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The Irish Sun
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Irish Sun
Trump parade LIVE: Crowds begin to gather in Washington DC for Donald Trump's historic US Army birthday parade
DONALD Trump is set to kick off a massive military parade in Washington today to celebrate the US Army's 250th anniversary - on his birthday. Crowds have started to gather for the historic military parade, which will see thousands of troops flanked by battle tanks and World War two planes march on the streets. 4 People walk with the Washington Monument on the background on the day of a military parade Credit: Reuters 4 People wear hats dedicated to the US Army's 250th anniversary on the day of the parade Credit: Reuters 4 A person wears a hat with US flags on the day of the military parade Credit: Reuters 4 A supporter of President Donald Trump wears a hat with US flags on the day of the military parade Credit: Reuters Patriotic tunes will fill the air in Washington DC as the commander in chief turns 79 - with the The grandiose military parade will showcase As many as 7,000 troops and seven band contingents have reportedly been called to participate in the show. They will be accompanied by at least 150 military vehicles and some 50 aircraft. Some 2,000 civilians could also take march alongside the US military. The Army expects as many as 200,000 people could attend the festival and parade. For years, the president is said to have had his eyes on a full-blown military show, but has failed to put up a working plan - until now. Plans are to roll down battle tanks, massive military equipment, and aircraft and missiles, just as Trump first envisioned the parade during his first term. Most read in The US Sun Among the military equipment set to be flaunted are M1A1 Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, World War II Sherman tanks and four WWII-era P-51 aircraft. The whole celebration will be enclosed with an 18-mile ring of steel to protect the parade. Drones and a small army of cops will be on hand to keep order - with there expected to be protests across the country as part of "No Kings" day, a series of anti-Trump rallies by people objecting to the parade. It comes after a week of unrest in many cities - with Stay up to date with the latest on the parade with The Sun's live blog below...
Int'l Business Times
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Int'l Business Times
DHS Pushing Americans to 'Report All Foreign Invaders' Draws Nazi Comparisons: 'Taking a Page From Hitler's Book'
The Department of Homeland Security's latest ICE flyer drew comparisons to Nazi Germany across social media. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) flyer urging Americans to "report all foreign invaders" sparked backlash online, with many social media users drawing comparisons to Nazi Germany. As nationwide protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intensify, the Trump administration is escalating its mass deportation campaign. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has reportedly tripled the daily arrest quota to 3,000. Additionally, on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced the deployment of ICE tactical units to five Democrat-led cities: New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Northern Virginia. The Trump administration appears to be enlisting the public to help meet its aggressive deportation targets. A DHS social media post showed an image of Uncle Sam hanging a poster that read, "Help Your Country... and Yourself... Report All Foreign Invaders," alongside the ICE tip line: 866-DHS-2-ICE. "Help your country locate and arrest illegal aliens," the post, shared to X on Wednesday, urged. Help your country locate and arrest illegal aliens. To report criminal activity, call 866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423). — Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 11, 2025 "Can you spot the difference?" one X user asked, sharing a WWII-era Nazi propaganda poster that read, "Der ist Schuld am Kriege!" which translates to "The war is his fault!" A finger is seen pointing to a man wearing a yellow Star of David. "Taking a page out of Hitler's book, I see. 🤨" another X user remarked, alongside a different propaganda poster urging Germans to vote for the Nazi Party. "As a canadian looking from the outside: this is looking exactly like 1940s' Germany rn," a third X user wrote. "This is no different than what the Nazis did in the beginning... same thing as reporting Anne Frank and her family," another added. Anti-ICE protests are expected to intensify nationwide as immigration agents continue the unlawful detention of thousands of undocumented individuals. Originally published on Latin Times © Latin Times. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
Time of India
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Pope Leo to speak virtually in Chicago — and it will happen right when Trump military parade rolls out
What message is the Pope sending from Chicago? Live Events How different both of the events are? Has Pope Leo XIV rejected Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies? FAQs (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel This Saturday, two prominent people will try to garner the Americans attention in very different ways. President Donald Trump will celebrate his birthday with a huge military parade in Washington, D.C. and at the same time, Pope Leo XIV will send a heartfelt virtual message and mass from Chicago The timing couldn't be more symbolic. People are facing the biggest dilemma of now having to decide between attending Pope Leo XIV's special speech and Donald Trump's birthday and military parade on event, which is almost sold out, is all about unity and compassion , which is the opposite of what President Trump is doing with his show of force and nationalism. There are disagreements about values and the direction of president's multimillion-dollar party in Washington, D.C., coincides with the pontiff's plans to broadcast a video message and mass in his hometown of event will take place at Rate Field, home of Pope Leo's favorite team, the Chicago White Sox, and tickets are available for $5 each online. The 40,000-seat stadium was nearly completely sold out as of Wednesday, as per a report by The 6,600 Army soldiers and military hardware, including a WWII-era B-25 bomber, a P-1 fighter, and Vietnam-era Huey helicopters, along with 25 M1 Abrams tanks, 28 Stryker armored vehicles, and four Paladin self-propelled artillery vehicles, are expected to participate in Trump's military parade. Thus, the atmosphere in Washington, D.C., will be a little it hasn't specifically mentioned the president, the pope has also denounced anti-immigrant rhetoric, including remarks made by the Trump social media posts made while still a cardinal, Leo, who was elected Holy See last month, was known to have expressed disagreement with both the president and vice president, J.D. Sunday's mass in St. Peter's Square, Leo prayed for peace and communication while denouncing the rise of nationalist political movements worldwide."Prejudice, 'security' zones that divide us from our neighbors, and the exclusive mentality that, regrettably, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms have no place where love exists," he Leo previously expressed disapproval of the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadorian immigrant who the Trump administration accused of being a member of the MS-13 gang, as per a Pope's virtual mass in Chicago coincides with Trump's parade, which could highlight opposing visions of speech emphasizes unity, compassion, and a rejection of rising nationalist sentiment around the world.
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Business Standard
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Star items and Zero-G flight on offer at Artcurial's Paris charity auction
France's leading auction house, Artcurial, is set to conduct a special charity auction on June 18 in support of Aviation Without Borders, a humanitarian organisation that uses aviation to aid vulnerable populations. The auction will be held alongside the International Aeronautics and Space Show at Le Bourget, near Paris, with actor and pilot José Garcia lending his support. This one-of-a-kind event aims to raise funds for Aviation Without Borders' groundbreaking project — a miniature mobile hospital-plane that can be deployed to remote and underserved regions across the globe. Star-studded donations and rare collectibles up for bidding A host of celebrities, artists, athletes, and companies have come together to contribute rare experiences and iconic items. Among the standout lots: -A weightless flight aboard the Airbus Zero G -A T-shirt worn by astronaut Thomas Pesquet on a mission -A pilot's helmet from the elite Patrouille de France -A captain's uniform signed by John Travolta, the famed actor and aviation enthusiast Also on offer are once-in-a-lifetime flight experiences, including flying in formation with migratory birds on a paramotor and taking to the skies in a legendary WWII-era Curtiss P-40E Warhawk. Exclusive encounters and historic aviation items The auction will also include unforgettable encounters, such as: -Dinner in Paris with adventurer Bertrand Piccard, along with a piece of the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon -An electric flight over the Alps with Solar Impulse co-pilot André Borschberg -A full day with aerobatics champion Catherine Maunoury Collectors can also bid on historical artefacts, including a rare 1:10 wooden wind tunnel model of the Falcon aircraft, donated by Dassault Aviation; a Messerschmitt KR200 microcar once owned by French comedian Coluche; and an engraved Breitling pilot watch celebrating Aviation Without Borders' 45 years of service. Two original paintings of the Rafale Solo Display by artists Arthur Thomas and Régis Rocca — each requiring over 600 hours of work — will also be auctioned. Supporting a unique global health innovation The funds raised will help develop what is being described as the 'world's first hospital-plane' — an innovative solution to deliver emergency care in isolated locations. 'In a world more uncertain than ever, the challenges are numerous,' said Gérard Feldzer, President of Aviation Without Borders. 'Only your generosity will allow us to finance projects like our hospital-plane and humanitarian drones.' Aviation Without Borders has worked for over four decades to provide humanitarian support through air transport. Its missions include medical evacuations, aid delivery, and youth training through programmes like Les Ailes de l'Avenir (Wings of the Future). At the Paris Air Show, the group will also showcase a Nynja ultralight aircraft, assembled by young trainees and available for sale — further demonstrating how aviation can empower communities and support humanitarian goals.
Los Angeles Times
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
In Geoff Dyer's U.K. childhood, a Cadbury Milk Tray meant everything
A certain sort of British memoir takes education as its queasy, pivotal center. The narrators of these books — among them Robert Graves' WWI-scarred reminiscence, 'Good-Bye to All That' (1929), and Henry Green's WWII-era bildungsroman, 'Pack My Bag' (1940) — are often tortured by their schooling, with its wicked authority figures and cruel classmates. Importantly, they refuse to be tight-lipped about the experience. They usually — in the cases of the above, always — end up at Oxford, where their tenure at such an ideal of English education allows their adult selves to come into view. Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at the end of the 1970s, with the war deprivations of yore in rearview. He was not reared by British public academies — the privileged equivalent of private schools in America — but instead at a grammar in suburban Cheltenham, 'a place famed for its Jane Austeny terraces,' he states in his new autobiography, 'Homework,' though his alma mater stuck out like a jagged edge: It 'was, by some distance, the most forbidding modernist building in town.' 'Homework' distinguishes itself like such a structure among the developed, dreary grounds of the British scholastic narrative. No fan of Dyer's, whose many books have ranged from a bizarre if thrilling immersion in the psyches of American jazz musicians to a volume about procrastinating while trying to write about D.H. Lawrence, will be surprised that he departs from precedent. But even if his latest never actually takes us to university ('Oxford lies beyond the boundaries of this book-map and inventory,' he announces), it reflects U.K. literary custom like nothing he's written. Dyer, now 67 years old and for a decade a USC professor, is a cosmopolitan author whose output — fiction, nonfiction, both — has often spanned far-flung locales. Yet this project's geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged. If Dyer has grown sentimental about the England of his upbringing, his nostalgia is a subtle critique of how optimism in big government has grown worse for wear — 'Homework' bursts with working-class pride, a fond and mournful belief in the possibility of the British welfare state. Still, the fact of remembering can sometimes feel more important to Dyer than how events translate. He leads us through a grove of anecdotes, some more meaningful than others. Dyer conjures a macabre, powerful image of his father in a hospital bed after a botched surgery, wearing a badge that reads 'Private Health Care Makes Me Sick,' and spends a few too many pages on the delight of eating 'sweets' (not candy — too Yankee), which nonetheless produces this glorious quip: 'During one discussion of various oral afflictions, my mum exclaimed 'I've had gum boils,' as if announcing an achievement that was in danger of being unjustly overlooked.' Humor is his life raft because he neglects to plot much of a course around the seas of memory. The book's languor can be ponderous and vintage, more 20th century than 21st. Yet the text's unhurried recollections reflect its content: 'Homework' feels leisurely as if to reflect the functional, socialist-adjacent government that allows its characters to subsist. If only, Dyer implies, Americans with the misfortune of paying for their own dental care could afford the rite of developing gum boils. Eventually, Dyer's aimlessness gets us somewhere — and, in the most English way, we find the book's emotional destination in what he neglects to proclaim outright. Dyer, an only child, spends a lot of time delving into his relationship with his parents, focusing on moments when he butts heads with his dad. Young Geoff, child of an expanding consumer economy, wants a guitar, a stereo, a Red Feather racing bike — 'If you didn't have a racer you didn't have a bike,' his older self declares with undiminished enthusiasm, 'but since no one who had a bike didn't have a racer this wasn't an issue.' He receives all of these things. His dad is a sheet metal worker, his mother a school cook, and they have limited financial means — still, the book's contrast, between familial impecunity and the minor damage of the narrator's disappointments, forces us to look past circumstance and consider how materialism relates to affection and if this conflict is generational. Dyer's father was traumatized by the austerity of growing up in England between two military cataclysms, and his daily satisfaction is bound in his ability to pinch pences. In one particularly memorable scene, he buys his son a tennis racket at a store that offers a 10% discount to members of an athletic club — to which he doesn't belong, but he argues his way into getting the deal regardless. In another, Dyer describes a Cadbury Milk Tray that his dad purchased for his mother each year on Valentine's Day though his mom didn't like chocolate. This did not dampen her gratitude, however: The gesture 'was an expression of indulgence unrestrained by any considerations of expense.' Naturally, most of the contents of the Milk Tray were eaten by me, first the ones I knew I liked from the top layer and then, when that top layer had been decimated, the same items from the bottom layer. This bottom layer also came to include what my Auntie Hilda called 'spit-backs' from the top layer: half-eaten choices that I'd liked the look of — based on the legend — but then turned against when I took a bite. And so, to avoid waste, they were returned to the box for someone else — my dad — to finish off. This moment sticks in the mind, the intimacy of a family in which a present for the mother becomes a treat for the child, whose chewed and discarded food is finished by the father. It points toward the book's core: a question of how to distinguish tenderness from frugality. Is 'Homework' about a child who took a remarkably frictionless path, aided by a nation that had invested in civic institutions, from monetary hardship to the ivory tower? Merely technically. Is it a story of how members of a family, protected by a social safety net from abject desperation, developed different ideas about how to relate to material circumstance? We're getting there. What 'Homework' does best is keep these possibilities open while never having an answer for whether the elder Dyer's annual ceremony with the Cadbury box was an act of love. The real homework is the labor that we do when we spend our whole lives wondering. Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.
