More than 100 profitable US corporations, including Tesla, Walt Disney and United Airlines, paid no current federal income tax in 2025, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The findings raise questions about corporate tax breaks and government revenue.
Haley Stevens is being called a traitor, but by reversing her endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed, she is showing exactly the kind of courage moderate Democrats once cheered.
President Donald Trump vowed to protect Elon Musk and said he would consider preemptively pardoning the world's richest man and other White House aides as Democrats prepare for investigations if they take control of the House of Representatives. "It's talk, but if it is talk, we'll have to protect them," Trump said in a podcast interview with the New York Post when asked about the potential for House Democrats to arrest Musk and seize his assets if they gain power. Trump said he would issue preemptive pardons to Musk, a close ally, and other potential targets of Democratic investigations if he believes it is necessary to protect them, even if they've not been formally charged with any crimes.
Republicans are already quietly blaming Donald Trump ahead of the midterms, according to a new report. America goes to the polls on Tuesday, and much of the discussion has centered on a blue wave that could wipe out one or both of the GOP's congressional majorities. Look, a lot of Republicans have held their tongues. A lot of Republicans who have real problems with the way things have gone the last two years have been good soldiers. "But what happens if we lose 35 House seats and six Senate seats?" They added: "We all know who the problem is. It's Trump. And do we continue down a path of losing?"
President Donald Trump said he could have won the Vietnam War in a week, but appeared to mix up cities central to the conflict. Trump was talking about his operations in Iran and Venezuela at a rally in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday, comparing them to previous wars. "Vietnam, 21 years, thousands and thousands of people killed, hundreds of thousands of people killed," he said, "Afghanistan, years and years ... we never fight to win." "Agent Orange," Trump said, "even though it's red." "Agent Orange, they drop it in the forest for years and years and years, instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City and the different places," he continued. "I would have won that war in one week."
A clip from a live debate captured a moment of concerning moral relativism when a supporter repeatedly asked the commentator Dean Withers why child rape is 'wrong', prompting significant public criticism and calls for an inquiry. Read more
Thousands of runners made their way through all five boroughs on Sunday as the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon brought crowds, cheers and celebrations to New York City. Andreas Almgren of Sweden won the men's race in his debut in the event while Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya won the women's race on Sunday for the second time.
Nov 1 (Reuters) -- The four members of a crew who took part in a simulated mission to Mars have emerged after 378 days in isolation at the US space agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, an endeavor designed to help prepare for a possible future excursion by NASA astronauts to Earth's planetary neighbor. "It's been a hell of a year -- analog astronauts living in captivity of our own free will," Ellen Ellis, the medical officer on the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, mission, said in remarks at Johnson Space Center after emerging with her three crewmates on Saturday. Read more
Itchy Boots (pro geologist) takes us on her first ride in Japan through a valley of young sister active volcanoes on the southernmost island.
C'mon Bolts! Don't Stink Up the Place!
News coverage of Trump misses the point. Sure, he is racist, cruel, ignorant, corrupt and a pawn of Russia. But the reason he's unfit to be president is that he is a loathsome human being.
Halloween is the season for haunted houses, campfire ghost stories, and manufactured frights. In politics, however, one of the scariest stories is told year-round. The perennial bogeyman? The all-powerful corporate behemoth allegedly buying elections and haunting our democracy. We are told that, unless the government takes radical measures, shadowy corporate titans will devour our civic life whole.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You
In a priceless troll, a man attending a Trump rally in South Carolina stunned Fox News viewers on live TV. Read more
Europe looks past rioters to their parents and the apps in their pockets
Dockworkers in 22 countries will strike on Friday, protesting against war and the use of ports for arms exports in action organisers say could disrupt over 40% of Mediterranean cargo and snarl over $2 billion worth of freight. 'WE WILL NOT WORK FOR WAR' Read more
