Author: Press Room
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Democrat Emily Gregory on Tuesday flipped the Florida legislative seat that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and defeated the Trump-endorsed GOP state House candidate. Gregory’s win won’t change the overall control of the Florida Legislature’s Republican supermajority. But her victory in the Palm Beach County election is sure to give Democrats a much-needed jolt after years of GOP domination in the Sunshine State and even jokes from Gov. Ron DeSantis that the state party was practically dead. Gregory, a first-time candidate with a background in public health and mental health administration who now runs a fitness…
Tehran has denied “fake news” of talks with Washington, accusing President Donald Trump of trying to “manipulate financial and oil markets” The Pentagon is expected to send thousands of troops from the elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, sources familiar with the plan have told Reuters and AP.The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the troops, trained to parachute into hostile territory to secure key airfields and other facilities, could be deployed “in the coming days.”Meanwhile, senior Iranian military adviser Ali-Akbar Ahmadian warned Washington that Tehran’s armed forces have “trained in asymmetrical warfare” for more…
The Pentagon is expected to order roughly 3,000 troops from the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East “in the coming hours,” according to a Wall Street Journal report outlining an imminent deployment of a rapid-response brigade combat team to support operations against Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing two U.S. officials, that a written deployment order is expected shortly for the unit, along with the division’s headquarters element responsible for planning and coordination. The move would mark a significant expansion of U.S. force posture in the region, positioning a high-readiness ground force capable of executing…
An illegal alien is accused of choking a woman and then slitting her throat while he was high on meth in Salt Lake City, Utah. Jesus Alejandro Ramirez-Padilla, a 30-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, among other charges. According to police, Ramirez-Padilla was smoking meth with a woman when he began thinking about murdering someone. The illegal alien allegedly told police that he decided he would try to kill the woman. Police allege that Ramirez-Padilla choked the woman from behind until she fell on the ground. The illegal alien allegedly continued…
President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he plans to take a “hard look” at the emerging DHS funding deal but that he is unlikely to be “happy” with any agreement Republicans strike with Democrats. It was the first time the president has weighed in publicly on the brewing agreement to fund the agency, as the White House signaled earlier Tuesday that the yet-to-be-finalized solution “seems to be acceptable.” A White House official cautioned that talks are ongoing to fund DHS more than five weeks after money lapsed. “Well I’m going to look at it, and we’re gonna take a…
A new alliance is forming in the Balkans, aiming to give Kosovo an army and make Belgrade a pariah This Tuesday marks 27 years since the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and the Western Balkans today is drifting toward a dangerously familiar pattern: polarization, militarization, and the construction of rival blocs. At the center of this unfolding story stands Serbia – once again cast not as a partner in regional security, but as a problem to be contained.For years, Belgrade has pursued a policy of military neutrality, positioning itself as a stabilizing force in a region still haunted…
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wait time at one Houston airport terminal reached four hours on Monday as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrive to assist TSA workers amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. According to reports, TSA security wait times at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston reached four hours in the airport’s Terminal E, with wait times exceeding 2 hours elsewhere. Other airports, including the San Diego International Airport, are also seeing hours-long TSA lines. Meanwhile, travelers flying out of Atlanta have been urged to arrive to the airport four hours before their scheduled flight, attributing the extraordinarily long lines…
Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn told House lawmakers they were never interviewed as part of formal federal investigations into their late client’s sex crimes, according to videos of their depositions released Tuesday. Their claims underscore the enormous gaps in the Justice Department’s efforts to hold Epstein and his inner circle accountable over multiple administrations of both parties. It also could raise the stakes for the ongoing Epstein investigation being led by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is already being relied upon to gather new evidence after the Trump Justice Department signaled it would…
A great leap backwards, Trump-style, can save America. The 50th anniversary Compass column. By joining Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran, US President Donald Trump has trapped himself between Scylla and Charybdis. Escalation would spell disaster; retreat would brand him a historic loser. And yet, paradoxically – and almost perversely – a safe passage remains, should he choose to take it.If the US commander-in-chief musters the necessary courage, he can turn near-certain defeat into his greatest victory so far, at least. The strategy that might rescue Trump, his country, and the world at large may be called the “great leap backward”,…
Consider the below statements. Do any of them resonate? Make you angry? Do some not even merit a response? Any group differences in outcomes can be traced to systemic racism. If systemic racism exists at all, it works against so-called privileged groups. Abortion is murder, period. The sanctity of human life is a made-up concept. Jews have a biblical right to Israel. Hitler was right about a few things. Masculinity is inherently toxic. If women ran the world, we would still be living in grass huts. The colonialists need to give back the land they stole. Indigenous people need to…