In the early days of Operation Epic Fury, as Gulf states absorbed hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, the US faced a crisis helping its citizens evacuate from the region. Improvising, American diplomats in Abu Dhabi phoned a friend: Canada.
South Carolina lawmakers dealt President Trump's national redistricting effort a blow Tuesday when the state Senate voted against redistricting there after three weeks of rushed hearings and long debate.
Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, had a physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday, and said that his doctors had given him a clean bill of health. "Everything checked out PERFECTLY," Mr. Trump, who will turn 80 next month, wrote on social media Tuesday afternoon after the fourth publicly disclosed medical exam of his second term. Read more
Analysis: On the eve of the 2022 midterms, Republicans had everything a party out of power could ask for. Democratic President Joe Biden's approval was deep underwater. Inflation was at a 40-year high. The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal was fresh in voters' minds. Pollsters and pundits predicted a red wave.
Former Waco attorney Adam Hoffman, who became the poster child for injustice and lax prosecution in the Texas U.S. Senate campaign, was released from the McLennan County Jail Monday morning after serving 29 days of his 60-day sentence. Hoffman, 49, who initially faced up to life in prison without parole, pleaded guilty April 16 to reduced charges of indecent assault and displaying harmful materials to a minor, both Class A misdemeanors punishable by up to a year in jail, in a plea bargain offered by the Texas Attorney General's Office. When asked about how the story of his plea agreement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office after his first trial ended in a mistrial has become national news and the forefront of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn's campaign against Paxton, Hoffman said again he just wants to go home.
This story touches base on the tension between dreams, sacrifice, and leadership within the Black community, focusing on the NAACP's call for Black student-athletes to boycott major southern PWIs and what that demand means for younger generations...
A panel of federal judges on Tuesday rejected Alabama's effort to use a new voting map for the November midterm elections, saying that the districts discriminated against Black people and could not be used so shortly before a vote. The state is likely to appeal the decision directly to the Supreme Court, which last month ruled that a Louisiana congressional map drawn to create two majority-Black House districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents.
There are new claims that the US has the remains of four separate species of alien life reported by Dr. Hal Puthoff, a CIA-funded researcher and former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor. Read more
The Trump administration has prohibited researchers at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases from communicating with the WHO. The restriction was placed during the hantavirus outbreak and the unfolding Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Moreover, the CDC has quietly removed information from their webpage offering explicit safer-sex and harm reduction guidance for mpox (monkeypox) despite a court ruling.
CDC mpox reduction page removedDr. Demetre Daskalakis, a former top CDC leader: "This is in effect high public health treason."
Russia has threatened to launch a fresh wave of "systematic strikes" against Kyiv, days after carrying out one of its largest attacks on the Ukrainian capital since the start of the war.
Russia has launched several waves of deadly missile and drone attacks on Kyiv since a brief ceasefire, that coincided with Moscow's annual Victory Day parade, expired earlier in May.
Shortly after that, Russian strikes on Kyiv killed 24 people, including three children, in a block of flats.
In an October episode of his podcast, Rogan interviewed two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians, Richard Lindzen and William Happer, who together have been spreading climate misinformation since at least 2012. For over two hours, the trio discussed climate myths and conspiracy theories, many of them identical to the misinformation Lindzen and Happer were peddling well over a decade ago. As Yale Climate Connections reported earlier this year, about one in five U.S. adults and 37% of adults under 30 say they regularly get news from social media influencers -- which means they're likely consuming a lot of myths about climate change. Read more
While international air travel to the US from Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean is significantly down because of Dummkopf Trumpf's idiotic foreign and domestic policies, travel bans, irrational Islamophobia in America, rising aviation prices, and ICE brutality against foreigners and migrants, air travel from the Middle East to the US has not declined. This month EgyptAir expended service to the US by adding to two new direct routes to Los Angeles and Chicago.
Maybe Amrika is not so reviled in the Middle East as we thought
Israel has relaunched and rebranded Act.IL, an online campaign originally designed by Israeli intelligence officials at the Ministry of Strategic Affairs to harass and intimidate American critics of Israel. Such operations are generally referred to as "troll farming," though the forces behind Act.IL use softer, more sophisticated language."
drudge.com40,000 pro-Israel online operatives work 24/7 targeting Americans
Authorities braced for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank in Southern California could leak or explode as an evacuation order continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 50,000 residents with no timeline on when they can return. Firefighters have been spraying the outside of the tank with water hoses in an effort to cool the chemicals heating up inside and prevent an explosion. Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Sunday the "most likely scenario" is a "low-volume release," where officials will be able to "monitor, neutralize, and contain the threat." "The Orange County Fire Authority is working to keep the temperature of the tank down. That is very important," he said on CNN.
Unable to cheat at golf at his health department-sanctioned Bedminster resort in NJ because of heavy rain and opting out of attending his good-for-nothing son's wedding in the Bahamas this weekend, Dummkopf Trumpf unleashed a maelstrom of idiotic AI-generated images confirming that his cognitive skills are in deep irreversible decline and/or he is mixing medications.
The morbidly obese draft-dodging geriatric pedophile may also be a stroke victimThe 25th Amendment to the US Constitution specifically addresses the issue of replacing a POTUS because of physical or mental infirmity or incapacitation.
