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Friday, April 26, 2024

The Pentagon says it will "rush" Patriot air defence missiles and artillery ammunition to Ukraine as part of its new military aid package. The US will utilise $6bn for this purpose, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin revealed on Friday.


Clark shared on social media with others that her cat disappeared on Wednesday, April 10, from their Utah home. Galena had jumped into an Amazon return package and was accidentally shipped to a return center warehouse in California. Read more


Public birthday wishes are a tricky art. Some are cute! Others give the ick. But on the 54th birthday of Melania Trump, a new entry into the canon of birthday messages has emerged"and it defies neat categorization. "I want to start by wishing my wife Melania a very happy birthday," Donald Trump told reporters on Friday. "It would be nice to be with her but I'm at a courthouse for a rigged trial." Read more


President Joe Biden said Friday he is "happy" to debate former President Donald Trump, though did not specify as to when. The comment was made during a one-on-one interview with radio host Howard Stern, who asked if the president had plans to debate his 2024 opponent. "I am somewhere," Biden responded, the first time he's indicated he will debate Trump this election cycle. "I don't know when. I'm happy to debate him." After Biden's remark on Stern's show on Sirius/XM, Trump's campaign manager Chris LaCivita responded on social media. "Ok," he wrote on X, "let's set it up !" MORE: Major media organizations urge Biden and Trump to debate Trump, however, is pouring cold water on the idea that Biden actually wants to debate him. "Everyone knows he doesn't really mean it," Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform on Friday.


Re'Kwon Smith, 27, is accused of brawling with the Valley High School student on Thursday when he asked the teen, who allegedly shouted out a racial slur, to leave the classroom, according to 8NewsNow. The altercation turned physical when the student allegedly placed his hands on Smith.


Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. He received various threats of violence. Read more


Under Trump, college kids accused of sexual assault were given the right to defend themselves. With his update of Title IX, Biden has taken it away. Last Friday, the Biden administration followed through on a promise: to roll back civil rights for college students accused of sexual misconduct. The new regulations come under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Set to go into effect in August, they will restore some of the worst excesses introduced when Biden was vice president under Obama. One of the most concerning is the return of the "single-investigator" model that was barred under Trump. This means "one administrator can act as detective, prosecutor, judge, and jury on a Title IX complaint."


Donald Trump has been caught again staging a fake labor union event. Before Donald Trump appeared to be greeted by members of the North American Building Trade Union, a union that has endorsed Biden, before appearing in court in New York. It turns out that a number of MAGA activists were posing as union members including Vish Burra, former chief of staff of the disgraced George Santos. Fraudsters of a feather flock together.


Reaching for an example of her unflinching preparedness to do anything "difficult, messy and ugly" if it needs to be done, Kristi Noem landed on a chilling example: the time she killed her pet dog, Cricket, in an execution-style gravel pit slaying. Read more


"A former president," Donald Trump's lawyer D. John Sauer said, "has permanent criminal immunity for his official acts, unless he was first impeached and convicted" in Congress. It's also the opposite of what the Republican's lawyers said during Trump's second impeachment trial. In other words, Team Trump effectively argued in 2021, "Congress should leave such matters to the courts." It's now arguing, "The matter can't be left to the courts because Congress needs to act."


It's legal in Wyoming to chase coyotes and run over them with snowmobiles, but recently, a man used his snowmobile to run down a wolf until it was disabled. Then he taped the wolf's mouth shut and paraded the animal around a local bar, taking photos to commemorate the event. Finally, he killed the wolf.


In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon famously stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift. In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip. But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further " by admitting killing her dog. Read more


Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was "nothing" compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests, the latest instance in which he has downplayed a racist incident that was one of the most criticized moments of his presidency. Speaking in a Manhattan courtroom hallway at the day's end of his criminal hush money trial, Trump blamed President Joe Biden for student protesters who have set up encampments as they call for a cease-fire in the war Israel launched after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. Biden has recently, as he often does, publicly brought up the Charlottesville rally that sparked his decision to run against Trump in 2020, where torch-wielding white supremacists marched to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, chanting "You will not replace us!" and "Jews will not replace us!" Read more


Zack Scrivner, the Kern County Supervisor, is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting his pre-teen daughter, as stated by Sheriff Donny Youngblood during a press conference on Thursday. Scrivner, a Republican, is currently the Supervisor of Kern County and a long-time friend of former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Deputies dispatched to the scene discovered Scrivner had already been disarmed and had sustained two stab wounds in a physical altercation with his children, sparked by the assault allegations. Thirty guns, electronic devices, and psychedelic mushrooms were seized from Scrivner's residence, leading to forensic examinations to determine potential influence.


There's a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it's a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it's the first open source OS that complies with the automotive industry's functional safety requirements.


Thursday, April 25, 2024

The majority of young people support a permanent ceasefire. However, of the 16 issues polled, "Israel/Palestine" ranked as the 15th most important compared to the others " only viewed as more important than student debt. Read more


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