President Trump said Monday he would have ordered flags to be lowered in honor of the Minnesota state lawmaker who was assassinated this summer at her home if he had been asked. The White House has paid tribute in numerous ways to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a close ally of Mr. Trump, ordering flags to be flown at half-staff after Kirk was fatally shot during an event on a Utah college campus. The moves have prompted criticism about why the president did not take similar actions after the fatal shooting of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband in June. In June, Mr. Trump was asked aboard Air Force One whether he had called Walz after the Minnesota assassination. Another state lawmaker was also targeted in the attack, and he and his wife sustained serious injuries. "The guy doesn't have a clue. He's a mess. So, you know, I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?" Mr. Trump said of Walz.
If it seems as if this year has featured one report after another about Donald Trump and his team effectively giving up on combating cancer, it's not your imagination. The president has proposed slashing funding for the National Cancer Institute. His conspiratorial and anti-science health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scrapped funding for mRNA research, despite clinical trials showing mRNA-based vaccines increasing survival in patients with deadly cancers. I've lost count of how many cancer-related research grants at universities have been cut off without explanation. It's against this backdrop that The New York Times reported that a half-century after Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, there have been a great many breakthroughs that have saved and extended lives. The incumbent Republican president, however, is effectively waving the white flag in this war.
British officials are preparing for President Donald Trump's state visit to Tuesday " complete with unprecedented security, fact-checking TV specials and its own brand of pre-censoring. According to The Independent, top British brass are warning: warning: "Don't mention the 'E' word!" The "E" word refers to the late convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Avoiding the subject will be hard, though. Just last week, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer fired British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson after a cache of emails showed supportive messages he sent after Epstein plead guilty to sex offenses.
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, one of the GOP's most prominent foreign affairs hawks, announced on Sunday that he'll retire ... read more
President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to justify the fatal U.S. strike on a Venezuelan boat by claiming that 300 million people, presumably Americans, died from drugs last year. He was off by almost 300 million. read more
The girdle-wearing slug who destroyed the USFL slams sissy football after NFL rule change.
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