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Charles Booker jumped into the Kentucky Senate race to replace Mitch McConnell with a pitch about guaranteed 40k yearly minimum wages and universal childcare, even though the state has not elected a Democratic senator since the 1990s. The progressive former state lawmaker already lost two Senate...

Border Patrol agents rolled into New Orleans and started hitting up Home Depot parking lots where immigrants hang out looking for work, and the whole operation got the cringey nickname Catahoula Crunch from Homeland Security. Gregory Bovino brought his green team after doing similar sweeps in...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dropped the fog-of-war excuse when talking about a deadly Caribbean boat strike that killed 11 people back in September, claiming he bailed from the control room after the first hit and missed seeing survivors before a second strike took them out. The whole thing...

Demand Justice dropped a million bucks on TV spots going after John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, and Angus King for backing Trump's judicial picks who refuse to say Trump lost in 2020 or call January 6 an insurrection. The liberal group argues these lifetime appointees dodge straightforward...

Trump blasted his old Treasury guy, Steven Mnuchin, for recommending Jerome Powell to run the Federal Reserve, and the president basically threatened to fire his current Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, if he cannot get the Fed to slash interest rates faster. Kevin Hassett from the National...

Trump keeps saying he's about to lock down a deal with Harvard after months of pressuring them, but the whole thing keeps stalling over where the cash actually goes. The school was ready to drop 500 million on workforce training programs, but then Trump administration hardliners started...

Kenner, Louisiana, turned into a ghost town after federal agents rolled through this week for immigration raids, and the Latino community that helped rebuild post-Katrina is basically hiding indoors. The local police chief signed up with Homeland Security back in March to let his officers flag...

A street preacher from Mississippi named Gabriel Olivier got busted for yelling at concertgoers outside an amphitheater after Brandon city officials pushed protesters way back from the venue, and the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether he can sue over the ordinance even though he had...

Back when the Kansas GOP was melting down over stripping minority groups from their executive committee, two Young Republicans named William Hendrix and Alex Dwyer got roasted for backing the chair's plan and decided to take over the state's Young Republican branch. Fast forward to October, when...

A DC federal judge dropped an order blocking immigration agents from nabbing people without warrants unless they can prove the person might bounce before getting proper paperwork, and Judge Beryl Howell called out officers for potentially breaking federal law with their arrest methods. The...

The Trump administration hit pause on immigration paperwork for people from 19 nations that got slapped with travel restrictions back in June, and this freeze covers green card requests plus citizenship applications from places like Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Haiti, and Somalia. Matthew Tragesser...

Stanbic Bank bumped its yearly gift to Zimbabwe's Cancer Association from 20,000 bucks to 25,000, marking twelve straight years of backing the nonprofit. Tariro Memo from the bank's marketing team said the extra cash aims to help patients deal with expensive treatments and sketchy access to...

Caledonia Mining says Zimbabwe's incoming gold royalty changes will tank profits at its Blanket Mine operation and mess with returns from the Bilboes project that could pump out five tonnes yearly. The Jersey-based miner warned that the new three-tier system starting next year hits harder when...

Zimbabwe's Mutapa Investment Fund dropped 100 million dollars into state-owned companies during a nine-month stretch, and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube says over half of these government enterprises turned profitable. The fund manages more than 20 billion dollars worth of assets across mining...

OpenAI caught heat after ChatGPT started pushing Peloton to a paying subscriber who was talking about something completely different, and the guy paid 200 bucks monthly for the Pro Plan. Yuchen Jin from Hyperbolic posted screenshots showing the chatbot randomly suggesting fitness apps during an...

Myanmar's top Buddhist monk, Sitagu Sayadaw, showed up at the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya for the opening of some big scripture recitation event. The famous religious figure blessed the crowd and talked about keeping Buddhist teachings alive while standing at the spot where Buddha supposedly reached...

Myanmar's military chief rolled up to the national botanical gardens in PyinOoLwin and told officials he wants the whole city turned into a legit flower hub that exports blooms internationally. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing checked progress on the upcoming flower festival, and he pushed for...

Myanmar's top military guy checked out veteran housing construction in PyinOoLwin and told builders to get apartments done on schedule with proper earthquake resistance. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing walked through the complex with navy and air force chiefs, talked to retired soldiers living...

Myanmar's foreign affairs minister showed up to a party at a Yangon hotel celebrating Laos hitting 50 years as a country and 70 years of diplomatic ties between the two nations. U Than Swe rolled through the Pan Pacific Hotel reception, where Laos ambassador Bounphieng Chanthavong and his wife...

Myanmar's investment minister sat down with Russia's honorary consul to the country and some investment fund people to talk about their hotel and tourism deals. Dr Wah Wah Maung met Sergey Shatirov, who reps Myanmar in the Moscow area and works with the Roscongress Foundation, along with his...