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10+ min ago (179+ words) Reacting to a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instructed military officials to "kill them all," in an attack on what the Donald Trump administration has labeled "narco-terrorists," attorney George Conway claimed the former Fox personality faces a wide array of criminal charges that may be beyond the president's reach. According to the report, there were two survivors of initial attack who were then blown up in the water with a second launch, which has only increased the outrage over the unlawful attacks. On Saturday morning, a fuming Conway told the hosts of MS NOW's "The Weekend," Hegseth could be in a heap of trouble for cold-blooded murder. "No matter how you look at this, you can apply civilian law, military law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, international law, foreign law, domestic law, federal law, state law....

36+ min ago (238+ words) Supporters of Donald Trump, who believed everything he touches turns to gold, are finding out the hard way that investing in the president has turned into a bad bet. According to a Saturday report from the Wall Street Journal, since Trump was inaugurated in January, shares in the parent company behind the president's Truth Social platform have spiraled downward 75 percent and the numbers for Trump-branded "meme coins" have suffered a worse fate as of late. With the Journal reporting that the market has "soured" on Trump brands, reporter Jack Pitcher wrote, "Digital "meme coins" named for Trump and first lady Melania Trump are down 86% and 99% since inauguration day, respectively. And one of the Trump family"s crypto ventures, a token called World Liberty Financial, has dropped roughly 40% since its September launch." Noting the market for such investments have also seen…...

46+ min ago (509+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. The world is aging out of killing one another. One source of good news " favored both by me and, apparently, venture capitalists " is what's known as a "narrative violation." A narrative violation occurs when everyone thinks one thing, but the actual evidence suggests the opposite. And few narratives are more persistently violated than one common belief: "Violent crime is always going up." A weekly dose of stories chronicling progress around the world. Now, recently updated data from the World Bank looks at the picture from a global perspective and finds something astonishing. Between 2000 and 2023, the international homicide rate fell…...

53+ min ago (287+ words) President Donald Trump declared Saturday that all airspace over and surrounding Venezuela should be considered closed, a major declaration amid the United States" rising escalations against the South American nation.To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"The Trump administration has ramped up pressure on Venezuela in recent months, starting with its lethal strikes against suspected drug-carrying vessels in the Caribbean, strikes that have killed at least 83 people and have been condemned by critics, experts and lawmakers alike as "extrajudicial killings."Beyond the strikes on sea vessels, the Trump administration has also discussed plans to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, has deployed an aircraft carrier strike group…...

1+ hour ago (151+ words) Now 79, President Donald Trump continues to feel highly competitive with a wide range of people, from former President Barack Obama to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) to fellow real estate developers. Trump will insist that he has a higher IQ than past Republican presidents, and he repeatedly brags about how well he thinks he plays golf. But according to sports journalist/author Rick Reilly (of Sports Illustrated and ESPN fame), Trump's claims about his golfing record are wildly exaggerated. Trump once again bragged about his golfing record during a livestreamed conversation with troops on Thanksgiving 2025. Reilly, however, is questioning Trump's "38 club championships claim." On X, formerly Twitter, Reilly posted, "Ha! Trump adds about 10 every time he brings this up." Brancolini adds, "During his Thanksgiving call, Trump insisted that all of his tournament wins had been 'legitimate' and then launched into a…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago (263+ words) Slate reports videogames stuff a lot of entertainment into one sandbox, and some of them augment their storylines with every kind of conspiracy imaginable. But how seriously do players take conspiracies that try to rope aliens in with an over-controlling order of the Knights Templar and a "bloodthirsty" Pope Alexander VI " a pope more known for nepotism, unexciting papal decrees and for his reputation as a patron of the arts? Media critic and scholar Cameron Kunzelman tells Slate no more than any other media source. But Kunzelman said today a wide variety of conspiracies are getting "mashed together" into big ugly "metaconspiracies." "Where conspiratorial movements at one time were seen as discrete from one another, now they kind of attach to each other and they get folded into QAnon," said Kunzelman, whose new book "Everything is Permitted" claims that this…...

1+ hour, 16+ min ago (880+ words) You're settling into the bed of your hotel room when, suddenly, you get a knock on the door. What's going through your mind? Maybe someone ordered you a Room Service surprise? Maybe there's an issue with the hotel? Or maybe something strange is afoot? A user on TikTok recently sparked discussion after recalling her own bizarre hotel experience. Specifically, she's asking why the hotel decided to inspect her room'twice. In a video with over 146,000 views, TikTok user Sylvia Longmire (@spintheglobe) recounts a strange experience she had at the LINQ Hotel in Las Vegas. According to Longmire, she was in her room one morning when she suddenly got a knock on the door. "I had my Do Not Disturb sign on the door, so I was surprised that somebody was knocking so strongly," she recalls. When she got to the door,…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (203+ words) Going beyond Donald Trump personally insulting reporters as "stupid" and addressing a reporter as "piggy," the Trump administration is launching a broader assault on the press as his poll numbers spiral downward. Headlined, "Misleading. Biased. Exposed," Trump's regular foils are listed, including a section called the "Offender Hall of Shame," that features the Washington Post, CBS News, CNN and MS NOW (still listed by the administration as MSNBC). Trump has long attacked the press when his actions have been scrutinized, labeling anything that shows him in a bad light as "fake news," which has lost much of its sting with overuse. According to one media analyst, the new effort to malign reporting is likely headed nowhere. Speaking with the Post, Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, claims Trump's real beef is with "journalists not…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago (402+ words) Canadian author Margaret Atwood turned 86 last week and is unafraid of speaking out about her southern neighbor. The Guardian served a host of fans the opportunity to swap words with the author of "The Handmaid's Tale," which is now an acclaimed streaming series. And in those exchanges Atwood shared the same lingering trepidation that molded her emblematic series into the rallying cry that it is today. When asked by a fan what she would do were she American, Atwood answered: "now, this very minute, I'd be worrying a lot about my country. Is it a democratic world leader on a steep slide into autocracy?" Another fan asked why we keep electing "psychopaths" to office, to which the author of the "Book of Lives" said sometimes voters get waylaid by bad information. When asked if women and human society would ever…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago (1177+ words) WaPo: Drug Boat Survivors Were Killed The Washington Post reported that after a September drug boat strike left two survivors clinging to wreckage, the United States of America did a second strike that blew them apart in the water. Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 07:33 AM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to "kill everybody" in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, according to two sources.[image or embed] #1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-28 01:52 PM | Reply Our president is a disgusting human being. The chains he has forged in life are long and heavy. I expect that the White House will be occupied by his ghost. Provided he does not tear the place down. #2 | Posted…...