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  • Karoline Leavitt Refuses to Rule Out Arrest of Supreme Court Judges

    04/28/2025 12:12:09 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 43 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | 04/28/2025 | Malcolm Ferguson
    The Trump administration is open to arresting Supreme Court judges, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told it on Monday morning. “You guys arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge for allegedly helping illegal immigrants get away,” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Leavitt. “As you guys look at other judges, would you ever arrest somebody higher up on the judicial food chain, like a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice?” “That’s a hypothetical question, again I defer you to the Department of Justice for individuals that they are looking at or individual cases. But let’s be clear about...
  • Former child star Sophie Nyweide was pregnant when she died at 24, death certificate reveals

    04/24/2025 8:10:26 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 17 replies
    yahoo ^ | April 23, 2025 | Emlyn Travis
    Nyweide’s family announced her passing in a since-deleted obituary, writing at the time that the actress “self medicated to deal with all the trauma and shame she held inside, and it resulted in her death." They added that Nyweide repeatedly claimed that she would navigate her health issues “on her own" and "was compelled to reject the treatment that might possibly have saved her life.” In lieu of flowers, her family asked instead that individuals to make a donation to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, in her name. A Vermont native, Nyweide knew that she wanted to...
  • US senator meets wrongfully deported Salvadoran migrant

    04/18/2025 2:26:24 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 20 replies
    AFP via Yahoo ^ | 4/17/24 | AFP
    American Senator Chris Van Hollen said Thursday he had met with a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported to his home country by the Trump administration, in a case that has sparked outrage in the United States. Van Hollen had earlier said he had been denied access to the prison where Washington has paid President Nayib Bukele millions to lock up nearly 300 migrants it says are criminals and gang members -- including 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia
  • House GOP tramples on women’s rights with passage of SAVE Act

    04/11/2025 5:33:57 PM PDT · by Robwin · 51 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | April 11, 2025 | Ja'han Jones
    After Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s presidential election, .several MAGA influencers cheered the prospect of him trampling on women’s rights. And Republican lahttps://www.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-tramples-women-rights-225055817.htmlwmakers have acted on that ethos with startling speed.Democratic women sounded the alarm Thursday following the House’s passage of the so-called SAVE Act, which would require all states to obtain proof of citizenship from people registering to vote, as well as mandate that states have a program to remove undocumented immigrants from existing voter rolls and allow Americans to sue officials who don’t follow the proof-of-citizenship requirements. Voting rights activists have condemned the measure as a voter...
  • Caught on video: Driver cuts off, harasses Tesla owner in Lynnwood, WA

    03/21/2025 9:44:53 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 90 replies
    Fox13(Seattle) via Yahoo ^ | 3/20/25 | Alejandra Guzman
    LYNNWOOD, Wash. - A mother says she was harassed and cut off by another driver for driving a Tesla, an incident she described as terrifying and unprovoked. The confrontation, which was caught on video, occurred while she was on her way to a doctor’s appointment in Lynnwood Wednesday morning. Leigh, who has driven a Tesla for the past two years, said she first noticed the aggressive driver honking behind her as she approached a red light. "Thankfully, I was by myself," Leigh said. "When I made a left turn, they followed me and cut around me." According to Leigh, the...
  • Federal judge forces Trump administration to disclose all plans to implement trans military ban

    03/06/2025 5:37:27 AM PST · by Salman · 31 replies
    Yahoo ^ | March 4, 2025 | Christopher Wiggins
    A federal judge in Washington state has ordered the Trump administration to immediately disclose any plans to implement its sweeping ban on transgender service members, marking a significant development in Shilling v. Trump, one of the ongoing legal battles challenging the administration’s efforts to kick out trans troops from the military. In a minute order issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington directed the federal government to notify both the court and plaintiffs if the Department of Defense—or any of its branches—issues any policy or guidance enforcing the...
  • How Disney’s Snow White remake became a $270 million headache

    03/06/2025 1:33:48 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 68 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 6 Mar 2025 | Al Horner
    Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the most contentious blockbuster of them all? On any list of the most trouble-plagued releases in recent Hollywood history, Disney’s live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would surely rank heigh-ho, heigh-ho highly. The $270 million-budget spectacle, starring Rachel Zegler as the storybook princess, finally hits cinemas this month after four years of seemingly never-ending online fury and negative news stories. From calls to boycott the film and attacks over its alleged “f______ backward” depiction of little people, all the way to the sight this weekend of the movie’s two biggest stars...
  • Intel Stock Jumps Following Fresh Reports of Possible Broadcom, TSMC Deals

    02/19/2025 4:16:38 AM PST · by Kid Shelleen · 5 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 02/18/2025 | Aaron McDade
    Shares of Intel (INTC) jumped on Tuesday morning, the first day of trading since new reports emerged over the weekend that the chipmaker is the center of acquisition talks once again. Chip designer Broadcom (AVGO) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM), the biggest chipmaker in the world, are each in the early stages of considering bids that could see the American chipmaker be broken up, the Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend citing people familiar with the matter.
  • Here's what the federal government does for you

    01/29/2025 2:43:59 PM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 32 replies
    Yahoo! Finance ^ | January 29, 2025 | Janna Herron
    ...the Trump administration directed a freeze on federal funding, the chaos drove home a salient point: The federal government does a lot for you. The administration targeted 2,623 federal programs for review...Funding for programs that provide health insurance, child care, food assistance, housing aid, and much, much more remained uncertain. Disrupting the federal government plumbing is a delicate process that, if done crudely, could hit vital lifelines for the American people. "The government is involved in things that people don't feel all the time, a lot of things we take for granted like safe drinking water," said Bobby Kogan, senior...
  • CNN Boss Warns Star Hosts to Avoid Trashing Trump’s Record

    01/22/2025 10:35:19 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Wed, January 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM CST | Sean Craig
    CNN journalists avoided mentioning the most sordid elements of President Donald Trump’s past—including his felony conviction and two impeachments—during inauguration day broadcasts after the network’s top boss told them to show some deference to the most powerful person on earth.That’s according to a report in media news publication Status, authored by the well-sourced erstwhile CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.During a routine editorial meeting on Sunday, meant to plan the extensive logistics of an inauguration, CNN CEO Mark Thompson told journalists to avoid “pre-judging Trump,” Status reported.In addition to instructing them to keep an open mind about Trump’s second term—three days...
  • Trump Uses His Real Inauguration Speech to Swear Revenge on Enemies

    01/20/2025 5:09:25 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 25 replies
    The New Republic via Yahoo ^ | 1/25/20 | Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
    Donald Trump’s inaugural address Monday showcased an unusually refined version of the MAGA leader on the cusp of his presidency: it toiled over the economy and immigration, promising to bring America into a “golden age.” But Trump’s unscripted second speech to a throng of his supporters served as his cutting room floor, sharing all the gripes that his script writers implored him not to dish. Seemingly unrehearsed and riddled with grammatical errors, Trump’s second speech of the day was remarkably more like him. Trump ripped into a cohort of his so-called enemies, torching former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for supposedly...
  • Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts

    01/12/2025 12:30:23 PM PST · by ProtectOurFreedom · 65 replies
    Los Angeles Times / Yahoo! ^ | January 11, 2025 | Thomas Curwen
    Not quite six years ago, wildfire expert Jack Cohen, who lives in Missoula, Mont., visited Pacific Palisades to instruct firefighters and property owners on how to protect homes against wildfires. Three days of training, including a tour of the community, left Cohen hopeful, but the feeling faded when it became clear that his lessons were not going to be fully implemented. This week’s tragedy has left him with a deep sadness. Respected by fire agencies across the country, Cohen and Pyne have found their straight-talk admonitions often disregarded or dismissed. Sensitive to losses and suffering, both said they are motivated...
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sara Foster and more stars slam LA mayor over botched fire response: 'Ruined our state'

    01/12/2025 6:54:32 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 91 replies
    Yahoo ^ | January 9, 2025 | Tamantha Ryan (Tamantha?)
    Sarah Michelle Gellar... "City of LA you want everyone to evacuate yet you have complete gridlock and not one traffic cop on the roads helping," the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" alum, 47, wrote, tagging Bass, 71, and the city of Los Angeles.Sara Foster took to X... "We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared... Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits." Foster, 43,...
  • Musk draws ire because 'isn't left-wing': Italy's Meloni

    01/09/2025 1:24:20 PM PST · by DFG · 23 replies
    AFP via Yahoo ^ | 01/09/2025 | Ella IDE
    Italy's far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said on Thursday Elon Musk's political interventions only caused outrage because he wasn't left-wing -- and that foreigners had been interfering in Italian politics for years. Meloni, head of the post-Fascist Brothers of Italy party, said Musk was exercising his right to free speech. Instead, she accused powerful people on the left of political interference, including billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros. Musk -- a billionaire ally of US President-elect Donald Trump who is set for a role in the incoming administration -- has provoked fury across Europe with a string of attacks on...
  • Italy close to sealing €1.5bn Starlink satellite deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

    01/07/2025 9:26:12 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 11 replies
    Yahoo News via the Telegraph ^ | 01/07/2025 | Josephin McKenna
    Italy is reportedly close to sealing a €1.5 billion (£1.25 billion) deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that would provide the country’s government with secure telecommunications. Giorgia Meloni’s government is in advanced talks with the billionaire tech entrepreneur and, according to Bloomberg news, a deal has already been approved by Italy’s ministry and intelligence services. Ms Meloni has built a close relationship with the Tesla billionaire, describing him last week as a “genius” who had been wrongly presented as a “monster” because of his support for Donald Trump. On Monday, the Italian prime minister sought to play down speculation about an...
  • California Farms Dried Up a River for Months. Nobody Stopped Them.

    01/21/2024 1:27:38 PM PST · by Mariner · 80 replies
    NYT via Yahoo ^ | January 21st, 2024 | Raymond Zhong
    During California’s most recent drought, officials went to great lengths to safeguard water supplies, issuing emergency regulations to curb use by thousands of farms, utilities and irrigation districts.It still wasn’t enough to prevent growers in the state’s agricultural heartland from draining dry several miles of a major river for almost four months in 2022, in a previously unreported episode that raises questions about California’s ability to monitor and manage its water amid worsening droughts.It’s not uncommon, during dry spells, for farmers and other water users in California to draw streams down to a trickle in places. But the severity and...
  • These MAGA farmers could be ruined if Trump follows through with mass deportations

    12/26/2024 3:43:12 PM PST · by DFG · 83 replies
    Politico via yahoo ^ | 12/26/2024 | Camille von Kaenel
    California farmers could soon enjoy bumper crops thanks to President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to lift water restrictions. But who will pick them if he follows through on his deportation threats? The country’s largest agricultural constituency backed Trump in November, bucking California’s deep-blue electorate over his campaign promises to “open the faucet” and deliver more water to the state’s parched, conservative-leaning Central Valley. But now it’s reckoning with an uncomfortable contradiction: Trump also campaigned on mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, who make up at least half of the state’s agricultural workforce. That’s left California’s agricultural barons, who employ the most farm...
  • A Chinese vessel has been hijacked off the Somali coast, officials say

    12/06/2024 6:49:49 AM PST · by posterchild · 28 replies
    Assoc. Press via yahoo finance ^ | Fri Dec 6, 2024 | Omar Faruk
    MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Chinese-owned fishing vessel with 18 crew members aboard was hijacked last week off the northeastern coast of Somalia, local authorities said Friday. An official in Xaafuun district in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, where the vessel is being held, told journalists that the hijackers include the ship’s security guards, who later joined forces with armed men from the coastal region. The European Union’s anti-piracy naval force, Eunavfor Atalanta, brought global attention to the incident after issuing a statement on Thursday that confirmed the local maritime authorities had notified it and investigations revealed that armed men...
  • Trump fills out cabinet as divisive picks shock Washington

    11/14/2024 10:36:42 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 30 replies
    AFP via Yahoo ^ | 11/14/24 | Frankie TAGGART
    All eyes were on Donald Trump's transition team Thursday, after a series of provocative and startling cabinet choices that showed the president-elect's preference for absolute loyalty above experience or expertise. Trump has been rapidly rolling out his foreign policy and national security picks, but he is expected to shift focus over the coming days to key figures to enact his domestic agenda. The Republican leader has yet to select treasury and commerce chiefs to help set tax and trade policy, a health secretary to oversee abortion, transgender care and a host of other potential flashpoints, or someone for education --...
  • 'Lieutenant Dan,' who gained fame riding out hurricanes on boat, is arrested in Florida

    10/19/2024 2:04:27 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 17 replies
    NBC via Yahoo ^ | 10-19-24 | Antonio Planas
    Joseph Malinowski, who gained internet fame because of his risky decisions to ride out Hurricane Helene and Milton on his 20-foot sailboat, was arrested Friday on multiple charges including failing to appear in court, Tampa police said. Malinowski, 54, known as "Lieutenant Dan," was arrested on two outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court and a misdemeanor charge of trespassing in a city park after warning, police said in a statement. Officers warned Malinowski on Thursday that he was creating a health hazard because he did not have an “accessible marine sanitation device aboard his unregistered vessel and did...