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Last March, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project is illegal because “no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.” But even if higher courts ultimately agree with Leon, a Justice Department lawyer argued on Friday, they cannot stop the project. The lawyer, Yaakov Roth, was asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn Leon’s preliminary injunction, which it temporarily stayed in April, or block it while the case, National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS, is pending. Because the ballroom project serves national security…
Trump Cries Fraud Over CA's (Normal) Slow Vote Count Source link
U.S. Should Not Have a Third World Election System Source link
Tehran said it fired “warning missiles” and drones at U.S. navy vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Friday, on the 59th day of the tenuous ceasefire to the Iran War. U.S. Central Command called reports that Iranian forces attacked or fired at U.S. Navy warships “false,” adding that “doing so would be a gross violation of the ceasefire.” Iran’s Quds Force and IRGC military apparatus issued separate statements Thursday tying the end of the Iran War to a full Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. Iran has said that it would suspend indirect peace negotiations with the U.S. over the issue.…
Okay, here’s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a thing would have been beyond inconceivable, no less watchable on TV, in the United States of America. Had someone written up such a plot with Osama bin Laden and crew in the cast of characters, it would have been treated as the worst kind of unpublishable…
Trump’s war is consuming the administration’s attention and taxpayer dollars while negatively affecting Americans and undermining his initial agenda. Source link
When President Donald Trump announced a takeover of the Kennedy Center last year, he explained it was to combat a specific sort of political and cultural rot. “We don’t need woke at the Kennedy Center,” he said in February 2025 aboard Air Force One. “Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace that they were even put on. So I’ll be there until such time as it gets to be running right.” Or did he mean running Right? The president’s recent decision to abandon his plans, in response to a federal judge’s ruling that the Kennedy Center had…
Every year for the last four years, around the second Saturday in November, my daughter (now ten) has her first gymnastics meet of the season in Bloomington, Indiana, about an hour-and-a-half drive from our house. In 2022, we left early, while it was still dark, to make it on time for an early start for her level 2 competition. Surprisingly, it had started snowing an hour or so earlier, and there was already a dusting of snow on the lawns, houses, cars, and streets of our neighborhood. It doesn’t regularly snow in mid-November in central/southern Indiana, so even a light…
It is the latest legislative rebuke of Trump as a small number of Republicans increasingly break away from the president and GOP leaders. Source link
According to a recent Gallup poll, 71 percent of Americans would oppose the construction of a data center in their community, largely due to concerns over potential environmental impacts, quality of life, and energy affordability. This strong public opposition has left state lawmakers scrambling to regulate new and existing data centers, even in states with low energy prices. In North Carolina—where the residential cost of electricity is about 13.8 percent lower than the national average—the state Senate is currently considering the Ratepayer Protection Act. This bill would likely increase the cost of data center development in the Tar Heel State…