US President Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary taking place on Tuesday despite repeatedly denouncing the practice as corrupt and pushing to restrict its use ahead of November's midterm elections.
About 30 parents, students and community members voiced concerns about the use of electric shock gloves at the Omaha Public Schools board meeting Monday night while a full room listened.
Does liberty mean a right to kill other people's children, slowly and painfully? It would, if the Trump administration had its way. It's pressing states to allow broad vaccine exemptions as part of its larger campaign against settled medical practice. The danger is clearest with measles. Children usually recover from it, albeit often with some permanent damage. But a 2016 California study found that when infants under a year old are infected, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) " in which the virus lingers in the brain and slowly destroys it " develops in about 1 in 600 cases, far higher than the 1-in-100,000 figure doctors had long cited. Long after the initial infection, the child becomes clumsy and forgetful, then experiences headaches, fevers and seizures, loses motor control and finally becomes bedridden and dies.
"Promises made, promises kept." Other presidents have employed variations of that phrase, although few with the gusto of President Trump; he even proclaims it on the White House website. When it comes to the economy, though, "promises not kept" would be a more apt description of the first 19 months of Trump 2.0. And many of the promises he has kept are causing as much damage as critics predicted. All in all, while Mr. Trump continues to boast about the "greatest economy we've ever had, by far," the record to date falls far short of that lofty pronouncement.
Iran will shift to a "fully offensive" military posture against the US because Dummkopf Trumpf ruled out extending a temporary ceasefire agreement with Tehran. Oil tanker traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz has ground to a halt and the US Treasury is going bankrupt. The 26 February illegal war that the US launched against Iran on behalf of Israel has been depleting US strategic ammunition stores, high-tech drones, and demoralizing the US armed forces, all while "Trumpf Diarrhrea Syndrome" menaces the American public. These are all weaknesses the Iranian High Command sees and will take full advantage of, along with rising gas prices, food recalls, and a population being terrorized by ICE before the US midterm elections on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.
Operation AIPAC FURY is costing the US billions and billions of dollars. Thanks Bibi and Miriam!
A US guided-missile destroyer reportedly spent four days adrift and without power in the South China Sea in July, furthering concerns about strain being placed on deployed military members. The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer which had been sailing with the George Washington carrier strike group, was reported to have been towed to Subic Bay in the Philippines, according to the US Naval Institute News, an independent military publication. The 10,000-ton destroyer lost power after what a spokesperson with the US seventh fleet called "an engineering casualty involving its generators", resulting in a loss of power.
By lunchtime at a northern Virginia high school, the hallway outside the cafeteria buzzed with students finishing homework, joking with friends and playing video games. Off to the side, Tech Sgt. Omar Herrera, an Air Force recruiter, had arranged his table with the standard fare of glossy brochures, foam model fighter jets and Air and Space Force-branded water bottles students could earn with a round of pushups. The scene was strikingly low-key, almost at odds with the life-altering decision many of the teenagers wandering past his table were weighing.
... Sending people to the moon ...
All states require certain vaccines for children entering public school, but more parents are claiming religious examption from vaccination. During the 2025-26 school year, 4.2% of kindergarteners, about 155,000 pupils, had at least one vaccine exemption, up from 3.6% the previous school year. The vast majority of those exemptions were labeled as "non-medical," meaning that parents or caregivers were opting out of the shots for personal or religious, rather than health, reasons. Medical exemptions remained stable at .2%.
The Kremlin intends on weakening the larger US population
The wooden crates moving across the Caspian Sea are carrying more than trade goods. Russia has been routing explosives, drone components and battlefield ammunition to Iran through the inland sea, in a transfer operation that Western officials say is rebuilding the military arsenal Tehran depleted fighting the United States and Israel this year. A European government document obtained by NBC News, confirmed by a Western official, describes shipments that include trinitrotoluene, the explosive compound known as TNT, alongside drone parts and ammunition bound for Iran.
President Trump last week returned a mail-in ballot ahead of Florida's primary election on Tuesday, Politico reported Monday, the second time he has done so amid his unfounded claims that mail-in voting contributes to election fraud. The outlet added that Trump requested his ballot in late July and it was returned Aug. 13, citing Palm Beach County voting records. Trump notably spoke out against mail-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the last year of his first term, when more voters turned to mail-in voting amid the crisis. His condemnation later led to longstanding false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election, and not his successor, former President Biden.
One by one, stalwarts of the Democrats' old guard are falling. Members of Congress who have won elections time and again, collectively spending almost a century in office, are suddenly being ousted by challengers less than half their age. Six of the seven House members to have lost a primary this year have been forced out by younger rivals, some of them young enough to be their children or grandchildren. A generational shift is under way.
Locals are preparing for the possibility of ICE at the polls and contested election results.
Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis bleated that he will be hiring 2020 election denier Tina Peters as an Assistant Registrar of Voters next month with a possible salary ranging between $43,368 to $62,232 per annum.
Shasta County population: 182,155; 83% white, 13.4% Latino; this MAGA county allows concealed firearms in state government buildings.
Trump approval falls from 35% earlier this month, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. 64% of Americans disapprove of Trump's White House performance, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. 80% expect US involvement in Iran to continue for an extended period, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
Donald Trump has again threatened to bomb Oman if it "gets in the way" of his effort to end the US-Israel war on Iran, as the two-month window to negotiate peace with Iran expired on Monday with no end to the conflict in sight. The latest threats against Oman, which is not a party to the war, have illustrated how Trump's unpredictable and often outrageous approach to diplomacy has upset US partners and failed to achieve the breakthrough that he has promised to end the war. "If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the shit out of them," Trump told Fox News on Monday, the second time he has directed such a threat at Muscat, a longtime US strategic partner that has traditionally served as a key backchannel between Washington and Tehran. Read more
