FBI Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel was twice arrested in incidents involving alcohol, once for public intoxication and once for public urination after leaving a bar, he admitted in a 2005 letter about disclosures on his Florida Bar application.
House Democrats Want FBI Director Screened for Alcoholism
Tasnim News Agency said Saturday it has learned that elections for city councils, the Assembly of Experts, and midterm parliamentary polls are likely to be postponed. Read more
An email has circulated within the United States Department of Defense laying out potential measures Washington could take against NATO allies it believes have not sufficiently supported its war on Iran, such as Spain and the United Kingdom, according to a US official quoted by the Reuters news agency. The internal email considers options such as suspending Spain from NATO and re-evaluating Washington's stance on the British Falkland Islands, which are also claimed by Argentina. Read more
Ohio officials say a semitruck driver charged in a fiery interstate crash that killed a young family of three fraudulently obtained an Ohio driver's license, a commercial driver's license and later U.S. citizenship under an alternate identity. The driver, Modou F. Ngom, 50, was arrested after authorities said he caused an April 11 chain-reaction crash on Interstate 71 northbound near U.S. 36, where a semitrailer slammed into slowed traffic in a construction zone and ignited a deadly fire. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the crash killed a 37-year-old man, a 36-year-old woman and a 1-year-old child from Ashley, Ohio, who were traveling in a C Read more
Newsmax host Greg Kelly delivered a no-holds-barred criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to fire John Phelan from his post as Naval Secretary, calling the Pentagon chief an "insecure FAKE." What a DESPICABLE guy Hegseth is," posted Kelly. "Frustrated that he can't remove his Real Nemesis, the Army Secretary, He Fires the NAVY Secretary, has him walked out of the building' by security. But this was NOT an Urgent matter. Could have given the SECNAV a month, maybe 2 weeks notice. You know, The DECENT thing to do. Instead this Insecure FAKE, who Lied and Conned his way thru Life (see Mom) and the Trump admin (see confidential settlement' ie Blackmail of accuser #1) Blows up Someone Else's life bc he can't Handle his own.
If you walked right past the meat aisle on your last trip to the grocery store, you're not the only one. Beef is starting to feel like a luxury as prices stay at record highs, and there's no end in sight for markups. Ground beef averaged about $6.70 per pound in March, nearly a dollar more than last year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Beef steaks, which cost an average of $12.73 per pound in March, are up 16% from a year ago.
Be honest.
Bed Bath & Beyond is coming back to California less than a year after the company's chairman vowed it wouldn't reopen in the Golden State. The home goods retailer will resurface through the rebranding of 98 The Container Store locations, including 12 storefronts in California, the company announced Thursday. Five locations are in Southern California, including one in Los Angeles and another in El Segundo. Read more
There in an important lesion to be learned from this novel written almost one century ago by Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. I draw your attention to this heated discussion between Elmer Gantry and other Bible students taking place in a seminary one evening circa 1904 (page 92, Dell 1960 paperback edition):
US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are heading to Pakistan for Iran talks on Saturday, the White House says. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is already in Islamabad to "review bilateral matters, the Iranian embassy in Pakistan says. Iranian state media report that there are currently no negotiations with the US planned for the trip.
When Mr Justin Finn's two elementary-schoolers come home, they're not turning on the TV or grabbing an iPad. Instead, they head straight to the phone -- not a smartphone, but a landline.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Ninth Circuit) ruled that immigration laws (AKA the INA) give people the right to apply for asylum at the US border and Donald Trump's executive order is therefore illegal.
Donald Trump issued this ukase the first day he seized power.
The United States has used a staggering amount of its weapons cache in the war with Iran, spending millions and blowing through a large chunk of its stockpile in the two months since the conflict began.
A California winery owned by Representative Ilhan Omar's husband was shut down weeks after Congressional Republicans demanded answers about the reported wealth of the Minnesota Democrat's family. Omar, a member of the Squad of progressive Democrats and a political lightning rod, filed a 2024 financial disclosure that put her family assets at between $6 million and $30 million, a surge from the previous year that"at the top of that range"would have placed her among the wealthiest Democrats in the House.
More images purporting to show poorquality meals served to U.S. service members deployed amid the war with Iran have been sent by a serving officer on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The Department of Justice said on Friday it is bringing back firing squads and readopting lethal injection in an effort to strengthen the federal death penalty. Read more
