Power, money, and the lying fucks who think you won’t notice.
Israel's Central Elections Committee bans Ra'am, Joint List and two candidates despite Attorney General finding insufficient evidence for the parties, then hands the obvious reversal to the Supreme Court whose representative chaired the meeting.
Bureaucrats weigh dumping federal travel records on states and nonprofits to flag non-citizens, hiding behind a Privacy Act notice and a Supreme Court green light while claiming they will protect data and deter fraud.
Thirty-seven percent approve, the worst since the Journal started asking in 1990. Even George W. Bush, neck-deep in Iraq, managed 39. Sixty percent say his policies made the economy worse.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the NSA and military cyber forces will defend the midterms, weeks after Trump cut the civilian agency that just released its own security plan.
Trump Justice Department lawyers spent thirteen pages dodging every records request about grabbing 2026 ballots and machines, then begged the judge to delete the part explaining why that would be fucked up. Pure bureaucratic cock-blocking.
Attorney General Todd Blanche called one-sided media a national security crisis worth banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House and Air Force One, but offered zero proof while a judge shredded the excuse as routine reporting with no due process.
Magdalena Andersson throws in the towel after her four‑party bloc can’t bridge internal divisions, leaving Sweden without a new government for weeks.
Andrew Bailey oversaw the bureau's probe into an election held six years ago, showed up for the Fulton County raid, then posted on X that the mission was done and he wanted to see his family in Missouri.
A 61-page report found he sexually harassed a staffer, pushed a promotion for a state employee he was dating and brought guests to the opera without paying. He says he left to avoid a distraction. He also says the probe was poorly done.
Chief Axel Henry's 73-page lawsuit accuses Mayor Kaohly Her of harassment and retaliation. A city-hired investigation called those claims unsubstantiated but found 'offensive and inappropriate behavior.' Her has said her attempts at humor fell short.
The chargers were under 1% of a Roxbury project for bus lanes, sidewalks and crossings. Boston says DOT encouraged them in the first place, canceled the money over them, then said no when the city offered to drop them.
The hallway strut, the 'deep state' demolition and the 'villains' all survived. The campaign logo got swapped for 'Paid for by the U.S. Government,' and AdImpact puts the White House ad spree past $1.7 million.
Marine Le Pen's far-right party finally scraped together enough local officials to form a Senate group, a 'historic victory' that mostly means they get a nicer office and more money.
The Israeli Prime Minister declared victory via tweet while delivering an address so compelling, people voted with their feet to get the fuck out of the room.
California says the Morro Bay lease is being abandoned while Invenergy affiliates must invest an equal amount in out-of-state fossil-fuel or geothermal projects.
Bitget says $351.6 million left its hot and warm wallets Thursday. The CEO says the fingerprints look North Korean. Elliptic says that haul, if it holds, pushes suspected DPRK crypto theft past $1 billion in 2026.
Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, from Chengdu, are headed to Zoo Atlanta in a few days. Xi announced it in the White House foyer during his first state visit in more than a decade. The last Atlanta bears went home in 2024.
Joshua Michael plotted more than 170,000 Flock cameras and 130,000 other devices from a December snapshot of the company's own database. Flock told the press it had about 120,000 cameras. On Thursday a vendor working for Flock filed a trademark complaint and asked for the site to come down.
Friday stay puts the revamped SAVE system back in play 39 days before the midterms. Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissented. The majority said the privacy claims likely fail, and mass purges inside 90 days are still off the table.
Bloomberg says the ask came this week at the UN, and it upset Kyiv. In July Zelensky told Trump the drones make Moscow a bad room. Peskov's standing offer is still the same city.
Aurora Naomi La Fey, called a trans woman by police and The Sun. German stepfather, 61. Ears bitten off. Both eyes destroyed. Fell from a third-floor balcony. Rape is charged and denied.
Washington Post count of immigration court records. More removal orders than the previous eight years combined. Biden's asylum backlog went from about 1 million cases to nearly 3 million. In June, judges denied 94 percent.
William Kelso Flournoy IV, who goes by Isabelle, was charged in March with raping a 6-month-old he babysat. Boss, 37, was booked Sept. 17. Rape, molestation, and watching the recordings. Both are allegations.
AF Post showed him thumbs-up in a hangar under a stars-and-stripes Corinthian helmet. A reply repainted the helmet. The Pentagon photos from the Lindsey Graham renaming have his actual head.
