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15+ min ago (348+ words) President Donald Trump's unprecedented declaration over the weekend that Venezuela's air space was "closed" had a major impact on air travel in and around the country, leaving some experts dumbfounded. "Not a single plane flying over Venezuela, a country of 30 [million] people with world's largest oil reserves," wrote journalist and author Matt Kennard Monday in a social media post on X. "Its airspace has been closed by the U.S. President sitting in White House 2,000 miles away. International law is a chimera. World is run like the mafia and Washington is the Don." Despite Trump not having the legal authority to close another country's airspace, his announcement nonetheless left a major impact on air travel; flight trackers have shown planes avoiding Venezuelan airspace since Saturday, and several airlines had reportedly cancelled flights to Venezuela in response, Newsweek reported. "Trying to "close' the airspace…...

15+ min ago (962+ words) New reporting on a lethal September boat strike intensifies scrutiny of Trump's regional military campaign. New revelations that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally ordered Special Operations forces to kill every person aboard a suspected narcotrafficking boat in the Caribbean have accelerated a political and legal crisis surrounding the Trump administration's covert maritime strike campaign. The Washington Post's reporting on a directive to eliminate all 11 passengers, including survivors of an initial strike, has prompted former senior military legal officials to accuse Hegseth of "war crimes, murder, or both." The allegations have opened a bipartisan oversight effort and raised fundamental questions about the use of lethal force outside conventional war zones. According to the Post, intelligence analysts had determined that the passengers were allegedly transporting drugs toward the United States. Under past practice and international law, such a scenario would normally…...

18+ min ago (530+ words) By LifeZette News Staff December 1, 2025 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is facing renewed scrutiny as federal prosecutors continue to detail the scale of fraud committed in the state during recent years. According to The New York Times, federal prosecutors report that 59 people have been convicted in the fraud schemes under investigation and that more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds has been stolen across three plots. The amount exceeds Minnesota's annual spending to operate its Department of Corrections. MORE NEWS: Trump Doubles Down on Calling Tim Walz "Severely Retarded,' "Something Wrong with Him' [WATCH] Federal auditors said the scale of the theft stood out even when compared with widespread fraud committed across the country during the pandemic through unemployment benefits, business loans, and other aid programs. The situation has triggered public frustration in Minnesota and has become a central political issue as…...

22+ min ago (355+ words) Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue is "catching flak" from his two primary challengers as he tries to distance himself from identifying with the GOP, reports Tim Dunn in the Boston Herald. Minogue, a West Point graduate and Army Ranger who earned a Bronze Star in Operation Desert Storm, led Abiomed, a medical device company known for Impella heart pumps. "In an interview with WBUR, Minogue said he does not identify with a political party, despite running as a Republican candidate," Dunn, who calls Minogue a "rogue Republican," says. In that interview, Minogue said, "I don't identify with a party. I didn't swear an oath to the Constitution at West Point to a party. I swore the Constitution to America. And so I am very focused on the things around Massachusetts, and what I just talked about as my positions....

25+ min ago (230+ words) National Guard Member's Murder Prompts Swift Action from Trump AdminNational Guard Member's Murder Prompts Swift Action from Trump AdminNational Guard Member's Murder Prompts Swift Action from Trump AdminNational Guard Member's Murder Prompts Swift Action from Trump AdminNational Guard Member's ... National Guard Member's Murder Prompts Swift Action from Trump Admin against Unvetted Afghan Nationals An Afghan national has been charged with murder for the slaying of a member of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who came to the U.S. in 2021 following the Taliban recapture of Kabul, shot 24-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and 20-year-old National Guard Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom on Wednesday, sending both to the hospital in critical condition. Beckstrom succumbed to her wounds and died on Thursday, according to her father, who called her murder "a horrible tragedy." Is the Human Soul Made for Fame? Discipline:…...

25+ min ago (565+ words) You should subscribe! Not allegedly! It's an order from Trump, so it can't be illegal, wah wah wah! But that is not the law, and there's no statute of limitations for murder. Should Hegseth start hoping for a preemptive pardon? Massacring unarmed survivors in a conflict is a war crime that perpetrators have been put to death for. It was when the Nazis and Japanese did it to Americans in World War II. In 1944, future president George Herbert Walker Bush narrowly escaped that fate, and also possibly being cannibalized. Uh oh, Pete Hegseth, let's not get any ideas! And it is simply repugnant to human decency, to the point that even the Republican-led Armed Services Committees in the House and Senate have noticed, and vowed to conduct "vigorous oversight," to see if this occurred. The Former JAGs Working Group, made up…...

26+ min ago (31+ words) Former US immigration judge among dozens fired Former US immigration judge among dozens fired Former US immigration judge Carla Espinoza discusses the wave of firings of judges under the Trump administration....

26+ min ago (617+ words) Resignation of Ukrainian president's closest ally marks his "most politically perilous moment yet' As Volodmyr Zelenskyy scrambles to strengthen European support for Ukraine's position in the peace talks, he finds himself without his long-time chief of staff and lead negotiator. Andriy Yermak, Ukraine's de facto deputy leader, resigned on Friday after a dramatic anti-corruption raid on his house, and has now announced he is off to the front line. Nicknamed the "green cardinal" for his early adoption of battle fatigues, Yermak was "in every way" the "second-most powerful man in Ukraine". A close ally of Zelenskyy, he acted more like an "unelected vice-president than a simple chief of staff" and, according to many officials and diplomats, was often "the de facto decision maker", said Christopher Miller in the Financial Times. His departure will be "extremely painful" for Zelenskyy " "physically and…...

28+ min ago (405+ words) US Syria envoy warns Iraq factions to cut Hezbollah support Ex-officer tells inquiry UK committed war crimes in Afghanistan Palestinian Christians hail Pope Leo's two-state solution call Has the Israeli state lost control of the settler movement? After the ceasefire, Gaza faces an unending war with trauma How Yalla! Let's Talk became the Arab diaspora's leading podcast US Syria envoy Tom Barrack has warned Iraq's Shia-dominated government coalition to ensure that Iran-backed militias in the country do not provide any assistance to Hezbollah, as Israel threatens to escalate its conflict with the Lebanese group. Barrack held a 70-minute meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani in Baghdad on Sunday to discuss recent developments in Lebanon and Iraq's role in stabilising Syria, senior Iraqi sources told Al Araby Al Jadeed, the Arabic-language sister site of The New Arab. An Iraqi…...

35+ min ago (284+ words) Not content with warning Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem that she is putting herself in peril after admitting she defied a court order from Supreme Court-connected Judge James Boasberg, MS NOW's Joe Scarborough made fun of her delivery when she appeared on "Meet the Press" over the weekend. Pressed by host Kristin Welker over reports that she ignored the judge's order to halt immigrant deportations, the Donald Trump appointee shot back, "The decisions that are made on deportations, where flights go, and when they go are my decision at the Department of Homeland Security, and we will continue to do the right thing and ensure that dangerous criminals are removed." "And I don't know," he continued. "As you know, I'm just a dumb country lawyer. I don't really understand the complicated ways of Washington politics and law, but I…...