has withdrawn its lead sponsorship role of the Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park in north London between July 10-12. Other sponsors of the event, including Budweiser and PayPal, are being urged to follow suit. Pepsi didn’t provide an explicit reason for its decision to pull out of the event, even though publicity for the festival promoted the event under the branding “Pepsi presents Wireless.” “Pepsi…

Democrat states are increasingly adopting legislation that would allow insurers to sue oil and natural gas companies for disaster-related losses; critics argue these law would penalize energy producers at a time where lower energy costs are needed more than ever. Democrats have moved to enact legislation that would establish retroactive liability for American energy producers through so-called “climate superfund” laws which penalize companies for lawfully providing energy that Americans rely on everyday. Rolf Hanson, the senior vice president for state government relations at the American Petroleum Institute (API), told Breitbart News in a written statement, “These proposed bills are part…