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Spencer Pratt bounced from runoff as late-count surge lifts Raman
Just when it looked like Los Angeles voters might deliver a political curveball, the city’s election machine had other plans. Reality TV personality and wildfire victim Spencer Pratt watched a commanding election-night lead evaporate over the weekend as progressive...
Supreme Court slams courthouse door on 99-year-old judge’s comeback bid
Washington’s endless debate over aging leaders just landed squarely in the federal judiciary — and the Supreme Court wants no part of it. In a move that effectively ends one of the most bizarre and politically charged courtroom sagas in years, the nation’s highest...
Six GOP senators vote with Dems to block Trump’s White House ballroom
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s plan to add a massive new White House ballroom just ran into friendly fire — and the shots came from inside the Republican Party. Six Republican senators crossed the aisle Wednesday and sided with Democrats on an amendment designed to...
French Open firestorm erupts after losing player says ‘this sort of match needs to be umpired by a man’
Paraguayan tennis player Adolfo Daniel Vallejo found himself at the center of a firestorm after a grueling, nearly five-hour French Open marathon against French teenager Moïse Kouamé. The 22-year-old battled through brutal Paris heat, a deafening pro-French crowd, and...
Fox News forced to explain that retired admiral is not wearing a Hollywood disguise on air
Fox News is finally putting the brakes on one of the dumbest internet conspiracies of the year — the now-infamous “Maskgate” frenzy that had social media sleuths convinced a retired Navy admiral was secretly wearing a Mission: Impossible-style disguise on live...
BS daily political cartoons: Dead donkeys tell tales
Best political cartoons of the day: In case you missed it:
GOP senator calls Trump’s red-carpet treatment of Xi a ‘WTF moment’
BS BULLETIN: Republican Sen. Thom Tillis called President Trump's warm White House reception for Chinese President Xi Jinping a “WTF moment.” Tillis questioned why Xi received the red-carpet treatment while some leaders of U.S. allies have faced much rougher...
Rashida Tlaib says ‘ICE killed another man’ — let’s ask the tree he hit at 100mph
BS BULLETIN: Rep. Rashida Tlaib declared that “ICE killed another man” after Mario David Coronado-Juarez died in a fiery crash in Grand Rapids, Michigan. DHS says Coronado-Juarez fled an attempted ICE stop, officers immediately discontinued the enforcement action, and...
Monty Python legend John Cleese drops a slavery joke so dark even the internet did a double take
BS BULLETIN: Comedy legend John Cleese jumped into a debate over slavery reparations with a characteristically dark bit of sarcasm. The 86-year-old Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star suggested Arab slave traders had found one way to prevent descendants from demanding...
Canada prepared for a Trump invasion — and the internet has questions
BS BULLETIN: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he examined the possibility of U.S.-led military action against Canada as an “extreme tail risk.” Canadian military planners have reportedly modeled what would happen in a hypothetical American invasion — including...
Supreme Court allows citizenship verification program
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision on Friday, temporarily allowed the Trump adminsitration to use a federal database that verifies whether voters are eligible to participate in an election. In March 2025, President Donald Trump...
First hugging face, now Australia: OpenAI agents hack their way into a government
An artificial intelligence giant waited nearly three months to report that its agents broke into a foreign government website. OpenAI’s agent gained unauthorized access to Australia’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18, but the company did not...
