Following several airstrikes, a large number of troops entered Jenin and its refugee camp, backed by drones, helicopters, and armored bulldozers. At least ten Palestinians were killed and nearly 40 wounded by Israeli forces, including three doctors and two nurses. In a another part of the West Bank, dozens of masked Israeli extremists attacked Palestinians in two villages east of Qalqilya, Jinsafut, and al-Funduq, setting fire to Palestinian homes and cars while smashing property, injuring 21. Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted over $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin. The Republican president made good on a campaign pledge to free Ulbricht, 40, who was arrested in 2013 and sentenced in 2015 in what became a landmark U.S. prosecution launched only a few years after the emergence of the popular cryptocurrency. Trump had announced plans to commute Ulbricht's sentence in May during a speech at the Libertarian National Convention. His arrest brought to an end what prosecutors described as a global, black market bazaar that for two years starting in 2011 was used by more than 100,000 people to buy and sell $214 million worth of illegal drugs and other illicit services.
A Danish Member of the European Parliament had some pointed words for President Donald Trump.
A bored German translator was caught in a hot mic moment after being heard calling Donald Trump's presidential speech "s---." The translator, working for German TV channel Phoenix, appeared to get frustrated during the 2,885-word marathon speech from the MAGA boss...
Former CIA analyst Asif William Rahman (34) of Vienna, VA, pleaded guilty to retaining and transmitting classified information and posting it on a social media platform in October 2024. Read more
Trump ordered all federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites, and health advisories. The orders were delivered to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Centers for Disease Control, and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health. On top of this, the Avian flu is spreading and the US just withdrew from the WHO. Read more
Donald Trump has pardoned one of the most notorious US criminals of this century, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. Silk Road was an online black market that mainly dealt in illicit goods and services such as hackers for hire, hitmen, forged documents, pirated media but mainly dealt in illegal drug sales. Ulbricht was serving multiple life sentences without parole for crimes involving narcotics distribution, computer hacking, forgery and money laundering. He was also facing charges related to a murder for hire scheme in which he attempted to contract someone to kill one of his employees but that indictment was dropped after conviction for his other crimes was secured.
With only 15 minutes to go as president, Joe Biden snatched infamy from the jaws of obscurity. With record-low polling and widely viewed as a "failed" president, Biden completed his one-man race to the bottom of ethics by issuing preemptive pardons to members of his own family. The pardons were timed to guarantee that the media would not focus on yet another unethical act by this president. He need not have worried. For four years, the media worked tirelessly to deny or deflect the corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family.
Pete Hegseth, President Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, regularly abused alcohol to the point that he passed out at family gatherings, and once needed to be dragged out of a strip club while in uniform, according to an ex-relative's account of his behavior that was given to U.S. lawmakers and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
I attended Trump's inauguration yesterday. Here are my thoughts.
Senator Bernie Sanders
The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone in the United States, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday. Read more
"You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now."
Russia warned President Trump on Tuesday against seizing the Panama Canal, after he reiterated his intent to take control of the strategic waterway in his second inaugural address Monday.
Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least eight Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "large-scale and significant military operation". Read more
The Dodgers are already well into the fourth and final tier of luxury penalization. Any dollars allocated to Yates will come with a 110% tax, as was the case with Scott. RosterResource already projects the team's luxury tax ledger to sit at a staggering $371MM; the addition of Yates could push their CBT number close to $400MM. The Dodgers were already set to owe around $108MM in overage taxes before the signing of Yates; presuming he gets an eight-figure salary, they'll very likely owe more than $120MM in taxes alone.
According to Israel National News, Trump plans to introduce sweeping sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in bid to get the court to cancel arrest warrants against Netanyahu and others. The sanctions will target both ICC personnel, including judges and prosecutors, as well as the institution itself. Read more
