Thursday Tidbits

On a warm and cloudy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, former First Lady Jill Biden's unbelievable story that she thought that her husband then-President Biden had a stroke during his 2024 debate with then-former President Trump.

From FrontpageMag, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) starts implementing communism.

From Townhall, the chaos in Newark, New Jersey shows that leftists care more about illegal aliens than about working-class American citizens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Muslim New York City councilwoman condemns a fellow Muslim New York City councilwoman for daring to criticize the aforementioned Mayor Mamdani's treatment of Jews.

From the Washington Examiner, the FBI arrests a former CIA official for allegedly stealing $40 million worth of gold bars.

From The Federalist, President Trump's fund for Biden-era lawfare is just, but more needs to be done.

From American Thinker, congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) lost and MAGA won - bigly.

From NewsBusters, networks hide the antisemitism from a Texas congressional candidate and the pro-illegal alien mob in New Jersey.  (I realized a long time ago that the left-wing bias in the media is not in what they say, but in what they don't say.)

From Canada Free Press, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will go down in history as the WEF supporter who made Canada the hill on which communism died.

From TeleSUR, according to President Claudia Sheinbaum, foreign interference might threaten Mexico's elections.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why surrogacy is not much better than slavery.

From EuroNews, according to High Representative Kaja Kallas, the E.U. cannot be a neutral mediator between Ukraine and Russia.

From ReMix, a Polish soldier on trial for firing warning shots at illegal migrants at the border with Belarus is acquitted of wrongdoing.  (If you read Polish read the story at WP Wiadomości.)

From Balkan Insight, Croatian Finance Minister Tomislav Ćorić proposes new taxes on "excessive" profits and changes taxes on short-term rentals.  (How does his proposal define "excessive"?)

From The North Africa Post, Moroccan and Finnish business confederations launch a business council in Helsinki, Finland.

From The New Arab, according to U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, negotiations with Hamas over an interim government for Gaza are expected within a week.

From the Daily Mail, the U.N. accuses Israel of committing sexual violence in war zones, along with Hamas and ISIS.

From The Standard, councillors in the London borough of Tower Hamlets vote to increase their pay.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, the Austrian National Union of Students at the University of Vienna invites an Islamist who earlier pledge allegiance to al-Qaeda.  (If you read German, read the story at ZurZeit- if the page will load.)

From The Jerusalem Post, an "Allahu Akbar" breaks out at a railroad station in Winterthur, Switzerland.

From Quadrant, the burka is a "slap in the face".

From Gatestone Institute, "why any deal with Iran is a mistake" for the U.S.

From The Daily Signal, former congresscritter T.J. Fox (D-Cal) goes to prison.

From The American Conservative, how Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva might help Trump end the war with Iran.

From The Western Journal, more on the aforementioned Jill Biden thinking that her husband Joe had a stroke during a debate.

From BizPac Review, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not afraid of snakes, or of those who criticize his snake-handling.

From the Daily Caller, my state decides to lessen the penalties for youth crime.

From the New York Post, a new wearable ultrasound patch can monitor high-risk pregnancies.

From Breitbart, a Sikh man in the U.K. is convicted of murder for stabbing an Anglo-Polish man after lying about racist abuse from the victim.

From Newsmax, the aforementioned Prime Minister Carney seeks a new Canadian partnership with the U.S.

And from the Genesius Times, to prove that he's a real Texan, senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) goes on a deer hunt.

A Bit Of Wednesday Whatnot

On a warm and cloudy Wednesday, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, President Trump is laser-focused, but not on the economy.

From FrontpageMag, a review of a book about the Hollywood Blacklist.

From Townhall, coronavirus-related fraud costs a Georgia man three years in prison and $441,546 in restitution.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Democrat congressional candidate in Texas who claimed that Jews worship Satan and Zionist should be put in jail loses her primary runoff.

From the Washington Examiner, five items from Trump's 12th Cabinet meeting of his second term.

From The Federalist, the Department of Homeland Security goes after the illegal alien legal industrial complex.

From American Thinker, the Southern Poverty Law Center's underhanded tactics are not new.

From NewsBusters, CNN This Morning interviews two Texas Republicans who did not vote for state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who just defeated Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) in their primary election.

From TCW Defending Freedom, pre-summer fearmongering from the climate change cult.

From Snouts in the Trough, yes, you too can get diagnosed for ADHD.

From The Jerusalem Post, Iranians smuggle messages to TJP begging U.S. President Trump to resume his war against the Iranian government, and female Muslim students outdo their male counterparts - in Israel.

From The Times Of Israel, Jewish New Yorkers protest in front of the official residence of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

From Gatestone Institute, while Presidents Xi (China) and Putin (Russia) argue over a pipeline, the U.S. keeps a chokehold on China's energy.

From The American Conservative, Trump doesn't need to get a big deal with Iran.

From BizPac Review, musician Paul Anka attributes the rise in crime in Canada to mass immigration.  (The article calls him an "actor", but as far as I'm concerned, he's a musician.)

From the Daily Caller and the "revisionist history" department, the Smithsonian is accused of falsely claiming that President Richard Nixon was impeached.

From the New York Post, this could lead to dancing.

From Breitbart, businesses expect sales revenue to grow briskly over the next year, even as payrolls rise more slowly.

From Newsmax, this could lead to more hunting and fishing.

And from Reuters, an albino buffalo in Bangladesh is spared from being sacrificed on the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, because it looks like Trump.  (via Townhall)

Tuesday Things

On a warm and rainy Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the coming presidential campaign of congresscritter AOC (D-NY).

From FrontpageMag, Nazi physician Josef Mengele, the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and "gender affirming care".

From Townhall, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's (D) swing at the late U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher comes back to haunt him.

From The Washington Free Beacon, meet the left-wing leaders of the Massachusetts Teachers Association.

From the Washington Examiner, according to congresscritter Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), protecting Medicaid against fraud is even harder than defending her family's pharmacy from an armed robber.

From The Federalist, President Trump gets a win at the Supreme Court in a case involving the "work-related speech" of immigration judges.

From American Thinker, why won't the Republicans point out the good things that Trump is doing for the economy?

From NewsBusters, the NBC show Today claims that Trump's health is "under a growing spotlight", which they never said about then-President Biden.

From Canada Free Press, Pope Leo XIV hypocritically laments the Catholic Church's past "support" of slavery.

From TeleSUR, the archbishop of Buenos Aires urges Argentine President Javier Milei to prioritize his country's poorest citizens.

From TCW Defending Freedom, jihad marches through the U.K.

From Snouts in the Trough, is gang rape in the U.K. now legal for "enrichers"?

From EuroNews, a Portuguese juvenile court orders that two French boys abandoned in Portugal are returned to France.

From Free West Media, will U.S. President Trump kidnap Israeli President Herzog for violating his Israeli sedition edict?

From ReMix, the U.K. and Poland plan to sign an enhanced security agreement.  (If you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, Greece arrests 22 people over an alleged scheme to falsely claim E.U. agricultural subsidies.

From The North Africa Post, Sudanese gold exports in April and May surpass their total from January to March.

From The New Arab, Egypt moves to expand its exploration for lithium and other minerals with help from Spain.

From the Daily Mail, Gaza flotilla participants fake injuries.

From The Jerusalem Post, effigies of U.S. President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir are paraded in the streets of Montreal.

From Culture Watch, Canadian marketing professor Gad Saad discusses "Islamophobia".

From Gatestone Institute, the Gaza peace plan is a fantasy that keeps Hamas in power.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will cost Virginia billions, just like it did in Pennsylvania.

From The American Conservative, the reputation of the ancient Greeks gets blackened.

From The Western Journal, the Democratic Party's account on X puts up and then deletes a disrespectful Memorial Day post, but TWJ has the receipts.

From BizPac Review, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) makes Memorial Day about the late criminal George Floyd.

From the Daily Caller, New York City replaces school discipline with therapy, but classroom violence gets worse anyway.

From the New York Post, a man explores a cave in New York state and learns the meaning of the expression "between a rock and a hard place".

From Page Six, a look at the "ultra-private" island in the Bahamas where Donald Trump the Younger and Bettina Anderson got married.

From Breitbart, early projections for the movie Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow look disastrous.

From Newsmax, Hoover Dam lights up for the upcoming America250 celebration.

And from The Babylon Bee, the Chicago Police Department confirms that the entire population of Chicago was shot during Memorial Day weekend.

Stories For Memorial Day

On a warm and cloudy Monday, when we pay tribute to those who gave their final measure of devotion, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Memorial Day at America's 250th year.

From FrontpageMag, the red-pilling of Monty Python actor John Cleese.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, the 2028 Republican presidential nominee will probably be Vice President Vance.

From The Washington Free Beacon, TWFB wishes its readers a "happy Memorial Day".  (However, there are reasons why you shouldn't put it that way.)

From the Washington Examiner, Pope Leo XIV calls for the regulation of AI.

From The Federalist, according to the Department of Justice, the Yale School of Medicine, by its own admission, discriminates against white and Asian applicants.

From American Thinker, the facts about President Trump's anti-weaponization fund.

From NewsBusters, MS NOW attacks the Pentagon over alleged war crimes.

From Canada Free Press, the greatest proof of God's existence is sin.

From TeleSUR, Mexico is willing to host Iran's national soccer team during the World Cup, to allow them to play in the U.S.

From TCW Defending Freedom, why the U.K. must not let anyone destroy its jury system.

From EuroNews, Russia tells diplomats and foreign residents to get out of Kyiv, Ukraine.

From Balkan Insight, admirers of the late Yugoslavian strongman Josip Broz Tito pay their annual tribute to him in Belgrade, Serbia.

From The North Africa Post, almost 80 Moroccan companies receive their first "Made in Morocco" labels.

From The New Arab, according to the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, about 400 people died in Iraqi prisons during 2025.

From Jewish News Syndicate, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio slams Iran for sending money to Hamas "rapists and murderers".

From The Jerusalem Post, a Gaza flotilla participant admits that its main goal was not humanitarian aid but engaging the IDF.

From Pajamas Media, the classic film The Great Escape, and Islam.

From Gatestone Institute, Islamic terrorists conquer western Africa.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, some of the American military dead have often been forgotten.

From The American Conservative, the right needs to be realistic about AI.

From The Western Journal, more disastrous comments resurface from senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME).

From the Daily Caller, how Texas and the federal Department of Justice won a victory against the sex-change industry.

From the New York Post, The Mandalorian and Grogu has the weakest debut of Disney-era Star Wars movies, opening below 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story.

From Breitbart, a Jewish charity leader decides to leave the U.K. due to rising antisemitism.

And from Newsmax, some Republican Senators refuse money from the aforementioned anti-weaponization fund.

Sunday Links

On a cool and cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference, presided over by Iran, fails badly.

From Townhall, the Republican National Committee scores a major election security victory in North Carolina.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

From the Washington Examiner, President Trump calls the current peace deal with Iran "the exact opposite" of the nuclear deal made under then-President Obama.

From American Thinker, the collapse of Europe shows us where Democrat policies will take the U.S.

From NewsBusters, NOTUS reporter Dana Milbank attributes then-Vice President Harris's loss in the 2024 presidential election to racial animus.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the U.K. needs a new Magna Carta.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the mastermind of the terror attack at the Bataclan night club in Paris has reportedly been given recurring leaves from prison in Belgium.  (The article mentions that he was convicted in France but was extradited to Belgium to serve his sentence, but does not explain how that works.  Did he live in Belgium before the attack?  If you read French, read the story at BX1.)

From Arutz Sheva, Israel should have allowed the latest flotilla to enter Gaza.

From Gatestone Institute, the Trump administration should recognize Somaliland.

From The American Conservative, the divide over the "Monroe Doctrine".

From the Daily Caller, a girl who really isn't wins two girls jumping events and qualifies for the Californian state championship for the second straight year.

From Breitbart, a Sacramento city councilwoman running for congresscritter turns her back on the American flag and refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

From Newsmax, Pope Leo XIV's first tour of Africa spotlights the rift between Catholics and Pentacostals.  (Today is Pentecost for Western Christians.)

And from the New York Post, the Long Island Railroad is not to be called the "LURR".

Saturday Stories

As the cool and rainy weather continues on a Saturday, here are some things going on:

From Townhall, someone in my neck of the woods is sentenced for defrauding SNAP, allegedly using 30 different identities.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a source used by The New York Times is caught removing the names of terrorists from a list of slain "Palestinian journalists".

From the Washington Examiner, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth praises West Point cadets as "not an army of woke" during their commencement speech.

From The Federalist, racing fans will never forget recently departed NASCAR driver Kyle Busch.

From American Thinker, the Iranians are "the new barbary pirates".

From NewsBusters, reporting on the judge who dismissed human smuggling charges against illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, NBC omits that before his appointment, he was a Democratic donor.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the left-wing elite should be labeled "patraphobic".

From the Daily Mail, selling daughters as brides to older men has unfortunately become normalized in Afghanistan.

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump should not let the Iranian government remain in place.

And from The American Conservative, congresscritter Thomas Massie's (R-KY) career was not destroyed by Zionists, but by himself.

Friday Fuss

On a cool and rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, CBS has a Stephen Colbert apocalypse.

From FrontpageMag, the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz was not built in one night.

From Townhall, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services closes a major immigration loophole.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Graham Platner's (D-ME) "grassroots" campaign sends money to influencers to fawn over him.

From the Washington Examiner, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announces her resignation due to her husband being diagnosed with bone cancer.

From The Federalist, the U.S. is nation of settlers, not immigrants.

From American Thinker, illegal aliens are killing America.

From NewsBusters, according to a study, the aforementioned Stephen Colbert turned The Late Show into "The DNC Show".

From Canada Free Press, a school in Jefferson County, Colorado discriminates against a 13-year-old student over a slam poem she wrote about abortion.

From TeleSUR, Mexico's National Museum of Art plans to present a tourist exhibit for the 2026 World Cup.

From TCW Defending Freedom, what gives the U.K. government agency Ofcom the right to censor true facts about weather?

From Snouts in the Trough, how should "fair" be defined?  (I've long believed that if you put four politicians in a room and ask them what "fairness" means, you'll get at least five definitions.)

From EuroNews, what Poland has to say about hosting 5,000 more American troops.

From Free West Media, the U.K. starts buying oil from Russia again.

From ReMix, Poland extradites three of its citizens to the Czech Republic for alleged involvement in an arson attack on a weapons factory in the city of Pardubice.  (If you read Czech, read the story at Seznam Zprávy.)

From Balkan Insight, right-wing politician Janez Janša is elected Slovenia's Prime Minister for the fourth time.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco and France sign a financial intelligence cooperation agreement at the fifth "No Money For Terror" conference.

From The New Arab, Iraq considers creating a new ministry to bring militias under government control.

From The Jerusalem Post, a 15-year-old boy is re-arrested in Florence, Italy for alleged terrorist recruitment after being arrested for the same type of crime and then released.

From the Daily Mail, a knife-wielding Afghan asylum seeker goes on a rampage in a Morrisons store in Bradford, England.

From Allah's Willing Executioners, Muslims in Vienna chase away people barbequing pork.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From Gatestone Institute, sell arms to Taiwan, because China is bluffing.

From The Daily Signal, my state rushes to reprint and resend 500,000 mail-in ballots.

From The American Conservative, soon-to-be-former congresscritter Thomas Massie's (R-KY) dilemma, and ours.

From The Western Journal, President Trump celebrates the twice-aforementioned Stephen Colbert's exit from television.

From BizPac Review, the BBC is slammed for "sympathizing" with Afghan men who are "forced" into selling their young daughters.

From the Daily Caller, Democrats object to legislation to advance construction on the Smithsonian's American Women's History Museum because it would prevent the museum from presenting as women those who really aren't women.

From Breitbart, according to a study, one out of every three people in France are either foreign born or descend from immigrants.

From Newsmax, a Long Island woman is arrested for allegedly decapitating a statue of Jesus outside a Catholic church.  (A few years back when people were pulling down or vandalizing statues because of some sin that the person thus portrayed had allegedly committed, I realized that if only sinless people could be portrayed with a statue, only one human in history could legitimately qualify.  But sadly, even statues of Jesus Himself are getting attacked.)

And from the New York Post, read the aforementioned Tulsi Gabbard's resignation letter sent to Trump.

A Sasquatch's Thursday Dozen

On a cool and cloudy Thursday, here are 12 things going on:

From the Daily Mail, a woman passes out after she and her boyfriend are each lashed 100 times for sex outside of marriage in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

From Jewish News Syndicate, the IDF posts a video showing what appear to be Hamas terrorist letting children "play" with weapons.

From Gatestone Institute, "reform" from the Palestinian Authority is a fraud.

From The American Conservative, the one convicted criminal involved in the murder trial of retired football player and actor O.J. Simpson has recently left us.  (I once had the idea that a jury of Simpson's peers should consist of professional athletes worthy of the Halls of Fame in their respective sports, and/or mediocre actors.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, a Nigerian Christian asks a man who tried to kill him why he did so.

From National Review, a lesson about soon-to-be-former congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY).

From FrontpageMag and the "well, what do you know?" department, the San Diego mosque shooters left behind a manifesto.

From Townhall, a man from my part of the world is sentenced to six years in prison for involvement in a unemployment insurance fraud conspiracy.

From The Washington Free Beacon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) payed multiple visits to a Holocaust-denying Muslim sheikh.

From the Washington Examiner, Democrats in Colorado censure Governor Jared Polis (D) for commuting the sentence of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted of election interference charges in the 2020 election.  (How petty can people get?)

From The Federalist, conservatives should not be blamed because left-wingers are having fewer babies.

And from American Thinker, why men and women both flourish when they accept reality.

A Few Wanderings For Wednesday

On a Wednesday that went from hot and sunny to warm and rainy, here are some things going on:

From National Review, science speaks against climate change alarmism.

From FrontpageMag, a Muslim refugee plotted an attack against the Louvre museum in Paris.

From Townhall, the replies to a Tweet from left-wing commentator Cenk Uygur about congressional candidate Ed Gallrein (R-KY) are brutal.

From The Washington Free Beacon, senatorial candidate Graham Platner (D-ME) suggests that military sniper Chris Kyle shot innocent civilians in Iraq to inflate his kill numbers.

From the Washington Examiner, a former federal prosecutor is charged for allegedly emailing herself sealed Justice Department records disguising them as dessert recipes.

From The Federalist, why congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) lost his primary to the aforementioned Ed Gallrein.

From American Thinker, how does someone become a home-grown terrorist?

From NewsBusters, the rating for the best comedian on late-night TV goes to "none of the above".

From TCW Defending Freedom, give the U.K.'s Green Party the illegal aliens and bird choppers that they vote for - right in their own back yards.

From Snouts in the Trough, was British politician Rachel Reeves fired from her jobs New College Oxford University and the Bank of England?

From Allah's Willing Executioners, because divorce is considered haram, advice on abducting children circulates among Muslims in Austria.  (If you read German, read the story at Exxpress.)

From the Daily Mail, an Afghan father says that he may have to sell his seven-year-old daughter into marriage in order to feed his remaining family.

From YahooNews, a brawl at a mosque in Moradabad, India is misrepresented as an act of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan beating up its imam.

From BBC News, what we know about the suspected San Diego mosque shooters.

From Gatestone Institute, is Europe become a single big no-go zone?

From The American Conservative, the hidden tax on whiteness in the U.S. and the U.K.

And from SFGate, a California man wanted for allegedly murdering his ex-girlfriend is found in Mexico with their two children.

Tuesday Tidings

On a sunny and hot Tuesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, President Trump has some revenge in the Republican primaries.

From FrontpageMag, the long and dark shadow cast by the Hamas terror attacks on October 7th, 2023.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, it's no longer 1950, but many Democrats are still racists.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the administration of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) offers training on "microaggressions" that depicts white people and police officers as mosquitos.  (This might be evidence that some Democrats are still racists.)

From the Washington Examiner, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (R) offers children in Greenland "all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat" if they visit the Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge.

From The Federalist, the animosity toward data centers reflect legitimate concerns that AI producers don't care about humanity's interests.

From American Thinker, yes, top officials in Minnesota knew about the fraud in their state.

From NewsBusters, has MS NOW anchor Katy Tur ever read the Declaration of Independence where it mentions God?

From Canada Free Press, it would be nice if the climate of science would catch up to the science of climate.

From TeleSUR, cancer and dialysis patients in Ecuador protest delays in healthcare funding.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the "working class" mantle worn by every left-wing leader intending to destroy the U.K.

From Snouts in the Trough, a stitch-up in the English constituency of Makerfield?

From EuroNews, a NATO fighter jet shoots down what is believed to have been a stray Ukrainian drone over Estonia.

From ReMix, the latest crime statistics in Germany show that foreign women commit crimes at a higher rate than German man.  (If you read German, read the story at Nius.)

From Balkan Insight, countries such as Spain, Croatia and Greece are burdened by overtourism.  (I plead guilty to visiting Croatia and Greece.)

From The North Africa Post, Sudan installs more solar energy systems due to war-caused damage to its power grid.

From The New Arab, families of Syrian prisoners disappeared by the former regime of then-President Bashar al-Assad have a very difficult time obtaining death certificates.

From the Daily Mail, the two suspects in the mosque shooting in San Diego are found dead in a vehicle that also items inscribed with Nazi imagery and "hate speech".

From Arutz Sheva, U.N. special envoy Francesca Albanese tells Germany to "forget the Holocaust".

From Gatestone Institute, the plan to destroy Israel.

From The Daily Signal, according to an opinion column, the San Diego mosque shooting exposes the left-wing two-tiered outrage machine.

From The American Conservative, Trump's fair-weather fans such as Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) want him to destroy his own presidency.

From The Western Journal, the Canadian government can't tell us if its "red flag" gun law works.

From BizPac Review, according to civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, gravestones vandalized in a historically black cemetery in Florida had the names of Trump and Governor Ron De Santis (R-FL) on them.

From the Daily Caller, Trump endorses Texas Attorney General and senatorial candidate Ken Paxton (R) over incumbent Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) in their state's primary.

From the New York Post, a fundraiser for the security guard in the aforementioned San Diego mosque shooting raises almost $2 million in 24 hours.

From Breitbart, Trump is "concerned" about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as its fatalities rise to 131.

From Newsmax, the Treasury Department's top lawyer quits hours after the Trump administration launches a $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of alleged weaponization of government.

And from the Genesius Times, Trump orders a blockade of the Ohio River and plans airstrikes on Kentucky over the threat of congresscritter Thomas Massie (R-KY) developing nuclear weapons.