A woman who worked for Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew has been charged after allegedly staging a bizarre fake crime where she paid someone to assault her and write "TRUMP WHORE" on her own zip-tied body. Read more
A freshman member of Congress dumped up to $130,000 worth of stock in providers that serve Medicaid beneficiaries in the week before voting for President Donald Trump's tax cut megabill that slashed over $1 trillion from the public health program, NBC News reported on Thursday. According to the report, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA), who has rapidly become one of the most frequent stock traders on Capitol Hill, "offloaded up to $130,000 worth of stock in Centene, Elevance Health, UnitedHealth and CVS Health on May 15, the periodic transaction reports he filed with the House clerk in June show. Taken together, those four companies oversee roughly half of all Medicaid managed care organizations, according to KFF, a health policy research organization."
President Donald Trump suggested that six Democratic lawmakers who put out a video urging military members to "refuse illegal orders" were guilty of "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!' in a stunning Thursday morning Truth Social post. Read more
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract, federal prosecutors said. A portion of the money was then funneled to support her campaign through candidate contributions, prosecutors allege.
Jimmy Kimmel's wife, Molly McNearney, has alienated herself from her Trump supporting relatives who send her "truly insane" replies to her emails, underscoring the depth of the divide and the futility of her efforts to sway their opinions. Of course, she sees nothing insane about her feeling entitled to force her opinions on everyone else. Read more
After months of derisive and ineffective political attacks on Zohran Mamdani, President Dummkopf Trumpf invited the popular NYC Mayor-elect to the White House for a meeting to be held on Friday, 21 Nov.
"The super creepy The World Ahead 2026' magazine cover published by The Economist shows they expect war, pestilence, and financial collapse in 2026."
The House voted to overturn a controversial provision approved in the spending package to reopen the government last week, but Republican leaders in the Senate are slow-walking a commitment to fully repeal the measure.
Since early July, telescopes around the world have been tracking just our third confirmed interstellar visitor, the comet 3I/ATLAS--3I, for third interstellar, and ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) for the telescope network that first spotted it.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The hearing Wednesday morning in the case against former FBI Director James Comey ended with a revelation by prosecutors and a conundrum: if a full grand jury never reviewed the final set of charges handed up against Comey, are they void? The question arose after a shocking back and forth where prosecutors conceded that instead of presenting a new indictment to the grand jury after it declined to approve one of three counts, interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan simply brought an altered version, omitting the rejected count, to the magistrate's courtroom for the grand jury's foreperson to sign. Read more
The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus, but its agenda has been quickly overtaken by a sudden flurry of censures, reprimands and the investigation of members, leaving little bandwidth for legislating.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. This designation authorizes heightened enforcement against both organizations and their affiliates and prohibits them from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas
Alter Terra, a binational environmental group, set up the boom in the Tijuana River channel, and it only took one hour to collect all that trash. Initial estimates put the amount at 20 tons, but as trucks started hauling it out, the group later determined that as much as 40 tons of trash was collected during that one-hour rain event. Read more
Jessica Tisch, the current head of the New York Police Department, agreed to serve in Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's administration despite differences in their approaches to policing.
Last month, a DoorDash driver in upstate New York delivered an item to a local house in Oswego[,NY] -- only to find the front door open and a man apparently unconscious or asleep on a couch in the front room. The man was also quite naked, with pants and underwear around his ankles, and he was fully visible from the porch.
