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House Republicans are inching closer together on a plan to fund the government, with a key GOP hard-liner suggesting he could tolerate a short-term punt before funding runs out Sept. 30. Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus and for weeks has pushed for a year-long continuing resolution, said in a brief interview Monday he could support a shorter stopgap plan that Appropriations Chair Tom Cole is backing — if Cole has the votes. Some in the Freedom Caucus ranks have declared themselves as “hard no” on Cole’s plan, which doesn’t currently have the votes to pass.…
The freighter, which was also carrying lithium batteries, derailed in northern Sweden, likely due to heavy rains, according to the local authorities A freight train carrying ammunition and lithium batteries has derailed in northern Sweden, according to local officials.The accident, which occurred at around 8am on Sunday near Skorped, in the Vasternorrland region, is believed to have been caused by heavy rainfall, which damaged the railway infrastructure. It is unclear what type of ammunition the train was transporting or what its destination was.Emergency services are managing the dangerous cargo, after which the site will be cleared and the full extent…
Nicolas Maduro – Wiki Media. Alleged Cartel Boss Maduro vows to combat drug traffickers. Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, under extreme military pressure from the US, is trying frantically to project an image of control and strength. But by overdoing it, he reveals his fear. A day after the tyrant of Caracas accused the US of fabricating footage of the drug boat destruction strike by using artificial intelligence, he did a U-turn and strenuously denounced the ‘extrajudicial execution of 11 people on a Venezuelan boat.’ Watch: BREAKING: President Trump just released the video of the U.S. military STRIKING a drug boat…
New York students just underwent their first week of school with a bell-to-bell cellphone ban aimed at improving learning outcomes and fostering face-to-face social connection. Parents, students, and staff largely had positive reactions to the new policy in comments to CBS News. “At first, I was really torn up about it. And then, now, I kind of like, like at lunch, we’ll all talk the whole period,” said Jack Kuenstler, a 12-grader at Walt Whitman High School in South Huntington. At Walt Whitman High School, officials added a special bell to mark to daily deadline for putting away personal devices.…
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) pleaded Monday with the Taliban junta in Afghanistan to lift its Islamist restrictions against female workers, so that women would be allowed to travel without male guardians and provide humanitarian relief for victims of the devastating September 1 earthquake. “A very big issue now is the increasing paucity of female staff in these places,” noted the deputy W.H.O. representative to Afghanistan, Dr. Mukta Sharma. Sharma told Reuters that 90% of the medical staff in the area affected by the earthquake are male, and few of the female staffers were fully qualified doctors. She felt more…
The White House body slammed author Stephen King after he said Trump supporters will deny voting for the 45th and 47th president in 20 years. Last month, King told UK newspaper the Sunday Times that he believes supporters of President Donald Trump will one day deny that they ever voted for the two-time president who won the 2024 election in an epic landslide victory. “There’s a story about the home run that was heard around the world,” King said. “There are — tens of thousands of people who will say, ‘I saw [the baseball player Bobby Thomson] hit that home run,’…
Caracas is set to send 25,000 soldiers to coastal states after American warships arrived in the Caribbean to counter drug cartels Venezuela is set to boost its military deployments in coastal and border states amid heightened tensions with the US. The move comes after Washington dispatched several warships to the Southern Caribbean last month in what it describes as an operation against drug cartels.Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez announced on Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro had ordered the deployment of “all available” troops and equipment to the states of Zulia, Falcon, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, and Delta Amacuro. He added…
Credit: Don Lemon YouTube screenshot Far-left former CNN host Don Lemon got caught off-guard on the New York City streets over the weekend when a politically incorrect man gave him a much-deserved verbal smackdown. On Sunday, Lemon decided to conduct a series of interviews on the streets of New York over the weekend to learn where they were from and get their take on current events. For the most part, Lemon was greeted warmly, with some even proclaiming themselves fans. But about 28 minutes into the video, Lemon came across a bald guy in a light blue dress shirt, who…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is facing allegations from current and former employees that it suppressed research that could have shed light on potential safety risks to children and teens using its virtual reality products and services. The Washington Post reports that according to documents disclosed to Congress by a group of Meta employees, the company deployed its legal team to screen, edit, and sometimes veto internal research about child safety in VR after leaked studies led to congressional hearings in 2021. The employees allege that Meta’s actions were aimed at establishing “plausible deniability” about any negative effects of its products. Meta…
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) claimed President Donald Trump’s social media post about the National Guard coming to Chicago is a “threat” that was both “embarrassing and performative.” Host Kristen Welker said, “It seems like the former president is not backing down. In fact, I want to show you a post. This was posted yesterday. President Trump shared this on his social media account directed at Chicago, and quote, I love the smell of deportations in the morning and Chicago about to find out why it is called the Department of War. Illinois Governor J.B.…