Dummkopf Trumpf and several junta members have informally discussed the idea of pre-emptively pardoning an array of Trumpf advisers, policymakers, and other malefactors who the Dotard-in-Chief believes will likely be criminally investigated once Democrats are back in power.
Last month US military forces raided a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, making this incident the first time in several years US forces had intercepted a ship travelling from China to Iran in order to seize their cargo.
UNICEF: "UNICEF knows that 82 children have been killed in Gaza since 10 October which is a staggering pattern, and it needs to stop." These child fatalities are part of a broader toll of at least 386 people killed and 980 wounded or maimed by the IDF since the so-called ceasefire' began.
The United States will lift sanctions on Belarusian potash in the latest sign of a thaw between Washington and the isolated autocracy. John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, met the country's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko for talks in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Friday and Saturday. A close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced Western isolation and sanctions for years.
Residents of Lexington, Nebraska are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would be shutting down operations early next year.
A Cincinnati-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) supervisor is being held in Hamilton County Jail on $400,000 bond after allegedly strangling his partner. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations official Samuel Saxon, 47, was arrested on Dec. 5 after police say he attacked a woman he lives with in their Corryville apartment. In court Monday, an officer testified that police have been called to the apartment roughly two dozen times in the last year and a half. Prosecutors also detailed a long relationship between Saxon and the victim that began when she was 18 years old and he was in his 40s. Court records state Saxon's arrest followed observations of bruising on the woman's neck and accounts from witnesses who said he put her in a chokehold in the apartment's hallway. Prosecutors noted the woman has reported serious injuries in past incidents linked to Saxon, including a broken nose in 2018 and a broken pelvis in April.
Rep. Don Bacon, a senior member of House Armed Services Committee who does not plan to run for reelection next year, has long taken exception to Donald Trump's approach to Russia " but the Nebraska Republican has escalated his criticism following the administration's release of a new policy document. The 2025 National Security Strategy that the White House made public Dec. 5, raised eyebrows in Washington for mentioning Russia only in passing while criticizing European allies. The strategy reflects Trump's apparent predilection for Russia and his cordial relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "They're saying he's the new Reagan. He's the new Chamberlain," Bacon said of Trump, an apparent reference to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's description of Trump in a Dec. 6 speech as "the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan." Read more
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The State Department is retroactively promoting hundreds of additional Foreign Service employees, after unilaterally changing the criteria and the panels of individuals who oversee this process.
Adm. Alvin Holsey, who oversees military operations in Latin America, retired Friday as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration's deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region. He handed over command one year into a posting that typically lasts three to four years, transferring duties to his top military deputy during a ceremony at U.S. Southern Command headquarters near Miami.
The US ambassador to the UN has accused Rwanda of leading Africa's Great Lakes region toward war, just over a week after a peace deal was signed in Washington to end the decades-long conflict. US President Donald Trump Trump hailed the deal between DR Congo's President Flix Tshisekedi and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame as "historic" and "a great day for Africa, great day for the world". Read more
The US special forces veteran whose rescue team spirited Nobel laureate Mara Corina Machado out of Venezuela has begged her not to return to the country, after a perilous extraction mission that lasted nearly 16 hours and was carried out largely in the middle of the night through rough waters. "Overwhelmingly, this is the hardest, most high profile, most delicate operation we've conducted," Grey Bull Rescue Foundation founder Bryan Stern told CNN on Friday. Read more
The UConn men's basketball team finished its non-conference slate with a 71-63 win over Texas on Friday night at PeoplesBank Arena. Freshman Braylon Mullins sizzled in his first collegiate start, the Huskies shot 68 percent from the floor in the first half and survived a foul-plagued second half to improve to 10-1.
Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has said military action against Cambodia will continue despite an earlier claim by United States President Donald Trump that he had successfully brokered a ceasefire between the neighbouring countries. "Thailand will continue to perform military actions until we feel no more harm and threats to our land and people. I want to make it clear. Our actions this morning already spoke," Anutin said in a Facebook post on Saturday morning.
Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being launched each year. If you're worried about collisions and space debris making the area unusable -- and you should be -- scientists have proposed a new metric to contribute to your anxiety: the CRASH Clock.
Record floodwaters began slowly receding in Washington state on Friday after triggering evacuations, inundating communities and prompting dramatic rescues from rooftops and vehicles. But authorities warned that waters would still be high for days, and that danger from potential levee failures remained. "This is not just a one- or two-day crisis," Gov. Bob Ferguson said at a news briefing. "These water levels have been historic, and they're going to remain very high for an extended period of time." President Donald Trump has signed the state's request for an emergency declaration, Ferguson said. An unusually strong atmospheric river dumped a foot (30 cm) or more of rain in parts of western Washington over several days and swelled rivers. No deaths have been reported, Ferguson said.
