DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is moving to have his wife, Christie, hired as a Special Government Employee (SGE) which would allow her to fly free with him on federal flights. Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem hired her rumored lover, Corey Lewandowski, in the same manner. With this sinecure, Mrs Christie Mullin could also earn $130,000 per year.
Mr and Mrs Mullet Wedding Portrait
Oil prices have jumped after the US carried out new attacks on Iran, targeting a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city. The US Central Command (Centcom) said its forces also shot down four Iranian drones "that posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz". Global oil benchmark Brent rose by 3.75% to $97.83 (73.15) a barrel, while US-traded crude was 4% higher at $92.22. Read more
Back-to-back-to-back within six months, Nevada US Army National Guardsman PFC Mace Veit (19) graduated from Ranger, Airborne, Air Assault, and Pathfinder schools all without injury or problem. When PFC Veit catches his breath, and if his unit has the funds to send him, he can attend the newly-reconstituted US Army Jungle Warfare School (18 days) in Panama. This Cavalry Scout (Honor Graduate) should easily pass the rigorous qualification for the sought-after Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB).
Rangers Lead the WayI would deploy with PFC Mace Veit.
A former US government official has been arrested after FBI investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million in his Virginia home. David Rush made several requests to the US government to receive the bars for "work-related expenses" over the past year, according to court documents. He has been charged with criminal theft of public money in a complaint filed last week. Read more
The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its namesake Ohio city. "Steel. Strength. Power," acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao posted on social media to mark the occasion. Critics of the littoral combat ship (LCS) program had some other descriptions. "Easy meat," said one. "An experiment that didn't work," said another. Read more
The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former Elle magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The investigation is allegedly centered around whether Carroll committed perjury during her civil lawsuits against President Trump, after which she was awarded a $5 million judgment, the sources said.
More than 700,000 children have lost access to food stamps in 12 states with available data since President Donald Trump signed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" into law " and experts warn the true national toll is far worse. A new analysis published Wednesday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that 728,492 children lost SNAP benefits in those states between July 2025 and April 2026 " nearly half of the 1.6 million total participants who dropped off the rolls in that period. The nonpartisan research group cautioned that the data covers only states that publicly report child caseload figures, meaning the real number is likely much higher.
The way some musicians play, you think they'll never die. Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was such a man: A saxophonist revered for his huge tone and seemingly inexhaustible improvisations. Rollins died Monday afternoon at his Woodstock, N.Y. home at the age of 95. Rollins was a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, a recipient of a Kennedy Center honor and a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts. And he was the very incarnation of a modern jazz musician. His art was his life. "All these prizes are nice, I appreciate them," he told NPR in 2007. "I don't go crazy about them -- you have to do your work whether you're recognized or not. The real deal is doing it the best you can do it and that's it. That's its own reward."
WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran wrongly assumed he would retreat from his demands during negotiations to avoid a long standoff ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Speaking at a Cabinet meeting on May 27, Trump said the Iranian regime "thought they were going to outwait me" regarding a peace deal.
"'We'll outwait him. He's got the midterms,'" Trump said. "I don't care about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was the prelude to the midterms."
Thirty Seconds To Mars is going in for the kill against bots that buy and scalp tickets by giving fans a new way to fight back, but it comes with one unusual catch: they may need to scan their eyes first. Jared Leto's band is using World's new Concert Kit tool to set aside a portion of tickets for verified human fans on its 2027 European tour. The tech comes from Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity, the company behind World ID, an encrypted digital passport created through iris and face scans.
INTERLOCHEN, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan summer arts camp and boarding school where Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of meeting at least two his victims will tear down a lodge that once bore his name. The Interlochen Center for the Arts said this week that its board of trustees has approved a plan to demolish the Green Lake Lodge, which had been known as Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge until the school cut ties and scrubbed references to the late millionaire sex offender after his first conviction in 2008. Epstein attended the Interlochen Arts Camp in 1967 as a teenager, and donated more than $400,000 to the school between 1990 to 2003, including $200,000 for the construction of the lodge.
Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to "blow up" the country of Oman if it didn't bow to his wishes around control of the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. president seeks a peace agreement with Iran to re-open the strait. The president hosted a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday and reiterated his insistence that Oman and other nations sign the Abraham Accords, a U.S.-led treaty which encourages the normalization of diplomatic ties between Arab nations and Israel.
Trump, his family, his companies and his administration have always been more concerned with the appearance of conflict of interest than with conflict of interest itself. Indeed, conflict of interest is White House Inc's business model. But something has changed in the last few months. They've given up even caring about appearances. The president is pilfering money directly from the US treasury " that is, picking our pockets. And he is doing it in plain sight. Read more
Trump, his family, his companies and his administration have always been more concerned with the appearance of conflict of interest than with conflict of interest itself. Indeed, conflict of interest is White House Inc's business model. But something has changed in the last few months. They've given up even caring about appearances. The president is pilfering money directly from the US treasury " that is, picking our pockets. And he is doing it in plain sight. Read more
These disembodied organs, sourced from recently deceased donors, are being employed to test experimental drugs aimed at neurodegenerative diseases. The work has ignited fresh debate: could these brains possess some form of consciousness? Read more
The optics for a president could not be worse: handing over billions of dollars to the very regime America has been at war against. Yet, that is the reality facing Donald Trump, who spent years criticising Barack Obama for sending "pallets of cash" to Iran under a 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated by the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany. The sum Mr Trump has to contemplate " $24bn (19bn), half of it to be paid upfront " would be released in exchange for a memorandum of understanding to end two similarly costly and politically painful months of fighting in the Middle East.
