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Plenty of the league’s teams are bad. But there are a select few for whom hopes of a turnaround in fortunes are a distant prospect Five years ago, we looked at the teams vying for the championship belt of incompetence. If a lesson came from the exercise – the Chargers, Commanders and Texans made the … Read more

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said fellow House member Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., “ain’t throwing no one off any single committee” after the Tennessee lawmaker said Democrats who derailed Thursday’s censure vote should be removed from their committee assignments. The House decided on Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for his outbursts during … Read more

The limits of rhetoric in Ukraine.

The National Weather Service has lost about 10% of its staff, hitting offices prone to severe weather hardest As deadly severe storms swept the US this week, recent Donald Trump administration staffing cuts have left key parts of weather monitoring and disaster preparedness systems severely understaffed, the Guardian has learned. March typically signals the start … Read more

Party insiders are trying to make the case for doing nothing against Trump. That’s a colossal mistake In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Democratic super-consultant James Carville boldly called for “the most radical thing [Democrats] can do” – nothing at all. Standing over the putrefying carcass of three-day-old road kill, thinking we don’t notice … Read more

Experts warn that cooling breaks and later kickoff times may be needed to cope with scorching temperatures when North America hosts the tournament Over the course of a playing career that wound through Spain, Mexico and the sunbaked fields of Major League Soccer’s summers, American midfielder Tab Ramos was never hotter than at the 1994 … Read more

Constitution-building offers no headlines – but what it can do, history tells us, is stop hundreds of thousands of people dying Syria is reportedly sliding back towards civil war, as its various factions demand devolved authority. It is at root the same issue, that of local autonomy, that led to regional unrest in Ukraine and … Read more

FIRST ON FOX: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem‘s legal team hit a South Dakota media outlet with a cease-and-desist letter demanding that it correct and end its knowingly “false and misleading” reporting that Noem allegedly racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars on a government-issued credit card when she served as governor, Fox News Digital … Read more

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who is a staunch supporter of Ukraine and critic of Russia, declared in a post on X that “real Republicans know that Putin’s Russia hates the West and freedom.” “We also know that Ukraine wants democracy, free markets and rule of law. We stand with right vs evil. Reagan, Churchill, Eisenhower… … Read more

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft has exploded after lifting off from Texas, dooming an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket programme. Videos posted on social media show debris streaking through the skies near south Florida and the Bahamas. The rocket exploded after it began to spin … Read more