President Joe Biden was in full campaign mode as he took shots at former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as a whole at the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington on Saturday. The dinner is a time-honored Washington tradition, a comedic affair at the Gridiron Club with skits, songs and speeches as the capital's elite let their hair down while Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris sit at a table with Jeff, the world's richest man Bezos. The president is not always present, although...
In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time to put aside all our ridiculous arguments of the past – socialism, fascism, liberalism, anarchism, technocracy, etc. – and just recognize that elites like him have it all under control. They had already established the building blocks
The long-awaited electronic version of the Air Force’s Weighted Airman Promotion System (WAPS) is up and running, and now promotion-eligible Airmen can take a streamlined promotion exam to see if their military knowledge and technical expertise will carry them to the next rank.
One person died at the hospital after suffering a gunshot wound near South End on Saturday night.
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In a court filing on Monday, Donald Trump's lawyers sprung the news we've all suspected: Trump doesn't have the money to pay the $454 million civil fraud judgment levied against him for lying to banks and insurers about his supposed wealth for decades. Trump has appealed that ruling, or is trying to, but there's a catch: In order to appeal the verdict, he has to post a bond fully covering the judgment against him—and the coup-attempting "billionaire" doesn't have it. Here’s CNBC: ″Defendants’...
Speaker Mike Johnson in just months has all but cemented his place among the weakest House leaders in its history. Alas, the Louisianan nonetheless holds enough power that he’s single-handedly blocking one of the most crucial matters of our time: bipartisan U.S. aid to Ukraine for its defense against Vladimir Putin’s murderous expansionism. It’s not like Johnson is making a stand on principle by not scheduling a House vote. Oh, no. To hear him talk, he’s all for our Ukrainian allies and wants...
First aid supplies from Germany were dropped by parachute on Saturday over the embattled Gaza Strip as the German military starts its aid mission there, according to dpa information. The German Armed Forces or Bundeswehr deployed two C-130 Hercules transport aircraft stationed in France to the region. Each aircraft can transport up to 18 tons of cargo. The aircraft are flying from Jordan, which initiated the air drops. The United States and France are also taking part in the initiative. Aid...
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that the election in November was about beating "the authoritarian forces that have rallied around" former President Donald Trump. | Clips
This is how coaches, players, and fans at the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament described the end of the conference and the finality of this week’s tournament.
More than 100 military members gathered at Nellis Air Force Base Friday for the opening ceremony of the 2024 U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps Trails.
The federal judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump's New York defamation trial on Thursday denied his request to delay the $83.3 million payment he owes E. Jean Carroll.The decision came hours after Trump was ordered by a London judge to pay $382,000 to a company founded by former British spy Christopher Steele that the former president unsuccessfully sued over making claims that he said harmed his reputation.In January, jurors sided with Carroll that Trump had defamed her by denying he...