Jeff Domingues

Editors and reporters say they’ll continue to cover the US military thoroughly, with or without press credentials. Some well-known members of the Pentagon press corps have used the credentialing controversy to encourage tipsters to get in touch with them.

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Government agencies generally aren’t interested in you know what they do. This administration is making no secret about it.

Major Media Outlets Rebuff New Pentagon Press Policy The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN are among the outlets that have said they won’t sign a new Defense Department media policy.

Major media outlets including The Wall Street Journal and CNN have said they won’t agree to a new Defense Department policy restricting journalists’ communication with military sources.

JUST IN: 49ers star LB Fred Warner will miss the rest of the 2025 NFL season.

He dislocated and broke his right ankle in today's loss to the Bucs.

“I haven’t read it, but it’s wrong.”

Mac Jonesoppolo. #49ers

Not sure I can handle a season without Nick Bosa and, now, Fred Warner. #49ers

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Saved purple thinking it would be yellow.

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Which of the first two will be purple? Guessed wrong.

Newsmax to pay $67M to Denver’s Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation case over 2020 election claims Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled earlier that Newsmax did indeed defame Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems by airing false information about the company and its equipment.

Newsmax to pay $67M to Denver's Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation case over 2020 election claims

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A moment of silence, please, and one last flighty and infectiously ambiguous relationship gone south with the passing of Diane “Annie Hall” Keaton.

Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1 Trillion. And DOGE Didn’t Do Much. The books have closed on the U.S. government’s fiscal 2025. Here’s what has changed about the federal budget—and what hasn’t.

Despite a historic rise in tariff revenue, the deficit was unchanged in fiscal 2025. The main drivers of spending kept rising: social programs, including Social Security and Medicare, and interest on the public debt, which topped $1 trillion for the first time.

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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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A moment of silence, please, and one last wind of change to blow about you and you're the only other person to know – don't tell me, I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band – with the passing of Moody Blues bassist John Lodge.

Not so much a “free” jet, then.

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Puzzle #852
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Blues were basically leftovers. Thought I was clever spotting the greens immediately.

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Figured the blues were the gimme and saved them for last.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

The world is a darker place tonight.

Foreskin prevents autism. Apparently.

I’m paying off my mortgage early with that 500% cash back on prescriptions.

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Puzzle #851
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A career as a newspaper editor put this together quickly.

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Puzzle #381
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Of course that’s the purple category.

The Pentagon’s revised press rules are unacceptable, journalists’ group says The Pentagon Press Association said the government’s policy still appears “designed to stifle a free press and potentially expose us to prosecution.”

The Pentagon Press Association said the government’s policy for journalists covering the Defense Department still appears “designed to stifle a free press and potentially expose us to prosecution."

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

“On Sept. 20, Trump meant to send a private message to AG Pam Bondi urging her to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and other targets, according to officials familiar with the matter. The misfire provided a window into his wholesale transformation of the DOJ.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Fed Minutes Reveal Divide Over Outlook for Cuts The government shutdown has paused the economic data releases that could help resolve debates over how to manage thorny trade-offs.

Federal Reserve officials were divided over how much farther they should lower interest rates when they approved their first reduction of the year last month.

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Took a bit to decide what the green commonality was after sorting out the words, guessed wrong on what would be purple.

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Haven’t heard gaffer in that context, Celtics is a reach.

“The one constant in the dysfunctional American camp is the PGA of America, which owns the biennial competition of high stakes and even higher revenue when it’s played in the U.S. But the organization of 31,000 club pros has no direct involvement with players except for the PGA Championship.”

Well, it sure shows the score.

People are the worst.