Growth in the US slowed unexpectedly in the three months to June, according to official figures. The Commerce Department said the US economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the second quarter, down from 2.1% seen in the first three months of the year. It comes as the world's largest economy continues to weather the financial impact of the war with Iran and US businesses navigate tariffs. Read more
Within weeks Iran will receive its first shipment of up to 400 shoulder-fired air-defence missile launchers (MANPADS) from China. The $60-70m purchase will cover gaps in Iranian air defenses that were exposed when the US illegally attacked the oil-wealthy country of 93m people. A recent poll revealed that about two-thirds of Americans say the 26 Feb attack against Iran on behalf of Israel has not been worthwhile.
Dummkopf Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu recklessly endangered the lives of American Servicemembers while bankrupting the US economy in this costly quagmire
The anti-Trump resistance has settled on its Anthony Fauci narrative. The Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday was a witch hunt. Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who deeply influenced the restrictive guidelines during the Covid pandemic, had no choice. The good doctor had to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. It's a nice story, but the camera doesn't lie. More than an hour into the proceedings, Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, exposed the stone wall strategy. He requested those in the audience to stand up if they had paid a professional, legal, or personal price for dissenting from Covid orthodoxies during the pandemic. The senator then asked Fauci to turn around and look at them. Fauci refused.
He tells his personal story.
It's been many years since President Donald Trump flew commercial. But on Wednesday, he unveiled major renovations to a key Washington-area airport " his latest effort to shape infrastructure around the nation's capital. Trump oversaw proposals for a massive, $22.5 billion project at Dulles International Airport, the Northern Virginia air travel hub with direct flights to more than 50 countries. Read more
Life could be a dream (sh-boom) If I could take you up in Paradise up above (sh-boom) If you would tell me, I'm the only one that you love Life could be a dream, sweetheart Hello, hello again, sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again, boom (ba-boom) Read more
More parents are beginning to scrutinize the foods they give their children early in life, and a new study suggests they're right to do so.
A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin surveyed 21 grocery stores across Austin, Texas, and found that more than 80% of available toddler foods were ultra-processed.
Here's what you should know about the study and what it means for toddler health in the United States.
Listen to this vile speech and weep. This bucket of shit runs the domestic policy of this government. This shit is nearly word for word nazi speeches
President Donald Trump's approval rating hit a new low of 32% on Wednesday, according to a new poll released by Quinnipiac, just hours after a CNN poll measured his approval rating at 34%"matching a low the network recorded after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in 2021.
Brian Sutton, accused of masterminding one of the largest fraud schemes to ever be unraveled in the United States, is living freely in Russia. Among his acquisitions there is a fleet of luxury cars, an elite villa near Moscow, and a stake in an MMA club tied to a member of the Russian parliament. Read more
Chinese vessels seen exempt from proposed charges. Iran discussed Bab el-Mandeb fees with Houthis. Red Sea route disruption raises energy shortage fears. Yemen's Houthi group is considering imposing fees on commercial ships sailing through the southern Red Sea, a week after declaring a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, regional sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Iran-aligned Houthis on July 20 declared a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia, opening a new front against the U.S. and its allies in the Iran war and expanding attacks on tankers carrying global energy and other supplies to waters beyond the Gulf.
Son of Cuban immigrants USSECSTATE Marco Rubio is making plans to deport Cuban migrants from the US to faraway Uruguay to burden that country's fairly robust social safety net.
USSECSTATE Marco Rubio Official Portrait at Foggy Bottom
A defense filing has revealed that the only witness called in the federal felony case brought against former Olympian Davey Hearn for causing more than $1000 in damage to the reflecting pool could not identify any repair cost that resulted from Hearn's alleged action. The filing states that the the witness testified that the liner was already damaged and that the same repair the government is blaming on Hearn was already needed.
Childhood vaccines are at the center of a potential showdown between President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump has grown irate with Kennedy and is pushing him to move faster to change the nation's childhood vaccine schedule. The report said Trump has personally pressed Kennedy to take more action and reshape federal vaccine policy.
Hundreds of former Israeli military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials are urging Dummkopf Trumpf to compel ICC-indicted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to curb "Settler terror" in the occupied West Bank.
But the Gaza Strip will be emptied of Palestinians to make way for Settlers, luxury beach resorts, and Israeli access to natural gas deposits off shore under the seabed of the Mediterranean Sea
Trump telling all of you that the covid vaccine was a SPECTACULAR SUCCESS.
