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Over the past decade, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) has advanced its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, which has raised the threat Pyongyang poses to the United States, U.S. allies in East Asia, and U.S. interests. In April 2026, a U.S. defense official testified that “North Korea’s nuclear forces are increasingly capable of targeting the U.S. Homeland, and its missile forces can strike South Korea and Japan with nuclear or conventional warheads.”Since 2022, Russian and Chinese policies toward North Korea have shifted. The U.S. Forces Korea commander said in April 2025 that in return...

Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska did not hold back during Thursday night’s high-stakes “Debate for the State” in Anchorage when he spotted his Democrat opponent, former Rep. Mary Peltola, appearing to read from scripted notes or answers. Sullivan appeared suspicious after observing Peltola consulting her notes and suggested that her responses looked suspiciously prepared. “We weren’t supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?” Sullivan asked the moderators from Alaska Public Media and Alaska’s News Source. The moderator replied firmly: “Neither one of you got questions beforehand. Absolutely not.” Sullivan didn’t let it go. “Okay, I’m just watching my...

Bishop Schneider: ‘We cannot continue with the Novus Ordo’ Bishop Athanasius Schneider defended the positions of the SSPX against Vatican II’s ‘ambiguities’ and the Novus Ordo’s ‘defects.’Bishop Athanasius Schneider called out the “doctrinal and liturgical defects” of the Novus Ordo Mass.In an exclusive interview with journalist Michael Haynes published Tuesday, Schneider praised the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) as a “work of Divine Providence.” The bishop, one of the clerics best acquainted with the SSPX in the world, defended the Society’s criticisms of the Second Vatican Council and of the Novus Ordo Missae.Schneider highlighted the fact that the traditional...

A transgender 19-year-old alleged neo-Nazi accused of plotting a racist mass shooting at a Hindu temple outside Chicago will get his hormone injections in jail while he awaits trial, a judge ruled. A Cook County judge ordered Alexandros Paporakis held without bail Wednesday — but added a healthcare order, noting that the accused would-be terrorist takes hormone injections for gender transition, among other drugs, NBC Chicago reported. In addition to his transition injections, Paporakis is being treated for ADHD, depression, and anxiety, the judge revealed. Paporakis, a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, was arrested Sunday after cops learned of an...

[Catholic Caucus] German bishops’ chairman confirms controversy over Communion for divorced Catholics at Vatican meeting Bishop Heiner Wilmer, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, has confirmed that Holy Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics was discussed “at length and with some controversy” during the Vatican meeting marking ten years of Amoris laetitiaThe question of Holy Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics prompted controversy during a Vatican meeting marking the tenth anniversary of Amoris laetitia, Bishop Heiner Wilmer has confirmed.Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Münster, chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, said the issue was discussed “at length and with...

A post made by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., this week quickly became a punchline online after she warned that a proposed $45 billion deal bringing some of America’s best-known condiment and food brands under one roof could drive up grocery prices even further. The merger would combine McCormick brands such as Cholula and Frank’s RedHot with Unilever Foods products including Hellmann’s and Knorr. Warren argues the deal could weaken competition and leave shoppers with fewer choices. Users online joked about Warren cautioning against "Big Condiment." "One company could soon control them all," Warren said of four popular condiments. "I have...

Trump pal and former modeling agent Paolo Zampolli has been fired from his position of special envoy at the State Department following a bizarre year-long war over email leaks, Politico reported. A U.S. official told Politico Thursday that Zampolli’s “status as an envoy has been terminated and he is no longer a government employee.” Zampolli’s firing appears to be the culmination of a nasty feud between the special envoy and the deputy secretary of State Christopher Landau. According to Politico, the two top appointees “have been embroiled in a monthslong fight that includes accusations of leaks to the media and...

I'm a retired mechanical engineer with over 40 years' professional experience focusing on research and technical expertise; and I'm now a mathematics teacher. I grew up Roman Catholic and conservative, and I never particularly cared for politics. I'm certainly not someone you'd look at and expect to be an advocate for transgender rights – which is why it's so important for me to speak out.

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ABSOLUTE HERO. In a just country, that man would get a free house and free beers for life, in addition to the keys to the city. He risked everything to save those children, and he was forced to take a life to do it. Krantz said that officers were called to the school just before 1 p.m. on a 911 call from a person who said they had been shot at several times while in their vehicle by a suspect with a long gun. Emergency dispatchers then received dozens of 911 calls that the suspect had entered the school. The...

It’s been 17 years since the federal minimum wage was raised, though that could soon change if U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, has his way. The junior senator from the Grand Canyon State rolled out his plan to bankroll the first wage increase since 2009, with his 32-page “Saving the Middle Class and Restoring the American Dream” middle-class jobs plan coming out this week. Gallego is proposing to raise the minimum wage gradually in phases starting in 2027. By 2030, the wage would be $20 an hour. The current rate is $7.25 under the Fair Labor Standards Act. But critics...

Speaking to broadcaster Newsmax, the president blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for the war, claiming he – not Vladimir Putin – had 'destroyed' Ukraine. It came after Mr Zelensky resumed attacks on Russian oil refineries after hitting out at Mr Trump's 'betrayal' at a time of intense Russian attacks. In an interview with the Financial Times, the Ukrainian leader said the cutting off of US intelligence sharing and the simultaneous weakening of the Starlink satellite internet service was 'dangerous' for civilians. He added: 'The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done.' 'Well, I think that's a disgrace,' Trump said yesterday, adding...

A Southwest flight attendant died by suicide after her body was found beside a dumpster outside a four-star Hawaii hotel — while her family suspected foul play. Jenny Lupton, 50, died of multiple injuries after falling from the 24th floor of the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki Beach, about 10 miles from Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Lupton, an Oklahoma native and the mother of a 15-year-old son, was staying at the hotel during a layover while working for the Texas-based airline. ... Police said their investigation into...

When an anti-abortion activist held a sign depicting a fetus in utero with the caption "What about her body and her rights?" to the side of a University of South Florida weekly open-air market, campus police didn't just order him into a so-called free speech zone, as did Tucson, Ariz. police when an evangelist showed up to a nonsectarian Christmas street festival. USF police arrested and jailed Tyler Newton for 14 hours on Sept. 23 at the behest of campus officials for standing with his sign and sharing his "abolitionist" views with passers-by, a new First Amendment lawsuit claims. Describing...

A complete Roman pottery workshop laid out on a grid has been discovered in northern France by archaeologists led by Louis Florin of the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), according to a report in La Brújula Verde. The five-acre site was occupied between the first century B.C. and the third century A.D. It includes some 50 clay extraction pits, areas for preparing clay and shaping pots with wheels, and 21 kilns. The workshop was situated on the Agrippa Road, one of a network of Roman roads that made the transport of finished pots possible. The excavation also...

The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet rising energy demand, including from large-scale data centers. No commercial nuclear reactor is known to have resumed generating electricity after beginning the decommissioning process that takes one out of service, though some reactors have restarted after long outages. The Department of Energy is lending as much as $4.4 billion to restart the Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, the Crane Clean Energy Center on Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island and the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa to restore a combined 2.25 gigawatts of electricity, which...

In August, Jessica Bowie was arrested in connection with a plot to blow up New York State legislators at the capitol building while pretending to be delivering DoorDash and then in Oct, Benny Caldera Jr. was arrested in a plot to shoot up the Texas State Capitol. The two terror plots targeting state capitols and legislators in two different states took place less than three months apart and while these are the sorts of terror plots that might have been expected of Islamic terrorists, Bowie and Caldera were Americans, and yet their plots were Islam-inspired. The Bowie and Caldera terror...

The MOAB is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal and has been used only once before in a strike on a village in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province in 2017 ============================================================= The US military has drawn up new strike plans against Iran that include potentially using the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the “mother of all bombs,” according to a report from CNN. The MOAB is the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal and has been used only once before in a strike on a village in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province in 2017. The US...

Chances are, you haven’t heard of this case out of Loudon, Virginia. Why, you might ask? Well, likely because it involves a male teacher parading around as a woman, who threatened to murder and then reportedly “eat” his student. In other words, more trans-related violence that the mainstream media loves to sweep under the rug. In a case that’s received little media attention, a cross-dressing teacher has been found guilty of making credible threats to murder his own pupils, and then even eat one. Hadyn Dollery, who goes by the name ‘Sophie’, faces 25 years in jail. https://t.co/Pn4c95vyYX — ripx4nutmeg...

John Solomon just pulled back the curtain on the federal case now surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar — and his explanation makes the raid look much bigger than a one-day political spectacle. The headline from Monday was dramatic enough: federal agents entered Omar’s Washington, D.C., home with a court-authorized search warrant and carried away boxes of evidence. But Solomon says the most important questions are who the real target is, what investigators were authorized to seize, and whether the endgame could reach far beyond an ordinary criminal charge. Jesse Watters summarized the newest seizure and subpoena details Thursday night: VIDEO AT...