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In early September, when the Academy of Natural Sciences announced it would close its natural history museum, the oldest in the country, scientists, teachers, passionate fans and elected officials were shocked and outraged. Leadership cited declining visitor numbers post-pandemic and rising costs. They said they had to close the museum to protect the financial future of the scientific research and collections. Longtime staffers say there’s more to the story. They agree that attendance did drop and that it’s always been expensive to run and maintain its century-old building. However, they also argue that missteps from the museum and Drexel leaders,...

All For Nothing: Euthanasia for Disabled Minors Returns to Europe: Woe to mankind! 1938: "This person who suffers a hereditary disease has a lifelong cost of 60,000 Reichsmarks to the National Community. Fellow German, that is your money as well." And so it has come to pass once again. Euthanasia, that starts with "consenting" adults (though God only knows how much this "consent" is fabricated each time by family members unwilling to help their relatives to the end), ends up swallowing everything. The first case in the Netherlands after the approval of the extension of the law happened this week:A...

Four suspects in the road-rage beating and robbery of a 63-year-old man in Jennings had their day in court Thursday, leaving all four behind bars on $250,000 bond.

The Treasury Department announced Friday that its Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned "a member of Hamas’s military wing, along with two France-based individuals and two affiliated entities that provide critical financing to Hamas." “These designations expose a sophisticated, multi‑year financing architecture that moved more than $2 million to Hamas through deceptive charitable fronts and cryptocurrency channels, demonstrating the organization’s persistent ability to adapt its fundraising mechanisms to evade detection,” the department said in a statement. It added that Saleem Abdallah Saleem al-Zaq, who was targeted in Friday's action, "is a Gaza-based battalion deputy in the Hamas military wing who...

Biden commie Judge David Leibowitz from Florida ruled in favor of a Jamaican national because it was federal prosecutors who brought the case under a federal statute against non-citizens voting. Leibowitz claims only states can decide whether noncitizens can vote. WTH? The dirty communists are out of control in America today! They know they need the illegal votes or Democrats CAN'T WIN! 🚨 BREAKING: One Biden Judge just found the federal law that makes it illegal for NONCITIZENS TO VOTE as UNCONSTITUTIONAL SUPREME COURT, NOW! U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz in Florida ruled in favor of a JAMAICAN national because...

Donald Trump has demanded that Europe release emergency diesel reserves or risk being cut off from US supplies. Britain joined crisis talks with European allies on Thursday after the US president threatened to choke off diesel exports to France and Germany. Mr Trump is frustrated with the two EU powers, believing they have not met earlier pledges to release emergency oil and petrol supplies. His administration is calling for tens of millions of barrels of fuel to be unlocked to lower pump prices for motorists. A White House official said it was "in Europe's best interest to work with the...

Tony Romo is out at CBS Sports after his wild DUI arrest in Wisconsin. “CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways,” a CBS spokesperson said. BREAKING: CBS Sports and Tony Romo are parting ways after nine years together, following his July OWI arrest in Milwaukee. “CBS Sports and Tony Romo have mutually agreed to part ways,” a CBS spokesperson said, thanking the former Cowboys quarterback for his contributions and… pic.twitter.com/ofTSFijB71 — Fox News (@FoxNews) October 2, 2026 As TGP reported, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was arrested for driving under the influence in Wisconsin in...

(Washington, D.C.) – Judicial Watch announced that it received 249 pages of new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The records include photos taken of the Pittsburgh area by Crooks using a drone, cell phone evidence that shows that Crooks received fundraising appeals for Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), a package delivery from Hong Kong, and an unusual chat thread between Crooks and an unidentified person. Judicial Watch filed its...

As Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico is now publicly discussing a long-term romantic relationship that he previously kept private, questions are emerging about when the relationship began and whether it overlapped with his girlfriend’s employment in his legislative office. Recently, Talarico revealed that he has been dating the same woman for roughly four years. Based on public records, social media posts, and legislative employment histories, that woman has been identified as Brianna Menard, a former top aide who worked in Talarico’s office before later becoming a lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association. Legislative employment records show Menard served in...

The United States on Thursday told its European allies, particularly Germany and France, to "immediately" release their strategic reserves of diesel to help lower the soaring price of the refined fuel. It comes a day after President Donald Trump floated the possibility of banning US diesel exports to stem the rise in prices. At an emergency meeting of the European Union's energy task force on Friday, an EU spokesperson said the bloc "fully rejects" the ban threat, saying it would "undermine ... trust in the US." Average US diesel prices have surged over 70% to $6.39 per US gallon (€1.50...

Since 1987, followers of Jesus have gathered in public witness on the first Sunday of October, in prayerful repentance over the sin of abortion in our cities and in the Church. FIND A CHAIN Search for a local Life Chain near you and join them to stand in prayer this fall. (On link)

A photograph of Pope Leo XIV blessing Marie-Garance, a 10-year-old girl in a blue dress who has multiple disabilities, went viral after the pope encountered her in Paris Sept. 26. A police officer lifted the girl into his arms as the pope passed in the popemobile along the Champs-Elysees before Mass at Place de la Concorde. Agence France Press photographer Ludovic Marin captured the moment the pope leaned toward Marie-Garance, took her hand and met her eyes. Her adoptive mother, Clotilde Noël, told OSV News the blessing represented vulnerable people who are often set aside because they are different. Following...

Sunny Hostin, co-host of ABC's "The View," boasted that she "was the holdout juror in the 1991 trial of Daniel Rakowitz, the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park. The other eleven jurors wanted to convict him. He killed Monika Beerle, cut her up into pieces, made a soup that he ate and also fed to the homeless. I convinced the rest of the jury that his act of charity toward the homeless showed he wasn't really a bad person. We all then agreed that he should be found not guilty by reason of insanity." The problem with Hostin's boast is that...

Explanation: What does it take to image hundreds of nebulas? Today’s image contains the entire Sharpless Catalog of H II Regions, totaling 313 objects. Zoom in and explore! You may spot fan favorites like the Eagle (Sh2-49), Heart (Sh2-190), and Orion (Sh2-281) Nebulas. Despite its name, this catalog contains more than the glow of ionized hydrogen that makes up H II regions. There are planetary nebulas (the Medusa Nebula, Sh2-274) and supernova remnants (the Spaghetti Nebula, Sh2-240) as well. Astrophotographer Bing Xin traversed the dark skies of Eastern China and Inner Mongolia to catch them all. Narrowband filters that primarily...

Move was made to help bring down the soaring price of diesel and other fuels PARIS—The Group of Seven major economies agreed to release 100 million barrels of crude oil and fuel from their emergency stocks and not to restrict exports, aiming to bring down the soaring price of diesel and other fuels.On his Truth Social platform, President Trump said European nations agreed “to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil. The process will begin immediately.” The G-7 statement said the reserve release would happen over four months.The announcement would seem to end the threat of a...

Israeli filmmakers launch counter-documentary to rebut ‘NAZA’. The counter-project, titled NAZA: The Real Story, dropped with English subtitles this week in a bid to immediately intercept the global narrative. By Maariv. October 2, 2026. Three Israeli creators have released a documentary designed to directly counter and discredit NAZA, the controversial, Venice Film Festival award-winning film that alleges systematic Israeli military misconduct in Gaza. The counter-project, titled NAZA: The Real Story, dropped this week with English subtitles in an effort to immediately shape the global narrative. Directed by Lt. Col. Roi Danino, Hagai Gutman, and Ariel Averbuch, the documentary positions itself...

I play senior softball and an individual who played on one of the teams in our league has joined our every day pick-up ball group.He is totally deaf but I believe he can read lips. It's hard for everyone to understand what he is communicating to us so he tries to make it simple and rudimentary.So, I've decided to try to learn ASL in an attempt to be able to converse with him on a level he can understand. I would appreciate any advice from anyone who has experience in ASL in dealing with anyone they know is deaf.

At National Right to Life News Today, we post article after article, story after story about the invidious “abortion pill,” alternatively labeled “chemical abortion,” or the preferred [to the Abortion Industry] “medication abortion.” Whatever it’s called, it is lethal to the developing unborn child and incredibly painful to the mother, even deadly. Naturally, Planned Parenthood stands at the front of the line, proudly announcing this “service” to abortion-prone women. I remember once writing about how I’d run across a tribute–although tribute is understating the gratitude–to Planned Parenthood: ”Biggest thank you ever to Planned Parenthood–my abortion.” The young woman tells us...

Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·6hAn American pilot spent almost 16 months inside a German POW camp.Then he escaped.He found a German Fw 190, climbed inside a fighter he had never flown before and stole it.Then he flew it to freedom.Somehow, that wasn't even the most remarkable part of his flying career.This is the story of Bob Hoover..🧵1/6 Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·6h🧵 2/6Bob Hoover was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1922. As a young man he worked at a grocery store to help pay for flying lessons at Berry Field. He taught himself aerobatics and eventually entered the Army through the Tennessee National Guard.During...

Australian aviation expert Byron Bailey cut off during an interview on News24 after pointing out a religious motive behind the Flydubai attack. Israel National News. Published: Oct 2, 2026, 6:47 PM (GMT+3) Captain Byron Bailey, an Australian aviation expert, was interviewed on local channel News24 about the attempted terror attack on the Flydubai flight which was making its way to Tel Aviv. However, when Bailey explained that he was not surprised by the incident and explained that the core of the issue is the fact that Islam calls for the death of all Jews, the interviewer abruptly cut him off....