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#654 2026-08-25 16:45:34
Good by the way, I can't wait for more people to die this winter.
Two people in Pennsylvania have died from measles
By Jamie Gumbrecht, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, CNN
Updated: 1:58 PM EDT, Tue August 25, 2026
Source: CNN
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Two people have died due to measles in Pennsylvania, the state Department of Health said Tuesday. Both were unvaccinated.
These are the first US deaths from measles reported in 2026 and the first in Pennsylvania in 35 years.
“My deepest sympathies are with the loved ones who are facing this unimaginable loss,” Secretary of Health Dr. Debra Bogen said in a statement. “As a physician, I want to make sure that people understand that the MMR vaccine is safe and provides the best protection we have against measles.”
The deaths come as US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has led efforts to make sweeping changes to federal vaccine recommendations, including those involving the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. During Kennedy’s time in office, vaccination rates have continued to fall nationwide, leaving more children vulnerable to preventable illness.
In 2021, Kennedy – who was then leading the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense – visited Lancaster County, where he made light of his own childhood case of measles and stoked fears in vaccines, which he suggested were causing autism and autoimmune diseases.
On Tuesday, Kennedy called Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to offer federal staff to help with the measles response, but Shapiro said he declined because he thought the state could manage with its own resources. He said he also told Kennedy that the disinformation he spread about vaccines was having repercussions.
“There’s real-life consequences to spreading misinformation. There’s real-life consequences to scaring people and not relying on actual doctors and actual medical professionals to provide unbiased information to parents so that we can make reasonable decisions for our kids,” Shapiro said in a news briefing.
“Sharing conspiracy theories and misinformation does not help the cause of public health, and it leaves people less healthy and less safe, and it leaves parents in a position where it’s harder for us to do our jobs to protect our children,” he added.
HHS did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Both of the Pennsylvania deaths were in residents of Lancaster County. Health officials said they will not release any additional details.
Pennsylvania has confirmed 393 measles cases in 28 counties in 2026, Bogen said in a news conference Tuesday. Roughly half of them have been in Lancaster County, she said.
About 20% of cases in Pennsylvania this year have required hospitalization. Among measles cases confirmed by the health department, none have been in people who have received both recommended doses of the MMR vaccine, she added.
The highly contagious virus has continued its historic resurgence in the US this year, with a second record-breaking year in a row. The country has recorded more cases than 2,700 cases this year, more than any other year since 1991 – surpassing a grim milestone that was just topped last year.
The disease was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but more cases have been recorded in the past year and a half than there have been in the previous 25 years combined. Experts expect that the US will soon lose its elimination status, the recognition by the World Health Organization that measles is no longer transmitting regularly within a country.
Early symptoms of measles include fever, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes, Pennsylvania health officials said, and a rash follows a few days later, starting on the head and spreading downward. Symptoms can start seven to 21 days after exposure.
Measles can spread when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes, and the virus remains infectious in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours after the person with infection leaves the area.
Measles can cause serious short- and long-term health problems, including pneumonia and brain swelling. Death related to measles are rare but happen in 1 to 3 patients per 1,000 cases.
“People have forgotten how serious it can be, especially for the very young, the pregnant and the very old,” Bogen said.
Two doses of the MMR vaccine are 97% effective against measles. Pennsylvania health officials are recommending early or catch-up MMR doses for people as young as 6 months who aren’t fully protected.
“These deaths are entirely preventable,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and an infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Last year, the US reported its first measles deaths in decades, including two unvaccinated children in Texas.
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#657 2026-09-21 09:39:54
It's a very small step of Civil Disobedience, but it's nice to see the television news networks growing a pair for once.
Major TV networks stand with CNN, decline to replace its White House pool crew
By Brian Stelter, CNN
Updated: 9:20 AM EDT, Mon September 21, 2026
Source: CNN
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The major television networks are standing with CNN by declining to replace its White House pool crew after the Trump administration barred the network from fulfilling its assigned duties on Monday.
The decision means the shared TV pool will not cover President Donald Trump’s events designated for pool coverage, according to an email Monday from Bryan Boughton, the Fox News Washington bureau chief who currently chairs the pool.
“This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties,” Boughton wrote to other pool subscribers. “There will be no replacement pool put in place.”
Under a longstanding arrangement, five networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News — take turns filming the president and providing live footage to one another and the wider press corps. Local TV stations, newspaper websites and media outlets worldwide rely on that coverage.
“This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Boughton wrote.
All other TV pool coverage “will continue as normal, including Congress, VIPs, and selected events in Washington and around the country,” he added.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins explained Monday morning, the pool action means “that when the president does anything today, there will be no TV camera with the president that is broadcasting and sharing this footage” with the wider press corps and networks around the world.
The networks’ response deepens the dispute that began Friday when the president said he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
Reporters for all three publications were turned away from the White House complex on Saturday morning. The outlets have filed a First Amendment lawsuit to challenge the restriction.
As part of the regular pool rotation, CNN was scheduled to act as the TV pool on Monday, and was assigned as the TV pool network that would accompany Trump to New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly this week.
But the White House’s Sunday night press schedule did not list any television network as the primary TV pool for Monday.
Hearst, which owns local TV stations across the country, was listed as the “secondary” TV crew in DC, and Real America’s Voice, a small pro-Trump network, was listed as the “secondary” crew for the New York trip.
The “secondary” TV crew typically attends pool events and can question the president, but does not perform the duties of the primary TV pool.
Early Monday, Trump reiterated the ban in a Truth Social post, writing, “Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from White House,” alongside a news article.
As part of pool coverage, each network takes a daily turn supplying a camera operator, an audio technician and a producer or reporter. While the technical crew records the president, the producer or reporter coordinates the live feed by phone, taking notes and asking questions.
That system, which has remained mostly unchanged for decades, lets a single TV crew provide coverage for many news organizations when space or access is limited, making CNN’s exclusion consequential beyond its own newsroom.
Presidential coverage is also costly, with multi-day trips costing tens of thousands of dollars for the news outlets involved.
“CNN’s mission to report on the U.S. government will continue regardless of any attempts to restrict physical access to the White House and other government buildings, or any other attempts to impede our journalism,” the network said in a statement on Saturday.
“We have a right under the U.S. Constitution to do our reporting without hindrance or interference from the government and this ban is an illegal assault on this fundamental right,” the network added.
This story has been updated with additional information.
CNN’s Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
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#658 2026-09-21 11:59:55
Trump said he is updating the plans at the "strong request" of the US military and for "national security purposes".
The "top grade" military complex and arch will "house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage", he said.
He did not provide details on construction plans or timing, and it's not clear if he needs further approval for the facility.
The fun never ends.
That is all.
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#659 2026-09-21 13:00:00
He's not planning on leaving.
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#660 2026-09-21 17:25:57
You ever think that, sometimes, they're just so close to getting the point?
Also, this is certainly the second-most damning thing he could have possibly said. The ONLY way this could be worse is if he had just straight-up admitted he's a self-centered prick who doesn't give a shit about other people - which is basically the definition of American conservatism.
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#661 2026-09-21 18:23:12
Existing data centers in the US require 163.7 billion gallons of water annually.
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#662 2026-09-22 07:18:39
“I hate to spoil the fan fiction, but y’all needed to do better. To the rest of y’all, no, I’m not hiring.”
Cheap dates comparatively within her cohort.
Among the most prominent allegations are that Boebert conducted a four-year “romantic and sexual relationship” with a senior female staffer, named as Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, then paid her $200,000 when Ratzlaff broke off the affair and threatened to file an ethics complaint of her own.
Additionally, Wheeler alleges, Boebert had a sexual relationships around the same time with Raven Finegan, a congressional employee and the congresswoman’s district chief of staff, and Jeffrey Small, who was her chief of staff from 2021 to 2025.
The complaint includes detailed financial records of Boebert’s congressional spending, and payments to staff that included more than $450,000 to Finegan to June 2026, and almost $780,000 to Small. Ratzlaff received more than $461,000.
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#665 2026-09-28 13:22:42
Looks more like the "Trump Abortion" to me.
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#666 2026-09-30 18:36:49
Out in Estacada, about 30 miles from yers truly by the way the crow flies. Hotbed of MAGATRY...
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#667 2026-10-01 12:23:43
It was such a joy to see those smug looks wiped from their stupid faces. Schmitt knew his "evidence" wasn't reliable and thought he could maneuver a man who was a Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney, acting U.S. attorney, and head of the department's Public Integrity Section into, what, perjury or lying to congress or something? (IMHO, lying to congress should come with a job offer)
Get ready for more disappointment real soon you assholes!
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#668 2026-10-01 12:53:13
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#672 2026-10-02 09:01:32
Ai would be so great if it weren't for all those pesky people asking the wrong questions of it.
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#673 2026-10-07 14:42:31
Statement of
Jack Smith
Former Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
before the
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. Senate
September 29, 2026
Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss my work as Special Counsel in the investigation and prosecution of President Trump for his alleged unlawful retention of classified documents and obstruction of justice, and role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and interfere with the lawful transfer of power.
I have been fortunate to serve a country that I love for nearly 30 years in local, national, and international settings. My service has spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations. I am not a politician, and I have no partisan loyalties. My career has been dedicated to serving our
country by upholding the rule of law and the core principles on which our country was founded.
I believe that there is no role for politics in the proper administration of justice. A prosecutor’s decisions must be based on the facts and the law. The status, power, prominence, or political affiliation of the subject of an investigation must play no role in decisions to investigate, prosecute, or decline prosecution.
I approached my role as Special Counsel following these principles. The Special Counsel’s Office followed Justice Department policies, observed legal requirements, and took actions based on the facts and the law. I stand by my decisions as Special Counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump. I made these decisions without regard to President Trump’s political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity. If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat.
The charges against President Trump were the result of the evidence. Grand juries in two separate districts reached this conclusion based on his actions, as alleged in the indictments they returned. Rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump engaged in a
criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power. The evidence showed that President Trump attempted to induce state officials to ignore true vote counts; to manufacture fraudulent slates of presidential electors in seven states that he had lost; to force his
own Vice President to act in contravention of his oath and to instead advance President Trump’s personal interests; and, on January 6, 2021, to direct an angry mob to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election and then exploit the rioters’ violence to further delay it. Over 140 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted that day, a fact we should never forget.
And, as set forth in the original and superseding indictments issued in the Southern District of Florida, President Trump stored classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago social club after he left office in January 2021 and he repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention
of those documents. Highly sensitive information was held in non-secure locations, including a bathroom and a ballroom where events and gatherings took place. Tens of thousands of people came to the social club during the time period when those classified documents were stored there. As with my appearances before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, I am prepared to answer your questions truthfully. I stand by my testimony before the House of Representatives. I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the President or others.
I will also adhere to the Justice Department’s authorization governing the scope of my testimony while constrained by Judge Cannon’s order restricting the discussion of Volume II of my report regarding the classified documents case. As a result of Judge Cannon’s order and the Justice
Department’s interpretation of that order, I am not permitted to discuss the contents of Volume II of my report, and can only discuss matters with respect to that case if they are set forth in the indictment or other public filings. Similarly, I cannot discuss the contents of the documents at issue in the case due to their sensitive nature.
As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime. Individuals are threatened with criminal investigation because they are perceived to have opposed the President. Predetermined outcomes increasingly seem to take precedence over the Justice Department’s long-standing core values, traditions, and norms. History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It is often weakened by attacks on the institutions and public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort, including the vilification of the career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff who served on my team, simply because of their unwavering commitment to the fair and impartial administration of justice without regard for any personal costs.
I myself have been threatened with jail by the President of the United States.
I remain confident, however, that the rule of law will endure because so many continue to uphold it faithfully each day. Throughout our legal system, public servants have remained faithful to their oaths despite extraordinary pressure to do otherwise. Their example demonstrates that while fear
may be contagious, courage is as well.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I look forward to your questions.
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