Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday she's pressing charges against a man who groped her on the street a day earlier. read more
Trump on Wednesday tried to explain the Republican Party's steep election losses this week in part on a failure of language, specifically, a failure to use a "new word." Many blamed the GOP defeat on a mix of Trump's own unpopularity (his approval rating just reached a new low) and consumer frustration at continued inflation. But the president insisted everything is moving in the right direction. The only issue, he said, is that Republicans don't talk about it enough. "They have this new word called affordability,'" Trump explained during a Fox News interview. "And they don't talk about it enough." read more
Trump's announcement is a shocking reversal from Monday, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers SNAP, said it would abide by court orders to pay at least partial benefits ... read more
Dick Cheney, America's most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the "war on terror," who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84. read more
A top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories revealing he had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match. read more
Sheinbaum did not appear to have any security around her at the time (a perception confirmed by subsequent accounts), which is definitely a huge concern. Even Luis Donaldo Colosio (en.wikipedia.org) had security (maybe) and he's extremely dead.
"I'm very highly educated," Trump told supporters [in 2015]. "I know words, I know the best words. But there's no better word than stupid."
"Donald Trump takes credit for a new word' " a word first used in the 16th century"
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