Author: Daniel snow

[ad_1] Between 2020 and 2025, you had a lot of folks allied with Trump, making plans during the interim between his two terms to invoke the Insurrection Act more quickly and more rapidly in the event of violent protests. So against this backdrop, you get a sense — and you’ve long had a sense — that the administration is spoiling for a fight, and when I say a fight, I don’t mean a political fight, I mean a literal fight in the streets.And so when the protests kicked off in Los Angeles and they devolved from peaceful protests into violent…

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[ad_1] A Forum 555 leader, the retired Israeli Air Force helicopter pilot Guy Poran, sent me Agmon and Arad’s letter to see if I could get it published as a Times Opinion guest essay. I told them I wanted to publish an excerpt myself. They wrote:We do not seek to downplay the monstrous nature of the massacre committed by Hamas terrorists on that cursed Saturday. We believe the war was fully justified. …However, as the war in Gaza dragged on, it became clear that it was losing its strategic and security purposes and instead served primarily the political and personal…

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[ad_1] Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesGoogle on Tuesday offered buyouts to employees across several of its divisions, including those within its knowledge and information and central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams, CNBC has learned. Knowledge and information, or K&I, is the unit that houses Google’s search, ads and commerce divisions. The buyouts Tuesday are the company’s latest effort to reduce headcount, which Google has continued to do in waves since laying off 12,000 employees in 2023. CNBC could not confirm how many…

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[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 10, 2025. Nathan Howard | ReutersPresident Donald Trump warned Tuesday that protestors at his upcoming military parade in Washington, D.C., will be met with “heavy force.””We’re going to be celebrating big on Saturday,” Trump said at the White House about the parade marking the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.”And if there’s any protester that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force,” said Trump, before repeating that threat twice.”I haven’t even heard about a protest, but you know, this…

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