Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner made comments online about masturbating in portable toilets and praised explicit military restroom graffiti. Platner, who has faced several controversies throughout his campaign, wrote in a March 2017 Reddit post about having to “jerk off” when he sits in a portable toilet, according to Fox News. In March 2021, he also described an image of a penis inside a portable toilet while deployed overseas, calling it “beautiful,” “engorged and veiny,” and moving “towards its penetrative glory.”“Oh s—!!!,” Platner wrote. “You’ve got the Hot Rod C— from Manas!” Platner has previously responded to his controversial…
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Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner made comments online about masturbating in portable toilets and praised explicit military restroom graffiti. Platner, who has faced several controversies throughout his campaign, wrote in a March 2017 Reddit post about having to “jerk off” when he sits in a portable toilet, according to Fox News. In March 2021, he also described an image of a penis inside a portable toilet while deployed overseas, calling it “beautiful,” “engorged and veiny,” and moving “towards its penetrative glory.” “Oh s—!!!,” Platner wrote. “You’ve got the Hot Rod C— from Manas!” Platner has previously responded to his…
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Tuesday, May 19, 2026An ICE agent monitors hundreds of asylum seekers being processed upon entering the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023, in New York City. New York City has provided sanctuary to over 46,000 asylum seekers since 2013, when the city passed a law prohibiting city agencies from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement agencies unless there is a warrant for the person’s arrest. | Getty Images/David Dee DelgadoA U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been charged in the shooting and wounding of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year.The Hennepin…
Nashville actress Hayden Panettiere claims she was a victim of two incidents of sexual misconduct and refuses to name the guilty parties, even though both involved famous actors. In her new autobiography, Panettiere also says she… [embedded content] Panettiere says the following happened to her when she was only 18… “Even though I felt I could make healthy decisions, safe decisions [at that age], I wasn’t capable of being fully aware of what was going on around me,” Panettiere revealed on The Purpose with Jay Shetty Podcast. “It wasn’t until I found myself in predicaments that I realized my perspective…
The settlement requires the company to stop using nonpublic data from other landlords and property owners to determine rental prices.RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — A federal judge approved a settlement agreement Tuesday between the federal government and rental company LivCor.The federal government sued RealPage — a company that provides pricing software to landlords — in August 2024, before later tacking on additional property management companies, claiming their use of the RealPage software is depriving renters of fair competition and creating collusion between landlords.The landlords, who would normally be competing with each other, submitted private rental data about occupancy and rental prices…
President Donald Trump said he would be making an announcement in the early afternoon on the Senate primary contest in Texas between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton. “And I hope you find it good,” Trump said without giving any details on who he would endorse, but added, “I’ve pretty much always …
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (L) and Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie (R) Sjamsoeddin stand as they pose for photographs with U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Kelly McKeague (L) and Indonesian Maj. Gen. Agus Widodo (R) after signing a memorandum of understanding at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on April 13, 2026. Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIndonesia’s defense minister said on May 19 that a letter of intent signed last month with U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth did not commit Jakarta to granting U.S. military aircraft access to Indonesian airspace.The letter of intent signed in Washington mentioned respecting each country’s territorial…
President Trump took the press pool on a tour of the White House ballroom and defense infrastructure that is being incorporated into the design itself. As noted by President Trump the ballroom will sit atop a sub-surface system of hardened rooms, research facilities and military operations that will form a hub of interconnected executive office government defense operations. The building is being built to withstand missile and drone attacks, with several floors underground that will serve as a defense system for the President and cabinet members. The ballroom that sits atop the underground network will be paid by President Trump…
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Platinum group metal prices rose substantially last year, driven by persistent supply deficits and favorable market dynamics, and Metals Focus expects the bull market to continue this year, with significant price upside remaining.Platinum joined gold and silver for the wild ride up in 2025, gaining 119 percent, and then continuing to surge through the first three weeks of 2026. Platinum hit an all-time high of $2,923 an ounce in late January before selling off along with gold and silver. Palladium took a similar trajectory, rising 78.7 percent in 2025 from $914.10 before peaking just below $1,100 in January.…
Mark Cuban, the liberal former Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank co-host, made an appearance alongside President Trump at the White House on Monday to announce an expansion of the President’s TrumpRX website. Cuban’s online pharmacy, Cost Plus Drugs, along with Amazon Pharmacy and GoodRx, are set to list over 600 generic drugs on TrumpRX at lower costs for consumers. Cuban said 559 of the drugs come from his company. “I’ve been the biggest proponent of TrumpRX.com,” Cuban said in brief remarks at the event. “Republicans want cheaper drugs. Independents want cheaper drugs. Democrats want cheaper drugs. And together, I…
Strategies to live longer are almost always in the news now. So profound is the interest in extended longevity that three leaders of the most autocratic nations on the planet were recently heard discussing the topic on a hot mic in, of all places, Tiananmen Square, the site of the student protest brutally put down by the Communist government in June 1989. In the recording, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean boss Kim Jong Un are overheard talking about the prospect of living many decades longer. Putin says, “In a few years, with the development of biotechnology,…
A Georgian food courier’s profanity-filled TikTok rant about Tbilisi traffic reforms and “Škoda-lanes” lost free-speech protection after Europe’s top human rights court ruled the viral video crossed from political anger into degrading personal abuse.(CN) — A Georgian food courier who went viral on TikTok for screaming “go fuck your mothers” at city officials over traffic reforms lost his free speech fight Tuesday after Europe’s top human rights court ruled the rant crossed the line into punishable abuse.The European Court of Human Rights said Georgia did not violate the rights of activist and delivery driver Irakli Miladze when it fined him…
Actress Kristen Stewart has expressed dismay with the “capitalistic” film studio system enriching “billionaires” and now wants to start making movies for YouTube. The former Twilight star revealed her thoughts about the current state of Hollywood in a lengthy interview with Variety. “I’m just so sick of the rules and I’m so sick of the system. It is not designed for artists to express themselves. We’re just really under the thumb of different priorities that don’t align with real dream-making,” she said. “And I don’t mean to wax poetically because I mean this so very literally, I just don’t think…
Tyler Robinson, the Utah man accused of killing Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in September 2025, is scheduled to appear in court at 11 a.m. ET on May 19. Robinson’s attorneys will argue to have portions of his preliminary hearing sealed.
The Justice Department has established a more than $1.7 billion fund for victims of weaponization under Joe Biden, which President Trump said will reimburse those who faced Biden-era political persecution. Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday that the $1.776 billion weaponization fund, which was created as he dropped a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, would be “reimbursing people that were horribly treated, horribly treated. It’s anti-weaponization.” A reporter asked him about the fund, nastily questioning why taxpayers should “pay for the January Sixers,” who faced horrific abuse from the Biden Justice Department. “It’s anti-weaponization,” Trump said.…
Iran recently sent an updated peace proposal to America via Pakistani mediators, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday, which reportedly includes demands for “reparations” and no meaningful concessions on the country’s illicit nuclear activity. The Iranian Tasnim News Agency, which is believed to be close to the Islamist regime, first reported the existence of an undated proposal to end the current conflict delivered to the United States. According to Tasnim’s “source close to the Iranian negotiating team,” Tehran’s proposed deal would require America to pay unspecified “reparations” for the destruction caused by its bombing during “Operation Epic Fury.” The new…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you’re surprised by any of the Trump family’s grifting since Donald’s return to office, you just haven’t been paying attention. Still, it’s important not to let the incredibly open level of corruption to fall into the background if we want any chance of understanding how we got here. The latest revelation, first reported by Popular Information, follows the familiar pattern of Trump family ruses. In a new tranche of public disclosures released last Friday, Donald Trump admitted to executing thousands of stock…
A woman stands outside a hospital in Bunia, Congo, on May 17, 2026. Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne/AP PhotoThe only American known to contract Ebola in a new outbreak in central Africa is a doctor who was caring for patients in Congo, the Christian organization with which he works says.After an Ebola outbreak recently started in Congo’s Ituri Provice, Dr. Peter Stafford “began to develop symptoms and received a positive test result for the Bundibugyo ebolavirus variant,” Serge, the Christian group, said in a statement on May 18.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser.…
The new deal with Iran looks like the old deals. They won’t give in. Meanwhile, we have Mark Levin and Lindsey Graham telling President Trump to bomb, bomb, bomb. General Keane has been on TV calling for ground troops to take Kharg Island. Iran wants to get Democrats elected in November and will continue to delay. According to Reuters, this is what it amounts to: Tehran’s latest peace proposal to the United States involves ending hostilities on all fronts including Lebanon, the exit of U.S. forces from areas close to Iran, and reparations for destruction caused by the U.S.-Israeli war, state…
A trio of Luigi Mangione fangirls waiting outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Monday explained their vile views to the press. “Fuck Brian Thompson. That’s all I’m gonna say. That’s all I want to say. Fuck Brian Thompson. Fuck his mom. Fuck that lady who said something on Inside Edition. I said, I said what I said. I don’t give a flying fuck,” said a woman who identified herself to The New York Times as “Ashley.” The woman appeared to be wearing an official press pass. (RELATED: Judge Tosses Evidence Against Luigi Mangione) Mangione is accused of shooting and killing UnitedHealthcare…
An American flag sits in a thermostat at U.S. immigration court in Manhattan, New York, on Nov. 28, 2025. David ‘Dee’ Delgado/ReutersA federal judge issued a ruling on May 18 barring federal agents from conducting arrests at three Manhattan immigration courts, except in limited circumstances.The ruling by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel stemmed from a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union and other groups on behalf of The Door and African Communities Together, which sought to challenge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies that allow federal agents to arrest people in immigration courts.We had a…
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This is a gruesome statistic and a pretty damning condemnation of the Labor labor market right now.Just half of 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK were in payrolled work at the end of last year, according to Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis that underscores the scale of the country’s escalating youth jobless crisis.The proportion, 50.6%, has fallen from 54.9% at the end of 2022, a drop similar in scale to the pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis, the study of administrative data found. Advertisement And while there’s all sorts of lip-service and money being thrown at it, the obstinate Europhiles…
President Donald Trump visits the White House ballroom construction site and delivers remarks at 10:25 a.m. ET on May 19. …
Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is previewing his plans for opening city-run grocery stores, claiming he is bringing “cheaper” groceries to all five boroughs by 2029. “In the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, nobody should be going hungry. That’s why we’re opening five city-owned grocery stores, one in each borough, starting with The Bronx. Lower Prices. Good food. Publicly owned. Hunts Point next year. Every borough by 2029,” Mamdani said in an X post, also sharing this update on Instagram. “We’re bringing cheaper groceries to all five boroughs with five city-owned…
The religion that “formed the American consciousness” was “decidedly Christian, founded upon the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ,” Vice President JD Vance said in a message for the “Rededicate 250” celebration of faith on the National Mall Sunday. During the event – described as a “National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving” to God – Vance offered a message to attendees, reminding them of the importance of the Christian foundation of America and the reality that Jesus is Lord. “In 1783 Washington also proclaimed that imitation of divine charity is necessary for the mutual affection of our citizenry and the…
President Donald Trump has found himself siding more often with neoconservatives that he opposed when he came down the escalator to announce his first presidential campaign at Trump Tower in June 2015. Trump campaigned in 2016 on ending foreign wars and shifting to an “America First” foreign policy approach that prioritized domestic priorities over foreign aid, but is now finding himself more aligned on issues with establishment Republicans such as South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and other neoconservatives since the Iran war began on Feb. 28. The president has campaigned against Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas…
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Tuesday, May 19, 2026This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles on April 20, 2023, shows Elon Musk’s blue tick next to his name on a smartphone. | CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty ImagesThe U.S. Supreme Court will not hear arguments in a lawsuit against X, formerly known as Twitter, by two individuals who claim the social media platform was responsible for their sexual exploitation.In an orders list released Monday, the Supreme Court denied certiorari without comment in the case of John Doe et al. v. X Corp., allowing a lower court ruling in favor of X to…
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said United States military action against Cuba could lead to a “bloodbath.” Díaz-Canel’s warning comes after an Axios report where a U.S. official m said Cuba had more than 300 military drones from Russia and Iran. According to the report, the drones could be used to attack the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay in addition to other American interests. The report also said Cuba secured the attack drones and had discussed using them on U.S. interests — and even Key West, Florida, which is located 90 miles from Havana. Díaz-Canel denied claims Cuba poses any danger to the U.S., writing on…
War Secretary Pete Hegseth took a break from his official duties to appear alongside Kentucky congressional candidate Ed Gallrein during a Monday campaign appearance ahead of his Tuesday primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Gallrein is the Trump-endorsed candidate against Massie, an ideological libertarian who has garnered ire from the president for breaking with Republicans on multiple issues from conflict with Iran to the handling of the Epstein files. Voting against the One Big Beautiful Bill and other Republican-led spending bills has also placed Massie in Trump’s line of fire. In an atypical move for the leader of…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While every bumble bee colony has a queen, the process for becoming that queen bee may be a bit more democratic than monarchical. The worker bees appear to select which baby will be queen one day, according to a new study published in the journal Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The key to this selection process lies in the juvenile hormone. This hormone in insects is responsible for their development, molting, and eventual reproduction. When the team gave the juvenile hormone to worker bees,…
UFC boss Dana White has a lot on his plate in planning the outdoor fight card on the south lawn of the White House next month, but a recent dinner with the president raised new concerns. The planned UFC Freedom 250 event, part of America 250 celebrations, will be held on June 14, President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, and White has been busy making the arrangements for the historic occasion. But in a recent interview with Boardroom, the Trump friend and ally disclosed a problem with bugs that he fears could affect the outdoor event. “Another problem that I always…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul seems to be walking a tightrope on education reform. Last week, she surprised nationwide school choice advocates with her recent announcement to opt New York into the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC), the K–12 tax-credit scholarship program codified by the One Big, Beautiful Bill.However, her support comes with conditions. Although she supports the FSTC’s “potential to help New York students and schools,” Hochul also “awaits information from the federal government on the program,” hoping to avoid anything that resembles “poison pills that could harm New York’s education system.” (RELATED: SHERI FEW: The American Library Association’s Direct Threat…
A Congolese health worker prepares to administer the Ebola vaccine outside the house of a victim who died from Ebola in the village of Mangina in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Aug. 18, 2018. Olivia Acland/ReutersAfter U.S. health officials imposed restrictions on travel from multiple African countries amid an Ebola outbreak, the State Department said that visa services are paused and that no appointments will be scheduled in Uganda, South Sudan, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo.A health order signed by acting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on…
An Oregon mother was forced to “meet crazy with crazy” after soft-on-crime policies allowed a suspect to enter her home days after allegedly exposing himself to children. [embedded content] (Video Credit: KPTV) Time and again, leftist prosecutors, judicial activists, or George Soros-funded district attorneys have been in the background of crimes committed as the revolving door of recidivism is kept spinning. Thursday, such was the case when a mother of two was forced to use her “beat-down stick” to ward off a burglar after putting her kids to bed. “He was screaming really loudly, nonsensical. I couldn’t really understand except,…
Below is State of the Day, a morning newsletter by Daily Caller Editor-at-Large Geoff Ingersoll. Sign up here. __________Greetings, Dear Reader, We are bombarded every day with news of continued decline. The most frustrating part of it, at least for me, is … THE SOLUTIONS ARE QUITE SIMPLE Most of you have likely heard this phrase: Decline is a choice. Folks younger than me (I’m 44) likely don’t know it was popularized most recently by the late Charles Krauthammer. He applied it to everything from foreign policy and American hegemony to domestic policies, like the welfare state and a “renewable energy”-related…
The Chicago White Sox have dropped their longtime “Country Music Night” promotion from the team’s calendar while moving forward with expanded identity- and culture-themed promotions for 2026. The Chicago Wire reports that while “Pride at the Park,” “Homies Night” and a new Pope Leo XIV hat giveaway are included in the team’s promotional strategy, the franchise has given the boot to “Country Music Night” after more than a decade. they’re calling it the goat giveaway august 11 pic.twitter.com/ASZOsOl7PF — White Sox on CHSN (@CHSN_WhiteSox) May 15, 2026 The team has been struggling with declining television viewership following several losing seasons,…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan Monday to fill her seat ahead of her retirement from Congress. Pelosi’s late endorsement came as several polls showed Chan tied for second-place with Saikat Chakrabarti, who is trailing behind the frontrunner, Democratic California state Sen. Scott Weiner. Chakrabarti has frequently attacked Pelosi during the campaign and when he worked for Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while Weiner is the most well-known candidate.“I know and love this district. I know the Congress. And I know Connie. I’m proud to endorse Democrat Connie Chan and ask you to join…
A “transgender Indian migrant” who lacks even a “work visa” got elected to the “Scottish Parliament” and now “wants locals to pay reparations to Palestinians,” notes law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds. “Q Manivannan was elected as a Green Party MSP to represent Edinburgh and Lothians East last week. The self-described ‘queer Tamil immigrant’ made headlines after it […] The post Transgender migrant legislator wants taxpayers to pay reparations to foreigners appeared first on Liberty Unyielding.
Perpetrators of the violent “teen takeover” in Washington, D.C. that got a federal prosecutor’s attention were concealing their faces despite the district’s 2024 mask ban. Viral videos of young people hitting one another with chairs, throwing punches and standing on tables at a D.C. Chipotle restaurant on Saturday show multiple participants in the brawl wearing masks with hoods. A 2024 D.C. law bans wearing face coverings during “a dangerous crime” or “crime of violence” despite Black Lives Matter (BLM) supporters’ past efforts to scrap the restrictions. (RELATED: How America’s Capital Became Soft-On-Crime Haven) .@reaganreese_ asks Judge Jeanine Pirro about teen…
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of Defense holds a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2027 for the Army at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 19. …
An online fundraiser for the security guard credited by police for heroic actions during Monday’s shooting at a California mosque has raised a massive sum for the man’s family less than a day after the near-tragedy. San Diego Police credit Amin Abdullah, a security guard at the Islamic Center of San Diego who was killed during the shooting, with playing a “pivotal role” in “minimizing” the tragedy after two teenage gunmen opened fire at the mosque. On LaunchGood, a Muslim-oriented version of crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe or GiveSendGo, a fundraiser for Abdullah’s widow and eight children has raised over $1.6…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Currently ranked as the sixth richest person on Earth, it should come as no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg is hoovering up valuable real estate like a feudal lord after a plague. What is surprising is how he’s gone about securing his acreage, and who he’s snatching it from. Starting in 2014, the Facebook co-founder set about acquiring land on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i one parcel at a time. According to the latest reporting on his land acquisitions, reported by Wired in 2025,…
In early May, a Palestinian illegal alien nearly decapitated a 14-year-old boy as he murdered him. Germany is calling the illegal alien an asylum seeker. The 37-year-old illegal Palestinian was denied asylum but couldn’t be deported. The Palestinian had lived in Germany since around 2021 under a temporary “Duldung” (tolerated stay) status after his asylum claim was rejected, partly because his identity and nationality documents were unclear, making it impossible to deport him. He had prior convictions for property damage and illegal residence. The murdered boy, Jermaine B., went missing on May 2nd. His body was found 3 days later…
The Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing at 10:30 a.m. ET on May 19 to examine the posture of the Department of the Navy in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2027 and the Future Years Defense Program. …
Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein traveled over to the fact-checking section on Monday to condemn President Trump for taking a victory lap on behalf of all people who do not subscribe to theories of apocalyptic climate change after the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ruled a 2011 study’s “worst case scenario — called RCP8.5 — was implausible.” The problem for Borenstein was that in 2026, he said Trump was ignoring other, more likely scenarios, but in 2011, he willingly went along with the worst-case scenario. Trump posted on social media, “GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats…
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesLOS ANGELES—At a private meeting with Los Angeles County officials on May 15, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised the county’s “impressive” approach to tackling an unprecedented and deeply intertwined mental health, addiction, and homelessness crisis.“I wanted to come here because this is the biggest system in the country, and it has the reputation of doing things really well—and I can see why. This is an extraordinary caliber,” Kennedy told a small group of public health officials and…
A House panel that oversees government accounting and grants management is ramping up an investigation into whether Planned Parenthood affiliates are using federal tax dollars for abortions, or for “gender-affirming care” for minors. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., the chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, and Oversight Committee member Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., wrote to 11 separate Planned Parenthood affiliates, asserting that the nation’s largest abortion provider for almost a year failed to fully respond to questions about its spending of federal dollars. The subcommittee first sought documents from the Planned Parenthood affiliates in June 2025.…
The defense team for Luigi Mangione, who allegedly assassinated the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, got a minor victory on Monday when the judge ruled that some evidence would be inadmissible due to an improper search at the time of his arrest. Justice Gregory Carro of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that some of the items retrieved from Mangione’s backpack at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania during his arrest would be excluded, saying they were acquired in “an improper, warrantless search.” The excluded items include: a gun magazine, a cellphone, a passport, a wallet, and a computer chip. The prosecution, however,…
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) said that Iran’s regime doesn’t have enough ordinance to fight off its populace, “And I hope that the Iranian people do ultimately decide to take up those arms in the ways that they did at the beginning of this year. It’s the biggest threat to that regime, is the Iranian people coming after them because they don’t have enough bullets to fight them off.” Mast began by saying that Iran “is even more degraded since the ceasefire began” due to economic…