The Trump family company has filed to trademark the use of the president's name on airports but says it doesn't plan on charging a fee ... read more
Moving across the country in the early 1900s wasn't as easy as it is now. That's when Tristan Stark's ancestors traveled to eastern Montana from Oklahoma to settle at the ranch the family still calls home. read more
RCP Average 1/12 - 2/13 Approve: 37.8 Disapprove: 57.3 Spread: -19.5 read more
Border czar Tom Homan on Sunday defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents against accusations of racial profiling ... read more
The World Health Organization on Friday released a formal statement blasting a US-funded vaccine trial as "unethical," because it would withhold an established, safe, and potentially lifesaving vaccine against hepatitis B from some newborns in Guinea-Bissau, Africa. read more
This song popped up on a playlist here recently ...
Association -- Never My Love (1967)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1]
You ask me if there'll come a time
When I grow tired of you
Never, my love
Never, my love
[Verse 2]
You wonder if this heart of mine
Will lose its desire for you
Never, my love
Never, my love
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The MAGA cult's adulation of Pres Trump?
Looks that way ...
Another view...
Lagarde to leave ECB early to prevent Le Pen from picking successor
www.yahoo.com
... Christine Lagarde is poised to quit as European Central Bank (ECB) boss early over fears Marine Le Pen could pick her successor if she wins the French election.
Ms Lagarde's term expires in October 2027 but the French presidential election falls six months earlier in April.
Polls suggest that National Rally's Ms Le Pen or her deputy Jordan Bardella are on course to win, raising fears they might use the ECB selection process to undermine the central bank's independence.
Ms Le Pen no longer calls for France to ditch the euro as its currency. But Mr Bardella has said the ECB should bail out the indebted French government by buying more of its bonds.
Ms Lagarde, who once served as finance minister in a centre-Right French government, is expected to quit early because of these concerns, the Financial Times reported.
Leaving her post before France goes to the polls would keep Emmanuel Macron in control of France's input into the ECB decision.
"The intent would be to future-proof the ECB from the far Right, under the assumption National Rally win the French presidential election," said Andrzej Szczepaniak, an analyst at Japanese investment bank Nomura. ...
I found this ...
Shia LaBeouf demands 'free me' after battery arrest in Mardi Gras meltdow
www.foxnews.com
... Shia LaBeouf broke his silence Wednesday, nearly 24 hours after he was arrested on simple battery charges in New Orleans.
"Free me," LaBeouf wrote on social media just after 2 a.m. Earlier in the day, the "Transformers" actor was spotted celebrating Mardi Gras and dancing on Bourbon Street with his release papers in his mouth, WGNO reported.
Prior to his arrest, LaBeouf showed off an arsenal of colorful Mardi Gras-themed baubles in a selfie shared on X.
LaBeouf's whirlwind day began with an early-morning bar fight in the Faubourg Marigny district of the city. Authorities responded to a simple battery on the 1400 block of Royal Street at approximately 12:45 a.m. Tuesday where two male victims reported being assaulted, according to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). ...
Ex-Bondi Aide Says MAGA Prosecutor Pitch Got About 1,000 Resumes
www.bloomberg.com
... A former top Justice Department official said his social media call encouraging lawyers who "support President Trump" to apply for federal prosecutor jobs drew a big response.
Chad Mizelle, who was US Attorney General Pam Bondi's chief of staff until late 2025, told Bloomberg News through a spokesperson that he received nearly a thousand resumes for assistant US attorney jobs via the post. He said the applications were forwarded to the Justice Department, which will be conducting interviews "soon." ...
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The Affordability Crisis Can Now Add Wages To The Mix
www.fa-mag.com
... No matter the economic survey or poll, the message is the same thing: Americans are deeply concerned about what they call an affordability crisis. Yet to former hedge fund manager and current Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, it's a joke"literally.
Asked what could be done to get Americans feeling better about the economy during recent testimony in the Senate, Bessent quipped that consumers could "turn off MSNBC," the left-leaning cable news network now called MS NOW. The response drew several loud laughs from those in attendance.
Perhaps Bessent wouldn't have been so flippant if the testimony had come after the flood of data last week, which laid bare the challenges facing ordinary Americans, especially the rapidly diminishing leverage of workers.
A measure of wages for employees in the private sector rose 3.3% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, the Labor Department's quarterly Employment Cost Index report showed last Tuesday.
It was the smallest increase since early 2021, when the unemployment rate was still well above 6% as the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic lingered. ...
@#8 ... Trump still thinks his name has a high dollar value. ...
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Judge Sides With Residents Who Want Trump's Name Off Their NYC Building (2018)
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