Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was rattled. Word had leaked that he was planning a classified briefing for Elon Musk on China, a revelation that infuriated President Trump and raised alarms inside the Pentagon given Musk’s business ties to Beijing. “I’ll hook you up to a f—ing polygraph!” Hegseth shouted at Adm. Christopher Grady, the then-acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to two people familiar with the exchange. Hegseth demanded...

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested April 25 by federal authorities who are investigating whether she tried to help an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week, officials confirmed. Dugan, 65, is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Dries at 10:30 a.m. April 25 on the second floor of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Milwaukee, according to two federal sources. Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his 2023 book, The Message, based on a 10-day West Bank trip, makes broad claims about Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens. He focused his rhetoric on demonstrating that Israeli practices amount to apartheid by showing parallels to past South African and Jim Crow experiences. This enabled him to view Israel as engaging in “white supremacy.”  When it was pointed out that half of the Jewish population consists of nonwhite refugees from Arab countries and...

When Theoneste Mutabazi started teaching at Umuco Mwiza School in Kigali in 2008, he marveled at everything its students had. There was an art room, a music room, and a library “with many books,” he says during a phone call from his office in the Rwandan capital. Since then, Umuco Mwiza, whose name means “good culture” in the Kinyarwanda language, has added more classrooms and even a large recreation area. Mr. Mutabazi, who is now the school’s principal, notes in an excited voice that “Our...

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he heard his punishment. The New York Republican, who served in Congress for barely a year before his House colleagues ousted him in 2023, pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Throughout history, poverty, class and economic self-interest have driven radical political movements. The Bolsheviks harnessed the anger of impoverished workers and peasants to create a movement that controlled the world’s biggest country for seven decades. The Nazis came to power due to both the Great Depression and resentment towards a small but economically nimble Jewish community. Today, extremist politics is not bubbling up primarily from the economically disaffected, as occurred both...

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Daughtry has unveiled “The Day I Die.” The song was written by Daughtry frontman Chris Daughtry with Marti Frederiksen and Scott Stevens. “This song was written during a time where I was feeling an immense amount of pressure from so many aspects of my everyday life,” shared Chris Daughtry. “The thought of escaping just sounded like a beautiful dream.” Select Listener Comments: @Midnightphoenxx: “This is sooo powerful!!! Brilliant voice! You (Daughtry) never disappoint!” @Tavialatrice: “This is a damn good song and I’m here for the heavy.” @JoshuaDeutsch-o7g: “OMG love it love Chris Daughtry my favorite ever since ‘American idol’ and he still amazes me love every song he sings.” Daughtry is currently on the road with Disturbed through May. This July they will join Creed for the “Summer Of ’99” tour. Ticket Information ### The post Daughtry’s Single “The Day I Die” Has Dropped appeared first on RockinTown.

President Trump said Friday morning that he hopes to end the Ukraine war very soon and that he believes the U.S. will end up with a lot of good deals, including trade deals, as a result of the peace plan.