Update on the San Diego-based Navy sailor who allegedly sold fentanyl that led to shipmate's death Also, NCIS investigative records obtained in a FOIA request show that USS Abraham Lincoln personnel were being questioned about drug usage months before that sailor died from an overdose in 2023

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We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus.

by Bill Ackman

Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat.

“If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

The part that's surprising to me is that there were two Navy sailors on the USS Lincoln who overdosed in a 10-day span, including the one who died, and it doesn't seem any of it was ever made public. NCIS was also investigating "drug distribution activities on the USS Abraham Lincoln" more broadly

U.S. Navy sailor charged with selling fentanyl that led to the death of his USS Abraham Lincoln shipmate, federal complaint says The complaint, filed in the Southern District of California, accuses the sailor of regularly selling pills to other Navy sailors, including ones tainted with fentanyl

Buried on PACER today: A Navy sailor is being charged with selling the fentanyl that led to the January 2023 overdose death of one of his shipmates on the USS Abraham Lincoln, based in San Diego

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That’s what they’re trying to figure out

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against approximately two dogs.

Rep. Smith: "We always seem to miss something, and I'm very concerned that we're missing something here." Said police in NJ saw about 50 drones off the shore

Rep. Gonzalez: "madness" that we don't know more publicly about the drones in New Jersey

Jones: Small quantities of drugs have been smuggled using drones, but overall "from a cost model" it's an inefficient way to move product into the U.S.

Pfluger: What is the threat to the southern border (i.e., cartel use of drones)?

Keith Jones, CBP: countersurveillance is the biggest threat, drone use to monitor law enforcement operations

Rep. Pfluger: "What is going on in New Jersey?"

Robert Wheeler, FBI: FBI is "actively investigating"; "don't have an answer" for who's responsible.

NJ senator calls for limited state of emergency as drone mystery deepens Sightings of the buzzing drones over New Jersey communities have been reported for weeks, prompting the attention of not only local law enforcement but also the FBI. This week, Staten Island became a ...

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) also in attendance given the recent headlines

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Committee on Homeland Security about to discuss "unmanned aerial systems." Supposed to start at 11 PST, currently in a delay

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Comet, Aldebaran and Mars over Stonehenge ✨💫☄️

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

Trial dates set for two San Diego Border Patrol agents who allegedly helped smuggle drugs through the Tecate and Otay Mesa ports of entry A federal judge also rejected a motion by one of the defendants to be released from pre-trial detention, agreeing with concerns about public safety and flight risk

A trial has been scheduled April 21-25, 2025 for two Border Patrol agents who allegedly worked with drug traffickers to bring fentanyl, cocaine, meth, etc., across the U.S./Mexico border at the Tecate and Otay Mesa ports of entry in San Diego County.

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Video appears to show moment border patrol SUV strikes migrant at US-Mexico border New video shows what appears to be a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) SUV colliding with a person at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego.

And yet when I tried to FOIA border patrol vehicle collisions, they sent me a spreadsheet with 18 pages of “unknown” deaths and injuries

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Your regular reminder that spending the night on a sidewalk should not be only way to watch, in real time, the institution that heads up 1/3 of our federal government.

Asylum seekers in the U.S. are suing the federal government due to long delays in the application process Applicants in several cases fled their home countries to avoid persecution based on factors such as sexual orientation and 'oppositional political activities.' Now they're asking the courts for help

I wrote this 1year ago and I’ll be coming out with an update soon on where these cases stand. They all involve asylum seekers who wanted to avoid being deported back into their home countries due to potentially life-threatening situations that they could face

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Live Q&A: South Korea’s Martial Law Move Jolts Markets, Stuns World What's next for South Korea? Bloomberg reporters answers readers' questions

🎙️ HAPPENING NOW: What’s next for South Korea after its martial law move stunned the world?

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Trump lawyers file papers to request dismissal of hush-money case Move comes after Judge Juan Merchan decided to indefinitely postpone president-elect’s sentencing

Trump’s lawyers argue that having the case loom over his four-year presidential term that begins on 20 January would cause “unconstitutional impediments” to his ability to govern.

Del Mar’s fifth council seat to remain vacant until 2026 The Del Mar City Council will only have four members for the next two years after a third stalemate Nov. 18 over how to fill the seat vacated by Dwight Worden’s resignation in September. Worden’s r…

Del Mar will only have four council member over the next two years, which could have implications on key housing decisions that would require a 4/5 supermajority

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Trump wanted to ban TikTok. Will his return to office help save it? With Donald Trump as president, will Chinese tech giant ByteDance still be forced to sell its ownership in TikTok? Here are some possible scenarios of what might happen.

With Donald Trump as president, will Chinese tech giant ByteDance still be forced to sell its ownership in TikTok? Here are some possible scenarios of what might happen.

2 men found guilty in Minnesota in deadly border crossing case Jurors started deliberations at 10:40 a.m. on Friday after hearing more than three days of evidence.

A jury convicted two men on all counts for their roles in a human smuggling network that arranged the passage of a family of four migrants who ultimately froze to death.

State ethics watchdog says conflict of interest allegation against Del Mar council member ‘has been disproven’ The state’s political ethics watchdog closed a conflict of interest investigation into Del Mar Councilmember Terry Gaasterland without further action, according to a Nov. 6 letter. The Fair Politic…

The FPPC had been investigating an anonymous complaint alleging that a Del Mar council member voted for a beach access point because it was close to her home. The reality wasn't quite that straightforward; the commission recently closed the investigation

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How coastal North County voted in the presidential election Donald Trump won Rancho Santa Fe en route to another term in the White House, but the rest of coastal North County mostly went blue, based on Election Day results counted as of Nov. 7. Those result…

Except for Rancho Santa Fe, a lot of support for Kamala Harris throughout San Diego's north coastal communities

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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

NEW: UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.

HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models Some nonfiction backlist titles will be used to train artificial intelligence with authors’ permission Publisher HarperCollins will allow some of its titles to be used to train AI models, with the permission of authors. The company “has reached an…

HarperCollins to allow tech firms to use its books to train AI models

What they did give me was 18 pages of this. They know the dates that the collisions happened, but not the time, location or if anyone was injured or killed.