Something else I noticed: Just as Thune was starting to speak about Susan Collins’ 10,000th consecutive vote, Bernie Sanders got up from his desk and gingerly walked out of the chamber
@LarrySabato Story of the creation of Kennedy Center: Three presidents envisioned a national cultural center and what it would mean to the United States. Pursued by Eisenhower, it opened in 1971 and was named as a "living memorial" to Kennedy after his assassination.
https://t.co/u2agtCT8gD
President Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office that the Lincoln Memorial will be expanded to the Potomac River with a pedestrian bridge on what could be called the “Trump Promenade” to complete the vision of the 1902 McMillan Plan.
https://t.co/YquD5wD7zL
The study estimates that between August and December 2025, the price of the National Guard presence in D.C. came to $185 million. https://t.co/6WJL5TZnNY
Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev says Russian and American officials tomorrow will be signing a MOU on building a tunnel, under the Bering Strait, between Chukotka and Alaska. 🙄
Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $130M to the University of Tennessee 🍊
“A historic $130 million investment by alumni Dee and Jimmy Haslam will bolster student success and faculty recruitment,” stated the University of Tennessee via a press release.
The largest portion of the investment, $100 million, will be earmarked for the Haslam College of Business.
The remaining $30 million will be directed to a campus-wide effort to recruit world-renowned faculty across academic disciplines, supporting UT’s continued rise as a leader in research, innovation and discovery.
(Via the University of Tennessee).
Exclusive: John Bolton is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, reporting w/ @kpolantz and @HBRabinowitz https://t.co/IngHvdKNCi
New: Former Trump National Security advisor John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information related to a diary entry. Under the agreement, he faces up to 60 months in jail and a $2.25 million fine. The plea deal would settle a massive indictment that carry decades in prison and millions of dollars in legal fees.
The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.
We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.
Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.
This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.
Rodney Mims Cook Jr - the man charged with overseeing Trump’s ballroom and arch projects - was in no mood to speak to the press in St Petersburg today. Marco Rubio said he was “unaware” a US delegation was at the International Economic Forum, once dubbed “Putin’s Davos”. Surreal!
Statement from Texas AG Commissioner on New World Screwworm cases possibly being in Texas.
Miller has publicly feuded with USDA over NWS response and was not included in Texas’ NWS task force nor present at the NWS sterile fly facility opening earlier this year.
NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals
Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf
Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966