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Benjamin Netanyahu has requested an extension to voting hours as millions of Israelis head to the polls in the country’s first elections since Oct 7. The prime minister’s Likud party petitioned to extend voting beyond 10pm owing to fears of low turnout among his supporters. It follows Mr Netanyahu’s earlier claim that Arab parties were trying to steal the election by bribing voters with envelopes of cash. Mr Netanyahu’s main rival, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot and his Yashar party, opposed the extension request. “The request is intended to lay the groundwork for claims challenging the integrity of the election,...

[Catholic Caucus] The Slippery Tales of Fr. James Martin S.J. Fr. James Martin wants you to believe homosexuals hear relentless condemnation from the pulpit. His stories are what Mark Twain would call “stretchers” and I would call, well, lies.In a recent interview with JD Flynn at The Pillar, Martin offers several anecdotes along these lines, that homosexuals hear relentless condemnation from the pulpit. Does this claim strike you as even remotely true? The Crisis audience is fairly conservative, probably attending conservative parishes, so if anyone has heard this kind of relentless anti-gay thundering from the pulpit, you have. But I...

Lack of profits and the threat posed by western countries are raising concern about the sustainability of Beijing’s AI boomTrillions of dollars have been wiped from China’s stock markets in recent months amid increasing anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence, as Beijing races against the United States for dominance in the sector.The STAR 50 Index, which tracks technology and innovation companies on the Shanghai stock exchange, has plunged 40% since June. Other indexes of major companies dropped by about 20% over the same time period. The precipitous drop has wiped out $2.4tn from the Chinese stock market since May,...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to restore a Biden-era regulation allowing immigration judges to suspend some deportation proceedings......... The Supreme Court just gave President Trump a big win over immigration courts when it comes to deportations. In short, the courts now no longer have the ability to close deportation cases on their own.

We have a week to go before the pivotal midterm election that will determine control of Congress and the fate of President Trump's agenda for the remainder of his term. Speaker Mike Johnson has announced another campaign blitz, where he will visit 13 states and 21 districts between now and November 3. This blitz comes on the heels of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson overseeing historic fundraising for House races, raising more than $30 million in the third quarter and more than $156 million for the cycle. Coupled with what the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), a Johnson-endorsed PAC, has...

Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, is one of the most lethal infections in the world. Scientists at UC San Diego have isolated a molecule that could help us fight back. Credit iStock/Gilnature. =================================================================== Key Takeaways Brain-eating amoeba (primary amoebic meningoencephalitis) is nearly always fatal and progresses so rapidly that current treatments are often too slow or too toxic to be effective. UC San Diego researchers discovered a marine-derived molecule that kills the parasite faster and more selectively than current treatments. Findings could lay the foundation for future treatments that fundamentally improve survival rates, especially when combined with existing therapies. =======================================================================...

Well, would you look at this… A new group of former federal prosecutors and so-called “human rights” activists has decided that America’s Justice Department isn’t doing its job, so they’re going to step in and start building criminal cases against government officials themselves. And as you’d expect, they’re funded like a well-oiled left-wing machine. And guess who’s high on their list of targets… ICE agents, of course. The organization calls itself the “Rule of Law Project,” and it’s promising to investigate alleged corruption and misconduct that it claims President Trump’s Justice Department has been ignoring. Sounds awfully official, doesn’t it?...

A history refresh and if-then logic to counter the demoralization campaigns on the upcoming midterm elections. The struggle sessions will continue until morale improves. After a year of infighting within the right in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, we cannot allow history to repeat with the CCCP and the CCP. The Bolsheviks under Lenin destroyed the White Russians under Pyotr Wrangel because they were unified and their opposition was not. The Communists under Mao destroyed the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek because they were unified and their opposition was not. Will America share the same fate? Demoralization campaigns have intensified...

[Catholic Caucus] James Martin’s ‘ministry’ posts ‘LGBTQ confiteor’ calling on ‘queer saints’ A lesbian’s blasphemous, pro-LGBT rendition of the Confiteor, posted on Fr. James Martin’s website, diminishes sin and invokes ‘spiritual ancestors.’An essay published on Father James Martin’s heterodox Outreach site includes an “LGBTQ Confiteor” that blasphemously invokes “queer saints.”In her October 25 essay for Outreach entitled “An LGBTQ Catholic guide to the Mass: Praying the Confiteor,” Ariell Watson Simon, a woman who is “married” to another woman, discusses her experiences praying the Confiteor at Mass and claims that the faithful overly focus on sexual sin.At the end of her...

American who lives and grew up in Los Angeles just took a 5 day trip Miami, Florida She says she can’t believe how clean it is there, how there are no homeless and how much less expensive it is “I didn't realize just how dirty and gross and expensive LA actually is just because I'm used to it. I live here, I live in it. I saw 2 unhoused people the entire time I was in Miami. The whole week I saw 2 unhoused people, and we went to a bunch of different parts in Miami. And the cost of...

After preparing five victims of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre for burial, members of Pittsburgh’s New Community Chevra Kadisha stood in a circle and held hands. They had gathered like this before, taking a moment after their work to process what they had done. This time, they were caring for people murdered in their own community. Volunteers from outside Pittsburgh had come to help. David Zimmer, a longtime member, remembered one visitor bringing a custom from another chevra kadisha. “He passed around a piece of chocolate,” Zimmer recalled, “so that there should be something sweet.” Eight years later, NCCK...

You’re arguing with psychosis. They’re screaming about things that aren’t there. The first task of defeating political opponents is to understand who they are. What is it that Democrats think they’re doing? And what they think they’re doing in 2026 amounts to a relentless ritual hallucination in the service of an institutional status quo. They’re making up a fake world in their heads to protect their paychecks: in media, in academia, in government, in the results-not-required world of the nonprofit organization. If you doubt that, go read the opinion pages of The New York Times, the agenda-setting newsletter of the...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) is a premier member of the leftist establishment, and so she is unlikely to suffer any serious penalties for her misdeeds, but the evidence for those misdeeds is piling ever higher. Omar has not handled this very well, responding “Not to my knowledge” when asked if she actually married her brother in order to commit immigration fraud and playing her torn and frayed “racism” and “Islamophobia” cards against other allegations, and now she has gone even farther in her efforts to project a serene and untroubled business-as-usual front. This time, however, her gambit could easily backfire....

President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to ban the term “artificial intelligence” after lashing out at The Wall Street Journal in a Truth Social post. Trump posted to his social media platform complaining that the the news organization had yet to adopt his preferred term, “super intelligence:” When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be. In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, “AI/Artificial Intelligence,” in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its...

In the 2011 film Moneyball, Brad Pitt portrays Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, who listens as his scouts enthusiastically praise an up-and-coming baseball player. Beane, unimpressed, asks a simple question. “If he’s a good hitter, why doesn’t he hit good?” This question should be asked about America’s elite universities, particularly in light of the ongoing Cornell Seven controversy. If these institutions are, as some describe them, bastions of rape culture, misogyny, and the institutional protection of sexual predators, why do so many young women desperately want to attend them? And why are their parents willing to spend or borrow...

LOLOLOLOLOL. We really love Abdul El-Sayed ... Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy. This is a major belief of the Left. They think that allowing one people group to be the majority will lead to racism, which will lead to racial nationalism, which will lead to Hitler. Everyone must therefore be crammed into the same geographic area, ethnic tensions and all, in order to guarantee mutually assured destruction. This man wants to live in a country where, ... the majority can't just decide that the minority doesn't deserve the same freedoms. What's funny is that he's describing a...

‘The person they picked on was about as vulnerable as they come’ ↗ Dementia patient kidnapped so investors could steal his home, authorities sayDementia patient kidnapped so investors could steal his home, authorities say HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Two real estate investors, plus a realtor and a notary, are all accused in a scheme to defraud a dementia patient out of his Hollywood home. Investigators said the realtor kidnapped the victim and dumped him in Miami Gardens as part of the scam. Leer en español According to a news release from the office of Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar, the...

BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly FLED Brazil in anticipation of communist dictator Lula persecuting him after the outcome of the rigged election He crossed the border into Argentina and took a private flight to the US. Democracy is dead.

UPDATE (Oct. 21): Mobile Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis said the city scam that led to the transfer of $15 million to a “fraudulent entity” involved the new Regions Arena. PREVIOUS REPORTING MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The City of Mobile transferred $14.7 million to a ‘fraudulent entity’ after it was the target of a criminal scam. According to a city news release, the city has notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service. “We are cooperating fully with investigators and taking every available step to recover the funds and bring the responsible party to justice,” the release read. City officials...

Federal authorities arrested six people associated with Community Home Health Care on fraud charges following a federal grand jury indictment, months after The Maine Wire visited the company’s South Portland office and the state suspended its ability to bill MaineCare. “Today’s arrests have dismantled an elaborate alleged fraud ring dedicated to fleecing a system meant to help those in need. Instead of taxpayer funds paying for the care of our friends and neighbors, these six individuals are accused of fabricating services and pocketing the money to enrich themselves,” said Homeland Security Investigations acting Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Grimming. A...