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Ft. Hood to officially drop its Confederate name and become Ft. Cavazos
March 24, 2023, 2:53 PM EDT Fort Hood, the sprawling Army base in Central Texas, will be officially renamed Fort Cavazos on May 9, base officials announced Friday. From that day on, Fort Hood will carry the name of Gen. Richard Cavazos, a highly decorated war veteran who was the first Latino four-star general and first Latino brigadier general. It currently bears the name of a Confederate general, John Bell Hood. The name change was recommended by the Department of Defense's Naming Commission, ...
Minnesota nuclear plant shuts down for leak; residents worry
MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after failing to stop the release of radioactive material it says is not dangerous but has prompted concerns among nearby residents. Xcel Energy started shutting down the plant in Monticello, and after it cools over the next few days, workers will cut out a pipe that is over 50 years old and had been leaking tritium, said Chris Clark, the utility’s president. The utility will then h ...
Russian Emails Behind DA Bomb Hoax Amid Trump Probe
by Frank G. Runyeon · Listen to article Law360, New York (March 24, 2023, 2:23 PM EDT) -- Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump. The unsubstantiated threats, now under investigation by the New York Police Department and FBI, were emailed to local government officials at a Manhattan community board, according to pol ...
IAEA confirms almost all missing uranium in Libya now accounted for
Most of the roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium ore concentrate (UOC) recently declared missing from a site in Libya have been found at that site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog told member states on Friday in a statement seen by Reuters. The International Atomic Energy Agency informed member states in a similar confidential statement on March 15 first reported by Reuters that 10 drums containing the UOC had gone missing from a Libyan site not under government control. While the amount of fissile m ...
Prosecutors accept deal with George Santos in Brazilian fraud case
By Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Updated 7:38 PM EDT, Fri March 24, 2023 Prosecutors in Brazil have agreed to a deal with Rep. George Santos in a case in which he is accused of defrauding a Rio de Janeiro area clerk of $1,300 over clothes and shoes in 2008, documents obtained by CNN show. A petition from Santos’ attorney requesting a deal says Santos would agree to formally confess to the crime and pay damages to the victim, a Rio de Janeiro area clerk, as is required under Brazilian law. A m ...
Judge Gives Trump Mafia Boss Treatment And Says So
(Daily Kos) The Federal judge handling E. Jean Carroll’s rape/defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump just gave Trump a treatment generally reserved for mafia bosses and terrorists. Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered that the jurors in the case will be anonymous. The judge did so, not on the request of either party, but sua sponte (the court’s own motion). The judge acknowledged that such treatment was unusual and “most often” reserved for “terrorism and organized crime cases.” However, the judge cited Trump’s long history of attempting to intimidate courts, witnesses, and even individual jurors as justifying this unusual step.
Trump calls for removal of every top official investigating him
(The Hill) Donald Trump on Thursday called for the removal of every law enforcement official currently leading investigations into him. A busy morning on social media for Trump was capped with a post suggesting the leads of four different investigations into his conduct be removed from their post. Trump’s comments follow significant advances in each investigation.
Trump Judges Are Fighting About Whether to Crash the Economy
(Slate) Back in October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued a radical decision that has only grown more alarming in the months since: It declared the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional in an opinion that seemed designed to destabilize America’s entire financial system. The 5th Circuit’s ruling would, experts say, send the economy into a tailspin, crashing the housing market and triggering a bank panic that would make the 2008 recession look like child’s play.
GOP lawmaker 'very sad' UT parent used his law to request 'sex-ridden' Bible be removed from schools
(Raw Story) Responding to a new law allowing for "pornographic" books to be removed from school libraries, a Utah parent has moved to have "one of the most sex-ridden books around" removed as well, namely, the Bible. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the parent, who remains unidentified for privacy reasons, submitted their challenge on Dec. 11 along with an eight-page list of passages from the Bible that they found to be offensive and worth reviewing.
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Editorials & Other Articles
- The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars.
- Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker
- Trump is stoking the fires of Waco
- Is Ron DeSantis the Republican Michael Dukakis?
- MICH: Dem. Gov Whitmer Signs Historic WORKERS RIGHTS Bills Into Law, 1st to Repeal Right to Work Law
- Parents Storm D.C., Tell the GOP Whose Rights They Forgot in Their "Parent Bill of Rights"
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics - by Richard Hofstadter (Harper's Magazine, 1964)
- I was kind of sitting on the fence here, until ...
- Trump makes suckers of House Republicans. Again.
- 'Parents' Rights': GOP Wages Education Culture War Ahead of 2024 - 'Peddling Hysteria & Fear'
General Discussion
- One question, didn't the city in Mississippi have sirens or phone alerts to tell the people
- Look who came out from under his rock
- Trump hasn't immediately appealed a devastating Mar-a-Lago ruling. This may be why.
- Fake images of Trump arrest show 'giant step' for AI's disruptive power (the pics added as a bonus)
- Stacey Abrams is leaving campaign politics to focus on weaning America off fossil fuels
- Austin Jailer Breaks Elderly Deaf Woman's Arm After Misunderstanding at Airport
- One of J.K. Rowling's latest retweets for the remaining (hopefully) few who still defend her:
- I have written another LTTE about the angry MAGAT who
- The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars.
- State-Funded Charter School Says Native 1st-Grader's Traditional Hair Violates Dress Code
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- Photography: Beach Scenes (High Key)
- Foreign Affairs: U.S. warns China's promises often empty as Honduras wavers on Taiwan
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- Montana: 8,200 geese counted at Freezout Lake on Thursday
- Tennessee: 4 ex-cops charged in Tyre Nichols' death barred from police
- Canada: "Dark Brandon just stole #PeePee's brain" -Biden FTW (Dean Blundell tweet)
- Ohio: Adams Co Sheriffs, Lemon Pound Cake, a pissed off rapper & public mocking
- Wisconsin: Did you get snow overnight?
- Illinois: Find out who's running in school board races in your district
- Texas: Ft. Hood to officially drop its Confederate name and become Ft. Cavazos
Latest Breaking News
Putin says Moscow to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, first time since 1990s
45 min ago - March 25 (Reuters) - Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow will have based such arms outside the country. Putin made th ... (Reuters)
Afroman Sued By Law Enforcement Officers Over Use Of Raid Footage
1 hr ago - Rapper Afroman faces a lawsuit from Ohio law enforcement officers alleging that he invaded their privacy by using images of them raiding his house. Afroman (real name Joseph Foreman) had his home raided in August 2022 by the Adam’s County Sheiff’s O ... (Yahoo!)
Pope expands sex abuse law, reaffirms adults can be victims
7 hrs ago - By NICOLE WINFIELD 36 minutes ago VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming tha ... (AP)
Mississippi tornadoes kill 23, injure dozens overnight (UPDATE)
9 hrs ago - ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) -- Emergency officials in Mississippi said 23 people have been killed by tornadoes that tore through the state on Friday night, destroying buildings and knocking out power as severe weather that produced hail the size of golf ... (AP)
LAUSD reaches historic deal, meets demands of union workers following 3-day strike
12 hrs ago - The "historic" deal includes a 30% pay increase thatLocal 99of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) had been seeking along with a vast expansion of benefits including: -$2 per hour increase for all employees effective January 1, 20 ... (KTLA.com)
Bragg, DA probing Trump, received death threat letter with white powder
13 hrs ago - The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News. Th ... (NBC News)
2 dead, at least 9 unaccounted for after explosion rocks Pennsylvania chocolate factory
16 hrs ago - By Kurt Chirbas and Tim Stelloh Two people are dead and at least nine are unaccounted for after an explosion rocked a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday, authorities said. Between six and eight people were also taken for medical attention ... (NBC News)
Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley pioneer who co-founded Intel, dies at 94
16 hrs ago - His innovations in semiconductor chips helped launch Silicon Valley and transform the computer into the ubiquitous tool of modern life Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon E. Moore, whose innovations in the design and manufacture of semiconductor chips hel ... (Washington Post)
Russian strikes in Ukraine kill 10 civilians, wound 20 more
17 hrs ago - By KARL RITTER KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Long-range Russian bombardment killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 20 others in several parts of Ukraine on Friday, officials in Kyiv said, as a Kremlin official boasted that its forces were prepared to repel ... (AP)
Prosecutors accept deal with George Santos in Brazilian fraud case
19 hrs ago - By Julia Vargas Jones, CNN Updated 7:38 PM EDT, Fri March 24, 2023 Prosecutors in Brazil have agreed to a deal with Rep. George Santos in a case in which he is accused of defrauding a Rio de Janeiro area clerk of $1,300 over clothes and shoes ... (cnn)
Ft. Hood to officially drop its Confederate name and become Ft. Cavazos
21 hrs ago - March 24, 2023, 2:53 PM EDT Fort Hood, the sprawling Army base in Central Texas, will be officially renamed Fort Cavazos on May 9, base officials announced Friday. From that day on, Fort Hood will carry the name of Gen. Richard Cavazos, a highly dec ... (NBC News)
Minnesota nuclear plant shuts down for leak; residents worry
21 hrs ago - MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after failing to stop the release of radioactive material it says is not dangerous but has prompted concerns among nearby residents. Xc ... (AP)
Paul Rusesabagina, 'Hotel Rwanda' hero, will be released from prison
22 hrs ago - The man who was celebrated as a hero in the movie Hotel Rwanda for saving lives during the Rwanda genocide is about to be released from prison. Rwanda's government has commuted the sentence against Paul Rusesabagina. The 68-year-old U.S. resident an ... (NPR)
IAEA confirms almost all missing uranium in Libya now accounted for
23 hrs ago - Most of the roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium ore concentrate (UOC) recently declared missing from a site in Libya have been found at that site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog told member states on Friday in a statement seen by Reuters. The Internation ... (Reuters)
Russian Emails Behind DA Bomb Hoax Amid Trump Probe
23 hrs ago - by Frank G. Runyeon · Listen to article Law360, New York (March 24, 2023, 2:23 PM EDT) -- Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid ... (Law360)
FBI arrests alleged operator of site that hosted hacked congressional health data
Yesterday - March 24, 2023, 3:23 PM EDT By Kevin Collier The FBI has arrested a man accused of running the hacker website that recently made public the personal information of tens of thousands of congressional employees, court records show. The site, BreachFo ... (NBC)
US sanctions Belarus' election officials, president's plane
Yesterday - WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions Friday on seven Belarusian elections officials, two state-owned automotive manufacturers and President Alexander Lukashenko’s aircraft. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, intensified his repres ... (AP)
China threatens consequences over US warship's actions
Yesterday - China threatened “serious consequences” Friday after the United States Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claimed was a violation of its sovereignty and se ... (AP via Yahoo News)
Kentucky governor vetoes sweeping GOP transgender measure
Yesterday - FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's Democratic governor issued an election-year veto Friday of a sweeping Republican bill aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths that includes banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting th ... (AP)
Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims
Yesterday - A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election leading u ... (ABC News)
House passes GOP education bill that aims to provide additional oversight for parents
Yesterday - The House voted Friday to pass a controversial bill that aims to increase so-called parental rights in the classroom, as House Republicans spotlight an issue that has emerged as a key party priority. The Senate is not expected to take up the bill an ... (CNN)
U.S. launches airstrikes in Syria after suspected Iranian drone kills a U.S. worker
Yesterday - The U.S. is retaliating after a drone strike killed a U.S. contractor, injured five American service members and wounded one other contractor in Syria, Defense Department said on Thursday. Intelligence sources found the drone, which struck a Syrian ... (NPR)
Disney World reaches deal with union on minimum $18 hourly wage
Yesterday - Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World reached a tentative deal with the company on Thursday that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour by the end of the year in a pact that could set the basement for starting pay thr ... (CNBC)
Pfizer's Covid drug Paxlovid may reduce the risk of developing long Covid, study says
Yesterday - People who take Pfizer ’s Covid antiviral treatment Paxlovid shortly after infection may reduce their risk of developing long Covid, regardless of their age, vaccination status or infection history, new research suggests. The study, published in the ... (CNBC)
LAUSD schools reopen after 3-day strike ends with no contract settlement for service workers
Yesterday - LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Sudents in the L.A. Unified School District will return to classes Friday following a three-day strike by service workers that shuttered the nation's second-largest school system and culminated in a massive labor rally at Los An ... (ABC7 KABC Los Angeles)
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