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The Governor believes the states can compel action, while Congress won't act without pressure. Gov. Ron DeSantis is about as far away as possible from the back-and-forth of Florida’s Legislative Session, imploring lawmakers in the Rocky Mountains to make moves instead. But those moves, he says, are in the national interest. Thursday finds the soon-to-be term limited Republican returning to Idaho to again call for a federal Balanced Budget Amendment, part of the Balanced Budget Campaign supported by all Republican Governors. After spending the day meeting with legislators on the issue, the Governor was flanked by Idaho Senate President Pro...

Explanation: Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth's skies toward the constellation Lepus, The Hare. Posing with scattered Milky Way stars, its generally simple spherical shape about 8 light-years in diameter is revealed in this deep telescopic image. The beautiful and complex shapes seen within the cosmic cloud are visually enhanced by the use of long exposures and narrowband filters that capture emission from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Otherwise Abell 7 would be much too faint to be appreciated by eye. A planetary nebula represents a very...

FBI Director Kash Patel has purged his department of agents linked to the Biden administration’s efforts to jail the Democrat former president’s electoral foe, Donald Trump. Patel forced out field office leaders and other senior agents connected to the two criminal investigations of Trump, including the special agent in charge in Atlanta, the acting assistant director in charge of the New York field office, and the former special agent in charge in New Orleans who had recently moved on to another job, MS Now reported and two senior administration officials confirmed to Breitbart News. As many as six agents in...

Antisemitism and anti-Israel views are creeping into Christian and conservative communities. Pastor Gary Hamrick, along with guests Pastor Rob McCoy, Samuel Smadja, and former Congressman Bob McEwen, delivers a biblical response to replacement theology, U.S. support for Israel, the October 7th attacks, and the takes from Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. Watch this timely message to understand the real issues and stand firm in truth!

For most drivers, gas stations are a necessary evil. For fans of Buc-ee's, they are a destination - and now the beaver-branded giant is about to pop up in more states than ever before. By the end of 2026, the 'Disneyland of gas stations' will open four more of its iconic outposts, with another 15 planned in the years that follow. Scroll down to see the full list.

The city of Philadelphia sued the Department of the Interior and the acting director of the National Park Service on Thursday over reports that slavery exhibits were being dismantled in the city’s historic district. The suit, filed in federal court, seeks a preliminary injunction to restore the exhibits at the President’s House Site, part of Independence National Historical Park. The lawsuit says that “the National Park Service has removed artwork and informational displays at the President’s House site referencing slavery, presumably pursuant to the mandate” of Executive Order No. 14253, which President Donald Trump signed in March. The city said...

Attempts to change Church governance to synodal model have failed throughout historyChanging the leadership structure of the Church to make the Pope more like a CEO has been tried several times. Each time, God's intervention prevented it from succeeding. The rumbling after the conclusion of the two-day consistory held recently at the Vatican is a warning that a storm is brewing and we should prepare for it. Pope Leo XIV called the Vatican II Council “the guiding star of the Church’s path.” That star led the consistory to “lay the groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae,” to “prepare a...

Top Homeland Security officials hit back Friday at viral claims that a 5-year-old boy was used as “bait” to arrest his father and then detained by ICE in Minnesota earlier this week. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) head Marcos Charles said the little boy, identified as Liam Conejo Ramos, was abandoned in a car by his illegal migrant father as federal officers attempted to arrest the dad Tuesday as part of a targeted operation. Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled ICE on foot, leaving his son behind, the ICE official said.

Newsom has presided over the annihilation of what was once the crown jewel of American prosperity—the Golden State California now accounts for roughly one quarter of the nation’s homeless, more than any other state by far. Since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, $37 billion has been spent on homelessness programs—yet the homeless population has grown by roughly 20,000 people, not declined. At the same time, according to U.S. Census data, California has suffered net domestic population losses every year since 2020—the first sustained population decline in state history. Between 2020 and 2023, more than 430,000 residents left the state,...

A woman shot in the head by a federal agent, widespread protests, families separated and American citizens unlawfully detained. State Rep. Eleanor Chavez, D-Albuquerque, described these scenes before introducing House Bill 9, which could shutter immigration detention centers in New Mexico. “Now is the time more than ever to pass the Immigrant Rights Act,” Chavez said before the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee on Thursday. Located in rural Cibola, Torrance and Otero counties, New Mexico's detention facilities have a combined detainee population of more than 1,500 people, according to recent estimates. Though the bill would not directly close all...

An Antifa-affiliated website is on local and federal law enforcement’s radar after years of promoting anarchistic crimes and doxxing. The “Rose City Counter-Info” blog, focused mainly on Portland, Oregon, hosts numerous posts purporting to show immigration agents’ home addresses, advocating for attacks on law enforcement infrastructure and taking credit for crimes, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) told the DCNF that it is “aware” of the site and similar ones, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) twice promised consequences for the doxxing in recent months. Rose City Counter-Info promotes activism and ideological...

Missouri is moving to shut down a trailer park business bordering Whiteman Air Force Base after a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation uncovered links between the property and a convicted fraudster with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence ties. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced Thursday the administrative cancellation of Property Solutions 3603 LP, the operator of a Knob Noster Trailer Park that shares a perimeter fence with Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the B-2 stealth bombers. The company is ultimately controlled by a Georgia-based firm owned by a Canadian couple with ties to disgraced Chinese tycoon Miles Guo, who...

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[Catholic Caucus] Jesuits in Britain respond to Senior Catholic chaplain at Oxford removedThe Jesuits in Britain have confirmed that Fr Damian Howard SJ has stepped down from ministry following a safeguarding investigation into a complaint of professional misconduct, with an independent review now under way. Fr Damian stands accused of “inappropriate behaviour” with a student. In a statement, the order told the Catholic Herald that: “We take every complaint extremely seriously and respond with care and diligence. When this complaint was received, the safeguarding team of Jesuits in Britain carried out an investigation. Based on their conclusions, immediate action was...

The sudden collapse last fall of a string of American companies backed by private credit has thrust a fast-growing and opaque corner of Wall Street lending into the spotlight. Private credit, also known as direct lending, is a catch-all term for lending done by nonbank institutions. The practice has been around for decades but surged in popularity after post-2008 financial crisis regulations discouraged banks from serving riskier borrowers. That growth — from $3.4 trillion in 2025 to an estimated $4.9 trillion by 2029 — and the September bankruptcies of auto-industry firms Tricolor and First Brands have emboldened some prominent Wall...

The White House and Department of Homeland Security are making hay out of the DHS “Worst of the Worst” database, posting links to it throughout the week as evidence that ICE’s actions in Minnesota are justified. President Trump also held up printouts from the database during his Tuesday marathon presser. But Cockburn has been playing a different game with the database: filtering villains not by state of residence, but by country of origin.Of note: none are from the United Arab Emirates, or from Belgium, (which, unlike the UAE, refuses to join President Trump’s Board of Peace). There are only three...

President Donald Trump on Friday highlighted a forecast cold wave expected to impact much of the country, using the prediction to renew his criticism of climate change warnings. "Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???" Thousands of power line workers were on standby, flights were canceled and bottled water flew off the shelves Thursday as a huge winter storm that could bring catastrophic damage, widespread power outages and bitterly cold weather barreled toward the eastern two-thirds...

Nadine Wellwood, an advocate for independence, explains what's really going on at town hall events across Alberta, where advocates are seeking to collect 177,000 signatures in 120 days.Alberta’s independence town halls are serious, organized, and everywhere. And Nadine Wellwood — author of Alberta Rising — has been at the centre of many of them. Wellwood explains what’s actually happening at independence town halls across the province, where organizers are pursuing a very specific and legally binding goal: 177,000 signatures collected within 120 days. That’s the threshold required under Alberta law to trigger a referendum on separation from Confederation. Wellwood breaks...

Arrested in DC: Rescue Resurrection protesters plead with Trump, Vance, RFK Jr. to ban abortion pill'The chemical abortion pill has become the chemical coathanger, and the bathroom has become the new back alley,' said Emily Berning, president of Let Them Live. People from as far away as California and Georgia came to the nation’s capital this morning to plead with the Trump administration to ban the abortion pill, which is now easily available by mail and has led to an increase of abortions following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade. In the shadow of the U.S. Capitol dome,...

Registration is now open for tickets to President Donald Trump's speech next week in central Iowa. Trump will deliver remarks about energy and the economy on Tuesday, Jan. 27, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told pool reporters Wednesday during Trump's visit to Switzerland. They didn't initially announce a time or location, but the Iowa GOP shared a registration link late Thursday night, saying the event will be at Horizon Events Center in Clive. Doors open at noon on Tuesday, and the speech is expected to start at 3 p.m.