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Today was the premiere of CBS's revamped Evening News. The reboot is being presented as a return to a less partisan news format. Just curious what some of you think about it. FWIW, I did find the broadcast to be generally fair in its viewpoint, if a little frenetic in its presentation.

The audience of The View was stunned after one of the hosts defended Trump's arrest of Maduro, going against the stances held by her fellow liberal panel members. The talk show opened its episode this morning with a conversation about the astonishing capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, to which co-host Ana Navarro, who was born in Nicaragua, said she shed tears of joy. Navarro, a Republican but a vocal critic of President Trump, listed why she and other Hispanics are celebrating the ousting of the dictator, only to be interrupted by co-host Sunny Hostin, who asked:...

During Tuesday's Gutfeld! episode, Fox News contributor Kat Timpf criticized Operation Absolute Resolve, the U.S.-led mission that apprehended Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on drug trafficking charges. She argued that capturing a leader, bombing, and claiming to run the country isn't war, but cocaine imports are—highlighting her long-held skepticism of foreign interventions. Conservatives split: some accused her of defending Maduro amid his ouster celebrations, while others like Justin Amash praised her principled stand against mob pressure, with Timpf firing back that she'd rather take heat than lie about her beliefs.

I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati. HHS has previously taken action against Progressive in response to a conviction for Medicaid fraud. More to come. @HHSGov

The girl who filmed the video of a man m*sturbating in the women’s bathroom in Planet Fitness says the workers did nothing… Planet Fitness’ policies allow men to invade the women’s locker rooms Planet Fitness isn’t safe for women. WARNING VIDEO NSFW More show notes: Once, twice, three times NOT a lady! FReepers be prepared for this one. In the summer Planet Fitness has kids in their gym for free keep membership up and any young girl could have been in that bathroom and seen this.

Victor Davis Hanson: What We Were Told About January 6 Doesn’t Add Up As the fifth anniversary of January 6 approaches, the Left’s carefully constructed narrative is starting to crack. On today’s episode of "Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words," Hanson explains how branding January 6 an “insurrection” drove impeachment efforts, investigations, and years of specifically framed media coverage. He also examines the arrest and confession of Brian Cole Jr., the alleged January 6 pipe bomber, and why the delayed investigation and lingering questions surrounding his background cast doubt on many of the conclusions Americans were first told to...

When Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez gave a speech condemning the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, she was accompanied by two men who can make or break the regime’s future. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino command Venezuela’s police and military, the forces that kept Maduro in power for more than a decade with deadly crackdowns on dissent. Trump said Rodríguez is the de facto leader of Venezuela. She is someone who despite her anti-U.S. rhetoric has privately assured Washington that she will do its bidding with Maduro facing prison, Trump said on Saturday. But Cabello and...

Live Science reports that two 2,300-year-old gold coins have been recovered from the Bärenfels bog in northern Switzerland by a pair of volunteers working with the local archaeology department, Archaeology Baselland. These Celtic coins imitated Greek gold staters minted during the reign of Philip II of Macedon (reigned 360–336 B.C.), and feature an image of the Greek god Apollo on one side and a two-horse chariot on the other. The Celts added a triple spiral known as a triskele, or triskelion, beneath the horses on the smaller coin's reverse. These gold coins, and the 34 silver coins that had previously...

Hilton Hotels said it is investigating an independently owned Minneapolis-area property after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleged law enforcement officers were refused service, a dispute that has renewed scrutiny of the company’s long-standing opposition to immigration-related activity at its hotels. Emails shared on social media by DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appear to show staff at the Hampton Inn by Hilton Lakeville, Minnesota, telling people linked to DHS reservations that the property would not allow ICE or other immigration agents to stay. A spokesperson for Hilton told FOX Business the company is investigating the incident...

President Donald J. Trump just notched another huge win on the world stage, and Democrats are furious. At least, they want us to think they are. Trump greenlit the operation that snagged Nicolás Maduro, the narcoterrorist and socialist dictator. Now Maduro sits in American custody. Democrats want to believe that Trump committed a war crime, invaded another country, got us into an “illegal war,” and all that. But, they’re not angry about what Trump did. They’re angry because Trump did it after they spent years talking about it. Democrats spent years screeching about Maduro's iron-fisted rule. Unfortunately, their Trump Derangement...

We’ve seen plenty of leftist violence in America in recent times, but we are hardly immune. Across the Pond, in Berlin, Germany, they’re finding out just how damaging crazed anarchists can be when they put their minds to it. To wit, a far-left pro-environmental organization called the Vulkan group claimed responsibility for an attack on the power grid that has left thousands of residents without electricity for days — even as freezing temperatures engulf the region.According to the newspaper Berlin Zeitung, the group posted a 4,163-word letter saying they did it to protest the energy industry, adding that they targeted...

An AI-powered program used by a police department in Utah drafted a preliminary report indicating that a police officer had transformed into a frog. It appears it picked up the concept from a movie running in the background of the scene.

Jeremy Corbyn's recent appearance on BBC's Newsnight has sparked intense debate, as he faced tough questions about his views on Venezuela's captured leaderShare ArticleSNIPJeremy Corbyn, Co-Founder of Your Party, faced a grilling on BBC's Newsnight on Monday over his stance on ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro . The former Labour leader was roasted by host Victoria Derbyshire when he refused to accept Maduro was not Venezuela's legitimate leader. Jeremy Corbyn, Co-Founder of Your Party, faced a grilling on BBC's Newsnight on Monday over his stance on ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro . The former Labour leader was roasted by host...

At Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, tens of thousands of people crowded around a massive Douglas fir tree decked with lights. Waiting for the carnage to begin was Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali ‘child’ refugee, who was dreaming of killing them all. In 2010, Mohamud had urged a friend of his traveling to Mecca to pray “that I will be a martyr in the highest chambers of paradise.” He planned to attack Americans “in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.” And Christmas was the perfect time of the year to do it. While fathers lifted up...

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has named Canada’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland as an adviser on economic development, a move he says will help strengthen the “internal resilience” of the war-torn nation. “Chrystia is highly skilled in these matters and has extensive experience in attracting investment and implementing economic transformations,” he wrote on social media. “Right now, Ukraine needs to strengthen its internal resilience – both for the sake of Ukraine’s recovery if diplomacy delivers results as swiftly as possible, and to reinforce our defence if, because of delays by our partners, it takes longer to bring this war to...

Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants on their way to Europe capsized off the coast of Gambia, the West African nation’s leader said late Friday, setting off a frantic search and rescue operation. At least 102 survivors have been rescued and seven bodies recovered from the boat that capsized on New Year’s Eve in northwest Gambia’s North Bank region, Gambian President Adama Barrow said in a state broadcast. The emergency services were joined by local fishermen and other volunteers in searching for the victims, days after Wednesday’s incident near the village of Jinack, he said....

Archaeologists in northwest China have uncovered an 8-mile (13km) section of a Qin Dynasty road, believed to date back more than 2,200 years. The ancient military route, part of the Qinzhidao system, was constructed under the orders of Emperor Qinshihuang during China’s first unification period. The newly identified stretch runs through the Hengshan District of Yulin, in Shaanxi Province. The discovery was made during a 2024 survey conducted by the Cultural Relics Protection Research Institute in Yulin. The project focused on documenting the layout and current condition of the road remains. According to the institute, the finding helps further outline...

ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have uncovered several frescoes in the Villa Poppaea. The luxurious residence, which was built in the mid-first century B.C. overlooking the sea, was buried in ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Inscriptions found on amphoras unearthed at the site suggest that the villa may have belonged to Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of the emperor Nero. The frescoes were found in a room dubbed the "Hall of the Peacock," after the mirror images of peacocks painted on one...

BREAKING 🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Karoline Leavitt just ANNOUNCED President Trump is sending the whole Government after Tim Walz and Minnesota to uncover fraud 🔥 - 2,000 Agents on the ground from DHS - FBI is on the ground - HHS Freezing money - USDA is investigating SNAP THIS IS A MASSIVE WINnt after Tim Walz and Minnesota to uncover fraud 🔥 - 2,000 Agents on the ground from DHS - FBI is on the ground - HHS Freezing money - USDA is investigating SNAP THIS IS A MASSIVE WIN

Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it doesThe final version of HPE's own flavor of Unix, HP-UX 11i v3, is now out of support. It is the end of a line that started in 1982. According to HPE's HP-UX support matrix, the end of life for the final version was the last day of last year: HP-UX 11i v3 11.31 HPE Integrity: standard support through 31-Dec-2025 The product status is now "Mature Software Product Support without Sustaining Engineering through at least 31-Dec-2028." HPE's version numbers are complex, but the last release of HP-UX that...