Authorities braced for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank in Southern California could leak or explode as an evacuation order continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 50,000 residents with no timeline on when they can return. Firefighters have been spraying the outside of the tank with water hoses in an effort to cool the chemicals heating up inside and prevent an explosion. Lee Zeldin, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Sunday the "most likely scenario" is a "low-volume release," where officials will be able to "monitor, neutralize, and contain the threat." "The Orange County Fire Authority is working to keep the temperature of the tank down. That is very important," he said on CNN.
US consumer sentiment fell to a record low in May, underscoring that higher pump prices and rising costs from the US-Iran war continued to weigh on Americans' views of the economy. The University of Michigan's Index of Consumer Sentiment showed consumer sentiment declined to 44.8 for the month of May, marking the lowest level on record. Sentiment fell further from April's final reading of 49.8 and was "just below the previous historical trough seen in June 2022," Joanne Hsu, the survey's director, said in the release. Americans are feeling worse about the economy now than they were during the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial crisis, and following the 9/11 attacks.
Donald Trump's Department of Justice has erased hundreds of press releases from its website that detailed the charges against January 6 Capitol rioters " information the DOJ deemed "partisan propaganda."
"We are proud to reverse the DOJ's weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ's website of partisan propaganda," the DOJ Rapid Response X account declared Friday.
The move came just days after the DOJ announced it was creating a $1.8 billion taxpayer-backed "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to pay restitution to anyone who felt they were wronged by the federal government. Critics, including congressional Republicans, have called it a "slush fund" for Trump allies, including the rioters that he pardoned.
Rioter Brandon Fellows told CNN this week that he was requesting $30 million from the fund for "wrongful imprisonment."
Two decades ago, Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth thrust climate change into the global spotlight. With dramatic imagery and dire warnings, it transformed a niche concern into a front-page crisis, influencing rich country leaders and elite jet-setters, and inspiring a generation of activists. Twenty years affords distance to reflect not just on the film's impact but also its accuracy. Many of Gore's most alarming predictions have failed to materialize, while the policy response it helped inspire has proven extraordinarily flawed.
This is a yt short, about 1 min covering Psychologist Robert Lipton's famous study on Cults.
The outlines of President Trump's endgame in the Iran war are now emerging. In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Trump reportedly explained that the United States was negotiating a "letter of intent" with Iran that would "formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations" on Iran's nuclear program and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The purpose and effect of such an agreement should be clear: The United States is walking away from the crisis. Trump may launch another limited strike to look tough and satisfy the demands of the war's supporters, but it would be a performative gesture. Endgame in this case is a euphemism for "surrender." Read more
"Freedom Flotilla volunteers who were abducted and jailed by Israeli authorities while in international waters have reported being subjected to sexual abuse and torture while in Israeli captivity. Some 430 Samaritans, who were held after Israeli forces raided the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, were deported to Istanbul on Thursday evening.
Israeli National Security Advisor Itamar Ben-Gvir taunted the captured humanitarians. He is not a good human being.The kind-hearted members of Israeli human rights groups Adalah and B'Tselem are powerless against the loathsome ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his sinister, murderous junta.
Unable to cheat at golf at his health department-sanctioned Bedminster resort in NJ because of heavy rain and opting out of attending his good-for-nothing son's wedding in the Bahamas this weekend, Dummkopf Trumpf unleashed a maelstrom of idiotic AI-generated images confirming that his cognitive skills are in deep irreversible decline and/or he is mixing medications.
The morbidly obese draft-dodging geriatric pedophile may also be a stroke victimThe 25th Amendment to the US Constitution specifically addresses the issue of replacing a POTUS because of physical or mental infirmity or incapacitation.
Republican lawmakers are publicly criticizing White House proposals to scrap federal programs that help build and rehabilitate housing for low-income Americans ahead of a midterm election dominated by affordability frustrations.
At least four Russian military satellites changed their orbits to match that of a Finnish-American radar surveillance satellite in the last week, raising questions about Russia's intentions amid an ever-expanding standoff high above Earth.
Sailors in their dress whites lined the deck of the aircraft carrier as it pulled into Norfolk, Va., last weekend. Helenna Parrish let out a whoop when she spotted her daughter Asia, a culinary specialist, on the deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford. Read more
One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs -- effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection.
U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Saturday that a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal with Iran is "largely negotiated," as both countries and mediators in Pakistan reported progress. Trump posted on social media that the emerging agreement would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping passage whose closure upended global energy markets after the conflict started in February when the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
The New York Giants' MAGA QB has been called out by a teammate for being President Donald Trump's hype man at a rally. Jaxson Dart introduced Trump ahead of his speech in New York on Friday. After riling up the crowd, he said, "What an honor, what a privilege it is to be here, and without further ado, I'm grateful, I'm honored, I'm pleasured (sic) to introduce the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump." The introduction went viral on X, where Dart's teammate, Abdul Carter, watched it in disbelief. "Thought this s--t was AI," Carter posted on Saturday morning, "what we doing man."
The diving tragedy in the Maldives " which claimed the lives of four Italian divers inside an underwater cave, followed by the death of a Maldivian navy diver " has renewed warnings from experts about the risks of cave diving without proper training, planning and specialised equipment. On Thursday, the Divers Alert Network (DAN), which coordinated the complex search and recovery operation at the Dhekunu Kandu dive site in Vaavu atoll, announced all the divers' dead bodies had been recovered. The victims were identified as Monica Montefalcone, an ecology professor; her daughter Giorgia Sommacal; marine biologist Federico Gualtieri; researcher Muriel Oddenino; and diving instructor Gianluca Benedetti. The body of Bendetti was recovered earlier outside the cave. Mohamed Mahudhee, a member of the Maldivian national defence force, also died in the tragedy, as a result of decompression sickness after taking part in a recovery mission. Read more
US authorities have charged Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi (32) for allegedly plotting to assassinate Ivanka Trump in order to avenge IRGC-QF General Qasem Soleimani, a beloved Iranian military leader who Donald Trump recklessly ordered murdered by a drone strike in Baghdad Iraq on 3 Jan 2020.
In Mafia parlance, Dummkopf Trumpf "crossed a line" and the unforgiving IRGC-QF and MOIS will maintain a KGB-like personal vendetta against him and members of the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) for some time to come.
