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A big developer that’s desperate to build a data center near a Pennsylvania town has reportedly offered to pay every family there $10,000 – but most are still pushing back, part of a nationwide trend of opposition to such sites. While seeking approvals for a data center project in the Pocono foothills, Northpoint Development sent letters to the 10,460 residents of nearby Hazle Township this summer, offering to write a check to each household to spend on “whatever you want.” Totaling $45 million, the payouts would be a substantial boost for many residents of the town, where the average household...

This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 28th of September 2026 00:00 — 👋 Introduction: the attack that won't end 00:16 — 🚀 One of the biggest strikes on Kyiv — still ongoing 01:28 — 🌙 165 drones overnight, 112 claimed intercepted 01:55 — ⛽ Up to five gas stations destroyed by morning 02:40 — 🔥 Brovary: five warehouses now black zones 04:37 — 🏛️ National Academy of Sciences wiped out 05:46 — 🖥️ Southern data center completely destroyed 07:08 — 📵 Dreamline collapses — the internet dominoes fall 08:47 — 🎙️ Peskov: Ukraine has already begun...

Shabana Mahmood announced the reopening of a scheme to resettle refugees in the country on Monday. She said the UK can “unlock the inherent generosity of this country” by providing safe and legal refugee routes. She told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that her migration reforms will “come to a position that balances fairness”. The UK resettlement scheme will reopen immediately. Approximately a quarter of refugees accepted are expected to be Palestinians and women and girls from Afghanistan. Hundreds of refugees are expected to arrive in the UK under the scheme and three community sponsorship routes at first. This...

A transgender Florida teenager was sentenced to 50 years behind bars after accepting a plea deal in the grisly 2024 slayings of her mother and her mom’s much-younger boyfriend. Julia Egler, 18, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the killings, in which she lay in wait for the couple to arrive at their Palm Bay home — greeting them with a “welcome home” before opening fire with her mother’s .38 revolver and then staging the scene to look like a burglary. The mom, Kelly McCollom, 38, and her boyfriend Matthew Szejnrok, 22, both died at the scene. Egler, who was...

The demographic Sanders portrayed as a lazy welfare recipient is one of the least likely demographics to be a lazy welfare recipient. Not surprisingly, Sanders received massive backlash to her unrealistic ad on social media. @SarahHuckabee / X screenshot Arkansas Republican incumbent gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a campaign ad Monday depicting a lazy fat white male gamer as a welfare recipient. The ad effectively targeted white heritage Americans amid the backdrop of global Replacement Migration.The demographic Sanders portrayed is the very demographic that has been precluded from the workplace, but is not the demographic which uses the...

When Nick Freitas walks down a city street in the opening scene of his new documentary, recounting his days as a Green Beret, most viewers might think he’s somewhere in the Muslim world. I certainly did. He’s in Britain. And the transformation he documents there, driven by decades of mass Muslim migration and a political class unwilling to demand assimilation, is one Americans ignore at their peril. Freitas, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, joined me on “Midterm Report” to discuss “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West,” a film he made with The Heritage Foundation...

Even in a city filled with homeless encampments, this was a unique sight. A KTLA viewer shared a photo of a homeless encampment that was set up on top of a bus stop shelter in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood. The photo was taken near the busy intersection of S Barrington Ave. and Wilshire Blvd. at a Metro bus stop. In the photo, a man is seen laying on top of the structure next to a shopping cart and other personal items. An estimated 187,000 people are currently experiencing homelessness in the state of California, while the latest point-in-time count found...

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket erupted into flames as it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Monday, prematurely ending its first successful flight into orbit. The rocket soared into space early Monday but had to cut its scheduled 10-hour flight around the globe short to ensure safety, the company said. The rocket splashed down just north of Hawaii three hours into its flight, with Starship tipping over and getting engulfed in flames in a dramatic end to the mission. SpaceX’s historic launch nearly failed after one of its six engines shut down close to lift off, with flight controllers moving...

I ignored the written description of filtering the other night,” Molly Gaston messaged her fellow federal prosecutor, J.P. Cooney, in the early days of the post-2020 election targeting of President Donald Trump, documents obtained exclusively by The Federalist reveal. “Me too,” Cooney replied, showing that two of the attorneys whom Jack Smith would later choose to lead the special counsel team disregarded rules when judged “not tenable.” And additional documents whistleblowers provided Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, confirm the special counsel office ignored the protocol established to protect privileged documents. Monday afternoon, in advance of Jack Smith’s Tuesday testimony before the...

A 35-year-old Guatemalan man died after crashing into a tree and his vehicle caught fire in Grand Rapids, Michigan, following an attempted traffic stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to local police. Grand Rapids Police said ICE agents attempted to stop the vehicle before the driver fled. Relatives identified the man as Mario David Coronado Juarez and said he had been living and working in Grand Rapids for about seven years without legal immigration status. The crash happened around 7 a.m. Sept. 20 near Century Avenue SW and McKendrick Street SW. Police said Coronado Juarez was alone in...

Model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in OctoberOpenAI is scrapping the release of its next-generation AI model over safety concerns that researchers raised during internal testing, in one of the clearest signs so far that agent misbehavior could stymie the industry’s rapid progression. The move follows a summer punctuated by reports of AI systems industrywide going rogue, and marks a rare case of a major AI developer ditching a new release because of safety concerns. The company had planned to launch the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra, in the coming days or...

Every time Hunter Biden opens his mouth to indulge his newfound addiction to publicity, he confirms The Post’s reporting on his “laptop from hell.” For instance, he used to pretend that the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma was paying him $1 million to sit on its board while his father was VP because of his expertise as a seasoned board member and learned lawyer. Now he admits all he had to do was show up to a few meetings high on crack to collect the money. “The requirement of the board would be that I would show up for four...

WASHINGTON — “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been decidedly absent from some of the most competitive battleground races this cycle — as the liberal darling mulls a 2028 presidential run. Moderate Democrats appear to have shown an aversion to stumping with Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as the midterm homestretch kicks into gear, raising questions about the Bronx and Queens rep’s clout beyond the lefty base. “I get the sense that a lot of swing state Dems are byproducts of the very Democratic Party that lost 1,000 seats since 2010 and lost to Trump twice,” Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s former communications director, bluntly told...

A Pakistani man has been indicted in South Florida for operating a counterfeit U.S. postage label scheme that caused over $126 million in losses to the U.S. Postal Service, federal prosecutors said. Faheem Akram, 33, of Khanewal, Pakistan, is charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to make and sell counterfeit postage stamps, five counts of making and selling counterfeit postage stamp labels, and four counts of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida said Monday. The indictment returned by a federal grand jury is a result of an investigation...

Chanel Rion OAN@ChanelRion·21hThey say keeping CNN out is “viewpoint discrimination.”In 2020, DOJ told them inviting me — even based on viewpoint — is not a First Amendment violation.I am the OAN reporter in this letter.WHCA kicked OAN out of the rotation. Roped off my chair. Made me stand in the back.Then Brian Karem’s lawyer screamed that Stephanie Grisham inviting me as her guest was unconstitutional.DOJ’s answer, on White House letterhead:- The briefing room is White House property.- The club’s seating chart is a practice the Press Secretary “merely acquiesced” in.- Special access to a particular reporter is not a First...

The Supreme Court on Monday announced that Justice Samuel Alito will not continue to participate in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a significant dispute that will be argued in just one week, on Monday, Oct. 5, the first day of the 2026-27 term. Scott Harris, the clerk of the Supreme Court, revealed Alito’s last-minute recusal in a short letter to advocates involved in the case. Harris’ note does not provide an explanation for the decision, saying simply that “Justice Alito has determined that he will not continue to participate.” In Suncor Energy, the court is considering...

President Trump shouldn’t be putting recycled campaign ads on the air paid for by the taxpayers. The spot that aired this weekend is the same core video from a 2024 Trump campaign ad. That is the record. Morning Joe and CNN This Morning treated it with their usual paranoia as a border crossing into dictatorship. Joe Scarborough saw the tag and found Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin. “When I saw, at the end of that ad, paid for the U.S. government, that was such an Orban, Putin move.” Scarborough couldn't resist descending into his trademark hyperbole: “This is socialism! This...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Monday formally rescinded the Biden administration's Title IX regulations expanding sex-discrimination protection to include gender identity and sexual orientation. The move restores rules adopted during President Donald Trump's first term. The final regulation, expected to be published Tuesday, removes the Biden-era rule from the federal regulatory code after a federal court struck it down and reinstates the Trump administration's 2020 framework governing how schools handle sexual-misconduct allegations. The move "clears the Biden Administration's illegal rewrite of Title IX" and restores the previous rule's language, McMahon said in a statement. "Thanks to today's action, the published...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB+WAVE) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was in Louisville teaching Sunday school at a local church and provided an update on a possible presidential run. Beshear visited St. Stephen Baptist Church as a special guest teacher for its Men’s Day Sunday School Class. While at the event, Beshear spoke about a possible presidential run and his recent book, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country.” During an interview with WDRB anchor Gilbert Corsey, he was asked about the book and how it reads almost like a cover letter for the highest office in the country....

President Donald Trump is unveiling Monday plans for a massive steel plant in Iowa that the White House says will be the largest in American history and promises to bring 1,750 permanent jobs to the state. The roughly $15 billion steel plant is touted as a major new investment and evidence that Trump's economic agenda is bringing heavy manufacturing back to the U.S. with just over a month until the midterms. It will create between 5,000 and 6,000 construction jobs during its first phase. Trump is expected to make the announcement from the Oval Office at 2 p.m. alongside executives...