Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 28, 1963
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., United States of America
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Donald Trump's administration is facing calls to launch an investigation into allegations that Michael Boren, a senior official who oversees the US Forest Service, pressed agency staff to deploy additional resources to fight a fire burning near his Idaho ranch.
The U.S. Space Academy will be for students looking to enter the U.S. Space Force, a new branch of the military Trump created in his first term. Trump said it will also serve NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry. "We're going to have an academy for what the people in this room love the most. That's exciting. That's really exciting. And I'm going to be choosing a location very shortly," Trump said during remarks at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The other purpose of the event was to award the four Artemis II astronauts with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Behind Trump stood more than a dozen astronauts throughout the ceremony.
OutKick obtained a video in late 2024 that appears to show Daejon Labrayae Love signing what he represented to be an NFL contract. When the cameraman asks Love who he is signing with, Love responds, "Niners, you already know, Niner gang." An FBI affidavit says Love filmed himself "supposedly signing an employment contract with the 49ers" while claiming he would be a wide receiver for the team. The video obtained by OutKick appears to match the affidavit's description. Representatives for the NFL and 49ers told investigators Love had never been employed by the team or the league, according to the affidavit. On Aug. 25, 2026, the Justice Department announced that Love, 35, and Taylor Jamie Chan, 18, were charged in Portland, Oregon, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
President Donald Trump has touted his one-of-a-kind midterm convention as the spectacle his party needs to reenergize voters and alter its political fortunes ahead of the midterms.
But as the two-day extravaganza approaches, Republicans are privately questioning if it strikes the right tone amid the electorate's tightening budgets " and the wisdom of diverting candidates from their districts just weeks out from Election Day. Read more
Speaking on a Twitch livestream on Aug. 20, Piker stated, "If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action." Piker added, "Not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews."
"Joint Task Force " Southern Border (JTF-SB), operating under US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) in support of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), successfully defended US military personnel and CBP partners by mitigating three adversarial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) using directed energy capabilities this week."
Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL)
Congressman Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA-7th CD)-- who in April 2025 crassly blamed migrants for spreading measles in Texas -- has been accused of being a fabulist like disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY).
This smooth-talking racist xenophobe barely eked out a win on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024. Ryan Mackenzie is not a good human being
Nathan Vilas Laatsch (29) of Alexandria, VA, a former IT specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), pleaded guilty to transmiting national defense information (NDI) to a foreign government. The DIA counterintelligence threat posed by Israel to the US remains HIGH.
US CI Agents are still working hard under the incompetent Trumpf junta
The U.S. military is experiencing a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO countries to a potential Russian attack. The U.S. defense official said the most concerning shortfall involves Patriot missile interceptors, which can shoot down Russia's high-speed ballistic missiles. The NATO official confirmed the low inventories of Patriots among American and NATO forces in Europe.
President Donald Trump reportedly plans to skip a 9/11 commemoration in Manhattan after he was barred from delivering a speech, per insiders. A New York Times report published on Thursday and co-written by Maggie Haberman revealed that Trump is not planning to attend a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center. The reporting is based on information from four anonymous insiders.
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) expressed concern over how election monitors from the US Justice Department observed the state's primaries last week, saying it was "aggressive" and "irregular." "I have asked the attorney general to start looking into, you know, kind of the nature of the visits and all that sort of stuff," he bleated.
Why Red State AIPAC-secure Wyoming?
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani paused the Trump administration's plan to use the Postal Service to limit the delivery of ballots.
Two LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers in the control tower left work early the night an Air Canada Express flight collided with an airport fire truck on the runway, according to a source familiar with the investigation into the March 22 crash. The two pilots of Air Canada Express Flight 8646 were killed when the jet collided with an airport fire truck just after landing. The fire truck had been crossing the taxiway to respond to an incident across the airport. Read more
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The classified assessment of the Kremlin's thinking preceded CIA Director John Ratcliffe's secret trip to Moscow this week.
August 27, 2026 at 5:26 p.m. EDT Today at 5:26 p.m
CIA Director John Ratcliffe's mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded by fresh U.S. intelligence indicating that the Kremlin sees the United States as weakened by the Iran war, offering Russia an opportunity to escalate action against American interests and allies in Europe, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read more
