The quake shook several major cities, including Bogot, Cali and Medelln. At least 69 people have died, and the death toll appeared likely to rise as rescuers continued to search damaged buildings. Read more
President Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday that there was "no video or proof" of alleged vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after weeks of claiming that damage to the pool's surface was the deliberate work of saboteurs.
November 2017, Revised August 2020: "We investigate the Frontier Thesis and identify its long-run implications for culture and politics. We track the frontier throughout the 1790-1890 period and construct a novel, county-level measure of total frontier experience (TFE). Historically, frontier locations had distinctive demographics and greater individualism." Read more
According to the Congressional Budget Office, 2030 is the year when federal debt held by the public as a share of the economy will exceed the record set by World War II. Unlike in the '40s, this debt shows no signs of ever declining. The year 2030 is also roughly when the ratio of seniors to the total population will reach 1 in 5. As recently as 2008, the ratio was around 1 in 8. Seniors' rising share of the population mechanically raises Social Security and Medicare costs and pushes them onto a proportionally smaller working population. Medicare's budget-busting makes Social Security's look modest by comparison. Of the projected $138 trillion budget shortfall over the next 30 years, $109 trillion is from Medicare. The fiscal challenges scheduled to arrive in the 2030s are actually based on optimistic assumptions. They are from the CBO's baseline estimates, which assume no wars, no recessions, low and stable inflation and no new government programs or tax changes. Read more
Bill Maher called out Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for betraying his own brand, comparing the hypocrisy of his abusive government overreach to if AOC wore a gown that said "tax the poor". Read more
Congressional Democrats said they are investigating the diabolical Trumpf junta's efforts to deport military service members and their families after discovering that more than 50 active-duty troops' spouses and parents have been detained by ICE.
Markwayne Mullet is not a good human being
Dummkopf Trumpf announced that Stephen Miller lookalike Will Scharf, an Ivy League MAGA lickspittle, will be the new White House legal counsel.
In 2008, charges of being a nuisance and serving alcohol to minors were dropped against this Princetonian
Former NJ governor Chris Christie -- the ex-AUSA who convicted tax cheat and sexual extortioner mega-oligarch Charles Kushner, a good-for-nothing miscreant described by the honorable US District Judge Jose L. Linares as "disgraceful and reprehensible" -- slammed the incontinent White House Windbag:
This idiotic, reckless, and illegal war against Iran on Israel's behalf is bankrupting the US economy and depleting our stock of missiles and drones for use against real enemies
An "astounding" amount of taxpayer dollars has been diverted from American national parks to fund President Donald Trump's beautification projects in Washington, D.C., journalist Scott MacFarlane revealed Sunday night after obtaining internal U.S. National Park Service records. "The topline dollar figures are astounding, according to multiple sources inside the US Department of Interior, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to news media," MacFarlane wrote in a report published Sunday on his Substack. "The records show more than $323 million have been made available for upgrades and projects on the White House grounds this year. That's a dramatic, nearly 5000 percent increase from the $7.5 million spent on White House grounds projects in 2024."
Taylor Farms has issued a recall for over a dozen items, including salsa and guacamole sold at shops like Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Kroger and Trader Joe's, over a salmonella risk. The California-based producer of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, which has been tied to a recent cyclospora outbreak across the country involving iceberg lettuce, said on Sunday that it was voluntarily recalling finished products containing potentially contaminated fresh jalapeos.
Top Pentagon policy advisor Elbridge Colby, who for years advocated for the US to develop additional capabilities to fight a "limited nuclear war," is reportedly drafting a new strategy that is expected to emphasize the use of tactical atomic weapons on the battlefield to give the president more "options" in a potential conflict with future adversaries.
This privileged double Ivy League university WASP was born the ultimate insider of the USIC and DOD establishment
The Louisiana Republican was the last holdout on the Senate vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general before recess.
Court records show five new counts filed August 6, including three felony child sexual exploitation charges. He bonded out August 9. His sentencing in two other cases is weeks away. Tyler Jay Boebert, the 21-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, is facing a new felony case in Garfield County, Colorado, and the charges are the most serious he has ever faced. According to Colorado court records reviewed by American Muckrakers, case 2026CR234 was filed in Garfield County District Court on August 6, 2026. The People of the State of Colorado v. Boebert, Tyler J lists five counts:
While investors fixate on the AI boom, a warning from a group of Wall Street bankers whose job is to help the U.S. government borrow went unnoticed. In minutes released Aug. 5, the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee -- a panel of senior bond dealers and investors, known as TBAC, that advises the Treasury on its own funding -- warned that at current auction sizes, the government faces a $1.45 trillion funding shortfall in fiscal 2027"28.
After U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot and killed two people in Texas and Maine last week, this week's Economist / YouGov Poll finds that 60% of Americans have heard about the recent killings. It appears that the news has not spread equally across the political spectrum: While the overwhelming majority (78%) of Democrats say have read, seen, or heard anything about the killings last week, smaller shares of Independents (55%) and Republicans (51%) say the same.
