Maine residents are gripped with fear as authorities search for the suspect in a shooting at a bowling alley and a bar in the town of Lewiston that left at least 18 people dead and 13 others injured. A 40-year-old man, Robert Card, of Bowdoin, Maine, was named by police as the subject of the […]
Category: Domestic
Biden doubts death toll, Palestine publish names
The health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza has published a report listing the names of more than 6,000 “documented deaths” in Gaza since the October 7 terror attacks on Israel, after US President Joe Biden questioned the reliability of Palestinian casualty figures. The report stated that between October 7 and 26, 7,028 Palestinians were killed, including […]
18 dead in Maine mass shooting; suspect loose
An arrest warrant for multiple counts of murder has been issued for suspect Robert Card, 40, Maine State Police Col. William Ross said during a Thursday news conference. Eighteen people have been killed and 13 injured in a mass shooting at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine Gov. Janet Mills said Thursday, […]
Non-Reading Students now graduate from High School
The Oregon State Board of Education decided to remove the requirement to show proof of mastery in reading, writing, and math through a standardized test in order to graduate from high school. The Oregon State Board last week voted unanimously to extend a pause on the requirement for 11th-grade students to demonstrate competency in essential […]
Mike Johnson is new Speaker; who is he?
WASHINGTON — Republicans elected a new speaker of the House on Wednesday in Rep. Mike Johnson, ending 22 days of a paralyzed chamber after a group of rebels overthrew Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Johnson, R-La., was nominated on Tuesday after three previous nominees flamed out. He unified the fractious conference, winning votes from right-wing detractors of McCarthy, […]
2 dozen soldiers injured by Drone Attacks
Two dozen American military personnel were wounded last week in a series of drone attacks at American bases in Iraq and Syria, U.S. Central Command told NBC News on Tuesday. The Pentagon confirmed the attacks last week, but the number of U.S. casualties has not been previously disclosed. Twenty American personnel sustained minor injuries on […]
Will we get a speaker after 22 days without one?
House Republicans voted late Tuesday night to select Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., to be their latest nominee for speaker even as it remains unclear that any candidate can win enough votes to be elected on the House floor. “Democracy is messy sometimes, but it is our system,” Johnson told reporters at a press conference after […]
158 car ‘Super fog” pileup kills 7
At least seven people have died after a dense “super fog” caused a huge, 158-car pile-up near New Orleans. Thick fog and smoke from multiple marsh fires mingled to reduce visibility for drivers commuting on Monday. Twenty-five people were injured in the crash on Interstate 55 in St John the Baptist Parish, said police, who […]
America’s ultra-left in kamikazie death dive
The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be tearing the American hard left apart amid differing reactions to a deadly Hamas attack on Israel that took place on October 7. Some progressives have sharply criticized Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for the group’s statement about the attacks, which it blamed on “Israel’s apartheid regime,” […]
Israel’s Air Strikes Intensify; Strain Gaza Hospitals
At the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in central Gaza, they are running out of material to cover the dead with. The bodies are stacked in a courtyard outside, prayers are said, and relatives collapse to the floor wailing in grief. Inside the hospital, doctors battle to patch up the walking wounded and save the gravely injured […]
What happens if China gets into our Wars?
Global disorder is growing rapidly even as domestic political support for the post-war order that America’s power underwrote is diminishing. The prospect of a direct war between two or more of the world’s great powers, something that has been avoided for 78 years and counting, seems more likely now than at any time since the […]
Israel will wipe Iran ‘off the face of the earth’
Israel’s Minister of Economy Nir Barkat issued an ominous threat to Iran and Lebanon in an interview published on Saturday, saying his country would “wipe” them “off the face of the Earth” if Hezbollah opens up a northern front in the Hamas war. On October 7, Hamas, which the United States designates as a terrorist […]