Fans heading to games at the World Cup will be banned from taking reusable water bottles into stadiums, a last-minute policy reversal that could add to concerns about heat at this summer's tournament.
FIFA Supremo Carmine Infantino is a %@#*!
A grooming gang of 15 men has been sentenced to a combined 188 years for the rape of a child. The men were convicted for a total of 88 rape offences.
The murder trial for a Texas teenager accused of stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf during a high school track meet in April 2025 is set to begin on Thursday. Karmelo Anthony, who is now 19, faces up to a life in prison if convicted in the killing. The incident took place in the affluent Dallas suburb of Frisco. Witnesses say that Anthony and Metcalf had an altercation after the victim told Anthony he was sitting in the wrong area.
For the shallowest man ever to occupy the presidency, surface appeal is a guiding principle. Read more
The diabolical Trumpf junta bribed TotalEnergies, a French energy company, to scuttle two offshore wind leases with nearly $928m in American taxpayer dollars. In exchange, TotalEnergies agreed to walk away from offshore wind, pledge not to develop any new offshore wind projects in the US, and invest hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas projects in Texas.
Trumpf's bribe screws Blue States and helps Red State Texas in this election year
Dummkopf Trumpf bleated that super-sycophantic Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte would become acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Pulte is stepping in to replace Hare Krishna cultist Tulsi Gabbard who resigned from her post last month after spending two years subverting the USIC. Though Trumpf sniveled his appointee "has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America," this lickspittle has ZERO relevant experience in the USIC. Pulte campaigned hard for this critical position by promising absolute fealty to Trumpf's sinister agenda of targeting his political enemies while undermining US national security.
Oligarch US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Testifies to US Senate About Bill the Putz' Pulte: "Catfight!"
Thousands of Albanians have taken to the streets " and the internet " to rage against a planned luxury resort linked to Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, with protesters demanding the government cancel the project and chanting "Ivanka, go home." The flashpoint is a proposed 4 billion ($4.7 billion) development " described by Prime Minister Edi Rama as an "extraordinary investment" " on Sazan Island and the protected Vjosa-Narta coastal wetlands in southern Albania. Ivanka described it in dreamy terms on a recent podcast. On the ground in Albania, the mood was rather less romantic. Anadolu Agency reported thousands gathering in Tirana under the slogan "Albania is not for sale." TV Klan presenter Leftioni Peristere flagged AFP wire coverage of the demonstrations, which have now stretched into a fourth consecutive day " with police firing water cannons at crowds that included children.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) is investigating an increase in illnesses linked to drinking unpasteurized, or raw, milk. Since May 19, 2026, nearly 60 people have reported becoming ill after drinking raw milk, DHW said in a release. At least 45 people have tested positive for campylobacteriosis, a bacterial infection. Not everyone who became sick has been tested, and officials said more cases may be identified as the investigation continues. "Most people who were sick reported consuming raw milk from two different milking operations " one in northern Idaho and one in southern Idaho," DHW said in the release.
The Supreme Court is facing an extraordinary showdown with Donald Trump as the justices scramble to finish more than two dozen opinions before the end of the month " with a president who will lash out if any decisions don't go his way. Pending decisions on executive power, immigration, mail ballots and the Second Amendment could all have an outsize influence on the next two years of Trump's presidency. Read more
Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, who serves as chief exorcist for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, joined the growing chorus of Catholics and other Christians warning that UFOs and related phenomena are likely "demonic."
I've been to the famous stairs in Georgetown
"The President relies on subordinates in the executive branch to help him faithfully execute the laws and advance the priorities for which he was elected by the American people. Officials in confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, and policy-advocating roles (policy-influencing positions) play particularly important roles in helping him fulfill this constitutional duty. Therefore, ensuring that such employees can be removed for misconduct or poor performance is essential to protecting democratic self-government by an elected President."
Donald Trump's official portrait for proposed $250 billBLUF: This means POTUS can fire Executive Branch employees at will without giving them reason or notice. One blogger estimates this affects approximately 8,000 senior federal civil servants.
The US Senate has voted to advance a stalled immigration spending bill after Republicans removed $1bn (745m) in funding for President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom. The $1bn was intended for US Secret Service security upgrades as part of the construction, a request following April's shooting at a gala Trump attended at a hotel. Read more
This is what moral courage sounds like. Read more
Tensions in the Middle East heated up on Wednesday after Iran attacked Kuwait and Bahrain following the latest U.S. strikes against the Islamic Republic, further testing a fragile ceasefire as President Donald Trump said talks to end the war are progressing.
An Iranian attack damaged Kuwait's main airport, killing one and injuring more than 60 people, according to Kuwaiti authorities.
U.S. Central Command said American forces "successfully defeated" Iranian missile and drone attacks targeting Bahrain and civilian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
None of those attacks hit their targets, CENCOM said.
As we reported, this morning, during a massive attack on St. Petersburg, Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles hit the Russian corvette "Boykiy" located at the naval base in Kronstadt. Read more
We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests and that is exactly what this proposed scheme would do
The war against Iran may have resulted in some tactical victories for Israel and the United States on the battlefield, but Israel is not winning American public opinion and neither are those American leaders who ardently support it. Read more
