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For the roughly 15 million college undergraduates in the United States, the benefits of pursuing higher education include better employment prospects, greater social mobility, and even longer-lasting marriages. Research released last year, however, finds that at least one important life outcome — political ideology — is heavily dependent not merely on the decision to attend college, but also on the particular subjects students choose to study. The paper, authored by Israeli academics Yoav Goldstein and Matan Kolerman, used survey responses from nearly 500 American colleges and universities to isolate the political impact of students’ choice of college majors. Those who...

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy is asking the U.S. Departments of Justice, War, and the Treasury to investigate a planned Islamic community in Bexar County located about 30 minutes from a military installation. Roy (R–Austin) cited “ties to nefarious groups, questionable funding sources, and faith leaders espousing violent and terroristic rhetoric” as areas of concern. In the Wednesday letter, Roy mentions an August 14, 2026, report by the Rise Align Ignite Reclaim (RAIR) Foundation that called attention to the burgeoning community. The Northside Islamic Center of San Antonio (NICSA) describes itself as a “fostering environment that promotes spiritual and devotional growth...

A 35-year-old Venezuelan man who lived in Texas for years is now nearly 6,000 miles from his wife and 5-month-old American son after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported him to West Africa. Carlos Tellez Sanchez said he had never heard of Liberia until last week, when he found out he was being deported to the country that sits between Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire just hours before his flight took off. He said he spent the 15-hour flight across the Atlantic in handcuffs, and is now stranded in a remote area of the West African nation. ... In December...

President Donald Trump assured the nation that the cost of groceries should drop just as soon as he renames a few more things "America." With affordability the top concern among likely voters, the administration has recommitted itself to naming even more things "America" in an effort to bring down prices. "Once everything is renamed 'America', the cost of groceries will fall like you won't believe," said Trump. "You're going to be so shocked, you'll go into the store and say, 'Wow. I didn't even know eggs could be so cheap. I didn't think it was possible.' People will be pinching...

Calls for a new crusade against Islam are growing louder and becoming more explicit across the West. Are we really witnessing the return of the Crusades—and, if so, what does that actually mean? 🟧 Subscribe to Raymond Ibrahim's Substack: https://substack.com/@raymondibrahim 🌟 Check out his bestselling books: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/books ✍️ Get a signed copy: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/signed... ☕️ Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/raymondibrahim

A federal judge on Friday declined to block President Donald Trump's revised birthright citizenship order after the Supreme Court struck down his first plan. Trump originally directed federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as not granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, but the Supreme Court shut down that order, prompting him to issue a revised directive. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman previously issued a stay on Trump's first order, but did not do so against the revised version, Reuters reported. The Biden-appointed judge was nonetheless skeptical of the order's constitutionality. Trump signed the revised order earlier this...

The official in charge of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza criticized Israel on Wednesday for its attacks on the war-battered Palestinian territory and warned that the alternative to the U.S. proposal is the next war. Nikolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace high representative, insisted to the U.N. Security Council that Trump’s 20-point plan has not stalled and “has moved from the negotiating table to the engineering table.” The militant group Hamas has agreed to the proposal’s key provision to disarm and turn Gaza over to civilian rule, he said. But Israel’s ongoing strikes since last October’s ceasefire are...

Eight years before COVID emerged, a journalist issued a prophetic warning that risky viral research could usher in “doomsday” and damage the reputation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthony Fauci groused in an email to an aide about that warning, then instructed the aide to permanently delete the exchange, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The documents add to growing evidence that Fauci destroyed public records despite his sworn testimony that he never did. Deleting government records violates federal law. Fauci did not respond to a request for comment. In 2011, the advent of gain-of-function...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sarcastically offered to give Sen. Elizabeth Warren a tutorial on “Foreign Exchange for Dummies” in a blistering response to her criticism of the government’s intervention to prop up the Japanese yen, The Post has learned. The lefty Massachusetts senator’s recent attack “unfortunately reveals that you know even less about foreign exchange markets than you do about banking,” Bessent wrote in a letter dated Thursday that was exclusively obtained by The Post. “Terrifyingly, the opening paragraph is wrong about where the money came [from], what the transaction was, and whether there was even a borrower,” he added....

Explanation: At the latitude of ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, about 25 degrees south, Earth's rotation moves the planet's surface eastward at over 1,500 kilometers per hour. And while that's faster than the speed of sound at sea level, the motion is imperceptible. Still, that motion can be revealed in the apparent rotation of the night sky by photographing star trails. This star trail image was composed from a digital stack of 300 consecutive 25-second exposures made with a camera fixed to a tripod to trace the star trail arcs. The graceful arcs are concentric and centered at the south...

Washington — Far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to the agency's online detainee database. Reports indicate Yiannopoulos, who is British, was in New Orleans ahead of a concert headlined by the artist formerly known as Kanye West scheduled for Friday night. TMZ first reported Yiannopoulos' status. CBS News has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and ICE for additional details and the basis for his apprehension. ...

A Honduran agitator arrested earlier this year at an anti-ICE protest in Southern California was busted by Homeland Security agents Friday on charges of illegally registering to vote — part of a crackdown on suspected election fraud in California. Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, 30, a Honduran national living in the San Fernando Valley, is accused of two felonies related to his false claims of US citizenship to complete voter registration forms, prosecutors say. Rivera Flores’ early-morning arrest outside a health-care center in Ventura is just the beginning of a war on suspected election fraud that has the full support of...

Pamela Guillen, 40, told CNN she was visiting Magic Mountain to celebrate her daughter’s 16th birthday and they decided to make X2 the final ride of the day before heading to dinner. During the ride’s 3,600-foot course, Guillen repeatedly struck her head against the headrest and, when the train returned to the station, needed assistance exiting her seat and began vomiting, according to ambulance records obtained by CNN. She lost consciousness and became unresponsive after sitting down on a bench. “Mommy, please wake up,” her daughter, Marquez, recalled saying to her mother. “I kept rubbing her thigh and kept shaking...

The National Rifle Association's Gun Bus prepares to depart NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, for a 13-state tour ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Photo: Courtesy of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action / Used with Permission(The Center Square) – The National Rifle Association launched its first national bus tour Thursday as the group tries to get gun owners to vote in the 2026 midterm elections.The NRA Institute for Legislative Action plans to make 63 stops in 13 states before the tour ends on Election Day, Nov. 3.The group calls it the 2026 NRA’s Gun Bus Battleground Tour.The...

Following a vote to suspend the use of Flock cameras in the city, Pflugerville said over 400 agencies had accessed its Flock system, while only 83 had authorization. The city said it had authorized 83 partner agencies to have access to its Flock system, which included select Texas police departments, universities and state agencies. This new information comes after Pflugerville City Council members unanimously voted to terminate their master services agreement with Flock Safety at their Tuesday night meeting, resulting in the city turning off all 28 Flock License Plate Reader cameras leased by the city and covering them with...

Both the Democratic Party establishment and the GOP have been flat-footed in their responses to the Democratic Socialists of America and their “Summer of Love.” The Democrats, led by invertebrate castratos like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have mostly ducked when asked about the DSA’s plans to destroy the US Constitution, nationalize 90% of the economy and decapitate our mechanisms of law and order. They’ve taken cover behind the empty “Big Tent” lie as radical DSA members and allies, like Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and Colorado’s Melat Kiros, triumph in Democratic primaries. The GOP, for...

Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, a Ugandan king who became the world’s youngest reigning monarch when he was crowned at the age of 3 in 1995, has died. He was 34. Rukidi IV, the ruler of the small Kingdom of Tooro in Uganda’s west, died around 10 p.m. local time Thursday, Tooro Prime Minister Calvin Armstrong Rwomiire Akiiki announced. “This is an immeasurable loss to the Royal Family, the people of Tooro and the nation of Uganda,” he said in a statement. “I call upon all the people of Tooro to remain united, calm and prayerful during this profoundly...

Mayor Karen Bass just made it official: Los Angeles is a sanctuary city when it comes to enforcing food safety laws with thousands of street stands that have popped up all over the city — many of them run by illegal aliens. Bass’s announcement this week ordering police to stop issuing violations to unpermitted vendors follows a Breitbart News investigation last month that revealed the widespread lack of enforcement of city and county food safety laws, with street food stands run by illegal migrants getting a free pass while citizen restaurateurs and licensed food stands are subject to fines, high...

Rob Sand, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Iowa, had a one-word response to whether Kamala Harris should run for U.S. President in 2028. Harris served as the Vice President from 2021 to 2025 under Joe Biden. Biden endorsed Harris for the 2024 presidential campaign against Donald Trump. Iowa Democrat believes Kamala Harris shouldn't run for President in 2028 Democratic nominee Rob Sand is not endorsing Kamala Harris for President in 2028. Politico's Jonathan Martin asked him whether Harris should run for President again, to which Sand replied curtly, "Nope." Sand dodged the previous question when Martin asked him whether he'd...

The Census Bureau’s own Post-Enumeration Survey, the internal audit that checks the official count against a sample of households, found that Tennessee was undercounted by 4.78%, Florida by 3.48%, and Texas by 1.92%. On the other side of the ledger, Delaware was overcounted by 5.45%, Rhode Island by 5.05%, and New York by 3.44%, with Hawaii and Minnesota padded as well. These figures are the Bureau’s own, and they are not rounding artifacts. A 3.48% miss in a state of 22 million people is roughly 750,000 residents who were never recorded. The Bureau published these figures, described them as...