"About 6 and a half years ago, on August 21st of 2019, Donald Trump made a short remark that people still talk about to this day. While discussing trade actions against China, he said "I am the chosen one" while looking up to heaven.
Almost immediately there were two reactions.
The first being that he was simply making a point about how the difficult task of dealing with China landed on his lap.
The other reaction, of course, was from those who thought Trump really WAS claiming to be the chosen one.
Personally, I always thought his comment sounded more like mockery " almost as if he was being sarcastic about the idea of there even being any "chosen one", but that's just me." Read more
Colombia President Gustavo Petro has accused Ecuador of bombing targets inside his territory after the burned remains of 27 people had been found near the border.
Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Chavez, who died in 1993, groomed and sexually abused young girls whose parents worked in the movement during the 1970s. The activist Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with Chavez, also told the Times that Chavez sexually assaulted her when she was an adult. Hours after she learned that Csar Chavez, the iconic Latino farm labor activist, had been accused of sexually assaulting girls in the movement he led, Austin city council member Vanessa Fuentes began hearing from constituents demanding the city rename Csar Chavez Street.
Things got crazy awkward during an Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, when a reporter asked Trump why he hadn't warned Japan before attacking Iran. "One thing, you don't want to signal too much," Trump said. "Who knows better about surprise than Japan, okay? Hey, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" Read more
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investigating thirteen states under a federal health care conscience law -- the Weldon Amendment-- based on information that the states are allegedly coercing health care entities to provide coverage of, or pay for, abortion contrary to conscience.
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The latest World Happiness Report 2026 says that heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said early Thursday that the U.S. may lift sanctions on Iranian oil that is already in transit amid rising energy prices resulting from the ongoing U.S. military operation in the Middle East.
Ben says he was held in custody for about three hours. Before his release, officers photographed and fingerprinted him. Then, before Ben realized fully what was happening, an officer ran a swab, similar to a Q-tip, along the inside of his cheek.
"It was super casual," Ben says. "It was just like, 'okay, yeah so we're going to take this now.
Job creation in the US has slowed to essentially zero, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday as the Fed released its latest economic projections, which included slightly higher economic growth than previously projected and little change to the unemployment rate.
Iran wildly attacked their neighbors energy sites. Read more
The lawsuit was filed by several Adams County sheriff's deputies after a raid on the rapper's house and a song he wrote afterward called "Lemon Pound Cake. The song's video used surveillance footage from the raid. The jury ruled in favor of Afroman and against the deputies on Wednesday. Read more
As if wearing a campaign hat through a dignified transfer ceremony wasn't bad enough, Donald Trump is using an image from the ceremony to solicit funds. Trump sent an email through a fundraising PAC that shows Trump wearing the hat he sells as the coffin of a soldier who died in Trump's illegal war with Iran passes in front of him.
Episcopalian pastor Rev. Stephanie L. Remington was suspended by her superiors in Kansas after they learned she reportedly worked as Jeffrey Epstein's administrative assistant and temporary property manager of his private island, Little Saint James, from August 2018 to May 2019, just before his July arrest for sex trafficking.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday widened its efforts to stamp out Medicaid fraud, at least in its fifth state this year, calling on Florida officials to share information on how they identify, prevent, and address bad actors in their state program. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, had previously sent similar requests to New York, Minnesota, Maine, and California in what has been a growing, Trump administration-wide initiative to crack down on fraud, waste, and abuse.
A video on social media shows the dancing robot knocking over tableware, smashing plates, and sending chopsticks flying. An orange apron the robot is wearing reads "I'm good" in big letters across the front, perfectly adding to the chaotic scene. Staffers at the restaurant were forced to intervene. One employee can be seen holding the robot by the scruff of its neck while navigating her phone, presumably searching the bot's app for controls. In the end, it took three workers to restrain the robot, who were all forced to duck periodically to avoid being smacked by its waving and sauce-covered hands. Read more
