United States President Donald Trump's administration has asked lawmakers to clear the sale of 48 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia for an estimated $24.3bn. "This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a major non-NATO ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in the Gulf region," the State Department said in a statement on Thursday. Read more
President Donald Trump's proposal to build a championship golf course in Washington, DC, could cost up to $49 million dollars, according to a document reviewed by CNN. The National Park Service outlined in the document that it will start soliciting bids to remake the public golf course in East Potomac Park into an 18-hole professional course in January 2027. The preliminary scope of the cost is estimated to be between $20 and $49 million. Read more
The ongoing scandal plaguing head coach Bill Belichick and the North Carolina football program took another turn on Thursday, just two days before their Week 3 matchup against Clemson. ESPN College Football senior writer Pete Thamel reported Thursday morning that Tar Heels defensive coordinator and son of Bill Belichick " Steve Belichick " had resigned from his post. The 39-year-old had been on administrative leave for six weeks leading up to Thursday's news.
Merriam-Webster.com has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its dictionary, reflecting the widespread use of updated and evolving language and "offering a window into the world today," the company announced. "The new entries reflect words and meanings that have demonstrated widespread use over time," a statement from Merriam-Webster read in part.
The app, which Szydlowski calls "Zuckoff," a tawdry portmanteau, has garnered 5,000 users since its launch on Apple's App Store last month.
"Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far," Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar said in a campaign video.
Can you progressives please make up your mind? Many Hurricanes in a season, yall scream it's due to climate change. Then there's no hurricanes and I guess that's also due to climate change, right? Idiots.
On Wednesday, LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic Party megadonor Reid Hoffman threw cold water on the prospect of a 2028 presidential campaign from former Vice President Kamala Harris. "I think it would be a very challenging path for her and it's going to be a very noisy field," Hoffman said when asked at a Politico event in Washington, DC, whether Harris should run again.
Unconfirmed report of a Russian attack of a US carrier Read more
Not bad! Pretty good, even. For times like these....
BURLINGAME: The California Teachers Association, today, filed a lawsuit against the withholding of nearly $6 billion in constitutionally guaranteed Prop. 98 funding from California public schools in the 2025-2026 and 2024-25 school years. These funds were guaranteed to public schools through Prop. 98, enshrined in the California constitution for nearly 40 years. Read more
A federal appellate court has upheld a decision allowing Hamtramck to ban Pride flags on city-owned property. The ruling, issued Aug. 21 by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, affirmed the Sept. 2025 dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan of a challenge to Hamtramck's 2023 ban on flying Pride and other group flags on city-owned flagpoles. The court held that even assuming the poles had previously been a forum for private speech, the city is permitted to change the purpose of that forum and restrict the poles to specified flags, making the display government speech. Read more
Kash Patel apparently wanted to unleash the FBI's resources on his internet bullies ... because he ordered aides to respond to his social media critics ... including a user with an offensive handle who criticized the Jeffrey Epstein investigations. According to FBI records obtained by the Daily Beast, the FBI director was directing aides to respond to troll tweets with the Bureau's accomplishments. Read more
A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary "everywoman" to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth. Lady In Blue by New York artist Tschabalala Self, which pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman, is the 16th artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998. The bronze and blue figure replaces Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles. Read more
Sen. Jon Husted fired his campaign's political director Friday after discovering the staffer had posted Nazi imagery on social media and made playlists of songs celebrating Rhodesia, an unrecognized south African state often touted by white supremacists. Stephen Woytek, who joined the Ohio Republican's campaign last month, had posted profile photos depicting Nazi officers on his Facebook page and published links to a military reenactment group whose members dress up as Nazi officers. Woytek himself is pictured wearing the attire with the members of the group in photos from 2018, when he was 16 years old, according to The Washington Post, which first reported the social media activity earlier Friday. A campaign spokesperson described Woytek as a "lieutenant in the U.S. Army" who studies military history and routinely "reenacts historical battles," but said that Husted "quickly" opted to remove him from his staff after learning of the posts.
A University of Houston faculty member and graduate student has been suspended after being confronted on campus by a child predator fighting group. UH confirmed the suspension Thursday afternoon after Eyewitness News inquired about a Kick livestream showing him confessing to buying child porn and messaging minors in a conversation with Alex Rosen of the group Poaching Predators. Eyewitness News isn't naming the faculty member since he hasn't been criminally charged. Read more
