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NEW: The Texas Military Department confirms the TX National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass (city property where mass illegal crossings are), and is restricting Border Patrol from accessing the area, saying the Feds “perpetuate illegal crossings”. This is the area where Border Patrol has been cutting TX razor wire. Razor wire and fences are now deployed to block the area off from the public and federal government. Attached video is from our crew on the ground this morning as they began blocking it off. You can expect DOJ to sue Texas over this. Texas Military...

Georgia prosecutors working for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis secretly met with January 6 Committee investigators in April 2022 before a special grand jury was convened to investigate Trump’s effort to challenge the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia. Recall that it was reported in early May 2022 that Fani Willis convened a special grand jury to investigate Trump. According to Politico, Fani Willis’s prosecutors secretly met with January 6 Committee investigators to review evidence. “Committee staff quietly met with lawyers and agents working for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in mid-April 2022, just as she...

As we continue to thank God that abortion is now illegal in many states, our prayers and actions are still desperately needed for women in all states who are considering abortion. If a woman cannot get an abortion in the state where she lives, she may travel to a different state where it is legal, or she may order the abortion pill online to take at home to end her pregnancy. This calls for our continued vigilance and readiness to give hope and help to women in our midst who are experiencing a surprise pregnancy. And in doing so, not...

SOUTH BEND, Indiana (LifeSiteNews) — A superior court judge this week dismissed a lawsuit brought by a University of Notre Dame professor against the student newspaper after they reported on the educator’s pro-abortion advocacy that conflicts with Catholic moral teaching. Justice Steven David with the St. Joseph County Superior Court dismissed the lawsuit on January 8. The judge said in his ruling that Notre Dame’s student-run campus newspaper, The Irish Rover, had not committed defamation in its reporting on abortion advocacy by the plaintiff, Notre Dame Professor Tamara Kay. “The Court concludes that Dr. Kay does not present any evidence...

A Wisconsin woman took the 40 Days of Life prayer vigil to the front of a Walgreens this past year. Typically, when we think of the 40 Days of Life movement, we think of people gathering to pray for the unborn in front of abortion clinics. With the recent increase in medical abortions by means of one’s local pharmacy, the setting for such prayer is expanding. U.S. pharmacies were given approval by the FDA at the start of 2023 to provide the abortion pill. Joni Davison started participating in the prayer outreach in the 2023 spring campaign. “It’s no longer...

What is it about leftists and pig noises? A Jewish man was speaking out about why the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors shouldn't pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, giving his own family's experience of having lost five family members to Hamas terrorists during the attacks on October 7. He was reasonable. He was temperate. He was eloquent and articulate. He was like the man in the Norman Rockwell painting on the four freedoms, illustrating freedom of speech, complete with a checkered shirt. And the response? A sea of oinks and grunts, as if the leftists were...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The COVID pandemic forced most U.S. casinos to close for months, causing payrolls, revenue and earnings to tumble. But the forced shutdowns and highly regulated recoveries also taught the industry useful lessons that will endure even after the pandemic is a distant memory, panelists at a major casino conference said Thursday. Speaking at the East Coast Gaming Congress, executives from several major regional gambling companies and one of the world’s largest said the changes they were forced to make because of the pandemic had some benefits.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” NBC News Correspondent Stephanie Gosk reported on homelessness among students in Los Angeles and stated that increases in the cost of living “and a migrant crisis” are two key factors in a spike in homelessness among students. The segment began with a portion of an interview with Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho saying, “We have in excess of 13,000 students who are experiencing homelessness, that number increased by close to 19%.”

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has posted a video of ex-UN weapons inspector (and convicted child sex offender) Scott Ritter visiting Grozny Ritter has consistently promoted Kremlin propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine and seems to be absolutely loving his time in Chechnya

Maine’s taxpayers are footing the bill for new apartments built specifically for newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens who will have at least two years’ worth of rent paid for. This week, Maine officials in Brunswick unveiled new apartments that will go to border crossers and illegal aliens who will have their rent paid for at least two years, News Center Maine reports:

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — A religious sister and former U.S. Army colonel known for her bold pro-life witness is calling on Christians to better discern and fight the battle for life by staying in a state of grace. Sister Deirdre Byrne, POSC, exhorted listeners at the TFP Washington Bureau on Saturday to follow the example of St. Joan of Arc, who put a high priority on making sure her soldiers “maintained purity, which means being in a state of grace,” she said. She told how St. Joan would seek out “confession and Holy Communion” for her soldiers and wanted “no...

During his electoral campaign, Milei vowed to "exhaust all diplomatic channels so that the Falkland Islands become Argentine again." "We have to see how we are going to get them back. It is clear that the war option is not a solution. We had a war, which we lost. Now we have to make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channels,"

Sunny Hostin’s racist and ageist attacks against former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley have been well-documented. But during the Thursday edition of ABC’s The View, she seemed to dabble in sexism as well, as she suggested that the only reason people, “especially women,” supported her was because she was a woman. She even bizarrely announced: “Last I checked Nikki Haley has [a vagina].” It was just one of the few moments of panic the cast had about the Democratic Party’s prospects in 2024. While they were discussing the previous night’s GOP presidential primary debate in Iowa, Hostin went on a rant...

It’s becoming increasingly clear that U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney was dishonest, manipulative, and destructive while serving on the Jan. 6 Committee. A lawsuit filed by my friend and long-time attorney Stefan Passantino on Dec. 20, 2023 lays it out. I know both participants well. I entered Congress in 1978 with Liz Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney. I watched Liz Cheney become a competent, effective implementor of American policy around the world. Few things have made me sadder than watching her drift into an anti-Trump fanaticism – which ultimately convinced her that breaking the rules, destroying innocent people, and pandering fake news...

With an endless stream of illegals, Americans are coming to realize why they can't have nice things. Libs of TikTok found this going on at Chicago's famed O'Hare Airport, one of the country's largest and busiest: BREAKING: I received this from a source in O’Hare Airport in Chicago. Parts of the airport were sectioned off to house illegals. There were too many illegals and now they overflowed into the terminal area. My source says they were mainly Hispanic men and he was asked not to record. Why are they trying to hide this?! Obviously, they ran out of space but...

<p>CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old Chicago woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder after authorities said she helped her mother kill a pregnant woman whose baby was cut from her womb.</p><p>Desiree Figueroa's plea was made Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. It stipulates that she testify against her mother, Clarisa Figueroa, whose trial is scheduled to start later this month, the Chicago Tribune reported.</p>

More than $1 billion worth of U.S. missiles, drones and other weapons and equipment sent to Ukraine have not been properly tracked by officials, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday. Of a total of $1.69 billion worth of items that require additional layers of tracking and monitoring thanks to their sensitive military technology, a little more than $1 billion — or nearly 60 percent — are not fully accounted for, the report found. The Defense Department’s inspector general did not say if any such weapons had been misused or diverted after being shipped to Ukraine because “it was beyond...

An annual report from the Inspector General of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) revealed that millions of dollars worth of tech devices were reported lost or stolen “without appropriate search and recovery efforts.” The fiscal year 2023 annual report released Tuesday states CPS schools reported 77,505 tech devices as lost or stolen during the 2021-22 school year, totaling well over $23 million in original purchase price. The discovery, as a result of the district’s first post-COVID-19 inventory, calls the numbers “unacceptably high” and says the oversight process is in need of a “serious overhaul.” The report said the missing items included...

Bud Harrelson, the shortstop on the Mets’ first two World Series teams and later the club’s manager for parts of two seasons, died Wednesday at a hospice home in East Northport on Long Island. Harrelson, who was 79 was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016. A good-field, no-hit player, Harrelson spent 15 years in the major leagues and was the starting shortstop on both the Miracle Mets’ 1969 world championship team which upset the Baltimore Orioles that October and their 1973 National League pennant winners who lost that year’s World Series to the Oakland Athletics in seven games.

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