How the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case.
Vietnamese villagers learn they are to be evicted. A convicted crypto kingpin in the Gulf receives a pardon. Read more
After Dummkopf Trumpf provided a $40 billion bailout package of hard-earned American taxpayer funds to rightwing Argentinian President Javier Milei, the failed libertarian formally launched the "Isaac Accords" on 29 Nov. This initiative is supposedly aimed at strengthening political, economic, security, and cultural cooperation between Israel and Latin America.
Corruption, lawlessness, and evil inside Trump's inner circle.
An alliance of active-duty and retired agents FBI agents issued a damning 115-page report branding the FBI a "rudderless ship" that is all f---- up' under the mismanagement of Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel. The dossier, A Pulse Check of the First Six Months of Kashyap Patel's leadership, will be presented to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees this week.
Less than two weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, President Joe Biden traveled to Israel and held Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an embrace. The image captured the solidarity Americans felt with Israelis after they suffered such horrific violence. It also symbolized a political and governing reflex within the Democratic Party. During the Biden presidency, it was shorthanded the "hug Bibi" strategy " the idea that smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions. Read more
The Old State Saloon in Eagle, a suburb of Boise, Idaho, is rewarding snitches who collaborate with ICE: "Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!" The small-town watering hole added that it "may award multiple months to one person if multiple illegals are deported."
Rixi Moncada, candidate of Honduras' ruling Liberty and Restructuring Party (LIBRE), won Sunday's presidential election. This is according to exit poll data from Poll HN, published on the LIBRE party's Facebook page. According to the table, Moncada received 38.06% of the vote. Salvador Nasralla of the center-right Liberal Party of Honduras is second with 32.40%. Nasri Asfura of the conservative National Party of Honduras is third with 23.38%.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday said he's invited the family of a National Guard member fatally shot last week to the White House, saying he spoke to her parents and they were "devastated." U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died after the Wednesday shooting in Washington, D.C., while her seriously injured colleague, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, remained in critical condition.
The letter congressional cowards will never send.
For a brief period, it looked like JaQuon Stembridge had a promising future within the Republican Party. He turned 19 this past July and was already the youngest member ever of the Georgia State GOP Executive Committee where he served as assistant secretary for the state convention. He was also the leader of the Georgia Teen Republicans. His rapid rise in state politics appears to have come to a quick end. He resigned just hours after a video was released online purporting to show him attempting to meet with a 14 year old boy from a dating app.
25,000 antifa volunteers converged on the western city of Giessen to protest the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany (AfD) which set up its new youth organization there, leading to clashes with police who deployed 5,000 officers to contain violence.
Using the Zohran Mamdani NYC mayoral win as a pretext to expand the police state in his jurisdiction, Nassau County Executive MAGA Bruce Blakeman is directing authorities to needlessly install hi-tech cameras and surveillance systems along the border with NYC.
David W. Chen talked to voters and Republican and Democratic activists in Hogansville, LaGrange and Valdosta, Ga., to unpack the recent elections for the Georgia Public Service Commission. Read more
The picture of weed shared by many older Americans, drawn from their own college years, helped ease the path of legalization. Weed, the mellow drug. The Cheech-and-Chong drug. The Grateful-Dead-road-trip drug. The munchies drug. The drug that, if anything, makes you overly cautious behind the wheel. Dowd thought of marijuana along similar lines " that is, until she tried the legalized stuff for herself and nearly lost her ever-loving mind. Since then, weed potency has only intensified, with some concentrates reaching near-pure levels of THC, the plant's primary psychoactive compound. Only now are policy makers and opinion elites reckoning with what Big Weed has wrought: "turning a drug that used to be 5% THC, and made people pass out for a few hours and eat Cheetos, into one that triggers psycho killers," as Kevin Sabet, a former drug adviser in successive Democratic and GOP administrations, tells me. Read more
Using maritime drones, Ukrainian special services attacked two oil tankers in Russia's shadow fleet in the Black Sea, rendering them both inoperable.
