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Video footage showing a U.S. military strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea shows two people attempting to flip their capsized vessel when they were attacked again, multiple lawmakers said Thursday after meeting with the Navy admiral...

Like most developers, Trump thinks firing “his” architect gives him some status as a designer, but like his other idiocy, he’s making a hash of his massive ballroom. It will remain a shopping mall’s anchor store, regardless of the architect. One source...

There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by...

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President Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted last year of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. “I don’t even know what’s crazier, that President...

US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's...

By an odd historical coincidence, just as potential war crimes are finally being directed against the US military officers (and their civilian overseers in the Defense Department) involved with the now 3-month long terror campaign against small boats...

“We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.” Trump boasted Tuesday of ending eight wars during his administration, citing examples like a quick ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May after a...

This comic was inspired by a recent ProPublica analysis that found inspections of overseas food plants had dropped significantly under Trump despite unsanitary conditions found at several facilities.

While Hegseth should also be on trial for this, Admiral Bradley could have refused that order if he believed it to be illegal. The White House swore Pete Hegseth knew nothing about the Caribbean strikes. Then a video surfaces of him bragging he watched...

Doubling down to divert attention from those ‘kill them all’ orders from 2 September, since no one seems to have been there during the ‘second strike’ off Venezuela. As a student of Trump’s rhetoric, this is by far the most overtly racist, dehumanizing...

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This week's big fiction release is the latest translated into English from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. House of Day, House of Night is a collection of loosely connected portraits of people ...

“Remembering and honoring John Brown” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez While scrolling through my Bluesky feed yesterday I saw this post:

There was the usual cabinet meeting today, where the occasion was used as a press opportunity. In this instance, ‘narco-terrorist’ remains a misnomer, the 2 September mission’s Target Engagement Authority (TEA) was the SecDef, and both Trump and...

A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related |� Mike Johnson looks like an idiot after the Epstein ...

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI Wired An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to ...

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A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him.

This week, we’re helping a kindergarten in a Texas border town get some computer-based learning games, and a 6th grade on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana get supplies for science projects. We hope that readers who support quality public school...

As you must be aware, Airbus has grounded and ordered software updates (downgrades actually) for ~6,000 A320 family aircraft — more than half its global fleet — in the middle of this busy holiday weekend - after discovering that bit flips in the flight...