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After a 10-year marriage, Gayla Thompson got a fresh start — in a pigsty. Freshly divorced, the 33-year-old Nashville native traded in her messy husband for an even messier pig pen. In November 2025, Thompson welcomed eight-week-old Daisy — a tiny nine-pound piglet. “I traded one pig for another,” Thompson said. The divorcee says finalizing the split was the moment she decided to do something just for herself — securing the baby pig. Rolling in the mud, Daisy quickly grew into the center of her world. “My ex-husband always told me I couldn’t have a pet pig,” Thompson said. “So...

14 November 2026 Saturday of week 32 in Ordinary TimeSt. Lawrence O'Toole, Brewster, NYReadings at MassThis is a preview of Universalis. The Universalis app gives you every day of every year, not just the single week you’re seeing now, and it doesn’t need the Internet. It gives you the official New American Bible version for the readings at Mass. As well as the Mass, it gives you the Liturgy of the Hours. It costs $9.99-12.99 on your phone, or £19.99 (about $26.50) on your computer. Get it now.Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading3 John 5-8It is our duty to...

Work at a single location caused instability that led authorities to order groundstop; airlines rush to reset Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Saturday blamed Friday’s air-travel outage that caused havoc at airports nationwide on work being done to replace copper wires with fiber ones at a single remote facility.He pointed the finger at the work of contractor L3Harris, which either installed a faulty router or was “not doing great work for us,” Duffy told reporters on Saturday.“So what we’re working to determine was whether we had incompetence,” Duffy said. “Frankly, we’re going to hold people accountable.”L3Harris didn’t respond to a...

Just a week after a blue wave hit the Lone Star State, a Muslim state representative has filed multiple bills ahead of the 90th legislative session that would implement Islamic practices and holidays. Democrat state Rep. Suleman Lalani, an immigrant from Pakistan who represents Texas House District 76, which encompasses Fort Bend and Harris counties, filed several bills ranging from establishing a “Muslim Heritage Day” to ensuring halal food is provided in schools. Bill filing opened for Texas legislators on Monday. Lalani filed House Bill 236, which amends Chapter 662 of the Texas Government Code to recognize Feb. 4 as...

The people who died in the Flatbush building collapse came from opposite ends of the world. But their loved ones said they shared the same hope: to make a new life in New York City. “We have no words,” Juan Carlos Zabala said of his lost family. “They were following the American dream.” His cousin, Juan Daniel Sabala, 31, had a 9-year-old daughter, Nicole. Both died in the wreckage. Another cousin of the same family, 10-year-old Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, was also found dead. The collapse killed five other New Yorkers and injured 18 more in what is among the...

A new legislative proposal seeks to expand Medicare coverage to those 50 years and older, in an effort to offer federal healthcare insurance to those facing high costs on the private market or who don’t have access to insurance at all. The proposal, called the Medicare at 50 Act, would give Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 the option to buy into Medicare or Medicare Advantage before reaching the traditional eligibility age of 65.

U.S. — All of the technology in the entire United States has failed within 48 hours of firing just one Asian guy. Jensen Huang was removed from his tech role on Thursday, leading to massive nationwide email network outages within minutes. By the next day, all telecommunications had gone down and every flight in the country had been canceled. "Oof. Really shouldn't have let that one Asian guy go," said local man Greg Hensley, surveying the departure board at the airport. "Our business can't function because of network outages, I can't send an email, and I'm stuck in some Ohio...

Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Co-CEO Comcast Corporation Comcast Center 1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard Philadelphia PA 19103By no coincidence Kate Smith first performed “God Bless America” the day before Veteran’s Day in 1938. She was a patriotic American, who wanted to encourage her fellow citizens as they suffered through a terrible depression and saw a world torn apart by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. She wanted to reach Americans with the faith she felt for the future of the nation.As a leading performer in a radio market reaching nearly every household in the country, her way would be through...

Workday, a business software that handles payroll and human resources management for thousands of prominent companies, suffered a major outage Friday, joining Microsoft in experiencing a shutdown this week. The platform manages services for 11,500 companies. “Workday is currently unavailable,” the platform signaled when users tried to gain access. “We are experiencing a service interruption. Your service will be restored as quickly as possible.” “We apologize for the inconvenience. If you are a Workday customer and require additional assistance please contact the Workday Administrator within your organization. Otherwise, please check back later,” the message continued. Retail giants including Walmart and...

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed investigators are looking into whether a contractor’s error or a faulty router triggered a nationwide ground stop that snarled air traffic and left thousands of travelers stranded Friday. Workers from federal contractor L3Harris were replacing old copper telecommunications wires with fiber optic lines at a “remote FAA location” when the system went down, Duffy said at a press conference Saturday. “What we’re working to determine was whether we had incompetence – meaning, was it user error or installator error from L3Harris — or did they install a faulty router? We haven’t determined what the fault...

With the “affordability” psyop on temporary pause, gasoline prices continue to plummet, down more than 3 cents/gallon yesterday, according to AAA. That’s down 20 cents in the past week and down 50 cents in the past month. At $3.84/gal., the current price is only 76 cents above the level from a year ago. The price for diesel is also down 27 cents in the past month. The affordability psyop is easy enough to understand: it tested well in focus groups and opinion polls, so it’s been pounded relentlessly by Democrats and their media allies since Trump returned to office (remember...

An AI-generated parody of the classic sitcom Seinfeld that pokes fun at the Democratic Socialists of America is circulating on X, posted on the same day the group’s New York City chapter held its biennial convention. The roughly two-and-a-half-minute video, posted Saturday by the account NYC Common Sense with the caption “yada yada yada,” had drawn more than 377,000 views within hours. The clip uses artificial intelligence to recreate the show’s four main characters, who gather in a New York diner as Jerry mocks the DSA crowd and its ideals. “Socialists don’t need jobs, Jerry!” one line in the clip...

President Trump has reportedly told senior aides he may hold off on resuming military strikes on Iran, despite repeatedly threatening to attack the country if it endangers US interests. Trump told senior advisers in recent days that he would refrain from launching new strikes as long as Iran or its Houthi proxies in Yemen don’t provoke the US, Reuters reported. *** The president on Thursday told Salem News Channel he would hit Iran to prevent it from threatening US allies and American vessels “without hesitation.” That same day, he told sports journalist Stephen A. Smith in an interview that he...

Britain’s left-wing government is cleaving to its “point of principle” that migrants should be resettled in middle class and rural areas, and has used emergency powers to approve the conversion of a military base in Oxfordshire into a migrant camp. Labour’s Communities Secretary Angela Rayner has given the go-ahead to convert former British Army garrison Ordnance Depot Bicester into a migrant camp for 1,256 arrivals despite years of protests by locals in the next-door village of Piddington, who say they fear for their safety and have even threatened to secede from Britain over the plan. Nigel Farage has slammed the...

Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who is in the running to assume the Majority Leader position against Chuck Schumer. His candidacy may be what gets Sen. John Fetterman to finally leave the Democrat Party. Fetterman says that Van Hollen's hostility toward Israel would be the impetus for his decision. Fetterman's close ties to the state of Israel has caused him to work closely with his Republican colleagues as the progressive faction of his own party continues to distance themselves from the Middle Eastern country. Van Hollen announced his candidacy for leadership just two days ago. Since then, the most progressive...

It appears one party now hates us and wishes us harm … and the other really isn’t willing to do much about that. Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia chairs the House Oversight Committee. He is also an illegal alien from Peru, amnestied in 1986. And he’s gay. An angry man, he wants to go after conservatives; is desirous, in fact, of holding even those no longer in office “accountable.” For what specifically, I have yet to hear him say. (Republicans won’t even hold the worst criminals in office accountable. Not only couldn’t they keep illegal aliens from voting, they, apparently, but...

British Formula One racecar driver Lewis Hamilton proudly displayed his appalling ignorance to the world earlier this week while visiting the Rafah Border Crossing that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt. While there, Hamilton snapped a photo of himself standing in front of the border crossing and then shared it to Instagram alongside a screed about Israel’s alleged genocide in Gaza. “It’s an injustice for people to being denied their freedom, their safety and their dignity,” Hamilton wrote in his now-viral Instagram post. “No human being should be treated as though their life matters less.” “I saw walls stretching for...

Thune has done 'a good job,' and nobody wants that Senate Minority Leader job in a room full of rampant Democrats, anyway.

Jefferson County Constable Robert de Buys posted a photo to Facebook on Election Night of dozens of Alabama’s new “I Voted” stickers arranged on a dining table to spell “8647,” numbers the U.S. Department of Justice charged former FBI Director James Comey with using as a threat to kill President Donald Trump. “Voting like ****ler is on the ballot,” de Buys wrote above the photo at 8:58 p.m. Tuesday, about two hours after Alabama’s polls closed. He tagged the United States Department of Justice and the FBI in the post. The “****ler” portmanteau is a slur used by Trump critics...