The Senate has confirmed a new commander of U.S. Army forces in the Pacific after Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville dropped his objections and allowed a quick vote on the nomination. Tuberville had blocked Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark's nomination for months over concerns that the top military aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, along with other staff, did not immediately notify President Joe Biden when Austin was hospitalized with complications from cancer treatment earlier this year.
Forecasters have placed New York City, Long Island, and parts of New Jersey under a freeze watch as unseasonably bone-chilling temperatures are expected to blanket the East Coast early this week....
In George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, there were four ministries of the government of Oceania: The Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty.......