Trump's Big Bill gave private jet owners the ability to write off the entire cost right away, rather than spread the deduction out over several years. While private jets get more easy to afford, food, housing and energy costs have risen under the Trump administration. "A 2024 report found that passengers in larger models cause more CO2 emissions in one hour than the average person does in a year," read more
CNN's Brian Stelter reports that 60 Minutes, with little fanfare, plans to air Sharyn Alfonsi's "60 Minutes" story about Venezuelan men deported by the US to a hellish prison in El Salvador. A bootlegged copy of the story was already published the web so everyone will see if what the new CBS head Bari Weiss allows is the same as first planned, Stelter reports. read more
Pentagon Brushes Off Request to Understand How Wind Turbines Threaten National Security read more
For the first time in more than two decades, the United States did not export any soybeans in the month of October, the traditional start of the exporting season, to the world's largest market, China. read more
Four ICE agents ate lunch at a family-owned Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minnesota yesterday - only to come back hours later and arrest three members of the restaurant's staff. read more
Seventy-five years of transatlantic alliance. The most formidable military bloc in human history. read more
Less than 1 percent of them have been released. read more
One Las Vegas strip club is seeing an unexpected boom from the Sin City slowdown: a surge in first-time dancers auditioning. read more
As public opinion in the country increasingly turns against the U.S. president over his threats to seize Greenland, the AfD is seeing the downside of its strong alignment with him. read more
With U.S. ties at their lowest point in modern history, Canada is turning to one of the only countries with which it had even worse relations: China. Canada is forging a "new strategic partnership" with China ... read more
"The Department of War is always prepared to execute the orders of the Commander-in-Chief if called upon," Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said. read more
The agency recorded a total of 30 deaths in its custody last year, but at the current rate it would see that number reached by April -- and a grim record of 120 set for the whole of 2026. read more
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president's friend Ronald Lauder -- who first proposed Arctic expansion -- is now making deals in the island read more
The Justice Department claims Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's request for an independent monitor is an overreach. read more
A now viral video appears to show an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agent bragging about his salary on X. read more
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the "bellicose frivolity of senile empires." All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice. read more
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