News National Guard patrol the Washington Mall, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, on Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo / Rahmat Gul)  By The Associated Press  January 12, 2026 at 4:30am WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside […]

Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers took his shot, but the reaction was as loud as the clanging of the rim. Two days after Renee Good was killed in Minneapolis after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot at the vehicle occupied by Good — who had been mocking and trash-talking ICE agents before entering her vehicle, […]

Top O’ the Briefing Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is spending a few weeks in a restorative mud bath.)  Obviously, I must begin by thanking Kevin and Sarah for brilliantly taking care of things here […]

NEW YORK — Mattel Inc. is introducing an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to make its fashion dolls more […]

President Donald Trump has had a lot to say about Cuba this weekend, and it sounds like he’s getting pretty serious about confronting the regime there and attempting to liberate the people from the decades of communism that have turned it from one of those most developed nations to a third world country.  […]