The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran Saturday morning after what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said was months of "close and joint planning." The US military is also planning for several days of attacks, according to two sources. US President Donald Trump described the military campaign as "massive and ongoing," adding American lives may be lost as a result. Trump also advocated for regime change, calling on Iranians to "take over your government." He also accused Tehran of working to rebuild its nuclear program after massive US strikes last summer he previously claimed had obliterated the facilities. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it has fired the "first wave" of large-scale missile and drone attacks towards Israel. There are reports of multiple explosions in Dubai and also in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, all of which have US bases. Read more
[I]t's not just Israel's policies toward the Palestinians that have eroded Americans' good will toward Israel. Perhaps as important has been Israel's role in American politics ... . Israel, by behaving appallingly and then trying to silence any condemnation of its appalling behavior as antisemitic, gives ammunition to Jew haters. As Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of the liberal Zionist group J Street, told me, "When you end up using antisemitism as a pretext for kicking kids out of universities and out of the country, and you use it as a pretext for ending cancer research and use it as a pretext for undercutting the First Amendment, you're going to get some blowback against the people doing that." Read more
On the day the US attacked Iran without a Congressional Declaration of War, USSECDEF Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon would be canceling Soldier's attendance at graduate programs at some of the nation's top universities, calling them "woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination." .
Pete Hegseth is neither an intelligent nor a sober person.
The United States and Israel have launched an attack on Iran, with explosions heard and seen across Tehran. Several missiles have struck University Street and the Jomhouri area in Tehran, Fars news agency reported. Smoke was seen rising in the city, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground. A United States official told Al Jazeera that the attacks were carried out as a joint military operation between Israel and the US, which has assembled a vast fleet of fighter jets and warships in the region to try to pressure Iran into a deal over its nuclear programme.
USAG Pam Bondi: "The Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part in the attack on Cities Church in Minnesota. At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, with more to come throughout the day. YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us " we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you. This Department of Justice STANDS for Christians and all Americans of faith."
Pam Bondi is not a good human being.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday suggested people eat liver or "cheap cuts" in response to the high cost of beef.
"This is true all over the country. There's a lot of good food in grocery stores that goes away. Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive," Kennedy said at an event hosted by MAHA Action, a political action committee dedicated to supporting the "Make America Healthy Again" agenda.
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"If you buy, you know, a porterhouse steak, it's going to, it is going to take you back. You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable," he added.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has introduced a bill to authorize the death penalty as a potential punishment for the sexual abuse of children. "We have zero mercy for child rapists. Those who prey on our most vulnerable deserve the harshest consequence we can deliver," Mace said in a statement. The proposal is aptly called the "Death Penalty for Child Rapists Act." "No predator should be allowed to walk away from the most unthinkable crimes against children," Mace noted. "This bill is simple. Rape a child and you don't get a second chance, you get the death penalty. We will never apologize for protecting America's children," Mace added.
"We didn't think this would happen to someone complying with the processes that were told to him," said longtime friend Nikhil Delahaye. "We said we could take this moment and panic or really step up to see how we could help him." Mbock has no criminal history, has worked various retail jobs, and has been able to live his life openly as a gay man. Family and friends fear that if Mbock is returned to his native country of Cameroon, he could be targeted because of his sexuality. Under Cameroonian law, sexual relationships between people of the same sex are illegal and can carry prison time. Read more
Donald Trump has suggested the US could carry out a "friendly takeover" of Cuba as tensions between Washington and Havana reach a new high following the capture of Venezuela's Nicols Maduro.
As he left the White House for a campaigning event in Texas on Friday, Trump said: "The Cuban government is talking with us. They're in a big deal of trouble."
People had voiced concern over Olive's tendency to break into routine customer interactions with fictional details about its life and family.
Another day, another humiliating setback for President Donald Trump's Justice Department " and another awkward moment for Attorney General Pam Bondi, repeatedly tasked with executing the president's hard-edged agenda only to see it stall under judicial pushback.
Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, was released from prison Friday morning. She was convicted of second-degree murder in 2013 for the 2011 stabbing death of her boyfriend, Reginald Daye, and sentenced to 14 to 18 years. Mangum claimed the stabbing was in self-defense. Read more at: www.charlotteobserver.com
Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars music.
Donald Trump's endorsement remains the most valuable asset in GOP primaries. But after the president, it's Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and Turning Point USA leader who was killed on a Utah college campus last September. Candidates across the country, from Kentucky to Iowa to Arizona, are promoting their endorsements from Kirk's organization, hoping to use it to appeal to the swath of young, mostly male, voters that he influenced and brought to the Republican Party in recent years.
Texas Republicans could jeopardize a race they usually expect to win, as poor candidate choices could open the door to an upset, according to a new analysis on pollster Nate Silver's website.
Wholesale prices rose at a faster-than-expected pace in January, countering hopes that inflation was easing, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The core producer price index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.8%, more than the 0.6% gain in December and well ahead of the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 0.3%. Read more
