Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war
Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge. Read more
The United States "conducted a lethal strike" against an alleged "drug vessel" in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. "As @potus just announced moments ago, today the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization," Rubio said in a post on X after President Donald Trump referenced the incident in Oval Office remarks.
The South Side of Chicago is a war zone. In 2023, the city recorded 617 homicides and more than 2,000 shootings, with neighborhoods like Englewood and Woodlawn hit the hardest. Just a few weeks ago, I stood over the body of a man who had been shot dead. Hundreds of young souls will be killed by year's end. So I was not surprised when President Donald Trump said, "Chicago's a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we'll straighten that one out probably next." After all, the government's first responsibility is to protect its citizens. When endless violence continues to plague the lives of people around me, action is needed.
Trump said he'd love to have Pritzker call and say, "Send in the troops" " even though the governor has repeatedly said he won't be doing that. "If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it," Trump said. "Now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it."
Graham Greene, the prolific Oscar-nominated Canadian First Nations actor and Hollywood trailblazer, has died aged 73 in a Toronto hospital after a long illness. Greene's Hollywood breakthrough came when Kevin Costner cast him as real-life Lakota Sioux medicine man Kicking Bird (Zitk Nagwka) in his Academy Award-winning 1990 western Dances with Wolves. Greene's performance landed him an Academy Award nomination and launched his Hollywood career, which included roles in Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999) and The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009). Read more
President Donald Trump's original 50-day deadline he gave Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war he started in Ukraine has expired, with no end in sight to the fighting. On July 14, the U.S. president threatened "secondary tariffs" on Russia if Putin did not agree to a deal to end the war in the 50-day timeframe which has just ended. Since then, Trump revised down the deadline to 10-12 days and there has been a meeting between the U.S. and Russian leaders in Alaska. However, the White House has not announced any economic measures to punish Putin directly linked to not meeting the deadline. Yuriy Boyechko, CEO of Hope for Ukraine, which supports frontline communities caught up in the war, told Newsweek Tuesday that Trump's deadline had "produced no progress toward peace." Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment.
To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic.
One person is dead and three others were injured following a mid-air collision involving two small planes at Fort Morgan Municipal Airport on Sunday morning, according to the Morgan County Sheriff's Office.
Morgan County Undersheriff Jon Horton said four people were involved"two people in a Cessna 172 and two people in an Extra EA 300.
Both planes were attempting to land at the small Morgan County airport around 10:40 a.m.
"Expect the discharge petition standoff to come to a head this week. Rep. Thomas Massie said he and Rep. Ro Khanna will start the process of forcing a vote immediately' now that lawmakers are back." Said Massie: "This has not gone away like the speaker had hoped. If anything, now that the DOJ is releasing documents, it's increasing the momentum." "Rep. Riley Moore, a West Virginia Republican, indicated over recess that he will support the discharge petition, adding to Massie's confidence that they can gather the necessary 218 signatures. The GOP dissent threatens Speaker Mike Johnson's control over the House as the shutdown deadline approaches."
In every one of the 30 states that track party registration, Democrats have lost ground to Republicans " roughly 4.5 million voters net between 2020 and 2024. You can blame maps, turnout or disinformation " but you also have to look inward. Here's the hard truth: our candidates are often good. Our brand is not. Protest has turned into a kind of performance art. The louder we got, the fewer people felt welcome. Men found podcasts that told them they still had value. Disaffected young people found movements that offered them belonging without requiring a language test. Meanwhile, we just kept offering more outrage " mainly at each other.
White supremacists who attacked Our Nation's capitol on 6 Jan 2021 in an attempted putsch now brazenly want compensation for what they incorrectly believe were unfair prosecutions. An idiotic proposal was put forward by a lawyer for the seditionists, effectively designating those who stormed the building, viciously injured police officers, terrorized members of Congress, and threatened to hang VPOTUS Mike Pence, as victims deserving of reparations from the government. Dummkopf Trumpf granted clemency to those who had committed crimes during the infamous assault on the Capitol. In the subsequent months, the Trumpf junta dismissed many federal agents and AUSAs who had worked to hold the terrorists accountable. Even though the white supremacists are free and the AUSAs and FBI agents who investigated them were punished enough, these insurrectionists now want financial restitution for their offenses. Read more
The spontaneous coalescence of the molecules that led to life on primordial Earth, some 4 billion years ago, may have finally been observed in a laboratory. Replicating the likely conditions of our newborn planet, chemists have joined together RNA and amino acids " the crucial first step that would eventually lead to the proliferation of living organisms that crawl all over Earth today. The experimental work could yield important clues about the origins of one of the most important biological relationships: the one between nucleic acids and proteins.
He sure has cheapened that award hasn't he??
The navigation system of a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted due to suspected Russian interference, the European Commission has said. A spokesperson said the "GPS jamming" happened while the Commission president was about to arrive in southern Bulgaria on Sunday, but she still landed safely. They added: "We have received information from the Bulgarian authorities that they suspect that this was due to blatant interference by Russia." Russia tried to assassinate the President of European Commission by jamming her plane while landing. If Putin wants to play stupid games, he must be given the prize he deserves. So far Europe has ignored the issue as to not give Russia the attention it wants and to quietly prevent themselves from reacting to this significant escalation by the Kremlin.
"From the viewpoint of American workers, there have been better Labor Days. Donald Trump chose to celebrate this year's edition by announcing last Thursday his unilateral abrogation of the federal government's contracts with the unions that represent the scientists, engineers, and other staffers at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (which includes the National Weather Service), the Patent Office, and the International Trade Administration. This follows his earlier contract terminations with the unions that According to a study from the Center for American Progress (CAP), these Trump-imposed contract nullifications have cost 81.8 percent of civilian federal workers their right to collectively bargain"and that study came out before last Thursday's new round of government fuck-you's to its workers.
He's brazenly anti-worker'
Advocates say Trump has hurt workers in many ways, often by cutting their pay or making their jobs more dangerous
