Progressive search for action

10+ min ago (396+ words) The scene filmed Sunday showed France's first lady in discussion backstage at the Folies Berg're theatre in Paris with Ary Abittan, a French actor and humorist previously accused of rape, before a performance he was about to give. The previous night, feminist campaigners had disrupted his show with shouts of "Abittan, rapist!" Before Sunday's performance, Brigitte Macron asked him how he was feeling. When he said he was feeling scared, she made a derogatory and sexist reference to the women, adding: "We'll toss them out." Her office said in a statement that she'd been trying to calm his nerves: "As the video shows, Mrs. Macron's only intention was to reassure an artist who, in his dressing room before going on stage, had just told her, "I'm scared,' because his show had been disrupted the previous evening." "In no way is…...

12+ min ago (226+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after a new military artificial intelligence website appeared to fail immediately. "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI," Hegseth said in an announcement posted to X on Tuesday. "And that's why today we are unleashing genAI.mil. This platform puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior." "We will continue to aggressively field the world's best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before," he added. Commenters quickly pointed out that they were unable to access the site. "Site is down: upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection termination," one commenter said. Another person suggested that the webpage "can't handle more then 500 visitors at a time." "Couldn't even handle the general population…...

17+ min ago (574+ words) Marjorie Taylor Greene arrived in Murray County on Thursday to support the residents opposing a biowaste facility. During her speech, she tried to glorify herself for fighting against opponents, but social media didn't agree. On Dec. 4, the outcast Republican congresswoman, Greene, gave a speech at a Murray County gym against building an'anaerobic digester. Vanguard Renewables, a subsidiary of BlackRock, has proposed to build this digester along Barry-Bennett Road in southern Murray County. However, the residents believe that it isn't safe and decided to organize a public hearing on the matter. Greene argued in favor of the residents, telling the Vanguard representatives, "They are tired and fed up." While she made some points to dissuade the project from continuing, she soon made it personal. "Let me explain to you another reason why I'm here," she said. "Other than talking to the…...

18+ min ago (262+ words) President Donald Trump's $12 billion bailout for farmers has been framed by the White House as proof that tariffs are generating enough revenue to "give back" to American producers. As the grandson of two strong farming families from Iowa and Illinois, the contrast between that storyline and the economic reality is impossible to ignore. Watching this rollout, the pattern is every bit as familiar for this administration as it is deeply cynical. A policy creates instability. A constituency absorbs the shock. The administration reframes the fallout as evidence of Trump's strength rather than the byproduct of his decisions. Whether this reflects deliberate strategy or instinctive reflex is hard to parse. Trump's communications style has always been a weird blend of improvisation and repetition. What is clear is that the administration builds political narratives designed to survive contact with inconvenient facts. The…...

19+ min ago (497+ words) A debate on racism, sexism, and in-context quotations erupted Tuesday over a bill that would make Charlie Kirk only the second person " after Ronald Reagan " to be comemmorated in Florida statute. Republican Sen. Jonathan Martin would memorialize Kirk's birthday, Oct. 14, as "Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance." It comes three months after Kirk, a 31-year-old podcaster and right-wing debater, was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University. It would slate him alongside Reagan as the only two people to have a special observance day in Florida law. Unlike holidays, observance days don't allow for time off from school or work, and are generally just a day of recognition for a figure or event. "I think that anybody who saw the video of Charlie Kirk getting " at his last speech, his last rally " " Martin said before the Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability…...

21+ min ago (288+ words) President Donald Trump is quietly signaling that his health " and his hold on power " are slipping, according to a foreign policy analyst who says the 79-year-old president's public dozing, swelling, bruising and fixation on legacy projects suggest he knows his time is running out. On The Daily Beast Podcast, analyst David Rothkopf argued that Trump's visible decline has Washington taking notice, even as top allies like JD Vance and Marco Rubio jockey for position as the president nods off beside them at events. Rothkopf said Trump's increasingly desperate push to rename major institutions after himself reflects a leader who fears he is "shuffling off this mortal coil sooner rather than later.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag. Analyst says Trump's fading health and power struggles show he's "at the end of his story' Analyst…...

22+ min ago (639+ words) Early Tuesday morning, December 9, The Hill reported, in two separate articles, that President Donald Trump would be visiting Pennsylvania later in the day to sell an economic message that polls are showing to be increasingly unpopular. Choosing Pennsylvania made perfect sense, as it's a must-win swing state that Trump lost in 2020 but won in 2016 and 2024.But journalist/Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes slammed the president's economic messaging as wildly erratic during a December 9 appearance on MS NOW " a reality that, Sykes emphasized, is reflected in Trump's weak approval ratings in polls.When host Chris Jansing noted that Trump is attacking Democratic concerns over "affordability" as a "hoax," Sykes responded, "There's a lot of cognitive dissonance there."The Never Trumper continued, "There is the lived experience that people have. You know, the Trump Administration likes to believe that they can have…...

24+ min ago (454+ words) President Donald Trump is traveling to a swing district in eastern Pennsylvania as he makes an effort to reassure voters that he cares about an issue he has dismissed as a "Democratic hoax." Polls show a majority of Americans feel that Trump hasn't carried through on his campaign promise to lower prices, and increasing numbers of Americans are concerned about the economy and affordability, so the president is hitting the road in hopes of staving off an electoral wipeout for Republicans in next year's midterm elections, reported CNN. "Alarm bells began going off on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue after Democrats walked away with major victories in New Jersey, Virginia and California last month, with high prices and cost-of-living concerns ranking as a top issue for voters," according to multiple White House and Trump administration officials who spoke to CNN....

24+ min ago (286+ words) Candace Owens, after already throwing a number of suspected culprits out there in recent months, said she has finally cracked the "mystery" behind the murder of Charlie Kirk "and she said it involves the U.S. military. Owens, in a series of Instagram posts on Tuesday, said she is ready to "blow this case open," based on a tip she received from a service member the night before. "It feels like today will be the day that the government can no longer deny it. Charlie Kirk was assassinated and our military was involved," Owens wrote. "I can't wait to share this information with you guys today." She did not share more details. Her claim comes after Owens has spent the past three months sharing conspiracy theories about the killing of Kirk. Those include claims Kirk was killed by pro-Israel henchmen who were…...

26+ min ago (462+ words) Adam Carolla found it funny that Quentin Tarantino'recently slammed Paul Dano's "weak sauce" acting in There Will Be Blood, considering Tarantino himself was "horrible" in his hit flick Pulp Fiction. The veteran podcaster and comic, on The Adam Carolla Show on Monday night, weighed in on Tarantino's harsh critique of Dano, which has went viral in the last week. "Quentin doesn't have a leg to stand on," Carolla said. He then shared a story about how he and Jimmy Kimmel, while working for KROQ 106.7 in Los Angeles back in 1994, went to see an early screening of Pulp Fiction.' Both guys loved the film, Carolla said, but as they were reviewing the movie while driving home together, he said they both agreed on one thing: Tarantino was God awful in his part. "At some point I go, "Yeah, but that guy…...