Day: March 16, 2025
Iraq’s security forces have seized an estimated 1.1 tonne of captagon pills hidden inside a truck that entered Iraq from Syria via Turkey, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. https://t.co/ybmxZoSvBo pic.twitter.com/v7eCOV6ihM
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 16, 2025
Dodgers’ Mookie Betts still struggling with illness, status for opening day in doubt https://t.co/7CwoDb5N2u
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 16, 2025
The events that culminated in a deadly rampage against Syria’s Alawites. https://t.co/8sPq1DqyFe pic.twitter.com/lJ8XZ6vXDf
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 16, 2025
The Beltway media thumbed its nose at President Donald Trump on Sunday. In a subtle dig, reporters at the annual Gridiron Club dinner—which brings together prominent members of the Washington, D.C. press corps each year—broke with a 140-year-old tradition by declining to toast the sitting president. Instead, journalists raised their glasses in support of press freedom. “A toast to the First Amendment,” said Gridiron President Judy Woodruff, a…
Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent says “there are no guarantees” when it comes to recession https://t.co/NRrrM22oMO
— The Hill (@thehill) March 16, 2025