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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and Steven Spielberg had a private meeting on Monday at the director’s Central Park West apartment, per The New York Times. The Times reported on the pair’s pre-dinner meeting on Thursday, which was confirmed by City Hall and Terry Press, Spielberg’s spokeswoman. Press additionally told the outlet Mamdani and Spielberg agreed to keep their meeting private, while Dora Pekec, a spokeswoman for the mayor, declined to comment, aside from sharing that he returned to work after the events. Knowledgable sources tell The Hollywood Reporter the meeting was not initiated by Mamdani or Spielberg but...

The British government said on Sunday that it will develop a new deep-strike ballistic missile for Ukraine to support the country's war efforts against Russia. Under the project, named Nightfall, the British government said it has launched a competition to rapidly develop ground-launched ballistic missiles that could carry a 200 kg (440 lb) warhead over a range of more than 500 km (310 miles).

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. — Wendy Leigh Messer, a 58-year-old woman from Satsuma, was arrested Monday night after a food-related altercation that included allegations of battery and aggravated assault with a weapon. She faces charges including battery, aggravated assault, and possession of cocaine following the incident at a residence in Putnam County. Deputies responded to a report of an altercation at Messer’s home in Satsuma around 9:15 p.m. on Monday. One victim claimed that Messer threw a plate of collard greens at her and threatened to use a knife against her. The second victim reported fear when Messer approached her while...

Defiant L’s✓ @DefiantLs: "She is a professional protester. I found her at almost 100 different protests. Let's look at her portfolio..." Video Transcript I am, uh, right now I am representing myself, and I am representing, uh, the folks at Rise and Resist who have been trained to be in the Marshals today. How much do they pay you to wear this vest? Absolutely nothing. Really? So, I did some digging, and the woman trying to stop my interview is named Karen Schaal. She is a professional protester. I found her at almost 100 different protests. Let's look at her...

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Explanation: This floating ring is the size of a galaxy. In fact, it is a galaxy -- or at least part of one: the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy, one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. The dark band of dust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in visible light actually glows brightly in infrared light. The featured image, digitally sharpened, shows the infrared glow, recently recorded by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, superposed in false-color on an existing image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in visible light. The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as...

NOW: ICE Agents SMASH the window of an activists car, pull him out and detain him as protesters confront the federal agents on the streets in Southside Minneapolis

The final form of Iran’s future system whether a parliamentary constitutional monarchy or a republic should be determined through a free and fair referendum, without coercion or external imposition. Only the Iranian people have the sovereign right to shape their destiny through democratic processes. However, the international community has a moral and strategic obligation to listen to the voices from Iran’s streets and respond appropriately… Decisive policy is essential: combining “maximum pressure” on the regime through targeted sanctions, isolation, and accountability for human rights violations, with “maximum support” for the people. This includes moral encouragement through public channels, political backing...

“In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.“ - Acts 10:34 The Jewish members of the young church could have known that God's covenant promise is for all peoples, for it was already in the old dispensation that the Lord had promised His grace to the entire world. The prophet Joel, for example, predicts: "it shall come to pass that all who call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered" (Joel 2:32). And Matthew reminds his readers of another Old Testament prophecy, when...

Those who want to see a new government in Ireland to cut immigration and break ties with globalist elites need to “reach across the Atlantic” and seek help from the Irish diaspora in the US MAGA movement, Eddie Hobbs told a conference on Saturday. The audience for the weekend-long IRL Forum in Ashbourne, County Meath, who had paid €90 each for a two-day pass or €50 a day, numbered 300 to 400 on Saturday morning and included US ambassador to Ireland, Edward Walsh. Participants in the sessions, which were all moderated by Mr. Hobbs, a financial adviser-turned podcaster and campaigner,...

When New York City’s 8.5 million residents elected a self-professed socialist to be their next leader, conservatives across the country warned that his tenure would be a disaster. But the first week of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s term has been even worse than most predicted. Like a true Marxist, one of Mamdani’s first acts was erecting a monument to himself. The 34-year-old Ugandan-born immigrant was officially sworn in as the Big Apple’s 111th (or 112th, depending on how you’re counting) mayor just after midnight on January 1. Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of the city, took his oath of office on...

A grocery store receipt from 1997 shows just how much prices of everyday items have skyrocketed in less than three decades. TikTok user Zoe Dippel shared the shockingly low costs in a viral video after a family member found the proof of purchase in a box of mementos. “$155 for all of this!” one of Dippel’s relatives remarked after holding up the lengthy receipt from Texas chain H-E-B dated June 20, 1997. “That’s a lot of stuff,” Dipple declared, as she started to sort through the 122 items and read the prices out loud. The receipt revealed that Little Debbie...

For months and even years libetal activists have been using the race card against ICE.The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, disproves that ICE is a “racist” agency targeting only Black and Brown people.Renee was a blue eyed white woman, liberal, involved in anti-ICE activism and reportedly part of a local “ICE Watch” group, and federal officials say she was impeding agents’ work when the confrontation occurred. In the hours before the shooting, Good had been monitoring and, according to government accounts, obstructing the federal immigration...

A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. The Jackson Fire Department, the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested a suspect Saturday night in the latest blaze after the fire department ruled it arson, according to chief fire investigator Charles Felton. Investigators did not immediately release the name of the suspect or the charges the person could face. The fire was reported shortly after 3 a.m. at Beth Israel...

Massive left-wing funding from ACTBLUE goes into this. It is happening RIGHT NOW against ICE. "She is a professional protester. I found her at almost 100 different protests. Let's look at her portfolio, shall we? Here's her outside Trump Tower saying TikTok time's up.""Here's her saying ban guns, not drag. Amazing. This is her telling us that lies have consequences."

Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A Utah police department's use of artificial intelligence led to a police report stating -- falsely -- that an officer had been transformed into a frog.

Democrats in Congress could face a series of primary challenges from the far left over their support for Israel, possibly upending the 2026 midterm elections. A messy primary season could drain Democrats of valuable resources they need in their quest to take back the House. "The main, centrist Democratic Party as a whole is doing a terrible job managing this whole process," Mark Botnick, a former adviser to ex-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, told Politico. "That's not to say the Israeli government has made it easy for them. It's fine for someone to be against their policies, but it's...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 35-year-old Chinese national was charged this week with taking pictures of B-2 bombers and other “vital military installations” at Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB) back in December, according to federal court documents. According to court documents, Wu admitted to investigators that he had taken videos of the B-2 bomber, as well as Whiteman’s perimeter fencing, gate and military equipment. He then showed investigators his phone and the photos he had taken. Further in the court documents, Wu is described as a Chinese national who illegally entered the country on June 22, 2023, near Nogales, Arizona....

With evidence emerging of more than $9 billion worth of taxpayer fraud in Minnesota, the media are finally starting to cover the problem of criminals stealing from the taxpayer. But fraud is by no means limited to Minnesota—it is a nationwide problem that leaders at both the federal and state levels need to tackle before it gets even worse. Even the New York Times was forced to take notice, publishing an explosive article showing evidence of more than $1 billion of taxpayer money stolen by about 80 different Somali immigrants to Minnesota. Just days after the Minnesota story broke, a...

Labour has been accused of backing cousin marriage by refusing to support a Private Members' Bill seeking to ban the "medieval" practice. Shadow Minister Richard Holden warned Labour MPs were "turning a blind eye" to cousin marriage after today's scheduled second reading vote was stalled. The Basildon & Billericay MP put pressure on Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to support his proposed ban, with the Prime Minister last year rejecting his request to whip Labour MPs in support of prohibiting close family members from tying the knot. Mr Holden told GB News: “If you don’t back first-cousin marriage, you can just...