Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, the unwavering Democrat who has repeatedly won in Trump country, says some in his party need to talk more like "normal human beings." Too often, he said, he hears "advocacy speak" from Democrats, saying things like "substance-use disorder" instead of addiction, "food insecurity" instead of hunger and "justice-involved population" instead of inmates. Read more
President Donald Trump abruptly ordered the airspace closed above and around Venezuela on Saturday, further escalating tensions between the U.S. president and Venezuelan dictator Nicols Maduro, whom the White House accuses of working with narco-terrorist organizations to facilitate drug trafficking. "To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY," the president wrote on Truth Social Saturday morning.
Five local rabbis are among the more than 400 New Yorkers tapped for NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition committees, the teams tasked with preparing his much-anticipated administration which begins on 1 Jan 2026.
Israel's far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declared that "terrorists must die" after the IDF summarily executed two unarmed surrendering Palestinian fighters which was captured on video.
At least, in today's terms, we know who's the more racist.
There's an enormous disconnect between what parents think public schools do and what the system actually supports. People believe schools exist to educate kids. They don't. They do this by employing people who will vote as a bloc to ensure their continued employment and, thus, the system's growth. Read more
US President Donald Trump has said that he will pardon the ex-president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernndez, who was convicted of drug trafficking charges in a US court last year. Trump made the announcement in a Truth Social post on Friday, congratulating the former president on the pardon, saying he was "treated very harshly and unfairly". Hernndez was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. In the same post, Trump also said he supported conservative candidate Tito Asfura in the upcoming general election in the Central American country on Sunday.
Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet, threatening upheaval during the busiest travel weekend of the year in the United States and sparking disruption worldwide. Read more
Washington " President Trump said Friday he is canceling all orders signed by former President Joe Biden using an autopen, a mechanical device that reproduces signatures. "Any document signed" by Biden via the use of an autopen "is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally," Mr. Trump said. "Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury."
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans
Little River Band - Light of Day
How To Dress Well - Contingency/Necessity
Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) released imagery of what they discovered from the recent MRI brain scan they conducted on the 47th President of the United States.
French President Emmanuel Macron plans to introduce ten-months military service among 18- and 19-year-olds to help France respond to accelerating threats.'
Shocking to no one that's been paying attention. I've been saying foreign bot farm accounts have been active on social media including this site, for years. Read more
Four fire and rescue employees have been arrested in connection with the alleged "violent" hazing of a firefighter at a Florida fire station, authorities said Wednesday.
Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs with no front plates and pressed her for her ID. Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in "Northern Exposure," "Smoke Signals," "Wyvern" and "The Last of Us," handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. Federal government agencies recognize tribal ID as a valid form of identification, and Miles has used it to travel back and forth to Canada and Mexico without any issues. Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it "fake." "Anyone can make that," she recalled another agent saying.
Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.
