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A Philippine trial court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Sara Duterte, in connection with charges against her for threatening the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and others. Duterte faces three counts of issuing “grave threats” against the president, his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos, and his cousin Martin Romualdez, who was speaker of the Philippine House at the time she made the threats in November 2024. -- snip -- During an online press conference in November 2024, Sara Duterte shocked the audience by declaring she had retained the services of an assassin to kill President Marcos, Jr.,...

Krakatau, the infamous volcano, just produced its largest explosive eruption since 1883. And this caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights, generated a massive eruption plume, and caused ash to fall across a wide area. Yet, how large is this eruption, and why might it have occurred? Today's video will attempt to answer these questions through the knowledge & analysis of a geologist.

Officials from the city of Dallas have canceled planned protest permits for the upcoming Republican Midterm Convention after requests from the Dallas Police Department, according to a local outlet. The one-hour long protest planned for September 10 had its special permitting revoked. Dallas Police claim that the recommendation for revocation came because they would have preferred to work directly with protest organizers “for a quicker process.” Event organizers claim that Dallas Police have repeatedly set meetings with organizers only to cancel moments before the meeting or to not show up altogether. Some organizers with the Dallas Against the Trump Agenda...

New York socialist congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier (D) is continuing to advocate for socialism, a leftist system that is threatening the United States. Her comments came as radical candidates in the Democrat Party are moving toward the midterm elections. Chevalier mentioned the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) while speaking during an interview Friday on ELR News with Kevin Ortega-Rojas. “I think with DSA specifically, something that I’m very excited to do is to build black socialism within the caucuses of DSA. And something that my team and I were very intentional about we’re making sure that we weren’t just...

The Arizona House Speaker is investigating the attorney general over evidence that she may have rigged her investigation to protect the governor. Speaker Steve Montenegro wrote a letter to Kris Mayes last Thursday challenging her on the result of her investigation into alleged pay-to-play by Gov. Katie Hobbs. Montenegro said the analysis published last month contained “serious deficiencies” that indicates Mayes had conducted her investigation in bad faith and for illegitimate purposes. “The Memorandum suggests that your Office failed to pursue critical issues and reached conclusions that directly conflict with reliable evidence — including information provided by the very witnesses...

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It’s only fitting that Gloria Steinem died the same week the personification of her existence faced a hung jury. “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Women have gone from demanding abortion to performing extremely late-term abortions at home, and they’re celebrated for it. It’s like the baby murder Olympics. Steinem died exactly as she wanted – alone, surrounded by people unrelated to her having cheerfully bragged of her abortion(s) and soon to be forgotten, as any leftist woman under 40 likely thinks he’s some kind of Zionist monster, based on her name. She outlived her rich husband of three years...

President Donald Trump has spent months trying to return the Kennedy Center to its former glory, and leftists have been trying to stop him at every turn. This week, the building did their work for them. A chunk of the Grand Foyer ceiling came crashing down onto the red carpet.I’m guessing that’s still not enough proof for Democrats that the place needs work.The collapse hit overnight into Thursday, after a powerful storm tore through Washington, D.C. Meteorologists say it was the strongest system to hit the city since the derecho that flattened trees and power lines back in 2012. This...

Strategic patience for the win? Iran's regime leaders thought they could force the US to buckle by strangling the global economy at the Strait of Hormuz. The US, however, has an actual blue-water navy, and that tends to matter in blockades involving a country entirely reliant on sea trade for its only valuable export economy. As the Wall Street Journal concedes, Donald Trump's Hormuz blockade is a lot less "leaky" than the IRGC's. And as Trump himself pointed out yesterday, the Strait may not matter for very much longer anyway:By squeezing the Strait of Hormuz, both the U.S. and Iran...

ICE spent months tracking down an MS-13 gang member known as “The Witch,” a convicted killer wanted in El Salvador for an execution-style murder. Now, ICE has been forced to set him free. U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta, a Biden appointee in California, ordered David Antonio Aviles Perez released from ICE custody after concluding that immigration authorities violated his due-process rights.Judge Ohta ruled that ICE erred by holding him for five months without an individualized determination of whether he posed a danger to the public or was likely to flee.A machete-wielding MS-13 executioner known as “the witch” has been cut...

A radical left abortion group founded and led by ex-Biden officials is coming under fire by Kentucky’s top law enforcement official after an “illegal” stunt advertising abortion pills at the state fair. New York-based Mayday Health was founded following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by former Biden White House Traveling Content Director Olivia Raisner, former Biden-Harris campaign speechwriter Sam Koppelman, and Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz. Last weekend, Mayday Health promoted the trafficking of abortion pills into the state, bypassing an existing law in Kentucky that bans the sale of the deadly drugs, Kentucky Today reports. The banner,...

Daily Readings from the USCCBTwenty-third Sunday in Ordinary TimeJesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.” Matthew 18:15When someone sins against us, especially in a grievous way, anger and condemnation can quickly arise as strong temptations. Our natural sense of justice often takes over, and we may find ourselves rationalizing a response rooted in judgment rather than compassion. In today’s Gospel, however, Jesus offers the much better path—to seek reconciliation, not division. The ultimate goal...

Back In 2020, Pew Research Center surveyed more than 11,000 Americans. Political scientist Zach Goldberg subsequently examined the underlying data and broke the results down by age, sex, race, and political ideology.What he found was rather remarkable.Among white women ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal, 56.3% reported that a doctor or other health-care provider had diagnosed them with a mental health condition.\Not 15%.Not 25%.Fifty-six percent.For white moderate women of the same age, the number was 28.4%.For white conservative women, 27.3%.In other words, young white liberal women were more than twice as likely as their conservative counterparts to report...

The tragic and terrifying Himalayan flash flood was caused by a chunk of mountain collapsing into a narrow gorge, sending a tsunami of mud and rock that gathered mass as it shot down the steep Trisuli river valley. More than that is not yet clear. Did a breakaway hanging glacier take a rock face with it or was it the other way round? Was there time for the debris to dam the valley and form a lake that burst or did the 60-metre flood of mud come from ice, river water, rock and soil that accumulated in the valley as...

Dr. John BergsmaI don’t like personal conflict. I try to avoid it as much as possible. Probably most Americans do. I’m not sure what it’s like in other cultures, although I’ve heard of others where open social confrontation is more common. This Sunday’s readings deal with situations in which Christians have a duty to confront one another. They don’t make for comfortable reading in a culture that puts a high value on keeping the peace and minding one’s own business. The First Reading is the great “Watchman” passage from the prophet Ezekiel: Reading 1: Ezekiel 33:7-9Thus says the LORD: You,...

For years, one of the most visible consequences of transgender policies has played out in women's sports. Female athletes have watched biological males enter their competitions, stand on podiums, occupy roster spots and, in some cases, enter spaces once reserved exclusively for women. Whatever one's position on transgender issues, the conflict has forced society to confront an uncomfortable question: What happens when the interests of people who identify as transgender collide with protections created specifically for women? But there is another group of women caught in that collision who receive considerably less public attention. They are women in prison. And...

US President Donald Trump's top negotiators have met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as efforts to end the war in Ukraine gather pace. Footage released by the Kremlin showed Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner being greeted by Putin, who said the current situation "is not so easy". Witkoff thanked Putin for agreeing with Ukraine to halt strikes on each other's capitals for three days. On Sunday the envoys will travel to Kyiv for more talks - their first such visit to Ukraine's capital. On Friday, Trump said Witkoff and Kushner were "bringing with them a proposal to end the...

The Presidential Election year budget in France to be considered in the coming months with opinion polling this week pushing the notion of public support for cutting spending. The opinion poll conducted by the government itself with 40 percent respondents speaking of France's current financial situation as "very worrying'. That is up five percent from January... South Korea's President Lee Jae Myung on a four-day visit to France starting tomorrow. President Lee and French President Emmnuel Macron discussing security and economic connections between France and South Korea... France's increasingly confrontational stance towards China reflected in the new rules imposing fees...

An MS-13 gang member convicted in a savage execution-style murder is out of federal custody in California after a federal judge ordered his immediate release, igniting fury from the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta ordered the release of David Antonio Aviles Perez, 35, aka "the witch," after finding that immigration officials held him for five months without giving him a bond hearing or determining whether he posed a danger to the public or a flight risk. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin accused the Biden-appointed judge of putting the public in danger by ordering Aviles Perez’s...

No. 16 Michigan avoided an upset loss to Western Michigan on Saturday night with a little help from instant replay.Bryce Underwood hit JJ Buchanan for an incredible Hail Mary as time expired for a 13-12 win. The pass came after the ball was snapped with one second left after Underwood's previous Hail Mary appeared to fall incomplete with no time remaining.After a short review, a second was added back to the clock. And then Buchanan made the catch.NBC's numerous replays of the first Hail Mary showed that the ball was not close to touching a Western Michigan player who had...