The White House reversed its idiotic decision to withhold $187 million from the NYPD that would have devastated their intelligence and counterterrorism operations. NYS Governor Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and several Republican House members persuaded the Dotard-in-Chief to restore the funding. The cuts, which represented the largest federal defunding of police operations in NYC in decades, were made by S/DHS Kristi Noem without the approval of Dummkopf Trumpf. Governor Hochul had brutally denounced the cuts in a sharply worded statement: "A Republican administration literally defunding the police is the height of hypocrisy " and walking away from the fight against terrorism in the No. 1 terrorist target in America is utterly shocking." The NYS Governor also wrote a scathing letter to the underqualified Kristi Noem, accusing her of making "all of America more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Do not play games with this critical security funding," she warned. Read more
Hamas says it has agreed to release all remaining Israeli hostages, but asks for further negotiations on a number of issues outlined in the US' peace plan on Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is "preparing to immediately implement" the first phase of Donald Trump's plan. In a social media post, Trump says he believes Hamas is "ready for a lasting peace" as he urges Israel to "stop the bombing of Gaza" Read more
Donald Trump's Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem just tried to storm Chicago's City Hall " and instantly got a devastating surprise!
US President Donald Trump demanded Israel stop bombing Gaza "immediately" after Hamas said on Friday night it is willing to release all hostages in an effort to re-enter negotiations over Trump's deal to end the war in Gaza. Read more
President Trump is seizing on the government shutdown as an "unprecedented opportunity" to consolidate control in the Oval Office, accelerating a trend toward unchecked power.
The bottom line: Government shutdown or not, Trump has spent his presidency methodically erasing the independence of institutions that once served as checks on executive power.
Hamas has agreed to release all the remaining Israeli hostages but says it wants further negotiations on a number of key points outlined in the US peace plan.
In a statement, the group said it agreed "to release all Israeli prisoners, both living and dead, according to the exchange formula contained in President Trump's proposal" - if the proper conditions for the exchanges are met.
A giant cosmic mystery just got bigger. Astronomers have spotted the most distant and most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) ever recorded, deepening the puzzle of these rare celestial rings. Read more
Paramount Skydance is poised to name anti-Woke crusader Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Bari Weiss got her career started by trying to get college academics fired for criticizing Israel during the ongoing Gaza genocide. In the reshuffle of CBS News' decades-old management structure, Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison (41), the son of oligarch Larry Ellison. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison considers ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu amongst his closet friends. In 2017 Larry Ellison donated $16.6m to the IDF and the second wealthiest man on the planet vetted Empty Suit Marco Rubio for his fealty to Israel before his nomination to became USSECSTATE could move forward. There is already discussion of Dummkopf Trumpf appearing on CBS "60 Minutes" in what will no doubt be a softball interview from the once-respected news show. Read more
Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was allegedly hospitalized after being poisoned in a suspected assassination attempt in Moscow. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) claimed an informant advised them the former tyrant "had been poisoned," alleging that the murder plot was made "to embarrass the Russian government and accuse it of being complicit" in his death. The ex-dictator's condition is now said to be stable. His brother, Maher Assad was reportedly the only person allowed to visit him in hospital for security reasons. Al-Assad was reportedly released from the hospital following the alleged attack and the Kremlin has yet to comment on the report. The ousted dictator was granted political asylum in Russia, his former backers, where he fled to after being toppled ten months ago. Al-Assad has not been seen in public since, although he did post some messages on social media. Read more
Robert Morris, founder and former senior pastor of Gateway Church in Texas who served on President Donald Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board in 2016, pleaded guilty on Thursday to five felony counts of child sexual abuse. Morris, formerly of Gateway"one of the largest evangelical congregations in Texas"resigned from the church last year amid the accusations. The case marks a significant development in ongoing national discussions concerning abuse within religious organizations and the challenges survivors face in seeking justice. The guilty plea and sentencing of such a prominent religious figure cast a spotlight on the mechanisms of institutional accountability and the ongoing efforts to address sexual abuse in faith-based communities and beyond. In 2020, during a "Roundtable on Transition to Greatness" event in Texas, Trump mentioned Morris along with another pastor, calling them "great people."
Several world leaders made fun of President Donald Trump's boasts about ending a war between their countries. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was caught on video mocking the U.S. president Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at a European Political Community summit in Denmark, reported Politico. "You should make an apology ... to us because you didn't congratulate us on the peace deal that President Trump made between Albania and Azerbaijan," Rama told Macron in the video, and Aliyev burst out laughing. "I'm sorry for that," Macron replied, drawing more laughter from bystanders.
"Fireworks were spitting on the spaceship." Astronaut Chris Hadfield let the words hang as the room sat in darkness. On the twin screens flanking the stage, video from his space missions flickered, holding 250 people at the BMO Centre in Calgary in total silence. What looked like glitter outside the International Space Station was liquid ammonia, the coolant that kept the entire station from overheating. If the leak continued, the $150-billion laboratory would be lost.
The Pentagon issued several memos on Tuesday that outlined a broad range of personnel changes, instituting stricter grooming standards and gender-neutral standards for combat jobs. The memos follow a Tuesday address by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of senior military leadership at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., previewing the new policy changes for the military. "From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this war fighting," Defense Secretary Hegseth said. "Preparing for war and preparing to win, unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit. Not because we want war " no one here wants war " but it's because we love peace."
Robert Morris, the Texas megachurch pastor who built Gateway Church into one of the largest congregations in the country, pleaded guilty Thursday in Osage County District Court to charges that he sexually abused a girl in the 1980s. Morris, 64, entered the plea before Judge Cindy Pickerill, admitting to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. Under a negotiated plea agreement, he was given a ten-year sentence, but he will only serve six months in county jail. He must also be registered as a sex offender and pay $250,000 in restitution. Read more
President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal "armed conflict" with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and that suspected smugglers for such groups are "unlawful combatants," the administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week. The notice was sent to several congressional committees and obtained by The New York Times. It adds new detail to the administration's thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month, killing all 17 people aboard them, should be seen as lawful rather than murder.
Department of Education employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed a government shutdown on Democrats.
