GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Sunday railed against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for what he called a "series of failures" at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services. "This has been a failure. If I were president, I would choose someone else because there needs to be accountability for higher health care costs, more measles deaths, losing elimination status, and no progress on processed foods," Cassidy said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."
Former President Joe Biden has shared Angela Merkels private views of Donald Trump in his new White House memoir, revealing what the former German chancellor told him behind closed doors.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin started his White House news conference on the nationwide air traffic control meltdown with a little quip about it being Friday the 13th. Oh, yes, ha-ha. I guess a little gallows humor is okay.
Residents in Spring report loud and frequent drone services buzzing across neighborhoods.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the US government's closure of an historic golf course and park in Washington DC. US District Judge Ana Reyes has been overseeing a months-long challenge to the president's plans for East Potomac Golf Links, which he said would be closed from 15 November for extensive renovations. Read more
Two planes collided with one another on a taxiway at Miami's international airport on Saturday night " a day after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an hours-long nationwide ground stop due to communication issues affecting multiple air traffic control centers. In a statement, the Trump administration-led FAA said the wingtip of a Copa Airlines Boeing 737 struck the nose of a United Parcel Service Boeing 767 "while the airplanes were taxiing at Miami International Airport".
The weekend was marked by thousands of flight delays and cancelations in the wake of a four-hour FAA ground stop on Friday which the Trump administration said stemmed from routine but botched maintenance aiming to switch telecommunication lines from old copper wire to fiber optic cables.
Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, the first Democrat to win the office in more than three decades, told The Washington Post she will avoid culture wars and work with President Donald Trump on border security. Read more
The Trump family's media group may soon be forced to sell hundreds of millions' worth of assets, including some of its crypto holdings, or take on costly new borrowing as it comes under pressure to repay up to $1bn in debt. Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which runs the Truth Social app and is controlled by Donald Trump's family, faces a November 30 deadline to repay convertible bonds it sold last May to fund its creation of a "bitcoin treasury" to hoard digital currency. But shares in TMTG have plunged and bitcoin has fallen by about a third in the past year, despite the Trump administration ushering in a more permissive era for cryptocurrencies. The company's waning share price, which is down more than 60 per cent this year to $4.64, has meant lenders to the company who had hoped to convert their notes to stock at $34.72 are deeply out of the money.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) made a deal with Dummkopf Trumpf to give bodegas and other US retailers across the nation more time to increase their stock of fresh meat and vegetables to stay in the federal food stamp program (SNAP). The new rules, which originally took effect on 4 Nov, require retailers to stock at least seven varieties of food staples in several categories, such as meat, dairy, grains, and vegetables. The rules also set a minimum requirement for the amount of fresh food sold. Stores that did not comply would lose authorization to accept food stamps and would have to wait six months to reapply. Thanks to His Honor, small businesses nationwide would have another 90 days to meet the junta's requirements. This is exactly why Zohran Mamdani (D) is the vanguard and new face of the Democratic Party, not the gaggle of status quo, corporate, and AIPAC dinosaurs still plodding around the US avoiding the tar pits.
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Operating from a vastly weakened position after losing the US Senate and House to Democrats in the historic Blue Tsunami (propelled by the DSA), Dummkopf Trumpf will be meeting next week with both ICC-indicted war criminal Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Chinese supremo Xi Jinping in a rare trilateral summit. Amongst other things, Vladimir Putin will demand from the White House Windbag that NATO withdraw from Poland, pull its troops back to 1997 positions, an end to Western arms supplies to Ukraine, and restrictions on British and French nuclear protection for European allies. Xi Jinping will probably discuss tariffs, de-nuclearization, the future of Taiwan, and deals over rare earths and other critical minerals.
Trumpf is genetically interwoven to Russian oligarchs and mafioso
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The hamsters have gone AI
Is this the end of The Retort???
Police in Peoria, Illinois, are investigating a "credible" bomb threat at a local plant and are urging anyone who lives or works within a one-mile radius of the facility to evacuate immediately. The Peoria Police Department said the evacuation recommendation was issued as a precaution while officers and emergency personnel investigated the threat at BioUrja Renewables. Police determined at about 6:45 p.m. local time Friday that a package at the facility was a credible threat and established a one-mile blast radius, officials said. Bomb technicians rendered the package safe at about 9:12 p.m. local time, according to police. However, authorities said a thorough search of the large facility was expected to continue into Saturday, likely until late afternoon. Officials said they were not treating the incident as a hoax.
On Friday the 13th, the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with the American Cruise Lines' American Heritage while the cruise ship was docked on the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The cruise ship had docked approximately two hours earlier to begin passenger disembarkation. Approximately 129 passengers, in addition to crew members, were aboard the American Heritage. Port NOLA Harbor Police, the New Orleans Fire and Police Departments, the USCG, and emergency medical personnel conducted rescue and response operations. Most of the passengers are elderly and 32 were hospitalized.
Dummkopf Trumpf strikes again
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US Senate Ethics Committee Chairman James Lankford (R-OK) and Vice Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) wrote this "Public Letter of Admonition" to billionaire oligarch US Senator Jim Justice II (R-WV): "The public must feel confident that Members never place personal financial interests ahead of the best interests of the United States. Your actions failed to uphold that standard, resulting in harm to the public trust and confidence in the United States Senate and a violation of federal law...."
Why is a good-for-nothing billionaire who inherited his massive $1.6bn fortune working for $174,000 per annum as a Republican US Senator?
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SpaceX's attempt to recover its entire Starship back at the launch pad was thwarted when the booster fell into the Gulf of Mexico in flames Friday, but the spacecraft still soared into orbit in its boldest test yet.
