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The son of former CIA Director John Brennan was charged on Friday with “transportation of child pornography,” according to court documents and a U.S. law enforcement official. Kyle Brennan, of Warrenton, Virginia, was charged after an FBI review of his cellphone found 88 images that appeared to depict minor girls engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. John Brennan is a longtime antagonist of President Donald Trump, and the Justice Department has been investigating the former CIA director for more than a year. A criminal complaint...

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Democratic House and Senate majorities built on wins in Trump districts and red states are acting as a brake on lofty progressive proposals DENVER—James Talarico stood before hundreds of Democrats who gathered here to plot a new course for their party and called for Congress to pass an agenda as bold as Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. “We have a mandate the size of Texas,” said Talarico, who won an upset victory in the state’s Senate race. He ticked off universal health coverage, a national ban on gerrymandering and other policy ambitions during his remarks Thursday. But he and other incoming...

The House Oversight Committee just dropped its 15-month report on Jeffrey Epstein, and it reads like a catalog of institutional collapse. Federal investigators and prosecutors failed so thoroughly after 2005 that Epstein kept abusing young women for years. Nineteen people sat for transcribed interviews or depositions. Most of them claimed they saw nothing. A few got caught changing their stories. Democrats remain obsessed with pinning criminality on President Trump even though the committee found no documents implicating him. Survivors are still waiting for the full reckoning. The official title is “A Review of the Federal Government’s Mishandling of the Jeffrey...

Iran ramped up strikes in Bahrain early Sunday morning, carrying out a six-drone attack on a U.S. airbase.Bahrain said it had intercepted “several aerial attacks” before they hit their targets. Iran, meanwhile, claimed it had struck a base. This comes two days after Iran reported it had attacked a U.S. early-warning radar facility also in Bahrain, but the U.S. military denied it, saying it had intercepted the drones without damage.The Gulf kingdom had not been struck by Iran since a blitz in September. U.S. Navy Secretary Hung Cao at the time said that the Iranian military “blew the hell” out...

Barely a week after the midterm elections, Democrats are debating how to turn newfound support among young men into a lasting coalition, while Republicans are trying to understand why the group abandoned them so decisively. An estimated 59% of men ages 18 to 29 voted for Democratic ​US House of Representatives candidates, compared with 37% for Republicans, according to Tufts University's Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. That marked a sharp reversal from 2024, when AP VoteCast found young men ‌backing President Donald Trump over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by 14 points, 56% to 42%. That...

Explanation: Where will the next meteor appear? Even during a meteor shower, it is practically impossible to know. Therefore, a good way to enjoy a meteor shower is to find a place where you can sit comfortably and monitor a great expanse of dark sky. And it may be satisfying to share this experience with a friend. The meteor shower depicted was the 2022 Leonids and the view is from Hainan, China looking out over the South China Sea. Meteor streaks captured over a few hours were isolated and added to a foreground image recorded earlier. Leonid meteor streaks trace...

LOGANVILLE, Ga. - A potential Islamic training center and mosque planned for Lee Byrd Road in Loganville has sparked controversy among residents, drawing hundreds of people to a Loganville City Council meeting on Thursday night. Loganville mosque proposal controversy What we know: Hundreds of people packed the Loganville City Council meeting on Thursday night to discuss a proposed 20,000-square-foot Islamic training center on Lee Byrd Road. Dozens of people spoke during the meeting, with each given five minutes to address the council. Some attendees stood in the parking lot and waited nearly five hours for their turn to speak. Councilmember...

Russia’s Security Council reportedly lifted an unofficial ban on killing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top generals during a high-stakes meeting with strongman Vladimir Putin, according to several pro-Kremlin news outlets.Kyiv’s repeated raids on Russia’s oil export hub on the Baltic Sea, including the 10th recent blow to the critical port of Ust-Luga in the St. Petersburg area proved the catalyst for the decision, Blokot reported.(snip) Officials reportedly said they could use heavy hypersonic weapons to target bunkers and motorcades carrying Ukrainian leaders and top army commanders.(snip)The Kremlin tried to take out Zelensky in the early stages of the...

Since the first presentation 2016, much new relevant data has become available, resulting in a revised version of the original book being published in 2021 and a sequel, entitled "After 1177 BC," appearing in 2024. This illustrated talk will update the original lecture, presenting a streamlined version of what we now know, or think we know, about the Late Bronze Age Collapse, its aftermath, and its potential relevance to our world today. Professor Eric Cline’s primary fields of study are biblical archaeology, the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present, and the international connections between Greece, Egypt,...

People (who have never been to Israel) have been telling me that if I walk with my cross in Jerusalem, people will spit on me endlessly. So, I went directly to the JEWISH QUARTER to test it. What happened next will BORE YOU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YexPiT39obc

Democrats are in a position to make it easier for healthcare professionals to help people kill themselves after securing new trifectas in six states following the 2026 midterms. In 2025, one out of 215 deaths in Hawaii was the result of ingesting lethal drugs prescribed under the state’s 2019 assisted suicide law, the National Right to Life Committee stated in a Friday press release. Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin could join Hawaii and the 13 other U.S. jurisdictions that legalized assisted suicide if newly empowered Democrats revive past efforts during the next sessions of the state legislatures they...

Frustration with rising electricity bills and data centers helped Democrats win control of Georgia’s utility regulator on Nov. 3, and make gains on Arizona’s. Democrats Shelia Edwards and Peter Hubbard won, giving the party a 3-2 Georgia Public Service Commission majority, its first in decades, the Georgia Recorder reported. Out West, Democrats Clara Pratte and Jonathon Hill lead in unofficial returns for two Corporation Commission seats, though Republicans would keep a 3-2 majority there, the Arizona Capitol Times reported. “And everyone said the same thing: The utility bill is too damn high,” Edwards said, according to Atlanta News First. Georgia...

A data overload on an antiquated FAA network resulted in stalled trips for hundreds of thousands of travelersThe Federal Aviation Administration first noticed glitches in communications at its Indianapolis center that oversees high-altitude flights over a swath of middle America.Quickly they spilled into communications between pilots and air-traffic control. There was static and interruptions. Pilots had questions.Initially FAA employees tasked with troubleshooting the problem—one that wound up grounding much of U.S. travel—started their hunt in Indianapolis, according to people familiar with the situation.But then, they zeroed in on two locations: an FAA radio site in El Dorado, Ark.; and a...

The wars to come will ultimately pit freedom-loving peoples of many nations against the architecture of the State — composed of the bureaucratic Leviathans at the national and international level, taxpayer-funded news organizations, and the broad spectrum of so-called “non-governmental organizations” whose budgets and personnel nonetheless come directly from government agencies (including foreign and domestic covert intelligence services). The present War in Ukraine is a throwback to a time that no longer exists — one in which borders meant something. Consider how strange it is to have the European Commission’s unelected President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Union’s boisterous...

Johnny Depp returned to the top of box office charts as “Ebenezer,” his new take on “A Christmas Carol,” collected a decent $19 million from 3,535 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Overseas, the PG-13 adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic has generated $23 million from 63 markets for a global start of $42 million. “Ebenezer” is notable as Depp’s first major movie role in eight years, since 2018’s “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” His career in Hollywood began to unravel in 2020 after allegations of domestic abuse leveled by his ex-wife Amber Heard (which he has denied)...

Iran fired drones at Bahrain early Sunday, its second attack in three days on the Gulf kingdom that hosts the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, after a lull that had held since September, as months of diplomacy to end the war have produced no breakthrough. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said six drones targeted “the US air defence radar system at the Al-Riffa helicopter base in Bahrain,” calling the strike the second phase of its response to hostile US actions. “Any aggression by the American enemy will be met with an even harsher and more forceful response,” the Guards said in...

A crucial US satellite internet service is still operating too slowly and affecting Ukraine's ability to stop Russian attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. "We are counting on these restrictions being lifted. The protection of lives and Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of winter directly depends on this," he said. The issue over the speed of the Starshield system - a military military-grade Starlink service owned by Elon Musk and provided to Ukraine by the US government - has been rumbling on for weeks. Zelensky said he had asked officials "to work as closely as possible" with the US government and...

Congressional Democrats have plainly ditched their affordability campaign in favor of political reprisals against the president, his cabinet — and you. Rep. Robert Garcia’s cringey “LAWYER UP” post on X cut to the chase: Dem legislators are champing at the bit to go after President Trump and his team. But a disturbing new threat from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) shows they also have every intention of going even further and continuing an ugly Biden-era tradition. Namely, legal and political harassment of private citizens for protected political speech and free-association action. Blumenthal issued a demand that various companies that made donations...

Since the start of his second term, President Trump has gone after the federal work force, shearing 17 percent of employees, stripping away centuries of experience in medicine, law and science, and politicizing jobs meant to be nonpartisan. Embattled current and former workers are now looking to Democrats, newly empowered after the Republican rout in the midterm elections, for help. But the sweeping Democratic victories came with competing ideas for change, starting with issues like affordability, health care and the war in Iran. That could mean that any reversal of Mr. Trump’s cuts may have to wait. Then there is...