Paleontologists working at the Genoveva quarry in the province of Napo, Ecuador, discovered the oldest amber samples in South America, dating back to the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs still roamed the planet.
In an extraordinary breach of protocol and professional ethics, a New York Police Department detective has been suspended without pay following an audacious attempt to infiltrate the prestigious Ryder Cup golf tournament by impersonating a member of former President Donald Trump's security detail. The incident, which occurred at Bethpage Black on Long Island last Friday, has raised serious questions about security vulnerabilities at high-profile events attended by former presidents and other dignitaries. Detective Melvin Eng, who was reportedly on sick leave at the time, arrived at the golf course fully equipped with tactical gear, successfully bypassing multiple layers of security including Secret Service agents and state police officers who were legitimately tasked with ensuring safety at the event. Read more
The Pope's no dope " at least when it comes to calling out MAGA's hypocrisy. Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly criticized President Donald Trump's cruel immigration policies and their supporters by suggesting that they don't seem very "pro-life."
"Someone who says I'm against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life," Leo said. "
Someone who says that I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life."
French soldiers have boarded an oil tanker believed to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet", used to evade sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine.
The Boracay left Russia last month and was off the coast of Denmark when unidentified drones forced the temporary closure of several airports last week.
It has been anchored off western France for a few days. French President Emmanuel Macron said at an EU leaders' summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday that the crew had committed "serious offences", but did not elaborate.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's convocation of hundreds of generals and admirals today turned out to be, in the main, a nothingburger...
All in all, an utterly embarrassing address. But that wasn't the worst of it. The assembled military leaders likely already knew that Hegseth is unqualified for his job, and they could mostly tune out the sloganeering that Hegseth, a former TV host, was probably aiming more at Fox News and the White House than at the military itself. What they could not ignore, however, was the spectacle that President Donald Trump put on when he spoke after Hegseth.
Without explanation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration has reverted from using the disease name "mpox" to the obsolete "monkeypox," which the world abandoned in 2022 because it was seen as racist and stigmatizing.
One of MAGA's most outspoken proponents is turning on the White House over its handling of the Epstein files. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene"a longtime ally of the president and a standout feature of his sweeping national ideology"was reportedly infuriated by the Trump administration's hostility toward legislation supporting the unfettered release of the files. But it was a direct threat from the White House over her own support for their release that prompted her to phone a West Wing official. "I told them, You didn't get me elected. I do not work for you; I work for my district,'" Greene recalled to The New York Times. "We aren't supposed to just be whipped on our votes because they're telling us what to do ... or saying, We'll primary you,' or that we won't get invited to the White House events." Read more
On Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump addressed the top brass at Quantico in a ceremony billed as a revival of the "warrior ethos." At first glance, it looked like a routine reaffirmation of courage, discipline, and commitment. But the optics -- and the context -- revealed something far more calculated: a staged, made-for-TV performance of personal loyalty, designed for Fox News viewers rather than the men and women in uniform.
Nearly two-thirds of American voters say that the Democrats in Congress shouldn't force a federal government shutdown if their demands are not met, according to a new national poll.
President Trump and defense chief Hegseth delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admirals. Decrying "the insane fallacy that diversity is our strength", Hegseth said he had chosen to fire previous generals because they had been personally invested in progressive ideas about diversity. Trump followed with a meandering stump speech that echoed past jibes at his predecessor and self promotion. New was a virtual declaration of war on his targeted cities.
Senior junta members are pushing Dummkopf Trump to oust Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro from power. Sycophantic USSECSTATE Marco Rubio and other cabalists are formulating a broad campaign of US military pressure to force Maduro out. The vapid Marco Rubio is shaping an aggressive strategy, using intelligence provided by the CIA, bleating that Mr. Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to the US. The Empty Suit in charge of the DoS alleges these drugs pose an "imminent threat," but drugs amounts smuggled to the US from Venezuela are marginal. The Trump junta deployed an armada of ships and 6,500 troops to the region, including ten F-35 Stealth fighters to Puerto Rico. The US task force launched illegal lethal attacks on civilian boats allegedly carrying drugs, ensuring that no survivors were left for interrogation or prosecution. The nefarious Trumpf junta also offered a 'Wild West-style' bounty of $50m for Nicolas Maduro. Read more
The US government cannot constitutionally keep people from carrying guns in and around post offices, Texas USDJ Reed O'Connor ruled Tuesday, finding that such restrictions lack a historical basis. Cited the SCOTUS 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which set a new standard for Second Amendment cases whereby gun restrictions have to be "consistent with this nation's historical tradition" in order to be constitutional. Judge O'Connor found that although mail carriers and post offices have faced threats since its founding, the government only banned firearm possession on postal property a little over 50 years ago. Read more
he man known for the Peanut Punch has punched out for the last time at the FBI. Former Bears cornerback Charles "Peanut" Tillman recently told The Pivot Podcast that he has resigned from the Bureau. He had joined the FBI in 2018. What did he disagree with? "Immigration," Tillman said. "I didn't agree with how the administration came in and tried to make individuals do things against their " it just didn't sit right. An example being immigration, right? Everybody was told it's " you're gonna go after like the most dangerous criminals. But what you see on TV and what actually was happening is, like, people weren't going after that, you know, and personally, that didn't sit right with me. That didn't sit right with my conscience." "I want to be on the right side of history when it's all said and done," Tillman said.
Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) almost certainly did not mean it when he said Democrats and Republicans should come together to "stop attacking pedophiles" " with the congressman making the unfortunate remark during a Senate hearing on Tuesday morning. "Sen. Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that's a great idea " we should have bipartisan agreement," Cruz said. "How about we all come together and say Let's stop murders.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop rape.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop attacking pedophiles."
The new H-1B visa fee to sponsor workers in the US will create a multi-billion-dollar annual burden for the tech industry and likely drive tech innovation shifts to India, Eastern Europe and Latin America as companies redirect investments, according to new research.
A new paper in the journal Nature reveals an astonishing -- and frankly unsettling -- feature of some cancer cells: the ability to physically inject mitochondria into their neighboring cells. These mitochondria are shown to reprogram the targeted cells by modulating the expression of certain genes, thus turning these victim cells into cancer-supporting cells that greatly increase the rate of tumor formation.
