After Raisi’s Death, Elections Pose Tricky Test for Iran’s Rulers

Elon Musk, one of Donald Trump's biggest allies, criticized the first "SNL" episode after the election.

The daughter of second gentleman Douglas Emhoff was seen crying during the vice president's concession speech at Howard University.

The incident occurred on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazis ordered violent anti-Semitic attacks on Jews and their homes, synagogues and businesses.

The Carolina Panthers hung on to defeat the New York Giants on Sunday as the two teams squared off in Munich. Carolina won in overtime, 20-17.

We're finally heading back to the ranch...

They were the ten words that sealed the comeback deal for Donald Trump.

Texas Tech football fans continued their tradition of throwing tortillas on the field at Jones-Casey Stadium Saturday.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that his experience in business would make him an ideal candidate to lead Republicans in the Senate.

The Future Soldier Prep Course was started to provide additional instruction for recruits who couldn’t meet the Army’s physical and academic standards.

The more-than-a-century old federal holiday each Nov. 11 honors America's veterans. Most public agencies, including schools, post offices and local governments are closed.

A baby goat that found itself stuck for days on a cliff in Hawaii has been rescued by a group of volunteers.

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds dismantled Democrat "lies" concerning President-elect Donald Trump's upcoming administration, including claims that Trump has an "enemies list."

Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt criticized Democratic governors for warning Trump that they would push back against his agenda should it infringe upon their states.

The music industry is wary of this new technology, but country star Randy Travis’s comeback (and his new AI-generated song) has people seeing possibilities.

"Venom: The Last Dance" holds strong in its third week, with the thriller "Heretic" and "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" rounding out the box office top spots

Toy dolls made by Mattel in promotion with the upcoming film "Wicked," link to a pornographic website on the packaging.

A travel advisor and military spouse shares the importance of vacations for military families as travel companies offer deals to honor American heroes ahead of Veterans Day 2024.

Dutch police have set up a haunting hologram displaying the image of slain sexworker Bernadett “Betty” Szabó, who asks residents for help in solving her 2009 cold case murder in Amsterdam's Red Light District.

New York Attorney General Letitia James vowed to continue legally pursuing President-elect Donald Trump after his massive victory last week.

A massive drone strike has rattled Moscow and its suburbs, injuring several people and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia’s busiest airports.

France and Israel are playing in a UEFA Nations League match on Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron will attend.

Emilio Gonzalez was in the second round of Mexico’s World Wide Technology Championship on Friday when the issue arose. 

A liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris to replace US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor while the Democrats still cling to power.

There's more than one way to play.

After some much-needed rain tonight that hopefully will stop the D.C. region’s record dry streak, Veterans Day should clear and dry out.

Restaurant-watchers might be stunned by Monday’s opening of Aqua New York, a block-long leviathan at 920 Broadway between East 20th and 21st streets. If they never heard of it, it’s because it hid in plain sight during more than 18 months of construction, with no advance publicity or social media hype. The two-level Aqua spans...

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the party "to have a vision on building new factories, on helping raise minimum wage, on dealing with child care, and emphasize that our party has a better economic story", Neel Kashkari, the president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that another interest rate cut after the December Fed meeting is "certainly possible", and Karen Pierce, Britain's ambassador to the U.S., tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," that amid the world reaction to President-elect Trump's return to the White House, "it's for any single European leader to say what President Trump might do."

A New York parks employee died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality warnings in both states, authorities said Sunday.

That's despite critics asserting there is no direct medical evidence that crack pipe giveaways stop the spread of disease.

Rep. Ro Khanna said Democrats "need to be emphasizing the economic issues" after bruising defeats in the 2024 election.

The couple, who separated in 2016, put on a united front as they stepped out to dinner at Crossroads Kitchen in Calabasas, Calif., on Thursday.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has shaken eastern Cuba after weeks of hurricanes and blackouts that have left many on the island reeling.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has shaken eastern Cuba after weeks of hurricanes and blackouts that have left many on the island reeling

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Sen. Bill Hagerty and Rep. Ro Khanna join Margaret Brennan.

The Marines announced on Saturday that Sasaki, who turned 23 last week, will be posted this offseason.

Voters gave America’s rudest man permission to return to the White House; what else have they given permission to? Michael Che has one idea. “So y’all gonna let a man with 34 felonies lead the free world and be the president of the United States?” he asked during last night’s “Weekend Update.” “That’s it. I’m listening to R. Kelly again.”The joke captured a feeling that’s been circulating in America ever since last Tuesday’s election: silver-lining nihilism, a relief that we can stop trying to be good. Kamala Harris lost probably because of the economy, but the Republican campaign did effectively leverage widespread exhaustion with identity politics, inclusive speech, and perhaps even civility itself. Some of Trump’s supporters have celebrated by crowing vileness such as “Your body, my choice.” Some of Harris’s fans have openly denigrated the minorities who voted for Trump.Eesh. But if this is, as my colleague Thomas Chatterton Williams posted on X, the “post-woke era,” then perhaps at least comedy—the entertainment form that’s grouched the most about progressive piety—will be funnier now. Maybe someone will channel the spirit of Joan Rivers in her prime, turning nastiness into a high art. But judging from last night’s SNL, we will not be so lucky.The episode’s host, the comedian Bill Burr, seemed well positioned to interpret Trump’s win. With his Boston accent and stubbled beard, he has long drawn upon his white-working-class bona fides to critique both sides of the partisan divide. When he hosted SNL shortly before the 2020 presidential election, he mocked wokeness in a somewhat sneaky way: By accusing white women and gay people of hijacking the posture of oppression from people of color, he in effect co-opted the logic of intersectionality to call out its own excesses. Whether you were offended or amused by his monologue, it at least had a point.Last night, however, Burr just seemed ornery. He opened with a promise to avoid talking about the election, and then said he’d just gotten over the flu. When you’re sick, he observed, you lie awake “just going through this Rolodex of people that coughed on you. Sniffled near ya. Walked by an Asian or something.” Smattered chuckles. “You try to fight it. You’re like, ‘They say on the internet that’s where all the disease comes from.’” Almost no laughs.Eventually he got to the election. “All right, ladies you’re oh-and-two against this guy,” he said, referring to Harris’s and Hillary Clinton’s losses to Trump. “Ladies, enough with the pantsuit, okay? It’s not working. Stop trying to have respect for yourselves. You don’t win the office, like, on policy, you know? You gotta whore it up a little.” He added, “I know a lot of ugly women—feminists, I mean—don’t want to hear this message.”Maybe in those oh-so-woke times a week ago, I’d feel compelled to spell out how repeating stereotypes about Asian people and reducing women to their looks effectively makes life harder for Asian people and women. Other pundits would have then defended Burr on the grounds that he’s mocking his own racism and America’s sexism. Let’s skip all that and agree that Burr’s attempt to push the line of acceptability led him to bomb in a way that was horrible to watch. He created the same sucking feeling that Tony Hinchcliffe did when he made an arena of MAGAs groan at the idea that Puerto Rico is floating garbage. There’s no wit, no passion, no aha to this kind of comedy. It’s just guys flailing about for a reaction.To be fair, Burr might have just been tired. This election cycle “took forever,” even though most voters made up their mind long ago, he complained. Their choices were two “polar opposite” candidates: “It’s like, ‘Let’s see. What does the orange bigot have to say? How about the real-estate agent that speaks through her nose?’” (“Orange bigot”—is this The View in 2015?)The rest of the episode was a bit better than the monologue. Burr’s presence pushed the writers to focus on sketches about masculinity, an apt subject given the role that male voters played in the election. A segment in which young guys tried to get their dads to open up about their feelings by talking about sports and cars was oddly touching. A bit featuring a self-pitying bro at group therapy was amusingly deranged. In the edgiest sketch, Burr played a fire fighter with a fetish involving children’s cartoons, leading SNL to air an image of the dad from Bluey in a ball gag. Was this post-woke Hollywood vulgarity or what comedy’s always been—the search for surprise?The truth that SNL and the culture at large must now wrestle with is this: Trump may be back in office after four years away, but the world only turns forward. Wokeness has not been some fad; it hasn’t even been a movement that can be defeated. It’s been, as the term itself implies, an awakening—reshaping how people think about the relationship between the words they use and the society they live in. The case it made was so persuasive that it altered the English language likely forever. It also spread shame and overreached in a way that created backlash—but that backlash will cause cultural changes that build off what we just lived through, not reverse it entirely. The way to fully get back to a pre-woke time would be through actual Orwellian fascism. SNL isn’t counting that possibility out. Last night opened with the cast members speaking to the camera, telling Trump that they’d supported him all along, that they shouldn’t be on an enemies list, and that they’ll help him hunt down any colleagues who voted for Harris. Their tone was light but the satire was dark, highlighting the way that leaders—in politics, media, and business—who were once critical of Trump have taken to flattering him out of fear of retribution. The sketch anticipated a future that would make recent speech wars look quaint. But for now, as for long before, we can say what we want to say, not only what we think we should say.

Neel Kashkari, the president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that another interest rate cut after the December Fed meeting is "certainly possible" but "we want to have confidence that inflation is going to go all the way back down to our 2% target."

Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, who served in the first Trump administration as ambassador to Japan, told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," that after President-elect Donald Trump's victory, the "entire environment is shifting right now" on a Israeli hostage deal.

Transgender player Blaire Fleming is steadily breaking women's volleyball records at San Jose State, a report says. The post San Jose State Transgender Volleyball Player Continues Breaking Women’s Records appeared first on Breitbart.

Passengers on the Villa Vie Odyssey can visit 140 countries during their four-year voyage.

“Data” at Arena Stage examines the fallible human beings behind the algorithms.

A man has been arrested after three people were attacked in a London market on Sunday, leaving two injured and one dead. The post Stabbing Spree in London Market Leaves One Dead, Two Injured appeared first on Breitbart.

Sen. Bernie Sanders defended criticism of the Democratic Party and rejected Rep. Nancy Pelosi's pushback, saying the working class has a right to be angry.

"It’d turn [the] tables on Trump, keep Kamala from presiding over Jan. 6 make it easier for next woman to run."

The plane, bound for the Chinese city of Shenzhen with 249 passengers and 16 crew members, landed safely after dumping fuel over the sea.

Black and Latino voters moved toward Republican Donald Trump in this year's presidential election, and some of the biggest shifts were among men under 45.

Hollywood star Michael Douglas has admitted albeit grudgingly that Republicans under President-elect Donald Trump are now the "party of the people" while Democrats are now seen as "elitist." The post Michael Douglas Admits Republicans Under Trump Are Now ‘Party of the People’ While Democrats Are ‘Elitists’ appeared first on Breitbart.

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