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A divided federal appeals court on Monday put on hold an injunction that blocked Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Americans' private data at the Treasury and Education departments and the Office of Personnel Management.

In 1966, the remote Spanish village of Palomares found that the "nuclear age had fallen on them from a clear blue sky". Two years after the terrifying accident, BBC reporter Chris Brasher went to find what happened when the US lost a hydrogen bomb. On 7 April 1966, almost 60 years ago this week, a missing nuclear weapon for which the US military had been desperately searching for 80 days was finally found. The warhead, with an explosive power 100 times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was carefully winched from a depth of 2,850ft (869m) out of the...

Financial experts are seeing a spike in affluent working Americans looking to resettle in Europe. They say it's time for Europe to prepare for their arrival. Russian-American *Julia had wanted to leave the United States for a couple of years, but the start of President Donald Trump’s second term forced her to start taking the idea seriously. "I noticed people who are immigrants [like me], they were a lot more worried after the election happened," she told Euronews Next. "We saw the warning signs right away". The anesthesiologist worked on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis in New York City...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last week, the New York Times revealed that numerous top government health officials have been reassigned to regional offices of the Indian Health Service, which provides federal health services to Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The reassigned officials include none other than former COVID-19 czar Anthony Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady. However, Native Americans are “insulted” by Grady’s reassignment, according to the Times. The Times reported Monday that Native Americans are already mad (sic) at recent changes made to the Department of Health and Human Services—including the shuttering of regional offices that cover much of the Indian...

POTUS: “It’s a great honor, you’re an amazing athlete and person…”

WASHINGTON — The European Union has floated a “zero-for-zero” tariff resolution with the Trump administration after 20% import levies were imposed by Washington last week. “We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods as we have successfully done with many other trading partners,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday. “Because Europe is always ready for a good deal. So we keep it on the table,” she said at a press conference alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

Explanation: How much mass do flocculent spirals hide? The featured image of flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope to help answer this question. Flocculent spirals -- galaxies without well-defined spiral arms -- are a quite common form of galaxy, and NGC 4414 is one of the closest. Stars and gas near the visible edge of spiral galaxies orbit the center so fast that the gravity from a large amount of unseen dark matter must be present to hold them together. Understanding the matter and dark matter distribution of NGC 4414 helps humanity calibrate the...

President Trump on Monday directed a powerful US national security panel to take a fresh look at Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel to help determine if “further action” is appropriate, raising hopes for an elusive greenlight for the deal. “I direct the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States…to conduct a review of the acquisition of U.S. Steel by (Nippon Steel) to assist me in determining whether further action in this matter may be appropriate,” the memo reads. US Steel did not respond to requests for comment. Nippon Steel said it was “pleased” by the news. “We have...

The speaker also stopped short of guaranteeing House approval this week of a GOP budget plan. Meredith Lee Hill Meredith Lee Hill 04/07/2025, 2:46pm ET Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that the House will provide President Donald Trump with “space” to carry out his massive global tariff regime, even as some GOP lawmakers openly plead with Trump to negotiate off-ramps before the levies kick in on Wednesday. “We’re going to give him the space necessary to do it, and we’ll see how it all develops,” Johnson told reporters Monday afternoon. The speaker went on to argue Trump is “engaging and...

Trade ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Monday neared agreement on a list of US goods to target in response to the recent US decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium. But a second round designed to reply to the blanket 20% tariff on other imports from the bloc, and a flat rate of 25% on cars, remains under debate. The first round of countermeasures, which are expected to be adopted on Wednesday, is likely to include US products such as bourbon whiskey, though this inclusion remains moot, particularly after threats from US President Donald Trump to impose 200% tariffs...

Forty per cent of jobs globally could be impacted by the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in the next decade, a new report from the United Nations saidArtificial intelligence (AI) may impact 40 per cent of jobs worldwide, which could mean overall productivity growth but many could lose their jobs, a new report from the United Nations Department of Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has found. The report, which was published on Monday, says that AI could impact jobs in four main ways: either by replacing or complementing human work, deepening automation, and possibly creating new jobs, such as in AI...

Conservative parties from Germany and Poland to Australia and Canada are seeking to mimic the “America First” approach that fueled President Donald Trump’s stunning political comeback in 2024. That slogan, once ridiculed by global elites, has now become a rallying cry defining campaigns and shaping new coalitions. Throughout the world, the issues animating voters are strikingly similar: border and national security, energy independence, economic deregulation, and the unsustainable growth of national debts. Politicians are facing the same basic dilemma: cut spending and risk economic stagnation, or expand the debt and face either austerity or tough choices on social welfare. Nowhere...

The Justice Department states that the judge who ruled Kilmar Abrego Garcia had to come back to the U.S. overstepped authority. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a lower court order to return a Maryland resident, who is also a Salvadoran national, mistakenly deported last month to El Salvador. The Justice Department is arguing before the high court that the judge who ruled the deportee, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, must be returned overstepped his authority. The administration also argued since Garcia was no longer in U.S. custody there was no way to get him back, according...

ONE quickish concession following the election of Joe Biden as US President has seen a four-month suspension of the 25 per cent tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on the import of Scotch Whisky. Amongst other exports also now allowed into the US tariff free are cheese, pork, cashmere and machinery. It comes in response to the suspension of UK tariffs on certain goods effective from January 1, 2021 when Britain ceased to be part of the European Union. The argument and tit for tat measures came about as the US Government was accused of giving financial support to Boeing and...

A veteran is under fire after sharing gay porn of himself on X. But there were two problem: he is a married Army Reserve lieutenant colonel specializing in diversity, equity, and inclusion—and some of his porn was recorded during his deployment overseas. Lt. Col. Adam Harmon served as both an equal opportunity adviser and a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional in the Army—later working as a DEI attorney at prominent firms Foley Hoag and WilmerHale. According to the New York Post—the first to report on Harmon’s acts Thursday—both Harmon and his husband are West Point graduates. Harmon allegedly ran an...

Is the stock narket almost completely manipilated? Who is actually selling (I'm not.). What group of people drove the indexes down because they hate Trump? Look closely at stocks of some major companies and you'll see that they almost identically mirror the DOW Industrials. How could that happen without computer control? Check out GPN vs. the DOW.

Why Are There So Many Gay Black Men Today? show is 2 hours long Tommy asks and ponders this question.

“In America, the rule of law is king. But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.” –Thomas Paine “To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.” –Thomas Jefferson

Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart on April 2nd as they argued over a seat. Anthony entered the tent Austin and his brother were in, and they wanted him to leave. Karmelo admitted to the stabbing, and according to CBS News, once in the police car, he asked the officers if what he did could be considered self-defense. The NY Post report, based on eyewitness accounts: After the initial confrontation, Anthony unzipped a bag, reached inside, and told Metcalf, “Touch me and see what happens,” a witness told police, according to the arrest report. Moments later, Metcalf “grabbed...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday warned President Trump’s tariffs will destroy New York City’s economy and likely plunge it right into a recession — as he urged the commander in chief to “back off.” The New York Democrat claimed Trump’s “pinball tariff strategy” could result in a nearly $20 billion direct hit to the Big Apple and threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs. “President Trump’s pinball tariff strategy will wreak total havoc on New York City and is likely to drive us right into a recession. We’ve crunched the numbers, and what doesn’t look good for the nation,...