National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett painted a rosy picture of the economy Sunday, downplaying Americans' growing pessimism about the economy amid high gas prices and rising inflation as the Iran war goes on. "Look at what's happening to real wages," Hassett told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl, claiming "really positive news" about the economy was being ignored. "On balance, real incomes, real wages are going up."
The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected world. In scale, of course, the current conflict does not match the Vietnam war, which went on for years, led to the deaths of 58,220 US soldiers, and is often perceived as the totemic and unmatchable example of US hubris. By comparison with the Vietnam odyssey, Iran feels more like a day trip. But in terms of consequence, it is still possible that the "excursion" will prove to be the bigger geopolitical turning point for the unrivalled superpower, the moment when the US will have to concede it mishandled a war not just because it had no convincing battle plan, but also no grand strategy to match how the contemporary world works. In an interconnected world, Trump believes progress is achieved through conflict, not cooperation. Read more
The convention day began at 9 a.m. with a prayer from Father Richard Kunst of Duluth that the adopted platform of the party "promotes true, good, conservative values, fiscally and socially," followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. A delegate then called for a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020 and is in prison. State Rep. Danny Nadeau, R-Rogers, led a 10-second moment of silence after taking an informal vote. Monday was the sixth anniversary of Floyd's death.
Pedophile protector Texas AG Ken Paxton (R), the GOP candidate for US Senate, began a barrage of sleazy attacks on the manhood of his Democratic rival, James Talarico, which was followed up with an onslaught by right wing malefactors from all across America.
"Radical Talarico: too low-T for Texas."In 2025, this same national sliming tactic-- "piling on" -- was used against NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), but failed, as will this putrid campaign against James Talarico (D).
The incompetent-- yet diabolical-- Trumpf junta launched a new website structured like an "X-Files" expose that highlights ICE and their brutal crackdown on migrants. But the mistake-filled website lists the US as a country of origin for some of the detained foreigners and misspells common American cities, e.g. "gambling" in the "District Of Colombia, DC," "Baltomore," "Miamimi," and "West Palm Beacj. "
Losers and Rabble Run the USG
Dummkopf Trumpf confirmed that he will be ruining the experience for NY Knicks fans by befouling one of the NBA Finals games at Madison Square Garden with his odious and unwanted presence.
Dummkopf Trumpf Most Hated POTUS in Global History
An ancient killer has plagued humans for millennia. Although it's rarely considered a threat in developed countries today, it seems this long-term villain is still very much a danger in our modern world.
There's reportedly a new way for websites to spy on visitors: by monitoring how their computers' SSDs behave. The technique is called FROST, short for "fingerprinting remotely using OPFSbased SSD timing," and it runs through JavaScript on a web page. So far, this looks more practical in lab conditions than in the real world.
A group of legal and civil rights organizations late Friday sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over conditions at Camp East Montana in El Paso, the country's largest immigration detention facility. "Camp East Montana is nothing short of a civil rights catastrophe," Kyle Virgien, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, said in a statement. "We're suing to ensure that no other human being has to endure the inhumane treatment that the Trump administration has inflicted on our clients." Read more
Multiple performers booked for a festival celebrating America's 250th birthday have dropped out, many saying they were misled about the political affiliation of the event. Freedom 250, the group behind the Great American State Fair, unveiled the artists on Wednesday for the 16-day event planned on the National Mall in Washington DC between 25 June and 10 July. The group was launched last year by the Trump administration and the president appointed its CEO, but it says the event is non-partisan. US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he might instead use the occasion to give a "major speech" in Washington DC, calling the artists who dropped out "third rate".
President Donald Trump's $4.7 billion war on cocaine smugglers has claimed the lives of nearly 200 people yet hasn't made the drug meaningfully harder to buy in the United States, according to experts. Nearly nine months after the Trump administration began launching strikes on small boats off the coast of South America, experts say cocaine prices, purity levels, overdose patterns, and border seizure data all suggest the flow of drugs into the U.S. is largely unchanged. That is despite the operation ballooning into one of the largest U.S. military deployments in Latin America in decades, with heavy equipment such as guided-missile destroyers and roughly 15,000 American troops now involved.
Belarus' president has been accused of flagrant human rights violations and enabling Russia's war in Ukraine. That hasn't been a barrier to his friendship with Donald Trump.
May 29 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Texas authorities to enforce key parts of a law that would allow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
A research project examining AI-driven recruitment hires across the US has revealed a systemic racial bias.
"It's a lethality competition," said United States army colonel Justin Harper last week about the Sullivan Cup, an American military tournament to find the best armoured vehicle crew. "Lethality is really what the army is all about, so we're here to learn things about the best competitors in the army, about the platforms and how to display combat excellence in this environment," he told Stars and Stripes military news organisation, echoing the bellicose language of the US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth. Over the course of a week, the Sullivan Cup pits various branches of the US military against each other, along with a handful of international teams. In the end, the most "lethal" team came not from the US military but from Ireland.
Comedian Bill Maher ribbed President Trump on Friday over his dismal poll numbers and the blowback to a massive upcoming bash on the National Mall celebrating America's 250th birthday.
