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Republicans on Capitol Hill are privately expressing growing discontent with a top Trump administration housing official who has thrust himself to the center of the president’s campaign against the Federal Reserve. Bill Pulte has parlayed a niche regulatory job — director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency — into celebrity status within President Donald Trump’s orbit by becoming one of his most vociferous social media attack dogs. But his antics are aggravating some more establishment figures around Trump — most notably Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who threatened to punch Pulte in the face at a private dinner last week in...

WASHINGTON — Calls are mounting in both Congress and the Trump administration for the widow of late Arizona Sen. John McCain to resign from or be forced out of her United Nations post overseeing food distribution in the Gaza Strip, following months of botched aid drop-offs and rampant looting by Hamas. UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain has been criticized by ex-colleagues, lawmakers and officials for failing to work with Israel’s military and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to provide food, water and other assistance to Palestinians. “If WFP was doing its job,” one senior US official...

District Attorney Joe Mulholland released a statement a few days after Thurston was released on bail condemning the threats sent to Rose-Emmons. Mulholland said his office would prosecute anyone who sent menaces to the judge, saying it would 'not tolerate threats against our judges'. 'The rule of law is the foundation of our community,' the district attorney wrote.

More than 60 containers toppled off a cargo ship Tuesday morning in the Port of Long Beach, tumbling overboard and floating in the water. The shipping containers fell off a vessel named the Mississippi shortly before 9 a.m., and no injuries have been reported, according to Port of Long Beach spokesperson Art Marroquin. About 67 containers were in the water, the US Coast Guard said on the social platform X. Long Beach, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Los Angeles, is one of the busiest seaports in the country, with 40% of all shipping containers in the United States...

Sen. Rand Paul all but accused the vice president of celebrating war crimes. JD Vance is just fine with that. The Kentucky Republican ripped Vance over the weekend in a social media fight that could offer a preview of future skirmishes between President Donald Trump’s heir apparent and another Republican with 2028 ambitions. Paul has long been a thorn in the GOP’s side and regularly clashed with Trump, making him a particularly useful foil for Vance and the administration as they seek to build support for last week’s attack on a boat leaving Venezuela, killing its crew because they were...

Online safety watchdogs have found that AI chatbots posing as popular celebrities are having troubling conversations with minors. Topics range from flirting to simulated sex acts — wildly inappropriate conversations that could easily a real person a well-deserved spot on a sex offender registry, but which aren't resulting in so much as a slap on the wrist for billion-dollar tech companies. According to a new report, flagged by the Washington Post and produced by the nonprofits ParentsTogether Action and Heat Initiative, found that Character.AI, one of the most popular platforms of its kind, is hosting countless chatbots modeled after celebrities...

He’s mumbling Mamdani. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani dodged straightforward questions Monday on pressing issues facing the Big Apple — capping off days of mealy-mouthed politician speak that insiders argued showed the charismatic candidate’s shine is wearing off. The frontrunner in the mayoral election only had gobbledygook to offer on a range of topics during the public safety forum at Columbia Journalism School, even when simply asked if he supported school safety agents working in the city’s public schools. “I think it is an indication of this broken status quo that we have many schools where they will have a school...

A cyber group known as “Purgatory” is behind a terrifying spree of AI-enhanced swatting calls on college campuses — and experts urge authorities to catch up to “internet speed” to stop it. Between Aug. 21 and Aug. 25, at least 10 universities across the US were thrown into chaos after fake active shooter calls sent armed federal and local law enforcement agencies to lockdown campuses, launching students into full-blown panic. The calls have since been linked to Purgatory, a group of cybercriminals who use AI tools to replicate sounds of screaming and gunfire while on the phone with local authorities,...

The town where death is not allowedThe town of Lanjaron where the villagers were not allowed to die. Photo credit: Saiko3P/Shutterstock Situated 659 m above sea level at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in Granada, the village of Lanjaron is famed for its mineral-rich water sources, which have long been believed to promote youth and good health. The town also has historical and cultural significance, having attracted visitors for centuries, including the renowned poet Federico García Lorca, who visited the village annually from 1917 until 1934. The people of Lanjaron are affectionately known as the Cañoneros (Gunners), a nickname...

Salinas police determined that a grenade that was donated a Salinas Goodwill was determined to be a fake. The item was donated to the Goodwill Central Coast Outlet at 1566 Moffett Street. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad was called to assist, and they detonated the potential explosive and determined it to be a fake. The parking lot was evacuated, but employees remained inside the building. No customers are being allowed inside. It is undetermined whether the store will be reopened. Police are at the scene gathering more details.

@RepThomasMassie During our appearance on ABC this morning, my colleague @RepRoKhanna announced we will have the 218 votes needed for the Epstein discharge petition by the end of this month. When this vote happens, will your congressman vote for transparency and justice… or against?

-Formatted HTML- Thread by Chris Littlewood (@chrislittlewoo8) Post ID: 1962262555440685262 - Posted on 21:13 2025-08-31 UTC The Fabian Takeover of Britain Keir Starmer the UK Prime Minister is a Fabian. Not a rumour. Not speculation. The Fabian Society itself proudly claims him as a member. They even boast that every Labour Prime Minister has been a Fabian. It does not stop with him. David Lammy, Foreign Secretary, Fabian Wes Streeting, Health Secretary, Fabian Lucy Powell, Leader of the House, Fabian Bridget Phillipson, Education Secretary, Fabian Dozens of other ministers and under secretaries Even Justin Madders stood in Parliament and declared:...

@DissidentMedia Thomas Massie’s America First A short film by patriots.

Former President Joe Biden has chosen his home state of Delaware to build his presidential library — but his new board has opted against setting a budget as the former prez hunts for people willing to donate to the project. The Joe and Jill Biden Foundation tapped a 13-member board of close confidants and former officials, including former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and longtime adviser Steve Ricchetti, to oversee the project and raise funds to preserve the 82-year-old Democrat’s four years as president. But Biden’s decision comes as construction of former President Barack Obama’s $850 million library and museum...

Lefty Rep. Ayanna Pressley – who once camped out on the Capitol steps for taxpayer-funded rent relief — reaped a windfall as a Boston landlord last year, The Post has learned. Pressley (D-Mass) and her ex-con hubby, management consultant Conan Harris raked in up to a staggering $350,000 in profit last year from a property sale and rental income that includes a decidedly capitalist pad on Martha’s Vineyard, Pressley’s 2024 annual financial disclosure reveals. Financial disclosures show Pressley — who disclosed as much as $8 million in assets, the first time she’s declared over $1 million — now joins Squad...

Leading experts in Italy have just sent shockwaves through the scientific world after a bombshell peer-reviewed study confirmed that deadly “turbo cancers” are surging among people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.” The findings have blown apart the carefully crafted narrative pushed by Big Pharma, corporate media, so-called “fact-checkers,” and government health bureaucrats. For the first time, a population-wide cohort of nearly 300,000 people tracked over 30 months shows alarming signals. The study confirmed that the so-called “safe and effective” mRNA injections are responsible for sharp global increases in multiple rapidly spreading cancers. The high-profile team of researchers was led by...

Ole Miss was close to a win and cover, but Kentucky kicked down the back door with a late field goal Robby Kalland By Robby Kalland 3 hrs ago • 1 min read A year ago, Ole Miss missed out on the College Football Playoff due in no small part to an ugly home loss to Kentucky early in the season. On Saturday, the Rebels went to Lexington seeking a bit of revenge and found themselves in a dog fight again, trailing 10-0 early, before rallying to a 30-23 win. The line moved from Ole Miss as a 10.5-point favorite...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) is standing in the way of a bipartisan push to tighten sanctions on the country of Georgia, which lawmakers and advocates say is the best way to stand up for pro-democracy forces and counter Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence in the country. Mullin is blocking passage of the Megobari Act — titled the Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act — bipartisan and bicameral legislation that codifies sanctions against officials in the ruling Georgian Dream party for human rights abuses, corruption, undermining democracy and deepening ties with American adversaries. In a...

The Los Angeles Police Department has pulled its cops from a security detail at Kamala Harris’ Brentwood, California home after outrage that crime-fighting units were being diverted to guard the former vice president. A dozen Metro Division officers had been stationed outside Harris’ mansion after President Trump revoked her Secret Service protection last week, ending an extension through which had been quietly granted by President Biden. By Saturday, the backup was gone, sources told the Los Angeles Times. The short-lived detail drew fury inside the department after LAPD officers were pulled from crime suppression in the San Fernando Valley to...

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani refused to denounce a resolution by his comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America’s to boot members who were not strongly anti-Zionist. Mamdani tiptoed around the hateful resolution at the Labor Day Parade along Fifth Avenue, where he marched alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont). “My reaction is that the platform, that I am running on, the one that I want to be held accountable to by New Yorkers is the one that is on my website. It’s the one that I’ve been running on since the beginning of this campaign and that the only orders...