North Korea floated hundreds of balloons filled with garbage and feces across the border south. North Korea had vowed retaliation after South Korean activists sent anti-Pyongyang leaflets. The North’s balloons contained fertilizer, NBC reports, but not human excrement. North Korea floated balloons carrying garbage and feces into South Korea last week, officials in Seoul said. […]
As the hush-money trial for former president Donald Trump resumed on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson held a press conference outside the courthouse and issued a slew of falsehoods in defense of Trump, denigrated the legitimacy of the judicial branch, and even attacked the adult daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case. […]
Conservative attorney George Conway has questioned the strategy that has been adopted by Donald Trump and the ex-president’s legal team of relentlessly attempting to attack the credibility of former Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen ahead of Cohen’s testimony in Trump’s hush money trial. They are “making a huge mistake in going after Michael Cohen […]
With over 240,000 staff under his watch and $32 trillion in assets a day to safeguard, it’s no wonder Jamie Dimon runs a tight ship at JPMorgan Chase. It’s perhaps why America’s biggest bank, which posted record profits for 2023, paid its CEO $36 million for his work last year, having navigated the business through […]
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N. expert said on Thursday that Israel was destroying Gaza’s food system as part of a broader “starvation campaign” in its war against Hamas militants and berated a U.N. human rights body for not doing more. “The images of starvation in Gaza are unbearable and you are doing nothing,” […]
Donald Trump claimed high-profile campaign trail gaffes, in which he seemed to think Barack Obama was still president and mistook Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi, were deliberate, the result of his being “sarcastic” in the first instance and choosing to “interpose” names in the second. Related: Putin says he prefers Biden to Trump and mocks […]
Joe Scarborough on Tuesday pointed out the lightning-quick way that President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign team is seizing on incoherent comments and verbal stumbles from former President Donald Trump. “Donald Trump says something stupid, it’s up online, like, 15 seconds later. It’s on TikTok, it’s on YouTube, it’s on X, it’s on Instagram Reels,” noted […]
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Wednesday explained why she believes former President Donald Trump’s courtroom antics — which saw him threatened with removal from the courtroom during E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against him earlier in the day — may backfire on him in the long term. McCaskill, talking to MSNBC’s Joy Reid, argued […]
Bluegrass Crime Stoppers and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced a unique partnership Wednesday, one that’s aimed towards taking illegal guns off Lexington’s streets. The partnership is the first between a Crime Stoppers organization and the ATF, a federal agency. Both agencies are offering cash payouts in exchange for information that leads […]
Russian forces continue to use an ISIS terrorist tactic of sending explosives-laden armored vehicles toward Ukrainian positions, as seen in a video posted by Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov on Telegram on Jan. 4. “Loaded with UR-77 and FAB charges, a Russian MT-LB kamikaze is trying to make a passage in the minefield near Novomykhailivka in the direction of Maryinka,” he wrote. […]
The Kansas Highway Patrol is appealing a federal injunction that will block its troopers from using the “two step” traffic stop tactic that a judge ruled had resulted in the agency violating the constitutional rights of motorists. The appeal signals the statewide law enforcement agency will resist in court a mandatory overhaul of its practices. […]
Russian disinformation operatives have stepped up an insidious new tactic – impersonating Ukrainian brigades and battalions on Telegram to sow doubt, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation reported on Facebook on Dec. 16. These channels are supposed to serve as a means of receiving feedback on possible violations and crimes attributed to the command. In reality, […]