Aware of a USAF C-17 Globemaster III flight heading to Antarctica, Russia's civil aviation authority warned New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) about "potentially hazardous" space activity, who then issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen), forcing the USAF crew to return unharmed to Christchurch, NZ.
RFI to NZ CAA
Notorious Islamophobe Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) was caught on camera going through someone else's mail while campaigning door-to-door in his Florida district. For months, AIPAC "Agent 13" has been spewing non-stop bile and bigotry against the popular mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani (D). In 2024, Broward County Judge Scott Blaue held Randy Fine in contempt of court and ordered the hatemonger to attend rage therapy.
Randy Fine (R) is not a good human being
In 2023, Mike Caruso (R-FL) voted in favor of the death penalty for convicted pedophiles; in 2025 he supported legislation making human trafficking a capital felony offense. Just one of the charges this accused pederast faces today is kidnapping. Governor Ron DeSatan (R-FL) appointed Mike Caruso (age 67) to his $212,385 per year sinecure as Palm Beach County Clerk on 19 August; Caruso was criminally charged for his sexual blasphemies on 18 August, one day before.
Mike Caruso (R-FL): Just another AIPAC deadender and heinous sexual deviant
'Quiet!': Trump viciously berates another woman reporter in 'misogynistic' and 'disgusting' attack Trump snapped at a woman reporter asking him a question, calling her a "loud, boisterous person" before repeatedly barking at her to "be quiet." Read more
Progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon scored a major upset over former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, setting up a general election race against Republican Sen. Ashley Moody. Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran who rose to prominence as a witness during President Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment hearings, was viewed as a heavy favorite against Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, heading into Tuesday's contest. Vindman raised $16 million for his campaign, a significant number for a Democrat in red-leaning Florida, while Nixon brought in just over $900,000. Read more
Tributes paid to great friend and collaborator' who played with band for 56 years and died in hospice care in Texas Read more
President Donald Trump told a story about South Korea on Monday. Every single part of it is false. Trump has delivered versions of his fictional story before; CNN debunked one telling last year. The president delivered Monday's version the day after he announced the US would reduce military exercises with South Korea " citing his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and also mentioning that South Korea declined to participate in the US war with Iran. Read more
It was the Democratic Party's "Summer of Socialism," as an email from the Republican National Committee cheerfully called it that morning, and Ashik Siddique, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, was standing on a chair outside a bar, rallying the comrades. Read more
Aug 18, 2026
This morning, NATO has deployed large aircraft forces around Putin's Kaliningrad region next to the Polish border in what appears to be a sudden and urgent show-of-force. We are currently monitoring ongoing developments.
In the meantime, NATO has also deployed several aircraft toward Northern Norway as it's believed that Russian submarines are on the move out of Murmansk for some unknown reason.
Meanwhile, Moscow came under the largest drone attack that it's experienced in the last two years over the past 24 hours, with more than 600 UAVs targeted the capital as explosions rang out across the area.
Meanwhile, Dubai has come under a missile attack from Iran as warnings were sent out to civilians to seek shelter, which marks the first Iranian attack on Dubai in Months.
Health data appears to be most affected by administration's attempt to wipe findings that don't align with its priorities, tracker shows.
"Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) filed a lawsuit on 18 August 2026 against Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) to force the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro who faces charges in Minnesota for second-degree assault and filing a false police report following a January 2026 shooting during Operation Metro Surge."
Feckless, tin-eared Democratic Party leaders still dithering about "reforming" ICE when it should be completely abolished. What a great strategy to win future elections.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California energy regulators have approved new rules that will phase out some replacement tires sold in the state that do not meet energy-efficiency requirements. The standards target replacement tires that fail to meet the new efficiency requirements. State regulators say the changes will help drivers save money on fuel over time. Tire manufacturers, however, argue the rules could increase upfront costs for consumers by hundreds of dollars. Read more
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents
The move to repeal the 'roadless rule' would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
About 30 parents, students and community members voiced concerns about the use of electric shock gloves at the Omaha Public Schools board meeting Monday night while a full room listened.
Does liberty mean a right to kill other people's children, slowly and painfully? It would, if the Trump administration had its way. It's pressing states to allow broad vaccine exemptions as part of its larger campaign against settled medical practice. The danger is clearest with measles. Children usually recover from it, albeit often with some permanent damage. But a 2016 California study found that when infants under a year old are infected, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) " in which the virus lingers in the brain and slowly destroys it " develops in about 1 in 600 cases, far higher than the 1-in-100,000 figure doctors had long cited. Long after the initial infection, the child becomes clumsy and forgetful, then experiences headaches, fevers and seizures, loses motor control and finally becomes bedridden and dies.
