The US Postal Service could soon allow handguns to be mailed for the first time in nearly a century if a proposed rule under the Trump administration is approved, with opponents of the bill calling it a potential "gun trafficking pipeline."
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"A growing number of Democratic primary challengers are making opposition to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) a campaign issue, with 73 candidates challenging sitting members of Congress backed by the influential pro-Israel advocacy group."
Terrific Non-AIPAC 2026 Political Candidates
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted a TikTok video glorifying executions just weeks after Israel passed a controversial death penalty law targeting Palestinian detainees. Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi said Ben Gvir and his wife "need a psychiatrist immediately." More than 9,600 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli security custody and many have reported cases of sexual assault and torture at the hands of Israeli security personnel.
IDF Continues Torturing Palestinian Detainees
Americans believe President Donald Trump would win in a fight against an 8-year-old boy -- but only by a slim margin. A YouGov poll conducted on Wednesday found 45 percent of American adults think Trump, 79, would win in a hypothetical brawl against an 8-year-old boy, while 31 percent backed the 8-year-old and 24 percent said they weren't sure.
Extortion using footage from smart glasses is officially a real thing, as demonstrated by an eerie incident in London. A woman says a man wearing cameraequipped smart glasses approached her near a shopping center and secretly recorded her as they conversed. She did not notice any phone or an obvious camera, and only later found out that a video of the encounter had appeared on social media and had received tens of thousands of views, the BBC reports. Read more
It's tomorrow. I had exhausted my four comments per day yesterday, but today not so much. So, let's have a fun weekend tune thread!
Across more than two decades in power, President Vladimir Putin has worked to turn Russia's historic World War II memorial event into a celebration of future military glory and global clout.
But this year's Victory Day jamboree only underscores his failure to deliver.
The pared-back festivities on May 9 " commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany at the cost of an estimated 27 million Soviet lives " is the clearest sign yet that the Kremlin's war in Ukraine is taking its toll.
Golden Ten Data reported on May 8 that France's solar power generation reached a record high on Friday, surpassing grid operator forecasts and pushing electricity prices into negative territory.
Pastor leads wild dedication ceremony for Trump's giant gold statue at his own golf course
The president himself called into the ceremony to thank the religious leader and guests in attendance Read more
You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency "blatantly used" race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
Conservative columnist David French discovers racism
Four protesters are suing to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from seizing DNA samples from Americans arrested while peacefully protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.
LAST YEAR, NEARLY all Cybertrucks had to be recalled because Tesla used the wrong glue on a steel trim panel that the carmaker said could become detached while driving. Now, yet another embarrassing recall exposes that the electric pickup could see wheels come off certain models due to the use of the wrong grease. In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall so far, alongside concerns that the stainless steel trucks could be rusting, Tesla is recalling its Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) Cybertruck Long Range over faulty brake rotors. In a notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Tesla states that "brake rotor stud holes may crack and allow the stud to separate from the wheel hub."
Donald Trump is not much of a reader. But there's a book in the White House that " if he cracked it open " could change the course of his presidency and of America itself.
Three years ago, in the pages of Vanity Fair, I wrote about a manual that almost no one in America has ever seen. Inside the White House complex, in a secure location known to only a handful of people, sits an instruction book informally called the "Doomsday Book".
Its contents are formally known by an anodyne acronym " PEADs, or Presidential Emergency Action Documents. Read more
Quantum weirdness may be quietly blurring time itself--offering a tantalizing clue to the universe's deepest laws. Read more
