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The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. Lately, it has added a twist. It wants to make those families bigger.As fertility rates have declined, a “pronatalist” cluster on the right wing has been making the argument that public policy should encourage more childbearing. With President Trump’s return to office, this group appears to have gotten closer to the center of power than ever before.Broadly speaking, they want measures like more support for families with several children; speedier and cheaper options for higher education that would allow Americans…

Atlanta Police are investigating a shooting near State Farm Arena during Friday’s March Madness Sweet 16 game between Michigan State and Ole Miss, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. The victim is reportedly in intensive care. The shooting happened just a few minutes before tipoff and left a 42-year-old man from Charlotte, North Carolina, hospitalized.  An Atlanta Police vehicle  (Getty Images)”The victim was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he is currently in ICU,” said Lt. Andrew Smith, commander of Atlanta’s homicide unit.JASE RICHARDSON SHINES AS MICHIGAN STATE TOPS OLE MISS, MOVES ON TO ELITE EIGHT State Farm Arena Jan. 1, 2021, in…

An Oregon judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking a rural city at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on homeless encampments from enforcing camping restrictions unless certain conditions are met.Josephine County Circuit Court Judge Sarah McGlaughlin ruled Friday that the city of Grants Pass must increase capacity at locations the city approved for camping and ensure the sites are physically accessible to people with disabilities.If the city fails to meet those conditions, the judge’s order prohibits the city from citing, arresting or fining people for camping on public property. It also prevents the city from forcing people…

One person has been injured and residents have been forced to flee after a bus crashed into a house in a major city’s western suburbs.

TOKYO: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Sunday (Mar 30) that Japan was indispensable in tackling Chinese aggression by helping Washington establish a “credible” deterrence in the region, including across the Taiwan Strait. “We share a warrior ethos that defines our forces,” Hegseth told Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani at a meeting in Tokyo. Calling Japan a “cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific”, the Pentagon indicated that President Donald Trump’s government would, like past administrations, continue to work closely with its key Asian ally. Japan hosts around 50,000 US military personnel, fighter squadrons and Washington’s only…

The war in Ukraine is at an inflection point, with President Trump seeking rapprochement with the Russian leader, Vladimir V. Putin, and pressing for an end to the fighting.But for nearly three years before Mr. Trump’s return to power, the United States and Ukraine were joined in an extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology whose evolution and inner workings have been known only to a small circle of American and allied officials.With remarkable transparency, the Pentagon has offered a public accounting of the $66.5 billion in weaponry it has supplied to Ukraine. But a New York Times investigation…

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top vaccine official, who was part of the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, has reportedly been forced out of his position, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report. A Health and Human Services (HHS) allegedly gave Dr. Peter Marks a choice between resigning or being fired, the WSJ reported, citing people familiar with the matter.   Dr. Peter Marks, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration answers a question during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss the on-going federal response…

David M. Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the tallest building in the Americas — a shimmering new 1 World Trade Center in place of the twin towers destroyed on 9/11 — died on Wednesday in Pelham, N.Y. He was 83.The cause was Lewy body dementia, his wife, Annie, said. Mr. Childs had homes in Manhattan and Keene, N.Y. The couple were staying in Pelham to be near two of their children.One World Trade Center (also called Freedom Tower) is a tapering, eight-faceted exclamation point abutting the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan. Known…

William Shatner, who made history in 2021 as the oldest person to travel to space at age 90, is offering candid advice to Blue Origin’s all-female crew preparing for their own journey beyond Earth’s atmosphere.”You’re on an adventure. You’ve got to embrace it,” Shatner said to Gayle King, who is part of the crew, during a recent interview. The 94-year-old actor, best known for his role as Captain Kirk in “Star Trek,” traveled aboard the first Blue Origin human flight in October 2021.As the all-female flight prepares for launch on April 14, Shatner emphasized that the experience would be unlike…

Elon Musk said on Friday that he had sold X, his social media company, to xAI, his artificial intelligence start-up, in an unusual arrangement that shows the financial maneuvering inside the business empire of the world’s richest man.The all-stock deal valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, Mr. Musk said on X. X’s price was down from the $44 billion that Mr. Musk paid for the social media company in 2022, but higher than the $12 billion valuation that some of X’s investors have recently assigned it. The last valuation of xAI, at a December fund-raising round,…