I have entirely different reasons than Trump; mine are related to actual peace, not the Trumpian peace-through-domineering-intimidation. My reasons for wishing the US would pull out of NATO are the opposite of Trump’s.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861
The US may regard economic change without regime change as impossible. But they’re evidently trying. According to interviews with Axios, US officials, in talks with Cuban officials April 10, stressed that “the Cuban economy is in free fall and that the island’s ruling elites have a small window to make key U.S. backed reforms before circumstances irreversibly worsen.”
In 2001, forensic artist Richard Neave and his team reconstructed a face the world thought it knew. What emerged was not the pale, European Christ of Western art, but a Middle Eastern man with dark hair, brown skin, and features shaped by the climate and culture of his time.
Amidst yet another year of startling declines for democracies everywhere, Hungary has seemingly defied the odds. Despite being the poster boy of the far-right populist threat to European democracies, recent elections ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party from 16 years of power, effectively shifting the tide on one of the starkest democratic erosions in the European Union. And yet, Orbán’s defeat does not necessarily guarantee democratic revival for his international friends and cronies, including President Donald Trump. Today, behind this celebration in Hungary lives the looming shadow of Trump’s executive overreach in the United States, with Orban’s friendship and autocratic legacy offering a roadmap to America’s sharp democratic regression.
As another week of Trump’s war begins, it becomes ever more clear that all his presumptions about how the war would go have proven wrong. Iran’s economy has bent but not folded despite a blockade of its ports. Its ability to control the Strait of Hormuz hasn’t been eliminated. Iran still has drones and missiles for retaliatory attacks. The regime’s control of the population remains. Gas prices and the cost of oil remain high. The war goes on.
Florida’s education chief confirmed that a formal probe is underway after Broward County’s top elected school official admitted that taxpayer funds paid for a partisan event ticket.
As the nonprofit sector has passed the first quarter of 2026, the operating environment has grown more complex, not necessarily because challenges are new, but because they are intensifying and intersecting in new ways. Workforce shortages persist, funding patterns remain uneven, and artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping both opportunity and risk.
Florida Memorial University (FMU) will celebrate its 2026 graduating class during its annual Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at 8:00AM. in the FMU Wellness Center. This year’s ceremony, themed “Built on Legacy ~ Bound for Greatness”, will highlight the university’s enduring heritage and the achievements of its newest alumni.
Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., who made history as the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has died, his office said in a statement Wednesday. He was 80.
Shay Taylor once cleaned patient rooms and offices in a hospital. Next month, after graduating from the Howard University College of Medicine, she’ll return to that same hospital as a doctor.