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Bizarre and delusional? First off, it should be Patton, Bone Spurs and MacArthur. Secondly, MacArthur looks more like Gen. George Marshall. Also, the number of stars is wrong, and the Army does not use red epaulettes or shoulder boards for general officers. Other than that, Bone Spurs nailed it.
The deadly barrage follows Donald Trump's flipflop on allowing Ukraine to build its own Patriot missile interceptors, which he proposed at the sidelines of a NATO summit.
No Russian ballistic missiles shot down by Ukraine in night of attacks that killed 17 | CNN
At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in Kyiv and surrounding areas overnight as Russia fired more than two dozen ballistic and anti-ship missiles, none of which were intercepted by Ukrain...
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The unwarranted public humiliation of Sophie Dennison-Gibby, a veterinarian with more than 20 years of experience caring for animals, who considers herself “rather obsessed about picking up litter.”
Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken
Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.
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“How can I even focus on my military career because I have to worry about how my wife is doing?” said Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez, who was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas, when his wife was detained outside a Walmart in front of their 6-year-old daughter in July.
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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Victims are not faceless. Fourteen-year-old Bella Rubin arrived at Auschwitz on July 19, 1942, in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy together with her mother, Marta, and a younger sister Micheline. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
“Just Another Day in America.” Editorial cartoonist Daniel Medina laments that deadly mass shootings have become so commonplace they are barely noticed.
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones mocks Senate Republicans’ lack of backbone in advancing Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.
Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich weighs in on the state of Donald Trump’s war on Iran, which despite Trump’s repeated claims of total victory has no end in sight.
Editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall believes Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annihilate Iran are seen as empty bluster spewing from a self-proclaimed genius desperate to find a way out of his war of choice.
“Sleepy Don.” Austrian editorial cartoonist Marian Kamensky fears the worst is possible under drowsy Donald Trump’s erratic leadership.
Art of the impotent dealer? One of Donald Trump's signature powers — to bluster on social media, shock, spark panic and convert that panic into the outcomes he wants, has begun to fade. Trump's audience is no longer quaking in the pews.
Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.
The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.
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German editorial cartoonist Fares Garabet doesn’t appear to hold Donald Trump in very high esteem.
The New Yorker’s Barry Blitt casts a clueless Donald Trump watching the world burn.
Even if this year sets the record, it won’t last long. Although scientists disagree on whether 2026 will be the hottest year on record, they agree on it being a near lock that 2027 will beat out any modern year for heat, maybe by a great deal.
This summer isn't breaking heat records — yet. Wait until El Nino kicks in, scientists say
With parts of the globe aflame in wildfires, deadly heat waves parking over cities, record hot oceans and a strengthening super El Nino, it seems like we’re baking through the hottest year on record.
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Editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger responds to the Trump family’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Capital One after it closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts in 2021 “for anti-money laundering reasons.”
Let this sink in. Donald Trump is furious because he was blocked from prosecuting an American, even though the evidence clearly showed David Hearn committed no crime. Was Trump wiling to imprison Hearn to deflect from the embarrassment of shoddy work done under a highly questionable no-bid contract?
Pirro Meets With Trump at the White House After He Said She ‘Choked’ in Reflecting Pool Case (Gift Article)
President Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., “folded like an umbrella.” For now, her job appeared to be safe, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
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Tennessee has recently enacted a law making it easier legally to shoot someone who’s stealing a lawnmower, bicycle or power tools you left in your garden shed.
Using a Gun to Defend Yourself? The Right to Kill Is Growing. (Gift Article)
States are pushing to pass laws sanctioning more reasons to use lethal violence in self-defense, a distinctly American tradition.
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When democracy dies. Hans Baluschek’s “Party Companions” (1928). A highly successful illustrator during the Weimar Republic, Baluschek was branded a “Marxist artist” when the Nazis took power. The social democrat’s work was banned from display and he was dismissed from his teaching positions.
Editorial cartoonist Bill Bramhall is appalled that Donald Trump, with the acquiescence of Republican senators, has secured protection for himself and his family against IRS audits, penalties and punishment — unlike any other U.S. taxpayers.
Banks are required by law to follow strict anti-money laundering protocols and often have vast monitoring systems to flag any potentially fraudulent activity.
Capital One says it shut down hundreds of Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns | CNN Business
Capital One closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts in 2021 “for anti-money laundering reasons,” the bank disclosed for the first time in a court filing Friday night.
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Bottom line: Donald Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to protect himself and his family against IRS scrutiny, penalties and punishment that regular American taxpayers are subject to. In the Trumps' case, an estimated windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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All French cities keep a register of vulnerable residents who have asked to be contacted during hot periods, but those lists are hard to keep updated. With its network of 65,000 workers embedded in local communities, the postal service could help to find people not registered with local authorities,
As France’s Elders Swelter in the Heat, Postal Workers Come to the Rescue (Gift Article)
To help prevent heat-related deaths, the French government has asked postal workers to check in on older people.
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The fires are dozens of wildfires across the Western U.S. that are stretching the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them. At least 390 square miles have burned across the state, and some of the fires, including those in the Spokane area, have not been contained.
Washington state fires destroy hundreds of structures and force Spokane-area residents to evacuate
Light winds and lower temperatures are in the forecast to help firefighters with wildfires in eastern Washington state that have forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area.
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But does it matter when Donald Trump says his controversial Jan. 6 slush fund — which grants him and his family IRS immunity — can always be "put back on the table?"
Blanche rescinds Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, removing hurdle from attorney general nominee’s confirmation | CNN Politics
Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Todd Blanche, said late Sunday he is formally rescinding the president’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, after Senate Republicans threatened to blo...
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Does this instill confidence? The crowdsourcing query, which military officials said was unusual over email, is a sign of the limited — and potentially unpalatable —options available to Donald Trump to force Iran into a deal on his terms.
Exclusive: US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran | CNN Politics
The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.
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Victims are not faceless. Stripped of her German citizenship when the Nazis took power, Regina Jonas, a Jew, was arrested and deported to Theresienstadt in November 1942. She was transferred in mid-October 1944 to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.
