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Washington was rocked in early October with the revelation that the Biden administration, by way of Jack Smith’s investigation into the 2020 election, had ordered the FBI to seize data from the cell phones of eight Republican senators and congressmen. Over the past month, revelations about Smith’s operation, codenamed “Arctic Frost,” worsened. More individuals, including Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz and even President Donald Trump himself, were targeted. As were conservative organizations like Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and the America First Policy Institute – the latter of which didn’t even exist in 2020. Plus, it turned out District Judge...

President Trump and his administration on Wednesday ramped up a pressure campaign on congressional Republicans who are pushing for a full release of the Justice Department’s files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, rushing to head off a House vote on the matter. Top officials met in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday with Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of the files. She was summoned to sit down with top Justice Department and F.B.I. officials, according to two people familiar with...

A Venezuelan migrant working at a Chicago construction site has been detained on attempted murder charges after allegedly attacking a coworker with a running concrete saw, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said 26-year-old Augustin Gomes Granadillo got into an argument with a 30-year-old coworker at a job site in the 1200 block of South Kedvale Avenue on June 23. The altercation began as a verbal disagreement that escalated when Gomes allegedly picked up a shovel and swung it at the victim, a Chicago police report said. He then used a concrete block to hit him in the stomach before grabbing a...

The Georgia State Election Board will pay $50,000 to a nonprofit organization that sued the board over access to open records. American Oversight said Wednesday it settled a Fulton County Superior Court lawsuit filed in 2024 over claims that board member Janice Johnston had "significantly delayed responses to our public records requests." The lawsuit alleged that Johnston, vice chairwoman of the board, stopped election board attorneys from accessing her email to obtain public records held in her Gmail account. Johnston and other election board members used Gmail to correspond, according to the lawsuit. The settlement, provided by the organization, requires...

https://babylonbee.com/news/banks-now-requiring-your-grandkids-to-co-sign-your-50-year-mortgage U.S. — Banks across the United States announced today that they would now require an applicant's grandkids to co-sign on a 50-year mortgage "just in case." "You never know what might happen if you're signing a 50-year mortgage and you're 55 years old," National Banking Association Spokesperson Craig Jensen told the media. "We're going to start requiring every applicant to have their grandkids present to co-sign on the loan in case anything… happens… if you know what I mean. Dead. Death. I'm referring to death." The banks made the announcement after President Donald Trump earlier this week floated the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Revolutionary Becomes a MartyrAbove: photo of the dead during the Ten Tragic Days, part of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Brigadier General Manuel Reyes Nava (1887-1927) initially joined the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), in 1912, serving alongside his brother Colonel Gabino Reyes Nava (?-1988), directly under the authority of another brother, Major General Valentin Reyes Nava (1884-1923), who led the 2nd Southern Division of the Liberation Army of the South, commanded by the handsome and...

For more than half a century, Delaware stood as America’s corporate capital, renowned for its business-friendly laws, respected Chancery Court, and consistent legal rulings. But in recent years, leftist activist lawmakers and politicized judges have undermined that very foundation, sparking an exodus of major companies seeking stability and fairness to more welcoming states like Texas and Nevada. On Wednesday morning, Coinbase joined the growing exodus, announcing on its website and in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal that it is moving its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas. “For decades, Delaware was known for...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly slurred a federal judge by name, echoing President Trump's history of diatribes against judges even before the current Democrat started copying the former Democrat's social media style and insulting nicknames. The perceived contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president may cluck his tongue again when he sees the latest order from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in a lawsuit against The Golden State's alleged mandate on school districts to hide from parents their children's asserted gender identity at odds with sex. The President George W. Bush nominee ordered state Attorney General Rob Bonta...

That climate is a-changin'! The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels https://t.co/mtZqDdQwce pic.twitter.com/37bikEYbXU— New York Post (@nypost) November 12, 2025I get it. It's a New York Post link. It's supposed to be clickbaity. But this is a real study published in Communications Earth & Environment that was conducted by researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and the University of California, San Diego. Per the new findings, the at-risk current in question is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC, a 'conveyor belt...

A staff member from Senator Tammy Duckworth’s office allegedly signs official documents while falsely claiming to be the attorney representing an illegal immigrant (Credit: ICE) A staffer for Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth was caught posing as a lawyer to help free an illegal immigrant from ICE custody in East St. Louis, Illinois. The Department of Homeland Security is demanding answers after Duckworth’s staffer, Edward York, misrepresented himself to federal agents as legal counsel for Jose Ismeal Ayuzo Sandoval, a four-time deported illegal alien with a prior DUI conviction. According to a letter from the DHS, York entered the ICE facility...

Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in to the House Wednesday after a record 50-day wait, vowing to immediately join an effort to disclose files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Grijalva had expressed no special interest in the Epstein case prior to her Sept. 23 election. But she became intertwined in the fate of a bipartisan effort to disclose Justice Department files related to the disgraced financier after it became clear she could provide the final necessary signature on a discharge petition forcing a House vote on the matter.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR released official start times and networks for the 2026 season for its three national series. FOX kicks off the NASCAR Cup Series season at Bowman Gray Stadium (Sunday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m. ET). Its first FS1 events are Daytona 500 Qualifying (Wednesday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. ET) and the Daytona Duel (Thursday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m. ET) that set the field for the Daytona 500 on FOX (Sunday, Feb. 15, 2:30 p.m. ET).

For over three months, the U.S. military has repeatedly struck boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, claiming that the vessels were intending to carry drugs into the United States. Since the first attack was announced on Sept. 2, these strikes have occurred nearly every week, killing dozens of people. NPR compiled a list of these boat attacks using posts on Truth Social and X by President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. These posts show grainy video footage of vessels being blown up. The administration has not publicly released further evidence that the boats were actually carrying drugs...

Gio Benitez, Openly Gay ABC News Weekend Anchor, Joins Catholic Church and Reaffirms Faith with Husband by His Side“I found the Ark of the Covenant in my heart, stored there by the one who created me … exactly as I am," Benitez wroteNEED TO KNOWGio Benitez, an openly gay ABC News anchor, joined a Catholic church in New York City and celebrated his confirmation mass on social mediaHe said that the special moment was partly inspired by learning more about the late Pope Francis's "legacy of inclusivity"Benitez's husband, Tommy DiDario, served as his sponsorGio Benitez, an ABC News anchor who...

Explanation: Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the hunting dogs, Canes Venatici. A popular target for earth-based astronomers, the face-on spiral galaxy is about 30,000 light-years across, with spiral arms sweeping through the outskirts of its broad disk. But this Hubble Space Telescope field of view spans about 7,000 light-years or so across M94's central region. The sharp close-up examines the galaxy's compact, bright nucleus and prominent inner dust lanes, surrounded by a remarkable bluish ring of young, massive stars. The massive stars in the ring are all likely...

The US Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to require all new passports to display an individual's biological sex at birth, for now. The conservative-majority court on Thursday froze an order from a lower court in Massachusetts that had stopped the US government from changing its policy, while the legal process played out. "Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth," the court said. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order recognising only two sexes, leading the US to issue passports with just male or...

FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday that China would cease manufacturing fentanyl precursors, which are the chemicals used to create the opioid that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans over the past decade. During a press conference, Patel told reporters that the Trump administration has “been fighting hard to seize and stop drug traffickers,” which means it “must attack fentanyl precursors, the ingredients necessary to make this lethal drug.” The director explained that addressing this issue was the impetus behind his visit to China. Eliminating these chemicals would “suffocate the drug trafficking organization’s ability to manufacture fentanyl in...

Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman was one of the victims in a carjacking spree in Minneapolis on Monday night, police said Tuesday. Council member carjacked What we know: In a statement early Tuesday morning, Council member Osman said he was parked in his car in the area of East Lake Street and Portland Avenue around 8 p.m., making a call to his sister, when he was robbed. Police said Osman was threatened with mace and the suspects stole his Volkswagen Atlas. Osman says he wasn't hurt during the confrontation and added he was told the suspects were involved in...

In the city of Al-Fashir, Sudan, innocent civilians have been killed in such numbers that blood is visible in satellite images. A video comes from a hospital: dozens upon dozens of civilian corpses, inside and out, and the few survivors who are gasping and have now been executed. Entire neighborhoods leveled, villages erased, and tens of thousands of people dead-by bullets or by hunger in the desert. The Islamist militias have turned civil war into a theater of extermination. In Al-Fashir, Christians have been “hunted down and executed,” explains the NGO International Christian Concern. “They came into our village shouting...

Joe Lavorgna, counselor to Treasury Secretary Bessent, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the state of the government shutdown, what a reopened government will do to the economy and much more.