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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailGet our free Inside Washington emailUFC CEO Dana White has said that there will be a cage fight on the South Lawn of the White House as part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. “That is going to happen,” he told Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay on Monday. President Donald Trump, who has attended a number of UFC fights, said early last month that he would host a bout at the White House…

Mary O’GradyThe Fund for American Studies will present John Tierney of City Journal with the Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award for Courageous Journalism and Mary Anastasia O’Grady of The Wall Street Journal with the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement AwardThe awards will be given at the 32nd Annual TFAS Journalism Forum + Awards Dinner in New York City on Nov. 11, 2025.Tierney receives his award for his excellence in reporting and determination to present the truth. He spent two decades at The New York Times as a reporter, columnist and magazine writer.Tierney is a veteran journalist and bestselling author known for challenging media-driven narratives and exposing the unintended consequences of public…

– The national women’s under 20 volleyball team qualified for the finals of the African Championships after walloping Egypt in Yaounde, Cameroon on Sunday night. The Junior Malkia Strikers made light work of the North Africans, thrashing them in straight sets of 25-19, 25-19 and 25-23. They will now meet Cameroon in the final set for today, after the hosts thrashed Senegal 3-0 in the other semi-final. It will be the second meeting in the tournament between the two sides after last week’s duel, which the West Africans won 3-1. The winner of the tie will qualify for the World…

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal toys.”Wei Qiang Lin, a Chinese national who lives in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in New York to attempting to export more than 220 parcels containing around 850 eastern box turtles and three-toed box turtles, according to the U.S. Justice Department. The turtles, with an estimated market value of $1.4 million, were intercepted by law enforcement at a border inspection, prosecutors said.…

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Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts. Yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States. More than six years after the Federal Aviation Administration approved commercial home deliveries with drones, the service mostly has been confined to a few suburbs and rural areas. That could soon change. The FAA proposed a new rule last week that would make it easier for companies to fly drones outside of an operator’s line of sight and therefore over longer distances. A handful of companies…

RICHMOND, Calif. (KGO) — Newly released bodycam footage and 911 audio show the panicked moments before Richmond police shoot and kill a man who was threatening his brother and family with knives.Police say they waited for non-lethal tools to stop the frightening situation on August 4, but it still ended with a deadly shooting.Officers could be heard on body camera video yelling, “Richmond police, stop!”That is the moment before Richmond Police officers shot and killed Angel Montano, who they say was armed with two knives, which can be seen in a bodycam still shot provided by officers.It came more than…

LONDON (AP) — Former Premier League referee David Coote has been banned for eight weeks and ordered to take a… LONDON (AP) — Former Premier League referee David Coote has been banned for eight weeks and ordered to take a face-to-face education program for making offensive comments about Jürgen Klopp in a private video that ended up being widely circulated on social media, leading to the match official getting fired. Coote admitted to a Football Association charge of acting “in an improper manner” and/or using “abusive and/or insulting words” in a video recorded around July 2020. Two videos, apparently filmed…

Convincing young Black people to become cops long been a tough sell at summer job fairs. But in recent months the pool of recruits at the Los Angeles Police Department has shriveled to the point of running dry. The last two training academy classes haven’t included a single a Black graduate. Despite offering generous pay and pensions, police agencies across the country have struggled since the pandemic with finding enough new officers regardless of race.At the LAPD, the number of Black recruits — especially women — has been dropping for years, leaving the department far short of diversity goals put…

French President Emmanuel Macron has signed into law a modified agriculture bill that bars a banned pesticide from being reintroduced. The move comes after the Constitutional Council – the country’s highest court – struck down the clause last week, ruling it violated France’s environmental charter. Source (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by PostX News and is published from a syndicated feed.)