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The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of an 1868 federal law that imposes a tax on distilled spirits but also bans home distilleries – that is, the at-home production of spirits like bourbon and whiskey. The penalties for violating the law include fines of up to $10,000, five years in prison, or both. In a list of orders from the justices’ Oct. 16 conference, the court announced that it had granted review in Department of Justice v. McNutt. The justices will likely hear oral argument in the case early next year, with a decision to...

Jordan Walker Ross launched 'Faithful Texans for Talarico' as Ken Paxton countered with 'Pastors for Paxton' coalition 'The Chosen' actor Jordan Walker Ross endorsed Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday, helping launch a faith-based voter coalition ahead of November's election while drawing criticism from a Republican state lawmaker over taxpayer-funded Hollywood subsidies. Ross, who portrays the apostle Little James in the popular faith-based television series, announced his endorsement in a campaign video promoting "Faithful Texans for Talarico," an initiative intended to attract religious voters.

When Rexnord moved its Indianapolis ball-bearing plant to Mexico, John Feltner lost a $25-an-hour union job, the second factory job he had lost in a decade. Around Christmas of 2017, a hospital offered him maintenance work at $18 an hour. When a former boss offered him a union job at a cornstarch plant paying 20% more, John refused. “I don’t see it crumbling underneath me like Rexnord,” he told The Indianapolis Star. John had already been burned twice, and a hospital, he figured, wasn’t going anywhere. Three decades of deindustrialization had taught him and millions like him to take the...

Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity@cyber_razzA casino installed a smart fish tank in the lobby.Beautiful thing. Automated feeding. Temperature control. Remote monitoring.Connected to the internet. Obviously.Hackers found it.Exploited it.Downloaded the high-roller database.10 gigabytes.Sent it to Finland.Using audio and video protocols so it looked like normal streaming traffic.The fish tank sat in the lobby maintaining water chemistry while stealing credit card numbers.The casino isolated the fish tank on its own VPN.Separate network. Segregated. Off limits to everything.Hackers didn't care. Broke through the isolation anyway.Once inside the fish tank's system. They pivoted to the main network.Quietly pulled data. Methodically.10 gigabytes over time so nobody noticed.Nobody...

The Treasury Department identified approximately $270 million potentially linked to fraudulent activity involving federal student aid programs. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has referred the findings to federal investigators for further review, Fox News reported. In July, FinCEN issued alerts to financial institutions warning about possible fraud schemes involving federal student aid refunds. Schools and payment contractors regularly issue student aid refunds electronically. Criminals may move stolen aid through money mules, shell companies and fraudulent bank accounts, the alert explained. Many of the schemes involve fraudulent enrollments — called "ghost student" schemes — in which criminals use stolen personal...

California funneled nearly $369 million in federal aid intended for victims of its deadliest wildfire year to low-income housing developers — without requiring them to house a single wildfire survivor, a California Post investigation found. The staggering sum was awarded to developers while thousands of Californians struggled to rebuild their lives after the devastating 2018 fires, which killed 103 people and damaged or destroyed more than 24,000 structures. Among them is motivational speaker and comedian, Mickey Schechter, 62, who lost his Cornell home and $60,000 in plumbing tools when the Woolsey Fire tore through the Santa Monica Mountains, destroying 37...

If you thought the political games around the midterms couldn’t get any more disturbing, buckle up, we’ve got a doozy for you. There’s a new bombshell report from DataRepublican, the researcher who made big waves during the DOGE investigations. And if what she’s uncovering turns out to be true, we’re looking at something a helluva lot scarier than the usual political dirty tricks from our communist enemies on the left. DataRepublican says she’s got her hands on thousands of transcripts and hundreds of recordings that point to an elaborate, coordinated effort to provoke a constitutional crisis right after the 2026...

Katie Hobbs volunteer steals package off someone’s porch while knocking.... 0:30 VIDEO AT LINK................. They just can't help themselves.............

Saggezza Eterna@FinalTelegraph·7hThe True Story of Ed Bambas:At 88 years old, he was still standing on his feet for 40 hours a week. When someone finally asked him why, his answer broke the country’s heart.Ed Bambas served in the U.S. Army, worked at General Motors for 40 years, paid his taxes, loved his wife, and played by every rule the American Dream asked of him.Then his pension and healthcare were wiped out—right as his beloved wife became gravely ill.In a culture where people cry "trauma" over a hard workweek and demand government bailouts for every poor decision, Ed didn’t complain or...

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is leaving the cable network after more than four decades as one of its most recognizable faces, she said Monday. The announcement, which sent shockwaves through the chattering classes, came weeks after Paramount Skydance finalized its purchase of CNN’s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, sparking anxiety in the newsroom. Amanpour, known for interviewing heads of state and reporting from conflict zones, made no mention of the drama in a departure note, in which she said she’d stick around until next June. “After many months of thought and a few sleepless nights, I have decided to separate from...

While several Democrats have declared that Republican predictions that voting for Democrats will lead to Medicare benefits being given to illegal aliens are a lie, Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" legislation would do exactly that. Sanders asserted that "medical care is a human right that must be provided to all humans regardless of their citizenship. Republican efforts to restrict these benefits to only US citizens is a crime against humanity." Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) still insisted that "Republicans are lying. Right now there is nothing in the existing law that authorizes giving these benefits to undocumented immigrants. The implication...

A “secret pay-for-play” text promising paid access to President Donald Trump is at the center of the latest civil war plaguing the White House, according to a new report from Axios. The Monday report cited a text message received by Turkish businessman Turhan Mildon on May 3, 2025. In the text, the sender claimed that Mildon would be part of “VIP events” and that he would “get close with the administration, even with POTUS,” once he sent money that would be transferred to the Kennedy Center. Mildon claimed the texts were sent by Ric Grenell, a special presidential envoy who...

A sightseer slipped and fell to her death off a 65-foot waterfall in Indonesia while being filmed by horrified friends. Windy Rahma Putri, 25, was bathing in waters above Robo Waterfall in Harau, a protected nature preserve in West Sumatra, on Thursday afternoon when she was swept away by swift currents and plunged dozens of feet down the steep drop, officials said. Putri’s friends were filming her as she was lying on her back on a rock when she lost her grip — showing her desperately trying in vain to grab onto a friend as she slipped and fell off...

The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), having lost their court battle to force the U.S. to withdraw support from Israel, have now created an entirely new battleground: JFK Airport. They are trying to pressure workers on the tarmac and at the airport to stop loading any goods to Israel. This would include passenger luggage, as well as any cargo such as computer or technical equipment, weapons being shipped by the U.S. government that have been bought by Israel, etc. These are the same people who put Zohran Mamdani and others in office; are seeking to make Abdul El-Sayed a senator,...

A recent report from CNN on the voter sentiment among Jewish Democrats in New York painted a stark picture for Democrats in the Empire State. It noted that in 2018 a generic poll of just New York Jews found they favored Democrats by an unsurprising 40 points. Nevertheless, the same type of survey conducted in 2026 found Jews in New York favoring Democrats by 13 points representing a 27-point fall of support for Democrats. Currently, a group of New York State Rabbis is traveling the state to essentially campaign against Democrats. In Michigan Jews for Republican Mike Rogers groups, something...

You know those weird brown corndog-lookin’ things growing in ditches, ponds, and marshes all over America? The ones you’ve probably driven past a million times without giving them a second thought? Those are called cattails, and apparently, we’ve been ignoring one of nature’s most interesting food sources while spending billions of dollars growing, harvesting, and processing the foods we actually eat. Yes, I went down another rabbit hole, and found something that blew my mind… ready for this one: An acre of cattails has the potential to produce around 6,400 pounds of flour. By comparison, an acre of American wheat...

Polls open at 9 a.m. Monday for Alberta's 10-question referendum, but Airdrie residents need to check where they're assigned to vote before heading out. Airdrie falls within two provincial electoral divisions, Airdrie-East and Airdrie-Cochrane. Voting is scheduled to continue until 8 p.m. The vote follows preliminary figures released Sunday by Elections Alberta showing 1,356,873 Albertans cast advance votes or special ballots, representing 43.1 per cent of eligible electors. SNIP What are Albertans voting on? Monday's referendum contains 10 questions covering immigration, access to provincially funded services, proposed constitutional changes and Alberta's future within Canada. Questions 1 through 5 address immigration...

Vinted says it has removed listings of items believed to have been looted from shops during the ongoing riots in France. The second hand re-selling platform said following the weekend's disorder it had "taken immediate action to identify and remove listings linked to looting". Shops across several French cities were broken into and ransacked during the outbreak of riots over the weekend. "The sale of stolen goods, or soliciting them, is strictly prohibited on Vinted, and we have zero tolerance for it," a spokesperson for the company said. Widespread looting was reported across Paris, Marseille and Lille, as well as...

You can't make it up. No one would have ever associated Halloween body bags with racist lynchings before the current woke stupidity of our current time. You can buy these "corpse kits" at Lowe's, for crying out loud. And yet in Pennsylvania of all places, a local NAACP chapter is getting involved because one guy who loves Halloween too much has decorations that trigger them. From FOX 29: The homeowner told FOX 29 that the decorations are only intended as Halloween displays and there was 'no other agenda' when putting them up. The homeowner also said they are 'sorry if...

Where to Watch Fantasy Watch NFL NFL Home Scores Schedule Standings Stats Teams Odds Fantasy Football Where To Watch Power Rankings Jalen Hurts expected to miss season Jalen Hurts is expected to miss the rest of the season after doctors discovered multiple blood clots in the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback's lungs, sources told NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and ESPN's Adam Schefter. Hurts will undergo treatment involving blood thinners that is expected to sideline the three-time Pro Bowler for at least three months, sources informed of the diagnosis told Rapoport and Schefter. Hurts' agent, Nicole Lynn, and the Eagles released a statement...