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Bruce Springsteen offered a "prayer of thanks" for Donald Trump at the beginning of his show in Austin on Sunday night. The legendary rocker – who has been embroiled in a war of words with the President for years – offered a moment of civility by acknowledging the shooting at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, which took place the night before. In his message, the Boss gave a “prayer of thanks that our President, nor anyone in the administration, nor anyone attending, was injured” (via Consequence). “We can disagree,” Springsteen continued. “We can be critical of those in power, and...

Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente tells "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" that Nancy Guthrie likely coughed up blood on her front entrance as she was being abducted late Jan. 31 or early Feb. 1. "This is probably where she made her last stand," he said. Nancy Guthrie blood spatter: Ex-FBI profiler lays out chilling theory Elizabeth Vargas Reports | 6:15 NewsNation | 2.66M subscribers | Subscribe | 256,958 views | April 25, 2026

A hot air balloon slammed into a Sacramento-area casino building Monday afternoon and stayed in the air after the chaotic tumble. Sister station KCRA's LiveCopter 3 captured the moment the balloon slammed into a building as Sky River Casino was celebrating a groundbreaking for a new hotel. The video showed the basket of the balloon hit the side of the building, at one point reaching a 90-degree angle, while there was someone still inside the basket. The balloon kept going, attempting to descend for a landing, then aborting the effort and climbing back into the sky. LiveCopter 3 observed the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the White House on Monday for a brief joint press conference in which he presented the British monarch with an autographed copy of the Declaration of Independence. Trump fielded a question from a reporter about the longstanding relationship between the U.S. and England before bringing out what he called a "special limited edition" copy of the Declaration of Independence. "We have here a copy of the Declaration of Independence," Trump said with a boyish grin. "And this one is really special because it's signed by me,...

British control of the Falkland Islands, which the United States helped the Brits reconquer in the 1982 Falklands War, now seems to be at risk. There are news reports that the Trump administration’s list of ways to punish recalcitrant NATO allies includes siding with Argentina over control of the Falklands. London’s Express reported that Donald Trump’s Pentagon officials are exploring ways the United States can punish NATO countries for failing to support the Iran war, including by reportedly reviewing Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands. . . . An option included in the message is to consider reassessing US diplomatic...

Days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, Kimmel said during a late-night monologue that the first lady had "a glow like an expectant widow."President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are taking aim at late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made about the first lady looking like an "expectant widow," days before the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. In a fiery statement Monday on social media, President Trump criticized Kimmel's joke and called on Disney — which owns ABC and airs the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show — to fire...

From a "Day On The Green" concert promoted by Bill Graham, 2 July 1977. A brilliant live performance, they also played "Sweet Home Alabama". I was able to replace the audio as this performance was used in "Freebird - The Movie" of which a soundtrack album was issued. Unfortunately there is no track for "Sweet Home Alabama". MtnClimber: I saw the band on October 18, 1977 at the Lakeland (FL) civic center on the next to the last performance before the plane crash. It was the 5th time I had seen them. The devastating Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash near Gillsburg,...

A real policy push emerged in 2024 to extend certain legal protections to Americans who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2024, members of Congress introduced H.R. 8445, a bill that would have amended federal law “to provide for the eligibility of United States citizens who serve in the Israeli Defense Forces for certain protections relating to such service.” Under current law, US veterans’ benefits are tied to service in the US armed forces. The statutory definition of “veteran” appears at 38 USC § 101(2) and limits eligibility to those who served in US military forces or narrow...

Rev. Jim Rigby also called the confederacy the 'heart of the MAGA movement' and labeled it a 'fascistic movement' Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, called on Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico to "condemn" his pastor's Sunday sermon, claiming that Talarico's pastor "made light" of the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner this past Saturday. Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian, has centered his campaign and progressive policies — which include anti-ICE and open borders messaging — on his faith background. At the same time, he has railed against Christian nationalism and called for the separation of...

Peter Thompson is co-founder and CEO of LucidLink, the cloud-native file streaming platform that enables instant, secure access to large files by streaming data on demand, allowing teams to access and edit complex filesets without downloading or syncing. I was 48 years old when I left my job and enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Studies program at Stanford. Most people at that stage of their careers are trying to reduce risk, not introduce it. They have steady income. They have dependents. In tech, the unspoken assumption is that if you were going to take a big swing, you should have done...

MAGA influencers hammered ex-President Barack Obama on Monday over how he worded his Sunday post condemning the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner the previous night. “Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay,”...

Rep. Ted Lieu drew attention during a recent congressional hearing after comments made related to Donald Trump and the Jeffrey Epstein files. The California lawmaker referenced material he said appears in the documents and urged further scrutiny of the claims.Ted Lieu says Epstein files have allegations of Donald Trump ‘raping children’At an event on February 4, 2026, Rep. Ted Lieu said, “Why are Republicans so interested in Bill and Hillary Clinton? It’s because they’re trying to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times.” He added, “In those files, there’s highly...

Female ‘archbishop’ of Canterbury gives ‘blessing’ at St. Peter’s tomb with Catholic bishop presentCatholic Archbishop Flavio Pace made the Sign of the Cross as Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally performed a ‘blessing’ in the Clementine Chapel during a Vatican visit.The female Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury has given a “blessing” at the tomb of St. Peter with a Catholic archbishop present. A photograph of Sarah Mullally giving a “blessing” at the tomb of St. Peter in the catacombs underneath St. Peter’s Basilica has caused controversy online. The picture was taken on Saturday, April 25, during Mullally’s visit to the Vatican....

The pure evil co-hosts of ABC News’s The View were openly happy that President Trump and the present cabinet officials were in fear for their lives during the assassination attempt at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner. During their Monday discussion of the attack, co-host Ana Navarro was glad the officials feared they would be killed because they finally knew what school students felt like during an active shooter. The rest of the cast provided ZERO pushback, only agreement was expressed. Before sharing her happiness for Trump fearing his murder, Navarro falsely claimed Trump never called for unity nor for people...

Pakistani attacks on the east Afghan province of Kunar have killed at least seven people and injured 75, among whom are students and a professor at Kunar University, multiple sources have told the BBC. According to the Taliban government, 30 of the injured are university students. Pakistan's information ministry denied attacking the university and residential areas, saying the reports were fake. Reports of the Kunar attacks come several weeks after a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital Kabul which, according to the UN, is now known to have killed 269 people. The Taliban say...

This winter, the Upper Colorado Basin saw some of the lowest snow totals in recorded history. As a result, federal officials made a decision to limit water releases from Lake Powell downstream in the coming months. Officials say that will result in substantial drops in Lake Mead's elevation. "All we’re seeing are depletions,” Kyle Roerink, advocate with the Great Basin Water Network, said. “We are dealing with changing snowpacks, changing runoff patterns, increasing evaporation rates, drier soils, and other natural phenomena that are depleting our bank accounts and our savings accounts," he said. Water managers face an encroaching deadline for...

Former President Barack Obama claimed Sunday “details about the motives” of accused White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter Cole Allen were still unknown despite the gunman confessing he was targeting top Trump officials in a raving manifesto. “Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama wrote on X Sunday afternoon. “It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful...

I've long thought Eric Carmen's "Go All the Way" by his group, Raspberries (1972) was a practically perfect rock n roll song.

https://x.com/BredsguardDalen/status/2048626143537107207 Riccardo Bosi reposted DADA @BredsguardDalenSeems like chess pieces are being moved while everyone is distracted. ransomnote: excerpt of 2 min video belowTRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~On Monday, April 13, while the entire world was watching Hormuz, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth quietly hosted Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin in the Pentagon.And what they announced was a major defense cooperation partnership between the United States and Indonesia. The partnership has three pillars.ONE: Military modernization capacity buildingTWO: Training and professional military educationTHREE: Regional exercises and operational cooperationAnd woven into this agreement is Indonesia granting US military aircraft "blanket oversight access across the whole of...

A teacher at a pre-K and kindergarten in Cincinnati, Ohio, is facing intense backlash and calls for her termination after posting a video expressing her disappointment that President Donald Trump survived the latest assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. Corinne Baum, whose LinkedIn says she is a teacher at The Children’s House in Cincinnati, a private Montessori-style school, posted a video lamenting the news that the gunman’s attempt on the president’s life had failed. “Man, there’s been a few creators on here saying that like Friday or yesterday could have been the day, and then I...