Susan Pennington

Huge fire rips through popular nightclub killing at least 25 people

At least 25 people, including several tourists, have been killed in a fire at a popular nightclub in India’s Goa state.

Some cocaine-smuggling presidents are more innocent than others As Donald Trump revives the Monroe Doctrine, he is bewildering America’s neighbours about what it stands for

As Donald Trump revives the Monroe Doctrine, he is bewildering America’s neighbours about what it stands for

Drumpf the Nazi ruined the Kennedy Center.

December 6, 2025 On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of...

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Column | Anger is a defining character trait for both parties, new study shows An updated Pew study shows that, with the change in administrations and party power in Congress, Democrats are now at record levels of anger toward government.

Anger is a defining character trait for both parties, new study shows

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A land fight pits a sacred Apache tradition against a copper mine An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to transform the sacred site in Arizona.

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$11M Southwest Airlines fine waived by DOT The U.S. DOT announced it will waive the remaining $11 million in fines Southwest Airlines owed over its operational meltdown during holiday travel in 2022.

The Biden administration imposed a record $140 million penalty.
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Gunman opens fire at home of right-wing podcaster Tim Pool days after Charlie Kirk assassination comments - NewsBreak A GUNMAN has opened fire at the home of right-wing podcaster and commentator Tim Pool. It comes just days after he spoke out about the assassination of Cha

Gunman opens fire at home of right-wing podcaster Tim Pool days after Charlie Kirk assassination comments
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Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return - NewsBreak WASHINGTON – Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to tempo

Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return
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Conservative suggests backup plan to keep Trump 'successfully flattered' Columnist David Mastio can’t gauge the specific inflation at your local grocery store, but he is confident President Donald Trump’s “flattery inflation is on the rise.”On Friday, FIFA president Gianni...

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Security expert blasts Trump's 'cabinet of dunces' for posting on Twitter 'like you're 12' National Security attorney Bradley Moss and international affairs specialist Tom Nichols took turns dumping on the mounting idiocy of officials working under President Donald Trump as the administrati...

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Winter weather advisory issued for Chicago area, several inches of snow expected overnight

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory from midnight tonight to 9 a.m. Sunday as the area could see between 3 to 5 inches of snow.

Conservative says Trump needs more 'Christian' in his 'Christian Nationalism' The Trump administration and its agents with their crusader tattoos, and its supporters, adore the idea of Christian nationalism. It’s a pity they’re short on the ‘Christian’ part, says columnist Ross...

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GOP insider says Trump being haunted by 'cringey' video: 'It's already catching up to him' Donald Trump has a "tone deaf" video circulating on right-wing networks, and it's "already catching up to him," according to a GOP insider on Saturday.Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Sp...

GOP insider says Trump being haunted by 'cringey' video: 'It's already catching up to him'

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Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories During interviews with the FBI, the 30-year-old confessed to planting the explosive devices near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters, three sources told NBC News.

During interviews with the FBI, the 30-year-old confessed to planting the explosive devices near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters, three sources told NBC News.

First Snow Measurable of the Season Expected in Northern Colorado - NewsBreak The Front Range will see 1–6 inches of snow depending on location. Find out what Northern Colorado cities can expect.

First Snow Measurable of the Season Expected in Northern Colorado
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says ‘Furious’ Trump Told Her That Releasing the Epstein Files ‘Was Going to Hurt People’ - NewsBreak Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said President Donald Trump was “furious” with her over her advocacy of the release of the Epstein files, and that doing

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says ‘Furious’ Trump Told Her That Releasing the Epstein Files ‘Was Going to Hurt People’
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‘Go for it!’ MAGA radio host backs sending own son to war to enact regime change Lourdes Ubieta, a conservative radio host from Miami, Florida and major backer of President Donald Trump, said recently that if it took sending U.S. troops – which may include her own son and cousin –...

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This Colorado city shows the way out of the MAGA nightmare In an unhinged video this summer, Danielle Jurinsky, a former Aurora City Council member, blamed the Democratic Party for the firebomb attack on peaceful demonstrators in Boulder who called for the re...

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One of the first things to be done when sanity and legality are restored Trump isn’t just destroying the White House to make room for a vanity ballroom — he’s selling it off to the highest bidders, who conveniently need favors from his regime.The giant ballroom is Trump’s ...

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Anger as National Parks grant free access on Trump's birthday —and end it for MLK day “Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?”That’s what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE, which reported ...

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The dominance of the US dollar appears to be unravelling under Trump The US has long sat at the centre of the global financial system, with the US dollar serving as the backbone of the world economy. Private investors rely on the dollar as a store of value in times of ...

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The dominance of the US dollar appears to be unravelling under Trump The US has long sat at the centre of the global financial system, with the US dollar serving as the backbone of the world economy. Private investors rely on the dollar as a store of value in times of ...

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Supreme Court’s decision on citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will likely hand down a ruling next summer.In January 2025, President Donald Trump is...

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This terrifying crisis was manufactured to distract from a massive new Trump scandal Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “God created war so Americans would learn geography.” Whether or not he actually said that, might it not be a good test, that the world’s most mighty military power be pr...

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This terrifying crisis was manufactured to distract from a massive new Trump scandal Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “God created war so Americans would learn geography.” Whether or not he actually said that, might it not be a good test, that the world’s most mighty military power be pr...

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Civil war underway as GOP struggles to 'expel the lunatics': analysis “There was never that much distance between the Establishment and the extremists of the right, even in [William F.] Buckley’s era; now they are even closer,” reports Intelligencer Senior writer Sarah ...

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Trump family is inflicting a new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American “neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox.“Signs of neoroyalism...

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20,000-pound cocaine seizure by Coast Guard breaks 18-year-old record - NewsBreak Video shows Coast Guard vehicles pursuing a go-fast vessel that appeared to have multiple people aboard.

20,000-pound cocaine seizure by Coast Guard breaks 18-year-old record
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