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State Rep. James Talarico holds a narrow lead over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the closely watched U.S. Senate race, according to a new Texas Politics Project poll that also found Democrats reporting greater enthusiasm for voting. Talarico leads Paxton in latest poll By the numbers: The latest polling from the Texas Politics Project shows Talarico with a 3-point lead over Paxton, 42%-39%. The poll also shows Libertarian candidate Ted Brown with the support of 3% of those polled, while 14% said they haven't thought about it enough to form an opinion. Democrats are more enthusiastic about vote and...

U.S. President Donald Trump and leaders from around the world sent messages of support to Ukraine on Aug. 24, the nation's Independence Day. This year's holiday marks Ukraine's fourth Independence Day since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. "The people of Ukraine have an unbreakable spirit, and your country's courage inspires many," Trump said in a letter of support posted to social media by President Volodymyr Zelensky. "As you mark this important day, know the United States respects your fight, honors your sacrifices, and believes in your future as an independent nation."

As a governor and senator, Huey Long is best remembered for his radical proposals to redistribute wealth by force and for criticizing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "New Deal" as not expansive or progressive enough. So when Vice President J.D. Vance says out loud that he finds Long "great" and "interesting," that's worth keeping in mind.

Have you found a girlfriend yet, young man? I ask because people are pairing off at the lowest rates in modern history. While many argue over the causes, everyone—both left and right—agrees on the culprit: men. The internet is awash in articles positing some variation of the title “Where have all the good men gone?” On the left, one of the most prominent works on this question is the New York Times’ essay “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back” by Rachel Drucker. Leftists never consider the mess that is the modern dating world—or their role in creating it—and...

Explanation: What’s creating this giant hole in space? This is not a black hole — it’s a shadow. It’s Earth’s shadow. Since at least the time of Aristotle, people have noted that Earth's dark shadow on the Moon during a partial lunar eclipse is circular -- although never a whole circle. Using modern digital technology, though, the images of multiple lunar eclipses can be combined to show Earth's complete shadow. The featured image compilation by a perseistent astrophotographer is constructed from 22 years of lunar eclipses. The Moon is not eclipsed every month (moon-th) because the Moon's orbit is slightly...

The Trump administration threatened to tear down the Kennedy Center if plans to add President Trump’s name to the front of the building and also make extensive repairs are blocked. Without the president’s support, the Kennedy Center will need to be demolished and replaced with a new structure, lawyers for the Trump administration warned in a legal brief filed late Monday. And donors will flee — leaving the center in a “financial and structural death spiral” — if they don’t see Trump properly honored with his name on the entrance of the building, they argued.The attorneys, led by Assistant Attorney...

Podcast titan Joe Rogan believes that hip-hop’s relative lack of commercial success in 2026 can be attributed to the Trump administration’s defunding of the USAID. Rogan made the claims about hip-hop during the Aug. 13 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with comedian Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir. Podcast titan Joe Rogan believes that hip-hop’s relative lack of commercial success in 2026 can be attributed to the Trump administration’s defunding of the USAID. Rogan made the claims about hip-hop during the Aug. 13 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with comedian Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir....

Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg supports the idea of Ukraine extending general mobilization to include women, he said in an interview with Naspravdi MAX YouTube channel on Aug. 24. In the interview, Kellogg said he considers women’s military service an important part of civic duty.

Pope’s newspaper pushes feminist rewrite of Catholic doctrine The Pope’s newspaper has published a series reimagining historic Catholic teaching on the devil, sin, and Church history through a feminist-revisionist lens.L’Osservatore Romano – the official newspaper of the Holy See – published a series of articles in its July 2026 women’s supplement, Women Church World, in which several scholars attempt to dismantle the Traditional doctrine on the devil and his real existence, original sin, the capital vices, and the relationship between theology and the Magisterium, applying a feminist-inspired doctrinal revisionism.“Historically, the world can be divided into two distinct periods: one in...

As anyone who has seen even snippets of the atrocities live-streamed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel can attest, they took ecstatic glee in their spree of murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping. It reveals a demonic sadism that normal people, not warped by a culture of obsessive Jew-hatred and supremacist religious fervor, simply cannot wrap their heads around. Similarly, today’s Democrat Party, thoroughly captured by the far Left, is warped by a toxic brew of Trump Derangement Syndrome, anti-white racism, and hatred of the “colonialist,” capitalist West. They revel in their own sadistic fantasies and...

Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects... In 1877, Döerpfeld became an assistant at the excavations of Ancient Olympia, Greece, conducted under Richard Bohn, Friedrich Adler, and Ernst Curtius. He later became the technical manager of the project. The group uncovered, among other artifacts, an intact statue of Hermes by Praxiteles. The excavations revived the memory of the ancient Olympic Games and contributed toward the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in 1896. In 1882, Dörpfeld joined Schliemann, who was then excavating Troy... The two eventually became...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed a long-time Democrat political operative to a newly-created senior position in his government, the latest action in a long history between prominent Democrats colluding with the country’s leader to oppose the Trump administration. The two countries are now embroiled in a tense back-and-forth years in the making that threatens American interests on trade and national security. In mid-July, Carney appointed Maia Johnson as Chief Operating Officer of the Prime Minister’s Office. The position is the equivalent to White House Chief of Staff, and she is the first person to hold the title in the...

Ukraine needs 8 million migrants to avoid ‘demographic catastrophe,’ employment rep warns Ukraine will need to import over 8 million migrants from developing countries to overcome a looming “demographic crisis,” a leading employment sector specialist has said. Vasily Voskoboinik, president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Companies for International Employment, told the country’s state television on Saturday there was an urgent need for labor migration from countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal, India, North Africa and Central Asia. He said: “According to estimates by the International Organization for Migration and the International Labour Organization, we will need 8.2 million workers. This is...

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In 2009, an anonymous university support staff member wrote to C.K. Gunsalus—a prominent academic who specializes in the study of higher education administration—looking for advice and, frankly, a little bit of kindness. The staffer claimed that many of the faculty members at their institution, including a number heavily involved in campus activism, refused to treat them with any respect. Their collective attitude towards non-academics, even those who worked for the university, was akin to that reserved for “a servant or a child.” Gunsalus’ answer, which Inside Higher Ed published as an advice column, amounted to little more than word salad....

It may be one of the most deceptive public policy marketing schemes in modern history. First, pick the most popular health insurance program in the country, which is Medicare. Then call your health insurance reform proposal “Medicare for All,” even though the intent is to eliminate the Medicare program as we know it, so that no one would have that coverage anymore. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has long pushed to end the nation’s current mix of private health insurance (that is, employer-based and individually purchased) and government-provided health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid) and replace it with a new government-run program....

Haitian gangs killed at least 47 people and injured more than 22 in a brutal massacre inside a church on Sunday night. The Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported that the deadly church massacre occurred in Kenscoff, a hillside commune overlooking the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince. Per the newspaper, the neighborhood and its outskirts were under drone surveillance for several days after gangs had gained ground. Gang members opened fire inside a local church that had been serving as a shelter for displaced people. The U.N. reportedly detailed that at least 47 were killed, and more than 22 were left...

[snip] Cornish introduced the story by saying Piker had made remarks “suggesting American Jews supporting Israel would make antisemitism worse.” She then played the clip and asked the panel to discuss the backlash and the role of outside voices in campaigns. Arm pushed back, arguing the show’s framing was too charitable, that "you were suggesting, the show was suggesting, Piker’s comments were essentially just that antisemitism is rising because Jews are Zionist." Cornish cut him off with rising irritation: “If you're going to come on the show, I need you to listen.I really need you to listen and respond to...

Most people have tried it at least once. Smoking marijuana is a rite of passage almost as common as that first underage beer. Some grow out of it after high school or college. Others use it well into adulthood. There was also that first cigarette. You inhaled that first time and were pretty sure you were going to bring up a lung, but it was all about the "coolness" of it. Now, with the advent of legalized marijuana, a new poll shows that Americans have chosen what they want to light up. On Monday, a new Gallup poll showed that...

If you spent any time online over the weekend, you may have seen a bizarre dustup involving researcher Data Republican and the attorney Sarah Rogers. The short version is that Data Republican was handed some government documents that were supposed to become the basis for new reporting. She saw markings on the material, became worried she was being set up to publish something she legally couldn’t, and the whole thing exploded publicly. The temperature eventually came down. And somebody else finally sat down and went through the info. What was revealed is a fascinating look back at the government’s sprawling...