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Without the cooperation and full participation of Mexico and Colombia, which have not signed on, it is unclear how the "Shield of Americas" coalition would eradicate drug cartels without launching attacks inside the nonparticipatory states, and thus violating Mexican and Colombian sovereignty.
Barely two weeks into King Trump's war with Iran, gas prices are surging — up an average 65 cents nationally.
Americans keep footing the bill for this failed president's incompetence.
No, Jimmy Carter did not "invent" the Mujahideen, but his administration initiated the covert funding program that supported them.
Fergie owed tens of thousands of pounds in rent, was feeling alone, and in search of a new career. She sought help and advice from her friend: Jeffrey Epstein. More than once, Ferguson quipped that Epstein should marry her.
Know your history.
Jimmy Carter went on to build more affordable homes than any other president.
Be ANGRY about the SAVE Act, not scared!
Palantir offers to give power to working-class men.
Palantir CEO thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
This will have the ability to disrupt every aspect of our society.
he Pentagon banned press photographers from Pete Hegseth’s Iran war briefing after Hegseth’s staff deemed the photos “unflattering.” Only Defense Department staff photographers have been permitted into briefings since, while video cameras remain allowed.
Kansas invalidated about 1,700 driver’s licenses held by transgender residents under a new law that also ban changes to birth certificates. A state judge declined to block the law while a legal challenge moves forward.
WY Gov. Mark Gordon signed a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, making Wyoming the 5th state to bar abortion at that stage. Gordon said the law lacked rape & incest exceptions & would likely trigger more litigation.
Your phone's location data can be purchased by federal and state agencies without a warrant. You can (and should) take a few steps to minimize how your location is tracked and shared. Read on . . .
The Patriot Act, FISA, and Executive Order 12333—have been reinterpreted to enable mass data collection. This story contrasts Anthropic’s refusal to support AI-powered mass surveillance with OpenAI’s legal compliance stance.
A surge in oil prices tied to the war in Iran threatens to undo that progress on inflation, and it could keep the central bank in a holding pattern when it comes to interest rates.
The Fed's policy-setting committee will make its next interest rate decision in a week.
The latest Trump family venture is hoping to win some of the $1.1 billion set aside by the Pentagon to build up a U.S. manufacturing base for armed drones now that the Trump regime put a ban on importing them from China.
Election experts, including some who watched the audit, said any investigation based on the Cyber Ninja data will be fatally flawed.
Unlike in Fulton County, GA, where actual ballots were seized, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of of Maricopa County.
Just in case Iran gets confused, here's a map:
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things => projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
he D.C. Bar filed ethics charges against Trump’s pardon attorney, accusing Ed Martin of using his position as interim U.S. attorney to coerce Georgetown University Law Center into abandoning its DEI programs.
King Trump is seeking to have homeless vets placed under guardianship so they can have a person appointed who will force them into congregate or institutional settings and can also force into involuntary treatment for mental illness and drug addiction.
The U.S. Treasury’s borrowing showed no signs of slowing with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year.
Of course, with more borrowing comes higher interest costs on the debt.
Another big win!
After getting brutally humiliated by Democrats for his bogus "white replacement" theory during a Senate confirmation hearing, King Trump's pick for Assistant Secretary of State Jeremy Carl has be forced to withdraw.
The hacker found child sex abuse materials in the Trump-Epstein file and threatened to report the server to the FBI, not realizing it was a FBI server. That’s as close to an ethical actor as we’re going to get in this mess.