Anger over illegal migration helped return Mr. Trump to the presidency, and he has enacted even more aggressive policies than those Mr. Biden first campaigned against. Mr. Trump has drawn outrage from Democrats by sending masked agents to target immigrants, often aided by National Guard soldiers. But a New York Times examination of Mr. Biden's record found that he and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster, and eased what became a potent issue for Mr. Trump as he sought to return to the White House and justify the aggressive tactics roiling American cities today. Read more
President Trump on Saturday offered more insight into his decision to pardon former Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife Imelda, who were both indicted last year on bribery charges, but criticized the former congressman for opting to run as a Democrat in 2026.
Self-serving hillbilly millionaire VPOTUS JD Vance publicly related this anecdote with his wife Usha shamelessly chuckling beside him. In the Oval Office, Dummkopf Trumpf had asked Marco [Rubio], what's your shoe size?' And Marco's apparently an 11 and a half. He says, JD, what's your shoe size?' My shoe size is 13. I asked this politician, who I won't embarrass, what his shoe size is, and he says, Seven.' "The president leans back in his chair and says, You know, you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.' JD Vance bleats: "We won't ask the Second Lady for comment on that particular topic."
Yeah, I've posted a couple three tunes this evening/night. So I decided to start up a thread ... No theme or topic in the tunes. Just whatever floats yer boat ...
Breakthroughs in cell and gene therapy have opened the door to life-changing treatment for people with sickle cell disease. Yet few patients know these treatments exist, and even fewer can access them due to the seven-figure price tag.
Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) -- The United States will reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific, and possibly reassess its relationship with Europe, President Donald Trump said on Friday in a sweeping strategy document that seeks to reframe the country's role in the world. The National Security Strategy, released overnight, described Trump's vision as one of "flexible realism" and argued that the U.S. should revive the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which declared the Western Hemisphere to be Washington's zone of influence. It also warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" and must change course.
Rubio: Here's the problem with vetting people. You can't have a perfect vet no matter who that person is, for a couple reasons. The first is we don't -- you can only vet information that exists, right? So it is possible that in many cases there are things about these people you just don't know. No matter how much you vet them, you just don't have certain information. And in some parts of the world where there's very limited documentation, very limited, you can't just go out and interview people in many cases because of the presence of the Taliban, et cetera. It becomes very difficult. Read more
the little horror gets a fake peace prize, too
The DODIG report is 65 pages long and mildly redacted.
Thanksgiving travelers were surprised last week when Airbus grounded roughly six thousand A320-family jets for an urgent software rollback. The cause of the delay? Fears of radiation from cosmic rays and solar storms.
Outgoing Islamophobic sore loser NYC Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order barring NYC from making business or pension investment decisions that discriminate against Israel to continue sabotaging the popular NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani who wants to divest NYC funds from the ethnic cleansing Pariah nation, which would include an NYPD contract worth $567,000 with Tel Aviv-based Terrogence Global.
... What if he didn't really change"what if the bureaucrats changed him? That's the puzzle piece America and the Trump administration are examining right now. Biden's hard turn left after taking office arrived without an external shock. Which invites a different reading, one that might sound cynical in any other era. Maybe the shift that began with a stack of pardon certificates wasn't evolution. Maybe it was a revolution by the people who held the pen
Staged just a mile from the White House, Friday's World Cup draw will have a distinctly political feel. The glittering ceremony will take place at the Kennedy Center, the famous Washington arts venue now chaired by US President Donald Trump after he overhauled its board this year. Proceedings, however, seem to have been planned with the US president very much in mind. Read more
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of telling "blatant lies" to write her postcampaign memoir "107 Days" and "cover her a"," according to a profile about the governor published in The Atlantic on Wednesday. Reporter Tim Alberta described Shapiro as "between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts" about him from Harris's book. She accused Shapiro of taking over the conversation when he was interviewed to be her running mate, allegedly insisting on being "in the room for every decision," Alberta wrote.
