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In a stunning and rare show of bipartisan cooperation—or perhaps just an overdue reality check-- Democrat Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) publicly stated his openness to federal support from President Donald Trump to help address the long-standing issues plaguing Baltimore and surrounding areas.You read that right: after years of partisan bickering, finger-pointing, and failed local leadership, even a blue-state Democrat is now asking Trump for help.Moore, a staunch anti-Trumper who has largely aligned himself with progressive urban policies, appears to have had enough. In a recent press briefing, he didn’t mince words: “I would absolutely welcome federal support,” he said, when...

Latinos make up more than half of Oxnard’s 202,000 residents, and they have long taken pride in helping to build this sprawling city by the sea.Constructed around the same agriculture fields where Cesar Chavez organized migrant laborers before establishing the United Farm Workers of America, Oxnard is a place where Latino influence is omnipresent — from music festivals to eateries. At City Hall, officials have made it a priority to protect the area’s immigrant residents and workforce — whether that involves bolstering tenant rights against predatory landlords, or joining a civil rights lawsuit against indiscriminate raids.But a summer of immigration...

Labor Day 2025 Workers Over Billionaires Labor and community are planning more than a barbecue on Labor Day this year because we have to stop the billionaire takeover. Billionaires are stealing from working families, destroying our democracy, and building private armies to attack our towns and cities. Just like any bad boss, the way we stop the takeover is with collective action. We are May Day Strong, working people rising up to stop the billionaire takeover–not just through the ballot box or the courts, but through building a bigger and stronger movement. On September 1st we will continue the movement...

Trump is exercising dramatically more power than in his first term. Here’s what provides the fuel.There are at least two measures of a president’s power. The first is how many prerogatives he claims. The second is how much resistance he faces.In his first term, Donald Trump was a weak president — maybe even historically weak. When he made even modest assertions of power, the blowback from other institutions was intense. One example: The president clearly has the power to fire the director of the FBI. Yet when Trump did so in 2017, it prompted a special-counsel investigation that threatened for...

With less than half of its vehicles operational, only one submarine seaworthy, and major equipment modernization programs years away, the CAF remains a “hollow force.” While its presence in places like Latvia is politically valuable, it serves as a “tripwire,” not a sustained, combat-capable contribution to a high-intensity coalition fight.

A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.Europe has begun buying American weapons for Ukraine in earnest, only weeks after President Trump struck a deal with NATO allies to do so.The latest sale, announced by the State Department on Thursday, will send 3,500 extended-range cruise missiles and GPS navigation kits to Ukraine once Congress formally approves it, as expected. They cost $825 million, paid for by Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, with some unspecified financial assistance from the Pentagon.The missiles can be fired from fighter...

While world's richest man and X boss Elon Musk has been a great champion for freedom of speech, his latest broadside against Nigel Farage can be chalked up as something of a win by the Reform chief. Following Farage's immigration policy announcement this week, Musk reignited an earlier feud with the Reform leader, this time calling him "weak sauce who will do nothing" to curb immigration to the UK. While Musk was instrumental in highlighting the grooming gangs scandal, more recently he has backed Tommy Robinson, someone Farage had distanced himself from. The fact remains that Farage and deputy Richard...

The NYPD’s newly revamped Quality of Life team busted a cruel sicko for allegedly duct-taping a dog’s mouth shut and stuffing it in a cage — but the suspect wasn’t off the streets for long as he was cut loose because most animal cruelty crimes aren’t bail-eligible in New York.Kristopher Fyffe, 38, was arrested Sunday, a day after witnesses watched him wrap a pit bull’s muzzle, legs, and eyes in duct tape outside Queens’ Gwen Ilfill Park in an apparent plan to dump the animal and leave it for dead, a criminal complaint against him shows.They then confronted Fyffe, who...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain more seats in the 2026 midterm elections, delivering a win for President Donald Trump and his desire to hold on to a slim GOP majority in the U.S. House.The Texas map drafted in rare mid-decade redistricting prompted fierce protests from Democrats and sparked a gerrymandering tug-of-war for voters in states across the country. “Texas is now more red in the United States Congress,” Abbott said in a video he posted on X of him signing the legislation.Before...

Oh man, talk about your all-time bad decisions. I don’t know what led up to this moment, but it’s the definition of FAFO. For some reason, a police officer was confronting a black man in a gym and instead of following the officer’s directions he squared up to try and fight him. And then….OUCH! Watch here: >a black man is asked to leave a gym>he chooses to square up with police >the officer declines his offer to fight pic.twitter.com/ba938jY5Ex— David Santa Carla 🦇 (@TheOnlyDSC) August 21, 2025That’s gonna leave a mark! Down he goes! Backup here if needed: Tweets by...

Summary Musk waited 11 days too long to reveal 5% Twitter stake Musk calls lawsuit wasteful, says he meant no harm SEC says Musk violated important disclosure rules Aug 29 (Reuters) - Elon Musk has asked a federal judge to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit claiming he waited too long to disclose his purchases of Twitter shares in 2022, accusing the regulator of overreaching in order to punish him for criticizing it.The SEC sued the billionaire in January, saying his 11-day delay in revealing his initial 5% Twitter stake let him buy more than $500 million worth...

SummaryImmigration has become the dominant political issue in Britain Government argued injunction would lead to further protests Critics of hotels for asylum seekers say communities at risk LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The British government on Friday won a court ruling that means asylum seekers will not have to be evicted from a hotel where a resident was charged with sexual assault, a decision that could ignite more protests and criticism from opponents.Immigration has now become the dominant political issue in Britain, eclipsing concerns over a faltering economy, as the country faces a record number of asylum claims and arrivals...

Scribble & Clue can solve math by barking! Image credit: Gutmann & Neuhaus 2025, CC BY 4.0/A. Carpineti, IFLScience/Valentin Drull/Shutterstock.com In one of the most hilarious papers we have read this year, two scientists challenged some famous quantum factorization records, pointing out how these approaches are only possible using very specific numbers or by changing the problem into an altogether easier-to-solve one. The team calls it sleight of hand, and are calling it out using old computers, an abacus, and even a dog! You most likely learned factorization in elementary school. You take a number and, using some known rules...

A Republican election official from North Carolina is accused of spiking his granddaughters’ ice cream with pills, according to officials. Sixty-six-year-old James Edwin Yokeley Jr. has been charged with contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance and felony child abuse, according to a recent press release from the Wilmington Police Department. On August 8, Yokeley Jr. informed a police officer he flagged down at a Sheetz gas station that his two granddaughters found hard objects in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen, the release stated. Medical personnel checked the two girls and determined they had not ingested any...

The Trump administration on Thursday authorized a major weapons shipment to Ukraine to aid the country in its fight against Russian invasion, intensifying pressure on Moscow to end its war on Kyiv. The State Department notified Congress that Ukraine is using funding from allies, in addition to U.S. foreign military financing, to pay Washington for $825 million worth of weapons, including 3,350 Extended Range Attack Munition missiles and 3,350 GPS units, along with military training and technical support. “This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a...

A pint-sized guitarist, 10-year-old Bay Melnick Virgolino, had the America's Got Talent audience rocking out on Monday's second round of the quarterfinals. He is young, yes, but not shy about showing celebrity judges Mel B, Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, and Sofia Vergara what he could do with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" in the last moments of the live episode. They were loving it as much as the crowd. "Wow, wow, wow!" Vergara said. "What a way to close the show. You're like a mini rock star!" SNIP

White Coat Waste Project (WCW), a watchdog group dedicated to ending taxpayer-funded animal experiments, has discovered that millions in taxpayer dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the State of Florida are being spent on bizarre experiments to create “transgender” monkeys by pumping male rhesus macaques full of estrogen and then injecting them with mRNA vaccines. The research, published in Cell Reports earlier this month, says that the experiments are aimed at modeling feminizing hormone therapy (FHT) as used by transgender biological males transitioning to “female.” According to the paper, “To investigate the immune effects of estrogen within...

The state of Iowa will have a chance to upgrade its congressional delegation next year, though the White House understandably wanted to play it safe. CBS reported, Senator Joni Ernst (RINO-IA) will not be seeking reelection to the Senate next year. An official announcement is scheduled for Thursday. Ernst has served in the Senate since 2015. A source told CBS that Ernst had told people close to her that she intends to serve only two terms and will enter the private sector. This news will come as a disappointment to the White House, as President Trump had urged Ernst to...

A New York City male model who was brutally attacked while defending two women in Germany has slammed the nation's immigration policies. John Rudat, 21, was stabbed multiple times and left bloodied and battered after trying to stop two victims from being violently assaulted on German public transit in the city of Dresden on Sunday. Now, he's broken his silence to reveal his attacker was 'an immigrant, an illegal one, a drug dealer and very popularly known here, especially by the police. 'He doesn't even belong here,' he added. Rudat claimed the immigrant attacker had been remanded several times before...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey paused before George Floyd's casket at the memorial. He dropped to one knee and began sobbing