Christina Aguilera performed President Obama's favorite song at the Obama Presidential Center opening.
She said she'd never sung it publicly before and created a new arrangement specifically for the occasion.
Some invitations are hard to turn down.
Ferdinand's unusually large forehead was most likely related to his medical conditions, particularly hydrocephalus.
Hydrocephalus is a condition in which excess cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in or around the brain. When it develops in infancy or early childhood, before the skull bones have fully fused, it can cause the head to grow larger than normal and produce a prominent forehead.
Ferdinand I of Austria was the son of parents who were double first cousins, meaning they shared all four grandparents. The marriage was part of the Habsburg dynasty's long tradition of intermarriage, which many historians believe contributed to Ferdinand's health problems.
He suffered from epilepsy, hydrocephalus, developmental difficulties, and a speech impediment. Although he became emperor in 1835, much of the empire was governed by his advisers due to his condition
The OCC is expected to approve the Trump family's application for a national bank trust charter, which would allow their crypto firm to operate like a bank.
That could help the Trump family make even more money. It's an ethical outrage.
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The tide is turning for Ukraine.
The situation in 2026 is very different from 2025.
Ukraine is bravely holding the frontline.
Russia’s fatigue is openly showing.
That’s the time to double down on our support.
With the first disbursement of the €90 billion EU loan.
With a winter package to support Ukraine later in the year.
The G7 stands in support of a strong and sovereign Ukraine.
This is Officer Caroline Edwards and she was one of the Capitol Police that defended the Capitol on J6 during the Insurrection. The rioters attacked her cracking her head open & leaving her with a permanent brain injury. Trump said it was Peaceful and full of Love that day!
If you keep getting frustrated that courts are overturning your illegal policies and you keep having to try to find ways around people's constitutional rights, maybe it's time to consider whether you and your policies are the problem. https://t.co/g8NrGN9OrA
Gavin Newsom said today that Trump has directed the DOJ at him and his wife. Federal agents are knocking on the doors of old friends and former staff, a grand jury is running, and years of documents are being pulled apart on the theory that something incriminating must be in there somewhere.
Investigations are supposed to start with a crime, then go looking for the man. This is that run backwards: they have the man and are hunting for a crime to fit him.
And he is not the first name on the list.
James, Schiff, Cook, Powell all got the same treatment, and the cases keep collapsing in court because they were built backwards.
America spent eighty years lecturing other countries about exactly this. The lecture is over.
Gov. @GavinNewsom: Donald Trump is selling the presidency. He's running the largest cash heist in American political history, trading foreign tariff relief for approval of his golf courses, day trading behind the Resolute desk, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit, and he's doing it openly. He did it last night on the White House lawn. He's doing it through cryptocurrencies. The White House has become a marketplace, a marketplace for sneakers and coins and watches, cologne, guitars, Bibles, and phones. Influence for sale. Access for sale.
De Niro: I hate to say it, but loving our country is starting to sound like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser.
I can’t love a country that starts stupid and inhumane wars, killing thousands of innocents and indirectly causing the deaths and suffering of millions more.
I can’t love a country that takes healthcare away from millions of people and uses that money to enrich their pals in the Trump-Epstein class.
I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors, and separate families.
I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant.
And let me just say it: I can’t love a country that’s led by Donald Trump and his sycophant Congress.
I step into a cafe where I work some mornings. Hadn’t read the news yet. The barista is Ukrainian. My friendly ‘morning!’ is met with a weak smile. I know what it means.
‘What happened?’
‘Pechersk Lavra is burning.’
Imagine waking every morning to the dread of finding out who Russia has killed, what Russia has destroyed in the night. Every day, for over four years.
I’ll say here what I said to her: this is Russia losing. Blind rage and destruction because they have no viable strategy, no path to victory. It doesn’t make this any better, it doesn’t bring lost loved ones or national treasures back. But it is true. Fascist Russia will destroy itself. And Ukraine will survive, will win, will rebuild. You are not alone.