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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Until recently, the civil rights group was a partner to the FBI, providing critical information about extremists, including white supremacists, operating in the U.S.


It was almost exactly this time 20 years ago that the bottom began to fall out on George W. Bush's approval ratings.


Trump 'tried to use nuclear codes but was stopped by military chief' Report: Claims Trump was denied access to nuclear codes at an emergency White House meeting; Read more


President Donald Trump's erratic moves aren't helping. The Iran war is damaging America's influence around the world and exacerbating tensions with countries already whipsawed by President Donald Trump's second term -- an erosion of power that could be tough to reverse as U.S. adversaries such as China take advantage.


Palantir's manifesto' has been described as an AI-driven threat to humanity's existence' and technofascism'.


Results Gender-referred adolescents showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls both before (45.7% vs. 15.0%) and 2years after referral (61.7% vs. 14.6%). Those referred after 2010 had greater psychiatric needs than earlier cohorts, both before (47.9% vs. 15.3%) and 2years after (61.3% vs. 14.2%) referral. Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up"rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment. After adjusting for prior psychiatric treatment, all gender-referred adolescents had similarly elevated risks of psychiatric morbidity, with hazard ratios approximately three times higher than female controls and five times higher than male controls


A federal jury convicted Deputy United States Marshal Joshua Firmin of subjecting a prisoner to cruel and unusual punishment by severely assaulting the victim without cause. Firmin was also convicted of obstruction of justice for writing a false report in an attempt to cover up his horrendous and unwarranted attack on the defenseless prisoner.

DOJ OIG Report


President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday it would've taken him just five months to end a war he refused to fight in. Speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box , Trump bragged about how quickly he ended the war in Iran"shortly after threatening to resume attacks if things don't go his way in the as-yet unstarted peace talks. Read more


The music world is mourning the loss of one of their own. Alan Osmond who rose to fame as a member of his family singing act, The Osmond Brothers (later The Osmonds) has died, this according to the publication - "People".


Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has ordered an investigation into the role played by two US officials in a counter-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua. The two died alongside two Mexican officials when their car crashed on their way back from an operation to destroy illegal drug labs, Chihuahua officials said. Sheinbaum said that neither she nor senior members of the federal security team had been informed about any joint US-Mexican operations. The Mexican leader has been adamant that foreign officials can only operate on Mexican soil if given prior clearance at the federal level. Read more


A senior US delegation met with Cuban government officials in Cuba as the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to pressure Havana into a deal as it continues to exert its economic chokehold on the island. This was the one of the highest-level visits of US officials in roughly a decade and comes as Donald Trump continues to raise the specter of potential military action.

In Cuba, the CIA-planned 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco is commemorated every year on 19 April


Silas Shelton (49), the former pastor of Blanchester Community Church, pleaded guilty to three counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. As part of the agreement, prosecutors dismissed the remaining charges in the 12-count indictment, which originally included charges of rape, gross sexual imposition, sexual battery, and arson. This MAGA pastor had previously protested LGBTQ+ books: "I tell you, I got sick reading that stuff," Shelton whined. This phony Christian also lamented that parents "aren't allowed to talk about the health risks of kids being gay" and he railed against children seeing Gay Pride flags.

Another MAGA Hypocrite Exposed


Rep. Nancy Mace filed a motion Monday evening to expel her Republican colleague, Rep. Cory Mills, from the House, just hours after NOTUS reported that Mills was considering doing the same to her. "The swamp has protected Cory Mills for far too long and we are done letting it slide. We tried to censure him and strip him from his committee assignments. Both parties blocked it, but we are not backing down," Mace said in a post on X. "The evidence against Mills is overwhelming: beating women and telling them to lie about it, cyberstalking women, lying about his military service, and profiting off his seat. Any Member who votes to keep him here is voting to protect a woman beater and a fraud. He needs to be expelled IMMEDIATELY."


Monday, April 20, 2026

"UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two truck drivers contracted by them to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip. Two other people were wounded during this heinous attack which occurred during routine water trucking operations."

Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz tried to discredit and smear this academic


Taipei, April 18 (CNA) The transit of a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) warship through the Taiwan Strait on Friday reflected Tokyo's reaffirmation of its right to free passage through the international waterway, an academic has said. Read more


U.S. President Donald Trump appears to have set his eyes on Greenland again while venting frustration at NATO, as the diplomatic fallout from Iran war exposes rifts in Washington's ties with the security alliance. In a Truth Social post Wednesday evening stateside, Trump said that "NATO WASN'T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON'T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!" Read more


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