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As we witness the Democrats gearing up to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, we might pause to ask whether they are going to charge him with offenses that were common practice under the three prior Democratic presidents?If Hegseth ordered strikes on suspected terrorists and drug smugglers, he and President Trump were only following the precedents of Barack Obama.Without congressional authorization, Obama ordered about 550 targeted drone assassination strikes along the Afghan, Syrian, and Iraqi borders over his tenure.Obama also likely had fatally droned between 2,300 and 2,500 suspected terrorists in addition to anywhere from 380 to 800 innocent civilians.And...

Members of the Kennedy family called President Donald Trump's plans for a 250-foot arch. close to the Arlington National Cemetery a 'permanent denigration' of their relatives' grave sites, in a court filing Tuesday. The filing to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by late Senator Robert F. Kennedy's children called for an injunction on the work planned by the Trump administration to build the arch. on a traffic circle between the cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial. The family argued that the arch. would cast shadows that would fall on the grave sites of Senator Kennedy, President John...

Today, there are important updates from the Russian Federation. Here, Russia is facing a new separatist challenge from within, as armed Karelian activists have declared their intention to fight Moscow and pursue independence for Karelia, the northern region bordering Finland. Calling themselves the Northern Brotherhood, masked men carrying weapons have appeared in videos announcing preparations for partisan resistance against Russian authorities. The organization claims to defend people of Finnic origin and is recruiting supporters for information campaigns, underground activities, and armed operations. Although its membership and capabilities inside Russia remain unverified, its emergence highlights a vulnerability for the Russian government,...

sportified@sportified25A strike team of undercover operatives broke into a nondescript commercial warehouse in an industrial district of southern Tehran with high-heat blowtorches, slicing through thirty-two massive steel safes in complete darkness, loading half a ton of top-secret blueprints, test videos, and nuclear warhead schematics onto ordinary delivery trucks and smuggling them out of the country before the morning guards arrived.The reason might surprise you.Following the signing of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), Iranian authorities faced a critical dilemma:To satisfy international inspectors from the IAEA while preserving the core engineering knowledge of their covert nuclear weapons initiative, Project Amad, officials...

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski welcomed Maine’s new Democratic Senator-elect Troy Jackson with the kind of enthusiasm usually reserved for family. He finally ended the career of Sen. Susan Collins, oh joy! She teased his appearance by telling viewers that she was "excited about this. I really like Troy. I can't wait to meet him."She told Jackson: "You know, I've had the honor of seeing the beauty of the great state of Maine and the people of Maine for 59 years, visiting every year, and I lo- [love], I wish that could be home, consider it home."Q. Given that Mika...

Alina Habba Mildon, one of President Trump’s former lawyers, was fired last week by the family company that gave her a $50 million contract weeks before Mr. Trump granted a pardon to the family’s patriarch. In a letter dated Nov. 4, the company, Concord Partners, terminated Mrs. Mildon citing a “failure to perform duties,” according to a person close to the family and documents obtained by The New York Times. The person said Mrs. Mildon’s priorities appeared to shift away from Concord after she started dating Turhan Mildon, a 25-year-old Turkish investor, earlier this year. The firing came days after...

A former Stoughton, Massachusetts, police detective was convicted Tuesday of murdering a pregnant woman, Sandra Birchmore, to keep her from revealing that he had sexually abused her when she was 15. Matthew Farwell, 40, of Easton, was found guilty of strangling Birchmore on Feb. 1, 2021 - 12 days after a tipster called the suburban Boston police department where he worked and reported that they'd had an improper relationship. Birchmore, who was 23 when she died, had been in a tumultuous relationship with the detective, whom she first met while participating in a Stoughton Police Department youth program as a...

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According to a statement released by Bournemouth University, Iron Age British ruler Verica was actually female and not male, contrary to long-held assumptions. Verica ruled the Celtic tribe called the Atrebates in the first century A.D. and was a central figure in the Roman invasion of Britain. After she was ousted from power in A.D. 40, she fled to the Roman emperor Claudius and convinced him to invade the island three years later. The new research was led by Bournemouth archaeologist Miles Russell, who said that the patriarchal mindset of nineteenth-century classical historians is largely to blame for the confusion...

More than 700 coins were discovered at three sites near the Drava River in southwestern Hungary by archaeologists from the Rippl-Rónai Museum, Hungary Today reports. Most of the coins have been dated to the rule of the emperor Constantine (A.D. 307–337), but silver coins dating to the reigns of the emperors Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138–161), Severus Alexander (A.D. 222–235), Aurelian (A.D. 270–275), and Probus (A.D. 276–282) have also been identified. One coin, known as a "consecration coin," is thought to have been minted to mark the death of Claudius II (reigned A.D. 268–270) and his deification. Pottery, brooches, and fragments...

If he somehow prevails, he’ll be in no position to lead the party in any meaningful sense. Some amazing events occurred in this year’s midterms. Every last county in the Republican strongholds of Texas and Ohio went blue. Other states that remained GOP for generations voted the Dems in. And, most astonishing of all, John Thune was transformed into a Republican. At least, that’s the impression you’d get watching his recent comments on Fox. Thune is now a true believer. He always was. People just didn’t understand. He was just being subtle about it. Yeah, that’s right – subtle, that’s...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Okaloosa County announced the sinking of the SS United States off the coast of Destin has officially been moved up to Wednesday due to unsafe weather conditions. According to a county news release, the SS United States will be sunk on Wednesday, Nov. 11, with operations to begin at 1 p.m. The release said the sendoff ceremony originally scheduled for 1:30 p.m. is canceled. >>> “While the weather may have changed our plans, it has given this historic occasion an especially meaningful date. On Veterans Day, as we honor the men and women who served...

In 2008, workmen digging trenches for electrical cables in the Estonian island town of Salme uncovered human bones and a variety of objects that they piled next to their trench. At first the bones were thought to be from a soldier killed in World War II, but archaeologists realized that the objects dated to the Viking period. A small team of archaeologists working under Marge Konsa, an archaeologist at the University of Tartu, started excavating and soon found the hull of a ship. Nearly all of the ship's timber had rotted away, leaving behind only discolorations in the soil. But...

President Trump was told aboard Air Force One in May en route to China that the United States had obtained sensitive intelligence showing that Nvidia’s chief executive was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy, people with knowledge of the matter said. The message was delivered by Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser, shortly before the Nvidia leader, Jensen Huang, joined the presidential trip to Beijing at Mr. Trump’s invitation. It marked at least the second time in seven months that the president had been told of intelligence about Mr. Huang’s...

Explanation: Sometimes Saturn disappears. It doesn't really go away, of course -- it just disappears from our view when Earth's Moon moves in front. Such a Saturnian eclipse, more formally called an occultation, was visible in early 2025 along a small swath of Earth -- from Greenland through central Europe and into northern Africa. The featured image is a digital fusion of three images, the first of just Saturn before it disappeared, and then two more of the Moon with different exposure lengths. The images were taken from Sardinia, Italy, after sunset. The bright dot near Saturn is not a...

LIVERMORE, CA — Following the news that Chinese agents had been engaging in widespread "honeypot" operations across the United States for years, former Congressman Eric Swalwell was reportedly heartbroken to learn that Chinese intelligence had been seeing other people. Sources revealed that the disgraced former lawmaker was despondent upon finding out that, despite how much he had treasured the relationship, the Chinese government had been going behind his back and cheating on him this whole time. "This is really a kick in the gut," Swalwell reportedly said. "I really thought we had something special. Come to find out, the Chinese...

A massive Bruce Springsteen fan club, with nearly 20,000 members on Facebook alone, has shut down as its members have been caught in constant cycle of bickering over Springsteen’s left-wing politics, especially since his endorsement of Michigan Democrat Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed. Bruce Springsteen Fan Club Shuts Down After His Left-Wing Activism, Abdul El-Sayed Endorsement Mariano Regidor/Redferns Warner Todd Huston10 Nov 2026371 3:23 A massive Bruce Springsteen fan club, with nearly 20,000 members on Facebook alone, has shut down as its members have been caught in constant cycle of bickering over Springsteen’s left-wing politics, especially since his endorsement of Michigan Democrat...

Broken pieces of limestone from a 4,400-year-old tomb in Egypt carry one of the earliest known Egyptian autobiographies. In it, an official named Khuwy presents himself as an honest man who was close to the royal couple. An Egyptian official who lived some 4,400 years ago wanted to be remembered as a man who never took anything from anyone. His words survive only in fragments, but those fragments may help show where a long Egyptian habit began: carving your own life story on the walls of your tomb. The man was called Khuwy. His tomb was uncovered in 2019 at...

Americans have handed the new Congress its marching orders: Tackle the affordability crisis that’s keeping so many young people locked out of the housing market. Housing affordability was one of several key themes that resonated with voters from South Carolina and Ohio to Texas, Montana, and beyond, helping more than 40 Democrats to flip seats in both the Senate and House of Representatives during last week’s midterm elections... Earlier this year, the National Association of Realtors reported that the typical first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old, a record high and a sharp increase from even five years ago, when...

Migrant caravans are pushing north toward the United States just days after Democrats scored sweeping midterm victories, with some migrants openly admitting they believe the election results could make it easier to enter the country.Check Voting Info The movement comes as President Donald Trump’s administration continues enforcing its immigration crackdown, despite Democrats winning control of Congress and flipping the Texas governor’s mansion. Groups traveling from Honduras and El Salvador have begun making their way through Central America, hoping to reach the U.S. southern border. Some migrants told CNN they were encouraged by the Democratic victories and believe the political shift...