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Terrifying images show a passenger plane flying with an engine shredded and charred by a midair explosion before it managed an emergency landing. Passengers filmed the shocking view of the Arik Air Boeing 737’s left engine destroyed during a cross-country flight in Nigeria from Lagos to Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Some of the horrified 80 passengers could be heard screaming as the plane instead made an emergency landing in neighboring Benin, somehow limping to the ground safely on just one engine.

@BarronTNews_ BREAKING: Americans are FLOODING the phones of GOP Sen. Susan Collins after she REFUSED to support the SAVE America Act following House passage

Sanctuary officials released Mexican illegal charged with rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, purchasing sex with a minor Manuel Cruz-Ramirez presented false passport at Portland International Airport, feds say An illegal alien arrested at an Oregon airport was on the loose despite being charged with horrific sex crimes against a minor in the sanctuary state.On Feb. 3, a Transportation Security Administration officer working a terminal checkpoint at Portland International Airport encountered 38-year-old Manuel Cruz-Ramirez. Cruz-Ramirez presented a Mexican passport bearing a different name. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was alerted when the passport failed to return...

President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday announced the repeal of a 2009 policy allowing the federal government to regulate the emissions of fossil fuels by declaring them dangerous to public health. Trump called the repeal “the single largest deregulatory action in American history” and said it would “save American consumers trillions of dollars.” “We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers,” Trump said in the White House Roosevelt Room. “Effective immediately, we are repealing the ridiculous endangerment finding...

That controversy was ugly enough without a scoring debacle, but we absolutely got one courtesy of a single French judge in the finals. Jézabel Dabois, the judge in question, not only noticeably scored Chock/Bates lower than the rest of the panel, but more critically she vastly overscored F. Beaudry/Cizeron — and has been doing so for over a year.

Russian soldiers and military bloggers have railed against the Kremlin after it restricted access to the Telegram messaging app. Widespread disruptions to the app were reported on Monday and Tuesday as Roskomnadzor, the Russian state media regulator, said it would levy its strongest restrictions on Telegram’s operations yet. The internet watchdog said the move would safeguard Russian citizens against “criminal and terrorist” content, in Moscow’s latest crackdown on the free internet. Roskomnadzor, which has for years crusaded for a “sovereign internet” liberated from Western influence, has over the past six months imposed new limits on Telegram and WhatsApp at least...

The head of the UN’s migration agency has admitted in a public interview that the organization’s strategic objective is not to stop migration, but to brand it as a deliberate instrument of development policy.According to Director-General Amy Pope, speaking to UN News:“Our goal is to make sure that we have governments thinking, talking, acting and using migration as a tool for development from the very beginning.”That’s not a policy position. It’s a strategy.It reveals that the bureaucratic engine driving global migration governance — which includes the IOM and its collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) on migrant health initiatives...

@BasedMikeLee 🎉 Added Senator Wicker We’re now at 48 Baby steps to SAVE America

The original SAVE Act was an indefensible step backward, and the revised version is worse. It passed the Republican-led House anyway. A couple of years ago, House Speaker Mike Johnson made a pilgrimage of sorts to Mar-a-Lago to kiss Donald Trump’s ring and hold a joint news conference with the then-former president. It was not, however, a simple photo-op: The Republicans unveiled a proposal they appeared to be rather proud of.The GOP duo pitched legislation that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. The absurdity of watching two notorious election deniers pretend to be deeply concerned with...

Swiss citizens will head to the polls this summer to vote on whether to limit the country’s population to a maximum of 10 million, with the stated goal of restricting immigration. The proposal was put forward by the far-right Swiss People’s Party, which calls for capping the population at 10 million. Under the proposed law, the Swiss government and parliament would be required to take action if the country’s population, currently 9.1 million, exceeds 9.5 million. Measures would include limiting the entry of immigrants, including asylum seekers and family members of foreign residents. If these steps fail and the population...

Virginia’s proposed new congressional map, which gives Democrats all but one seat in a state that still votes more than 40% Republican, is sparking new debates over the proper use of political power.Conservatives in particular are split over whether Virginia Democrats’ aggressive gerrymander is an abomination to be condemned or an example red states should follow ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.President Donald Trump urged Republican-led states such as Texas to pursue mid-decade redistricting to help the GOP defend its razor-thin House majority by creating new pickup opportunities for the president’s party. Some red states heeded Trump’s call. Others, like...

Sky's Matt Barbett asked Reform UK 's Nigel Farage whether Jim Ratcliffe was "right to apologise" for saying Britain has been "colonised by immigrants". 'I think it's probably in the dictionary definition, correct, but perhaps people aren't quite ready for it,' says Nigel Farage about Jim Ratcliffe's use of the word 'colonisation'.

Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers. [...] We highlight two main results. First, 94 percent of the tariff incidence was borne by the U.S. in the first eight months of 2025. This result means that a 10 percent tariff caused only a 0.6 percentage point decline in foreign export...

BREAKING: Judge blocks Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth's attempt to discipline/demote Sen. Mark Kelly over his comments re Trump-ordered boat strikes. Judge Richard Leon (GWBush) says admin is trying to strip 1st Amendment rights of military retirees. Doc: https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2026cv0081-37

JUST IN: Judge BOASBERG has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Venezuelan men illegally deported under the Alien Enemies Act and who are currently in countries other than Venezuela. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.247.0_4.pdf

So, I think a lot of people are under the impression that I've always been, like, far-right, and that's why I'm so, like, strong-minded about being a conservative. And I want to kind of share my walk-away story and the fact that, yes, I was a Democrat, and why I'm not anymore. So, for a little background, yes, I was raised in a conservative household, um, and I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were amazing people. They were not homophobic or racist or anything. They just believed in smaller government, no taxes, be a modest, good person, don't do...

The Super Bowl now plays like America’s divorce proceedingsThe country still shares one screen, but not one meaning. One side will dominate the other, or separation will harden into something more permanent.The Seattle Seahawks trampled the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, but the postgame chatter barely touched football. Fans and pundits argued about anthems, halftime, commercials, and what the whole spectacle “said” about America.For better or worse, the Super Bowl serves as the premier civic liturgy of the American empire, a night when strangers share the same screens and offices share the same small talk. When that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With debate ongoing over the Republican-proposed SAVE Act to shore up U.S. election integrity, Democrat lawmakers countered by proposing their own legislation, the STEAL Act, to ban voter ID in elections. The bill, which has the full title of Shield The Election From Legitimacy Act, would make it illegal for anyone to present valid identification when voting in an election, thereby preventing any safeguards against fraud from being put in place. "This legislation is vital to the survival of our party," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "With Republicans seeking to discriminate against people by only allowing...

And hey, if we can pick up the island on the cheap, Secretary of State Marco Rubio might want to don a seersucker suit and start a new gig as the territorial governor and enjoy presiding over a revitalized Havana. It's worth putting out there just to annoy the lefties.

Link only: Original: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/the-babies-kept-in-a-mysterious-los-angeles-mansionArchive: https://archive.is/WEHIY