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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

A string of leaders with faltering relationships with President Donald Trump walked into this week's G7 summit in France with a delicate task ahead of them: charming the U.S. leader sufficiently to avoid a meltdown and sidestep potential dustups over the Iran war and defense spending. Key to that is how they manage their personal interactions with Trump. What historically served as a gathering of the world's leading democracies to discuss the global economy has turned into a game of navigating personal relationships among them. Read more


Unable to afford to buy diapers in the dystopic US, a Woman of Color and an accomplice allegedly shoplifted them from a Wal-Mart in Senatobia, MS. During their escape, local police officers opened fire on the car, critically wounding an adult and killing a one-year-old child named Kohen Wiley.

Death Sentence for Infant of Color in the Impoverished Feudal States of Amerikkka


The Israeli Death Forces (IDF) killed nurse Mohamed al-Habil and his child Mousa al-Habil (9) with an airstrike while they were filling water tanks on the roof of their home in Gaza City, despite posing no apparent threat, amid ongoing Israeli attacks and violations of the US-backed ceasefire.

The peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer paid for these murders


Benjamin Netanyahu bet that his joint war alongside Donald Trump would topple Iran's clerical rulers and bolster himself ahead of elections at home, as the architect of a U.S.-Israeli alliance that would reshape the Middle East.


Monday, June 15, 2026

The tech industry is about to flood the market with AI glasses with cameras for multimodal AI. But the public is already turning against the idea. Who will win?


Frustrated with mounting losses in court, key officials in Donald Trump's administration were seriously considering the suspension of a centuries-old constitutional right to speed up the president's anti-immigration campaign to deport tens of thousands of people from the country. An explosive secret memo last year appears to address concerns among White House officials about a plan to suspend habeas corpus, a fundamental due process right enshrined in the constitution to allow those detained by the government to challenge their imprisonment. Trump, just months into his second presidency, was already facing desperate warnings from critics and legal scholars that his defiance of court orders had reached a dangerous constitutional crossroads. His suspension of a constitutional right would have escalated his war with a judiciary that he has seen as insufficiently deferential to his presidency and an obstacle in the way of his agenda.


Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.


We've all heard of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, but not everyone has a strong enough machine to run it smoothly. Google Earth's new browserbased flight simulator fills that gap by offering web users a lighter way to fly virtually around the globe using any computer. It runs directly inside the web version of Google Earth and uses the same 3D imagery and terrain.


The U.S. supply of emergency oil has hit its lowest level since 1983, according to newly released federal data. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is down to 340.3 million barrels, according to the data released on Monday. The last time that levels were this low was 1983, when the Reagan administration was filling up the reserve for the first time. The U.S. established the emergency oil reserve in 1975 after an oil producer embargo against the country triggered an energy crisis.


President Donald Trump told the New York Times over the weekend that President Xi Jinping of China and Russian leader Vladimir Putin helped him to secure a peace deal with Iran to end the war. The Times diplomatic correspondent Edward Wong pointed out on Monday just how remarkable a claim that truly was, given that both Russia and China helped Iran to attack U.S. troops in the region during the conflict. "What he didn't mention: the State Dept. has imposed sanctions on companies for sending Chinese arms to Iran. And Russia has given intelligence aid to Iran," Wong wrote, while sharing the report on social media.


Chalk up one more for the Dotard.


The Democrats' disquieting quest for power at the cost of our democratic principles cannot credibly be denied or rebutted by inapt whataboutisms. During the 40 years from John Kennedy's inauguration in 1961, four Republicans served a total of 22 years as president and a like number of Democrats served for 18 years. Democrats dominated other elective offices, however, controlling the Senate for 28 years, the House for 34 years, and adjusting for time in office, governorships by 57% to 43%, and state legislatures by 73% to 27%. Then, the pendulum swung. For the last 25 years, Republicans (13 years) and Democrats (12 years) each elected two presidents, and Republicans gained control of the Senate for 13 years, the House for 17 years, governorships, 55% to 45%, and state legislatures, 59% to 41%


Aides to Gov. Gavin Newsom of California say several people associated with the couple have been contacted by federal agents in the past week. He criticized the move as politically motivated.


Just hours before "UFC Freedom 250" goes down at The White House, the event has been hit by a potential scandal involving UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier and Eric Trump. The post was only up for roughly 15 minutes before it was taken down, but the screenshots of alleged Instagram messages from Eric Trump to Cormier and the UFC Hall of Famer's accompanying statement appeared to be damning, to say the least. Read more


The Allegheny County Medical Examiner in Pennsylvania has ruled the death of Haitian asylum seeker Daphy Michel (31) a homicide caused by hypothermia after being released from federal custody. The poor woman spent 24 cold hours in a bus shelter, killing her, similar to the fate of blind refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam (56) who died from exposure after ICE released him in Buffalo, NY.

Heartbreaking video footage of victim's last hours. No humans involved in deaths of Daphy Michel and Nurul Amin Shah Alam ("NHI").


Vice President JD Vance all but confirmed a detail being floated as part of the tentative U.S.-Iran peace deal: Iranian access to $300 billion in reconstruction funds.


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