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Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen and former DNC deputy press secretary Jose Aristimuno discuss the looming government shutdown as Democrats oppose DHS funding on ‘The Story.’

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions. Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture. The hospital treats hundreds of these cases every year. All share a common culprit: Lanmaoa asiatica, a type of mushroom that forms symbiotic relationships with pine trees in nearby...

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy has spent years selling Louisiana voters one version of himself while consistently governing as something else entirely. Cassidy’s record shows a pattern that should alarm every America First voter: siding with Democrats when it matters most, undermining President Trump, and then attempting to rewrite history once political winds shift. In 2021, Cassidy was one of only seven Republican senators who voted to convict President Donald Trump during the Democrats’ second impeachment spectacle—an unprecedented, constitutionally dubious move aimed solely at destroying the MAGA movement and blocking Trump from ever returning to office. At the time, Cassidy openly...

Last Sunday night, Sean Payton sat in his office at the Denver Broncos facility, watching film of his opponent in the upcoming AFC Championship Game: the New England Patriots. He wanted to have the Los Angeles Rams-Chicago Bears divisional round game on in the background. He turned on one of the flatscreens in his office. He flipped around, somehow ending up on Nickelodeon and "Dora the Explorer." He finally found the right channel, just in time for the Bears to make a critical decision on their first drive. On fourth-and-2 from the Rams 21, they elected to skip a gimme...

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https://x.com/kellytx2/status/1892554634549657932TRANSCRIPT BELOWFebruary 20, 2025~~~TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Victor David Hanson:And they call it the MAGA revolution? It's not a revolution. It is a counterrevolution. There's a big difference. This is a restoration. Let's use the word 'Trump Restoration.'We don't know really, we don't really appreciate what we've been through with 8 years of the Obama Revolution, and the 4-year, more radical, 3rd term of using or employing the waxen effigy of Joe Biden.A revolution that we've experienced was a cultural, economic, political, social revolution.It was very similar to the French Revolution under the Robespierre brothers. Remember what they tried to do? They changed...

A Columbia PhD candidate sparked widespread backlash after revealing she chose not to report her rape because of her stark prison abolitionist views. Anna Krauthamer published an essay titled 'Why I Didn’t Report My Rape,' explaining why she did not alert authorities to her 2021 sexual assault after she was gang raped in Las Vegas. Krauthamer, a self-proclaimed 'staunch prison abolition activist', said she did not report the assault because she wished it had never happened and believed imprisoning the abusers would do nothing for her. 'The prospect of being a participant in other peoples’ incarceration is as alien to...

Prime Minister Viktor ‌Orban ​said on Monday that ‌Hungary would summon Ukraine's ambassador over what Orban said ​were attempts to interfere in a Hungarian parliamentary election due on April ‍12. Orban has intensified his ​anti-Ukraine campaign in the past weeks, and has sought to ​associate Hungarian ⁠opposition leader Peter Magyar with Kyiv and the EU executive in Brussels as the campaign heats up.

The daughter of a top Iranian official has been dismissed from employment at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, following US sanctions on her father in the wake of the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters, according to the university’s newspaper Saturday. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani is the daughter of Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and has served as assistant professor at Emory’s medical school, teaching hematology and medical oncology at the prestigious southern US university. After learning of her employment at the school, Rep. Buddy Carter, who represents Georgia in Congress, called on Emory to dismiss...

A viral video captured a customer’s fight after she allegedly couldn’t pay for her meal with her phone. On Saturday, Jan. 3, a 32-year-old woman attempted to pay for food at a noodle restaurant in Hong Kong but her phone was dead, Newsflare reported. Despite restaurant employees offering to help the woman charge her phone in the restaurant and “there was nothing overly unusual about her behaviour,” the restaurant owner said, the situation quickly escalated as the customer allegedly took a meat cleaver and pair of scissors from the restaurant. Other diners fled the restaurant and the owner called the...

If you think Europe could defend itself, 'keep on dreaming,' Nato's Rutte tells EU lawmakers Rutte also tells EU lawmakers that if they think the EU or Europe as whole can defend itself without the US, they should “keep on dreaming”. He says Europe’s defence spending would then have to go massively up to 10%, with further need to buy own nuclear capability and spend “billions and billions of euros.” He also says Europe needs the US and similarly the US needs Nato. He adds that even as US priorities evolve, there will “always be a very strong conventional US...

North Carolina’s state website claims that about 30% of the revenue from lottery tickets helps fund public schools. Yet despite record-breaking sales, that has not been true in years, according to a new state audit. Just 16% of lottery revenue from fiscal year 2025 will go toward education, auditors claim. North Carolina legalised lottery tickets in 2005 with a requirement that 35% of all revenue would be invested in public education. The money is used for school construction, college scholarships, teacher salaries and more. The requirement was changed to a “guideline” in 2007, and the percentage of lottery revenue that...

A frightened squid pumps out a cloud of ink as a distraction so it can zip away from danger. That’s a big part of what’s happening in Minnesota right now. The state’s Democratic political machine is reacting like a spooked squid to revelations that the machine and its clients are complicit in multi-billion-dollar frauds against the federal government. And the “ink” being squirted is the not-at-all spontaneous wave of riots erupting against federal authorities in Minneapolis. The surge came after series of exposés by independent journalist Nick Shirley exposed rampant childcare and Medicaid fraud in Minnesota, focusing public outrage on...

CNN reported Monday that controversial Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino will be leaving Minneapolis, where he has been overseeing operations and vehemently defending officers following the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Anderson Cooper broke the news Monday afternoon, saying, “Sources tell CNN that top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow,” before tossing to reporter Priscilla Alvarez. “This really is a major shift in strategy here by the Trump administration,” Alvarez began. “Recall, Gregory Bovino has been a key player in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and became, in many...

Investigators are reviewing body-camera videos from immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.Homeland Security investigators have videos recorded by cameras worn by multiple agents, department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.

PJM has issued precautionary alerts and continues to operate through the wide arctic system that is bringing extreme cold temperatures, ice and snow through next weekend to the region PJM serves, spanning 13 states and the District of Columbia. Between Jan. 23 and 27, and possibly extending through Jan. 30, temperatures are expected to reach single digits throughout the RTO and below zero in PJM’s Western Region. Peak demand has the potential to exceed 130,000 MW for seven straight days, a winter streak that PJM has never experienced. U.S. Department of Energy OrderThe order allows PJM to run all electric...

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer made headlines last week when he floated the possibility of the administration granting asylum to Jews in the UK. While there are many other European countries where Jews increasingly feel unsafe, Spain, the site of a disturbing antisemitic attack on Jewish graves this weekend, should be at the top of the list. The Times of Israel reported that Trump’s lawyer, Robert Garson, a Jew from England, got the asylum idea after the 2025 Manchester synagogue terror attack. “I thought: Jews are being persecuted in the United Kingdom,” Garson said. An antisemitic act that is a...

Mass deportations is a winning issue politically. Even CNN admits it. Majorities between 55% to 64% want ALL illegals deported. No exceptions. 55% was less legal immigration also. There is ZERO reason to back down. Full speed ahead on deportations. And cancel legal pathways also.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday the bureau has identified people and groups who are funding leftist protests aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota. During an appearance on conservative commentator Benny Johnson's podcast, Patel confirmed that the FBI's investigation into the unrest is active and expanding. "We've got … investigations ongoing into the funding of this," Patel told Johnson, stressing that the protests are "not happening organically" and that investigators have made "substantial progress" in uncovering groups and individuals financially backing them. Patel also asserted that federal authorities are examining encrypted left-wing chats connected to protest organizers...

Explanation: Can you see nebulas in other galaxies? Yes, some nebulas shine brightly enough -- if you know how to look. Clouds of hydrogen and oxygen emit light at very specific colors, and by isolating them, astronomers and astrophotographers can reveal structures that would otherwise be too faint to notice. This deep, 50-hour exposure highlights glowing hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue) across galaxy NGC 55, viewed nearly edge-on. Also known as the String of Pearls Galaxy, NGC 55 is often compared to our Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), although NGC 55 lies much farther away at...