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George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen and the last of the group’s World War II combat pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen Inc. He was 100 years old. “His legacy is one of courage, resilience, tremendous skill and dogged perseverance against racism, prejudice and other evils,” said Leon Butler, national president of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. “We are forever grateful for his sacrifice and will hold dear to his memory.” At 19, Hardy became the youngest Tuskeg ...

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Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says

Speaking in Kyiv after his meeting with Donald Trump at the UN in New York, the Ukrainian president said Russia was preparing for a bigger conflict. “Putin will not wait to finish his war in Ukraine. He will open up some other direction. Nobody knows where. He wants that,” he said. Ukraine’s president said the Kremlin was deliberately checking Europe’s capacity to protect its skies, after drone sightings in Denmark, Poland and Romania and the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter je ...

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Tuberculosis case confirmed at Jasper High School

Jasper City Schools is working with the Alabama Department of Public Health after a tuberculosis case was confirmed in a student at Jasper High School, officials announced Friday. Superintendent Dr. Ann Jackson said the district was notified of the case late Thursday. Administrators say they quickly coordinated with state health officials to identify close contacts, notify faculty and staff, and prepare letters for students and families. Health officials emphasized Jasper High School students, ...

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Not 'the gospel.' Ahead of Supreme Court term, Clarence Thomas weighs in on precedent

Updated Sept. 27, 2025, 10:50 a.m. ET WASHINGTON – As the Supreme Court is about to revisit some major decisions, one of the nine justices - and a key member of the conservative majority - has offered his view that there’s nothing sacred about precedent. "At some point we need to think about what we're doing with stare decisis,” Justice Clarence Thomas said about the legal term that protects stability in the law. "And it's not some sort of talismanic deal where you can just say 'st ...

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Trump falsely suggests FBI agents to blame for igniting Jan. 6 violence

09/27/2025 01:54 PM EDT President Donald Trump on Saturday falsely accused the FBI of fomenting the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol — a sharp escalation of his attacks on the bureau and his effort to downplay the violence a mob of his supporters inflicted that day. Trump on social media said the FBI had “secretly placed” 274 agents into the crowd of rioters who stormed the Capitol to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. His comments stemmed from reports ...

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'GOP is not pleased': Republicans furious over Dems' new Epstein file drop

September 26, 2025 4:49PM ET Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) spokesperson lambasted Democrats on Friday after they released just six pages of the recently released cache of documents from the estate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans have been largely mum on the matter, with the House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman making only a polite request to the Department of Justice for the investigation documents. Among the items obtained by the Epstein estate, however, were schedules a ...

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National Weather Service at 'breaking point' as storm approaches

National Weather Service at 'breaking point' as storm approaches The agency is struggling to maintain its weather forecasting operations due to significant staffing cuts under the Trump administration. By Hannah Natanson and Brady Dennis 1 hour ago ...

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Justice Elena Kagan Warns Supreme Court Conservatives Just Went 'Too Far'

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2025 at 06:28 PM EDT UPDATED Sep 26, 2025 at 06:47 PM EDT The Supreme Court on Friday extended an order allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to keep nearly $5 billion in foreign aid frozen, a decision that drew a sharp rebuke from Justice Elena Kagan, who said the conservative majority had gone “too far.” With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court’s conservatives granted the administration’s emergency appeal in a case involving billions of dollars tha ...

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GOP lawmaker who used Biden screen name admits he distributed child sex abuse material

September 26, 2025 5:33PM ET A former GOP state lawmaker who went by the screen name “joebidennnn69” has pleaded guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material. Prosecutors say RJ May III, 38, who resigned from the South Carolina House of Representatives, "exchanged more than 200 explicit files of toddlers and young children on the Kik social media app during several days in spring 2024," Newsweek reports. May changed his plea in the weeks ahead of his trial's scheduled start, ...

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FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells Scripps News 'I don't think autism is genetic'

Posted 5:49 PM, Sep 26, 2025 and last updated 1 hour and 49 minutes ago Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said he does not believe autism is a genetic condition, calling it instead a “modern-day phenomenon.” "I don't believe autism is genetic. When you see the severe autism that we see, at the high rate that we see today — the repeated motions, the ticks, the individuals who are completely nonverbal, you didn't see that a generation ago," he said in ...

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Veteran groups warn Congress against shutdown: 'Resist the pull of political brinkmanship'

28 min ago - 09/27/25 6:00 PM ET. Several veteran groups are urging Congress to pass a short-term spending measure to avert a potential government shutdown, warning that the GOP-led continuing resolution (CR) contains extensions vital for veterans’ housing, ... (The Hill)

Trump accuses Wray of lying about agency actions on January 6, days after Comey indicted

1 hr ago - PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2025, 4:43 PM ET President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former FBI Director Christopher Wray of lying about FBI agents’ presence during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, days after his administration brought charges agains ... (CNN Politics)

Newsom's newest troll of Trump looks back at 'escalatorgate' and difficulties saying acetaminophen

2 hrs ago - Saturday 27 September 2025 15:09 EDT California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s trolling of President Trump escalated this week with a new video mocking Trump’s United Nations’ entrance mishap known as “Escalatorgate.” The clip, set to t ... (The Independent)

Thieves steal $1M worth in craft whiskey from Washington distillery

5 hrs ago - By REBECCA BOONE Updated 11:02 AM CDT, September 27, 2025 Thieves who made off with 12,000 bottles of craft whiskey in a rare U.S. liquor heist this summer did more than just snag nearly $1 million worth of product -- they also spirited away nearly h ... (AP)

Native Americans condemn Pentagon move to preserve Wounded Knee medals

9 hrs ago - September 27, 2025 2:52 PM EDT Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The National Congress of American Indians strongly condemned on Saturday a Pentagon review that decided against revoking medals awarded to U.S. soldiers at the 1890 Ba ... (Reuters)

Regulators weigh billion-dollar utility takeovers as bills rise for consumers

9 hrs ago - Posted 7:40 AM, Sep 27, 2025 Private investment firms that are helping finance America’s artificial intelligence race and the huge buildout of energy-hungry data centers are getting interested in the local utilities that deliver electricity to r ... (Scripps News/AP)

U.S. CBP reviewing apparent road rage incident between officer and Canadian tourist in WNY

9 hrs ago - Posted 1:16 PM, Sep 26, 2025 and last updated 8:08 AM, Sep 27, 2025 BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it is reviewing an incident involving what appears to be a CBP officer and a Canadian tourist in We ... (WKBW-TV Buffalo, NY)

Wealthy TV producer holding potentially damaging Trump tapes 'in a vault in Idaho'

10 hrs ago - September 27, 2025 8:13AM ET Radio and television personality Billy Bush, who in 2005 was featured alongside President Donald Trump in the infamous Access Hollywood tape that saw Trump brag about grabbing women “by the p----,” said that a t ... (Raw Story)

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

10 hrs ago - Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen and the last of the group’s World War II combat pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen Inc. He was 100 years old. “His legacy is one of courage, resilience, tremen ... (NBC News)

Tuberculosis case confirmed at Jasper High School

10 hrs ago - Jasper City Schools is working with the Alabama Department of Public Health after a tuberculosis case was confirmed in a student at Jasper High School, officials announced Friday. Superintendent Dr. Ann Jackson said the district was notified of the c ... (WBRC 6 News)

Not 'the gospel.' Ahead of Supreme Court term, Clarence Thomas weighs in on precedent

11 hrs ago - Updated Sept. 27, 2025, 10:50 a.m. ET WASHINGTON – As the Supreme Court is about to revisit some major decisions, one of the nine justices - and a key member of the conservative majority - has offered his view that there’s nothing sacred ab ... (USA Today)

Trump falsely suggests FBI agents to blame for igniting Jan. 6 violence

11 hrs ago - 09/27/2025 01:54 PM EDT President Donald Trump on Saturday falsely accused the FBI of fomenting the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol — a sharp escalation of his attacks on the bureau and his effort to downplay the violence a mob of his suppo ... (Politico)

Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says

12 hrs ago - Speaking in Kyiv after his meeting with Donald Trump at the UN in New York, the Ukrainian president said Russia was preparing for a bigger conflict. “Putin will not wait to finish his war in Ukraine. He will open up some other direction. Nobody ... (The Guardian)

Pam Bondi Claims 'Weaponization Has Ended' As She Lists Trump Opponents She Will Crush In Same Breath

12 hrs ago - Sep 27th, 2025, 10:13 am Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News host Sean Hannity that “weaponization has ended” — in the same breath as she listed Trump opponents she intends to target for investigation and potential prosecution. P ... (MEDIAite)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania detention center

13 hrs ago - Sept. 27, 2025, 2:14 PM EDT Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador and later brought back to the U.S. before facing new deportation efforts, was transferred to a central Pennsylvania detention center Friday ... (NBC News)

Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids

14 hrs ago - Fri 26 Sep 2025 21.48 EDT Last modified on Sat 27 Sep 2025 04.03 EDT Donald Trump fired a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she warned immigration agents they could not indiscriminately detain people in her district, according to ... (The Guardian)

Mike Johnson Delays Swearing In Adelita Grijalva to Block Final Signature On Epstein Petition

14 hrs ago - House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva who won her race for the Arizona 7th Congressional District this week. Grijalva will be the 218th and final signature needed on a discharge petition to force a f ... (Meidas Touch)

US revokes visa for Colombia's president after he urges American soldiers to disobey Trump

14 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tensions between the United States and Colombia have escalated with the State Department announcing it was revoking a visa for Gustavo Petro, president of the Latin American country, after he participated in a New York protest wher ... (Associated Press)

NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting clash as federal funding declines

15 hrs ago - Updated September 27, 2025 8:48 AM ET NPR asked a federal judge to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from awarding a $57.9 million grant to a new consortium of public media institutions to operate the satellite that connects the public ra ... (NPR)

'I'm absolutely terrified': Federal workers brace for potential government shutdown, mass layoffs

16 hrs ago - PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2025, 5:00 AM ET Federal employees from agencies across the US government say they’re “terrified,” “disoriented” and filled with anxiety as they brace for a possible shutdown that the Trump White House has t ... (CNN Politics)

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