President Trump insisted there are "no limits" to his power when asked in a new interview about his takeaways from the Iran war. The president was pressed by Axios's Marc Caputo during an interview about whether he learned there are bounds to his power during the Middle East conflict. "I haven't learned that lesson yet," he replied. "I know there are, but there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily."
Not only is the reflecting pool growing algae, but now the beautiful American Flag Blue coating that was installed by a pool company chosen by Trump for a no bid contract is peeling off shortly after being installed. Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) " As Janeese Lewis George paves a path to the mayor's office in Washington, D.C., she's told voters they could have it all. Her unapologetically expansive, left-wing agenda includes subsidized or even free childcare, increased down payment assistance for homebuyers and community resources to reduce crime, plus a promise to aggressively confront President Donald Trump's attempts to reshape the nation's capital. "People are tired of hearing what government can't do. They want to hear what government can do," Lewis George said in an interview before the city's primary, where she defeated her Democratic opponents and positioned herself to win the general election in November in a city dominated by Democrats. Read more
The Michigan State Police (MSP) is robustly investigating CPAC Christian youth pastor Zachary Radcliff (29) for allegedly grooming and sexually assaulting scores of underaged boys and girls, some as old as ten. The phony Christian is facing at least 60 felony charges and the MSP is asking anyone with any information on Zachary Radcliff to please contact them ASAP at 517-899-6174 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Speak Up.
"Christian rock and pedophilia are cool, Dude!"
Officials in Tehran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation. Normally one would have to pay a lot of money to a discreet professional to be humiliated this badly. Read more
U.S.-Iran deal hailed by supporters as historic "grand bargain".
Critics say accord legitimises and strengthens Iran.
To Israel, the deal is strategic setback undermining core goals Lebanon pulled into U.S.-Iran framework, limiting its own track.
Gulf states alarmed by shifting regional order.
Reporting Highlights...
Climate Rollbacks: Trump's EPA is planning to weaken restrictions on oil and gas wells that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.
A Wealthy Beneficiary: Oil billionaire Jeffery Hildebrand, a major Trump donor, is set to reap the benefits. Society as a whole will deal with the environmental costs.
The Influence Campaign: A former Hildebrand lobbyist now rewriting the EPA's methane rules has solicited input from oil industry groups backed by the billionaire.
ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700m by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is a good human being
Cody Johnston analyzes how we're making the same mistakes we did in 1980 and how what we now call AI "slop" has always been here. Watch to the end (without skipping ahead) before you comment. I dare you.
President Donald Trump believes he handed Republicans a winning playbook for the midterms -- if only they'd follow it. Gerrymander everywhere possible, get rid of the filibuster, fire the Senate parliamentarian and pass the SAVE America Act.
Experts raise concerns about medical care, supervision in ICE detention centers. ICE death records lack critical information - such as medications and emergency response records. DHS says it is committed to ensuring 'safe, secure and humane environment' for detainees.
Ukraine's e-Points system is pushing soldiers toward higher-value Russian targets. Units earn points for confirmed hits and use them to buy drones, robots, and other gear. The system shows how Ukraine is using incentives, data, and decentralization to fight faster.
The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring system that provides vital information on the health of the world's oceans, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. In late May, the National Science Foundation, which funds the $386 million deep-ocean system, announced it would be pulling up buoys and other underwater equipment from arrays off the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, North Carolina and Greenland in what it called a "descoping" of the network. Read more
Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi, musicians Ehsan Beiraqdar and Soheil Faqih Nasiri, and six members of the production team for the Caravanserai Concert were ordered to be lashed 74 times by the Qom Provincial Criminal Court, Iranian human-rights groups and diaspora media outlets reported Thursday. The artists will also face a two-year travel ban and a two-year restriction on all artistic activity. The court ruled they had offended "public decency through the production and publication of obscene and immoral content on cyberspace platforms." The artists and their team were first arrested after their performance was broadcast on YouTube last December. They were ordered to appear before the Prosecutor's Office for Moral Security in January.
Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George is slated to be the next mayor of Washington DC after her opponent conceded on Thursday. Lewis George, a city council member, ran on a platform of expanding childcare, education and housing, and revoking the district's cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. In the city's first ranked-choice voting election, she succeeded in securing the Democratic nomination in a party stronghold, fending off another former city council member, Kenyan McDuffie. McDuffie had run a campaign more focused on public safety and local businesses. Now, Lewis George will be on the ballot in November's general election, where she will probably run unopposed.
A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said. The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an "absurd, overreaching" mandate.
