As fate often plays its hand, what was meant to silence her has instead propelled her into the spotlight—a seat above the very chain of command that sought to dismiss her.
A retired Navy three-star admiral may be on track to claim a seat in Congress after being unceremoniously ousted by Pete Hegseth. Just last August, Hegseth dismissed Nancy Lacore with a casual flick of his wrist, no hearing, no charges, and certainly no acknowledgment of her decades-long dedication to service. Perhaps he thought he could erase her like a minor bureaucratic error—clearly, fate had other plans.
The latest heatwave sweeping across Europe is a stark reminder that it is the world's fastest-warming continent, stretching into an Arctic that is heating at an even greater pace.
Britain, France, Italy and Spain have issued red alerts and health warnings for much of their territory this week as the region endures its second heat episode since May.
President Trump has nominated a lawyer from a firm that worked on his taxes to become the top attorney at the Internal Revenue Service, an arrangement that could add to the scrutiny that the nomination was already likely to face after the administration granted the president protection from tax audits last month.
