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Wednesday will be another sweltering day for people in the mid-Atlantic, with temperatures once again climbing into the mid-90s just before a storm front hits the East Coast.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Residents from Boston to Raleigh are facing high temperatures of 91 to 96 degrees, after some areas recorded May’s highest temperatures the previous day. The National Weather Service announced a record high of 101 degrees in New Jersey on Tuesday.”It is worth noting that New Jersey’s all-time high for May was 102 in Paterson on May 31, 1895,”…

Power of Siberia’s natural gas pipeline facility in Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, China, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRussian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday, raising the long-stalled natural gas pipeline Power of Siberia 2 as energy supplies are disrupted by the Iran war.Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday that the plan “will be discussed in detail among the leaders.” The planned 2,600-kilometer pipeline would carry 50 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Russia’s Yamal oil field to China via Mongolia. Moscow and China signed a legally…

A Tennessee school board member who hugged a teenage girl and called her “hot” during a public meeting last month has been charged with assault, according to court records.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.The assault charge – physical contact stems from an April 2 incident in which Keith Irvin, a student member of the female board, who had just finished asking questions about career and technical education, put his arm around her, hugged her from the side and said, “Oh my god, you’re hot.”No attorney is listed in Washington County…

Tom Kane, who voiced the character in the “Star Wars” series and Professor Utonium on Cartoon Network’s “The Powerpuff Girls,” died Monday from complications from a stroke he suffered in 2020.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.He was 64 years old. Kane, a native of Overland Park, Kansas, died surrounded by his family at a hospital in Kansas City, his attorney Zachary McGinnis said in a statement. McGinnis recalled Cain as “a legendary voice actor whose work shaped the childhoods and imaginations of millions of people around the world.” “From his…

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon’s inspector general announced Monday that he is investigating the U.S. Southern Command for suspected drug smuggling vessels in the military’s anti-drug cartel operation, which some critics say is illegal.Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Since the operation began last fall, Southern Command has targeted about 60 small vessels that the military says transport drugs through the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean, destroying 59 and killing 193 people, according to the Pentagon.According to a May 11 letter from the Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General, the internal watchdog agency…

Federal Reserve Chairman nominee Kevin Warsh will be sworn in during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in the Dirksen Building.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump plans to swear in Kevin Warsh, his pick to head the Federal Reserve, at a ceremony on Friday, a White House official told CNBC.The move would end a process that began in the summer of 2025 and culminated last week with the Senate confirming Warsh in a near-party-line vote. The new chairman will replace Jerome Powell. Mr. Powell’s term expired…

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s candidate to be the next Federal Reserve Chairman, testifies during the Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing on April 21, 2026, at the Capitol in Washington.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersMarket veteran Ed Yardeni said incoming Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, who was sent to the Fed to lower interest rates, may instead need to push for higher rates to establish credibility.Yardeni, who coined the term “bond vigilante” to describe such events of investor anxiety, added that if the new central bank leadership does not demonstrate that policymakers are in tune with inflationary pressures, it risks further market anger…

Two people have been arrested in Japan after breaking into the cage of a monkey named Punch, who is infected with the virus, the zoo said. Subscribe to read this story without ads Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Ichikawa Zoo on the outskirts of Tokyo announced on social media on Sunday that there was an “intruder” in its monkey enclosure. The two were arrested by police. The zoo conducted safety checks on the animals and found “no abnormalities,” but said it would take “countermeasures.” The zoo announced that starting Tuesday, it will expand restricted viewing areas, install…

This incident has also attracted criticism.The Rev. Paul Brandeis Rauschenbusch, CEO of the Interfaith Alliance, argued that it fosters a narrow view of America’s religious identity.”This is an opportunity for America to celebrate the diversity of our religious traditions,” Rauschenbusch told NBC News on Sunday. “Unfortunately, what we’re seeing with Rededicate is an effort to actually betray the traditions that we have and instead say that there’s one tradition that really matters, and that’s what they’re trying to celebrate.”Harmon Barbe and his son drove from Michigan to attend Sunday’s event.Zachary Canepari appears on NBC NewsPresident Donald Trump and his administration…