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Portland confirms that if someone sneaks up behind you without warning and stabs you, if you call them a racial slur out of shock, the person who stabbed you did not commit a crime
A Portland, Oregon, jury has cleared a black man of assault charges for stabbing a white man — after it was revealed that the victim said the N-word after the attack.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/07/us-news/portland-man-cleared-of-stabbing-white-man-because-he-used-n-word/
Black man acquitted of stabbing white man by Portland jury — after victim said the N-word following the attack

A Portland, Oregon, jury has cleared a black man of assault charges for stabbing a white man — after it was revealed that the victim said the N-word after the attack.

Gary Edwards, 43, was found not guilty of second-degree assault after knifing Gregory Howard Jr., 43, on July 7, KPTV reported.

Edwards admitted to stabbing Howard Jr., but claimed it was in self-defense after the victim had used racial slurs, Oregon Live reported.

Both men are homeless and have lengthy rap sheets.

Video from transit cameras showed Edwards approach Howard, who was sitting on a bench, from behind with a fixed-blade knife in his hand.


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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-unveil-12-billion-aid-farmers-hit-by-trade-war-white-house-official-says-2025-12-08/

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump was set to unveil a $12 billion aid package for American farmers affected by his trade policies, a White House official said on Monday.
The announcement was due to be made at a 2 p.m. (1900 GMT) roundtable at the White House, the official said.

U.S. farmers have been saddled this year with record harvests and lost billions of dollars in soybean sales to China when the nation turned to South American suppliers this fall during stalled trade talks.
The administration had been expected to announce a farm bailout totaling as much as $15 billion in October. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins previously said the 43-day federal government shutdown delayed the rollout.
Bloomberg News, which first reported the amount of the aid package, said growers of cattle and crops from grains to soybeans, cotton and potatoes will attend the White House event.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/07/congress-republicans-tease-trump-marjorie-taylor-greene

Republicans in Congress mocked Trump privately, Marjorie Taylor Greene says

Georgia lawmaker says colleagues who made fun of president before 2024 win now support him out of fear
Sam Levine
Sun 7 Dec 2025 19.12 EST

Republicans in Congress privately made fun of Donald Trump only to come around to support him when he won their party’s 2024 White House nomination, the outgoing GOP House member Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday.

“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started – excuse my language, Lesley – kissing his ass,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, said in a clip of an interview that is set to air on Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes program.

Referring to Trump’s “Make America great again” slogan, Greene told Lesley Stahl, the 60 Minutes correspondent, that those Republicans at that point “decided to put on a Maga hat for the first time”.

Greene was once a staunch Trump ally who has split with the president and is leaving Congress in January. Trump has called her a “traitor” and attacked her online, prompting what she says is a wave of threats against her.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7l4n89lr1o

The US National Park Service (NPS) is removing Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth from its list of fee-free entrance days.

The move is part of President Donald Trump's "modernisation" of the park service, which, beginning in 2026, also includes changing the parks' cost structure to favour American citizens over foreign visitors, following a July executive order from Trump.

In addition to removing the two holidays that celebrate civil rights leader MLK Jr and the end of slavery in the US, the agency is adding Flag Day, which is also Trump's birthday, as a "patriotic" fee-free day.

People who are not US citizens will still have to pay fees on the fee-free dates, the NPS said.

For the 2026 calendar year, US residents will be granted free access to national parks on President's Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day/President Trump's birthday, Independence Day weekend, 110th Birthday of the National Park Service, Constitution Day, Theodore Roosevelt's birthday and Veteran's Day.

Previously, Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth were both deemed fee-free entry days by the Biden administration.

Under the Trump administration's new rules, US residents will continue to pay $80 (£60) for an annual park service pass.

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https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2025/12/08/tokyo-police-probe-after-severed-babys-head-and-limbs-found-in-adult-entertainment-business-freezer/201122

TOKYO, Dec 8 — Police in Tokyo are investigating after a severed head and limbs of a baby were discovered in a freezer at an adult entertainment business in the city’s Sumida Ward, according to The Japan Times.

The grisly discovery was made on Saturday evening when an employee found what appeared to be a child’s head while cleaning a refrigerator, prompting a call to police around 9pm.

Officers searching the premises found the decapitated head wrapped in a plastic bag in the freezer, with the baby’s arms and legs placed underneath in a food container, The Japan Times reported.

Authorities said the remains appear to belong to an infant estimated to be under one year old.

The torso has not been recovered, and the baby’s gender remains unknown.

Police are treating the case as suspected mutilation and abandonment of a corpse, and have cordoned off the building near Kinshichō Station as the investigation continues.

A 35-year-old restaurant worker told the news outlet that he saw police tape and was unsure what had happened, noting the premises is often used as a waiting room for sex workers.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/07/asia/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-december-intl-hnk
Thailand launched airstrikes against Cambodia on Monday as a new wave of fighting erupted between the southeast Asian neighbors, leaving a peace plan presided over by US President Donald Trump just two months ago in danger of collapse.

Both sides accused the other of launching strikes along their disputed border in the early morning hours, after weeks of simmering tension and the earlier suspension of progress on the ceasefire agreement by Thailand.

The two nations have repeatedly fought brief border skirmishes in recent decades, with a deadly five-day conflict in July leaving dozens dead and displacing about 200,000 on both sides of the frontier.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the country “never wished to see violence,” but would “not allow the violation of its sovereignty.”

Additional military action would be decided “according to the conditions of the situation,” he said, in apparent reference to further aggression from Cambodia.

Cambodia’s defense ministry condemned the Thai strikes, insisting it remained committed to implementing the previous ceasefire.

Thailand’s army said Monday’s airstrikes targeted Cambodian military infrastructure, and were retaliation for an attack earlier on Monday that killed a Thai soldier and injured seven people.


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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/05/trumps-son-in-law-to-run-gaza-with-tony-blair/
Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will help run Gaza, Western officials have said.

The negotiators, who both played key roles in securing the ceasefire, will be involved in the practical rebuilding of the war-torn Strip, under US plans to be announced this month.

This is despite both also being centrally involved in US efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

According to briefings from Western officials to media in the US and Israel, Mr Kushner and Mr Witkoff will join Sir Tony Blair on Gaza’s executive board, which will sit under the board of peace, chaired by Mr Trump.
The formula, which now has UN backing, was largely devised over the summer by Mr Kushner and Sir Tony.

The pair have been close ever since the former British prime minister helped Mr Kushner achieve the Abraham Accords agreement between Israel, the UAE and others in Mr Trump’s first term.

The executive management board will oversee a committee of 12 to 15 Palestinian technocrats with no links to Hamas or Fatah.

The board of peace, the body with ultimate authority, will comprise heads of Arab and European countries, such as Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

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A plurality of registered voters (37%) say the country is currently in a recession. Two weeks ago, 35% said the country was currently in a recession,

Almost half (48%) of Democrats say the U.S. is in a recession, while only 18% disagree.

Republicans are more positive; only 25% say the country is in a recession, and 50% disagree.

Among the 37% who say the U.S. is in a recession, most (66%) say it will not end in the next 6 months.

Similarly, among the 33% of voters who say we are not in a recession, a majority (59%) say the U.S. will not enter a recession in the next 6 months.

As always, the party in power is more optimistic.

This data is from a Napolitan News Service survey of 1,000 Registered Voters conducted online by Scott Rasmussen, December 1-2, 2025. RMG Research, Inc., conducted the field work for the survey. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1

https://napolitannews.org/posts/37-percent-now-say-the-u-s-is-in-a-recession

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-indiana-redistricting-republicans-midterm-elections-senate-564915bd5d58b7cc91b80fd861d356ea

Spencer Deery’s son was getting ready for school when someone tried to provoke police into swarming his home by reporting a fake emergency.

Linda Rogers said there were threats at her home and the golf course that her family has run for generations.

Jean Leising faced a pipe bomb scare that was emailed to local law enforcement.

The three are among roughly a dozen Republicans in the Indiana Senate who have seen their lives turned upside down while President Donald Trump pushes to redraw the state’s congressional map to expand the party’s power in the 2026 midterm elections.

It’s a bewildering and frightening experience for lawmakers who consider themselves loyal party members and never imagined they would be doing their jobs under the same shadow of violence that has darkened American political life in recent years. Leising described it as “a very dangerous and intimidating process.”

Redistricting is normally done once a decade after a new national census. Trump wants to accelerate the process in hopes of protecting the Republicans’ thin majority in the U.S. House next year. His allies in Texas, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina have already gone along with his plans for new political lines.

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Democrat voters are retarded

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15358599/Somali-fraud-Minnesota-Ilhan-Omar-Tim-Walz.html

Somali refugees in Minnesota have committed the 'biggest theft of taxpayer dollars in US history' and local Democratic officials were 'fully complicit' in the scheme,White House officials declared Friday night.

Federal authorities announced this week that at least 86 people mostly within small Somali communities in the state have stolen more than $1 billion in public funds from programs meant to feed children,assist the homeless and provide autism therapy.

The suspects allegedly ran companies that billed Minnesota state officials for millions of dollars in social services that were never actually rendered in three separate fraud schemes.

It has since been revealed that Representative Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had connections with at least some of the Somali refugees charged in the massive scheme.

They were both pictured with Abdul Dahir Ibrahi, who was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Friday.

He had previously been convicted in Canada of asylum and welfare fraud, Fox News reports.

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> https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/us-news/gavin-newsom-roasted-for-bizarre-reaction-post-to-viral-testicle-crushing-sitting-pose/

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was roasted online for his bizarre AI-created reaction to being called out by The Post for sitting in a testicle-crushing pose during an interview.

Newsom’s press office took to X Friday to try and deflect from the many masculinity-mocking pol-watchers with a doctored image of the governor in an even more compromising yoga-style pose on stage at The New York Times Dealbook Summit.

“Democracy requires flexibility,” the tone-deaf Governor Newsom Press Office wrote in a caption to the post.

The strange attempt at humor fell flat with X-users who were aghast at the extra eyeful of Gavin.

“They…Posted this?” Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Report wrote.

“In a moment of rare honesty, Gavin Newsom replicates the position of his typical California citizen as he prepares to tax them up the a– even more,” user Viva Frei wrote in a comment.

“This isn’t a parody account,” another ironically wrote.

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https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/kash-patel-promises-fbi-wont-turn-our-eye-away-from-claim-the-french-and-one-israeli-are-trying-to-kill-candace-owens/
FBI Director Kash Patel promised that the bureau wouldn’t “turn our eye away from” Candace Owens’s wild claim that French President Emmanuel Macron authorized a hit squad including “one Israeli” during a Friday afternoon appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show.

In a much-maligned tweet last month, Owens wrote:
"URGENT
Two days ago I was contacted by a high-ranking employee of the French Government. After determining this person’s position and proximity to the French couple, I have deemed the information they gave me to be credible enough to share publicly in the event that something happens.

In short, this person claims that the Macrons have executed upon and paid for my assassination. Yes, you read that correctly. More specifically, that the green light was given to a small team in National Gendamarie Intervention Group. I am told there is one Israeli that is on this assasination squad and the plans were formalized.

Again, this person provided concrete proof that they are well placed within the French government apparatus.

Further to this point, this person claims that Charlie Kirk’s assassin trained with the French legion 13th brigade with multi-state involvement.

Journalist Xavier Poussard’s life is also at risk. This is deadly serious. The head of state of France apparently wants us both dead and has authorized professional units to carry this out.


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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-orders-jeffrey-epstein-related-grand-jury-transcripts-florida-re-rcna247624
A federal judge in Florida has ordered the release of material from grand jury investigations into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 and 2007.

A similar bid was rejected earlier this year, but U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said he was granting the Justice Department's renewed request in light of the bill that Congress passed last month requiring the DOJ to release all of its records related to Epstein.

The newly passed Epstein Files Transparency Act calls for the release of "unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell," and the specific language of the law overrides the traditional secrecy of grand jury materials, Smith wrote.

It's unclear when the materials will become public. In its motion asking for the materials to be released, the Justice Department said it "will work with the relevant United States Attorney’s Offices to make appropriate redactions of victim-related and other personal identifying information."

The grand jury investigation was conducted in West Palm Beach, near Epstein's home. Federal prosecutors were investigating whether the financier was preying on scores of underage girls in his mansion.

He eventually struck a much-scrutinized deal that allowed him to plead guilty to state solicitation charges involving a single underage victim, while also reaching a secret non-prosecution agreement with the federal government.

It's unclear how much of the material in the 2005 and 2007 investigations will be new.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98nldr06l2o
A protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine can no longer provide its main containment function following a drone strike earlier this year, according to a UN watchdog.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors found that the massive structure, built over the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, had lost its "primary safety functions including the confinement capability".

In February, Ukraine accused Russia of targeting the power plant - a claim the Kremlin denied.

The IAEA said repairs were "essential" to "prevent further degradation" of the nuclear shelter. However environmental expert Jim Smith told the BBC: "It is not something to panic about."

Prof Smith from the University of Portsmouth in the UK, who has studied the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, said the biggest danger linked to the site was disturbing radioactive dust.

But he said that "the risk is low" because contaminated dust is contained within a thick concrete "sarcophagus" which is covered by the protective shield.

The 1986 explosion at Chernobyl blasted radioactive material into the air, triggering a public health emergency across Europe.


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https://www.reuters.com/world/supreme-court-decide-legality-trump-move-limit-birthright-citizenship-2025-12-05/
Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts to curb immigration and a step that would alter how a 19th century constitutional provision has long been understood.
The justices took up a Justice Department appeal of a lower court's ruling that blocked Trump's executive order telling U.S. agencies not to recognize citizenship of children born in the U.S. if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident, also called a "green card" holder.

The lower court ruled that Trump's policy violated the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment and a federal law codifying birthright citizenship rights in a class-action lawsuit by parents and children whose citizenship is threatened by the directive. The justices are expected to hear arguments during their current term and issue a ruling by the end of June. They did not set a date for the arguments.
The Republican president signed the order his first day back in office on January 20 as part of a suite of initiatives he has pursued during his second term as president to crack down on legal and illegal immigration.
The Trump administration has argued that the provision does not grant citizenship to the babies of immigrants who are in the country illegally or whose presence is lawful but temporary, such as university students or those on work visas.
The 14th Amendment has long been interpreted as guaranteeing citizenship for babies born in the United States.