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"Abdi Nur Salah and his co-conspirators used taxpayer money meant to support hungry children to buy themselves a life of luxury," an FBI official said. Abdi Nur Salah, a former aide to Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, was sentenced last week to nearly three years in federal prison for his role in Minnesota’s sprawling Feeding Our Future scandal. The scandal takes its name from the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which sponsored meal sites throughout the state where free food for children was purportedly served. In reality, the defendants submitted fraudulent claims for reimbursement from the federal government for meals that...

My September 29 post asked whether we could deem as “definitively falsified” the hypothesis that human-caused global warming was leading to “more and more severe” hurricanes. The cited basis for the question was that, despite the endlessly repeated prediction of “more and more severe” hurricanes, as of that date not a single hurricane had yet formed this season in the North Atlantic basin. This represented a record-low rate of hurricane formation in this region since the satellite era, and comprehensive hurricane data, began in 1966. (Since that post, five more days have passed, and there is still no hurricane in...

U.S. — With unrest drawing attention around the globe and the November midterm elections coming up soon, Democrats made it a point to blame President Donald Trump's cuts to USAID for slowing the communist takeover of the West. Though the party's plan to overrun the western world with a deadly combination of leftist politics and Islamic conquest remained alive, Democrats stressed that it had been severely hampered by drastically reduced funding for USAID programs. "We're still trying, but it's making it much more difficult," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said. "Trump has gutted USAID funding for so many causes throughout...

WOODSTOCK, ME — Shouts of "BOOOO!" could be heard coming from a cabin in the woods as a man later identified as podcast host Tucker Carlson became increasingly frustrated while watching Indiana Jones defeat the Nazis, neighbors said. Following a failed debate against Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Carlson chose to unwind with a viewing of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a film he remembered enjoying as a 20-year-old. But that was then. Now, his eyes having been opened to the plight of Nazis, he found himself thinking of how much better off the world would have been if the Nazis...

An Afghan refugee who killed a dog walker and attacked two other people in a "frenzy of violence" has been given an indefinite hospital order and recommended for deportation. Dawood Safi, 28, stabbed Wayne Broadhurst, 49, in the street during a series of knife attacks which began at Safi's home in Uxbridge, west London, on 27 October 2025, Southwark Crown Court heard. Safi, who was having paranoid delusions and hearing voices, attacked his landlord Shahzad Farrukh minutes before killing Broadhurst, and also stabbed a 14-year-old boy. The 28-year-old admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. Mrs Justice Cutts, who told...

Agents tracked Melania and Barron Trump's travel and monitored Susie Wiles' calls as part of the Jack Smith investigation =================================================================== The Biden-era FBI tracked Trump family travel, including the First Lady and Barron Trump, and surveilled future White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles' phone as federal officials worked the classified documents investigation reaching deep into Trump's inner circle, newly declassified records show. Documents released Monday by the White House detail "Plasmic Echo," the probe later led by special counsel Jack Smith into whether Trump improperly retained classified documents after leaving office. The declassified documents show agents tracked the first...

The Biden administration did attempt to prosecute parents federally for the crime of disagreeing with school boards in 2020 and 2021, says a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DoJ) Weaponization Working Group. As America begins to vote early before the November 3 midterm election, this is worth recalling -- and, indeed, getting more details on, as it shows how far some are willing to go to criminalize and thereby control free citizens. The Weaponization Working Group came about after President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14147 to bring accountability and to hopefully prevent this from happening again....

The Pentagon announced Monday that Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad, marking the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years. The shooting left 13 people dead and wounded 32 others. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution, and it was approved by President Donald Trump. The time and place of the execution have not yet been announced, but Army policy outlines that executions must happen within 150 days of the president approving it,...

On Sunday, 4 October, Dmitry Medvedev threatened Armenia, saying that it “could transform into a second Ukraine”. This refers to the Armenians’ aspirations for closer ties with the European Union, which do not please Russia, as it wishes to keep Armenia within its sphere of influence. On Sunday, 4 October, Dmitry Medvedev gave an interview to Iranian state television. In it, he stated that the West is testing the “strength of the relationship” connecting Armenia and Russia, warning Yerevan against changing its political course. “The current Armenian authorities have decided to change direction. I am certain that this will not...

A Runbeck Election Services error sent more than 3,100 Maricopa County ballots six days early, but officials say they remain valid and will be securely stored unopened if returned before processing begins. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Runbeck Election Services mailed more than 3,100 Maricopa County ballots six days early. The Recorder’s Office said the ballots are correct and valid and were delivered to the proper voters. Prematurely returned ballots will remain unopened in secure storage until regular processing begins. The county planned to inspect Runbeck’s process starting Monday following the unauthorized mailing. ============================================================================ A vendor error sent more than...

The Pentagon announced Monday that Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad, marking the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years. The shooting left 13 people dead and wounded 32 others. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the execution, and it was approved by President Donald Trump. The time and place of the execution have not yet been announced, but Army policy outlines that executions must happen within 150 days of the president approving it,...

So, admit it, you'd get a kick out of listening to "Little Duece Coup". Here it is.1978, Wheatland CA, rice-fields country--driving on Hwy 99, you have to close your windows because of pesticides in the rice paddies-- north of Sacramento, south of Marysville-Yuba City; Hancock Gas Station. (Hwy 99, Tule fog, "Death Alley", UC Davis Med Center Sacramento had the #1 trauma E.R. in the world in the late 1970s, until it was defunded, E.R. Surgeons as skilled as "battlefield" trauma surgeons in Beirut, Lebanon or Northern Ireland.)I can't find a photo, but the station had a standard, baked-enamel gas...

A society that forfeits reality forfeits its future. DEI and woke masquerade as promoting opportunity for those less advantaged, but the idea is flawed. It begins by sorting people into an artificially constructed class of the oppressed and the enlightened, a hierarchy of “less-thans” and “better-thans.” Once someone assigns a group to “less than,” they have already placed themselves into “better than.” The messaging insists it is about social awareness, but it’s really about superiority. Beneath that posture sits a psychological device that shields adherents from examining their own internal conflicts and dictates exactly what one is permitted and forbidden...

Sailors are reportedly being offered as much as $25,000 a trip to move trapped oil through the dangerous, war-rattled Persian Gulf – meaning producers are spending up to $40 million total for a multi-day trip... The jaw-dropping payments – sometimes worth two or three times a sailor’s typical monthly salary – are an attempt to convince crew members to risk the potentially deadly strikes... Fresh data on Monday showed the payouts are working, as crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz reached 16.5 million barrels per day in September – far above lows of 5 million barrels a day in...

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Jeffrey Archer, a best-selling British author, politician, philanthropist, athlete and one-time jailbird whose résumé seesawed between achievement and disgrace, and who inspired abiding public fascination with headline-grabbing accounts, both fictional and personal, of ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal, died on Monday at his home in London. He was 86 ...In his days as a politician — both as a member of Parliament in the elected House of Commons and as deputy head of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party — he displayed a barely veiled hunger for the top job. His friendships and alliances eventually won him a place in the unelected...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is considering a run for president in 2028, said at a closed-door fund-raiser on Monday in New York that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s race for Senate in Michigan was part of a “generational project” for the progressive movement. “What we do is that we break open the entire political calculus in America — period,Because if you can win, if Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere.” “Anywhere,” she added for emphasis. Her remarks come as Democrats watch closely for clues about whether she will seek the White House in 2028, run for the Senate or...

Apple News allegedly failed to promote a single story about the Democratic National Committee’s financial woes among its top 20 stories over nearly nine months, according to a new analysis by the Media Research Center. The watchdog group found that none of the 78 stories it identified about the DNC’s mounting debt were promoted by Apple News from Jan. 1 through Sept. 28 — just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections. “Apple isn’t curating the news,” David Bozell, president of the MRC, said. “It’s running a high-tech protection racket for the political left.” The findings come as Democrats grapple with...

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Controversial televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a Christian television empire, died Monday at the age of 86.'It is with a broken heart that I share that my beloved husband, Jim Bakker, went home to be with the Lord this evening,' his wife, Lori Bakker, wrote.Lori said Bakker's final moments were filled with faith after he devoted 66 years of his life to preaching the gospel.Bakker was best known for hosting The PTL Club, short for The Praise the Lord Club, a popular Christian television show that aired from the 1970s through the late 1980s, as well as developing Heritage USA,...