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Super Typhoon Bavi intensified over the Pacific on Thursday and is bearing down on Taiwan and southern China, packing several feet of rain and winds of up to 124 miles per hour. Current forecasts have the storm brushing Taiwan and making landfall in China’s province of Fujian on Saturday night. The massive storm, currently over 620 miles wide, is poised to hit China almost exactly a week after Tropical Storm Maysak, which dumped a huge amount of rain on Hengzhou province and has reportedly caused 39 deaths from flooding. If Bavi follows Thursday’s projections and blows through northern Taiwan, it…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Moment,” host Katy Tur said that the explanation given by then-Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner for his Nazi tattoo was “not very believable” but Democrats “overlooked” that and his other issues. Tur said, “The Democratic Party, in searching for somebody that fit the bill of someone who could relate to and appeal to a broader set of voters that had been lost to Donald Trump, they found Graham Platner. And, yeah, he had a lot of warts, a lot of warts, and they overlooked them. This one is clearly a bridge too…
On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) said that she thinks the Iran war needs to end and we have to go back to negotiations, and “a follow-up to the Iranian strikes against our allies and against shipping in the Strait is an important response from the United States, and, hopefully, that will encourage the Iranians that it’s time now to sit down at the table and negotiate.” Shaheen said it’s unclear what President Donald Trump’s intentions are, and “The fact is, this is a war that he never should have undertaken. None of the goals…
Six people have been charged for their alleged participation in a violent Fourth of July block party in North Charleston, South Carolina, that erupted into gunfire and assault on police officers. The violent incident involved a machine gun and a spear, resulting in charges against six people, including two adults and four juveniles. “The juveniles face charges ranging from third-degree assault by mob, assault on a police officer while resisting arrest, resisting arrest, possession of a machine gun and breach of peace,” noted Fox News. “Authorities also arrested 19-year-old Giovanni Mekhi Sincere Campbell, of North Charleston, who is charged with possession of…
A police officer was reportedly hospitalized after an angry mob threw projectiles Moroccan football fans clashed with police in London on Thursday night after their team’s 2-0 loss to France in the World Cup quarterfinals.Officers with shields and batons were deployed to Edgware Road to control the unruly crowd as fans taunted police and threw bottles and other projectiles.According to The Sun, one officer was injured and taken to the hospital. A video from the scene appears to show police officers attending to a colleague lying on the ground while several ambulances are parked nearby.Moroccans fans Morocco after losing to…
President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing for what could become a prolonged military campaign against Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, with the White House weighing additional military options as Tehran continues threatening commercial shipping through the strategic waterway, according to reports Thursday. The latest deliberations come after two consecutive nights of U.S. strikes against Iranian military targets following Trump’s declaration Wednesday that the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and memorandum of understanding with Tehran were “over” after Iran attacked commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking aboard Air Force One Wednesday night while returning from the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump…
Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront,” former Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer said “something is very wrong” with President Donald Trump, who she claimed didn’t seem to “know where he is.” Discussing some verbal gaffes the president had during his NATO trip, host Erin Burnett said, “So, Senator, it’s true there was a lot of press availability. It’s true, time changes are brutal, the travel schedule is brutal. Does all that up add up to making those stumbles, the word confusions normal?” Boxer said, “No. Something is very wrong with this situation. He’s he’s tired. He falls asleep at meetings. He calls people…
Veteran French politician Marine Le Pen is the early favorite to win France’s presidential election next year after an appeals court ruled her eligible to run, opinion polls suggest.Le Pen, the longtime figurehead of the right-wing National Rally (RN), reached the presidential runoff in 2017 and 2022 and was widely seen as a leading contender to succeed President Emmanuel Macron. Her 2027 bid was thrown into doubt last year after she was convicted of using EU funds intended for parliamentary aides to pay party staff in France. She was sentenced to four years in prison, fined, and barred from holding…
Wednesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) accused President Donald Trump of “trying to execute a fascist takeover of this country.” Smith said, “It’s a continuing problem that President Trump is focused on himself and unhinged from reality. He is not connected to the real world. Remember, we won the war against Iran and Iran conceded to all of our demands. Gosh, I lose track at this point. I think it was like two months ago that he first made that claim. So while Donald Trump is rambling on about the world that exists in his mind,…
Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) claimed President Donald Trump’s strategy in Iran doesn’t make sense and is not making the United States safer. Coons said, “From the beginning of this war of choice against Iran. President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have offered a wide variety of different and competing goals for this war with Iran. Is it sinking their navy? Is it ending their ballistic missile program? Is it ending their support for proxies like, Hamas and Hezbollah? Is it making sure they never have a nuclear weapon? Is it seizing their oil production? At…