Sometimes an album can be successful upon release, but still not be fully appreciated until years later. Such is the case with Blue, Joni Mitchell's 1971 classic, released 55 years ago today. Read more
Job cuts at U.S. factories ran near their highest levels since the end of the global financial crisis in 2009 and the Covid-19 pandemic as worries grew over global demand and rising costs, S&P Global reported Tuesday. Manufacturers have indicated job cuts for three of the past four months as they seek to reduce headcount over costs and demand concerns.
A US fighter jet pilot rescued by special forces after being shot down over Iran in April described a shocking sight before ejecting from his aircraft: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
Last week, the U.S. military killed eight people and stranded six others in three illegal boat strikes, bringing the total number of people killed by "Operation Southern Spear" to at least 215. The ongoing campaign"allegedly targeting drug smuggling"has long ceased to be major news, fading, like so much else, into the constant background hum of inconceivable violence wrought by the current administration. Tracking the carnage is made easy by the military division that conducts the strikes, which posts its snuff footage on Twitter, alongside kill counts. Being bombed at sea is a gruesome way to die. Those not immediately blown apart or burned alive likely die slowly, left to drown while clinging to flaming wreckage. No one responsible for the strikes has publicly presented any evidence of drug smuggling.
Trillionaire Elon Musk spent Monday night posting and re-sharing posts online in an apparent effort to defend his record spearheading massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid " which reporting increasingly suggests may end up causing millions of preventable deaths " and was subsequently hammered by critics. "Musk killed millions by abruptly stopping food and medical supply shipments," wrote Nick Mark, a podcast host and Washington-based physician. "At the time he gleefully celebrated feeding [the U.S. Agency for International Development] (USAID) to the woodchipper' by waving a chainsaw around high on ketamine. Now he's in damage control mode. This is his legacy. Don't let him off the hook."
President Donald Trump wants his name on most anything: money, buildings, airports, warships, even the nation's 250th anniversary celebration. But one item is increasingly out of reach: newborns. In 2025, the baby name "Donald" hit its lowest point of popularity in U.S. history, according to data maintained by the Social Security Administration and reviewed by NOTUS. The federal agency received fewer than 400 Social Security card applications for baby Donalds last year, making "Donald" the nation's 690th most popular baby name amid Trump's return to the White House for a second term. Even in Florida, Trump's new home state and a Republican stronghold, parents minted just 21 baby boy Donalds last year, at par with the names "Abner," "Enoch," "Neythan," "Ariun," "Eros," "Stone" and "Westley," and slightly behind the likes of "Mohammad," "Kash," "Brandon," "Maximus," "Keanu" and "Truce," among hundreds of others.
Two more dead ducks have been found near Donald Trump's Reflecting Pool. The dead ducks were discovered floating in a pond at Constitution Gardens on the National Mall, a short distance from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to The Washington Post. A staff member from City Wildlife, a Washington-based animal rescue and rehabilitation organization, recovered the birds on Sunday and transported them to the group's facility for examination. The cause of death remains unknown. One of the ducks was an adult, the other a juvenile. It comes after a dead duckling was found floating in the Reflecting Pool's bright green water on Sunday, days after federal workers poured gallons of hydrogen peroxide into the pool in an effort to combat a worsening algal bloom. Images of the duckling spread quickly online, sparking outrage and raising questions about the government's cleanup efforts.
Status quo dinosaurs plaguing New York's politics
UNICEF issued an alert on child killings in Gaza by the IDF. Spokesperson James Elder: "You sneeze near the Orange Line and you may well get shot. During a period supposedly defined by restraint and protection, a Palestinian child has been killed, on average, every single day for more than eight months. That is an absurd and devastating figure. Palestinian children were not killed in a warzone but rather in their homes, schools, while playing football, or fishing. They were shot, they were bombed, they were struck by quadcopters operated by the US-funded Israeli military."
US complicity in this horror show
On a remote beach near Esperance, Western Australia, two sick seabirds have brought the bird flu crisis to Australia. Testing has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in a brown skua and a giant petrel. Both are species of seabirds commonly found in the Southern Ocean.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on a committee led by Rep. James Comer, R-Tompkinsville, wants Comer to arrange for members of the Trump administration, including Vice President JD Vance, to testify before the panel.
US Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) admitted that Iran is playing "rope-a-dope" with Dummkopf Trumpf, inflicting the astonishing insult of "dope" on the morbidly obese geriatric Dotard-in-Chief on, of all places, Faux News.
"You won't meet anyone dumber than Dummkopf Trumpf."
Now they're turning away. From Italy to France, nationalist leaders are reassessing their ties with the U.S. president as his brand sours across the EU.
After wasting a jaw-dropping $113bn recklessly attacking Iran on behalf of Israel, the satanic Trumpf junta doesn't want to spend a measly 1% of that astronomical amount to help state and local governments with DHS funding to prevent terrorism, protect infrastructure, and prepare for major disasters unless they comply with election law changes the junta designed to suppress the vote.
"What, no overtime to protect this dump? Let's getta outta here, fellas!"
A ransom note sent days after the 84-year-old mother of US presenter Savannah Guthrie was abducted from her home claimed she had died. The note was one of two addressed to Nancy Guthrie's family and sent to news media in the days after her January kidnapping. The first demanded millions in bitcoin for her release, but the second stated that she had died, according to sources cited by CBS, the BBC's US news partner.
Voters are increasingly upset over the cost of living, turning to candidates with scant political experience.
