PESHAWAR: Security forces killed at least seven terrorists in an operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu on Friday, security sources said.
Bannu district has been the scene of repeated security incidents in recent months, with both civilians and local security forces coming under attack amid a broader surge in militant violence.
Security sources stated that their forces carried out a successful…
It’s rare for a judge to acknowledge that they are handing down a prison sentence for political reasons. But that is precisely what chief district judge Reed O’Connor stated from the bench in a North Texas federal courtroom this week, during the sentencing of eight defendants in one of the Prairieland cases, so named for the defendants’ participation in a**** July 4 demonstration at the…
So, in addition to seeing localized housing price declines, we now see housing starts falling to a 6 year low.
It smells like 2008.
May housing starts fell to the lowest level since the pandemic disrupted construction six years ago, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Builder confidence has dropped recently because of higher material and financing costs.
The change threatens to…
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights,…
This week, more than 100 former federal prosecutors in Illinois sounded the alarm about the current leaders of the office where they all once served. “Regrettably,” their statement reads, “there is little doubt that actions taken by leadership in the last year have tarnished the reputation of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.” They list some serious…
One of the worst cryptocurrency scam artists is trying to get a pardon from President Trump.
Sam Bankman-Fried has officially filed with the Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney Office, Bloomberg reports. The co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading site FTX was convicted on fraud and money laundering charges in 2024 and is now serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Whether Trump will pardon…
Fans around the world are expected to tune in for the 2026 World Cup football matches that begin this week and continue for more than a month in Canada, Mexico and the United States, where the sport is known as soccer.
The sprawling tournament, held every four years by the international sports federation known as FIFA, is often described as the sporting world’s premier event given soccer’s…
After Donald Trump launched his war on Iran, a spirited debate broke out among a small set of public intellectuals over an unexpectedly relevant question: Is Trumpism dead? The case for Trumpism’s passing rested on the idea that the war is so contrary to his promises to the base that the movement can’t survive such a betrayal. The counter-argument held, correctly, that Trumpism isn’t actually…
The charges against the remaining “Broadview Six” protesters were dropped Thursday, in a win for anyone who has protested ICE activity under the Trump administration.
The six protesters were hit with felony conspiracy charges carrying a maximum sentence of six years in prison after they surrounded an ICE agent’s car in the Chicago suburb of Broadview in September in an attempt to slow it down.…
The Trump regime's "weaponization" fund wasn't possible without an alternate version of January 6
Graft on unprecedented scale. Just right out in the open.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit-fund-for-allies
The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump’s allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the previous administration.
It’s an unprecedented move that would allow the…
The FCC should require carriers to automatically unlock cellphones once they're paid off, freeing consumers to switch providers and benefit from wireless competition.
We asked the four candidates who agreed to interviews tough questions about homelessness and mental health policy, including when and how someone should be forced into treatment.
Donald Trump has been losing like crazy. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The Supreme Court struck down his tariffs and his birthright citizenship arguments tanked. He’s losing the redistricting wars. And the Justice Department dropped its prosecution of Fed chair (and Trump nemesis) Jerome Powell amid cringeworthy circumstances. The latter is humiliating: DOJ insiders are leaking that…
The Bitcoiner in chief cleared the path for crypto with a machete, pumping a wild bubble that is now popping. But don’t let the roller coaster fool you: rewriting the rules of finance will have long-lasting and dangerous consequences. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
It feels like just…
The way Israel’s US-backed war on Gaza was waged felt uniquely horrifying in recent history. But the way the US and Israel are waging war on…
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President Trump is taking all the steps that autocrats and dictators typically do: getting charges filed against his political enemies, invading other nations, sending the military into areas that resist him. But he’s been blunted in a number of ways. Charges against former FBI…
What do the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and the suppression of information on Jeffrey Epstein have in common? Both will benefit the…
In a case that has ensnared multiple figures in the Trump administration, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s longtime friend and…
While attention has focused on Trump’s most splashy, explicit environmental policies—for instance, the administration’s proud evisceration of environmental protections such as auto fuel standards, oil drilling limits, and the “endangerment finding” underlying emissions regulations—a recent report shows the administration is also overhauling environmental policy in a quieter way: The Environmental…
The founder, Tal Dilian, and three other executives of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers responsible for what was dubbed “Greek Watergate” have been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Pakistan’s shortcomings were laid bare during their lacklustre T20 World Cup campaign which ended on Saturday when the team failed to reach the semi-finals.
From the captain Salman Agha, who was criticised for not being a T20 player, to slow batting rates and the use of all-rounders not up to the job, the Green Shirts were shown to be behind the times in the rapid-fire format.
Former…
A press-led rally for First Amendment protections following the raid, arrest, and hate crime charges against Alexa Wilkinson. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu via…
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was in Washington, D.C., Thursday for Donald Trump’s inaugural Board of Peace meeting. When protesters showed up outside of his hotel, his bodyguards attacked them.
The protesters at the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue were calling for the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, which has been under Aliyev’s dictatorial rule for more than 20 years.…
Money still moves like it’s 1999. AI agents won’t tolerate that. Binance and Franklin Templeton quietly launched off-exchange collateral using tokenized money market fund shares—assets stay in custody, still earn yield, yet power trading in real time. De-coring begins.
Brian Cassin, CEO of Experian, testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call,…