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Mass shooting in Krakow central square, six dead, shooter in custody and in hospital. Police officer who took him down also hospitalized. so-far uncounted numbers injured. On-scene videos as it was occurring. PM Tusk warns everyone not to politicize (sheesh). MSM calls shooter "alleged shooter".

Video of the flooding in the southwest USA

A longtime strategist for former President Barack Obama is already looking forward to 2028, saying that he’s spoken to 29 Democrats who are at least toying with the idea of running for president in the next election cycle. Jim Messina, who managed Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, laid out his thoughts during an Election Day appearance on Bloomberg TV, where he said that the Democrats’ Tuesday blowout — particularly with regard to the gubernatorial elections in key swing states — changed the presidential map going in to the 2028 cycle. “If we win the House and the Senate, we will have...

Former chief of staff served as conduit between business community and Trump administration Lobbyists and surrogates for some of the world’s largest companies had a go-to strategy when they saw no other path to head off a damaging policy from President Trump: call Susie Wiles.Throughout her tenure, Trump’s departing chief of staff became a sounding board for corporations and advocacy groups trying to influence the administration, according to people familiar with the matter. Her departure, announced Friday, will leave many businesses searching for a new interlocutor within the White House.Leading Wall Street executives have often turned to Wiles and her...

The Pentagon says it has delivered more than 25,000 unmanned and counter-drone systems to U.S. Central Command this year through an approximately $782 million effort to accelerate military procurement... The 25,000 total therefore combines offensive systems, maritime platforms and counter-drone capabilities.... “DRPM-UxS was established to cut through red tape and put lethal technology directly into the hands of our frontline troops,” Owen West.. “In the hands of American warfighters, these low-cost, attritable systems serve as high-volume alternatives to legacy, multi-million-dollar exquisite munitions

“The Tehran "Trump in a Cage" live art exhibition, in which an actor dressed as U.S. President Donald Trump sat inside a life-size prison cell suspended above a public square in central Tehran, culminated in a mock public execution, according to a Channel 3 (Iran) report aired on November 4, 2026. The Channel 3 reporter told viewers that "the True Promise" was here. He said that Trump had been choked by the hands of the Iranian people and added that he had faced retribution on the anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.”

A key former staffer and ally of Robert F Kennedy Jr accused outgoing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles of taking money from corporations and foreign interests to sabotage RFK's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. Trump announced Friday that 'ice queen' Wiles would leave the powerful position on Monday for a position in Trump's political operation, to be replaced by Stephen Miller. While many, including Trump, celebrated the work Wiles did, former Kennedy advisor Calley Means accused Wiles of pay to play involving her daughter in an interview with Joe Rogan. Means, who departed the Department of Health and Human...

Beloved, ETERNALLY rejoice in our ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Savior! We are ETERNALLY His FOREVERMORE, and seated with the Father in Jesus, as Almighty God works out His good pleasure for His ETERNAL glory in us till we are changed FOREVER! Occupy for the Father's ETERNAL glory! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Maranatha! David

Tokyo on Saturday will mark one year since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about the possibility of a Japanese military intervention in a Taiwan crisis triggered a diplomatic rupture with Beijing — a rift that shows few signs of closing as the two sides remain stubbornly at odds. The ongoing dispute between China and Japan began following Takaichi’s remarks in parliament on Nov. 7, 2025, that the Self-Defense Forces could be deployed under the right to collective self-defense in “worst-case” scenarios, such as a Chinese naval blockade of Taiwan, which the prime minister said could constitute a “survival-threatening situation” for...

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Three elderly people were found dead in a bloody scene at a New Jersey home after a postal worker discovered a chilling note on the front door, according to authorities. The three bodies were tragically discovered at a home in Mount Holly on Friday, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office announced in a Facebook post. A postal worker called cops after finding a note on the front door indicating that 911 should be called, according to prosecutors. The disturbing note, which was heavily taped to the door, read “9-1-1 Inside” with horrifying drawings of two unhappy faces with ‘X’s for eyes,...

Missouri State Representative Anthony Ealy, Jr., was arrested on Wednesday after being reelected. According to the incident report, just before 11:30 a.m., police were called to an apartment in Jefferson City, Missouri, after it was reported that Ealy had trespassed and threatened a woman and her husband. The report says Ealy threatened the woman’s husband – saying something about a gun then telling him “I’m going to kill you.” The Jefferson City Police Department said multiple witnesses reported a man yelling and causing a scene outside a nearby business. Ealy appeared to be having a panic attack and mental health...

….Reagan became the dominant political personality of the 1980s, defeating incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and winning a 49-state landslide reelection in 1984. He was able to carry in a majority for Republicans in the Senate and establish a kind of working majority in the House with the aid of conservative Democrats in that chamber. On the strength of those elections, restrained only marginally by the midterm elections of 1982, Reagan began his second term on top of the world. But he soon learned how hard that height can be to hold. As he neared his second midterm, Democrats...

Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed’s Wikipedia page was quietly whitewashed over the past few months by a mysterious editor, including scrubbing a series of antisemitism controversies, according to social media sleuths. The editor — who goes by “CopyleftEverything” — is also responsible for dozens of other edits to pages on the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the American Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communists of America. The editor was “diligent in what appears to be a clean-up of El-Sayed’s page” heading into Tuesday’s general election where the radical Dem defeated Republican Mike Rogers, according to investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg. Both Rindsberg,...

Terrified shoppers and tourists dived for cover this afternoon after a drive-by gunman went on a deadly shooting rampage in a packed city square. At least five people have been killed and around a dozen others left injured in the historic Main Market Square of Krakow, Poland, Małopolska Police confirmed. Panic erupted at around 3pm local time when a man drove onto the bustling square and began "firing at random people from his car", the force announced in a statement posted to X. Kr The shooter was shot by armed police and rushed to hospital, officers said. Two police officers...

There’s no reason to celebrate bacon, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The group wants Easton to cancel PA Bacon Fest this weekend and replace it with a celebration for a healthy food like hazelnuts, cherries or chestnuts. Processed meats like bacon contribute to colorectal cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in young people, according to a statement from the Washington D.C.-based health advocacy group.

Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa told reporters Thursday that she had requested a postponement of any action on the potential sale of Boca Chica State Park to Elon Musk’s SpaceX until after she takes office in January. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission was slated to discuss the possible sale of the state park to SpaceX on Thursday. Texas Monthly first reported on the proposed deal last month. However, the agenda item was removed at Hinojosa’s request, she said. “It’s such an important resource,” Hinojosa said of the state park. “The Valley is so important to me as the place I am...

Alyona’s waters broke in her hometown of Kramatorsk, 10km from the front line. The city has no functioning maternity ward, so an ambulance took her to Sloviansk, a short drive under a canopy of anti-drone netting. Complications then forced her to make an hours-long trip to Kharkiv, where on October 8th she gave birth to a son. That hospital had its dangers too: during air raids mothers and newborns are rushed to a bunker. But it was safer than Kramatorsk, where on the same day a Russian bomb killed 30 people.

Registrations are up 2.2% from the last major general election in November 2024, and up 2% from primary elections in March, according to a Friday release from the Texas Secretary of State. The latest figures are also 7.7% higher than the number of voters registered ahead of the last midterm election in November 2022. Fast-growing suburban counties saw some of the biggest growths since the last midterms, including Kaufman (27% more registered voters), Waller (23%), Ellis (21%) and Hays (21%). While state data for Tarrant County, a battleground county, showed a 2.6% drop in voter registrations since November 2022, county...

Here in the U.S., with few exceptions, we have a commendable tradition that victorious politicians do not use the criminal justice system to prosecute or otherwise disable their rivals and adversaries. At the presidential level, before Trump the two most prominent examples against that tradition were the prosecution of Aaron Burr by Thomas Jefferson in 1807, and the prosecution of Eugene Debs by Woodrow Wilson in 1918. Otherwise, our defeated presidential candidates have gone peacefully to retirement. But then, after Trump was defeated in 2020, that tradition was abrogated in rather spectacular fashion. At both the federal and state levels,...