- President Trump posted a doctored image on Truth Social showing the Obamas beside an Air Force One spray‑painted with graffiti, renewing controversy over his social media posts.
- The image follows a pattern of earlier doctored, racially charged posts about the Obamas that drew bipartisan backlash and calls for accountability.
- The plane motif is timely — Trump just debuted a newly repainted Air Force One — and the post comes as he prepares to travel to a NATO summit in Turkey.
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- Trump attacked New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan on Truth Social, calling their upcoming reporting “mostly made up” and criticizing Haberman personally.
- Excerpts from their book "Regime Change" claim officials discussed suspending habeas corpus and handling the Jeffrey Epstein scandal during a Situation Room meeting.
- Haberman and Swan refuse to say whether they had audio of the meeting, and some administration figures (including Vance) say they’re worried about possible recordings.
- Centuries before European newspapers, the Mughal empire ran a daily Persian "akhbarat" news network of scribes and agents sharing court reports, campaigns and gossip.
- Historian Munis D. Faruqui spent nearly 20 years in archives and found Aurangzeb was less austere than thought—his daughter Zinat-un-Nisa and the harem wielded real political clout.
- Huge, unindexed caches of these reports survive across India and Britain—difficult to mine but packed with untapped stories that could reshape Mughal history.
- Researchers reanalyzed tickling recordings of 13 captive great apes and compared them with children’s giggles, finding similar rhythmic timing that likely traces back to a common ancestor about 15 million years ago.
- Human laughter has become faster and more flexible—ranging from polite chuckles to full-bodied guffaws—so we’re basically the “masters of laughter.”
- The study offers a playful new clue about how communication and speech evolved and encourages more comparisons of laughter across other animals.
- EPA replaced desk phones with laptop "softphone" software; union says the 9‑1‑1 geolocation feature often fails — a recent San Francisco medical emergency was delayed though the person recovered.
- EPA and vendors say there’s no system‑wide malfunction and the incident is under investigation; companies blame settings or other contractors.
- Field workers complain they can’t mask personal numbers now, forcing privacy/operational headaches for inspections and outreach.
- Kaitlan Collins says she sometimes has to bite her tongue during interviews but largely keeps her composure so the interviewee stays the focus.
- She deliberately avoids becoming the story herself, prioritizing the subject’s voice even in tense moments.
- She weighed in on whether reporters will snap back at President Trump anytime soon — a point that invites debate about press conduct and confrontation.
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