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The U.S. Department of Justice sued Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul over the state’s new law aimed at limiting immigration enforcement in courthouses. The law, signed by Pritzker this month, bars immigration enforcement from courthouses and opens the door for easier legal action against federal agents over alleged civil rights infractions. It follows the Trump administration’s sweeping deportation campaign that has targeted the state, specifically the Chicago area, for months. The lawsuit claims that the law is unconstitutional and states have no regulatory authority over federal actions, such as immigration enforcement.

Since two of the three NFL games the family regularly watches on Christmas Day are only on Netflix this year, I am wondering - do I have to watch them live or can I watch them a couple of hours later to skip the commercials and halftime shows?

Bit by bit, a Turkish front is forming, more dangerous than Israel’s seven arenas since Oct. 7. Erdogan’s ideology and ambition require Israel to refocus on a higher strategic risk.Since October 7, 2023, Israel’s political and military leadership has claimed that seven different arenas threaten it. It seems that, bit by bit but consistently, an eighth menacing front is forming, one that in many ways is more dangerous than the others.This is the Turkish front. Turkey, which until about 23 years ago was one of Israel’s greatest friends, has become a real enemy since Erdogan rose to power.The main factors...

As any sports fan can attest, rivalries are one of the absolute best part of sports. If your team is having a horrific year? It can still almost be salvaged by beating your rival, which is especially true in collegiate sports. So why in the world have the University of Southern California and the University of Notre Dame decided to toss their historic rivalry to the wayside? It’s a question that has legendary former USC wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson furious with his alma mater. And he took to social media to air his grievances: "Okay, we’ve got people in there...

VIDEORemember when Steve Cortes switched from supporting Trump to endorsing Ron DeSantis? Poor Steve soon learned he made a bad decision and we can actually pinpoint the EXACT MOMENT in February 2023 when he had that realization. It was while the unhinged betrayer of James O'Keefe who caused the destruction of Project Veritas, Matt Tyrmand, shot his mouth off like a deranged loon about how horrible he condidered Trump to be. And at that moment you can read via the sudden dramatic change on Steve Cortes' face what a drastic mistake he realized he made.ANYTHING involving that Toxic Dirtbag Matt...

NPR has a resolution for 2026: Stop quoting University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias. Tobias “appears 77 times on NPR’s website, and seems to be a dial-a-quote for NPR and numerous other media outlets on a very wide range of topics,” NPR’s standards chief, Tony Cavin, reportedly complained in an email sent to staff. That email — subject reading “GUIDANCE: Don’t I know you from somewhere?” — was shared with Semafor. Tobias’ “hobby seems to be getting himself quoted about anything and everything in news stories,” the email reads. “He is often quoted by wire services and as a...

Avatar: Fire and Ash is another box office disappointment for Disney, which had hoped the film would provide a short-term boost. The previous sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, opened to more than $134 million domestically in 2022 and went on to earn nearly $685 million in the U.S., while Fire and Ash debuted with just $89 million. Adjusted for inflation, the decline is even more pronounced, signaling a sharp drop in audience interest and raising doubts about the franchise’s once-reliable box office pull. I stopped caring about the franchise after the original film. To be fair, audiences don’t help....

"Terrorism is our religion. Koran say terrorism is normal. We are proud, we say terrorism is proud". December 24, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield. The Muslim terror scene is heating up with another plot or two happening every week. What’s their motive? “Terrorism is our religion. Koran say terrorism is normal. We are proud, we say terrorism is proud.” The two Muslim terrorists in the UK were not subtle about their motives. Walid Saadaoui, a Tunisian, and Amar Hussein, an Iraqi, had big plans. “I want to kill as many as possible.” “I have an overwhelming urge. I feel sometimes I...

Harriet Hageman, Wyoming’s Republican representative to the U.S. House, is running for Senate after U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis announced Friday she won’t seek reelection next year. Rep. Harriet Hageman, 63, told Cowboy State Daily her choice to run for one of the state’s two U.S. Senate seats sprang from calculations about doing the most good for Wyoming — and shielding it from bad policy.

KYIV—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be willing to pull troops out of the eastern region of Donetsk and create a demilitarized free economic zone as part of a potential peace deal, provided Russia took similar steps to withdraw from areas it controls. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Zelensky said the proposal and other aspects of a 20-point plan would be put to a referendum. The territorial dispute across the Donbas, the eastern flank of Ukraine where some of the heaviest fighting is raging, is one of the chief sticking points in the latest version of a plan to...

American cities did not stumble accidentally into mass surveillance. They chose it. Over the past decade, thousands of municipalities quietly installed automated license plate reader systems that record, store, and analyze the daily movements of ordinary people. They did so deliberately, with minimal public debate, and with striking indifference to the constitutional implications. This architecture was celebrated as modern, data driven, and compassionate. It was defended as the price of safety. Privacy objections were waved aside as abstract or paranoid. The public was assured that responsible officials would use the tools wisely. That confidence collapsed the moment enforcement priorities changed....

Every year there comes this time of year where folks gather together and celebrate. Celebrate what you might ask. Well, Christmas, Holidays, Family, Friends, Life, or whatever else folks these days celebrate. There's always the handful of people who are left out however. The isolated. The excluded. The ostracized. The scrooges. The depressed. The loners. Those down on their luck. Etc. And let's face it, it's not just a handful anymore - there are a lot of people out there who are barely hanging on in life. Whether it be for health reasons, financial reasons, destroyed relationships, addictions of all...

The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request to allow the president to proceed with immediately deploying National Guard troops to Chicago — delivering a blow, if temporary, to President Donald Trump as he seeks to expand his federalization push across the U.S. The justices declined the Trump administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had refused to step in. The Supreme Court took more than two months to act.

The U.S. is on pace for the largest one-year drop in murders the nation has ever recorded, according to an analysis by crime stats expert Jeff Asher. The big picture: The decline in killings is part of a broader decrease in violent crime following the COVID-era spike. Mass killings in the U.S. also fell in 2025, reaching their lowest level since 2006. The Real-Time Crime Index, which compiles data from 570 law enforcement agencies, shows a nearly a 20% decline in murders this year compared with the same period in 2024. The database, which Asher used in his analysis, does...

A federal judge gave a green light Tuesday to New York's so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration's bid to stop the state from giving people driver's licenses without having them prove they are in the country legally. U.S. District Judge Anne M. Nardacci in Albany ruled that the Republican administration — which challenged the law under President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration — had failed to support its claims that the state law usurps federal law or that it unlawfully regulates or unlawfully discriminates against the federal government. The Justice Department sued the state over the law...

Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, the winningest Japanese golf professional in history, passed away Dec. 23 at the age of 78. Nicknamed for his stout physical presence and prodigious length off the tee, Ozaki amassed 94 career victories on the Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO) – 43 more than his closest rival, fellow World Golf Hall of Fame member Isao Aoki. Included were six Japan PGA Championships and five Japan Open titles. Ozaki also led the Tour in earnings a record 12 times, highlighted by a five-year run from 1994-1998, and was ranked among the top 10 on the Official World Golf...

MIAMI, DETROIT and PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – The PGA TOUR today welcomed Cadillac as title sponsor of the Cadillac Championship, the new Signature Event at Trump National Doral, in a multi-year agreement. The Cadillac Championship, set for April 27-May 3, 2026, on the famed Blue Monster, will be broadcast on CBS/Paramount+, Golf Channel and three PGA TOUR Studios properties: PGA TOUR LIVE on ESPN+, Sirius XM and the TOUR’s World Feed. “We are pleased to welcome back Cadillac, a world-class brand whose partnership with the PGA TOUR is synonymous with Trump National Doral, a legacy venue on our schedule,”...

Parents have a constitutional right to be informed if their child starts to present as a different gender at school, and schools can’t hide that information from parents, a San Diego federal judge ruled in a class-action lawsuit. In a 52-page decision handed down Monday night, Dec. 22, Judge Roger Benitez ruled that parents have a constitutional right to know if their child may be transgender and that California public schools cannot prevent employees from notifying parents. In a separate order, he barred them from violating that right. The injunction bans public school employees from misleading parents about their child’s...

Explanation: What is big, bright, and beautiful, can wear a cape made of clouds, and is at the closest point in its elliptical orbit around planet Earth? A full moon at perigee of course, captured here near moonset in predawn skies on November 5 from Kayseri, Turkiye. Full moons that happen at (or very near) perigee, and so are slightly larger and brighter than full moons on average, have become popularly known as supermoons. In fact, this full moon at perigee is the closest and brightest of the three supermoons of 2025. Rising as the Sun sets, this full moon...

Google has accused Britain of threatening to stifle free speech in an escalation of US opposition to online safety rules. The regulator Ofcom is planning to prevent posts going viral that include “potentially illegal” material, such as hate speech or calls to violence. However, Google warned that proposals to require tech giants to detect and suppress such “potentially illegal” posts risk “undermining users’ rights to freedom of expression”. Google said the measures would “necessarily result in legal content being made less likely to be encountered by users, impacting users’ freedom of expression, beyond what the [Online Safety] Act intended”. Ofcom...