Born in Detroit to Egyptian immigrant parents, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar with two doctorates who became Detroit's youngest-ever health director at age 30 before going on to teach epidemiology at Columbia University.
Calling him a "radical Islamist" makes you look stupid, not him.
Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania:
I was surprised by stupidity of Russia when they invaded Ukraine. They don’t need territories, they already have a lot.
Just to humiliate nation? To make Ukrainian nation an enemy forever? Forever.
To create Ukrainian identity so strong that it has never been before? Now they will become enemy for centuries.
I call it stupidity. There's no sense in doing it and turning your friends into enemies, your historic allies.
A Slavic nation that's practically very close to you historically. Pure humiliation, pure ambition, which is absolutely silly.
I was also surprised by reaction of the West. How cowardly, how afraid West has been, what lack of leadership we demonstrated.
Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. What on earth is Google doing? Check my latest post here: https://t.co/N0h6CVECqS
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted.
An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
@anemll@SIGKITTEN I frequently see cut off messages when there are sub-agents. I get lines like "Investigating the lo" and then the next line is some other item.
Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.
The CDC announces 2,318 new measles cases in 2026, already surpassing the surge of cases in 2025.
More measles cases have been reported since Trump took office than in the last 25 years combined.
Deeply disturbing story. Survivors of US boat strikes allege they were kidnapped and tortured for days by the US military. The prosecutor investigating the claims was just assassinated.
Bauernschmidt commanded a nuclear carrier in the Pacific during a tense standoff with China. First woman to do it. Four star admirals vouched for her this year.
Hegseth pulled her anyway. No reason given, to her or anyone else.
Pentagon policy requires one. There isn't one on the record.
In 2020, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence was John Ratcliffe, whom he handpicked. Ratcliffe is now the director of the CIA. If Trump is going to claim this intelligence was suppressed, the theory would thus be that Trump’s intelligence community, under Ratcliffe, had an opportunity to inform the public China was trying to hurt his election prospects and actively chose to claim the opposite. Trump then responded to these revelations by allowing the same person to lead the CIA and by softening his position against China. Alternatively, Trump could just be making all this up on the fly because he's still upset about losing 2020 to Biden. You can decide which seems more plausible.
It's pretty crazy how the President of the United States had to pay a woman nearly 6 million dollars for assaulting her in a department store dressing room and it already vanished from the news cycle after only 24 hours