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An Alaska nurse hired to serve as a surrogate for a couple in California is desperately trying to save their unborn baby's life after they demanded an abortion. McKenna West, a single mother of two young children, applied to Connecticut-based Worldwide Surrogacy Specialist in LLC last year and received a preliminary approval based on her medical history, Live Action reports. She was then shown the profile of a couple whom she felt would be a 'good match' for her and she met on Zoom with the couple, only referred to in court documents as AB and CD.

@PolitlcsUK 🚨 BREAKING: A small boat carrying around 160 migrants has caught fire in the English Channel A huge rescue operation is underway with 11 Border vessels and lifeboats in attendance

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A deeply unpopular Republican president, high gas prices, a seemingly endless war against Iran that has little popular support. Many factors in the current U.S. political climate should be favorable to Democrats. Instead, the Democratic Party is left with much hand-wringing ahead of November's midterm elections and growing calls for the party's executive leader to step down. One of the people voicing those calls is David Hogg, a gun violence prevention advocate who previously served as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. He now runs Leaders We Deserve, a group to elect young progressive leaders to Congress and state...

Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71 Prominent Palestinian activist spouting rhetoric used by Hitler to demonize German Jews. susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa Jul 25, 2026 The way .. keep boasting about the extraordinary power they wield reminds me of how they also boasted and took credit for Germany’s defeat in the First World War that culminated in the Treaty of Versailles and led to the rise of extreme anti-Jewish sentiment. Readers added context. German Jews fought loyally for Germany in WWI and did not boast about or take credit for its defeat; the post distorts...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint John Vianney, PriestHe summoned the crowd and said to them, “Hear and understand. It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one.” Then his disciples approached and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?” Matthew 15:10–12Jesus’ words would have stunned His Jewish listeners because He challenged deeply rooted religious beliefs about purity and impurity. He was not denying the value of external practices when they are rightly understood and ordered....

Michigan will offer the country its clearest gauge yet on the direction of the Democratic Party, as primary voters in the battleground state choose between a progressive standard-bearer and an establishment-backed candidate. Although there have been similar contests around the country, this one will hold extra weight because Michigan is a key state in presidential races. Abdul El-Sayed, backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, is up against four-term Rep. Haley Stevens, supported by Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Democratic and Republican voters in Michigan are also deciding on their parties’ nominees to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In Kansas, Missouri,...

Old and busted: Demanding ID for voting hurts the poor, women, and minorities! New hotness: Bring your ID if you expect to eat at Commie Basket!For decades, the Left has insisted that asking for identification to access the ballot box was far too burdensome for its grievance collectives. Of late, the argument has been that black voters and women face particular burdens in getting accurate identification, the former because of the lingering effects of Jim Crow and the latter because of name changes due to marriage and divorce. Requiring ID to vote would disenfranchise these voters, Democrats insist, even though...

On Monday, the latest video dropped, exposing the cruelty and calculation of former Biden Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra in his oversight of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). But instead of whistleblower testimony, this new release is from an alleged victim of the system that Becerra built. These large-scale refugee ORR encampments were the brainchild of then-HHS Secretary Becerra, who is running against Republican Steve Hilton for the California governorship, and Becerra has bragged about the operation, comparing the farming of minors through the facility as an "assembly line."As RedState reported, Hilton has been releasing these...

The Brief:A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of intentionally starting the Old Trails Fire in Spokane County. Investigators say the wildfire has burned more than 3,600 acres and destroyed hundreds of structures, though the suspect is not believed to be linked to two other major fires. Authorities have not identified a motive, and all three major Spokane County wildfires remain 0% contained. SPOKANE, Wash. - A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson for allegedly starting the Old Trails Fire, one of three wildfires in Spokane County that have destroyed hundreds of homes. The suspect is...

Rowlett is the first city in Dallas County to install a Safe Haven Baby Box, giving parents in crisis a legal and anonymous way to surrender a newborn under Texas’ Safe Haven law.

A 37-year-old Spokane, Washington, resident with a previous manslaughter conviction was arrested Monday in connection with largest of the region’s three wildfires, which have displaced thousands and destroyed hundreds of structures, authorities said. Aaron Farinacci, 37, was taken into custody without incident with the help of a SWAT team after a judge signed a warrant based on an allegation of first-degree arson, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels said at an evening news conference. Farinacci was being held on $1 million bond, he said. It was unclear if he has been formally charged or has a lawyer, and the public defender’s...

Let kids know you’re on their side and try to build their confidence by saying something like “I see you’re anxious right now,” Demsky said. “I get it. I know that’s hard, but I know that you have the power to handle this feeling and you will get through this.” Also, when you start getting warnings from school officials because your child is racking up absences, pressuring your kids will only make them more stressed. Instead, schedule a meeting with school officials to explain the problem and brainstorm solutions together.

You’d be surprised just how much the story of the devil is embedded within the story of rock ‘n’ roll. It all goes back to the Bible. There is a passage in ‘Ezekiel 28:13’ that essentially says the musical ability that people have has been bestowed upon them by God: “The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created”. This is a pretty universal ideology throughout most religions, not just Christianity, which is why so many faithful devotees choose to rejoice in song. However, the story of the devil...

France on Monday condemned a proposal by hard-right Reform UK party to launch, if it wins power, "the largest military operation" in the Channel "since World War II" to stop migrants crossing on small boats. The party's leader, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, at a press conference unveiled a policy to deploy Britain's Royal Navy to return small boats to France. But the French interior ministry told AFP that the plan "would be a violation of French sovereignty as well as a violation of maritime law and international law". The proposal comes days after tens of thousands of migrants entered the...

Republican Utah Sen. John Curtis introduced a bill this week that would let states run their own migrant worker visa programs, with a legal-status pathway for some illegal immigrants tucked inside. Curtis rolled out the legislation Monday alongside Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, according to the Deseret News. The measure would let state legislatures build voluntary visa programs sized to local labor demand, a reworking of federal immigration law that, according to the outlet, mirrors a 2011 Utah guest-worker proposal Washington never signed off on. The bill contains language the Deseret News described as a possible pathway to legal residency...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is arresting, on average, about 1,500 illegal aliens every day throughout American communities, a report released Monday suggests. The CBS News report states that the figures are based on internal documents not yet disclosed to the public, detailing “a summer enforcement surge” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that has seen more than 46,000 illegal aliens taken into the agency’s custody in July. “An average of 1,500 detainees entered ICE custody each day last month, the data indicates, though some of them were first arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents,” CBS...

The vibrant, east Asian immigrant enclave of Flushing may be New York’s medical fraud capital. A one-mile radius of the neighborhood boasts 77 Social Adult Daycares (SADCs), which bill Medicaid over $100 million a year, accounting for 14 percent of all daycare spending in the state, a Post investigation reveals. When The Post visited some of largest — which are private businesses that have claimed between $20 and 40 million from Medicaid over the last six years — many storefronts were shuttered, and those that were open had empty rooms with no patients. At Livingwell Day Care on Northern Boulevard,...