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A US Marine who fell overboard from an attack ship in the Caribbean has become the first known American casualty in the Trump administration's operation targeting drug-trafficking boats. Lance Cpl Chukwuemeka E. Oforah, 21, fell from the USS Iwo Jima on 7 February and was lost at sea. He was pronounced dead after a lengthy search, which ended 10 February. The Florida native was assisting Operation Southern Spear, which has carried out 38 lethal strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since September. It played a key role in the capture of Venezuelan president Nicholas...

Yep, the entire second movement. Don't thank me. I'm a giver.

We might want to rethink DEI and a left-wing political stance as the sole qualifications for high-level law enforcement positions. Via Fox News: A North Carolina House Oversight Committee hearing spurred on by the recent killing of a young Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska, in Charlotte, took an unexpected turn when [Republican State Representative Allen] Chesser asked Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, “What branch of government do you operate under?” McFadden, who is the top law enforcement officer in the county where Zarutska was killed, simply answered, “Mecklenburg County,” prompting Chesser to repeat, “What branch of government do you operate under,...

Slade drummer Don Powell has shared insight on his life-changing car accident. It was the early morning of July 4, 1973 when the rocker was severely injured in a crash near his home in Wolverhampton, England. At the time, Slade was the biggest band in Britain, having scored five No. 1 singles on the U.K. chart. Powell and his fiance were both ejected from the vehicle in the accident. She died instantly, but the drummer miraculously survived. “I've still got no idea what happened,” Powell confessed during a recent appearance on the Rockonteurs podcast. “We were both, myself and my...

A Kentucky mother and her husband are accused of killing their baby after the woman allegedly claimed to suffer a miscarriage shortly before authorities discovered the infant's body outside the couple's home. Deeann Bennett and Charles Bennett were taken into custody this week — more than a year after the child's body was discovered — and charged with one count each of reckless homicide and concealing the birth of an infant, authorities announced. Deeann Bennett is also facing additional counts of tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse. According to a news release from the Kentucky State Police,...

Italian authorities successfully foiled a dramatic armed assault on an armoured cash transit vehicle along a major highway in the Puglia region on Monday February 9. The attack involved explosions, firearms and blocked vehicles, creating a tense and dangerous situation for motorists travelling along the motorway. Police and emergency services responded quickly, ensuring no one was injured despite the severity of the incident. The assault occurred on the Lecce–Brindisi motorway, a key route in southern Italy, and left drivers shocked as they witnessed masked attackers using vehicles and explosives to halt traffic. Eyewitnesses described seeing thick smoke rising from the...

The figure skating world is screaming sacré bleu over the scoring by French judge Jézabel Dabois that cost American pair Madison Chock and Evan Bates gold in the ice dance competition and handed the controversial French duo Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron the top prize. Dabois’ scoring has come under intense scrutiny in the 24 hours since Beaudry and Cizeron edged out Chock and Bates with a total score of 225.82, a mere 1.43 points better than the U.S. duo to win the gold. The French judge’s scores drastically differed from those of her fellow judges and herself when...

The number of unborn children with a disability who were aborted in England and Wales has increased, according to the latest abortion statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care. Abortion statistics released by the Department of Health and Social Care in January revealed that 3,205 disability-selective abortions took place in 2023, an increase of 2.59% from the previous year. In England and Wales, 685 babies with Down’s syndrome were aborted in 2023, while 40 babies with a cleft lip or palate were aborted. Sadly, the figures for cleft lip and palate are likely to be higher; for...

n her 2022 memoir, abortionist Christine Henneberg told the story of a pregnant Black woman who came to the hospital where Henneberg was a resident. The 26-year-old woman was with her two-year-old son. She was pregnant and bleeding. The doctor, whom Henneberg calls Dr. A., asked the woman, “Is this a planned pregnancy? Do you think you’re going to keep it?” The woman said her pregnancy wasn’t planned, and she wasn’t sure if she wanted an abortion. The baby’s father, she said, wanted the child. Because of the bleeding, Dr. A. did an ultrasound. When the young mother saw her...

President Trump on Thursday reacted to Pam Bondi’s House Judiciary Committee testimony on Wednesday, commending her for what he described as a “fantastic” performance during questioning over the Epstein Files. “Bondi, under intense fire from the Trump Deranged Radical Left Lunatics, was fantastic at yesterday’s Hearing on the never ending saga of Jeffrey Epstein, where the one thing that has been proven conclusively, much to their chagrin, was that President Donald J. Trump has been 100% exonerated of their ridiculous Russia, Russia, Russia type charges,” Trump said. He further slammed the “SLIMEBALL Democrats, many of them big Donors and Politicians,”...

PAM BONDI JUST PLAYED THE GREATEST TRAP IN POLITICAL HISTORY. And Congress walked right into it. Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi sat before the House Judiciary Committee. Standard oversight hearing. Routine questions. Then she pulled out a document. Labeled: "Jayapal Pramila — Search History." The room went SILENT. ⚠️ HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED The DOJ gave Congress access to the unredacted Epstein files this week. Every member got their own login. Their own computer. Their own session. What Congress didn't know? The DOJ was tracking EVERY SINGLE SEARCH. Every name they looked up. Every document they opened. Every file they downloaded....

The Epstein files coverup just blew up on live tv, but not in the way most people expected...

The former White House counsel under President Obama has resigned from Goldman Sachs over her ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Kathryn Ruemmler, who works as general counsel at Goldman, said she will resign this summer after emails released by the Justice Department revealed her conversations with Epstein, according to The Financial Times. 'I made the determination that the media attention on me, relating to my prior work as a defense attorney, was becoming a distraction,' Ruemmler told the publication. She will exit the firm on June 30. Ruemmler rose to the top ranks at Wall Street and became a key...

“An Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of U.S. television journalist Savannah Guthrie's mother, impairing its ability to assist in the probe, a U.S. law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told Reuters on Thursday. The FBI asked Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos for physical evidence in the case, including a glove and DNA from the home of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, to be processed at the FBI's national crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, but Nanos has insisted instead on using a private lab in Florida, the official said. Outsourcing forensic...

Viewership for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime performance fell 7% compared to the game's peak total, Nielsen's quarter-hour ratings data showed. Sunday's championship in San Francisco maxed out at a record 137.9 million viewers -- 134.3 million on NBC and 3.6 million on Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo -- during the 7:45-7:59 p.m. ET window as the Seattle Seahawks inched away from the New England Patriots in the second quarter. Total viewership fell to 128.2 million while Bad Bunny was on stage in the 8:15-8:29 p.m. ET window, Front Office Sports reported Wednesday. NBC lost almost 10 million viewers from the...

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and director Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for a segment of music from their 2017 film Phantom Thread to be removed from Melania Trump’s controversial Amazon documentary. The musician, who composed the score for the film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, alleged in a statement that the usage of the music was a breach of his composer agreement. “It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary,” Greenwood and Anderson’s representatives said in a joint statement obtained by Variety. His attorneys claimed that while Greenwood does not...

Whether they agree with Sir Jim Ratcliffe or not, Manchester United fans are growing accustomed to their main decision-maker publicly expressing his strong political views. For almost two decades, Ratcliffe’s predecessors, the Glazer family, said next to nothing about anything. When United fans asked for more, or just any communication, they probably didn’t have in mind what they’re getting now, with United front-page news because Ratcliffe, an immigrant who lives in Monaco, said that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants. The UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has intervened, calling out his comments as “offensive and wrong. Britain is...

The San Francisco Bay Area experienced a sharp spike in private jet departures in the immediate aftermath of Super Bowl LX. Hundreds of aircraft left regional airports within hours of the game ending at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The scale of the post-game exodus highlighted the intense travel demands created by the NFL’s biggest event. Flight tracking data showed roughly 600 private jets departing the Bay Area following Super Bowl LX. The surge represented an increase of more than 1,100 percent in departures across five regional airports compared to the previous Sunday. San Jose Mineta International Airport served as...

Trace Gallagher is reporting that Pima County Sheriff is blocking the FBI from evidence.

Matt Shumer warns that AI is reshaping industries like law, finance, and customer service, urging professionals to adapt quickly to stay relevant. Artificial intelligence could eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years, according to tech entrepreneur Matt Shumer, who says the shift is unfolding faster than most people realise. Shumer, founder and CEO of AI firm OthersideAI (HyperWrite), made the remarks in a widely shared essay titled Something Big Is Happening. In it, he compared the current AI moment to early 2020, just before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted economies and daily life across...