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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Not even the war in Iran can get in the way of President Donald Trump's fascination with handsome men. A video shared on X early on Sunday captured a conversation between the 79-year-old president and Brazilian MMA fighter Paulo Costa, 34, after "The Eraser" defeated Azamat Murzakanov by technical knockout at UFC 327 in Miami, Florida, on Saturday. You're a beautiful guy. Great fight," Trump told Costa while holding the athlete's hand and tapping his leg. "You could be a model, you look so good." "You're too good-looking to be a fighter," he added.


With roughly 45% of the ballots tallied Sunday night, Tisza is projected to win 135 seats out of 199 seats in the Hungarian legislature.


Courtney Williams (40), a US Army veteran who helped support the elite Delta Force commando unit, has been charged in a criminal complaint of unlawful transmission of national defense information (NDI) to a journalist writing about the secretive unit.

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Generation Z is more closely associated with modern gadgets from fitness rings to meta glasses than decades-old, ornate tableware. But a new, niche fixation is seeing more young adults hunt down fancy cutlery, engraved trays and thrifted crockery, before showing off their curated silverware collections online.


Sabrina Carpenter's not a fan of yodeling ... or what she thought was yodeling -- expressing an opinion that's getting her into a bit of trouble online. The pop star brought down the house at Coachella Friday ... and, one excited fan showed their appreciation with a high-pitched trill in between songs that rubbed Carpenter the wrong way. Check out the clip ... Carpenter's sitting at a piano, about to play "We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night" -- when the call draws her attention, and she bluntly tells a fan she doesn't like it. Read more


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In this episode, I'm heading further east into Mongolia, on my way to Ulaanbataar.


Too on point not to share, "Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us. Read more


Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth's pastor, Doug Wilson, wants to criminalize homosexuality by overturning Obergefell v. Hodges, abolish Islamic minarets, prohibit statues of Hindu deities or other non-Christian religious symbols in public spaces, and punish adulterers with legal penalties. Public celebrations of LGBTQ+ identity would be banned, as would a married woman's right to vote.

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Republican Congressman Andy Ogles IV (R-TN) has introduced legislation that would require American flags to be flown at half-staff nationwide in observance of Good Friday. "Christ is King of America, and we should honor Him accordingly," he bleated.

This is not a good human being


Aerospace startup Hermeus is moving its headquarters to El Segundo from Atlanta as it aims to build autonomous hypersonic aircraft for the military, the latest sign of revival in the region's aerospace and defense sectors. The company, valued at $1 billion, is opening executive offices and a facility where it will design and build its next prototype, a supersonic plane intended to hit Mach 3 " faster than any modern warplane. The company's goal is to eventually develop a hypersonic plane reaching Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and Southern California has the engineering talent base to help achieve that, executives said.


A federal judge upheld a previous ruling that that a Reconstruction-era federal ban on home distilling of alcoholic spirits is unconstitutional.


Saturday, April 11, 2026

Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs received medical care at various Sutter and MemorialCare facilities. During those visits, medical staff used Abridge AI.


Today is a day for celebration. Over the last two years, we've been building an incredible campus in Spring, Texas, just outside Houston. As the new headquarters for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, our campus leverages everything we have heard from team members and learned from the pandemic to create a truly next-generation collaboration and culture center that meets the evolving expectations of our teams. Now as we open our doors to the public, I'm excited to share new details about our vision, and give you a peek inside. Read more


In early April, producers are eagerly awaiting or have already started their spring planting. Though other considerations like soil moisture, air temperature, and the weather forecast play important roles, the adage of waiting for morning 4-inch soil temperatures to hit the 50-degree-Fahrenheit mark is important, too. That line is currently crossing into the southern Corn Belt, and the coming forecast should bring that northward throughout the next week.


A former Yolo County Sheriff's Office lieutenant is one of five people charged with murder following a fireworks warehouse explosion that killed seven workers in the rural Northern California community of Esparto last summer, authorities said. Samuel Machado is accused of illegally having 1 million pounds of fireworks on his property at the time of the blast and using his law enforcement position to shield the illicit operation from scrutiny for years, according to the Yolo County district attorney's office. Machado was placed on administrative leave following the violent July 1 explosion, which was felt by residents up to 20 miles away, destroyed a family farm and sparked a 78-acre grass fire.


Conservative columnist Kevin Williamson warns people "not to make the mistake of overcomplicating [President] Donald Trump."


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