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I haven’t seen a word in the USA media about this story so I am putting it out here. This is a major disaster. Sri Lanka is an island about the size of West Virginia and sits off the southeast coast of India. It is home to about 22 million people....

The Atlantic published this story earlier today. www.theatlantic.com/... Volodymyr Zelensky, in the next phase of talks to end the war in Ukraine, intends to draw a red line at the most contentious issue on the table: the Russian demand for Ukraine’s...

UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 29, 2025 · 3:16:39 PM +00:00 · xaxnar I should mention I am going ahead with the model train order despite the Trump tariff price hike. That being said, I was just looking at some new Lionel product announcements in a series I had...

I stopped paying much attention to Trump’s delusional social media rants long ago, but the headlines about his Thanksgiving tirade against immigrants made me pay attention to this one. It is telling, more about what the people around him are thinking...

A Russian missile test didn’t exactly go as planned -- but it made a pretty cloud. I have to agree. Probable missile types involved: • UR-100NUTTKh (SS-19 Stiletto) • R-36M2 / RS-20 (SS-18) Both rely on UDMH fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, which...

The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...

Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...

By Kate Ruder for KFF E-bike of Colorado sales manager Perry Fletcher said his sales and repair shop saw an increase in back-to-school sales to young riders and families this fall as the popularity of the battery-powered bicycles revs up. But the kids’...

It was funny, in hindsight, seeing how excited Republicans were before the meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.� “Mamdani is acting like he is the ...

Since stepping back into office, President Donald Trump has somehow been even more ludicrous than the first time around. And if there’s one thing he’s proven to the world, it’s that there’s ...