House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican leader John Thune said Republicans would pursue a two-track strategy to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, days after Johnson had dismissed a Senate-passed stopgap bill as "a joke."
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James Farthing (51), who miraculously won Kentucky's $167 million Powerball lottery almost a year ago, has been arrested again, this time for burglary and possession of marijuana. In April 2025, Farthing was arrested in Florida on misdemeanor charges of battery and resisting an officer to which he pled guilty. The multimillionaire still has two active cases against him; one for a hit-and-run charge and the other for intimidation.
Latest strikes: A 10-year-old girl was seriously wounded after Iranian missile fragments hit central Israel, while the country was also intercepting a missile from Yemen. The US and Israel continue to bombard Iran's capital Tehran. And in Kuwait, the international airport's fuel depots were hit by an Iranian drone attack.
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Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility's procedures by combining roles before midnight, according to a document seen by Reuters.
With total air superiority established, The venerable B-52 is having its way.
San Diego is home to the largest US naval base on the West Coast " hosting Navy SEALs that could be used to seize key oil terminals on Kharg Island and free the Strait of Hormuz from Irans iron grip. But sombre soldiers have been putting Trump's strategic mission in jeopardy by mistaking an exotic dancer for their therapist. "Something I've noticed lately is all the military guys are coming in and they're spending all of their money," Daze says in he TikTok clip. "It's sad. They're kind of depressed ... They're like, Oh yeah, we're gonna have fun, we're getting deployed next week'."
Trump to provide important update' on Iran on Wednesday night, says White House White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has said that the US President will "give an Address to the Nation" on Wednesday night at 9 pm (0100 GMT on Thursday) which will "provide an important update on Iran." Leavitt made the announcement in a brief post on X without providing any further details.
Bryon Noem, the husband of former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, was accused on Tuesday of living a double life as a crossdresser obsessed with donning huge fake boobs and talking to fetish models online. In a jaw-dropping report published on Tuesday, Daily Mail chief investigate reporter Josh Boswell and senior reporter Ben Ashford published several photos of a man, identified by the newspaper as Noem, posing for the camera in large fake breasts and hotpants while pouting. The two reporters also spoke to several fetish models who claimed to have had an online relationship with Noem involving "bimbofication" " a kink centered around women becoming real life Barbie dolls with gigantic proportions. Read more
The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a bombshell new court filing states. Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk's murder at Utah Valley University on September 10. But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.' The defense team may now offer the ATF firearm analyst's testimony as exculpatory evidence, they said in a motion filed on Friday to push the preliminary hearing back at least six months, Fox News reports.
Members of the mob that stormed the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021 are suing the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in damages, claiming that the "indiscriminate" use of force by police officers repelling the attack caused them physical and emotional injuries.
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WASHINGTON " Lawyers for Rep. Eric Swalwell demanded Monday that FBI Director Kash Patel immediately end any effort to release records from a decade-old investigation involving the California Democrat and a suspected Chinese operative that resulted in no criminal charges. The cease-and-desist letter from the attorneys advises Patel that he would run afoul of both federal law and longstanding Justice Department policy if he moves forward with releasing records from the FBI's investigative file. It seeks a response from Patel within three days confirming that he will comply with the demand, and warns that any further effort to publicize the files will result in legal action. Read more
Apparently, a video creator has been visiting Walmart stores and testing the accuracy of pre-weighed items like meat and produce.
Ret. Centcom Commander on Iran: "I've simulated this many times in many positions; we're a little further along than we would expect to be at this point in all the simulations I've seen." "This is not back-of-the-envelope calculations. We've been working on this for many years."
