Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.
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Passengers heading from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle will now clear U.S. customs before boarding instead of stopping once they’ve crossed the border.
The U.S. military began launching another round of strikes Wednesday evening against multiple targets in Iran, less than an hour after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that forthcoming attacks would be “strong and clear.” The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) began launching strikes at 5:15 p.m. ET at President Trump’s direction, it said. #trump #iranwar #oil
Republican Steve Hilton has advanced to the November general election for California governor after placing second in the state's jungle primary.
David Rush, the C.I.A. employee, worked on a highly classified China spying program with Stephen A. Feinberg, the Pentagon’s second-ranking official.
It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime.
Northern Ireland faces escalating unrest after an attempted beheading, allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker, with Wednesday seeing a second day of protests targeting migrant housing and widespread clashes with police.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Wednesday saw a second night of violent protests in Northern Ireland following the attempted beheading of a white man in Belfast, in which the suspect is a Sudanese man who enter the country via France and the Republic of Ireland. Masked men clashed with law enforcement, setting vehicles ablaze and targeting suspected migrant housing, and riot police used water cannon against them. DETAIL: Police used water cannons to disperse crowds attempting to storm a hotel in Newtownabbey, rumored to house migrants. Fires were lit at various locations, including Sandyknowes roundabout, and a residential property in York Park was attacked. Social media posts are allegedly circulating a “hit list” of migrant housing. KEY…Open
Lt. Gen. David Iverson has been nominated to serve as the No. 2 officer at Pacific Air Forces, which oversees Air Force operations across the Indo-Pacific.
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The initiative would provide tuition assistance of $15,500 per student per year, giving eligible families choices “when local options are insufficient.”