'A definitive backslide.' Inside fashion's worrying runway trend

04/06/23 8:53 PM

Now that the Fall-Winter 2023 catwalks have been disassembled, it's clear one trend was more pervasive than any collective penchant for ruffles, pleated skirts or tailored coats.

'Horrible': Trump sparks outrage with 'wildly disrespectful' claim about troop casualties

11/09/26 12:11 AM

President Donald Trump outraged some political analysts on Sunday after he blurted out a false claim about military casualties in the Iran conflict. Speaking to reporters at the airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump claimed no soldiers have been killed in the conflict, a claim that his own Department of Defense has refuted. In October, the Pentagon raised the official death toll in the Iran war to 23, Stars and Stripes reported. "We won in Iran," Trump said. "It's just a matter of closing it out now. Maybe we'll wait. Some of their neighbors would prefer that we keep it the way that it is." "Again, we haven't lost anybody. No soldiers," he added, comparing America's casualties in Iran with larger conflicts like the war of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Vietnam War. Trump's comments sparked a firestorm of criticism online. Nick Field, a politics writer, described the president's comments as "f------ horrible" in a post on X, reiterating the number of casualties that have been reported. Quentin Ocama, state outreach officer for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, posted on X that Trump's claim was also "wildly disrespectful" to service members. "Wildly disrespectful of the service members who have been killed or injured in this clusterf--- of a conflict," he wrote. "Our crisis with a lack of serious and competent leadership continues…."Journalist Aaron Rupar described Trump's claims in a post on X as "lies." Trump lies that he's "won in Iran" and lies that "we haven't lost anybody. No soldiers." https://t.co/Oiak44fnOx— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 8, 2026

'It's over!' Rubio said to have 'just destroyed his presidential hopes' with one statement

11/08/26 3:00 PM

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is taking heat from parts of the right after he told a Mar-a-Lago crowd that President Donald Trump launched the Iran war “for you.” Some of Trump’s own supporters say the line may have sunk Rubio’s ambitions, and the party with them.Rubio spoke Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s “Gathering of Visionaries” at Trump’s Palm Beach club, days after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress. Trump himself has acknowledged that the war’s unpopularity cost the party.“He did it for you. Not for him. Not for anybody else,” Rubio said of Trump’s decision to confront Iran, according to a clip shared by Fox News host Sean Hannity, who presented the moment approvingly.Conservative podcast host Kacee Allen summarized Rubio’s message: that “we all owe him deep gratitude because previous presidents ‘ignored’ the threat.”“Meanwhile the GOP just got wiped in the midterms due to this very” war, Allen wrote.Some on the right were blunter about it.“Rubio just destroyed his 2028 presidential hopes by essentially echoing Trump’s statement that the destruction of the GOP was worth it to fight the Iran War and these jokers applauded him,” wrote David Pyne, editor of The Real War newsletter and a former Army headquarters staff officer. “None of them care that they just handed the keys to controlling the US to the Democrat socialists for the next decade or two.”Pyne went further and called on Trump, Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “resign in disgrace or be impeached and removed from office.”“@MarcoRubio just killed any chance he had to win the presidency in 2028,” wrote Pat Dollard, a former Hollywood talent agent and Breitbart writer.Some of Trump’s own base saw a bigger reckoning. One X user, whose bio describes her as a “TradCatholic” nationalist who puts “God, Family, Country” first, said Trump had betrayed the voters who put him in office.“It’s over! We wanted Trump to burn the establishment, he burned down the conservative Repub party by showing who he really is,” she wrote. “It will take decades to come back, if we even have a country left.”Writer Sean Colarossi pointed to Rubio’s history with Trump. “It’s amazing how much @marcorubio has beclowned himself for a guy he once accurately called a con man,” he wrote. During the 2016 Republican primary, Rubio called Trump a “con artist.”Rubio has been widely discussed as a potential 2028 contender. On Friday he also flew to Florida with Trump on Marine One, alongside newly named chief of staff Stephen Miller.

'Kidnapping and torture' survivors to hammer Trump admin with major lawsuit: report

11/14/26 1:54 PM

The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit from 16 Ecuadorian fishermen who allege U.S. forces abducted and abused them after a military drone strike sank their boat in March, the Guardian reported Saturday.The crew of the La Negra Francisca Duarte II plans to file the complaint Monday in federal court in western Pennsylvania, according to the outlet, which reviewed the legal filing. The men say they have never trafficked drugs.According to the complaint, two armed drones destroyed the boat March 17 some 385 nautical miles from Manta, Ecuador, and two crew members “were themselves set on fire and burned on their legs, arms and back.”The survivors say uniformed U.S. personnel took them into custody after they rowed lifeboats toward a nearby ship, binding their wrists and hooding them before jailing them for weeks in El Salvador. They are seeking unspecified damages for the strike and their alleged “kidnapping and torture.”“It was catastrophic for them,” said Dan Kovalik, the Pittsburgh attorney representing the fishermen, speaking with the Guardian, adding that none of the men have been able to work since losing the boat.Captain Hernán Flores told Al Jazeera in September that the vessel was worth roughly $400,000 and that he is still paying off the loan he took out to buy it. The filing says Ecuadorian officials had searched the boat shortly before the strike and found no drugs, and it argues the attack lacked congressional approval. “There is no actual armed conflict that could justify the use of military force,” the complaint states.The suit targets Operation Southern Spear, the administration’s boat-strike campaign launched in late 2025, which the Washington Office on Latin America says has killed at least 238 people.A Defense Department spokesperson declined to comment on pending litigation. In June, U.S. Southern Command denied that its forces were involved in incidents involving Ecuadorian fishing boats.

'No reason for us to exist': 3-time Trump voting manufacturer struggling to stay afloat

11/11/26 2:17 PM

An American furniture entrepreneur who voted for Donald Trump three times is at his wits’ end trying to keep up with the president’s unpredictable tariff moves, which have put his company in peril.According to the Wall Street Journal, Bruce Krinsky has spent the better part of a decade chasing Washington’s trade policy. His company, TOV Furniture, has moved production from country to country and even tried manufacturing in the U.S., only to end up back where it started.The Journal reported that Krinsky originally relied on Chinese factories to make his couches. When Trump imposed tariffs on China in his first term, Krinsky convinced a Chinese supplier to open a plant in Vietnam. When Vietnam came under threat as well, he bought a factory in High Point, North Carolina, a city Trump had promised to restore as a furniture powerhouse.That plant opened in March 2025. According to the Journal, Krinsky believed he had finally escaped the tariff whiplash. Within weeks, Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Krinsky expected the additional 34% levy on Chinese goods, the Journal reported, but was caught off guard by a proposed 46% tariff on Vietnam.His couch had already climbed from $900 to roughly $1,250 because of inflation and supply-chain costs, the paper reported. The new tariff would have pushed it near $2,000.“At $2,000, there’s no reason for us to exist,” Krinsky told the Journal. “There are plenty of companies like Crate & Barrel that already do a great job selling those products.”The North Carolina factory, which local officials had celebrated, shut down after 10 months, cutting about 45 jobs, according to the Journal. The couch is now made in Asia again and sells for $1,500. Krinsky told the paper he isn’t counting on the midterm results to help.“Furniture tariffs are not going to be at the top of either party’s agenda,” he said.Krinsky told the Journal he voted for Trump because he believed he was the strongest pro-business candidate.“What exactly is an American business supposed to do?” he said. “We’re trying to do what the government wants. I came in really hoping that this administration would be really positive for business. I wish they were more in touch with the reality of what is happening on the ground and what people really want.”

'The president knew': Insiders blow lid off Trump's knowledge of sex spy scandal

11/14/26 5:36 PM

President Donald Trump was aware of intelligence warnings about former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese spy and brushed them off, according to insiders who spoke with Zeteo.“Zeteo can confirm, per sources familiar with the situation, that the president knew and, in the words of one person involved in the matter, ‘didn’t take it seriously enough,’” wrote Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng in a report published Saturday. “Huang, a towering figure in the AI industry, continued to advise Trump on policies directly affecting his business and trade.”The warnings centered on Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, the former top executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, whom U.S. intelligence suspects of being a Chinese intelligence recruit. U.S. investigators are probing Megaspeed for allegedly funneling restricted Nvidia chips into China in violation of American export rules. Alice Huang has not been charged, per Yahoo News.Major news outlets previously reported that Trump downplayed the warnings, including one from Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier this year.The New York Times reported that Trump called Huang on Tuesday, before the executive stepped down, and urged him to keep fighting for his job — even after intelligence agencies concluded Huang was having an affair with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy.The fallout has sparked open warfare inside the administration. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that four agencies — Treasury, the Pentagon, the State Department and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative — had pushed “for months” to add Megaspeed to the federal entity list, which restricts companies’ access to sensitive U.S. technology.“But Commerce has the pen,” Bessent said in a perceived swipe at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. “You will have to ask them about their internal processes.”Multiple Trump officials have accused Lutnick of slow-walking the move. A Lutnick spokesperson said he agreed to appear voluntarily before the Banking Committee on Capitol Hill.“It’s a feeding frenzy over Howard,” one senior administration official told Zeteo. “It’s well deserved, and not only for Nvidia.”Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday that neither the Justice Department nor FBI Director Kash Patel had reached conclusions about “who she is or is not.”

'This Is My First Time': Student Pilot Caught Midair During US Ground Stop, Audio Clip Viral

11/14/26 11:55 AM

A student pilot flying solo cross-country for the first time had to ask an air traffic controller what to do during the nationwide ground stop.

'Without Jensen Huang, Handshake Deals Will Be Lost': Musk Warns Nvidia

11/14/26 11:38 PM

According to Elon Musk, several of these arrangements depended heavily on Huang's personal relationships with suppliers rather than formal contracts. His exit, he suggested, could put those deals at risk.

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03/17/23 5:02 PM

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09/24/22 1:25 AM

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