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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯@japan_nobunaga·14hHe was an American Olympic runner at the 1936 Berlin Games. He finished eighth in the 5,000 meters and shook Hitler's hand.Six years later his Air Force B-24 crashed into the Pacific. For forty-seven days he drifted on a raft with two other men. One died. Sharks circled every night.Then the Japanese Navy picked him up and sent him to a prison camp in Naoetsu, on the Japan Sea coast.For over two years, a camp guard the prisoners called The Bird beat him with a belt buckle, broke his nose, made him hold a wooden beam over his head for...

I hope the Democrats understand what the results of the midterms really mean. They didn’t just win Congress in a landslide. They landed a two-year job interview with the American people, with the presidency in 2028 as the real prize if they do well, a chance to prove in hard policy terms they should be handed the White House. Or they could squander it beating up on the lame-duck President Donald Trump. Democrats have clearly been facing restiveness from their base over failing to stand up to Trump. They are unlikely to cooperate with the administration. If a faction of...

TheOrdinaryAmerican@TheOrdAmericanTrump Teams Up With Bukele & Topples London’s Empire In HaitiMY VIDEO NOTES BEGIN~~~Trump and Bukele teaming up fighting proxy war against the City of London. Four El Salvadoran technicians kidnapped. Bukele told the gangs send the techs to me or I'll bring in troops. The gangs gave them 4 dead bodies, Bukele said 'that's not them' and moved 2000 troops to Haiti.Someone asked Trump about it, 'That's terrible, How can El Salvador go in there like that. Let the UN handle it..." And Trump said, 'Hey, he's got to do what he's got to do. He's got to protect...

The president called the Nvidia chief on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of supporting him even as the spy scandal was intensifying. President Trump called Jensen Huang on Tuesday, before the Nvidia chief stepped down amid a rapidly unfolding spy scandal, and urged him to keep fighting for his job, according to two people briefed on the conversation.The call was the latest instance of Mr. Trump defending and protecting Mr. Huang, who had become a high-profile ally and an influential adviser on artificial intelligence. The president continued to back him to the end, even after U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that...

Dozens of Iraqis visit Baghdad’s first Jewish museum each day to view faded school certificates, handwritten ​documents and family photographs… The ‌museum occupies the historic Shamash Jewish School, founded in 1928 on Al-Rashid Street, a prominent thoroughfare in Baghdad. Iraq’s Jewish community opened the museum last month in a rare public celebration of the country’s Jewish heritage. The museum also pays tribute to prominent figures from Iraq's Jewish heritage, including celebrated singer Salima Murad. Born into a ​Jewish family in Baghdad, Murad rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s as one of Iraq's most acclaimed vocalists, known for performing...

Back in October, we told you about Nafisa Fai, who was running for a county chair in Oregon. The Somali-born politician made a trip to Minnesota of all places to campaign, where she spoke Somali in front of an upside-down American flag — not unlike Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar. As we reported a few days later, the Oregon Journalism Project retracted its headline and story describing the video as a “deepfake” that was circulated by right-wing social media accounts to brand Fai as un-American. Axios had already run with the Oregon Journalism Project's original story, which relied on a...

Jim Caviezel says Muslims want to kill him: ‘I have a fatwa on me’ ‘I have a fatwa on me,’ Caviezel told podcaster Benny Johnson, adding, 'They have a right to cut my heart out in their Islamic belief’ after appearing in the film ‘The Stoning of Soraya M.’ Catholic actor Jim Caviezel, famous for playing Jesus Christ in The Passion of the Christ, announced that Muslims want to kill him because he has spoken the truth about Islam and Sharia Law. “I have a fatwa on me,” Caviezel told podcast host Benny Johnson. “They have a right to cut...

It requires us to assist patients who want suicide and to falsify death certificates. For more than 150 years, Catholic institutions have cared for New Yorkers in need.In 1849, the Sisters of Charity, founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, responded to a cholera epidemic by founding the city’s first Catholic hospital. The Misericordia Sisters came to New York in 1887 and founded Misericordia Hospital, which eventually relocated to the Bronx and became known as Our Lady of Mercy Hospital. The Little Sisters of the Poor arrived around 1870, begging for food and money to care for the elderly poor. Mother...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Wednesday that Supreme Court justices could become impeachment targets when Democrats take control of Congress in January. AOC is accusing the Court of having “legalized” President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal conduct. The New York Democrat made the remarks during an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju following Democratic victories in last week’s midterm elections. She was also asked whether Democrats would pursue the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” she said. “There...

The debate over the progressive push for Medicare for All has dominated the early days following Democrats’ landslide victory last week. But leading progressives are floating another idea as a first step that could get broader buy-in from the Democratic caucus: lowering the Medicare age from 65 to 55. Incoming House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-Mass.) told us he’s open to the idea and could even mark it up next year. “I’m open to that. I don’t know about [age] 55, but I’m open to a conversation about it,” Neal said. “I think that’s the way to...

AUGUSTA, MAINE – The Elections division today completed ranked choice tabulations for the November 3, 2026 General Election Congressional District 2 race. Based on ranked choice tabulations, the final results are as follows: Paul LePage (170,890, 50.81%) - Winner Matthew Dunlap (165,432, 49.18%) The race went to ranked choice voting after election night results reported by the municipalities yielded 170,263 first choice votes (49.894%) for Paul LePage (R); 164,845 first-choice votes (48.307%) for Matthew Dunlap (D); 123 first-choice votes (0.036%) for declared write-in candidates, and 6,017 blank votes (1.763%). In Ranked Choice Voting races, the winner must receive a majority...

Giving evidence to the inquiry, Sheen Handoo, X's compliance and safety lead, confirmed the clip was "still live" for adult UK users behind a sensitivity warning. She said the video did not breach the platform's policies, despite Rudakubana having watched it shortly before the killings. Rudakubana, 20, is serving a life sentence after murdering six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar in an attack on a dance class in Southport in July 2024. Eight other children and two adults were seriously injured. Handoo, who joined X in 2020, said: "I would first like to...

The only way to end the Ukraine war is for Europe’s largest militaries to immediately deploy their troops there and “push for peace”, the former Secretary General of NATO has said. U.S. President Donald Trump is “siding with Putin” and European states must use force to bring the Ukraine war to an end and ensure they have a seat at the negotiating table at the end of it, former NATO Secretary General between 2009-2014 Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said in a series of statements. Rasmussen, who was Prime Minister of Denmark before his tenure at the top of the Western...

RFK JR: “People who take the flu shot are protected against that strain of flu, but they’re 4.4x more likely to get a non-flu infection … It injures your immune system so that you’re more likely to get a non-flu viral upper respiratory infection”

Perfect driving records mean little as auto insurers try to squeeze monthly premiums to cover terrifying hidden repair costs and illegal uninsured drivers .... If you have opened a renewal notice recently, you have probably asked yourself: why is my car insurance so high? You have not had a speeding ticket in a decade, your driveway is completely free of fender benders, and your daily commute has not changed. Yet, somehow, the monthly premium automatically pulled from your checking account looks like it belongs to a reckless teenager driving a bright red sports car. You are certainly not alone in...

@MSFT365Status Microsoft 365 Status We're returning a portion of affected servers to the service, and they remain stable so far. We're also shifting traffic to alternate routes wherever possible and observing limited recovery. In parallel, we've streamlined the process of returning the remaining affected servers to service. As capacity is restored, users may experience a gradual recovery as their clients reconnect. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you. 6:04 PM · Nov 12, 2026 · 346.5K Views

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week over his handling of a Singaporean company at the heart of revelations about Chinese spying on Nvidia, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced A.I. chips to the firm. The exchange, which took place at the White House on Thursday and was described by people briefed on it, highlighted growing tensions inside the Trump administration over A.I. policy in general and the Commerce Department’s posture toward Nvidia in particular. The internal debate has only intensified after Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, acknowledged...

The commerce secretary is under pressure due to his inaction on chip-export controls and tensions with other senior officials WASHINGTON—As the fallout from Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence source continues to consume the West Wing, some of President Trump’s top advisers have started shifting blame for the political mess toward one man: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.Lutnick has been a primary target of the finger-pointing within the administration because of his efforts to stall restrictions on chip exports, his longstanding relationship with the outgoing Nvidia chief executive and his pre-existing tensions with some members of the administration, according...

Heavy snow and strong winds could reduce visibility across the Sierra to near zero through Saturday morning. Conditions are expected to ease Saturday afternoon and Sunday before the next round arrives Sunday night. ... The storm heading for the mountains this weekend is now strong enough for winter storm warnings. The National Weather Service has upgraded the winter storm watches to warnings, and they take effect Friday morning. Exposed ridges could see gusts as strong as 90 mph, while the highest terrain could pick up 24 inches of heavy, wet snow. Down in the towns, the official forecast looks far...

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