While signing an executive order to reclassify the status of marijuana Thursday, Donald Trump struggled to stay awake in the Oval Office. The anti-woke president, seated at the Resolute Desk, was surrounded by medical professionals and military veterans, among others, but his neck still drooped with his eyes closing before he jerked awake.
The British House of Commons reports:
Signs of strain are emerging for President Donald Trump, even among supporters who once backed him without hesitation.
Finland's government is facing heavy pressure and accusations of racism from several Asian countries after its representative to the 2025 Miss Universe pageant was seen pulling the corners of her eyes in a photo -- and some Finnish politicians posted their own photos repeating the gesture.
"The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered the US through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country. In 2017, President Dummkopf Trumpf fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people. At President Trumpf's direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program."
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Russia's latest hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile has been deployed in his country and is ready for use.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter Evita Duffy-Alfonso called the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) "unconstitutional" after undergoing what she described as an "absurdly invasive" pat-down at airport security.
During his Wednesday night Old Man Yells at Cloud session, Donald Trump claimed to be sending a tariff funded bonus of $1776 to "every soldier." It turns out that the so called "Warrior Dividend" is not actually from tariff revenues. Trump is just rebranding a preexisting, congressionally approved military housing allowance supplement that was included in the most recent budget reconciliation package.
It's been a week or two or three since I last posted this. So .... here goes ...
Kids, and kids at heart, race out to make a snowman after a winter storm blankets the ground. Just as every snowflake is unique, each snowman's size and accessories are limited only by its creator's imagination. Indeed, snowmen of all sorts have dotted front yards and public spaces for centuries. Yet they were not always the "jolly happy" figures immortalized in the song and animated television special "Frosty the Snowman."
Craig Austin Lang (35, Kiev, Ukraine) was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in federal prison for killing a Floridian couple in 2018 in his effort to raise funds to fight the Nicolas Maduro government of Venezuela.
The problems include "leaking raw sewage, non-functional toilets, and general disrepair of facilities," according to the report
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to move marijuana from Schedule I, a category reserved for illegal drugs such as heroin and LSD, to Schedule III, which is used for drugs with accepted medical benefits that still have addiction potential, including steroids, ketamine and Tylenol with codeine.
Authorities in Massachusetts charged two Haitian men with SNAP program fraud amounting to over $7 million on Wednesday. The suspects, 74-year-old Antonio Bonheur and 21-year-old Saul Alisme, each face one charge of food stamp fraud. District of Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said the two men used small storefronts, the Jesula Variety Store and Saul Mache Mixe Store, to redeem the SNAP benefits sometimes amounting to $500,000 per month.
Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, ordered the autopsy months ago but is now said to believe that its release would be counterproductive for the party.
