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A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide. Geraldo Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 following an altercation with guards. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the 55-year-old father of four was attempting suicide and the staff tried to save him. ...

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion hub, has invaded what some would assume to be unlikely territory. Rather than further infiltrating Democrat-led states, secular universities, and other places where abortion is commonly promoted and embraced, numerous Christian colleges have been exposed for latching onto a relationship with the abortion industry. Students for Life of America (SFLA) recently released the data through its Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement Christian Schools Project. In its fourth annual report, 725 Christian colleges and universities across America were investigated, with researchers “examining each institution’s public materials, resources, partnerships and student-facing programs to identify ties to...

A Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen franchisee that operates more than 130 locations filed for bankruptcy to rightsize itself after facing mounting debt. Sailormen Inc., a Miami-based franchisee that operates locations in Florida and Georgia, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida, according to its legal counsel. The company, represented by Cole Schotz, is attempting to renegotiate or resolve the $129 million that it owes to lenders so it can emerge as a healthier franchisee. The company blamed "various macroeconomic factors" for disrupting the business and forcing it to file for bankruptcy protection. "Those...

U.S.A. – At the long-range section of Industry Day at the Range near Boulder City, Nevada, a range officer told this correspondent all the rifles were fitted with suppressors but one or maybe two. Besides the long-range section, silencers/suppressors were common throughout the booths.At the Industry Day at the Range for SHOT Show 2026, the weather was wonderful for the first time in four years. There was no wind in the morning, a clear sky, and the temperature was about 50 degrees to start. Last year was windy, dusty, and cold.The noise at the show seemed lower than usual. Silencers/suppressors...

Very brief summary: A Somali woman tearfully claims ICE agents beat and racially abused her during a detention, but the video presents bodycam/cell phone footage suggesting she assaulted an agent first, portraying her story as exaggerated or false for media sympathy.

A pet cow named Veronika uses a tool in a surprisingly sophisticated way—possibly because she has been allowed to live her best life. In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed a cow standing behind a table bearing an array of oddly shaped objects. The text below the image read simply “cow tools.” Now a pet cow named Veronika has been documented not only using a tool but doing so in a...

Animal rights activists have staged an eye-catching protest by hanging a woman from her feet outside a London KFC and pretending to slit her throat in a bid to highlight how some chickens are slaughtered for food. Several protesters from PETA were involved in the demo, which took place outside a branch of the fast-food chain on Brixton Road, Lambeth, at 12pm on Wednesday. Two female activists, nude but for a beige bodysuit, were hung upside down with shackles around their ankles to simulate the way that many chickens are slaughtered before they end up on our supermarket shelves. The...

President Donald Trump joined world leaders for a signing ceremony in Switzerland on Jan. 22 for his "Board of Peace." Trump suggested during the presentation that a peace settlement connected to Russia's war in Ukraine was "coming very soon." Ukrainian officials did not immediately return a request for comment on Trump's assertion. The declaration came shortly before Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks in Davos on the sidelines of an international summit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that Europe is too reliant on the US for its security, as he questioned the response from NATO if Russia was to invade another European nation. “Europe needs united armed forces, forces that can truly defend Europe today,” he said during his speech in Davos. “Europe relies only on that belief that if danger comes, NATO will act, but no one has really seen the alliance in action.” He questioned who would respond if Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to invade Lithuania or strike Poland. “Right now NATO exists thanks to the belief that the...

In the run-up to the 2016 Democratic Party convention, FBI Director James Comey gained access to at least eight thumb drives containing large volumes of former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s sensitive State Department emails – as well as some from President Obama – that appeared to have been compromised by foreign hackers. Instead of investigating the explosive new batch of evidence revealed in recently declassified documents, Comey rushed ahead to close an investigation into whether Clinton improperly transmitted and received classified material from a private, unsecured server she kept in her basement. Comey also took the extraordinary step of bypassing the...

@nicksortor BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee has officially voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS for IGNORING a subpoena This will now move on to the full House, which could very likely result in at least HILLARY being ARRESTED. They arrested Bannon and Navarro for this exact same reason, and both of them spent time in prison.

Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of the organizers of the storming of a Minnesota church to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday, denied that she and her group tried to "rush" the church on CNN, despite previous comments suggesting otherwise. Armstrong appeared on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" Wednesday when she was asked about whether the Justice Department had contacted her since threatening a crackdown on the protesters. Armstrong said that she had not been contacted by the Justice Department, despite media attention, but that she wanted to "correct" the record on her protest.

I’m at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where I saw Chrystia Freeland, the disgraced former MP and cabinet minister. Actually, I think she saw me first and tried to hide from my sight.So I decided to ask her some questions.Now, if I had been in Canada, she would have had me arrested. That’s what she did to our reporter, David Menzies. And of course, she had no compunction about seizing bank accounts from hundreds of her political enemies during the trucker protest. (snip)I also asked her about her accepting a job working for the Ukrainian government, while also...

Federal authorities have arrested two anti-ICE agitators after a mob stormed a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. Bondi named Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen as the suspects. FBI Director Kash Patel says the pair are charged with violating the FACE Act, which prohibits interfering with the exercise of religion at a place of worship. "Minutes ago at my direction, HSI and FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota. So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in...

It happens almost every week, in almost every stadium. If you blink you’ll miss it. The sight of several young, wealthy, influential men bowing in submission to a higher power is a glitch in the matrix. It doesn’t fit the script. It is a glaring disconnect between the reality of the players and the media covering them. It’s time we turned the cameras back on, and if the networks don’t, the players will do it for them.

Sometimes the debate over U.S. energy policy feels more like a shouting match, instead of a factual discussion about how to meet the nation’s rapidly growing needs. In one corner, there’s the push for 100% renewables. In the other corner, it’s almost all about oil and gas. But outside the competing echo chambers on the left and the right, a quiet success story is unfolding in America’s rural – and yes, more politically conservative – communities. It turns out that keeping the lights on isn’t about picking a side. It’s about picking all the energy sources that can deliver affordable...

President Trump said Thursday that the US will receive “total access” to Greenland under the terms of a “framework” deal announced a day earlier at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We’re talking about, it’s really being negotiated now, the details of it, but essentially it’s total access,” Trump told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria.” “There’s no end, there’s no time limit.” The president, who also ruled out using military force to annex the world’s largest island Wednesday, stressed that Greenland is critical to national security and will be used for his vaunted space-based Golden Dome missile defense...

Minutes ago at my direction, Homeland Security Investigation and FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota. So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. We will share more updates as they become available. Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.

Political experts assure us that "normie" voters dislike chaos and disorder - such as seeing your city aflame every night or washed-up cable hosts busting into your church service to plug their "subscribe" buttons:... Mr Lemon says it's okay to smash up your Christian observances if he thinks you're "entitled"... Voters dislike chaos that continues unpunished, and will blame the politicians they regard as responsible. In a highly centralised system such as France's, that would be the president. In a federal system, the public has a choice: is it the president's fault? or is it the insurrectionist governor's and mayor's?...

Residents of a liberal city in Missouri have been complaining to officials that it stinks of cannabis everywhere they go. In Rock Hill, Missouri, a small city with a population of around 4,700 in the St Louis metropolitan area, the number of complaints about cannabis odor shot up in the second half of 2025. The city received 99 complaints about stinky weed between April and December of last year. Rock Hill's city administrator Garrett Schlett told the St Louis Post-Dispatch the number represents a significant uptick from previous years. Missouri legalized medical marijuana use in 2018, and recreational use was...