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The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.The unprecedented shift has placed an ever...

Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council Dr. Sebastian Gorka shared that under Trump’s leadership “the global jihadi movement is on the back foot.”While speaking with host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Gorka highlighted that, while the global jihadi movement had goals to “shake down all of the Arab monarchies in the Middle East” and to “undermine the west” starting with the United States, America “is now stronger than it has ever been.”

The first Formula 3 feature race of the weekend begin with a multi-car pileup at the Madring. Luckily, every driver involved in the incident is OK. This weekend, the final weekend of the Formula 3 championship ends with two feature races instead of just one. Immediately on the first lap, the red flag was waved after multiple incidents happened simultaneously at the narrow track. First, two Van Amersfoort Racing cars, driven by Enzo Deligny and Bruno del Pino, came together at Turn 7. Meanwhile, in the background, Maciej Gladysz's ART Grand Prix car also went airborne, as he could not...

IOWA CITY — Republican gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn pledged Friday to buck lobbyists and special interests and reject the trappings of a political career if elected governor, casting his campaign as a grassroots fight to preserve Iowa’s culture and give voters a greater voice in state government.Lahn addressed supporters during an “Iowa First Tailgate Event” at the Field House Bar & Grill in Iowa City alongside conservative political commentator and podcaster Benny Johnson, a native of Cedar Rapids. The event came one day after the first anniversary of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.Lahn said Kirk, a longtime friend,...

Biden and Trump setting the stage; in biblical ignorance for the Day of the Lord, pro and con; A great interview! Maranatha 😊👍☝️

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just TRUTH NUKED the UK’s suic*dal immigration policies while over in Ireland “Immigration, what you're doing to yourselves, you're just KlLLING yourselves.” 💯 “WE got them the hell out. And frankly, the United Kingdom has to do the same thing!” Mass remigration is the solution for all of Europe! You deport the foreign groups that cause crime and crime will go down. Native citizens first! 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

Larry McMurtry’s classic Lonesome Dove novel is returning to television as a Netflix series. The streamer has greenlighted the Western drama from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart, co-showrunners of Netflix’s upcoming East of Eden limited series, and Teton Ridge Entertainment. Independent studio Teton Ridge Entertainment, which focuses on American West stories, announced in February that it had acquired the rights to the Lonesome Dove literary franchise for film and television. It brought in Kazan and Stuart to write the adaptation and took the package out in late April. By early May, in a very competitive situation, Lonesome Dove had laded...

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Debra Bogen said four fully vaccinated people tested positive for measles, the first such cases identified during the outbreak. Bogen made the announcement during a live update that was streamed Friday afternoon. You can watch the full update in the video player below. The fully vaccinated people who tested positive were three adults and one child from Centre, Jefferson, Lancaster, and Lycoming counties, and none were hospitalized. Bogen said breakthrough cases are rare. Nationwide, about 3% of measles cases this year have been in fully vaccinated people. Even when they do occur, illness is usually...

They’re declaring war on Ozempic! In a completely jaw-dropping moment at the recent Democratic Socialists of America-backed Socialism 2026 conference in Chicago, an unhinged radical made the outlandish claim that GLP-1 drugs are “fascist” because they “genocide fat people.” “The political deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people,” proclaimed Atlanta activist Da’Shaun L. Harrison. The extremist claimed the drugs, like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro — which were developed to treat diabetes are credited with lowering the risk of...

Just outside Pittsburgh is one of the strangest and most overlooked urban landscapes in America: a nearly 100-mile-long chain of cities, towns, industrial sites, railroads, and neighborhoods stretching down the Ohio River Valley to Moundsville, West Virginia. The 100-Mile City You've Never Heard Of | 22:31 City Aesthetics ⛩️ | 33K subscribers | 145,335 views | August 25, 2026

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed on Thursday that Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) "married her brother" as part of an alleged immigration fraud scheme, adding that she could now face deportation. Mullin made the remarks while speaking with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas. During the conversation, he discussed the federal investigation into the "Squad" congresswoman, describing the probe as ongoing. "We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States," Mullin said of the Minnesota Democrat. "We know he lives now in London." He was referring to...

Fishing and boating on a Staten Island lake that was polluted by human waste has finally been closed by authorities, one week after The Post reported that officials had done nothing about the “open secret” for decades. The Parks Department told The Post in a statement Friday evening that “out of an abundance of caution, fishing and boating will be suspended in Clove Lakes Park while we await water testing results.” The Post spoke to boat rental workers earlier in the day who said that boat rentals had been open all week. The workers informed The Post that parkgoers continued...

This is Shelly Headen, Democrat running for NC House District 62. She toured Dachau, a Nazi death camp, smiled in front of the ovens, and posted: “This is where Trump supporters belong.” 41,500 people were murdered there. Jews. Priests. POWs. Political prisoners. This CPA running to “restore human decency” used that ground to fantasize about putting half the country in a crematorium. Same woman who wrote America’s “only hope” was an attack on U.S. soil”, preferably Alabama, Louisiana… where the stupid people live.” This is the mask off.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday criticized President Trump's controversial proposal to pay out $5,000 checks to every U.S. adult if Republicans win the midterms. "What I would say is, if you are getting surplus revenue, you should cut people's tax and return it to the people," DeSantis said during a press conference in Miami on Thursday. "What I don't think you want to do is borrow another trillion-and-a-half dollars and then just try to flood that into the economy, because that will lead to more inflation," DeSantis continued. "That will lead to more debt and more inflation."

A beloved Texas engineer who became close friends with Fox News stars Greg Gutfeld and Kat Timpf was murdered in an unprovoked attack while sitting on a park bench, police and reports said. Andrew James Wimsatt, 62, of Austin, was slain Sept. 7 — just moments after sitting down in the park following a visit with his mother at her Round Rock nursing home, according to Fox News. Williamson County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 26-year-old Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu on murder and theft charges after surveillance cameras captured the brutal 11 a.m. attack.

A Cook County judge is facing harsh criticism from the Cook County Sheriff and the teamsters union that represents deputies and jailers. *snip* [Judge] Lyke held them in contempt after they would not comply with his order to unshackle an inmate so he could hug a family member present in the courtroom. That inmate has a track record of being dangerous and unpredictable.

Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medical examiner ruling her death a homicide. Jarques Ratliff, 51, has been charged with murder in connection with Fortune’s death, police said Friday. CNN is working to determine if he has legal representation. Ratliff will have his first court appearance Monday, police said. “Last night, the medical examiner’s office officially classified Miss Fortune’s death as a homicide. With that determination, our investigators moved quickly,” Chief RaShall Brackney said...

Like most Americans, watching coverage of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 brought out a lot of emotions in me. It also brought out curiosity, and one of the things I was curious about was how the Church responded to the 25th anniversary of this barbaric event. On 9/11/2001 when Pope John Paul II was informed of the 9/11 terrorist attack he withdrew to his private chapel and prayed, for long periods. He was also one of the first world leaders to send a message to GW Bush, describing the attacks as "inhuman" and "unspeakable horror". The next day, during a...

A message from James Woods THE FALLING MAN We have all seen the image, a man falling through space, plunging to earth from a top floor of the World Trade Center. It was 25 years ago today, and it still makes me gasp in horror and seethe with rage as if it had happened yesterday. What was so compelling about this photograph of a man, completely upside down, almost as if by choice, falling to a certain death? Well, because it WAS a choice. We knew he had leapt from an inferno like hell itself, the result of an act...