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NOW - Trump says 600,000 Chinese students coming to the U.S. is a pro-MAGA stance because "you would have half the colleges in the United States go out of business... I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else."

The US Navy already has at least 13 surface warships and a nuclear-powered submarine operating in the region. What's Going on? Venezuela has been on tenterhooks for weeks, waiting as the United States gathers an armada of warships. The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford , looks likely to arrive in the Caribbean from the Mediterranean early next week to join the assortment of destroyers, frigates, amphibious assault vessels and a nuclear-powered submarine. No one seems to know exactly what this magnificent display of American naval firepower is all about. Has it been sent to destroy the...

Comrades wanted! A new advocacy group pushing Zohran Mamdani’s tax-and-spend agenda is plotting to recruit thousands of the mayor-elect’s star-struck supporters to join the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The effort by the group Our Time for an Affordable NY could potentially triple or quadruple the membership of the powerful left-wing DSA chapter. “We got more than 100,000 volunteers involved in this campaign, and we want as many of them as possible to join DSA,” Jeremy Freeman., executive director of the group, said in a leaked recording of a post-election DSA chapter meeting last week. “If...

In the wake of a measles outbreak in Canada that has infected thousands of people over the past year, an international health agency revoked the country’s measles-free status on Nov. 10, 2025.The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the World Health Organization’s regional office for the Americas, made this announcement after the agency’s measles elimination commission met in Mexico City to review the latest public health data.As a global health epidemiologist who studies the spread of infectious diseases, this change in status does not surprise me. Measles is highly contagious, and a drop in childhood vaccination rates in Canada...

The event at UC Berkeley marks two months since Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in what authorities have described as a politically motivated attack during an appearance at Utah Valley University.

Democrats are seething after news emerged on Sunday that eight members of their Senate caucus had collaborated with Republicans on crafting a compromise to end the longest government shutdown in US history, without winning any healthcare concessions that they had sought. But one name is coming in for more opprobrium than any other: Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who had led the Democrats’ weeks-long stand against reopening the government without an extension of tax credits that lower premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans. If the results of the crucial Sunday vote are any indication, the outcome Democrats...

Although a general election is not likely until 2029—a lifetime in political terms—the latest opinion polls show that British politics are becoming ever more fragmented. Over the past year support has haemorrhaged away from Labour under Sir Keir Starmer, the prime minister, with the primary beneficiary being Reform UK. A simple calculation based on uniform national swing suggests that if an election were held tomorrow Reform would have a one-in-five chance of winning a majority in the Commons. And if Reform banded together with the listless Conservatives, they would have a four-in-five chance of a majority. By contrast the centre-left...

For centuries, many European Christians have proudly declared that following Jesus means rejecting violence. But as Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine drags into its fourth year, even lifelong pacifists are beginning to ask whether peace can survive without the means to defend it.Christianity Today reports on a moral and theological shift taking place among Europe’s faithful.Alexander Maßmann, a Christian ethicist who used to oppose to military buildup, now admits, “We are simply faced with naked aggression. There must be some sort of deterrence. To keep the peace, we need security guarantees — and rearmament is helpful in that sense.” ChatGPT...

US president condemns broadcaster’s ‘reckless disregard for truth’ as he threatens legal action over doctoring of his speech Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£760m), accusing it of a “reckless disregard for the truth”.The US president turned the screw on the corporation as it was reeling from the resignation of director-general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness over the selective editing of Mr Trump’s speech on the day of the Capitol Hill riot.A senior official in the Trump administration suggested it “may consider” removing the BBC’s White House passes as a result of the...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~Veterans Day 2025Honoring our VeteransVeterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with holidays in several countries, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which also occur on the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.At the urging of major U.S....

House Select Subcommittee on January 6 Chairman Barry Loudermilk on Monday sent a letter to the Secret Service requesting transcribed interviews with Secret Service agents who were at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) before and after the mysterious pipe bomb was discovered prior to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. The FBI has been stumped over the suspect who placed the pipe bomb, who still remains unidentified, even after it dropped several surveillance videos of the suspect who was in a gray hoodie and wearing Nike Air Max Speed Turf sneakers and a mask. The FBI is also offering...

Asylum seekers living in hotels have reported rats, overcrowding and food so bad it leads to deficiencies, research has found. Profiting From People: Inside the UK’s Asylum Hotels, a report from the Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London (Ramfel), draws on work with 493 people housed in asylum hotels between January 2023 and February 2025. Asylum seekers reported overcrowded conditions, including families of six living in a single room.

Tuesday’s elections were another reminder that Donald Trump thinks big while voters think small. Call it macro versus micro.Trump negotiates peace in the Middle East and wields tariffs against China; most Americans negotiate with the grocery store clerk and worry about rent. The disconnect helps explain why Republicans keep losing ‘potentially’ winnable races. I say ‘potential’ because the big elections were in solid blue cities and states where the chances of a Republican victory were minuscule. Image generated by ChatGPTRepublicans, at least the MAGA wing, focus on the big picture -- restoring America’s global strength and national sovereignty. Democrats, by...

After socialist Zohran Mamdani won last week’s New York mayoral race, an upstate city has gone one better by electing a full-blown communist. Hannah Shvets, 20, a student organizer and member of the Communist Party USA, was elected to the Ithaca Common Council on Thursday in the Democratic stronghold’s Fifth Ward, which covers the western half of Cornell University’s campus in the city. Shvets, a Democrat and Cornell sophomore, defeated independent candidate and former Democratic primary hopeful G.P. Zurenda after winning the endorsement of groups that include Ithaca branch of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Ithaca Tenants Union....

Gov. Gavin Newsom is in Brazil for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP30, where he'll spend the week promoting California's clean air efforts and criticizing President Donald Trump. In São Paulo on Monday, while speaking at Milken Institute's Global Investors Symposium, Newsom repeatedly blasted the Trump administration for not even sending "a note-taker."

A second person who was removed to France under the government’s “one in, one out” deal has returned to the UK, the Home Office has confirmed. The unnamed man arrived back in the UK after joining nearly 400 people who crossed the Channel in small boats on Sunday. The Home Office said the person, whose age and nationality are yet to be disclosed, was detected by biometrics as one of the 94 people who had been removed from Britain under the UK-France treaty over the past two months. He was detained immediately and the department said he would be taken...

On November 8th, CCTV captured a group of armed individuals wearing construction worker's uniforms lay in wait for former mayoral candidate for El Tejar, Elías Ramírez in Guatemala. He was a former mayor candidate of the city and he was also a political activist and owned a large construction company that secured various projects of state contracts which allegedly used his connection and influence for these contracts. He is seen walking down a the road when five armed man with assault rifles disembark and indiscriminately shoot at him and subsequently his wife, as an overkill these armed persons unload their...

The best way to support Israel while being 100% America First is for Israel to be sovereign and to call for an end to all US aid to Israel. A country with financial handcuffs cannot make decisions to preserve itself and ensure its survival if their funding is dependent on taking orders. A sovereign Israel that never takes aid from the US can respond to its hostile Islamic neighbors anyway it sees fit.The beauty of that is that it’s no longer going to be America’s concern.When we eventually cut off all aid to Israel, we will also be able to...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he would oppose a package that would end the shutdown because it closes a loophole that has enabled the proliferation of widely available intoxicating hemp products, hurting a growing industry in his state. “I detest the tactics that are being used to try to get this ban enacted into law,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) told POLITICO. “Kentucky benefits from hemp production, and I fully support Senator Rand Paul’s efforts to strip the unrelated hemp ban from the Senate funding bill.” The new Senate language would restrict the amount of intoxicating cannabinoids that can be in...

One of four journalists recently fired by Condé Nast for confronting the company’s head of human resources is asking internet users for help covering his rent. Ex-senior writer for Wired Jake Lahut was seen in a Wednesday video clip standing feet away from HR boss Stan Duncan as angry employees confronted to exec over layoffs tied to Condé’s downsizing of Teen Vogue. The layoffs of Lahut and three others came just hours later. Lahut wrote on Spotfund that he’s seeking short-term help in the wake of his firing. “After getting terminated as one of the Fired Four at Condé Nast,...