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WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives today released an Open Letter and Frequently Asked Questions explaining how it will treat ownership, transfer, and transportation of the National Firearms Act firearms for which Congress eliminated the making and transfer taxes in the One Big Beautiful Bill. The guidance follows an announcement by Attorney General Todd Blanche that the Department of Justice will not appeal an August decision made by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, which held that certain provisions of the NFA were unenforceable. In that decision, the court enjoined enforcement of...

The fake substitute teacher is accused of separating Rufus King students by race and gender; making racist remarks that include the N-word and derogatory comments toward white and Asian students; playing rap music in class; telling white male students they were the type of people to become school shooters; asking students if they were gay; asking students for a vape or “weed”; asking whether students were “virgins”; speaking positively about going to jail; making a graphic sexual comment to students…and more.

French teenagers blockaded several high schools and took to the streets in cities across the country on Thursday in the latest wave of protests over conditions in schools. With demonstrations showing no sign of slowing down, around half of the French population reportedly supports the movement. ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia will supply millions of tons of diesel to the global market under a deal he struck with President Vladimir Putin. Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by 500,000 tons in November, and 1 million tons immediately thereafter, Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Moscow will then deliver another 3 million tons of diesel based on the condition of Russia’s refineries, Trump said. Diesel prices have surged around the world as Ukraine has pounded Russian refineries, forcing Moscow to ban diesel exports to the global market. Iran...

Iran ordered London (muslim) mayor Sadiq Khan to round up and arrest Iranian refugees protesting against Iranian IRGC. Kahn obeyed as shown on video.

AUSTIN, TX — Senate candidate James Talarico suddenly disappeared from the campaign trail last week after Democratic strategists realized that he is James Talarico. With Democrats holding a shocking lead in statewide Texas races, political operatives pulled Talarico off the campaign, hoping to hide the fact that he is James Talarico. "The one thing that could sink this campaign is Texans meeting James Talarico," said Democratic strategist Kelly Hutchins. "He is so friggin' weird. Have you heard the stuff that comes out of that guy's mouth? Completely insane, even for us. We believe the winning strategy is to simply keep...

This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.Pulsing through the episodes we’ve been doing, the debate the country has been having about artificial intelligence is a pretty simple but hard question: What sort of technology is artificial intelligence?Is it a technology that works somewhat the way past ones have worked? Is it comparable to electricity, the internet, the bicycle — something like that?Or is it something new? Is the addition of intelligence and volition to these systems the creation of something more like an alien mind, such...

A group of visitors were camping in Washington’s Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest over Labor Day weekend when several people who identified themselves as U.S. Forest Service rangers approached their site. The rangers told the campers that they were receiving a warning for storing garbage improperly, and asked for their IDs. Several hours later, the campers woke up to a team of ICE agents shaking their tents. The agents took five adult men from the group into custody; in a statement to Outside shortly after the arrests, ICE claimed that the five men were in the country without authorization or had...

Trump says he has struck a deal with Putin for Russia to sell 4.8 million tons of diesel fuel to the U.S. and global markets

“Everybody's restless and they got no place to go / Someone's always trying to tell them something they already know / So their anger and resentment flow.” —Warren Zevon, Mohammed’s Radio In the stark October light, events and personalities skulk in the shadows like scavengers in an orchard of poison fruit. The dread builds as the dooryards get populated with the motorized effigies of blood-beasts, werewolves, phantoms, and ghouls. Halloween and Election Day have become the conflated celebration of a national death trip. How has it come down to our country, in a crucial election, seriously entertaining the antics of...

Katie Zacharia has been offered the role as the next White House Press Secretary, Fox News Digital confirmed on Friday afternoon. She currently serves as the senior communications advisor to Trump Media & Technology Group, Truth Social. She is an attorney and frequent television commentator who briefly served as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She will succeed Karoline Leavitt, who left the role in late August.

HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on Friday whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, “I’m not going to be watching it.” The Republican vice president said, “I don’t know that that’s actually going to happen,” when asked about the plans that the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday. But Vance then tried to set aside the controversy over the shocking plans for a public execution and said Hasan’s crimes should not be forgotten

snip In November, 2015, Chelsea Rooney, a grad student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) came forward with the claim that Steven Galloway – a then award-winning fiction writer and, since 2013, charismatic Chair of UBC's Creative Writing program – had four years earlier violently raped a student (unnamed, but in internal investigations referred to as MC for Main Complainant, and legally thereafter alluded to as A.B.)... And here Galloway's harrowing journey through the satanic mills of peak feminist misandry began. Rooney had no personal knowledge or evidence for a single claim she made. But she was an ardent...

Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos in March of 2008. Even though...

Full question that I asked: William Wilberforce only ever passed laws to abolish the slave trade. How can he in good faith be called an abolitionist of slavery? The slave trade is not slavery, that's just only the slave trade and we look down on that abolitionism and do not consider it true abolitionism.------------------------ Your distinction is historically important: abolishing the slave trade is not the same thing as abolishing slavery. The slave trade concerns the buying, selling, and transportation of enslaved people; slavery is the underlying institution in which people are held in bondage. A country can prohibit the...

About 40 million people rely on the Colorado River. But an extended drought and a century-old legal framework have pushed the system to a breaking point. Now, a federal plan threatening deep cuts has ignited a political and legal war across the Southwest. Watch Arizona State University water law professor Rhett Larson break down where the government’s framework falls short, why easy fixes won’t solve the issue, and what structural overhauls are needed to protect a crucial regional economy.

https://x.com/sarahadams/status/2108576711851831748 Sarah Adams@sarahadams·2hOkay, we are going to nip an argument in the bud today. Yes, terrorists will celebrate the execution of Nidal Hasan, just as they celebrated the murder of his victims. They glorify dying for their cause, and of course, will use it in propaganda. But the argument that his execution will somehow unleash a massive wave of terrorist recruitment or inspire waves of suicide bombers needs to stop.That motivation already exists, look at the waves of new recruits after the fall of Kabul, after October 7th, and after the fall of Assad. There are over a dozen terrorist...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday the US is barring all transactions with the International Criminal Court and told America’s allies he expects their help in reining in the “rogue” body. Rubio declared in a statement the US was moving to cripple the court’s economic reach for threatening to bring cases against American troops, border agents and politicians. “For decades now, both Republicans and Democrats have rejected the idea that the International Criminal Court has any power to prosecute American citizens, to prosecute military servicemembers, or political leaders because America never joined the court,” Rubio said in a video...

They should have guessed what they were walking into … A sticky-fingered escort is accused of stealing more than $135,000 from men she met at a Miami strip club fittingly named the Booby Trap. Deziree Hood, 21, was already out on bond for a previous robbery earlier this year when she was recently arrested again in what Miami cops labeled “robbery by seduction,” WPLG reported. In the most recent “seductions,” Hood — who is listed as being an “escort” in at least one of her many recent arrest reports — is accused of stealing two gold chains worth about $110,000...

The ability of U.S. families to stay current on their debts worsened over the past three years, hitting levels not seen since the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. In the central bank’s Survey of Consumer Finances, researchers found that while wealth disparities narrowed somewhat, the ability to meet debt payments deteriorated significantly. “Families were more likely to be behind on their financial obligations than at any point since the 2010 survey,” stated the survey, a data-rich document the Fed releases every three years to chronicle the nation’s financial health. The country in 2010 was...