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CNN’s Trump health panic fizzles as late-night medical report crushes the narrative
For most of the week, the usual suspects in the legacy media were working overtime to spin a mystery around President Donald Trump’s latest physical exam. Cable-news chatterboxes and anti-Trump commentators breathlessly wondered why the White House hadn’t immediately...
Hegseth axes 180 religions from sprawling list of military faith categories
The Pentagon has finally taken a machete to one of Washington’s more obscure examples of bureaucratic bloat, wiping 180 religious categories off the military’s official list and shrinking a sprawling system that critics say had become a paperwork circus. Under a new...
Obama judge gives anti-Trump ’86 47′ flag permission to fly near National Mall
An Obama-appointed federal judge has handed the anti-Trump resistance movement a victory, ruling that a left-wing activist group can keep flying its controversial “86 47” flag just steps from the National Mall — at least for now. The decision landed like a thunderclap...
Senator says he was pepper-sprayed as Democrats storm ICE facility in Newark, DHS pushes back
A Memorial Day protest outside a Newark immigration detention center spiraled into a full-on circus Monday as anti-ICE demonstrators clashed with federal agents, a Democratic senator got caught in the crossfire and state politicians turned the facility into their...
Mark Hamill deletes Trump tombstone image, claims he meant ‘the opposite of dead’
Apparently the Force wasn’t strong enough to stop a social media meltdown. “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill spent Thursday frantically hitting reverse after posting an image that appeared to show President Donald Trump lying dead beside a grave marker — complete with the...
BS daily political cartoons: Teeth for every meth addict
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Treasury boss brushes off AI bubble fears as megabanks slam door on rogue bots
America’s top financial official waved away fears that the artificial intelligence boom could head for a dotcom-style crash. The AI industry is not headed for a “systemic” collapse, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately told investors and executives at the annual...
Will Trump’s emergency heating oil release lower winter bills?
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it would release up to 315,000 barrels of emergency heating oil as Northeast households face soaring winter energy costs, but industry experts warned the move may do little to lower prices. The Department of Energy (DOE)...
The next ‘major threat’ to free speech online could come from this court case
A state attorney general’s legal victory resulted in Meta having to pay a historic-level fine — which may have dire consequences for free expression online, experts say. New Mexico District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion...
Trump admin pours nearly $1 billion into power grid as Americans face rising electricity costs
The Trump administration is pouring nearly $1 billion into America’s strained electrical grid as surging demand from artificial intelligence data centers threatens to outpace available power supplies and raise blackout risks. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced...
Court tosses decades-old knife ban on Second Amendment grounds
A federal appeals court threw out a federal ban on switchblades, saying the measure violated the Second Amendment. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, consisting of a George W. Bush appointee and two Trump appointees,...
The deep state is leaking Trump’s most sensitive undercover operations to The Washington Post
Anonymous sources have exposed sensitive details of the Trump administration’s reported plans to establish a clandestine espionage program targeting China to legacy media, potentially revealing American intelligence strategies to foreign adversaries. The Pentagon is...
