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Henry Graham, a 52-year-old man with a lengthy arrest record who killed a man with a single punch on the Magnificent Mile, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday, months after a judge found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, saying state law barred him from being convicted of murder. The state’s “one punch” legal standard that spared Graham a murder conviction may surprise many, but it is well established in Illinois, where nearly a century of case law holds that a person cannot reasonably expect a single punch to kill someone. Therefore, in almost all cases, a person...

An alleged gangbanger in this country illegally was shot and wounded by ICE agents in The Bronx on Thursday. And by the way New York politicians immediately reacted — with press conferences and outraged tweets the length of “War and Peace” — one would think ICE had made swiss cheese of a sweet grandma as she handed out Werther’s Originals to the neighborhood children.All the usual suspects reflexively grabbed a microphone and called to “abolish ICE” in the name of Oscar Belgal, who reportedly used his car to smash through a vehicle barricade before accelerating toward ICE agents. Belgal’s 5-year-old...

Andy Burnham’s record at stopping the boats is worse than Sir Keir Starmer’s, figures show. Analysis of Channel crossings data found a larger proportion of migrants are successfully reaching Britain under Mr Burnham’s administration, raising fresh questions about whether the crisis is a priority for him. It comes after a staggering 1,739 migrants – or one every six minutes on average – reached the UK during the first week of October. The Mail analysis of Home Office data found that during Mr Burnham’s first ten weeks in Downing Street, 6,666 migrants successfully crossed the Channel in small boats. This was...

The UK government has revived plans for digital IDs, now saying they’ll be voluntary — not mandatory — after fierce public backlash. But privacy, surveillance, and hacking concerns remain. We talked to British citizens to find out if they trust the government with their data. (TRT is a Turkish public broadcast service)

Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, scientists have uncovered a chilling reminder that Chernobyl's radioactive legacy is far from over. Researchers studying microscopic fragments of nuclear fuel blasted out of the reactor during the 1986 explosion found that some have remained remarkably unchanged. This defies the expectation that they would have gradually broken down over time. And the team says it could have significant implications for understanding the long-term health risks posed by the radioactive contamination. ‘Our findings demonstrate that Chernobyl fuel particles act as remarkably persistent reservoirs of fission products and actinides in the environment,’ the team...

Link to Video Transcript SummarySummaryThe speaker delivers a political speech focused on protecting American constitutional freedoms, warning that government power, mass surveillance, and ideological movements threaten individual liberty. She urges citizens to remain vigilant, hold elected officials accountable, and take responsibility for preserving the republic.1. Preserving the American republicCiting Abraham Lincoln’s warning that a nation can destroy itself, the speaker argues that Americans have a personal and collective responsibility to preserve their freedoms.She emphasizes that the Constitution exists not to grant rights but to limit government power and protect freedom of speech, religion, gun ownership, and privacy.Quoting Benjamin Franklin’s famous...

President Donald Trump's agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to boost diesel supplies is drawing criticism from within his own party, exposing Republican divisions over the White House's latest attempt to bring down fuel prices ahead of November's midterm elections. The pushback follows Trump's announcement Friday that Putin had agreed to supply millions of tons of diesel fuel to United States and global markets. The administration subsequently authorized transactions involving Russian diesel, with the Treasury Department issuing a temporary license allowing Russian-origin diesel to reach global markets. The move drew scrutiny because Congress just weeks ago approved the Lindsey O....

President Donald Trump openly encouraged Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania to switch parties and become a Republican just weeks before the midterm elections could reshape control of Congress. “I’d love to see him as a Republican,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Saturday as he returned to Washington from a rally in Tennessee. “He does better as a Republican than he does as a Democrat.” The comments were among the most direct overtures by Trump to woo Fetterman into the GOP, a matter of growing importance as the party could lose its Senate majority in next month’s...

Democrat socialist Abdul El-Sayed has made a lot of braindead comments regarding football over the years, and throughout his campaign for state senator in Michigan. El-Sayed once connected American football to toxic masculinity and the transatlantic slave trade, but he's also pandered by embracing the NFL and Detroit Lions in his campaign messaging. In a 2021 essay in response to then Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden, El-Sayed wrote, "The toxic masculinity at the heart of America's most popular sport — and men's sports culture more generally — is way deeper than a few emails." In separate remarks, he...

GETTING UNDERWAY A young Ensign, who had just completed his first overseas deployment, was given the opportunity to "show his stuff" by getting his ship underway. As he yelled out commands with great confidence, sailors were running everywhere. In no time, the ship came out of the channel, headed for home. It was accomplished so well that he set a new record for getting a destroyer underway. He wasn't surprised when a seaman approached him with a message from his CO...he WAS surprised to find that it was a radio message. He was even more surprised as he read,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As demonstrators, including the headline-grabbing CodePink agitators, descend on the nation’s capital late Saturday afternoon for a “coordinated global day of action” against Israel, they will join a worldwide wave of marches and planned disruptions that may appear to be unfolding independently. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, anti-Israel demonstrators carried signs deploying emotionally charged language against Israel, including one featuring a Palestinian flag and a bloodied hand with the message, “STOP GENOCIDE.” Nearby, two women carrying mock machine guns flanked a cardboard image of a handcuffed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a noose around his...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority: in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. <And this is the confidence we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us. We know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him - I John 5: 14-15"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them". - Ephesians 5:11 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for...

At least 12 people were killed – including one American – and more than 300 injured in an attack Saturday at Saudi Arabia’s international airport in Riyadh, aviation authorities there said, as the Persian Gulf nation faced some of the biggest attacks it has seen in years by Iranian-backed Houthi militants. While the rebel group did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack, it came during a week where smoke could be seen billowing above the airport and explosions sounded in Saudi Arabia’s capital in a wave of intensifying Houthi strikes. As Saturday’s attack forced aviation authorities to suspend operations...

"The spirits have spoken: the iconic Chipotle Margarita is back for a good time, not a long time...."

Former New York Times columnist Frank Rich has a long history of extreme TDS, including fantasizing in January 2020 about "Trump's collaborators" whom he labeled as "Vichy Republicans." Time has certainly not mellowed Rich whose bizarre vengeance porn fantasies have gone into overdrive as you can see in his New York magazine rant on Wednesday, "The Collaborators." The subtitle reveals Rich's deep deep desire for vengeance upon those who dare to work for or with President Trump: "The cronies of Trump’s second term are more brazen than the old ones. They’re also heading for a harsher comeuppance." Rich then went...

Nothing stirs the heart like a movie that captures the spirit of a nation. From tales of courage in war to stories of everyday people standing up for what’s right, patriotic films remind us of the values that shape America—freedom, resilience, and unity.These movies, spanning decades and genres, celebrate the grit and hope that define the American experience. Whether they’re set on battlefields or in small towns, they spark a sense of pride and inspire us to reflect on what it means to be American.15. ‘The Right Stuff’ (1983)Warner Bros. Pictures This epic dives into the early days of America’s...

Anti-ICE protestors attacked federal agents and tried to box in their vehicles in Salem, Oregon, on Saturday. The clash occurred Saturday morning in the parking lot near a Walgreens on Lancaster Drive NE. An anti-ICE 'rapid responder' livestreamed the attack on federal agents on Facebook. Federal agents deployed tear gas, pepperballs, and other nonlethal munitions to disperse the crowd. Masked agitators who may be affiliated with Antifa, a designated terrorist organization, used their cars to try to box in agents. Federal agents rammed their vehicles in order to safely leave the parking lot. At one point, a man used a...

The illegal migrant shot by federal ICE agents in a chaotic Bronx showdown terrorized his former neighbors with a machete—and a terrified resident said Saturday he’s relieved the violent gangbanger has finally been taken off the streets. Dominican Republic-native Oscar Belgal, 28, who authorities said has ties to the bloodthirsty Trinitarios street gang, wreaked havoc at the Washington Heights apartment building where he lived until about a year ago, according to a one-time neighbor. “He’s a menace to society,” the shaken resident said of Belgal — whom Mayor Mamdani outrageously called a “New Yorker” whose release he tried to negotiate...

Maricopa County election employees are believed to have been seen tampering with voting equipment late at night this week, appearing to install or download something on election equipment that has already been certified for use on November 3. The county claims that they were just "working on a legitimate election task, late into the night." But according to Phoenix-based election watchdog group We the People Alliance, the employees left for the day at approximately 6:20 pm, then returned late at night around 9:08 pm until 11:15 pm. Additionally, co-founder of We the People Shelby Busch tells The Gateway Pundit, "There...

After years of uncertainty, delays, and preparations, we finally have a timeline for when the historic SS United States will be sent to the bottom of the Gulf.Late on Friday night, October 9, 2026, officials in Okaloosa County, Florida, announced that the legendary ocean liner is scheduled to be deployed as the world’s largest artificial reef during the second week of November 2026.The ship will be sunk approximately 22 nautical miles, or 25 miles, southwest of Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida.While an exact date has not been announced, county officials say the operation will be weather-dependent, meaning the timeline could change.This...