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Today, the Department of War is publishing the second release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The collection continues to be housed on WAR.GOV/UFO, and additional files will be released on a rolling basis. Since the site's launch on May 8, 2026, WAR.GOV/UFO has received over 1 billion hits worldwide, highlighting the unprecedented levels of interest in both this topic and the Trump administration's historic transparency effort. The Department of War and our agency partners are actively working on the third release of UAP...

I hate to be the guy who throws on the spandex and a mask to play Captain Bringdown, but Spencer Pratt is not going to get elected mayor. That’s not dooming. That’s objectively assessing the situation. Spencer Pratt is a political superstar—there’s no doubt about that. He’s injected something that’s totally missing from the LA mayoral race, which is common sense. His innovative AI-aided ads and his ability to inflict something the Democrat overlords don’t ever get—public pushback—is highly entertaining. But Los Angeles is not coming out of its death spiral anytime soon. I wish it weren’t true. But it’s...

Nick Sortor@nicksortor🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Senate Republicans will now MISS President Trump's June 1 deadline to pass ICE and CBP funding, as John Thune decides to RECESS the Senate until NEXT MONTHThune is a FAILURE.President Trump is NOT going to be happy about this. Time to remove Thune!May 21, 2026 TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Fox Anchor Bill Hemmer: ....chaos on Capitol Hill as Senate Republicans are now set to go home until June. That's significant because that now puts them on course to miss a June 1st deadline that was set by President Trump to pass a reconciliation funding package to give money to...

When the justices meet for their private conference on Thursday, there is one high-profile petition for review they will not consider, *** an appeal by President Donald Trump seeking review of the $5 million jury verdict entered against him in the sexual abuse and defamation case filed by journalist E. Jean Carroll.Carroll filed the lawsuit that led to the verdict in a federal court in New York in 2022. She contended that in 1996 Trump had sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at a Manhattan department store and then had defamed her in a 2022 social media post in...

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Law enforcement veterans are expressing deep concerns that the Trump Justice Department's criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan is being systematically stacked with politically motivated personnel who are intent on a partisan indictment. Brennan is the subject of two criminal probes being led by the Miami-area U.S. Attorney's Office. One is weighing allegations that he lied to Congress in 2023 about the U.S. intelligence community's assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The second is a sprawling "grand conspiracy" probe examining whether Obama- and Biden-era officials were part of a long-running conspiracy to keep President Trump out...

... Last Saturday, Miner made the difficult decision to leave jake outside Fort Worth Fire Station 8. The veteran wrote a heartbreaking letter that he could no longer care for Jake if he was going to get his life back on track. "That was the number one hardest thing that I ever had to do," Miner said. Jake is in good hands with the crew, and now Tom is getting a little help too. "The floodgates opened and all these beautiful people came into my life that I'd never had before." The Fort Worth Fire Department's homeless outreach programs and...

Premier Danielle Smith says Albertans will be able to vote in the fall on whether they want the province to hold a binding referendum on separating from Canada. In a pre-recorded speech broadcast Thursday evening, Smith said a question will be added to a provincewide referendum in October that will ask, “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?” Smith said a vote in favour of separation doesn’t trigger the process,...

A Virginia waiter has been canned after giving a couple a receipt calling them the N-word. The horrified customers were celebrating their anniversary at the Crazy Crab in Fairfax on Saturday when their receipt had the racial slur typed at the bottom next to the phrase “poquito poquito,” Spanish for “a little bit,” they told Fox 5 DC. The female diner said she was “shocked and in disbelief” upon making the vile discovery. “I really could not process what was happening in that heat of the moment,” she told the outlet, speaking anonymously and noting that she and her partner...

ransomnote: The man in the skin mask is Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward (former Navy SEAL and CENTCOM deputy commander)Nick Sortor@nicksortor·12hMany have asked me what the hell is going on with this US Navy Admiral who appears to be wearing a skin mask on FoxI reviewed the raw broadcast (aired Tuesday) to confirm it’s not edited or AI-generated, and it’s… strange.I can’t explain itFull, unedited segment in repliesMay 21, 2026ransomnote: But wait, there's more. X.com has flagged this post as 'adult content'.

AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ repostedMike Davis@mrddmiaJustice is coming for lawfare Democrats.I've said it on over 5,000 media hits.I know it's slower than we'd like, but it's coming.A special grand jury is seated in Fort Pierce.Subpoenas are going out.Joe diGenova is on board.Jason Reding Quiñones has 15 people on his team and growing.Comey. Brennan. Clapper. Blinken. Sullivan. Jack Smith.What these lawfare Democrats did was republic-ending, unacceptable, and inexcusable.And they will be held accountable.So this never happens again.Thanks for having me, @JoeTalkShowMay 21, 2026.

A Minnesota man accused of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud scheme has been arrested after briefly evading federal agents, FBI Director Kash Patel said, becoming one of the most high-profile defendants in a sweeping Department of Justice (DOJ) fraud crackdown across the state. Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar, 32, was arrested on Thursday after, authorities said, he initially fled law enforcement by jumping from a fourth-floor balcony as agents moved to detain him earlier in the day. The arrest was made amid a broader federal operation targeting what officials described as tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent activity tied to multiple...

Consumer sentiment has tumbled to a fresh record low in May as fears of higher prices grow due to the U.S.-Iran war and elevated oil prices, the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers said Friday. The index of consumer sentiment fell to 44.8 from a preliminary reading of 48.2. It’s also well below the 49.8 level seen at the end of April. “Consumer sentiment fell for the third straight month as supply disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz continue to boost gasoline prices. Sentiment is now just below the previous historical trough seen in June 2022,” Surveys of Consumers Director...

At one point it was thought Massie wasn’t part of the in-crowd, either, but then he became the darling of people like Ro Khanna and the editors of Politico by joining in the Epstein chorus. His constituents noticed, and they pulled the lever for Ed Gallrein, and now Thomas Massie can go and hang with Tucker and Candace. Massie can’t blame this on Trump. Massie did this to himself. Sometimes, the grifters become the marks, and that’s the end of the grift.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson spent last fall rallying with barista union organizers and urging the public to stop buying Starbucks. Now, with the company building a 2,000-person corporate office in Nashville, Wilson wants everyone to know she's changed her mind. Wilson, a 43-year-old self-described democratic socialist, told The New York Times this week that her earlier anti-Starbucks remarks "were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good." The reversal came just months after she stood at a barista union rally as mayor-elect and, in November, declared to KUOW: "I am not buying Starbucks, and you should...

USA has paused a $14bn arms sale to Taiwan, amid significant pressure from China. The shipment was expected to include equipment vital to the island’s defence, but just a week after Trump visited Beijing for meetings with Xi, the deal has been put on hold. US said it was pausing the deal because it needed to preserve its stockpile for the war in Iran – but in the same message, it insisted it still had enough weapons. Hung Cao, the acting US navy secretary, said: “Right now we’re doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions...

A European friend approached me today, asking about guns in the US, saying, “There are so many guns in your country. It will take a long time to collect them all and get rid of them.” She was shocked when I responded, “We don’t want to get rid of them.” Young adults ages 18 and 19, along with gang-related shootings and suicide, not school shootings, account for most of the gun deaths attributed to people under the age of 20. Photo courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ==================================================================== After she got over her immediate horror and confusion, she asked,...

The recent fatal bear attack where 33-Year-Old Anthony Pollio was killed by a bear, about May 3, 2026, on the Mount Brown trail in Glacier National Park, is not the first bear attack on the trail. Some online sources are saying an empty can of bear spray was found at the attack site. If so, the attack is another case where bear spray was used in defense against a bear, and people died.There have been at least nine deaths associated with the use of bear spray in defense against a bear. There have not been any recorded deaths when a...

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races than anyone across NASCAR’s three national series, has died at 41. The Busch Family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR issued a joint statement Thursday saying that Busch died after being hospitalized. No cause of death was given. Busch’s family said earlier Thursday that he was hospitalized with a “severe illness,” three days before he was to compete at the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “Our entire NASCAR family is heartbroken by the loss of Kyle Busch,” the statement said. “A future Hall of Famer,...

Los Angeles hosts the nation’s largest unsheltered homeless population. In recent years, despite billions in city and county spending, L.A.’s once-pristine streets have become littered with tents, drugs, and feces. City leaders have made elaborate promises about managing the homeless problem, but few seem to have asked a simple question: Where, exactly, are these people coming from? There is a reason for that. In 2020, the city-county Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) found that one-third of “unsheltered Angelenos” became homeless outside of Los Angeles County. In 2024, the nonprofit RAND Corporation reported that 41 percent of the street homeless...