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Rep. Al Green (D-TX) held a press conference Thursday demanding that transgender immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody receive hormones and other specialized medical care. Green appeared alongside representatives of the Houston LGBTQ+ Political Caucus and the Montrose Center at a press conference addressing what they called the “maltreatment of transgender immigrants.” During the event, Green read from a letter addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin raising concerns about the treatment of transgender detainees. “Dear Secretary Mullin, I write to express my deep concern over reports of hazardous conditions for transgender immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

New York City council member Vickie Paladino speaks outside City Hall to present a petition with over 100,000 signatures demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani skip the upcoming September 11 memorial ceremony.

We will not win this war against any enemy until we believe that we have a right to kill them so that they do not kill us. In the age of endless wars, we also celebrate endless anniversaries. September 11 has come around again. After it, October 7. The difference between these and Dec 7, is that a horrifying day was redeemed through determination and victory. America has long since proven that it can militarily defeat Islamic terrorists, what it has not proven is that it can unite its own people or even its own leaders around the moral conviction...

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🚨 WOW! More than 100,000 people have signed a petition urging Mayor Mamdani not to attend the 9/11 memorial ceremony. At an emotional rally, hundreds gathered with a simple plea: Don’t come to the ceremony.

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Twenty-five years after Sept.11, 2001, families and friends of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day remain dismayed that still no one has been convicted — or even stood trial — for the terror attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the deadliest acts of terror on American soil, and four of his alleged al-Qaida cronies remain behind bars at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. “So many family members have passed in the past 25 years. How sad that these people didn’t live long enough to see justice served,” Maggie McDonnell-Tiberio, whose emergency service NYPD officer...

Today is a serious and somber day , the 25th Anniversary of the most evil attack on America since Pearl Harbor. I debated with myself if I should post another silly thread today. I decided I'm not going to let America's worst enemy ruin a fine tradition. So today's silly theme is Alien Invasion.

Henry Hyde had the rare gift of making a grave argument without becoming a grave man. He could thunder on the House floor and charm a room with humor. When Congressman Hyde spoke about unborn children, he did it with a tenderness that never sounded rehearsed. He was brilliant, warm, funny, stubborn when he needed to be, and absolutely clear about why he had come to Washington. He came to defend life. As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his Hyde Amendment, the proper tribute is not praise alone, but a clear account of the man who forced...

New York marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on Friday, with President Donald Trump attending a ceremony at the Pentagon while Vice President JD Vance and four former presidents join commemorations at Ground Zero, where victims’ relatives will read the names of those killed.

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Oil tanker rates have jumped to record highs as escalating risks to shipping in and out of the Middle East are prompting traders and tanker operators to undertake inefficient and more expensive trade routes. While the crude oil supply is actually there, shipping it through the Strait of Hormuz remains a very risky endeavor, especially in light of the escalating U.S.-Iran tanker war in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, while Saudi Arabia has started to move crude cargoes out of the region through the north of the Red Sea and from Egypt’s Mediterranean ports. The much longer...

Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo EXCLUSIVE: A Nigerian chieftain billed Medicaid more than $36 million, then snapped up luxury properties in California and built a magnificent palace in Abatete, Nigeria—including a golden statue of himself. The experts told us it has all the red flags for fraud.

Houthis HUMILIATE Saudi Arabia, Massive BREAKTHROUGH To Bab el-Mandab! - video at link

A solemn tribute to Charlie Kirk was just unveiled. @TPUSA revealed an 8-foot-tall statue of Charlie Kirk outside its Phoenix headquarters today. The statue was dedicated exactly one year after its co-founder was assassinated.

Satellite imagery and fire-detection data are raising questions over whether Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has struck Saudi Arabia’s strategically important East-West oil pipeline. There is no independent confirmation that the pipeline itself was hit. A large smoke plume was reportedly visible over the desert southeast of Medina, along the general route of the pipeline toward Mahd adh-Dhahab. NASA’s FIRMS system also showed clustered thermal anomalies in the area. FIRMS provides near-real-time satellite detections of active fires, but its data do not by themselves identify what is burning or establish who caused it. The reported fire comes as the Houthi-Saudi conflict...

Mr. Vance, who opposed the war from the outset and was charged by President Trump with helping to end the conflict, wanted the commanders’ individual judgments, in their own words, before they were consolidated into a Pentagon view. ...commanders were blunt. They were most worried about their depleted stocks of Patriot interceptors. The war had also exhausted the theater’s supplies of the Army Tactical Missile Systems, along with stores of the Precision Strike Missiles. Stocks of critical munitions were the lowest they had ever seen. Mr. Vance came away from some of his conversations with deep concerns about the overall...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus told his disciples a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?” Luke 6:39As we continue reading from Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain, we encounter what is arguably the shortest parable in all of Scripture—just two brief rhetorical questions: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?” Though concise, these lines present a powerful metaphor. Jesus places this parable within a broader moral discourse that warns against rash judgment and exhorts us to mercy. Just before today’s Gospel, He commands,...

The acting U.S. Navy secretary Hung Cao said that the Iranian military severely damaged a major Navy installation in Bahrain, acknowledging the extent of damage sustained by the base during the conflict. “They blew the hell out of Bahrain,” Cao said in an interview with The Epoch Times, which was published Thursday, referring to the Naval Support Activity Bahrain (NASB), which serves as the headquarters for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the U.S. Fifth Fleet. The base has been heavily targeted by Iran after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against the Islamic Republic in late February. The Navy...