An Israeli air attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded several, while the IDF shot a child and an Al Jazeera journalist in the occupied West Bank, wounding both of them.
We really are behind on healthcare in America. in El Salvador the government is no longer issuing birth certificates without a dna test proving who the father is.
A Flagler County woman has launched a campaign to carve out barrier islands stretching from St. Augustine to Ponce Inlet and rename the area Trump County. Jen Herold, 40, of The Hammock, has begun a petition campaign, accompanied by a podcast, YouTube videos and a social-media drive, to lay out her argument why Florida should have a 68th county.
In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats. Read more
A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of assaulting a Long Beach police officer died of an overdose weeks later at his parents' Riverside County home, the Long Beach Post reported. According to the newspaper, Isaiah Hodgson's attorney told a Long Beach Superior Court judge that Hodgson died in August. The body of Hodgson, 29, was found around 12:45 p.m. Aug. 22 when deputies responded to a home in the 25000 block of Avocet Circle in an unincorporated area near Hemet, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Hodgson was reportedly one of the agents involved in an immigration raid in June in Pico Rivera in which Adrian Martinez -- a 20-year-old U.S. citizen - was detained, according to Martinez's lawyer. Hodgson was also charged with assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest for a July 7 incident at the Shoreline Village parking lot
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So far, more than 100 federal court judges have ruled against the Trump administration in hundreds of lawsuits filed by states, unions, nonprofit organizations and individuals. While some of these rulings are fairly grounded in the Constitution, federal law, and precedent, many are expressions of primal rage from judges offended by the administration, and moving at breakneck speed to stop it. According to a Politico analysis, 87 of 114 federal judges who ruled against the administration were appointed by Democrat presidents, and 27 by Republicans. Most of the lawsuits were filed in just a few districts, with repeat activist judges leading the opposition.
Dismissing the swashbuckling sci-fi romp as "a total hoax" amid growing scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump made remarks Tuesday denying that he had written a 36-volume comic titled Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles. Obtained last month by the House committee investigating the late financier and child sex trafficker, the Time Pedophiles saga depicts Trump and Epstein journeying through various historical eras aboard Epstein's Chronolita Express time machine, taking on Edo-period samurai, ancient Roman legionaries, and Wild West gunslingers in their never-ending quest for underage sexual partners. Read more
WASHINGTON " The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 31-year-old Akhror Bozorov, a criminal illegal alien from Uzbekistan wanted in his origin country for belonging to a terrorist organization. Uzbekistan authorities issued an arrest warrant for Bozorov in 2022 for being a member of a terrorist organization. He is accused of distributing terrorist propaganda calling for jihad online and recruiting terrorists to join the jihad movement. Read more
As we and others have pointed out multiple times, many of the Black and Latino voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024 are starting to regret it big time. The elections earlier this month are showing this clearly, as more data are being analyzed. Here is a comparison of election results in New Jersey showing the shift in 2024 (Biden to Trump voters) and 2025 (Trump to Mikie Sherrill voters).
YouGov runs approval polls of the president weekly. These provide lots of data for comparison purposes. One analysis, by G. Elliott Morris, is of Donald Trump's approval in Trump v.2.0 vs. Trump v1.0 among independents, the only group that could swing substantially in an election. Here are the data:
SB&D is reporting that economic development project activity in the American South, the world's third largest economy, is at the lowest mid-year point of any year since the SB&D 100 ranking was established in 1994. Deal activity in the region so far in 2025 is slower than any period during the COVID years of 2020 and 2021, as well as all years during the Great Recession from 2007-2010. (See data and 30-plus year history of the SB&D 100 below.) These numbers are also worse than any recession I have covered since 1983. So, in short, the worst we have ever seen, even if technically the U.S. is not in recession. And if deals are cratering like this in the South, the most desired economic development region in North America, then they are much worse in the Midwest, West and the Northeast. SB&D does not cover economic development in those U.S. regions.
Community cohesion refers to the strength of relationships and solidarity among community members. In everyday life, it's about community members having a sense of trust and belonging and believing that neighbors will show up for one another. This study asked rural Americans how they experience their communities across seven different dimensions of cohesion, including feelings of support and connection and openness to diverse perspectives. Based on their answers, rural Americans were grouped into three categories: low (20%), moderate (63%) or high (17%) sense of community cohesion. Overall, most rural Americans report strong feelings of support (82%) and pride (81%) in their communities. About two-thirds also feel emotionally connected (68%), able to collaborate with others (67%), free to express their opinions (65%) and valued (65%). Read more
President Trump said he would likely sue the BBC for up to $5 billion after the broadcaster acknowledged it wrongly edited a video of his speech on January 6, 2021, splicing together two comments that were made about an hour apart from each other.
MAGA influencer Laura Loomer is under fire Sunday ...
A nervous-looking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to CNN Sunday for her first interview since her falling out with President Donald Trump and strongly suggested that the Israeli government may be "pushing to keep" files on Jeffrey Epstein "covered up."
Greene was asked by CNN's Dana Bash about a social media post she had shared on Saturday in which she alleged that lobbying from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, was the reason Trump had attacked her, and openly questioned "what country is putting so much pressure on him."
"I think it's a question that many Americans are asking, especially when we saw information recently come out in these emails that the Oversight Committee " that I serve on " has released," Greene said.
