Donald Trump has once again appeared in public with makeup heavily caked on his hand to cover severe bruising. The hand bruising was first noticed in 2024 The last time this happened, about 3 weeks ago, the White House said he had "clipped" his hand on a table. This time they say it's from working hard and shaking a lot of hands. LOL!
In a humiliating defeat for Donald Trump's administration, all federalized National Guard troops have been pulled out of American cities that never wanted them there after failing to accomplish what the president asked them to do.
It may be the Winter Games, but the temperature at the Olympic Village is heated. The supply of condoms given to competitors at the Milan Cortina Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa. Condoms have traditionally been provided to Olympians since the 1988 Seoul Games to raise awareness of sexually transmitted diseases at the height of the aids epidemic. In Paris 2024, organizers supplied Olympians with 300,000 condoms, though the record goes to the 2016 Rio Olympics, when a whopping 450,000 condoms were distributed.
At least 177 new measles cases have been reported in the last week in the U.S., according to newly updated data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A total of 910 infections have been confirmed in 24 states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Only six measles cases this year were from international visitors, CDC data shows.
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs, according to three documents seen by Reuters. The White House Office of Management and Budget, which Vought leads, is allocating $15 million of what remains of USAID operating expenses to cover the costs of his protection by the U.S. Marshals Service through the end of 2026, the documents showed.
Donald Trump is quietly gearing up to roll back some of the tariffs he promised would make the country "rich as hell" as his approval rating plummets amid an affordability crisis. The president slapped tariffs of up to 50 percent on steel and aluminum imports last summer, boasting that the move would provide a "big jolt" to U.S. industry. But in a humiliating retreat, and keeping true to the nickname he has earned for his chaotic approach to trade policy""TACO," short for "Trump Always Chickens Out""Trump now plans to scale back some of these tariffs as cost-of-living pressures drag down his approval ratings, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the matter.
U.S. businesses and consumers bore about 90 percent of the cost of President Trump's sweeping tariffs, according to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The study, published Thursday, found that the majority of costs that came from tariffs were passed onto the American public in the first 11 months of 2025, contradicting Trump's promises that foreign companies would pay the import taxes.
The Trump administration's warehouse buying spree is drawing interest from Geo Group, one of the largest private prison contractors in the US.
Humanitarain George Zoley
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against DNI Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and sensitive matters related to Iran.
Oligarchs Jared and Josh Kushner Linked to Mossad in FBI Epstein Files
US Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr during a recent interview on a podcast:
RFK Jr Swimming in Highly Toxic Rock Creek With His Grandchildren on Mother's Day 2025
The biggest controversy of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics came to a head on Thursday morning, as Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych was banned from competing. Heraskevych, who was his country's flagbearer at the opening ceremony, wished to compete in the men's skeleton while wearing a special remebrance helmet featuring artwork depicting Ukrainian athletes killed during the Russian invasion. Read more
"I'm not a big fan of those crazy windmills," Trump said, mimicking a windmill's circular motion with his finger. "They're made in China but not used by China. Let's look for a couple of wind farms in China. See if you can find one." China is the undisputed leader in wind and solar power, according to The Guardian, with nearly twice as much renewable energy under construction as the rest of the world combined. Read more
% of Americans who have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public All US adults: 6% Republicans: 2% Democrats: 9%
When I was 11, I began identifying as transgender. I had gone down a rabbit hole of websites and niche online forums. There I met a friend"an artist who was 14"whom I admired and looked up to. We both felt different, out of place in society. Born 10 years earlier, we would have been called tomboys. Instead, we writhed under the pressure of the "female role." The internet told us the logical conclusion of that struggle was to identify as boys. I come from a broken home. While my mother and stepfather always loved me, my stepfather became severely disabled when I was 3, leaving me feeling as though I had to raise myself. I eventually reached out to my biological father around a decade later. When he and my stepmother saw my distress"and were told by a psychiatrist that this distress was related to my transgender identity"they began to consider the benefits of affirming me in my transition.
Most people believed that the Supreme Court's 2023 decision to end affirmative action in higher education admissions would cause a big drop in Black and Hispanic enrollment at the nation's top colleges. What happened is more complicated. Overall, more Black and Hispanic students enrolled in four-year universities in fall 2024 than in fall 2023. But in nearly all highly selective private and public colleges"the 85 that accept 25 percent or fewer applicants"Black enrollment declined or remained flat; the same was true of Hispanic enrollment at more than half of those institutions. Public flagships, typically the most selective public universities in their state, experienced a 6 percent increase in the enrollment of Black and Hispanic first-year students. Yet at 20 of the 50 flagships, Black student enrollment fell or flatlined, and Hispanic student enrollment fell or essentially stayed the same at 16.
Florida police confirmed seven deaths following a cross-state mass shooting. The shooter, who also killed himself, was identified as Russell Kot, a cisgender person identifying with he/him' pronouns. According to media reports, two of the murders took place in Fort Lauderdale which were followed by four more murders across the state in Sarasota where the Kot was also found dead by suicide.
