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7+ min ago (941+ words) Trump's plan to pardon ex-Honduran President Hernandez, convicted in a drug case, raises concerns over US credibility. By Maria Brice'o & Louis Jacobson | PolitiFact As the United States continued its military campaign against what the Trump administration calls "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean, President Donald Trump announced he would pardon a former Honduran president notorious for his involvement in the US drug trade. Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced in 2024 to 45 years in prison after being convicted of conspiring to distribute more than 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US. During an exchange with reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said Hernandez had been "set up" by former US President Joe Biden's administration. "If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn't mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life," Trump said, without…...

10+ min ago (799+ words) A federal judge in Trenton, New Jersey, declined to block the subpoena. U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp ruled that the dispute was not yet "ripe" " that is, ready for the federal court to take up. Only a state court, Shipp said, has the power to enforce or block a subpoena, and no state court had done so yet. When Platkin attempted to enforce the subpoena, a state court granted his request and directed First Choice to "respond fully" to the state's demands for information " which, the state court later made clear, would also allow First Choice to object to those demands. Back in federal court, Shipp once again ruled that the dispute was not yet ripe. Although the state court had granted Platkin's request to enforce the subpoena, Shipp wrote, it had not yet determined whether First Choice would face sanctions…...

12+ min ago (386+ words) President Donald Trump warned suspected Latin American drug dealers he is willing to attack them on land, not just sea, moving forward, during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. "I want those boats taken out, and if we have to, we'll attack on land also, just like we attack on sea," the president said. Trump, a few minutes later, was asked to "elaborate" on his plans to target what he and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have branded "narco-terrorists." "If they come in through a certain country, or any country, or if we think they're building mills for whether it's fentanyl or cocaine " I hear Colombia, the country of Colombia, is making cocaine. They have cocaine manufacturing plants, okay? And they sell us their cocaine. We appreciate that very much," Trump said sardonically. He continued, "anybody that's…...

13+ min ago (666+ words) Renewable source is environmentally friendly but it is location-specific Humanity's energy needs could be revolutionised by a source created during the very formation of the planet. Geothermal power plants use energy stored in the form of heat beneath the Earth's surface. They are built where there are underground reservoirs of water around fault lines in the Earth's tectonic plates and use the power of the planet's natural heat to generate electricity. Geothermal energy has a low carbon footprint because it produces minimal greenhouse gases when compared to fossil fuels. Once a plant is up and running, there's effectively no emissions produced and ground source heat pumps for the home, which use heat from water underground, require very little maintenance, with the capacity to heat properties for more than 80 years. But drilling into the ground to build geothermal power plants can…...

13+ min ago (255+ words) Writing for Slate on Tuesday, reporter Ben Jacobs summed up the aspects of the race that could make it the clearest indicator yet of how voters are swinging back to Democrats under Trump and how that swing will impact the 2026 midterms, and led with a story from his time on the ground in Tennessee. "Polls show the race uncomfortably close for Republicans, and the real shock isn't that Trump was calling to come up with attacks on a Democratic congressional candidate'it was that he had to call at all," Jacobs wrote. He highlighted the district's key demographics, ones that both parties will rely on in next year's elections, and the smaller public profile of each candidate, meaning that their platforms will inform their success more than their reputations. "The gerrymandering left the seat a heterogeneous array, including many of the…...

15+ min ago (446+ words) Gabe Gutierrez, the senior White House correspondent for NBC News, pressed President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Monday's Cabinet meeting on the double-tap strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in early September, which reportedly killed two survivors from the first strike. Critics are calling the second attack a war crime as a growing scandal rages in Washington, DC over what exactly Hegseth ordered and when. "Mr. President, thank you so much for taking questions with your assembled cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela. You had said that you didn't know if the second strike on that one boat had happened, but you wouldn't have wanted it," Gutierrez began, adding: Now that your administration has acknowledged that it happened, do you support that second strike?...

17+ min ago (275+ words) My 65-year-old husband (I am a 45-year-old woman) got a prostatectomy two months ago. Luckily, the cancer was confined, and he will be fine. He has recovered from surgery remarkably well. Two months isn't that far out from surgery. According to Cleveland Clinic, "Most people won't experience erections for several months after a prostatectomy." Erectile function can gradually improve by the six-month mark, but it could take up to two years to fully recover. Your husband is ahead of the curve, here, and I'm wondering whether one or both of you are forcing things to some degree. I'm a sex positive queer person who has discovered vaginal fisting and enjoyed it for about a year with various partners. Sometimes I feel discomfort because of a change of position or pressure on my cervix. Too much rotation isn't good either. How…...

19+ min ago (450+ words) Then yesterday, she called for (archive link) a "full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies," although we're sure she'd be open to exceptions for oil company executives. DHS followed up today by recommending that the US end travel from another dozen or so countries, on top of the 19 already on the list. Wonkette can see through time, but the faces of the people in orange jumpsuits are fuzzy. Some really went overboard on makeup. Here's Noem admitting on NBC's Meet The Press Sunday that damn right she called the Code Red on sending deportees to El Salvador's CECOT prison in March, ignoring an order from federal Judge James Boasberg that the planes must return to the US so the detainees could receive due process. Then on Monday, Noem claimed…...

22+ min ago (1645+ words) Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the former managing editor of TriQuarterly, and her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Joyland, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and more. Some of her pop culture writing can be found at The AV Club, Vulture, The Cut, and others. When she is not writing, editing, or reading, she is probably playing tennis. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram and learn more about her work on her website. I have a friend who I walk with in the mornings because we live in the same neighborhood and like to walk our dogs super early so we started linking up for morning walks and sometimes follow them with coffee. Prior to…...

31+ min ago (397+ words) Background: The home on the 500 block of Miles Avenue in Akron, Ohio, where the shooting occurred (WOIO/YouTube). Inset: Gregory Tillman (Summit County Jail). A man in northern Ohio shot and stabbed his girlfriend to death before turning the gun on her two sons, authorities say. Gregory Tillman, 38, faces charges of murder, assault, having weapons while under disability, domestic violence, and vandalism, Summit County jail records reviewed by Law&Crime show. All the charges stem from the weekend incident. Rebecca Guthrie, 44, was at her home on the 500 block of Miles Avenue in Akron with her two sons and Tillman. As Friday night gave way to Saturday morning, the couple argued, according to one of their sons. "I heard my mother and her boyfriend arguing, but they argue all the time," 18-year-old Marquis Terrell told Cleveland-based CBS affiliate WOIO. "You know,…...