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President Donald Trump is acting like a Roman emperor, not an American president, by hosting UFC fighters to wrestle in front of the White House on his 80th birthday.“The weekend’s UFC fight in honor of the Emperor Donald’s birthday is about more than his obsessive love for big, powerful men, men with tears in their eyes saying, ‘Mr. President, sir, would you like to touch my rock-solid abs?’” wrote Rick Wilson, who co-founded the anti-Trump Republican group The Lincoln Project. “It’s about the fall of Rome, and that of America.”Wilson added, “The decline of Rome didn’t begin when the

President Donald Trump’s White House is freaking out over reports that their secret conversations in the Situation Room were surreptitiously recorded — and will soon be published.“Top White House officials believe New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their forthcoming book, ‘Regime Change,’” reported Axios on Sunday. Because independent recording devices are not allowed in the Situation Room, the potential leak would be a major breach from protocol that would place many of Trump’

On June 1st, despite a ceasefire ostensibly underway in the US-Israeli war on Iran, Israel’s prime minister launched a major escalation against Lebanon, including threatening airstrikes against the Lebanese capital. The US president called the Israeli leader, furiously demanding an end to Israel’s escalation. Six days later, Israel attacked Beirut’s southern suburbs, long understood to be a red line for Hezbollah. The Lebanese resistance organization launched a limited response, sending 11 rockets towards Israel, almost all of which were intercepted; no one was hurt or kil

President Donald Trump claimed that the US and Iran are on track to sign a diplomatic agreement this weekend, but added that “we have the ultimate alternative” if the process doesn’t “work out.”“The ‘ultimate alternative’ sounds a lot like a nuclear threat,” Sina Toossi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, wrote in response to the president’s Truth Social post. “Not the first time Trump has hinted at it.”The agreement Trump referenced is believed to be “memorandum of understanding” that’s expected be fleshed out in “technical talks” that could begin next week, according to Pakistani Prime Min

President Donald Trump has not toned down the rhetoric that contributed to the assassination of a Democratic lawmaker last year, according to a contributor to the local newspaper from that region.“One year ago this week, Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were assassinated in their home in Brooklyn Park,” wrote Steve Reuter to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “The man who pulled the trigger was the cause of their deaths, in the way we most readily understand cause. The proximate one, the hand on the weapon, the figure we can name and try and

President Donald Trump’s support is declining among a group of Americans who have consistently among his staunchest supporters — that is, rural Americans.“Trump's approval rating among rural Americans dropped in June to a new low of 50 [percent], according to the June 3-8 Reuters/Ipsos poll,” Reuters reported on Sunday. “That compares with 60 [percent] approval in February 2025 shortly after Trump took office.”The wire service added, “Rural disapproval of Trump's performance meanwhile rose to 48 [percent] from 34 [percent] in February 2025,

President Donald Trump’s choice for attorney general, the current acting attorney general Todd Blanche, would be dangerous to democracy, experts warn.“A year ago, senators uncomfortable with the idea of Trump’s criminal-defense lawyer becoming the department’s No. 2 could point to Blanche’s testimony before the Judiciary Committee, where he said that ‘political prosecutions should never happen, period’ and that, if pressed to bring a bogus case, ‘I will follow the law,’” reported The New Yorker's Ruth Marcus on Sunday. “Now they have a record against which to judge those assurances. Will any of this matter to Republican senators—perha

President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka and Jared Trump, are embroiled in a fierce controversy over their planned resort in Albania. Locals previously claimed that it will irreversibly destroy the area’s beloved wildlife and increase an oligarchical presence in their country. Now they are adding another accusation — namely, that the person who sold the Trumps that land never owned it in the first place.“The disputed property was sold by Artur Shehu, a businessman who has claimed his family's ownership dates back to the Ottoman Empire,” reported RadarOnline.com's Olivia Salamone on Sunday, citing a story from Reuters. “According to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Shehu has previously been inves

Before seeing the new science fiction movie “Disclosure Day,” I reached out to some of Earth’s top experts about its underlying premise — that is, whether or not extraterrestrial intelligence exists in the universe.What I learned has changed how I view not only this particular movie, but the poignant subject it semi-realistically depicts. Thanks to the scientists I interviewed and the artists who put "Disclosure Day" on the big screen, I can look at the subject of UFO sightings and feel an emotion that is increasingly rare these days — hope.In “Disclosure Day,” directed and co-written (with David Koepp) by Steven Spielberg, cybersecurity specialist Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor) teams up with meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) to expose evidence that in

President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to then-Vice President Joe Biden, yet his ongoing lies to the contrary continue to roil American politics. Indeed, as a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent pointed out on Thursday, Trump’s lawmakers keep making mistakes when trying to fault the Bureau’s investigation of Trump’s insurrection.“Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has never concealed his distaste at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department’s attempt to hold Donald Trump accountable for his failed coup, an investigation code-named by the FBI as ARCTIC FROST,”