Alpharetta, a prosperous suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, is home to about 67,000 people, served by about 120 local police officers. It also hosts several dozen cameras sold by Flock Safety, the increasingly controversial surveillance company that collects license plate data and other information and makes it searchable by police. Data captured by those Flock cameras, WIRED has learned via public records requests, is accessible to more than 2,000 police departments, colleges, airports, and government agencies across the United States.
US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Kegsbreath's pastor, faux Christian Doug Wilson, confessed that he would have fought for the Confederates during the US Civil War, then fails at rationalizing his untenable racist position during an exchange with pod-caster Mehdi Hasan. See comments section below for Doug Wilson's blither-blather.
These two white people are not good human beings
The U.S. Air Force football team will give a nod to the B-21 Raider by sporting special uniforms in its game against the U.S. Navy this October.
Pakistan says six to seven more Muslim-majority countries are interested in joining the Mecca Defence Pact signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Trkiye. Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar disclosed the information on Monday ahead of a meeting of the top diplomats of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Trkiye in Istanbul. According to Bloomberg, Dar previously said in a speech in the United Kingdom that work was underway to establish a framework to facilitate the accession of other countries to the pact. He did not disclose the names of the interested countries.
Kalshi has permanently banned George Santos from its prediction market platform after the former New York lawmaker failed to cooperate with the company's investigation into allegedly unlawful trades he made related to his attendance at the 2026 State of the Union address. A Kalshi spokesperson said Santos is being banned due to "his lack of cooperation" with its compliance department, which established "reasonable cause" to believe he had engaged in insider trading over his attendance at the address. Santos is the first person to receive a lifetime ban, the spokesperson confirmed. The prediction market also penalized him $71,356, a filing on the company's website shows.
Let me apologize in advance for what I'm about to do: treat the ICE arrests in Connecticut as a political and public opinion question. What they are, at a more visceral level, are manifestations of the Trump administration's gift for transforming a normal day into a tragedy. There's a special strain of internal ugliness that one needs to arrest a parent in front of his children at a school bus stop.
Air Force Maj. Jason Watson's case illustrates the high standards that military officers are held to when it comes to criticizing the president and other officials.
The Pentagon has reportedly hired conservative military veterans with large social media followings to unspecified government positions. The Washington Post reported late Sunday that the Pentagon hired two conservative commentators -- Rob Maness, a retired Air Force colonel with more than 135,000 X followers, and Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel with 620,000 X followers -- to work in Anthony Tata, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
A host of US military leaders have warned US Secretary of War Crimes Pete Kegsbreath that prolonging the illegal war being fought against Iran on Israel's behalf is unsustainable and risks weakening America's ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the US homeland. The dire warnings were detailed for the alcoholic head of the DOD in the 14 Aug edition of the SECDEF Orders Book (SDOB) by the US Army, USN, and USAF leadership, as well as the four-star commanders of EUCOM, PACOM, and SOUTHCOM.
OPERATION AIPAC FURY has weakened the US military and bankrupted the treasury. Universal healthcare for all Americans one day? Hah! Thanks very much Bibi and Miriam!
Laura Loomer braying on her hate-cast: "The media will clip my language about Angie Nixon, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and call me RACIST. I don't care. These women are all ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black B***HES who are completely unfit for the power they hold. If you campaign with Hasan Piker who said America deserved 9/11, and endorse Angie Nixon after she called supporters of resolutions honoring Charlie Kirk tools of white supremacy,' you have no standing to lecture anyone about offensive language and racism.' I'm so sick of watching Republicans refuse to speak out forcefully because they are terrified of being called racist or Islamophobic by ghetto black and Muslim communist b***hes. You feelz me?"
"Cat fight, Jerry, cat-fight!"
On 15 July 2026, a cadre of Los Angeles police officers beat and restrained Jose Carlos Hoyoz-Munoz (58) -- a handcuffed EDP (emotionally disturbed person) -- who relatives had said "lost his mind." Shortly afterwards the prisoner was found dead in his Van Nuys regional jail cell.
Warning: The surveillance video may be disturbing to some
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that states can regulate prediction market platforms like gambling and sportsbooks, dealing a heavy blow to the industry.
Masked Israeli settlers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and members of an NBC News team reporting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday. Three members of an NBC team were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus, when the attack occurred. Abdullah said they had been driven out of their home by Israeli settlers, and the team was walking down a hill toward the house. A gray car with Israeli license plates then drove in reverse up the hill toward them, video of the incident shows. A masked man in a blue tracksuit, holding a stick, was leaning out of the rear passenger window as the vehicle approached. When the car stopped, at least four men in dark clothes and with their faces covered leaped out, hitting Abdullah and the crew with sticks and throwing rocks at them.
The devastating flash floods in Nepal this week that killed at least 670 people and left around 3,000 missing " including 90 Americans " might have claimed fewer lives if not for the actions of the Trump administration, former USAID disaster-response chief Jeremy Konyndyk suggested on Saturday. A series of catastrophic flash floods hit Nepal near its border with China on Wednesday causing unprecedented destruction. The event is believed to have been caused by a glacier collapse in the Himalayas. Read more
The surging Democratic left is taking its ideology onto America's preeminent conservative network, and at times showing some growing pains.
The Trump administration is eyeing a land swap that would give part of Yosemite National Park to a private company, according to a document submitted to Congress.
