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The head of America’s military contingent in South Korea, Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson, reportedly met with the country’s Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back on Tuesday as the joint military exercises known as Ulchi Freedom Shield kicked off this week in a reduced capacity after President Donald Trump announced he would limit them. President Trump shocked the government of President Lee Jae-myung on Monday with a statement on his website, Truth Social, in which he announced that he would significantly reduce the scale of the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises out of respect for communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and in response…

Monday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said President Donald Trump “is the real scofflaw vandal” in Washington D.C.. Raskin said, “Look, if Donald Trump can take a bulldozer to the East Wing of the White House, the next president could take a bulldozer to the West Wing of the White House. They could just burn the whole thing down if it’s up to the president. Look how ridiculous that is. That is not the law. The law is, under our Constitution is that Congress controls all federal property.” He continued, “So this is a fundamental fallacy of…

A huge slump in yields will lead to higher grocery bills for consumers, economists have warned Agricultural producers across the EU have warned of sharp drops in yields after Europe has been hit by successive heatwaves this summer. Economists have said the losses are likely to push food prices higher in the coming months.June and July were the hottest on record in western Europe, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, which has warned of a “continued risk of heatwaves affecting much of Europe” through August and into September.In France, one of the EU’s largest grain producers, groundwater reserves…

Screenshot The Trump Justice Department is preparing to flood polling places across America with a record 1,000 federal monitors for the November midterm elections, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon announced this week. Dhillon told Bloomberg the deployment will be “probably going to be a historic number for a Republican administration.” The Civil Rights Division has long sent monitors to ensure compliance with federal voting laws, but the scale under President Trump’s second term marks a sharp escalation in the fight for clean elections. “We just did it in the primary. We will do it to…

Public favorability for India has dropped sharply over the last ten years, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. Just 45 percent of Americans have a “favorable” view of India, compared to 50 percent who have an “unfavorable” view, especially among younger, GOP-leaning Americans, says a new Pew survey. The favorability rating is down from 64 percent in 2008, and 51 percent in 2023. Pew added: Partisanship. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to have a favorable view of India (50% vs. 42%). Age. Half of adults ages 65 and older view India favorably,…

On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) responded to a question on CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper saying the USS Lincoln has the lowest number of mental health-related cases of any Navy aircraft carrier by saying that “I haven’t looked at the data,” but “you’re misrepresenting an issue and you’re ignoring an issue when you have crew members that are trying to end their lives because of what this deployment has been like for them.” And that he wants an investigation. Guest co-host Sacha Pfeiffer asked, “[Y]ou’ve been in touch with relatives of sailors aboard the USS…

Senator Tim Kaine will table a new resolution to rein in the president’s powers – after more than a dozen failed before Congressional Democrats will introduce a war powers resolution prohibiting military action against Oman, after US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb the country for holding talks with Iran. Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Trump warned that “if Oman gets in the way” of his efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz via a peace deal favorable to the US, he would “bomb the sh*t out of them.” Trump was reacting to news that Oman and Iran were closing…

Minneapolis Public Schools is facing a federal civil rights complaint after its American Indian Education Department announced a back-to-school backpack and supplies giveaway strictly limited to American Indian students, in clear violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The event, scheduled for August 24 and 25 and promoted on the department’s Facebook page under the heading “2026-27 School Year Distribution of Backpacks & School Supplies,” is explicitly restricted to “MPS American Indian Students ONLY.” Participants must be enrolled in Minneapolis Public Schools and have a completed Federal 506 form or tribal affiliation identification form on file to receive…

U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has lamented the loss of liberty in the United Kingdom after a former police officer was convicted of a crime for merely reposting a meme mocking Islam. The Newton Aycliffe magistrates’ court found retired police officer Stephen Gray guilty this month of violating Section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003 over a supposedly “grossly offensive” image he shared on his Facebook account. The meme, which was flagged to the Durham Constabulary by a non-Muslim neighbour, portrayed a man wearing a turban next to a rasher of bacon with the caption: “Fun facts about Bacon! People who…

Britain’s new farming minister fainted at the sight of meat as he toured a food processing plant, a report claims, as the country’s new left-wing Prime Minister tries to win over farmers the previous government relentlessly attacked. Stephen Morgan, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — otherwise known as the ‘farming minister’ — a junior minister in the new Andy Burnham government is reported to have taken a queer turn when touring agricultural sites to help him familiarise himself with his new job. Britain’s best-selling newspaper The Sun cites a farmer familiar with the incident,…