Even as the weather was expected to improve, forecasters said gusty winds will continue through Wednesday morning, complicating firefighting efforts. MALIBU, Calif. — Weather conditions were forecast to improve this week in Southern California, aiding firefighters in their battle against a wind-driven wildfire that’s forced up to 20,000 people — including performers Cher, Dick Van…
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CNN — The Cabinet confirmation drama around Donald Trump’s most provocative picks isn’t only about Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It’s mostly about Trump himself, and the kind of presidency he wants, the one he will end up getting, and the hopes of his MAGA movement that he’ll stand…
In the weeks since the election, I’ve been thinking about the woman who told me she’d heard that Kamala Harris “let in all the illegals who killed all those cops.” I met her when a few of us from Pod Save America were knocking doors in Las Vegas the Sunday before the election. She was…
The first look at Holly Willoughby‘s new Netflix series Celebrity Bear Hunt has been released by Netflix. One jaw-dropping photo captures adventurous Willoughby with her legs dangling outside of a helicopter and her hair blowing in the wind as she flies over the Central American jungle with her co-star Bear Grylls. The host of the…
Russia is already at war with the West. It has been so since its occupation of Crimea in 2014, when Russia sought to secure its access to Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet and as a potential lever of influence over Kyiv’s political direction. Even in 2014 — at the annual Valdai…
West Long Branch, NJ – Most Democrats and independents would be upset if President-elect Donald Trump suspended laws and constitutional provisions to go after his political enemies. However, few Republicans say this would bother them a lot, although most see his statements about doing this as overstated. The Monmouth (“Mon-muth”) University Poll finds that most…
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has fallen in Syria, almost 14 years after an uprising against it began and more than half a century after his father launched the family’s brutal dictatorship. Rebels led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham movement took control of Damascus early on Sunday after sweeping through the country over the previous…
Kyiv, Ukraine – On a freezing drizzly day in central Kyiv, Evhen Lomsky hobbled uneasily on crutches near a subway exit wearing a sign that read: “I’m starving.” The bearded 48-year-old war veteran, who has lost his right leg below the knee, hails from Mariupol, a Russian-speaking southeastern city where he worked at a steel plant….
CNN — Years before he was Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel was a midlevel Justice Department lawyer who once drew the ire of a Texas judge who described Patel as being precisely the kind of federal bureaucrat he has vowed to weed out in his crusade against the so-called deep state….