DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: President Trump made a deal to buy Russian diesel fuel to lower prices in the US, effectively feeding Vladimir Putin’s war machine in his effort to conquer Ukraine. The deal undercuts US sanctions against Russia as Trump …

DEAD STREAM: The Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plan a public and live-streamed execution by firing squad on December 3rd for the Ft. Hood mass shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.    The military has not carried out an execution since 1961 and not …

LIFE AFTER DEATH: The lawyer for 50-year-old Christa Pike, who survived a Tennessee execution by lethal injection, said when she woke up, “Where am I and who are you?” She was in a hospital with a blood clot in her arm, pneumonia, and …

THE WEAVE: If a tree falls in the woods does it make a noise? If Donald Trump says something shocking does it still have the power to shock. It might not.   The other might in a Nebraska rally Trump was riffing …

SHIFT RIGHT: In a revival of Brazil’s right wing, Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, the son of the country’s imprisoned former President Jair Bolsonaro, finished well in the first round of elections and looks like he might unseat the leftist incumbent, President Luiz Inácio …

THE WAR ROOM: The government of Yemen has declared war against Houthi rebels as the Houthis continue to take strategic territory and also carried out successful drone and ballistic missile strikes two Saudi Aramco oil facilities, leaving them in flames.    The Houthis, …

IN WHAT WORLD?: In a sometimes heated announcement, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she appointed the state’s Attorney General Letitia James to act as a special prosecutor looking into the accusation of a gang rape in a Cornell University frat …

WARRIOR ETHOS: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yesterday that he plans to pull back thousands of American troops from overseas and re-station them in a “Fortress America” he wants to build somewhere in the US.   He said, “If your state wants the …

STANDING DOWN: Authorities in England have already released on bail five men who were the subject of a terrorism alert outside a major air base used by the American bomber fleet that has hit targets in Iran.   The men … all …

PAST DEADLINE: Journalists from three organizations banned from the White House by President Trump last Saturday were allowed back in yesterday under court order. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that the White House had followed no due process in the suspensions …