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20+ min ago (354+ words) Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has mocked Donald Trump for organising the White House-hosted UFC fight to land on his birthday. Trump will celebrate his birthday on June 14, the same day a proposed UFC fight will take place on the lawn of the White House. Kimmel criticised the plans to hold the event at the White House, and the weigh in at the Lincoln Memorial, calling Trump a "child" for organising such an event. He would go on to point out a hypocrisy in the Trump administration when it came to historic memorials, too. Kimmel said, "The president is planning to build a 5,000 seat arena in front of the White House. They scaled it down from 20,000 to 5,000, which is fine because Trump will say it's 100,000 anyway, but, I guess it was too big." Kimmel suggested those who were defending controversial…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago (328+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail this week, holding a rally in a swing state. He's also apparently going on the stump without anyone to stop him from commenting on the physical appearance of the women who work for him. Trump stopped in Pennsylvania's Monroe County on Tuesday to counter criticism over rising inflation and the state of the economy, both of which are issues that are ruining his presidency and threatening the Republican Party's hold on the House " and possibly the U.S. Senate " in the 2026 midterms. But critics on social media noted Trump could not help but wax heavily about the lips of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. "You know when she…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago (203+ words) Sam Altman says he has a hard time imagining "how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT." The OpenAI CEO joined Jimmy Fallon to talk about his latest product to hawk. Artificial Intelligence is a big discussion point these days, and Altman went on to The Tonight Show to plead its case. Somehow, these two knuckleheads got into talking about raising kids. "I cannot imagine having gone through, figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT," Altman smirked on the late night show. "People did it for a long time, no problem. So clearly it was possible, but I have relied on it so much." "One of the things that I'm worried about is just the rate of change that's happening in the world right now," Altman observed. "This is a three-year-old technology. No other technology has ever been adopted…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago (919+ words) Are you a GM Factory Zero worker? Fill out the form at the end of this article for assistance in building a rank-and-file committee to fight the layoffs and defend every worker's job. GM is slashing production by half at its flagship EV plant that straddles the border between Detroit and the enclave of Hamtramck. These job cuts, which GM now calls "permanent," are cascading through supplier plants in the Detroit area, leading to hundreds of additional layoffs. This is part of a brutal wave of downsizing in the auto industry since the supposed "record contract" negotiated by the UAW in 2023. This includes the mass firing of thousands of temp workers and layoffs at major plants in the Detroit area and throughout the country. "It is time to draw the line and defend the right to a secure job and…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago (1017+ words) Following the recent statement by Chancellor Friedrich Merz (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) that Germany can no longer afford the welfare state, the CDU and Social Democratic Party (SPD) coalition are pushing through drastic cuts to social services which will be at the heart of the federal budget for next year. The abolition of the citizen's income scheme was only the first step. Economics Minister Katherina Reiche (CDU) has recently called for an Agenda 2030. According to Reiche, this should include far-reaching measures such as raising the retirement age to 70, abolishing payment of wages in the event of illness and a reduction of protections against dismissal. Proposals for drastic cuts in public healthcare have been widely discussed in the media for months. Now the German government's drug commissioner Hendrik Streeck (CDU) has underlined the inhumane and de facto murderous measures the ruling…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago (843+ words) US President Donald Trump on Tuesday reneged on his earlier statement that he would have "no problem" with releasing the video of the September 2 murder of 11 unarmed civilians in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. In a bald-faced lie, he declared, "I didn't say that." Trump now says he has left the decision with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, declaring, "Whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me." Hegseth, however, risks being caught in multiple lies by the release of further details about the strikes. Last week he said, "I did not personally see survivors" after the first strike and has asserted that "I didn't stick around" to view the second strike'of which both claims are highly dubious, and the first of which is likely to be proven false by the release of the video. Trump hurled…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago (850+ words) The strike by teachers in the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) in California has reached its fourth day, under conditions of intensifying pressure from the district, the Democrats and the union apparatus to shut it down. Negotiators from the United Teachers of Richmond (UTR) are entering another round of talks tonight. The Teamsters 856 bureaucracy yesterday ordered 1,500 classified workers back to work and announced a tentative agreement that has not even been voted on. This sellout, almost identical to the deal workers already rejected, has effectively split the strike in half in order to weaken and isolate teachers. Conditions exist across California for a powerful, unified offensive, but this can only take place through an initiative by the rank and file. Multiple districts are already operating under expired contracts, while the California Teachers Association (CTA) peddles its "We Can't…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago (524+ words) Mount Sinai Hospital in New York has disciplined three nurses who discussed their concerns about workplace safety with their coworkers and the media. The cause of the nurses" concerns was an attempted shooting in the hospital"s emergency room last month. For discussing this life-or-death question, Mount Sinai sent two of the nurses written warnings and suspended the third. This blatant act of retaliation was carried out amid contract negotiations between management and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). A guard escorted Brown out of the hospital. Brown subsequently got into a confrontation with police, who then shot him. He was brought back into the hospital, where the same nurses whom he had threatened administered care to him. Brown died of his injuries while in the hospital. Fortunately, no staff member was hurt during the incident. The attempted shooting…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago (1014+ words) On Monday, Barnaby Joyce joined the far-right One Nation party, having resigned from the National Party in a statement he delivered on the floor of parliament in late November. The defection had been in the works for months, with Joyce openly raising it in the media and holding meetings with One Nation's leader Pauline Hanson. Much of the commentary has focussed on Joyce's personal ambition. In his parliamentary statement, he likened his position on the backbench to an "ejector chair" from the building. Joyce and National Party leader David Littleproud are longtime factional opponents, with their antagonism such that they reportedly avoid being in the same room together. Whatever the role of such immediate factors, however, they are expressions of more fundamental processes." Joyce's defection is yet another expression of the crisis of the Coalition, the formation composed of the…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago (161+ words) President Donald Trump appeared to free a staffer trapped in a bathroom on Air Force One on Tuesday night as he took questions from reporters. Trump traveled to Monroe County in northeast Pennsylvania on Tuesday night to give a speech about affordability. Ahead of a brief question and answer session with the press pool, someone traveling with the administration snuck into a bathroom on Air Force One. As Trump took questions from reporters, the person opened the door and bumped the president, who was standing in front of it. "Oh, hello," Trump said, smiling at the ajar door. "Someone is in there!" Trump knocked twice on the door before saying, "Come on out!" He moved toward the reporters as the staffer opened the door and snuck out behind Trump. The agent standing behind Trump during the encounter can be seen…...