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Eric Swalwell’s accusers were left totally in the dark before the disgraced congressman was confronted by federal agents at the airport, according to one of his alleged victim’s attorneys. Arick Fudali, an attorney for Swalwell accuser Lonna Drewes, said he was surprised to learn of the federal investigation, adding that authorities had not contacted his client during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Jesse Weber Live” Thursday. “You know, certainly an interesting development,” Fudali told host Jesse Weber. “I was a bit caught off guard because Ms. Drewes has not been contacted by the FBI or anyone from federal law enforcement.” The...

NEW: The captain accused of operating an illegal charter boat that capsized in New York Harbor, killing a 27-year-old mother and her baby, is an illegal immigrant and is now in custody. Authorities say Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana does not have a captain's license and is accused of illegally operating the charter when the deadly trip turned tragic. DHS says Hernandez-Umana crossed the border in 2007 and falsely claimed U.S. citizenship. The agency says it will ensure he is removed from the country after he faces justice.@AlexisMcAdamsTV has the latest.

oodrow Wilson holds a distinction no other American president has: he earned a Ph.D., completing his doctorate in political science and history at Johns Hopkins University in 1886. That same year, he wrote an essay called “The Study of Administration,” later published in the inaugural volume of Political Science Quarterly. Historians widely credit this essay as the founding document of public administration as a formal academic field, and Wilson himself as the father of that discipline.Wilson’s central argument was that government should be split into two separate domains: politics, where elected officials set broad goals and policy direction, and administration,...

Groups of women dressed in pink gathered outside Plymouth Superior Court this week in support of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother on trial for the 2023 deaths of her three young children. Clancy's defense does not dispute that she killed her children but argues that she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from severe mental illness. Prosecutors say the killings were intentional and premeditated. Many of the women held signs or wore buttons reading "Peace for Lindsay" and "Justice for Lindsay." According to AP, several of the roughly 300 people who gathered said Clancy’s story resonated...

This video discusses the ongoing legal battles of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, specifically regarding her disqualification from the Trump RICO prosecution (0:32) and the subsequent legal fallout. Key takeaways: Financial Stakes: Following the dismissal of the criminal case against Donald Trump in November 2025, the DA's office is facing demands for nearly $17 million in reimbursement for legal fees (0:48, 5:12). The video notes that such an award could potentially bankrupt the local office (1:13). Disqualification Dispute: Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that because Willis and her office were "wholly disqualified" from the underlying case due to an...

After decades of efforts to bolster women’s role in the workforce, the male-female labor gap has now officially closed. By one measure, it has reversed. American women now hold 176,000 more payroll jobs than American men, according to July data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed by Laura Ullrich, director of economic research at Indeed. That disparity has nearly doubled since February. Compare it to the 1990s, when men held nearly seven million more jobs than women. It’s not that women are filling roles that would have gone to men. Rather, men have been leaving the labor market...

Is Erdogan siding with the jihadis? Probably. Who let Turkey into NATO? Broadcast coming in 10 minutes. Will be available for playback after the program is over.

Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf says a confidential informant working inside the Michigan Secretary of State’s office came forward recently with evidence alleging the state’s computer system is automatically registering noncitizens to vote when they update their addresses. Leaf made the allegations in a video statement, saying the informant reported that “noncitizens are automatically registered to vote when they change their address.” Leaf added, “The confidential informant provided evidence that the customer and automotive records system is programmed to congratulate and inform noncitizens that they are registered to vote.” The allegation has not been independently verified, but Leaf says his...

The U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti on Thursday for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians. The plane landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien because the main international airport in Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous. The U.S. government currently has a ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti's capital through early September because of ongoing gang violence. The deportees were clad in white, and many covered their faces out of safety as journalists filmed their arrival. Nearly all declined to talk, with...

Russia marks Cheburashka's 60th birthday on August 20 amid indications officials in the country may be set to disown the beloved character over claims he represents a dark force corrupting Russia's children, along with debate over the creature's "ethnicity." Amid the record-breaking success of an eponymous 2023 film about Cheburashka and its 2026 sequel, Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent pro-Kremlin political theorist, has repeatedly railed against the character, whom he has variously described as a "lunar demon" and "rootless cosmopolitan" (a pejorative Stalin-era term for a Jewish person) responsible in part for the collapse of the Soviet Union. In December a...

A former University of Kentucky student-athlete pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree manslaughter in the death of her infant son, whose body was found inside a trash bag in a closet. Laken Snelling had initially pleaded not guilty after a grand jury indicted her on several charges, including first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. Snelling, 22, changed her plea to guilty on Friday, NBC affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky, WLEX reported. Appearing before Fayette County Circuit Court Judge Diane Minnifield, Snelling began crying as she entered her guilty plea. “I was...

PLAY THE MAN SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, in these last days of increasing apostasy, spiritual darkness, and godlessness, Almighty God calls His blood-bought saints to “play the man”, to stand strong and courageously represent our precious Lord Jesus Christ! Like Joshua standing at the entrance of the Promised Land, our courage does not come from ourselves, but from knowing that our ETERNAL God is always with us: “Be strong and of a good courage...for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest” (Josh. 1:6–9). To “play the man” is to courageously gird up our loins, stand upon the unchanging...

Beloved, this is an absolutely incredible interview with Dr. Erwin Lutzer and Jack Hibbs on Karl Marx and Marxism in today's America. Dr. Lutzer's new book will be out in September, called Marx and Moody. Pastor Jack sits down again with author Dr. Erwin Lutzer to discuss his newest book, Marx and Moody: Two Contemporaries. Two Gospels. Two Tombstones. One Choice. The book explores the lives of Karl Marx and D.L. Moody, the stark contrast between the two men, and what we can learn from their legacies. Don’t miss this fascinating episode and its timely message for our culture today....

Radical pro-abortion California is continuing its tirade against the lives of preborn and born children alike with three new bills that horrify the average American voter. As California reaches the end of its legislative session, abortion extremists are going to push these bills through as quickly as possible — but Students for Life Action (SFLAction) won’t let them do it without a fight. Here are the deadly bills California state legislators introduced: AB 1930 — “Abortion or gender-affirming health care services: investigations, subpoenas, or summons” Introduced by Democrat Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, along with Democrat Assemblymembers John Harabedian, Nick Schultz,...

During a visit to Mayotte on Friday, France’s former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe vowed to crack down on immigration to the French overseas territory if he’s elected to the presidency next year. Mayotte is a popular destination for migrants from the African continent and the nearby Comoros islands seeking a better life. "That is why I have proposed taking back control by shutting off all the valves that can fuel immigration to the territory of Mayotte," Philippe, the founder and candidate of the centre-right Horizons party. "This means halting, for the duration of the next five-year term, all asylum applications...

A notice promoting an HIV/AIDS medicine product from Nigeria traditional healer Sarkin Lakanin Jihar Kano. When US funding cuts disrupted access to free antiretroviral therapy, some Nigerians turned to traditional healers marketing herbal ‘cures’ framed as Islamic medicine. Copyright: Photo Courtesy of Sarkin Lakanin Jihar Kano Speed read[KANO, SciDev.Net] Aisha* once relied on free antiretroviral therapy (ART) from a clinic in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, funded through the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programme. The treatment kept her HIV suppressed. That changed when US President Donald Trump ordered a halt to PEPFAR funding in January 2025. “When I...

Explanation: What does it feel like to zoom around a spinning supermassive black hole? The featured video is an animation showing a time-lapse of 4 years of observations of the star S301 orbiting Sagittarius A*, the 4-million-solar-mass black hole in the center of our Galaxy. S301 was discovered in 2023 with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory, located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Astronomers recently found that S301 takes approximately 8.7 years to go around the black hole and reaches speeds of 25,000 km/s. It comes closer to the black hole than any other stars...

We should be concerned about young men's physical and mental healthA new documentary, "Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere," hit number one on Netflix this spring, spotlighting the influencers who exploit young men and monetize their insecurity. One way they do this is through looksmaxxing apps. Imagine a 15-year-old taking a selfie. Seconds later, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm returns its verdict: 6.3 out of 10. Underneath, a list of repairs: improve your canthal tilt, sharpen your jawline, raise your facial harmony, increase your masculinity. He has just been told, by something that sounds like science, how far his face sits...

Navigating a world with peanut allergies can be… well, nuts. Even if you’re not the one who’s allergic. More than six million Americans have a food allergy, and peanuts are the third-most common allergen. And it doesn’t just impact those who can’t eat it: Because reactions can be deadly, peanut-free policies and other restrictions are common in places like schools and restaurants. But a Minnesota-based startup is developing a new “hypoallergenic” peanut that could bring the salty snack back to hospitals, planes, cafeterias and restaurants without causing allergic reactions. Nurtured Nuts CEO Bryant Williams sought to remove three of the...

America is caught in a historic capital squeeze: On one side: Trillions Washington must borrow to pay for the past. On the other: Trillions the economy needs to build the future. Why it matters: The next president will inherit a fiscal reckoning decades in the making. The price it exacts — on taxes, benefits, borrowing and investment — could shape America's prosperity and power for generations. Zoom in: President Trump said in 2016 that he could eliminate what was then roughly $19 trillion in national debt within eight years. On Tuesday, the debt crossed $40 trillion, after growing by $3...