Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth struck the names of two Black and two female officers from a military promotions list, sparking bias concerns, according to a new report on Friday. read more
Vice President JD Vance suggested that Iran had the desire to blow up grocery stores with nuclear suicide vests. read more
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once made a peculiar pit stop to collect a dead raccoon's penis, according to New York Post investigative reporter Isabel Vincent. Vincent relayed the strange tale this week in an excerpt from her forthcoming book, "RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise." Her reporting is based on three of Kennedy's private journals spanning more than 1,200 pages. In a passage exploring Kennedy's fascination with animals, Vincent revealed an unusual event chronicled in one of his journals: "In his diary, he writes about cutting off the penis of a road-killed raccoon in 2001, while his kids waited patiently in the car,' so that he could examine it later." read more
Pro-Iran hackers published more than 300 emails and photos Friday from what appears to be a personal email account for FBI Director Kash Patel. read more
John G. Ferrari, Dillon Prochnicki: The United States does not look like it can sustain protracted, high-intensity conflict with a near-peer adversary. read more
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