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KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal will increase permit fees to climb Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s highest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials said Wednesday. Revenue from permit fees and other expenses by foreign climbers is a key source of income and employment for…
WASHINGTON – Senators on both sides of the aisle raised new questions Wednesday about the vetting process for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, pointing to allegations that were not disclosed by Trump’s transition team as part of the Trump transition team’s background check. Hegseth’s FBI that was passed on to two key people. lawmakers before…
DUBAI – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have freed the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized their Bahamian-flagged ship off Yemen’s Red Sea coast, Al Masirah TV reported Wednesday. , owned by the Houthis. He said the crew was delivered to Oman “in coordination” with the three-day ceasefire in the Gaza…
The Rev. Mariann Budde, Episcopal bishop of Washington, on Wednesday defended a plea for mercy she made to President Donald Trump on behalf of immigrants and others during an inaugural prayer service a day earlier. “We are in a particularly tough time when it comes to conversations about immigrant populations among us, and that was…
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would pick Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III, who wrote a letter on behalf of his son convicted of the Jan. 6 riot, to lead the U.S. Agency for Human Rights. Global Media. “As founder and president of the Media Research Center for 38 years, few…
MADISON, Wis. – Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman’s office because he was upset about the federal ban on TikTok with multiple charges, including arson. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney filed a complaint against Caiden Stachowicz, 19, charging him with…
After X owner Elon Musk made a hand gesture on Monday that many people said resembled a Nazi salute, a protest movement broke out on the social media platform Reddit. NBC News has identified more than 50 subreddit communities where moderators have since announced that links from X, formerly Twitter, will no longer be allowed…
In the early days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his administration already overhauled the federal government’s online footprint. The White House website no longer has a Spanish version. It has removed a disclaimer that promised to make it accessible to people with disabilities. And several federal agencies have removed web pages related to reproductive rights…
On his third day in office, President Donald Trump signed more executive orders aimed at closing the US southern border to immigration and increasing deportations, although large-scale deportation raids had yet to materialize as of Wednesday. the afternoon. According to a fact sheet released by the White House, Trump signed an executive order that “suspends…
Less than two months ago, actress Cheryl Hines posted a provocative video of her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showering behind her while she promoted products from her cosmetics line. Today, Hines, of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fame, agreed to suspend sales of the company’s inventory if her husband becomes the next secretary of Health and…