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Her father decided to have her born by way of an anonymous egg donor and a surrogate mother. His obsession about having a figure skating daughter was clear: ‘I spared no money, no time,’ Alysa was intentionally created for a single-parent household; she will never know what it means to have a mother. Is this a fair and ethical decision to make?

This is such a great all-American story on top of the great all-American golds won by our Olympic hockey teams in Milan. Between Karma handing out a few lessons of her own to whiny alphabet soup sex skaters who then come in 13th, pissy free stylers who don't come in at all, and greedy snow vixens who toss over the country of their birth to compete in the freeskiing events under the flag of a repressive, authoritarian Communist regime... ...there were some really irritating moments. And the press was doing everything it could to keep raining on the red,...

We’re not sure what the actual flex is for Courier Newsroom -- a literal fake news organization heavily financed by the George Soros empire -- to be co-hosting a supposed rebuttal to President Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address aimed at “bring[ing] together elected officials, cultural figures, journalists, veterans, and organizers for a live counter-address focused on defying Donald Trump's abuses of power[.]” Last week, the radical leftist anti-Trump group DEFIANCE.ORG put out a press release boasting of its supposedly star-studded speaker lineup for its boycott titled, “STATE OF THE SWAMP: The Rebuttal to the State of the Union.”...

Cartel warfare has threatened to spill into California as a Mexican border city was engulfed in violence following the killing of a notorious drug kingpin. Suspected narco-terrorists torched vehicles at the border wall in Tijuana, a stone’s throw from San Diego, set up roadblocks and targeted local businesses on Monday. Haunting footage showed a major highway that runs parallel to the United States completely shut down while cops cautiously inspected a burning car. Violence has also spread farther up the west coast, with local media reports detailing attacks in parts of Baja California and as close to the US as...

Samphire Neuroscience offers personalized, at-home neurostimulation that adapts to women’s menstrual symptoms, helping them feel more balanced through hormonal changes. On Feb. 9, the UK-based neurotechnology startup unveiled its latest feature in the health-tech space: a patented, AI-driven neurostimulation session-scheduling system. The feature is called CycleSync, and it’s used in conjunction with Samphire’s wearable devices. The idea is simple: the brain controls key hormones like estrogen and progesterone, which impact the menstrual cycle and can cause symptoms such as mood swings, cravings, pain and fatigue. The brain also runs on electricity — rhythms that shape how you think, feel and...

KYIV, Ukraine, and MOSCOW — When the Kremlin launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the assumption in Moscow, and much of the West, was that Russian forces would take the country in a matter of days. Instead, what the Kremlin calls a "special military operation" has become the biggest land war in Europe since World War II and has lasted longer than the Soviet army's fight against Nazi Germany. Russia's war on Ukraine is a grinding war of attrition. Ukraine has managed to hold a much larger army to minimal gains while adjusting to a life under constant...

The Supreme Court will be releasing opinions from the October 2025 term this morning at 10:00 a.m.Scotusblog will be liveblogging the release and we will be following along.A list of the cases from this term can be found Here

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" shares a DM clip of the "Real Time with Bill Maher" crowd being stunned by Bill Maher's warning for any young person getting their lessons about Western civilization from pop stars like Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan. 'Real Time' Crowd Roars for Bill Maher's Relentless Truth Bombs | 2:01 The Rubin Report | 3.17M subscribers | 216,648 views | February 23, 2026

"We're either gonna get a deal or it's gonna be unfortunate for them.” — POTUS Donald Trump. The message seems to be something like the USA isn’t messing around with all those strike forces in the waters around Iran. The Islamic Republic suddenly looks like Rock-and-Hard-Place-Land. Everybody and his uncle are trying to figure out the calculus in play, World War Three or a happy ending? You’re seeing the most significant US military build-up over there in memory. Smells a little bit like the first Gulf War, 1991 — minus all those allies we roped in then. Mr. Trump (via...

Candace Owens announced on Monday that her show would be back on the air beginning Wednesday with a new “investigative series” targeting Erika Kirk, the widow of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, eliciting an abundance of horrified reactions. The teaser trailer for the series shared by Owens on X begins with news coverage about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but quickly transitions to clips of its subject, as well as critical commentary about her, “Zionists,” and Israel. There’s even a implication that the Turning Point USA CEO is implicated in a Romanian human trafficking scandal. The series is titled “Bride of Charlie,”...

The four-building complex cost $239 million and took nearly two years to complete construction. It includes a coding classroom, a podcast studio, a newsroom, multi-media production spaces, a library and cafe. All of the new spaces are equipped with brand-new TV screens and computers. Besides the inmates dressed in matching blue and heavily armed guards standing nearby, the facility resembles a community college campus more than a prison. The new learning facility is another step in the prison’s transition into a rehabilitation center, focusing on giving inmates the tools for self-improvement and learning so that they can have successful lives...

President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday is likely to be a test run of the message Republicans will give to voters in November's elections for control of the House and the Senate. The president and his party appear vulnerable, with polls showing much of America distrusts how Trump managed the government in his first year back in office. In addition, the Supreme Court last week struck down one of the chief levers of his economic and foreign policy by ruling he lacked the power to impose many of his sweeping tariffs. Though Trump is expected to focus...

An Idaho woman was arrested Monday after investigators said she stole an ambulance and drove it into a building housing Department of Homeland Security offices in an alleged attempt to set it on fire. Sarah Elizabeth George, 43, of Boise, is accused of stealing a Canyon County Paramedics ambulance from outside St. Luke’s Meridian around 11 p.m. on Feb. 18, crashing it through the entrance of the Portico North building and pouring gasoline across the lobby floor before fleeing on foot, according to a federal criminal complaint. Authorities identified George after what Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea described as five...

There it was on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times: with a small assist from the United States, the island nation of Cuba has almost entirely ended the use of fossil fuels. Finally, we have the first country in the world to achieve the climate movement’s Holy Grail and nirvana — Net Zero! Or at least a very close approximation. This should be cause for a huge celebration. You would think that the Times, which has been demanding the elimination of fossil fuels for at least a couple of decades, would be leading the celebrations. But weirdly, now...

...Chlorophyll, the main photosynthetic pigment of plants, absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths from the Sun and reflects green ones, and it is this reflected light that gives plants their leafy color. This fact puzzles some biologists because the sun transmits most of its energy in the green part of the visible spectrum...DasSarma thinks it is because chlorophyll appeared after another light-sensitive molecule called retinal was already present on early Earth. Retinal, today found in the plum-colored membrane of a photosynthetic microbe called halobacteria, absorbs green light and reflects back red and violet light, the combination of which appears purple.Primitive...

Short clip. She takes him apart [lie by lie] point by point.

Robert Carradine has died at age 71. He took his own life. The actor is best known for his roles in The Long Riders, Revenge of the Nerds, and Lizzie McGuire. A beloved member of the storied clan of actors, Robert was the bedrock of his family, according to surviving older brother Keith Carradine. But he struggled for two decades with Bipolar Disorder and ultimately it got the best of him. The family issued this statement to Deadline: “It is with profound sadness that we must share that our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother Robert Carradine has passed away....

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, had a stark warning for Texans as he fights to keep his job in the Senate, saying a vote for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could mean a Democrat wins the Lone Star State seat for the first time in three decades. “Ken Paxton will be the kiss of death for Republicans on the ticket in November of 2026,” Cornyn said. Cornyn made his comments as he crisscrossed the state in a mad dash to shore up support as early voting began in Texas earlier this week. He’s deadlocked in a battle for political survival in...

They make Jeffrey Epstein look like Mother Teresa. Even while Epstein drama is consuming the country, David Allen Funston is being set loose. Funston became notorious for luring children as young as four years old in Sacramento into his car with candy and dolls then raping them. A little girl had a knife held to her throat while he raped her so badly she bled. One 5-year-old girl was raped, beaten and left by the side of the road. He raped a little boy and kidnapped two sisters, 4 and 5, before he was finally stopped. Funston was known as...