President Trump on Monday warned Omani officials against getting "in the way" of the U.S. during negotiations ... read more
Does liberty mean a right to kill other people's children, slowly and painfully? It would, if the Trump administration had its way. It's pressing states to allow broad vaccine exemptions as part of its larger campaign against settled medical practice. The danger is clearest with measles. Children usually recover from it, albeit often with some permanent damage. But a 2016 California study found that when infants under a year old are infected, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) " in which the virus lingers in the brain and slowly destroys it " develops in about 1 in 600 cases, far higher than the 1-in-100,000 figure doctors had long cited. Long after the initial infection, the child becomes clumsy and forgetful, then experiences headaches, fevers and seizures, loses motor control and finally becomes bedridden and dies.
A US guided-missile destroyer reportedly spent four days adrift and without power in the South China Sea in July, furthering concerns about strain being placed on deployed military members. The USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer which had been sailing with the George Washington carrier strike group, was reported to have been towed to Subic Bay in the Philippines, according to the US Naval Institute News, an independent military publication. The 10,000-ton destroyer lost power after what a spokesperson with the US seventh fleet called "an engineering casualty involving its generators", resulting in a loss of power.
The wooden crates moving across the Caspian Sea are carrying more than trade goods. Russia has been routing explosives, drone components and battlefield ammunition to Iran through the inland sea, in a transfer operation that Western officials say is rebuilding the military arsenal Tehran depleted fighting the United States and Israel this year. A European government document obtained by NBC News, confirmed by a Western official, describes shipments that include trinitrotoluene, the explosive compound known as TNT, alongside drone parts and ammunition bound for Iran.
President Trump last week returned a mail-in ballot ahead of Florida's primary election on Tuesday, Politico reported Monday, the second time he has done so amid his unfounded claims that mail-in voting contributes to election fraud. The outlet added that Trump requested his ballot in late July and it was returned Aug. 13, citing Palm Beach County voting records. Trump notably spoke out against mail-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the last year of his first term, when more voters turned to mail-in voting amid the crisis. His condemnation later led to longstanding false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election, and not his successor, former President Biden.
Fortunately for the decomposing orange chomo there's no shortage of food carts for him to hide in.