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Deterring Houthi attacks can restore freedom of global commerce

One of the Biden Administration’s worst failures was letting Iran’s terror proxies in Yemen shut down a crucial global shipping lane and shoot at the U.S. military with impunity. President Trump sent a better message on the weekend by ordering significant air strikes against the Houthis that are a step toward restoring deterrence in the region. Mr. Trump on Saturday announced on his Truth Social site “decisive and powerful” military action against the Houthis in Yemen. Its attacks “on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have ...

Defending Khalil’s rights, not views

Mahmoud Khalil could have been cooked up in a lab to offend — no, worse — to disgust me. And yet, despite temptation, I cannot endorse what the Trump administration is doing to him. Based upon the postings of his group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, Khalil, who was born in Syria, seems to hold grotesque opinions. CUAD, a leader of the anti-Israel protests on Columbia’s campus, has cheered the Oct. 7 pogrom that killed and maimed more than 1,200 Israelis, writing, “The act of Palestinian resistance on October 7, known as the Al-Aqsa Flood, breached Israeli security and ...

Pants on fire: For Trump, it’s a lying game

Say what you will about Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich’s Minister of Propaganda: the man lied for a living, and he knew one heck of a lot about lying. Before committing suicide in Berlin in 1945, he left a formidable body of commentary about the art of lying and the psychology of it. “This is the secret of propaganda,” Goebbels observed. “Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the idea of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.” And this: “It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition, and a ...

New Canadian prime minister seeks to forge alliances in Europe

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London today to seek alliances as he deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy. Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence. At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on the bedrock of three peoples, French, English and Indigenous, and said Canada is fundamentally different from America and will “never, ever, in any way shape or ...

Blaze in overcrowded nightclub kills 59 people

KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) — A massive fire tore through an overcrowded nightclub in North Macedonia on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 155 in a chaotic escape during a live concert. The tragedy focused national attention on corruption in the small Balkan country as authorities detained 15 people. The death toll may rise further, with 20 of the injured remain in critical condition, according to Health Minister Arben Taravari. The government has declared seven days of national mourning. The pre-dawn blaze in the eastern town of Kocani left mostly young people dead and ...

Pope thanks children who prayed for him outside hospital

ROME (AP) — Dozens of children toting yellow and white balloons — many from war-torn countries — gathered outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital to greet Pope Francis on his fifth Sunday hospitalized. While the pope did not appear from the 10th-floor suite of windows, he thanked them and acknowledged their presence in the traditional Sunday blessing. “I know that many children are praying for me; some of them came here today to Gemelli as a sign of closeness,’’ the pontiff said in the Angelus text prepared for the traditional prayer but not delivered live again. “Thank you, ...