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"Israel just made all the Middle East happy tonight." — Israeli-Lebanese Christian journalist Jonathan Elkhoury, X, September 27, 2024. "As a Lebanese, this is one of the happiest days in Lebanon's history.... As a human being who holds peace before my eyes, this is the most important day for our region. Nasrallah and Hezbollah have terrorized the Lebanese people since the 1980s.... Every Lebanese and every decent human being should feel joy at the downfall of one of the greatest evils of our time. Now, we have a real chance to look forward... and sitting down with Israelis and the...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tried again Wednesday to explain his repeated false statement that he was in China during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 — telling reporters in Pennsylvania that he “got his dates wrong” and suggesting he makes verbal mistakes “like everybody else.” Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, was questioned during Tuesday night’s debate over a report that indicated that he was not in Hong Kong like he repeatedly previously claimed — but was actually back home in Nebraska. “Look, I have my dates wrong. I was in Hong Kong and China in 1989,” Walz said Wednesday....

In a sprawling legal brief partly unsealed on Wednesday, the special counsel, Jack Smith, laid out his case for why former President Donald J. Trump is not immune from prosecution on federal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.The redacted brief, made public by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington, adds new details to the already extensive public record of how Mr. Trump lost the race but attempted nonetheless to cling to power.Part of the brief focuses, for example, on a social media post that Mr. Trump sent on the afternoon of the attack...

At least three women have claimed they had trysts with Robert F. Kennedy Jr over the last year during his failed presidential run after linking up through an anti-vaccine group he chairs, according to a report. Two sources told Mediaite on Wednesday they had direct knowledge of the woman’s allegations as Kennedy, 70, is already entangled in another alleged sexting fling with New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi. The outlet also reviewed texts from a woman detailing an alleged relationship with Kennedy this year. *** The trio of women know Kennedy from the Children’s Health Defense, which is an anti-vaccine...

Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. A further seven soldiers were wounded, some of them seriously, according to the army, citing two separate battles. The Hezbollah militia claimed to have destroyed three Israeli battle tanks that had advanced on the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras. There was initially no confirmation of this from Israel.

The University of Wyoming women's volleyball team became the third in the nation to forfeit a game to San Jose State this season.Wyoming joined Boise State and Southern Utah, all of which did not give a specific reason for the forfeit."After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San Jose State University," the volleyball program said in a statement on Tuesday. "Per Mountain West Conference policy, the conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming."

Many believe that St. Brendan, an Irish monk, discovered parts of the Americas long before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Others suggest he may have landed on islands like the Canaries, Azores, or Madeira. However, ancient Irish records don’t make it clear where he truly traveled there. Some researchers claim that groups such as the Phoenicians, Japanese, Chinese, and Basques arrived long before Columbus, following the Native Americans, according to The Irish Times. However, this part of history provides little solid proof. Because of this, myths have sprouted alongside reliable theories and facts. Some of these myths are spread by...

[cut] Callista and I went to bed on Tuesday night convinced that Sen. Vance had won a substantial triumph. In that victory, he also vindicated President Donald J. Trump’s gamble in selecting a running mate so early in his career. At 40, with only two years in the U.S. Senate, Vance is only a few months older than Richard Nixon when President Dwight Eisenhower picked him to be the Republican vice presidential nominee in 1952. Nixon would remain a major part of the political scene for 42 years. That would give Sen. Vance a potential role in American government and...

Social media marveled at JD Vance's 'pretty eyes' as Google searches for eyeliner exploded during his VP debate against Tim Walz. The high-stakes showdown between GOP Sen. J.D. Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz comes with just 35 days left until the election and with polls showing it could be one of the closest races in decades. However, some on X getting a first look at Vance seemed entranced by the Ohio Senator's eyes. Even Democrats seemed taken with Vance, one writing: 'I don't know much about Vance, but I'm entranced by his icy blue eyes,' before clarifying she wasn't...

A major turning point on Mary Sheppeard’s road to healing came two years ago when she attended Good Friday services for the first time in nearly 60 years. The 74-year-old Albuquerque resident had struggled for years with the trauma she’d endured after being sexually abused by a priest in Holy Ghost Catholic Church when she was 17. “I just made a decision: I was done letting that priest run my life,” said Sheppeard, who is now a parishioner at Holy Family Catholic Church in Albuquerque and a clinical social worker. “... I finally got healing.” A new plaque outside the...

Was talking with my nephew from Georgia. He stated "... if we lose North carolina due to lack of voting precincts that people have access to, we lose the election." Do you Freepers think the same? If true, do you think that the corrupt administration is not sending FEMA to North Carolina in order to swing the state for Dems?

25 News is learning more about the case against the disgraced Waco priest accused of sexually assaulting at least 10 women so far. Lauren Adams talked to the lead investigator on the case and he says four of the victims were connected to Baylor. Anthony Odiong is behind bars facing numerous sexual assault charges. So far 10 victims who have come forward, and seven of the women were abused in McLennan County. Odiong was the catholic priest of St. Peters Catholic Student Center in Waco and St. Mary’s of the Assumption in West from 2007-2012. St. Peters serves Baylor and...

From Matt Taibbi: So let me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class from which the anti-disinformation complex works. By the way, there are no working class censors. The dirty secret of content moderation all over the world is that it’s a tiny sliver of educated rich correcting everybody else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it, basically. The problem is America has the most useless aristocrats in history. Even the French dandies who were marched to the razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to the...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has announced that the archdiocese has sued its longtime primary insurance company, Chubb, for “attempting to evade their legal and moral contractual obligation to settle covered claims” of sex abuse. “It has always been our wish to expeditiously settle all meritorious claims,” Dolan said Oct. 1. “However, Chubb, for decades our primary insurance company, even though we have paid them over $2 billion in premium by today’s standards, is now attempting to evade their legal and moral contractual obligation to settle covered claims which would bring peace and healing to victim-survivors.” In response, Chubb...

Vice President Kamala Harris sided Wednesday with dockworkers who launched a massive strike this week that threatens to cripple the economy. “This strike is about fairness,” Harris said. “Foreign-owned shipping companies have made record profits and executive compensation has grown. The Longshoremen, who play a vital role transporting essential goods across America, deserve a fair share of these record profits.” Harris also threw in a barb at her opponent, accusing former President Donald Trump of making “empty promises” to workers and promising that she will “have workers’ backs” and fight for an “opportunity economy.” “Donald Trump, on the other hand,...

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr owes Israel a debt of gratitude for taking out the terrorists responsible for his father’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago, but don’t expect the progressive former NBA star to say thank you, an Israeli columnist said. Kerr’s father, Malcolm Kerr, was gunned down in 1984 while serving as the president of American University in Beirut by two members of an Islamic jihadist group that is believed to have had ties to Hezbollah. “But don’t expect a thank you. It’s not in his progressive lexicon.” He has not commented publicly on the Israeli military’s...

One of the students who led Columbia University’s anti-Israel encampment in the spring is suing the Ivy League school for suspending him over hateful video in which he declares, “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” Khymani James, 21, of Boston was denied due process and fair treatment when suspended — a violation of university policy, according to his Sept. 27 Manhattan Supreme Court filing. The decision to suspend James from campus in April was made mostly because of media pressure, and he also was unfairly targeted because his is black and pro-Palestine, the court document said.

The D.C. Council unanimously passed an emergency bill Tuesday to roll back pandemic-era eviction protections and rental-assistance policies that city leaders say have led to a crisis of unpaid rent, causing some affordable housing developments to be on the brink of foreclosure. The legislation centers on D.C.’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which aids people with rent payments if they are experiencing emergencies and are at risk of eviction. While the council earlier in the pandemic sought to make it easier for people to access those funds and avoid eviction, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) has acknowledged that those changes have...

Americans are well aware of the security disaster of the Biden-Harris open southern border — including 400 illegal crossers who were flagged on the FBI terrorism watch list. But an alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York now demands American attention and diplomatic pressure be turned on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unprecedented mass immigration policies. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani citizen legally allowed a Canadian student visa in June 2023, stands accused in US federal court of plotting a mass shooting of Jews in New York City, to celebrate the October 7 anniversary of the Hamas massacre in...

Several arrests have been made in connection with the flash-mob style robberies at 7-Eleven locations in Los Angeles after parents of some of the “youthful male” perpetrators spotted their kids in surveillance footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department. Between Friday, July 12 and Friday, Sept. 20, there were 14 separate robberies across the 10 stores in LAPD’s Rampart, Hollywood, Wilshire and West L.A. divisions. In each instance, the crew rolled up to the stores on bicycles during the evening hours and stole items, damaged property and left without paying, police said. In a Sept. 26 news release, investigators...