Six weeks into his tenure, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been confronted with controversies both grave and frivolous. He stood by a top appointee who was facing down a media circus for tweets that were more than a half-decade old. He grappled with the fallout from several police-involved shootings and he faced down, like just about every mayor before him, the …
More and more people are posting offensive content on social media to gain attention and mobilize the base. The most toxic elements of the internet bubbled up on 4chan, a forum filled with self-consciously transgressive posts and media including revenge porn, offensive cartoons, and lots of slurs.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini spent four months in Neauphle-le-Château in the late 1970s before his triumphant return to Tehran as the leader of the Islamic revolution. He was allowed to settle in France by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing after his expulsion from Iraq. Locals are angry that their town has become synonymous with a regime in Tehran accused of killing thousands.
DC Water says the underground sewer line that burst and spewed wastewater into the Potomac River four weeks ago could take another 10 months to repair. More than 240 million gallons of sewage have made their way into the river. Maryland, Virginia and D.C. issued warnings to avoid the river from the Interstate 495 bridge and down.
A national committee to coordinate the police operations met this week and is scheduled to meet again next week. Thames Valley police is assessing two separate claims against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Surrey police are assessing another allegation against the former prince. The group is chaired by a gold commander, Louisa Rolfe, who was a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner.
$Libra scandal has stained the president Javier Milei's reputation. He spread the "contract" to buy that crypto asset in his X network account. The valuation of the "memecoin" exceeded $ 4 billion and then collapsed, causing thousands to lose money and a few to make fortunes. Milei tried to distance himself from the scandal by giving an interview and compared …
Migrantes from Cuba were deported to La Habana. Some of them were detained in the U.S. Others were at the base militar de máxima seguridad de Guantánamo. Arelys Piloto received a llamada de her hijo Alexander Peraza, 22.
T1 Energy CEO Dan Barcelo spoke at a Breitbart News policy forum hosted by Alex Marlow and John Carney. He praised the Trump administration's combination of tariffs and incentives to promote domestic investment and production. T1 Energy is an advanced American manufacturing company expanding its production of solar energy in Texas.
The US military is preparing for a sustained, multi-week operation against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack. Washington has intensified military pressure on Tehran amid negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program. The next round of talks will take place in Vienna on Tuesday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called for a peaceful resolution to the tensions.
Cassidy was censured by Louisiana Republicans for voting to convict Trump. He has sought to mend ties with Trump and his loyalists. Cassidy's opponent, Republican Rep. Julia Letlow, was endorsed by Trump even before she declared her intentions to run. The filing deadline in Louisiana came and went with big-name Democrats choosing not to mount a Senate challenge.
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The Potomac River sewage incident is shaping up to be one of the biggest in U.S. history. D.C. Water estimated that 243 million gallons of wastewater had overflowed from the collapse site, with 194 million gallons overflowing within the first five days. Environmentalists claim the sewage spill topped 300 million gallons.
Two drone strikes killed one person in Ukraine and one in Russia on Saturday. Another round of U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Russia and Ukraine will take place next week in Geneva. The talks will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanks the U.K. and European allies for their support.
The Russian government banned WhatsApp and throttled Telegram this week. It's a warning to westerners clamoring to regulate social media companies. Spain's government is proposing a ban on social media for minors and criminal liability for tech executives who fail to suppress “disinformation”
U.S. Southern Command carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea. It said the strike killed three people. The death toll from the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats is 133 people in at least 38 attacks carried out since early September. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as necessary …
Dorothee Bär, Armin Pappberger and Michael Schoellhorn are talking about the future of Europe's defense industry. They believe Europe needs to grow up and take more responsibility for its own security. Gundbert Scherf is co-chairman of the defense tech company Helsing.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of some Venezuelan men wrongly imprisoned in El Salvador. The men were sent to El Salvador without due process rights. They were accused of being members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. The Trump administration was ordered to pay for their flights back to the U.S. but some of …
Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani and William Cooper created Rahaal, a temporary nomadic museum unfolding across three pavilions erected in the historic nature reserve of Zekreet, Qatar. The exhibition invites visitors to rediscover a contemplative relationship with nature through work by a diverse group of artists.
Krasnov had another meeting with Putin's bag man Kirill Dmitriev. Krasnov is pushing on Ukraine to make a peace deal with Russia. Ukraine will not cede any territory to Russia. Russia's window for terrorizing Ukraine’s sky with impunity is getting closer and ever closer to ending. Ukraine is developing an advanced missile defense system to counter Russia's Oreshnik.
More than three dozen Democratic senators have begun an independent inquiry into the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following a change in how the agency measures the health benefits of reducing air pollution. The effort is being led by the ranking member of the Senate committee on the environment and public works, Sheldon Whitehouse. The lawmakers want the EPA to …
Shalom Baranes Associates, the firm handling the project, shared the images with the National Capital Planning Commission. The images reveal at least one significant change from earlier designs: the removal of a large triangular pediment above the ballroom’s southern portico. The new images indicate the building could block views of the White House residence from certain viewpoints such as locations …
Heather and I discuss the un-Valentine-like world of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and America's ruling class. We also discuss Pam Bondi's belligerence, Steve Bannon's complicity, and the Trump economy's woes. And we look at the continuing calamity of ICE, Trump’s war on Latinos and the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.