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  • Trump’s moves against the media mirror approaches by authoritarian leaders to silence dissent

    09/18/2025 3:25:29 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 59 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | September 18, 2025 | BY JUSTIN SPIKE AND NICHOLAS RICCARDI
    BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that he has often praised. On Wednesday, Trump cheered ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after the comedian made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that criticized the president’s MAGA movement: “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. It was the latest in a string of attacks...
  • Israeli military begins its ground offensive in Gaza City as thousands of Palestinians flee: United Nations Human Rights Council accuse Israel of genocide

    09/16/2025 9:29:38 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    Associated Press ^ | 09/16/2025
    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel launched its offensive in Gaza City on Tuesday, vowing to overwhelm a city already in ruins from nearly two years of war as thousands of Palestinians fled in vehicles strapped with mattresses and other belongings that clogged a coastal road. The operation into the largest Palestinian city escalated a conflict that has roiled the Middle East and likely pushed any ceasefire with Hamas farther out of reach. The military would not offer a timeline for the offensive that aims to crush the militant group’s ability to fight, but Israeli media suggested it could take months. “Gaza...
  • Trump asks Supreme Court for emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen

    09/08/2025 8:39:24 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    Associated Press ^ | 10:57 AM EDT, September 8, 2025 | Mark Sherman
    The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen. The crux of the legal fight is over nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved aid that President Donald Trump last month said he would not spend, invoking disputed authority that was last used by a president roughly 50 years ago. Last week, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled that the Republican administration’s decision to withhold the funding was likely illegal. …
  • How Donald Trump is weaponizing the government to settle personal scores and pursue his agenda

    09/06/2025 3:21:49 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 104 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | September 6, 2025 | BY JONATHAN J. COOPER (D-AP)
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, once a casino owner and always a man in search of his next deal, is fond of a poker analogy when sizing up partners and adversaries. … Seven months into his second term, he has accumulated presidential power that he has used against universities, media companies, law firms, and individuals he dislikes. A man who ran for president as an angry victim of a weaponized “deep state” is, in some ways, supercharging government power and training it on his opponents. And the supporters who responded to his complaints about overzealous Democrats aren’t recoiling. They’re...
  • A record catch of krill near Antarctica could trigger an unprecedented end to fishing season

    07/29/2025 6:50:09 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 7:55 AM CDT, July 29, 2025 | JOSHUA GOODMAN
    MIAMI (AP) — Trawling near Antarctica for krill — a crustacean central to the diet of whales and a critical buffer to global warming — has surged to a record and is fast approaching a never before reached seasonal catch limit that would trigger the unprecedented early closure of the remote fishery, The Associated Press has learned.The fishing boom follows the failure last year of the U.S., Russia, China and two dozen other governments to approve a new management plan that would have mandated spreading out the area in which krill can be caught and creating a California-sized reserve along...
  • It’s a year of rapid change, except when it comes to Trump’s approval numbers, AP-NORC polling finds

    07/27/2025 12:24:56 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 6:53 AM CDT, July 27, 2025 | AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX and JONATHAN J. COOPER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Eric Hildenbrand has noticed prices continue to rise this year, even with President Donald Trump in the White House. He doesn’t blame Trump, his choice for president in 2024, but says Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats who control his home state, California, are at fault.“You can’t compare California with the rest of the country,” said Hildenbrand, who is 76 and lives in San Diego. “I don’t know what’s going on in the rest of the country. It seems like prices are dropping. Things are getting better, but I don’t necessarily see it here.”Voters like Hildenbrand, whose...
  • Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon cites political dysfunction in deciding not to seek reelection

    06/30/2025 11:53:12 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 37 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 1:16 PM CDT, June 30, 2025 | Margaret A. Beck
    OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, announced Monday he will not seek reelection next year amid an increasingly polarized political climate.Bacon, 61, said at a news conference at Omaha’s airport that he would not seek a sixth term representing Nebraska’s second district with its so-called blue dot that includes many progressive voters around Omaha.Bacon has had to navigate an ever-thinning line between staying in his party’s and President Donald Trump’s good graces without alienating his increasingly Democratic district. He said he is proud of his bipartisan approach in the face of bitter partisanship in...
  • After decades in the US, Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive

    06/29/2025 11:27:42 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 29 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 10:59 PM CDT, June 28, 2025 | KIM CHANDLER, CLAIRE RUSH and ELLIOT SPAGAT
    Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years, married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter. She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away, her family said. Kashanian arrived in 1978 on a student visa and applied for asylum, fearing retaliation for her father’s support of the U.S.-backed shah. She lost her bid, but she was allowied to remain with her husband and child if she checked in regularly with immigration officials, her husband and daughter said. She complied, once checking in...
  • Jury orders man to pay $500K for assaulting police officer who killed himself after Capitol riot

    06/23/2025 1:59:40 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 25 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 06-23-2025 | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who killed himself nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of rioters, including a man who scuffled with the officer during the attack. The eight-member jury ordered that man, 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman, to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They awarded an additional $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith's estate for his pain...
  • Hypersonic missiles are stirring fears in the Iran-Israel conflict. Here’s why

    06/18/2025 4:51:17 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 28 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 11:34 AM CDT, June 18, 2025 | Sam McNeil
    BARCELONA (AP) — Iran is boasting that it has hypersonic missiles and says it already has begun firing the cutting-edge weapons at Israel.There is no evidence that Iran has unleashed the missiles, and experts are skeptical of the claim.But the use of these fast-moving projectiles could test Israel’s vaunted missile-defense system and alter the course of the fighting between the two bitter enemies.Here’s a closer look at these advanced weapons:What is a hypersonic missile and what makes them so feared?Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed Wednesday that it had fired what it said were hypersonic “Fattah 1” missiles toward Israel. But...
  • Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE

    06/03/2025 6:03:02 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 34 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 5:08 PM CDT, June 3, 2025 | JOSH BOAK
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.It’s a process known as “rescission,” which requires President Donald Trump to get approval from Congress to return money that had previously been appropriated. Trump’s aides say the funding cuts target programs that promote liberal ideologies. The request, if it passes the House and Senate, would formally enshrine many of the spending cuts and freezes sought by DOGE. It comes at a time when Musk is extremely unhappy...
  • US defense secretary warns Indo-Pacific allies of ‘imminent’ threat from China

    05/31/2025 10:04:46 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Updated 11:18 AM CDT, May 31, 2025 | TARA COPP and DAVID RISING
    SINGAPORE (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific on Saturday that they will not be left alone to face increasing military and economic pressure from China, while insisting that they also contribute more to their own defense. He said Washington will bolster its defenses overseas to counter what the Pentagon sees as rapidly developing threats by Beijing, particularly in its aggressive stance toward Taiwan. China has conducted numerous exercises to test what a blockade would look like of the self-governing island, which Beijing claims as its own and the U.S. has pledged to defend. China’s...
  • Poland Accuses Russia of Arson Attack on Warsaw Shopping Complex

    05/11/2025 2:13:51 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/11/2025 | BREITBART LONDON
    WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A massive fire that destroyed a large shopping center in Warsaw last year was the result of arson ordered by Russian intelligence services, Polish officials said Sunday on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the blaze. The fire broke out May 12, 2024, in the Marywilska 44 shopping that housed some 1,400 shops and service points. Many of the vendors were from Vietnam, and it inflicted tragedy on many in Warsaw’s Vietnamese community. “We now know for certain that the massive fire on Marywilska was the result of arson commissioned by Russian services,” Prime Minister...
  • Miami’s ‘Little Venezuela’ fears Trump’s moves against migration

    04/07/2025 1:38:57 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 17 replies
    Ass Press ^ | 4/7/2025 | Gisela Salomon
    ...Since the start of February the Trump administration has ended two federal programs that together allowed more 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in the U.S.... ....A federal judge ordered on March 31 that temporary protected statuswould stand until a legal challenge’s next stage in court and at least 350,000 Venezuelans were temporarily spared becoming illegal. Escaray, the owner of the restaurants, said nearly all of his 150 employees are Venezuelan and more than 100 are on TPS.
  • Fewer Americans See Canada as Ally Amid Trump Tensions

    03/28/2025 11:21:07 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 21 replies
    Newsmax ^ | March 28, 2025 | Sad Associated Presstitutes
    Americans are less likely to see Canada and the U.S. as close allies than they were two years ago, the latest indication that President Donald Trump's tariff threats and talk of taking over a neighboring ally are souring a critical economic and military relationship. The U.S. shift in viewpoint comes primarily from Democrats, though Republicans are less likely to see Canada as America’s ally now too, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. While about 7 in 10 Democrats saw Canada and the U.S. as close allies before Trump returned to office, now...
  • Military veterans are becoming the face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance

    03/24/2025 5:38:56 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 82 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 24, 2025 | BY STEPHEN GROVES
    WASHINGTON (AP) — As congressional lawmakers scramble to respond to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government, one group is already taking a front and center role: military veterans. From layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs to a Pentagon purge of archives that documented diversity in the military, veterans have been acutely affected by Trump’s actions. And with the Republican president determined to continue slashing the federal government, the burden will only grow on veterans, who make up roughly 30% of the federal workforce and often tap government benefits they earned with their military service. “At a moment...
  • US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotion

    03/23/2025 1:57:42 PM PDT · by MAGA2017 · 23 replies
    The AP ^ | 3/23/25 | AP
    STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) — For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required. But municipal and library officials said on Friday that U.S. authorities have unilaterally decided to end the century-old unwritten agreement. Coming at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries, the decision is prompting an outpouring of emotion in communities on both sides of the border, which in places has been marked simply by flower pots. Inside the library celebrated as a symbol...
  • As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died

    03/22/2025 5:36:02 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 80 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | March 22, 2025 | BY SAMY MAGDY AND LEE KEATH
    CAIRO (AP) — When the first explosions in Gaza this week started around 1:30 a.m., a visiting British doctor went to the balcony of a hospital in Khan Younis and watched the streaks of missiles light up the night before pounding the city. A Palestinian surgeon next to him gasped, “Oh no. Oh no.” After two months of ceasefire, the horror of Israeli bombardment was back. The veteran surgeon told the visiting doctor, Sakib Rokadiya, they’d better head to the emergency ward. Torn bodies soon streamed in, carried by ambulances, donkey carts or in the arms of terrified relatives. What...
  • Why I Won’t Be Working for The Washington Post: It’s Time for Jeff Bezos to Sell It.

    03/07/2025 7:06:25 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    U.S. News & World Report ^ | Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | Cameron Barr
    Soon after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, acquired The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he assured its editors and reporters — myself included — that he would give us the freedom to do our jobs and “follow the story” without interference from him. At a 2016 Washington Post tech forum with Marty Baron, who was then executive editor, Bezos quoted a phrase he had heard from the legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward: “Democracy dies in darkness.” It was a perfect motto to advertise the mission of one of America’s most storied and respected news organizations — a...
  • Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing

    03/07/2025 8:10:45 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 32 replies
    AP via Boston 25 ^ | 3/7/25 | MATT SEDENSKY
    NEW YORK — (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing. The country's bitterly tribal politics are spilling into text chains, social media posts and heated conversations as Americans absorb the reality of the government's cost-cutting measures. Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government's waste