The Department of Justice has already indicted former President Donald Trump on a myriad of charges related to his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House, but Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work is far from over. Among the torrent of headlines, Truth Social rants, and court rulings pertaining …
Read More »I've Seen Cluster Bombs Maim Children. Why Is Biden Sending Them to Ukraine?
Nussair’s mother was huddled over his hospital bed when I entered, his hands and feet wrapped in white gauze, blood stains peeking through his right ankle. The kid lay against a pillow in a large wing of the hospital in Najaf, Iraq that smelled like earth mixed with antiseptic. Hospital …
Read More »Officials Prepped for North Korean Nuclear Attack as Trump Stirred Tension, Book Says
Donald Trump has long praised Kim Jong-un, but he spent the first part of his presidency publicly prodding and threatening the murderous North Korean dictator. The tension between the two strongmen was so concerning to top security officials, a new book alleges, that they held multiple meetings to prepare for …
Read More »Republicans Push to Strip Abortion Access for Veterans
Lindsay Church and their wife started planning for a family in 2021. Church, who served as a linguist in the U.S. Navy, is medically retired from the military. “I’m missing 42 inches of my ribs, all the cartilage in my chest, and I have a spinal cord stimulator that controls …
Read More »The Trillion-Dollar Grift: Inside the Greatest Scam of All Time
I n late March 2020, Haywood Talcove, a CEO at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, was packing up his office, having sent his employees home. He was worrying about laying off his staff, his family’s health, and how he was going to manage two young kids at home during the pandemic. But …
Read More »Investigation Uncovers More of Clarence Thomas' Undisclosed Freebies from Wealthy Pals
Clarence Thomas‘ connections to wealth and expensive vacations run deeper than billionaire businessman and Nazi-enthusiast Harlan Crow. The New York Times reports that Thomas has milked relationships with the rich he made through the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, a scholarship association, to benefit himself and his wife. Because …
Read More »DeSantis Whines to Fox News That 'the Media' Is Sabotaging His Campaign
The headlines this week have not been kind to Ron DeSantis, who is attempting and so far failing to catch up in the polls to 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Even the Republican-friendly Fox News has questioned why DeSantis recently barely seems to be able to break 20 percent, …
Read More »'He Kicked Me in My Balls.' Fight at Michigan GOP Meeting Turns Physical: Report
Michigan Republicans have been at odds about the direction of the state party, and the situation resulted in alleged physical violence Saturday night at a state committee meeting, The Detroit News reported. James Chapman, a Republican from Wayne County, told the paper he traveled to the city of Clare to …
Read More »Zelensky Calls B.S. on Trump's Claim He'd End War With Russia in a Day
Donald Trump has boasted that if he were president again, he could end Russia’s war with Ukraine. “I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours,” he has said. But Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called bullshit, saying that Trump already had his chance to end Vladimir Putin’s aggression …
Read More »Extreme Heat Will Change the World As We Know It
W hen the babysitter arrived to take care of Miju at around 11 a.m. on Monday, August 16, 2021, she was surprised to find the house empty. Miju was the one‑year‑old daughter of Jonathan Gerrish and Ellen Chung, who had recently fled the Bay Area to start a new life …
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