Muhammad Tops Baby Boys' Names In England And Wales For Third Straight Year

The US military is conducting stealth operations to help commercial ships transit the Strait of Hormuz.  Two US officials speaking with Axios said that over the past several weeks, the military has helped 15 to 20 vessels per day enter or exit the Persian Gulf by transiting the Strait of Hormuz near the Omani coast. […]

Democratic Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns Ahead of Ethics Committee Sanctions Hearing Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) resigned from Congress on Tuesday, stepping down hours before the House Ethics Committee was set to recommend a punishment for the 25 violations of campaign finance law and House rules it found her guilty of last month. The third-term Florida Democrat announced her resignation in a written statement, calling the ethics process a “witch hunt” and saying the committee had denied her new attorney’s request for time to prepare a...

Living In Any New York Borough Now Requires A Six Figure Income Living in New York City without financial assistance now requires a six-figure income in every borough, according to Bloomberg. The Fund for the City of New York’s latest “self-sufficiency standard” shows that in 2026, a family of four with two school-age children needs about $133,000 a year to cover basic expenses without outside help. Still, 46% of households fall short of that level. A separate report from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office found that economic strain is even more widespread. In...