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What we know about drug-boat strike at seaThe United States will keep assets positioned in the Caribbean and strike anyone "trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco terrorist," Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said the U.S. military had attacked and destroyed a drug-carrying vessel in the region. Mr. Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. had struck the boat in international waters after it had departed from Venezuela. The president later said on Truth Social that 11 people were killed in the strike. He said the attack targeted...

Five House Republicans helped Democrats kill a motion to censure Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver (NJ) on Wednesday. GOP Congressman Clay Higgins forced a censure vote on LaMonica McIver after she was charged with assaulting federal agents at an ICE facility in May. Every Democrat, with the help of five insufferable Republicans, killed the motion. The five Republican lawmakers included: Don Bacon, Mike Flood, Dave Joyce, Mike Turner and David Valadao.

BANGKOK (AP) — Soldiers in pristine and pressed uniforms marched in lockstep, their boots clacking a steady cadence on the pavement and their eyes following leader Xi Jinping as he drove by in review. Helicopters flew overhead, forming the numbers 8 and 0 in honor of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. There was no shortage of pageantry at Wednesday’s military parade in Beijing, but beyond the spectacle, it also provided the first good look at China’s latest military hardware. New missiles, drones and other high-tech equipment have been added to its arsenal as part of...

Progressive darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is teaming up with Republicans on a rare issue they have in common - taking down their colleagues who may be cashing in on insider information. Outrage has been growing about members of Congress who have been unfairly profiting from trading the very stocks they regulate. Many lawmakers have become multi-millionaires after working in Washington despite making an annual salary of just $174,000. There's been heavy scrutiny on ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after her net worth nearly doubled to $265 million since 2013. Though the former speaker never tried to ban congressional trading during her tenure, she...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist medications such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Zepbound, Mounjaro) have taken the world by storm over the past few years. People are losing tremendous amounts of weight and improving certain chronic medical conditions when all else has failed to help. Yet, it was an accident that GLP-1s were rediscovered as a toolopens in a new tab or window for weight loss. We have had GLP-1 medications on the market for a long time now, such as in the form of liraglutide (Saxenda). Liraglutide was first approved by the FDA in 2010 to improve blood glucose...

American Eagle said its campaign with actress Sydney Sweeney has so far led to positive gains in new customers and sales. The clothing retailer issued fiscal second-quarter earnings that beat expectations on the top and bottom lines.

More than 1,000 current and former employees across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) signed a letter on Wednesday morning calling for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s resignation.Addressed to Kennedy and members of Congress, the signatories accused the secretary of endangering the health of Americans. Save HHS, the group behind the letter, told ABC News it's been sent to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as Majority and Minority leadership."We swore an oath to support and defend the United States...

A spokesperson for Chelsea Clinton told the Washington Examiner that “there is no truth to this” when asked about reports speculating that she would launch a bid for the seat held by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY). “She is not considering a run,” the spokesperson said.The news comes after a few days of speculation about who will join what is expected to be a crowded Democratic primary to replace Nadler. The longest-serving New Yorker, whose career spans over three decades in Congress, announced Monday he wouldn’t seek reelection after heeding calls of generational change from the younger members of the...

At least fifteen people are dead and 18 more injured after Lisbon's famous Gloria Funicular derailed on Wednesday evening. The tragedy occurred after one of the cables came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and career down a steep hill before colliding with a building at around 6pm. Footage from the site showed the tram-like funicular, which carries people up and down a hillside in the Portuguese capital, practically destroyed and emergency workers pulling people out of the wreckage. Portugal Police have now confirmed the number of fatalities has reached 'at least 15' following earlier reports...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a statement from the Oval Office, President Trump stubbornly refused to admit that he died this past weekend. Journalists pressed the President as to why he would not simply admit that he is dead, but to no avail. "You are obviously dead, Mr. President. Why will you not level with the American people?" asked Kaitlin Collins of CBS News. "Excuse me, but can a ghost shoot three under par on the back nine like I did on Saturday? No way, not any ghosts that I know," responded President Trump. "They can't even hold a club...

Speculation has been swirling about President Donald Trump's health, with some people even spreading wild rumors that he died over the weekend. What's the real story? The Babylon Bee has come up with the following list of undeniable signs that Trump's health is going downhill: Trump has been occasionally posting in lowercase on social media, and his posts have been more coherent: This is not normal. He is sometimes seen sitting down: A sure sign of failing health. Obviously weak. He only managed to eat eight Big Macs today: It's like he's slowly fading away. The man's frickin' 80...

Two cultivated meat companies have filed a lawsuit against officials in Texas over the law that bans the sales of lab-grown meat in the state for two years. California-based companies UPSIDE Foods, which makes cultivated chicken, and Wildtype, which makes cultivated salmon are suing Attorney General Ken Paxton, Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas Health and Human Services, and Travis County, accusing them of government overreach. “This law has nothing to do with protecting public health and safety and everything to do with protecting conventional agriculture from innovative out-of-state competition,” said Paul Sherman, a senior attorney at the Institute...

Nigel Farage told a House committee that American citizens faced the risk of arrest if they traveled to the United Kingdom after making social media posts that fall foul of British laws on speech. The British politician, who is a member of Parliament and leads the country's right-wing Reform U.K. party, gave the warning after Irish comedian Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport over his X posts about transgender individuals. Free speech restrictions in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe have been a recurring topic of discussion for the right in the United States. But advocates of laws against...

Here is a wonderful little story A young cashier told an older woman that she should bring her grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized, "We didn't have this green thing back in my day." The young clerk said, "Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She gave him a firm stare and a hard grin and said “Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles, and beer bottles. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed sterilized and refilled, so it could use the...

Finally - - In this video interview by Liberty Daily, we start to get pedophile names by Thomas Massie. As you know, Massie is a controversial figure, but on this issue he is a bulldog.

Top White House officials are in talks over a potential job for Eric Adams in President Trump’s administration — as pressure mounts for mayoral candidates to drop out and clear the lane for the strongest challenger against socialist Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned. The conversations about a potential plum gig for Adams have been taking place among high-level Trump officials, but it’s unclear if they have reached the president’s desk, sources said. “I think Adams would be able to craft a position and a portfolio that’s to his liking,” a source close to Trump’s administration said. “I’ve heard the...

Explanation: How soon do jets form when a supernova gives birth to a neutron star? The Africa Nebula provides clues. This supernova remnant surrounds Circinus X-1, an X-ray emitting neutron star and the companion star it orbits. The image, from the ThunderKAT collaboration on the MeerKAT radio telescope situated in South Africa, shows the bright core-and-lobe structure of Cir X-1’s currently active jets inside the nebula. A mere 4600 years old, Cir X-1 could be the "Little Sister" of microquasar SS 433*. However, the newly discovered bubble exiting from a ring-like hole in the upper right of the nebula, along...

The country pop singer offered a crowd of celebs and Hamptons locals some raw behind-the-scenes stories on the making of her new album “Dreamsicle” during an intimate Soho Sessions concert at the iconic Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett Monday night. “I started dating a little bit [after my divorce] and just met some f*cking bums that couldn’t pay the tab,” she said of the inspiration behind the song “Too Good.” “I brought to my cowriters this idea, and I was like, ‘I’ve been dating a few losers. I think it’s just a stroke of bad luck. It’s gonna end soon.'” The...

WARREN, Mich. — A handgun reported stolen from a New York police station nearly 50 years ago was recovered from a motorist’s underwear during a routine traffic stop in Warren, according to Michigan State Police.Troopers spotted a driver making an improper turn on to a residential street near Dequindre and Eight Mile roads just after midnight on Aug. 27. The driver accelerated to 45 mph in a 25-mph zone, police said.After stopping the driver, he displayed “numerous signs” of intoxication before admitting he had consumed alcohol, troopers said. He was given a field sobriety test which showed multiple clues of...

Much was foretold this last weekend by Mahmoud Khalil, the formerly arrested Columbia University Palestinian student leader, who spoke before the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel “People’s Conference for Palestine” held in Detroit, Michigan. Khalil, the keynote speaker, told a room packed with thousands of pro-Palestinian militants that they should organize a “national liberation movement” in the United States. “We should build a national liberation movement,” Khalil advised the activist audience who openly strategized for “resistance.” “We should build a national liberation movement,” Khalil advised the activist audience who openly strategized for “resistance.”