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In an interview with "We The Fifth" hosts Matt Welch and Michael Moynihan, Democratic insider and 2028 hopeful Rahm Emanuel said Democrats "lost the plot" because the party became unanchored from middle-class values. "Why would you undercut the premise of Title IX with the ability of trans men playing in women's sports?" Emanuel asked. "To me, it's insane. You're undermining one of the great accomplishments we as a country, but also spearheaded by the Democratic Party, Title IX. And we're undercutting it." RAHM EMANUEL: We lost the plot. We as Democrats nationally, from Latinx, to defunding the police, to police...

A New York Times headline that laughably mischaracterized NATO as “A North American Treaty Organization” drew widespread scorn on Friday. The glaring mangling of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s name quickly spread across X. Within minutes, a post pointing out the egregious error drew a wave of ridicule, disbelief and anger — much of it aimed not just at the mistake itself, but at what users framed as broader failures in mainstream media.

US citizens traveling to Hong Kong are being warned that refusal to hand over passwords or access to their personal devices is now a criminal offense. The US Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macao issued a warning that the Hong Kong government has changed the rules relating to the National Security Law on March 23. The change applies to everyone in Hong Kong, including residents, visitors and travelers transiting through the airport. “It is now a criminal offense to refuse to give the Hong Kong police the passwords or decryption assistance to access all personal electronic devices, including cellphones...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that he was ending the policy that turned U.S. military installations into “gun-free zones,” declaring in a brief video statement, “That ends today.” Hegseth signed a memorandum stating that base commanders should allow service members to request permission to carry their privately-owned firearms while off duty — regardless of any firearm regulations imposed by the states in which the bases were located — and shared video explaining the move. WATCH: “Our great republic is founded on a simple, yet bold idea,” Hegseth began, saying that the nation was built the idea that rights...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s “paranoia” about Army Secretary Dan Driscoll taking his job fueled the firing of the Army’s top general, current and former administration officials tell The Post — as a top contender emerges to replace Driscoll if he’s canned next. Hegseth on Thursday demanded the resignation of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George’s — Driscoll’s top aide — in the middle of the Iran war for reasons that were not publicly stated, following months of mounting tensions with Driscoll. “This is all driven by the insecurity and paranoia that Pete has developed since Signalgate. Unfortunately, it...

A US district judge on Friday denied the Trump administration’s request to reconsider the legality of two subpoenas targeting the Federal Reserve, after he blocked them last month. In a biting six-page opinion, US District Judge James Boasberg wrote that the government had failed to provide any new evidence or identify any error in his March ruling. The chief judge of Washington’s federal trial court wrote that the government’s “cursory brief” does “not come close to convincing the Court that a different outcome is warranted.” *** Last month, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro appealed the initial ruling, which blocked two subpoenas...

The city of Springfield, Ohio, gained unwanted notoriety recently, but Springfield and other Ohio cities have genuine problems that have nothing to do with dubious claims of barbecued pets. In these cities, the majority of children under age 18 are being raised by single mothers (either never married or divorced/separated) who do not live with their children’s fathers or stepfathers. In Springfield, for example, only 44% of mothers were married and living with their husbands and children during the five-year period from 2018-2022. In Cleveland, only 33% were. In Youngstown, 32%; while in Cincinnati, 46%. By contrast, in the suburban...

Here's the thing, though. When the Telegraph asked Glover about being the first black astronaut to make this journey, his response didn’t exactly follow the usual script. He said: "It is a big question, and I wanna highlight, I guess maybe one facet of this is the tension, I call it. I live in this, and you know, this dichotomy between happiness that a young woman can look at Christina and just physicalize her, her passion or her interests, or even if it's not something she wants to do, she can just be like, 'Girl power,' and that's awesome.”

Liberal Maine Democrats control Maine State Government: Governor, Senate, House. They are poised to impose a 2% tax on the 2,600 tax paying Mainers who earn a million dollars or more per year. The governor said she expects the state will see added income tax revenue of $150 million over the next two years. There is no mention in the news story about the likelihood of any of those 2,600 taxpayers changing their legal residency to income tax free states in response to this new law. Nor is there any discussion regarding the possibility of future legislation lowering the tax...

Residents of the Santa Cruz Mountains experienced a magnitude 4.6 earthquake early Thursday morning, the strongest since the 1989 Loma Prieta quake.Residents of the Santa Cruz Mountains felt every second of a magnitude 4.6 earthquake early Thursday morning, marking the strongest quake in the region since the 1989 Loma Prieta disaster. "I did go outside expecting to see the Earth open, and it was that intense," said Keith Swick, a mountain resident. Advertisement Magnitude 4.9 earthquake near Boulder Creek wakes Central Coast residentsMagnitude 4.6 earthquake near Boulder Creek wakes Central Coast residents Home cameras captured the moment the world...

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Some may find the video disturbing. Animal control officers in Seaside are looking for a husky involved in a vicious dog attack that was caught on camera. Animal control officers in Seaside are looking for a husky involved in a vicious dog attack that was caught on camera. In the video, a small Yorkie is seen being bitten and grabbed by a husky. Officials want to find the husky before it attacks again. Sophie, a 3-year-old Yorkie, is now missing after being snatched up by a large husky that was on the loose in a Seaside neighborhood....

Explanation: How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find them by analyzing their gravitational effects on matter, light and spacetime. The featured image shows an illustration that combines a simulation of a black hole binary system in its final "death-dance" with an astrophotography image of the Tarantula Nebula in the background. Even though black holes don't emit light, they distort the path of light rays, acting like a gravitational lens. As a result, the nebula appears extremely distorted, forming Einstein rings and multiple images. Tarantula...

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg said NATO may need to be replaced, arguing the organization has shown itself to be "cowards" and ineffective during the conflict with Iran. In an appearance Wednesday on "Hannity," Kellogg blasted NATO allies over their failure to address the conflict in Iran. He suggested the United States may benefit from different defensive partners. "NATO's turn[ing] [out] to be cowards," Kellogg said. "Maybe we need to have a new NATO, a new defensive establishment." He pointed to Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that any party may leave NATO one year after providing...

Former Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey says his wife isn’t speaking to him after the team cut him amid fallout from anti-LGBTQ+ comments he made on an Instagram live stream. “That’s why my wife in here, and she not even texting me,” Ivey, 24, revealed on another Instagram live stream on Tuesday, March 31, “Those who are around me, those who are my family members betraying [me] because of what I spoke. The truth. Betraying me. Saying that I’m losing my mind. Saying that I’m crazy. … Those are my own household. All because of the Gospel. All because I...

Jaheim Alford told his passengers, “I am going to kill everyone in the car” as he shifted his car into sport mode and accelerated through a red light into a York city intersection the night of Sept. 8, 2024, according to police. He smashed his red Hyundai sedan into a blue Honda Odyssey carrying two people — one of whom was pregnant, and later lost the child, police said. He was smoking marijuana before he got behind the wheel, police said. Alford, 24, of Latta, South Carolina, was originally arrested on 16 charges, led by three counts of attempted homicide....

Another American plane involved in the war in Iran crashed in the Persian Gulf today, according to US officials cited by The New York Times. According to the Times, the A-10 Warthog went down near the Strait of Hormuz at around the same time that an F-15E was shot down over Iran. The report says the pilot from the A-10 was safely rescued.

The submarine, launched by the Confederate Army in the last full year of the Civil War, made history when it became the first combat submarine to ever sink a warship. But on the same night when the H.L. Hunley’s torpedo sent the USS Housatonic, along with two of its officers and three of its enlisted crew, to a watery grave in the depths of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, the Hunley itself—along with its eight-man crew—was also claimed by the waves. snip In a study published in PLOS One in 2017, a team of researchers affiliated with Duke University announced...

The Iranians managed to shoot down an American fighter jet today (Friday), when one of the two crew members on the plane was rescued and a search is underway for the other. This event, perhaps the biggest drama since the beginning of the war, took place this morning (Friday) in southwestern Iran. Plane F-15 who is on a mission is hit by Iranian anti-aircraft fire and crashes. The two crew members, the pilot and the navigator, manage to safely abandon the plane. The pilot was rescued, but the US fears the possibility of the navigator being captured. Sources familiar with...

Reports suggest that Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, was secretly airlifted to Moscow for surgery following severe injuries sustained in the initial wave of airstrikes. The health and whereabouts of Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, have become a central mystery in the ongoing war. Intelligence reports from both the U.S. and Israel indicate that the 56-year-old successor was "very seriously wounded" during the opening wave of strikes on February 28, which targeted the compound housing his father’s residence. While Iranian state media continues to issue written statements in his name, he has not made a single public...

Europe could have used the "Lion's Roar" campaign to reset its domestic policy regarding radicalization; instead, they chose to prioritize internal "harmony" with an increasingly hostile demographic. President Donald Trump, in his characteristically blunt fashion, offered European leaders a strategic out: a chance to align with a hardline U.S.-Israeli axis to secure Middle Eastern hegemony and, crucially, to use that external momentum to address the rapid Islamization occurring within their own borders. But Europe didn’t just miss the boat, they actively pushed it away. Faced with a choice between long-term civilizational security and short-term domestic quiet, the leadership of France...