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ISIS had a huge Russian and Central Asian contingent in its heyday. About one out of every five Russian citizens is Muslim, but that population is not evenly distributed either geographically or socioeconomically. In cities, a lot of taxi drivers and hard-luck laborers have names like Magomedov and Ismailov, indicative of Muslim ancestry.... The center of geographic gravity of Islam in Russia is the Northern Caucasus, the site of domestic strife and bloodshed in a series of episodes going back centuries. Some groups around Dagestan and Chechnya have become proficient guerrilla warriors, and Putin perfected his own harsh methods on...

Though he could be earning much more if he had taken up a job in New York, one American chose to settle down in Singapore instead. It's already been six years since he moved to our little red dot but in a recent video uploaded to his YouTube platform, Living in the Lion City, he shared why he took a pay cut to be here. "Believe it or not, it's not because of the salary," he said in the clip published last Saturday (March 16). As he strolled around Gardens by the Bay, he pointed out how clean Singapore is....

M. Emmet Walsh, the character actor known for his roles in films such as “Blade Runner” and “Knives Out,” has died. He was 88. Walsh’s longtime manager, Sandy Joseph, confirmed to The Post that Walsh died Tuesday of cardiac arrest at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vermont. When asked about his career, Walsh said, per Joseph’s release, “I approach each job thinking it might be my last so it better be the best work possible. I want to be remembered as a working actor. I’m being paid for what I’d do for nothing.”

President Biden pressured House Speaker Mike Johnson to pass the Senate’s sweeping foreign aid and border security package now that Congress has finished funding the government. The Senate passed the $95 billion last month, which includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, but so far Mr. Johnson, Louisiana Republican, has not brought the bill to the House for a vote. The speaker argued that he would bring foreign funding under consideration in the House once the long-delayed spending process was completed. Mr. Biden’s signature on the latest, $1.2 trillion funding package means the end of the Fiscal Year 2024,...

MOSCOW, March 22 (Reuters) - Russia has added what it calls the "LGBT movement" to a list of extremist and terrorist organisations, state media said on Friday. The move was in line with a ruling by Russia's Supreme Court last November that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists, a move that representatives of gay and transgender people said they feared would lead to arrests and prosecutions. The list is maintained by an agency called Rosfinmonitoring that has powers to freeze the bank accounts of the more than 14,000 people and entities designated as extremists and terrorists. They range from...

There’s a concerted effort to make straight, white men like me perpetually angry. In case you’re not paying attention, guys are constantly reminded that we are the victims of diversity, feminism and what has generally come to be known as “wokeness.” Here in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis plays the role of civil rights leader for us beleaguered straight, white males. This takes many forms. Most recently, the perpetual DeSantis campaign took credit for scuttling a National Hockey League job fair next month in South Florida that had been directed at recruiting “diverse job seekers who are pursuing careers in hockey.”

PALM SUNDAY Matthew 21.1 - 11 1 And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, 2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. 4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the...

High school students at a New York high school staged a massive walk-out protest this week in opposition to the district’s attempts to force them to share restrooms with the opposite gender, in the name of “transgender” acceptance.Breitbart reports that the Wappingers Central School District, which oversees John Jay High School and other campuses, is set to allow students to choose whichever restrooms they want to use, rather than assigning them on the basis of their actual gender.The protest consisted entirely of students who do not support the policy, with one student, Shauna Neilan, saying that “a bunch of people...

Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Friday ordered the Foreign Ministry to summon Turkey’s envoy to Israel for a “serious reprimand” after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “send [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to Allah.” “I instructed officials to summon the Turkish deputy ambassador to Israel for a serious reprimand, following Erdogan’s serious attack on Prime Minister Netanyahu and his threats to send PM Netanyahu to Allah and to convey a clear message to Erdogan,” Katz posted on X. “You who support the burning of babies, murderers, rapists and the mutilation of corpses by Hamas criminals, [are] the last one...

The brutal attack, which left Gains in critical condition, took place minutes from their high school. Gain was left with “a fractured skull that resulted in brain bleeding and swelling,” according to her family. The full extent of her injuries will not be known until she wakes up. A member of Gain’s family wrote in an update for their GoFundMe fundraiser on Friday, “We are happy to share that Kaylee is breathing on her own, remains stable and the best news so far is that we have been moved out of the ICU. We are truly blessed by the outpouring...

Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is being sued for working with local officials to stonewall a citizen’s efforts to access public election records from the Nov. 8, 2022 general and the May 2, 2023 primary elections.Ms. Benson has a record of resisting transparency dating back to the 2020 presidential contest, after which she ordered local clerks to delete all electronic poll book (EPB) data from that election. In Nov. 2022, just days after the midterms, she ordered local clerks to deny public information requests to examine certain election data stored on their EPBs.EPB files are an original public...

California's insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara spoke out after the state's largest home insurance provider announced that it would discontinue coverage for tens of thousands of policies this summer."This is a real crisis," Commissioner Lara told KABC in an interview Friday.The commissioner said he wants to investigate State Farm's finances, but warned that regulators can't go too far, or else they would risk pushing companies out of California entirely. "Insurance companies are not like utility companies," he told KABC. "By law, they don't have to be here, and when we try to overregulate, we'll see what happened after the Northridge earthquake,...

I live in a very nice senior complex in Spokane, rolling lawns. lots of trees, nice neighbors. One of my friends moved into assisted living and her place just inhabited by a woman who parked all wrong. I went over to chat with her. Nice enough woman from Texas, very close to the border. My son was born on an AFB close to her house, so we established a connection. Why did she move here? The Border Patrol had knocked on her door, telling her a dead illegal was found on her property and she should move as far north....

The words "intelligence" and "White House" aren't terms we use in the same sentence much lately, but today it's necessary, as the Biden administration's annual Economic Report of the President includes an entire section on artificial intelligence (AI) and the possibility of Americans losing their jobs because of an AI takeover.The White House released a report Thursday that found roughly 10% of the U.S. workforce is in occupations with a high degree of exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) with lower performance requirements that could leave them more vulnerable to displacement.According to the report, 20% of American workers are in occupations...

Why did this budget pass? I thought half the GOP member were opposed to it. Shouldn’t speaker Johnson be fired for pushing through legislation that more than half the GOP members were opposed to? When will a Speaker with balls come along and gladly shut down the government? They need to embrace it. They have to say “Yes, I know hundreds of thousands of government workers will lose their jobs…I know Veterans will not receive services…I know some American families will be significantly hurt by a government shutdown…but we want to do it anyway. We want to do it because...

A legal battle has begun in Nogales, Arizona, that captures the essence of the nation’s border crisis. A 75-year-old rancher is facing charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault after he fatally shot Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, a 48-year-old illegal immigrant who passed through his property while trying to gain entry into the country. The incident, which occurred on January 30, 2023, has garnered national attention amid the wider debate over immigration.George Alan Kelly, 75, has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a man he encountered on his property outside Nogales, Arizona. The jury trial in Santa Cruz County...

Hey California, having a problem with squatters? Well, the free market has provided an answer, once again. Introducing the "Squatter Squad." According to the company's website, their business is going into your property where squatters may have taken up residence and do what's necessary to remove them: We offer fast and effective squatter removal and prevention services throughout Southern California.Our job is to save our customers from all of the wasted time, money, stress, and headaches that come from squatters overtaking your property."Squatter Squad" makes it clear that they're not an "eviction service." In truth, they're much faster: Squatter Squad...

Amid heightened crime rates across the country, shoplifting has become an increasingly popular form of illicit activity. In major cities, there have been organized shoplifting rings terrorizing retail stores and their customers in the face of lax laws regarding these types of crimes.In New York, the problem has become particularly egregious, and has resulted in a thriving black market on which criminals sell the merchandise they pilfered from major and smaller retailers. Indeed, the Empire State’s shoplifting market has cost retailers billions of dollars each year as this brand of property crime continues.A shoplifting epidemic costing retailers in New York...

In the face of rampant skepticism, ISIS has now provided photographic evidence it was behind the massacre at a Moscow concert hall. The attack occurred on Friday evening, with gunmen entering the Crocus City Hall with AK-style weapons and explosives. Terrifying videos of the ordeal were made public showing people being gunned down in cold blood as others hid behind barriers. Russian FSB forces eventually arrived with the building already in flames. (WARNING: GRAPHIC) Watch Video HERE CLICK ABOVE ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Within hours ISIS put out a statement of responsibility through its propaganda outlet, Amaq News Agency....

As the border crisis continues to worsen, it almost seems like each week brings another tragedy to light illustrating the impact that the problem is having on American citizens. Just weeks after the murder of Laken Riley at the hands of an illegal immigrant, another story out of Massachusetts has people wondering when the government will finally do something about the problem at the southern border.A Haitian migrant was arrested for raping a 15-year-old girl at one of the hotels being used to shelter illegal immigrants and asylum seekers coming over the border. Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, chimed in...