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5+ min ago (273+ words) The latest explanation coming out of the Pentagon over the secondary attack on survivors on a purported drug boat in response to "Kill them all" orders from Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth was thoroughly dismantled on MS NOW on Thursday morning. Late Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Adm. Frank Bradley is poised to tell lawmakers that it was his belief that the two survivors clinging to the side of the flaming boat "were attempting to continue their drug run, making them and the already-damaged vessel legitimate targets for another attack." Not one member of the "Morning Joe" panel bought the story, with co-host Joe Scarborough blurting, "That's today's explanation" over the constantly evolving attempt to put out the firestorm. "The explanation we're hearing in a little bit is that maybe these two guys who survived were attempting to…...

5+ min ago (201+ words) Robert J. O'Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who took credit for killing Osama Bin Laden, claimed on Wednesday that he had "killed more people" than cannibal serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer during an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During a panel discussion moderated by host Piers Morgan, O'Neill got into an argument with Democratic politician Qasim Rashid over President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's recent lethal strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats. "Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer with his illegal strikes, which are clearly a violation of international law," argued Rashid. O'Neill then responded, "Dude, I've killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer and I don't think I'm a bad guy." Last week, President Trump shared a post by O'Neill claiming Afghans would "chop your head off" if you showed them a Nespresso…...

8+ min ago (134+ words) The paper, which rejected new access rules in October along with dozens of news outlets, claims the Defense Department is violating the First Amendment The post New York Times Sues Pentagon Over Press Restrictions appeared first on TheWrap. The paper, which rejected new access rules in October along with dozens of news outlets, claims the Defense Department is violating the First Amendment The New York Times sued the Pentagon on Thursday over press restrictions it claims have violated the First Amendment, according to the paper." Provisions such as one regarding when reporters "solicit government employees to violate the law by providing confidential government information," according to a summary of the suit, threaten "lawful, routine news gathering techniques." The Times did not immediately respond for comment. The Pentagon did not immediately respond for comment....

12+ min ago (370+ words) A doctor has claimed the MRI scan Donald Trump received does not prove what he is saying about his clean bill of health. Speaking with The Irish Star, medical director of Manual Dr Jeff Foster said what has been published by the White House team is very limited proof of what Trump is continually claiming in interviews. Captain Sean Barbabella claimed Trump's cardiovascular health is in "excellent" condition and that the recent testing at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center proves this. In a written memo, Barbabella, the president's physician, claimed, "The heart chambers are normal in size, the vessel walls appear smooth and healthy, and there are no signs of inflammation, or clotting. Overall, his cardiovascular system shows excellent health." Dr Barbabella would also claim the point of the MRI is "preventive" and is set to "identify issues early…...

14+ min ago (671+ words) Americans are blaming President Donald Trump for high costs and that blame, reports Politico, is starting to shift politics, as the president continues to lose the affordability battle to Democrats. According to a new Politico poll, 46 percent of Americans say the cost of living in the U.S. is "the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters." That same 46 percent also say that the affordability crisis is Trump's responsibility, saying it is his economy now and his administration is responsible for the high costs. Politico says this is a huge warning to Republicans, as "some of the very groups that powered Trump's victory last year are showing signs of breaking from that coalition, and it's the high cost of living that's driving them away." The Democrats, they write, have seized upon this "growing vulnerability,…...

17+ min ago (278+ words) None of these achievements absolve the criminals of Feeding Our Future. But it's also fair to say that the greatest victims of their massive fraud were the vast majority of law-abiding Somalis. The last thing a despot like Donald Trump needs is a pretext that, for a change, happens to be true. In that respect, even as Trump surely is ignorant of this longer arc of history, his attacks on Somalis in Minnesota employ a playbook used very successfully nearly a century ago against that period's alien outsiders: the Jews. As mayor of Minneapolis in the mid-1940s, a young Hubert Humphrey and his sophisticated and incorruptible police chief, Ed Ryan, decisively severed the supposed link between Jewish crime and Jewish sedition. Ryan cracked down on the downtown gangsters, while Humphrey pushed through a set of antidiscrimination and civil rights laws that…...

17+ min ago (614+ words) In the wake of a shooting of two National Guard members last week, the Trump administration has taken dramatic steps to make it more difficult for Afghans to obtain permanent resident status, instilling confusion and fear for refugees seeking entry into the United States, as well as those who've already surmounted the legal hurdles and now reside in the U.S. The suspect in the shooting, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is a 29-year-old Afghan man who arrived in the U.S. in 2021 through a Biden-era program that helped evacuate and resettle Afghans after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan. The shooting resulted in the death of one National Guard member and the critical injury of another. "It's really hard to overstate the tax of living in limbo while you're waiting on a process that the government has simply stopped, really in an arbitrary manner," said Laurie Ball Cooper,…...

22+ min ago (198+ words) The New York Times filed a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's Department of Defense violated the First Amendment by imposing new press access rules that drove out nearly the entire news corps " including conservative outlets " and replaced them with a group of MAGA bloggers and activists loyal to the regime. Furthermore, the suit continues, the Pentagon has responded to the exodus of reporters by bringing in a new contingent of Trump loyalists willing to comply with the demands. This group, the filing continued, includes "Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow, who has promised to 'make [the Administration] proud' with his Pentagon coverage; Laura Loomer, an influential pro-Trump activist; and Raheem Kassam, editor in chief of the National Pulse, who described his publication as 'basically an industry mag/site for MAGA world.'" All of this is coming as Secretary…...

32+ min ago (427+ words) Pakistan says to let humanitarian aid into Afghanistan Talks on second phase of Gaza plan 'will begin very soon': Trump UN Security Council delegation in Syria on first-ever visit Trump's push for peace in Sudan is doomed to fail How Tubas became a strategic West Bank battleground for Israel Why is Trump cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood? Venezuela: America Beats the Drums of Oil How Britain entrenched Zionist impunity in Palestine Flana: A film tracing the vanishing names of Iraqi women The Horse of Jenin: Lost sculpture inspires story of resilience Living with the Qur'an: A week-by-week guide to spiritual growth Pakistan will temporarily allow UN relief supplies into Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, in the first partial border opening since deadly clashes erupted between the two neighbours in October. The countries have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute…...

38+ min ago (557+ words) UN Security Council delegation in Syria on first-ever visit Syria: Israeli strikes hit Beit Jinn as incursions expand Trump's push for peace in Sudan is doomed to fail How Tubas became a strategic West Bank battleground for Israel Why is Trump cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood? Venezuela: America Beats the Drums of Oil How Britain entrenched Zionist impunity in Palestine Flana: A film tracing the vanishing names of Iraqi women The Horse of Jenin: Lost sculpture inspires story of resilience Living with the Qur'an: A week-by-week guide to spiritual growth The second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement "will begin very soon", US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, as Israeli strikes continued to kill Palestinian civilians across the territory. A "truce" came into effect on 10 October, around two years after Israel began its relentless and indiscriminate assault in…...