[ABC] Michael Reagan, the son of former President Ronald Reagan, has died, his family announced on Tuesday.
He died on Sunday in Los Angeles while surrounded by his family, according to a statement from the Reagan family. He was 80 years old.
"Michael was and will always remain a beloved husband, father, and grandpa," the family said. "Our hearts are deeply broken as we grieve the loss of a man who meant so much to all who knew and loved him."
Michael Reagan, one of the former president's five children, was a conservative political commentator and nationally syndicated radio talk show host.
Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the president of the conservative student organization Young America's Foundation, said he was a "wonderful inspiration to so many of us."
"He did so much more than share stories about his father," Walker said in a statement. "He challenged the next generation to share the values he stood for throughout his public life. He called on them to be happy warriors in the battle to uphold the founding principles of our republic."
[IsraelTimes] Defendants posted ‘malicious comments’ about French first lady, falsely saying she’s male or calling her a pedophile, but several say they were joking; one gets 6 months in prison
It’s important to give clear signals when humour is intended, for those like me who are less subtle.
A Gay Paree court Monday found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying La Belle France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations she was born a man.
One defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, while eight were handed suspended sentences between four and eight months. All 10 were mandated to attend cyberbullying awareness training.
The court pointed to "particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious" comments referring to false claims regarding alleged trans identity and alleged pedophilic criminality targeting Brigitte Macron. "Repeated publications have had cumulative harmful effects," the court said.
The defendants, eight men and two women aged 41 to 65, were accused of having posted numerous comments falsely claiming that President Emmanuel Macron’s wife was born a man and likening their 24-year age gap to pedophilia. Some of the posts were viewed tens of thousands of times.
Brigitte Macron did not attend the two-day trial in October. Speaking on TF1 national television Sunday, she said she launched legal proceedings to "set an example" in the fight against harassment.
Her lawyer, Jean Ennochi, said Monday, "What is important is that there are immediate cyberbullying awareness trainings, and for some of the defendants, a ban on using their social media accounts."
Macron’s daughter, Tiphaine Auzière, testified about what she described as the "deterioration" of her mother’s life since the online harassment intensified. "She cannot ignore the horrible things said about her," Auzière told the court. She said the impact has extended to the entire family, including Macron’s grandchildren.
One of the defendants, a property asset manager, received a six-month prison sentence. Under French law, the sentence may be served at home, possibly while wearing an ankle monitor or following other requirements set by a judge.
Defendant Delphine Jegousse, 51, who is known as Amandine Roy and describes herself as a medium and an author, is considered to have played a major role in spreading the rumor after she released a four-hour video on her YouTube channel in 2021. She was given a 6-month prison sentence.
The X account of Aurélien Poirson-Atlan, 41, known as Zoé Sagan on social media, was suspended in 2024 after his name was cited in several judicial investigations. Poirson-Atlan was given an 8-month prison sentence, along with another defendant, a gallery owner.
The one defendant not given a prison sentence was a teacher, who apologized during the trial. He will have to attend the cyberbullying awareness training.
Several will see their online access suspended for six months on the social media where they made their posts.
The sentences were proportional to the seriousness of the comments, the court stressed.
French judicial authorities didn’t disclose the names of the defendants, but some made their names public by speaking out.
During the trial, several defendants told the court their comments were intended as humor or satire and said they did not understand why they were being prosecuted.
The case follows years of conspiracy theories falsely alleging that Brigitte Macron was born under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux, which is actually the name of her brother. The Macrons have also filed a defamation suit in the United States against conservative influencer Candace Owens.
The Macrons, who have been married since 2007, first met at the high school where he was a student and she was a teacher. Brigitte Macron, 24 years her husband’s senior, was then called Brigitte Auzière, a married mother of three.
Emmanuel Macron, 48, has been La Belle France’s president since 2017.
Fano Wogderes Tenaw gave an amazing speech to the 61 captured soldiers yesterday in Sinan District. The Fano forces, who knew about the movement of ENDF's 25th regiment from Debre Markos city to the Fano stronghold at Choke Birhan Mountain, encircled, attacked, and annihilated… pic.twitter.com/zUEOs23xzy
Fano Wogderes Tenaw gave an amazing speech to the 61 captured soldiers yesterday in Sinan District.
The Fano forces,
…originally a youth group/vigilante militia that became active in the 2010s for rampaging against ethnic neighbours on the way to fighting against the then-ruling Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which had ruled Ethiopia until the Abiy Ahmed government was elected a few years ago. Now the Amhara Fano appear to be fighting against the current government…
who knew about the movement of ENDF's
…the Ethiopian National Defense Force…
25th Regiment from Debre Markos city to the Fano stronghold at Choke Birhan Mountain, encircled, attacked, and annihilated them early on January 2. In the attack, 420 regime soldiers were killed and 137 were wounded.
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⚡️Over 420 regime soldiers killed and 61 captured as Fano forces neutralize entire unit in Choke Mountain, Sinan Woreda (📍East Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia).
— Amhara War Updates | የአማራ ጦርነት ወቅታዊ መረጃ (@AmharaWarUpdate) January 5, 2026
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⚡️Over 420 regime soldiers killed and 61 captured as Fano forces neutralize entire unit in Choke Mountain, Sinan Woreda (📍East Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia).
🔵 Fighting that began on January 2nd continued into January 3rd in the Choke Mountain area, where Fano forces engaged regime troops deployed to seize control of the strategic highlands. Over two days of sustained combat, Fano units reportedly overwhelmed and fully neutralized the regime force operating in the area.
🔵 According to reports, more than 420 regime soldiers were killed, including two battalion commanders and five captains, while over 61 soldiers were captured, among them two captains. The scale of losses indicates the complete collapse of the deployed regime unit.
🔵 Fano forces also seized a substantial cache of military equipment, including two mortars, four DShK HMGs, eight Bren LMGs, five sniper rifles, and 230 Kalashnikov rifles, marking one of the most significant battlefield losses for regime forces in East Gojjam in recent weeks.
[TMZ] Open-source tracking data and spotters on the ground are showing a sudden surge of U.S. aircraft to Europe. The deployments include C-17 Globemaster III cargo jets, possibly packed with helicopters, emanating from the home of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), AC-130J Ghostrider gunships, and a shadowy special operations turboprop aircraft. While U.S. aircraft routinely transit to and through that continent, the number of flights and their origin have raised speculation of potential future special operations missions in the region, and that speculation could be well founded.
The deployments of these aircraft increasingly seem like they are in support of a future operation to board the Russian-flagged Crude Oil Tanker Marinera, which until recently has been known as the Bella-1, and has been pursued by the Coast Guard since last month. CBS News on Monday afternoon reported that the U.S. will likely try to intercept the vessel, now in the North Atlantic. We’ll discuss that more later, including why the 160th SOAR may be needed for such an operation, in this story.
[Ynet] In a late-night vote Monday, the Knesset passed a significant amendment to its Contract Law, overturning a decades-old legal precedent that gave judges broad discretion in interpreting contracts.
The move marks a major shift in Israeli contract law, aligning it more closely with a textual approach that prioritizes the written language of agreements over broader contextual interpretation. In all Western Democracies judges have a lot of power - and, in all Western Democracies, they're abusing that power.
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[World Net] 'If it turns out there is something there, and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win'
While his theology still may have some nuances, "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, who has been living under a sentence of death from cancer, has released a video confirming that he is adopting the Christian faith.
Long expressing a belief in atheism, Adams became famous among "free-thinking" people for his cartoon series and comments.
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A minister once told us the problem with deathbead conversions is that the patient might recover.
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I've never heard anything that said Scott Adams ever led a non-christian-purposed-life, even if he wasn't an organized religion follower. I believe that is what God looks for, and Pascal's Wager is indeed a valid play
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
