Newly released e-mails from congress suggest that there are pictures of "Trump blowing Bubba" as Kompromat in the hands of Putin. Bubba is a well known nickname for Bill Clinton, who knew Epstein.
Swiss ministers are in Washington for talks aimed at slashing US President Donald Trump's steep 39% tariffs on Switzerland's exports to the US " the highest rate in Europe. Initial attempts by Swiss President Karin Keller Sutter to change Trump's mind fell on deaf ears. But a visit on 4 November by business leaders appears to have changed his mind. Read more
The pilots in a deadly business jet crash in Michigan were performing a test flight themselves, following repairs, instead of waiting for a test pilot, when the aircraft plunged into woods near Lansing, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Thursday. "The captain was provided with a list of experienced test pilots, for hire, to perform the post-maintenance stall test flight," the NTSB said in the report. "However, after being unable to coordinate the stall test flight with a test pilot, the flight crew elected to perform the post-maintenance stall test themselves." Read more
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is facing backlash after announcing plans to host members of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Washington next month. "Rep. Luna's decision to roll out the red carpet for members of a far-right, Holocaust revisionist, Putin-loving party is grotesque," said Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). Luna posted that she had met in D.C. with Anna Rathert, a member of Germany's Bundestag and part of the AfD's parliamentary group. "I look forward to hosting you all in DC in December!" Luna wrote. The American neo-Nazi had invited AfD co-leader Alice Weidel to Wash DC to meet with members of Congress. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on X: Neo-Nazis Tweeting. Luna recently backed Naomi Seibt, a far-right German influencer, in her US asylum bid and said she would personally raise her case with the State Department. Oligarch Larry Ellison may not approve of that. Read more
President Donald Trump mentioned political correctness, President Joe Biden and renaming Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery after laying a wreath for the holiday.
Some prominent conservative influencers sought to downplay newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein in which the convicted sex offender wrote that Donald Trump "knew about the girls," arguing the messages were part of a broader Democratic hoax targeting the U.S. president.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Each day, PBS programming fills the airwaves of Alabama Public Television with shows such as "Sesame Street," "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood," "Antiques Roadshow" and "PBS Newshour." Alabamians could lose access to those programs on state airwaves if the Alabama Educational Television Commission opts to become the first state network to sever ties with PBS. The Alabama commission last month discussed the possibility of dropping PBS and is expected to discuss the matter again its Nov. 18 meeting. The possibility comes after President Donald Trump and Congress in July withdrew funding for the nonprofit The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to public radio and television, and as some state commissioners accused PBS of being an unneeded expense or politically biased.
Pratt, a FedEx worker who dropped out of the Navy Seals, was sentenced four months after pleading guilty to two counts of concealing material support to a foreign terrorist organization in a case that developed after prosecutors accused him of unwittingly exchanging incriminating messages with an FBI informant. During those chats, Pratt said Americans "are savages. Like rabid dogs" and said he wanted to create a terrorist cell in Metro Detroit. Read more
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There's an investigation into a child sex trafficking ring, plus the US president and his deputy engage in some of the most disturbing scenes the show has ever put on screen. It's quite the episode
Google is hosting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials. ICE-spotting app developers tell 404 Media the decision to host CBP's new app, and Google's description of ICE officials as a vulnerable group in need of protection, shows that Google has made a choice on which side to support during the Trump administration's violent mass deportation effort.
Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from the genetic condition Kallmann Syndrome, researchers and documentary makers said Thursday, following DNA testing of the Nazi dictator's blood. According to the Cleveland Clinic in the U.S., the syndrome can "disrupt the process that drives puberty" and manifest in symptoms that include undescended testicles and a micropenis. The research also quashes the suggestion that Hitler had Jewish ancestry, the researcher say.
Nick Fuentes claimed on X that "MAGA is dead," a cryptic tweet that followed a long day of bad news for Trump and the MAGA base. Earlier in the day, Democrats released a series of damaging emails between disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, that implicated Trump. The emails caused a rift between Trump and Republicans, with one analyst saying it may make the party's support for Trump "unsustainable" going forward. Fuentes is a well-known white supremacist whom right-wing provocateur Tucker Carlson recently interviewed on his eponymous podcast. The episode generated a lot of backlash from conservatives and appeared to cause a rift in the GOP.
Despite President Trump's waves of pardons for allies and supporters who sought to overturn his 2020 election loss and his clemency for all Capitol riot defendants, at least one federal case with tethers to the 2020 election still lingered. Now, a federal judge in Houston has sentenced Abigail Shry to 27 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, after she pleaded guilty to phoning a vulgar, violent and racist threat to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in August 2023. The threat was made hours after Chutkan was assigned to oversee Mr. Trump's criminal case for allegedly conspiring to overturn his 2020 loss, of which Jan. 6 was a component. In court Wednesday before Judge Keith Ellison, Shry apologized to anyone who was subjected to hearing her "abhorrent" voicemail, saying that it "was not and is not reflective of my character or beliefs."
A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reveals that the percentage of incoming students scoring below Algebra 1 on placement exams"a math course typically completed by the end of eighth grade"has tripled over the past five years. Read more
The Milan Attorney General's Office has opened an investigation into a chilling case that recalls the infamous Sniper Alley of Sarajevo " the city besieged from 1992 to 1996 by Serb-Bosnian militias during the Bosnian War. From the surrounding hills, they shot at passersby who had no choice but to cross that street and expose themselves to being killed. It is estimated that more than 11,000 civilians were murdered in this way. The investigation, revealed by Italian media, concerns an alleged crime of intentional homicide aggravated by cruelty and vile motives. Its central thesis is that some Italians paid to go to Sarajevo for the weekend and shoot at people, as if it were a hunting trip. Ordinary citizens, with ties to far-right circles and passionate about weapons, allegedly hired this service as a kind of human safari in the besieged city.
