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3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (310+ words) Predator drones and armored personnel carriers have become commonplace in US cities. Congress has the power to fix this This Pentagon giveaway to domestic law enforcement, in addition to military-grade weaponry available through DHS's terrorism grants and the US Coast…...

30+ min ago  (1468+ words) With "affordability" the Democrats" watchword of the moment, I"m surprised more haven"t pointed out that President Donald Trump"s undeclared war on Iran costs more than Americans can afford. By this I don"t mean American soldiers killed…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago  (871+ words) The oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week in United States v. Hemani were lively and at times illuminating. But not because they clarified the Second Amendment. Rather, they showed how unworkable the court's current framework has become. For nearly…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (1733+ words) Donald Trump doesn't appear to be on the same page as his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when it comes to a timetable on the Iran war." On Monday evening during a press conference, a reporter asked Trump about his comments…...

4+ hour ago  (1208+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the March 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. After we recorded this episode, Trump gave a speech demanding for a third time that Republicans pass the SAVE Act,…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago  (1744+ words) Cinema that takes on the life and times of Palestinians has rarely been celebrated in the West. Paradise Now (2005) and Omar (2013), both by the Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad, were Oscar nominees for best foreign film, and Paradise Now won a…...

30+ min ago  (173+ words) In recent days, President Trump has angrily demanded that Republicans pass the SAVE Act, a massive voter suppression measure that already passed the House but almost certainly can't pass the Senate. In one tirade on Truth Social, he threatened not…...

30+ min ago  (1687+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided to quote scripture to eulogize yet another U.S. soldier who died for no good reason in retaliatory strikes from Iran at his press conference Tuesday morning. "Having just returned from Dover [Delaware] last night, our troops…...

3+ hour, 48+ min ago  (397+ words) A woman told the FBI that in the early 2000s, when she was 16 years old, she had given a massage to Jeffrey Epstein at his New York home while the disgraced financier "was on a speakerphone call with Donald Trump" " just…...

2+ hour, 46+ min ago  (291+ words) President Donald Trump was hammered by two of his own officials after making "one of the biggest tactical miscalculations since the bombing of Iran began," Axios reported on Tuesday. But last August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally offered Trump a…...