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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Churchill: The Man Who Saved the Free World Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of these raiders....

Acclaimed, Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren was branded an “evil Zionist b—-” by an anti-Israel thug while she was walking in London, shocking video shows. The 80-year-old was accosted while she was walking in the East London neighborhood of Tower Hill with her husband, Taylor Hackford, 81, on Wednesday night, according to the clip shared by London & UK Street News. “There is Helen Mirren, the avowed Zionist. You said Israel should last forever because of the Holocaust,” the yob shouted, referring to the actress’s 2023 remarks about the Jewish state. “F–k off,” Hackford, an acclaimed, Oscar-winning film director, shouted back....

The White House announces http://Aliens.gov is live, it is related to illegal immigration and shows the following message upon clicking “For 60 years, the U.S. government has kept a closely guarded secret.

‘The Ambassador’ for the CBC will follow the former ‘Full Frontal’ host as an actor-turned-scrappy diplomat in Canada’s embassy in Bulgaria.Samantha Bee, the former host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and one-time Daily Show correspondent, is getting her own sitcom, The Ambassador, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The workplace comedy will see Canadian-born Bee play Olivia Winters, an actor-turned-scrappy diplomat in Canada’s embassy in Bulgaria, alongside co-star Allana Harkin. The half-hour series from showrunner Terry McAuliffe and Amaze Film & Television will be part of the CBC’s winter 2026-27 schedule, the public broadcaster announced Tuesday. And Kathleen Robertson, who...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A loud boom was heard and felt across the Midlands on Thursday. WIS received reports from across Columbia as well as surrounding counties, and even areas outside of the viewing area, such as Darlington and Chesterfield counties.

Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival in Howard County, Maryland, a month before the midterm elections. Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello announced the festival Wednesday while performing together at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., as Springsteen winds down his Land of Hope and Dreams American tour. At the concert Wednesday, Springsteen played many of his most political songs, including "American Skin (41 Shots)" about a fatal police shooting and "Streets of Minneapolis," in response to the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti during federal...

A natural gas explosion destroyed a residential building in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, injuring at least four people on Thursday afternoon, Dallas-Fire Rescue confirms. Sources tell NBC 5 that 23 people lived in the building and officials said 12 residents have been accounted for. DFR told NBC 5 they were called to a large 3-alarm fire triggered by a gas explosion at a residential building located in the 400 block of E. 9th Street shortly before 1 p.m. At about 2:20 p.m., the fire was increased to four alarms, and by 3:23 p.m., to five alarms. NBC 5...

Anya Taylor-Joy, acclaimed for her roles in hits like The Queen’s Gambit, found herself at the center of controversy after her appearance at the Dune 2 premiere on Thursday. The actress, who confirmed her role in the sequel alongside stars like Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, sparked criticism for her outfit choice, described by some as "problematic." Taylor-Joy adorned a white floor-length gown accompanied by a hooded veil, reminiscent of traditional Muslim attire, particularly a burka and hijab. While she made a stunning entrance on the red carpet in the Dior ensemble, fans were quick to point out the resemblance to...

Washington: The United States has sanctioned the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, the ⁠body Iran has set up to manage ⁠the Strait of Hormuz, ‌the Treasury Department said ​on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Saying it was time for a new approach and a new chapter, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has replaced the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” naming outsider Nick Bilton, a longtime technology journalist and documentarian, as the show’s new leader. Executive producer Tanya Simon will be leaving about a year after being named to the job following 30 years at the venerable Sunday evening program. The moves cap a period of turmoil for the venerable newsmagazine that premiered in 1968 and is known for its ticking stopwatch.In a memo to staff Thursday, Weiss and CBS News...

Adam Hamawy’s past relationship with terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman has loomed over his rapid rise in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ). Their relationship spanned a 1991 road trip the two took together to Detroit, Hamawy’s service as the sheikh’s translator for a press conference in which Abdel-Rahman denied any role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Hamawy’s testimony on the sheikh’s behalf at his 1995 trial, where the Islamist leader was convicted of plotting to carry out a campaign of terrorist attacks in New York City. But just one year before Hamawy...

Progressive activists have discovered the perfect business model: Declare a crisis, accuse opponents of violence or genocide, demand emergency powers and funnel money into activist-run nonprofits with virtually no oversight. The latest example of this comes from the Seattle LGBTQ Commission and a coalition of local left-wing groups, which are demanding that socialist Mayor Katie Wilson declare a civil emergency over what they call a “trans relocation crisis.” They’re claiming, with no evidence, that tens of thousands of transgender-identifying individuals are fleeing Republican-led states and arriving in Seattle as refugees. Their proposed solution: a taxpayer-funded bloodletting. On Saturday, radicals flooded...

Audie Cornish is back at her cherry-picking antics. Yesterday, the CNN This Morning host managed to find two Texas Republicans who said they wouldn't vote for Ken Paxton in the Texas senatorial general election. Today, Audie began a segment on the economy by rolling clips of TikTok personalities claiming Americans are “skipping freaking meals” and fasting because “the economy is s--t.” She described them as “stories of Americans who say they’re struggling to put food on the table.” One struggler was TikToker @ellestate, who, in a recent post, bragged about being able to afford expensive things to make herself “pretty.”...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stole the show at a recent congressional hearing with two jars of brown water. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) explained that the dirty water had come from Morgan County, Ga., where a Meta data center is allegedly tainting the water of local residents. It was an image perfectly suited to driving the intensifying opposition to data centers in that it was photogenic, easy to understand — and misleading. According to reporting in the New York Times last year, the water problem has affected four homes in the vicinity of the data center, not the entire county, as AOC implied. It...

According to the People’s Liberation Army’s Southern Theater Command (PLA STC), the HNLMS De Ruyter (F804) and its embarked helicopter intruded Wednesday over the airspace of the Paracel Islands, an archipelago under the control of Beijing following its violent seizure from Vietnam in the 1970s.The Dutch frigate was forced away from the Paracel Islands using “necessary measures” and was “in accordance with laws and regulations,” Senior Captain Zhai Shichen, spokesperson for the Chinese PLA STC, said in a news release.China controls the Paracel Islands via a network of 20 outposts and support forces from the mainland. Through its artificial island...

Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion and one of the fiercest playoff performers in NHL history, has died, the NHL Alumni Association said Thursday. He was 60. Lemieux played 21 years in the NHL, winning the 1995 Conn Smythe Trophy and the four Cups — two with the New Jersey Devils and one each with the Colorado Avalanche and Montreal Canadiens. His 80 playoff goals rank ninth in NHL history and his 158 points are tied for 27th. Lemieux played 1,215 regular-season games, scoring 379 goals and 786 points and amassing 1,777 penalty minutes. “Today is a dark day...

The U.S. government for decades has expressed concerns about China’s proliferation of nuclear- and missile-related technologies to other countries, with recent focus on the threat of Chinese acquisition of U.S.-origin nuclear technology. (See CRS In Focus IF11050, New U.S. Policy Regarding Nuclear Exports to China.) Official U.S. government sources indicate that the Chinese government has ended its direct involvement in the transfer of nuclear- and missile-related items, but China-based companies and individuals continue to export goods relevant to those items, particularly to Iran and North Korea. U.S. officials also have raised concerns about entities operating in China that provide other...

‘It is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.’The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is starting to dismantle the legal industrial complex pushing for mass migration by cracking down on immigration lawyers who file fraudulent asylum claims.DHS directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday to develop policies to go after the attorneys who aid and abet illegals obtaining legal entry and status in the United States fraudulently, under a law already establishing penalties for document fraud. DHS said...

It's happened again. The life of a conservative Supreme Court Justice was reportedly threatened Wednesday night after the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, D.C., received reports of gunfire at the home of Amy Coney Barrett. DC-based independent journalist Andrew Leyden first reported that trouble was brewing at Barrett's residence just before 10 p.m. ET; Leyden did not identify which Justice was involved, but revealed it was determined to be a "swatting incident."

Federal income tax experts tell POLITICO money from the DOJ's Judgment Fund, which the new $1.8 billion program is drawing on, is generally taxable.President Donald Trump isn’t supposed to directly profit from the dismissal of his lawsuit against the IRS.And yet, he could still owe taxes on the money going to set up a central feature of that deal — the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”Some tax practitioners say the way that the fund, which Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced May 18, is structured likely makes it an income tax liability for the president, potentially costing hundreds of millions of...