Jul 9, 2026
Adam Hoffman " a well connected lawyer and admitted predator " should have spent his life in prison.
Instead, Ken Paxton gave him an Epstein-style sweetheart deal, letting him out of jail after just 29 days in jail.
It's time to start flipping tables!
The Type 003 Fujian aircraft carrier, an 80,000-tonne vessel commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy in November 2025, replaces legacy 12-tube depth-charge launchers with specialized port and starboard rotating six-tube ATT mounts. Operating via a permanent-magnet synchronous direct-drive motor and pump-jet propulsion, the 324 mm interceptors accelerate to speeds of 50 to 60 knots within three seconds to execute terminal active or passive homing maneuvers. Read more
President Donald Trump isn't done implementing this tariff policy, and U.S. companies aren't done raising prices in response.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino could face an investigation by the International Olympic Committee after a rights group announced plans on Wednesday to file a complaint alleging he breached political neutrality rules through his support for U.S. President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump delivered another series of false claims at a press conference Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara. His comments included some of the long-debunked lies he told the press while meeting with Turkey's president on Tuesday. Here is a fact check of some of his Wednesday remarks. Trump repeated his frequent false claim that "we have$19.2 trillion" invested in the US in just "one year" of his current presidency. That figure is fiction, as we noted when he made the same claim Tuesday and on numerous previous occasions. Read more
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
Experts say cuts have hindered the response to DRC's Ebola outbreak and resulted in significant numbers' of deaths
One Lancet study estimated there would be 14 million deaths, including 4.5 million child deaths, if USAID were abolished entirely.
When Ro Khanna, a Democratic congressman from California, cited the study, Musk threatened to sue, and he doubled down on his claims that Doge did nothing wrong.
The Secret Service advised President Trump not to leave the NATO Summit in Turkey on the newer Qatari-gifted Air Force One, according to a Wednesday report. Sources familiar with the matter said the president flew out of Ankara on the older Air Force One out of an abundance of caution for a potential threat from Iran, although no threats were explicitly identified, The New York Times reported. The Secret Service referred The Hill to the president's Truth Social post made earlier in the day when asked about the assessment from officials. Trump wrote that the Qatari plane "was sent earlier to RAF Mildenhall, so we could show the wonderful Servicemembers, as per the entire Base's request." "They were very excited, picture enclosed. It was on our way back to the States from Turkey, with virtually no deviation of flightpath," he added.
The canceled USDA survey had tracked household food security for 30 years. The last report found 13.7% of US households were food insecure, a 10-year high. About 4.7 million people, or 11% of participants, have lost SNAP benefits since Trump cuts went into effect.
If a Democratic politician suggests a slight tax increase or says that, perhaps, the government should regulate certain matters so as to protect the health, safety, and well-being of Americans from demonstrable risks and harms, they are painted as Stalin 2.0 and the political press goes on a weeks-long jag about whether radical socialism is right for America. Meanwhile, Trump has opened up nationalized, price-controlled gas stations Read more
Worst-run USDOD in inter-galactic history, no doubt whatsoever
A park that President Donald Trump bragged that he had "renovated" for $16 million suddenly had its water turn a murky brown this week, the latest in a string of his D.C. beautification "disasters."
Meridian Hill Park " also known as Malcolm X Park " saw its iconic cascading fountain go from sparkling blue to a thick, opaque brown by Tuesday, just months after the National Park Service completed a full restoration.
The agency blamed sediment flushed from pipes that had been out of service for years.
Nairobi's 'Birdman' Rodgers Magutha rescues injured birds and lives with them, while defending his unusual bond with wildlife and conservation work.
Maybe someone from an embassy in Nairobi could get Rodgers Magutha this book
The longer the Ukraine war continues, the more Putin loses touch with reality. With the fuel crisis in Russia and the Crimea siege, Russians are unhappy with Putin more than ever before.
Recently Putin was interviewed by Russian TV about the fuel shortage, and it's one of the most embarrassing interviews he's ever done.
Let's react to Putin's cope and see why Russians are making fun of this interview.
At a US Border Patrol checkpoint in southern Texas, federal authorities arrested Luke David Brader (80) and Susan Brader (74) after discovering more than 345 pounds of cocaine inside a trailer they were towing.
Life imitates art
