The Trumpf junta is lowering the recruitment standards for FBI agents. The bureau will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree. The FBI anticipates losing more than 5,000 employees by September, largely as a result of agents, analysts and others taking severance or early retirement packages offered by the Trumpf junta to reduce the budget. Instead of spending 18 weeks training at the rigorous FBI academy in Quantico, VA, the group of agents, tentatively scheduled to start in October, will receive eight weeks. The DEA, which trains their agents at Quantico as well, has a 20-week entry-level academy followed by a 16 weeks working alongside field agents.
After strong community opposition, including a county board meeting where dozens of people spoke against it, the Proud Boys billboard that was put up near a high school in Clinton County was removed Tuesday. A representative from Lamar Advertising's Collinsville office said the sign was taken down around noon. The company declined further comment. The Proud Boys have been labeled a hate or extremist group by multiple organizations and was tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, though the group has been quieter in recent years. Lamar Advertising declined to say who purchased the billboard.
Two Russian cruise missiles slammed into an American electronics factory in a remote corner of far western Ukraine before dawn Thursday, causing extensive damage and more than a dozen injuries, according to Ukrainian officials. The attack came as Russia carried out one of its largest airstrikes of the war, firing more than 570 drones and 40 missiles in an overnight barrage, according to the officials. In his post on the Telegram messaging app, Zelenskyy called it an "ordinary civilian enterprise, an American investment. They produced such familiar household items as coffee machines." The Ukrainian leader went on to say that the Russian military "delivered this strike as if nothing had changed at all. As if there were no efforts by the world to stop this war."
Erik Menendez was denied parole after making his bid for freedom before California's parole board. The younger of the two notorious Menendez brothers, who were both convicted in the 1989 shotgun murders of their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills, made his first plea before the parole board on Thursday morning. Read more
President Trump is once again demanding that Colorado officials "free" former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters from prison, this time adding a threat to "take harsh measures" if she is not let go.
Last October, a Colorado judge sentenced Peters to 8 years and six months in jail after a jury found her guilty on seven of 10 counts related to her role in tampering with county voting equipment after the 2020 election.
She faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
A New York appeals court has thrown out the half billion-dollar civil fraud judgment handed down last year against President Donald Trump, his family and his company. In a 323-page opinion, all five judges in the Appellate Division's First Department agreed that the half-billion-dollar penalty imposed on Trump should be thrown out.
Exclusive: Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say By Guy Faulconbridge August 21, 202511:18 AM EDT
A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump's use of a loophole to keep Alina Habba in place as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor.
Judge Frank Caprio, who starred for two seasons on the syndicated courtroom show Caught in Providence and became a social media star in clips displaying his compassion, kindness and empathy, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer, his family said. He was 88. Read more
Russia launched its largest drone and missile salvo on Ukraine in more than a month, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday, as Moscow accused Kyiv of not being interested in a "sustainable, fair and long-term settlement." Read more
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville totally lost it over the Minnesota Vikings adding a male cheerleader to their cheer-leading squad. He claimed that this was something that, while you might expect this from a socialistic Northern 'woke' Blue state like Minnesota, that you'd never see this taking place anywhere in the South.
Tuberville should have done a Google search before he went off on that rant during a recent podcast, as he would have learned that the New Orleans Saints, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Tennessee Titans have all had male cheerleaders for some time.
US President Donald Trump has backed down from setting high tariffs on pharmaceuticals and semiconductors imported from the European Union. Last month, Trump said pharmaceuticals and semiconductors were not covered by the US and EU's handshake trade deal - meaning those sectors could have faced tariffs rates of 250% and 100% respectively. However, according to new details released about the US-EU agreement on Thursday, EU pharma and semiconductor tariffs will be limited to 15% in line with most other sectors in the trade deal.
Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed some 8,900 militants in its attacks on Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare, a joint investigation finds.
James Dobson, the evangelical Christian broadcaster who waged war on homosexuality and championed "family values" in a long crusade that made him one of the nation's most influential leaders of the religious right, died on Thursday at his home in Colorado Springs. He was 89.
Progressives/Democrats jumped the gun on posting footage of this Mexican pedophile criminal being arrested. Hoping to get sympathy for their world view, footage was posted of the piece of filth screaming about his family while being arrested. But, since Trump has been elected, these scum have been put out of the nation, unlike when Biden was in office, when criminals like this were allowed to roam our streets. Good Bless Donald Trump!
Health officials in California identified a positive case of plague in a Lake Tahoe resident. El Dorado County officials said in a release that they have notified the California Department of Health that a resident from South Lake Tahoe has plague. The person is recovering at home and is receiving medical care, the El Dorado County release said. No other information about the person or the person's condition was released. Officials believe an infected flea bit the sick person, who was camping in the South Lake Tahoe area, the release said. Officials are investigating.
