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A kid in The Netherlands could be in time out for a while. The unnamed child is responsible for damaging a 1960 Mark Rothko painting reportedly worth €50 (about $56 million) inside the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. “The painting Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 by Mark Rothko has sustained superficial damage after a child touched the painting when it was on display," the museum shared in a statement to PEOPLE. "As a result, small scratches are visible in the unvarnished paint layer in the lower part of the painting." The museum added, Conservation expertise has been sought...

President Joe Biden believes he would have defeated President-elect Donald Trump in November if his party had not pressured him to step aside, he told USA Today‘s Susan Page. Biden, 82, whom Special Counsel David Hur characterized as an elderly man with a poor memory, does not appear to remember the depths of his sinking campaign. Biden dropped out of the race following a poor debate performance that caused his polling and support among allies to tank. Several states considered solid blue, such as New Hampshire and Virginia, were showing signs of leaning toward Trump, an unfathomable downward trajectory that...

Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election – despite negative poll indications, White House sources have said. The US president has reportedly also said he made a mistake in choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general – reflecting that Garland, a former US appeals court judge, was slow to prosecute Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January 2021 insurrection while presiding over a justice department that aggressively prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter. With just more than three weeks of his single-term presidency remaining, Biden’s...

As if his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and refusal ever to acknowledge responsibility weren’t bad enough, now we learn that Joe Biden forced grieving military families to wait for hours on the tarmac of Dover Air Force Base while he took a nap on Air Force One. We already knew that he had continually checked his watch and talked about himself when he met the relatives of 13 military members killed by a suicide bomber during the chaotic evacuation from Kabul in August 2021. But this new report adds an extra layer of callousness to the story. Biden has long...

There truly aren’t enough words to describe just how big of a scandal the White House cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline really is. ... the liberal media doesn’t feel that it has to protect Joe Biden anymore, and there have been a torrent of stories exposing how Biden’s mental decline was handled for four years. The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and even the New York Times have all hit the story. The fallout from this could be extensive for the Democratic Party. Democratic donor and operative Lindy Li hasn’t held back in her critiques of the party. For...

REPORT: Biden made military families of troops k*lled in Afghanistan wait three hours while he “napped” on Air Force One on the tarmac, according to the Daily Mail. According to family members who spoke to the outlet, Biden “couldn’t pull it together.”

Outgoing President Joe Biden is facing criticism after bombshell reports emerged that he was allegedly too "mentally fatigued" to take a critical call from the House Armed Services Committee Chair in the lead-up to the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. The revelation has sparked concerns about Biden's capacity to manage high-stakes decision-making, particularly during one of the most pivotal moments of his presidency. Critics argue that the report highlights a troubling pattern of disengagement and raises serious questions about his leadership and accountability during a crisis that resulted in lasting consequences. According to the Wall Street Journal, Biden was so tired...

The government shuts down at midnight, and the only thing on Joe Biden’s schedule is a visit to Children’s National Hospital in Washington. The spending fight centers around the maneuvering of House speaker Mike Johnson, President-elect Donald Trump, the House Freedom Caucus, the Senate, “First Buddy” Elon Musk — nobody’s even asking, “What does Biden think?” We’ve all just accepted that Biden isn’t really running his own White House, that he’s now just a mumbling geriatric who communicates to the country through issued statements, like an announcement that he’s commuted the sentence of “non-violent offenders” that included a Maryland woman...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” former Kamala Harris Campaign Surrogate Lindy Li stated that President Joe Biden “has not been cognitively fit to assume the duties of the Oval Office for a number of years now,” and that one of her relatives reacted to meeting the President earlier this year by stating, “we’re *&*&^&.” Li said, “[L]et’s just be very honest what’s happening here, the President has not been cognitively fit to assume the duties of the Oval Office for a number of years now, and it breaks my heart to say it....

The knives have come out — and so has the truth. Having been lied to for years by the Democratic Party machine and most of the mainstream media — who insisted Joe Biden was not diminished by his age but energized by it — well, it turns out we skeptics were right all along. And what we're learning is terrifying. Infuriating. An unacceptable abuse of power, a usurpation of the presidency itself by a nameless, faceless cohort. Will we ever know who these conspirators are? Two bombshell reports out this week, in the New York Times and the Wall Street...

To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members—including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen—were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and National Economic...

White House aides covered up President Biden’s apparent mental decline from Day 1 of his presidency, shielding the aging commander-in-chief from the public and even rearranging his schedule after scatterbrained performances, an explosive report revealed Thursday. The lack of access to the nation’s oldest-ever president has been well known in Washington — with Biden hosting the fewest large press conferences in modern history and frequently descending into gaffes at the podium when he appeared — but how much the White House made up for the haziness had until now been hidden, according to aides, Democratic lawmakers and donors who spoke...

The White House intentionally hid from the public Joe Biden's rapidly diminishing mental condition for his entire presidency, according to a bombshell report. Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president, scrapped meetings on his 'bad days,' and avoided calls with other politicians, according to an explosive report in The Wall Street Journal. It exposed an extensive and deliberate cover-up that also saw the administration gaslighting those who dared to claim Biden's abilities had deteriorated since he was Barack Obama's vice president. Despite the efforts of aides Biden's decline became increasingly obvious,...

REVEALED: DHS Under Secretary for Policy Confesses Trump Win Is "Traumatic" and a "Crushing Blow" to the Biden Administration; Reveals Biden’s Mental Decline ‘Accelerated 12 to 24 Months’ into Biden’s Presidency During meetings in the White House, Under Secretary Robert P. Silvers admitted there were times where "he’s [Biden] in there, and it’s a blank." "[Biden] just can’t get the words out."

President Biden is “very focused on details,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg insisted — after the 80-year-old commander in chief confused Ukraine and Iraq twice in 12 hours. The Cabinet member defended Biden after being asked, “What do you say to people who are concerned about his age, and slip-ups like the one he had today?” by CNN host Kaitlan Collins. “Well, what I’d say is I wish you could be in a room with him, the way I often am, seeing how he is simultaneously focused, on a big-picture vision, and very focused on details,” Buttigieg said. “Look, this is...

Joe Biden stopped by the MSNBC studio on Thursday and did a live 20-minute interview with Nicolle Wallace. When the interview ended, Biden shook Wallace's hand and walked off the set while Wallace was throwing it to commercial. As noted in the below tweets, this is being spun as Biden wandering off like he's lost by certain parties in the media. This is more akin to Biden falling on stage at the US Air Force graduation at the beginning of the month. It was sold as him being feeble, but he tripped over a sandbag while trying to hustle. In...

resident Joe Biden walked off the set of a live MSNBC interview Thursday afternoon, while the cameras were still rolling. The president took a day trip to New York City to raise money for his presidential campaign. His first stop, however, was to '30 Rock,' to sit for an interview with Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace, who previosly worked for Republicans including President George W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain. She probed Biden on the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action decision, the January 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump - but neglected to question the president about...

In the fairy tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, an emperor hires two swindlers who claim they can weave a magical cloth that is invisible to anyone who is “unfit for his office or unforgivably stupid”. The Emperor hires the weavers to make material for his councillors so he will know who’s unfit. The swindlers work late into the night and pretend to weave on empty looms. The Emperor’s prime minister and councillor are sent to monitor the work. They can’t see the material but if they admit that, they’ll be exposed as stupid or unfit for office. Instead they praise...

Michelle Obama continues to cement her reputation as one of the most fashionable women in the world with a new hairstyle. The First Lady used a celebration of country music at the White House yesterday to unveil her swept back tresses. Looking elegant in a white patterned dress, Mrs Obama’s bobbed hairstyle topped off a classy appearance. The pair's daughters Malia and Sasha were also at the event, which featured performances by country stars Charley Pride, Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss and Union Station. While the mother-of-two’s style stakes continue to rise, her husband, President Barack Obama has confessed he feels...

LONDON - A porcelain urinal is the most influential work of modern art, according to a survey released Wednesday. The poll of 500 arts figures ranked French surrealist Marcel Duchamp's 1917 piece "Fountain" — an ordinary white, porcelain urinal — more influential than Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's searing depiction of the devastation of war. Duchamp pioneered the use of everyday objects as art, an aesthetic that questioned the nature of art itself. Art expert Simon Wilson said the choice of Duchamp's urinal "comes as a bit of a shock."...