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U.S. President Donald Trump declined to provide Ukraine with 300 Patriot interceptor missiles that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had requested to defend the country against Russian attacks this winter, The Atlantic reported on July 30. Instead, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump offered Kyiv a license to produce its own interceptors domestically — though large-scale production could reportedly take years. The Atlantic's report did not specify exactly when Zelenskyy made the request to Trump. According to an analysis by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the war in Iran has depleted U.S. Patriot interceptor...

New details were released Friday, including the identities of both suspects and the victim connected to a violent kidnapping that ended with the deaths of the victim and one of the suspects in Chino Hills late Wednesday night. Investigators said 60-year-old Shukur Aikebaer stepped outside his home in the 2100 block of Monteverde Drive around 10:15 p.m. to inspect the home’s electrical panel after service to the residence was interrupted. That’s when the two suspects, identified as 67-year-old Zhengfeng Bo and 66-year-old Jianquan Bo, allegedly shot and kidnapped Aikebaer, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Authorities said the...

Widely circulated video showed thousands of Moroccans storming a Spanish outpost in North Africa. The White House condemned Spain as weak on immigration. ROME — The sudden arrival of a massive group of migrants at a Spanish exclave in North Africa triggered a fresh wave of political attacks against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on both sides of the Atlantic, as voices from the right in Spain, Germany, Italy and France, with the White House joining in, lashed out against Europe’s leading liberal in office. Spanish officials said nearly 50,000 migrants rushed the Spanish territory over the past 24 hours, swimming...

Nearly six months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, investigators released the full contents of a ransom note and a follow up investigators believe may contain clues that someone familiar with the alleged kidnappers may recognize. Law enforcement is urging the public to look at the linguistic patterns of the notes. Authorities said the messages feature “distinctive patterns of word choice, syntax, and phraseology” that reflect the writer’s unique style that people who knew them could recognize. The notes could also provide insight into the author’s mindset, motives and how their...

US President Donald Trump says he is considering withdrawing Todd Blanche's nomination to be attorney general as his confirmation appears stalled in the Senate. Blanche, who has been acting in the role since April, needs the support of all Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation to advance. However, two senators - John Cornyn from Texas and North Carolina's Thom Tillis, whose terms both expire in January - are withholding theirs over the status of a controversial fund to compensate Trump allies. "I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd's name, if they do not do the right...

I've about had it with the Senate emotionalism. Judiciary is a MAJOR committee assignment. We need hard chargers, with good legal minds, not Sociology & Rehabilitation Counseling degrees. We see every day the results of Jeff Flake, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, and yes, Lindsey Graham. Vote for Ralph Norman to get Lindsey Graham's sister OUT of the US Senate and OFF the Judiciary Committee!

Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation Musca, The Fly. A dusty interstellar cloud, it's seen against rich starfields just south of the Coalsack Nebula and the Southern Cross. Stretching for about 3 degrees across this telescopic field of view, the Dark Doodad is punctuated near its southern tip (upper right) by yellowish globular star cluster NGC 4372. Of course NGC 4372 roams the halo of our Milky Way galaxy, a background object some 20,000 light-years away and only by chance along our line-of-sight to the Dark Doodad. About...

When President Donald Trump ordered an early morning raid to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and brought him to the United States to face trial on narco-terrorism charges, the warnings came fast. House Armed Services Committee ranking Democratic member Adam Smith cautioned that United States military intervention always “ends badly,” citing Iraq and Libya as examples. Representative Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, drew the parallel directly. “This is exactly the euphoria we felt in 2002 when our military took down the Taliban in Afghanistan,” Himes said, “in 2003 when our military took out...

They’re using courts and legislative tricks to block citizen initiatives. We often hear we’re living in a new progressive era, not unlike the one 120 years ago when popular reforms took on trusts and entrenched power. But then why are Democrats and their union allies subverting citizen initiatives that challenge their monopoly power and ability to raise taxes willy-nilly? The latest example comes from Washington state, where Democratic Attorney General Nick Brown has tried to mislead voters about a voter initiative that seeks to overturn Democrats’ imposition of an income tax. Washington’s constitution prohibits graduated taxes on intangible property, which...

Archaeologists have identified the oldest known library on the Iberian Peninsula inside a Roman villa in southern Spain, overturning decades of belief that the room was a sanctuary dedicated to the Roman god Mithras.The discovery was made at the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo in Puente Genil, in Spain's Córdoba province. Researchers concluded the room served as a space for reading, study, and preserving written works, making it the westernmost known library in the Roman Empire and one of its best-preserved private examples.The room contains several architectural features typical of Roman libraries, including an apse, rectangular niches that likely held...

A Canadian grandmother was euthanized, despite having reaffirmed her opposition to it two months prior. Now, her family is speaking out. Key Takeaways: * Brigitte "GG" Stegemann had been living in a care home for two years; her granddaughter, also named Brigitte, had legal power of attorney and was routinely contacted for medical decisions. * Five months before her death, Stegemann was diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer. * After three months, Stegemann was asked about Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), which she said she ardently opposed due to her Christian faith. * Staff reportedly had discussions with her...

An F-35B aircraft crashed at Miramar Air Base in San Diego Friday morning, sending up a plume of black smoke. Emergency crews have responded to the area, which occurred on the base’s flight line around 10 a.m. Friday, a military official told The California Post. The F-35 was assigned to 3rd Marine Air Wing, Marine Air Group 11. The military classified it as a “Class A mishap,” which means the incident resulted in death, permanent disability, aircraft loss, or equipment damage of $2.5 million or more, according to Fox 5 San Diego. The official said the aircraft had a pilot,...

The real news about the muslim invasion of Spain in the last couple of days. The communist government of spain denies that there is a problem. The news reports that it is women and children. But, see for yourself. It is almost all military age men shouting allah akbar. And now cars are burning in the streets. Italy closed it's border with Spain. The EU is frantic trying to excuse all of it.

ALLAGASH, ME — Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson reportedly converted to Islam as a way to evade criticism for hooking up with his cousin. Jackson said Islam is "totally what he believes in" after learning it's normal for them to marry their cousins. "Heck, we're not even married, but I guess that's not good enough for those Christian types," Jackson said. "Fortunately, them Muslims are totally cool with it." Jackson said he got the idea after realizing Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar had quite the saucy affair with her brother and no one batted an eye. "Looks like I finally put...

Sandy Cancino began his professional career as a successful independent Cuban audiovisual producer, but since 2018, he has become an influential leader and social organizer within civil society. That year, he founded the Havana Pastoral Unit (Unidad Pastoral de La Habana), a structure linking the social work of denominations boasting tens of thousands of followers across the island. He was also a key figure in the “For the Original Design” (Por el Diseño Original) campaign, which opposed restrictions on economic and religious freedoms — as well as on the family — contained in the 2019 Castroist Constitution. That campaign achieved...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has overseen the departure of 50,000 federal employees and trimmed nearly $2 billion in salary payments within its first year, according to data released by a taxpayer watchdog group. OpenTheBooks provided the “Swamp Update” in a Monday report highlighting the reduction in the federal workforce from 1,506,603 to 1,452,891 between 2024 and 2025, dipping to 53,712 fewer employees in government under President Trump than under former President Joe Biden. At the same time, the federal payroll got a $1.86 billion cut in the first year of Trump’s second term. Biden’s final year in office saw...

The Chinese Communist Party has flown Democratic Socialists of AMERICA members to China, as DSA members take a "pledge" to the CCP This is BETRAYAL. They should have to renounce their citizenship and never return! https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2083254648731812310

VALLEJO – Surveillance video captured a Vallejo police officer speeding past the fatal crash of a motorcyclist during a pursuit in the early morning of July 14, leading the motorcyclist’s family to question the police account of the incident. The motorcyclist, identified as 43-year-old Marcus Kutterer, died at the scene of the crash. A Vallejo Police department press release issued the day after the incident stated that the officer initiated the pursuit at 4:21 a.m. because Kutterer had been speeding and driving recklessly. According to police dispatch recordings, initially there were two motorcycles but one split off in a different...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani didn’t pick one Jewish person to serve on his judicial screening panel, but he did appoint a lawyer for a domestic terrorist, a Luigi Mangione apologist – and even a former male prostitute. The social media-loving socialist, a staunch critic of Israel, even reportedly rejected Jewish retired Judge John Leventhal because he had served on the legal team for pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s pal and convicted sex-trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. But Hizzoner didn’t disqualify prison reform activist Soffiyah Elijah from his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, despite the fact she’s represented and rubbed elbows with Weather...

The Douglas DC-3 was mass-produced during World War II. Today, one of the few still remaining transports passengers in Colombia’s jungle.We were cruising at eight thousand feet, low enough to make out individual trees in the rainforest below, when a towering wall of midafternoon cumulus arose before us.There was no way around it — it was many miles wide — and no way over it because we were in an 84-year-old Douglas DC-3, arguably the most legendary plane ever mass-produced yet one without a pressurized cabin, which limited how high we could fly.As the plane and the storm closed in...