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A gigantic fire erupted inside a $4 million Connecticut mansion after residents attempted to fry a turkey in the garage on Thanksgiving. Firefighters faces several challenges on the holiday afternoon after the stunning mansion at 40 Weston Road in Weston went up in flames. The aggressive fire quickly spread throughout the home, and soon, its structural collapse created dangerous conditions for responding firefighters. Residents were attempting to fry a turkey for the big meal Thursday afternoon when the garage caught fire and began 'rapidly extending into the residence,' according to Weston Volunteer Fire Department. 'Firefighters attempted an aggressive fire attack,...

Islamist rebels have seized control of Aleppo and punched through into Hama city amid claims that Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad has allegedly fled to Russia with his family. Thousands of Syrian insurgents fanned out inside Aleppo in vehicles with improvised armor and pickups, deploying to landmarks such as the old citadel on Saturday, a day after they entered Syria's largest city facing little resistance from government troops. Syria's armed forces said in a statement Saturday that to absorb the large attack on Aleppo and save lives, it has redeployed and is preparing for a counterattack. The jihadist-led rebels seized Aleppo...

Democratic political strategist James Carville called for an audit of Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 campaign spending on his podcast Politics War Room on Thursday. The Harris campaign, with the help of the Democratic Party, raised over $1 billion, during this year's election cycle, according to the Associated Press. Despite her remarkable financial backing, which was accumulated in a few short months after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Harris lost the November 5 election to President-elect Donald Trump. Groups affiliated with Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC), meanwhile, raised just over $1.8 billion, according to the...

Police in New York City arrested two suspected members of the gang Tren de Aragua on Wednesday who are believed to be linked to violence at an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. The suspects allegedly connected to the Venezuelan gang were identified as 23-year-old Denyeer Aramillo Meneses and 25-year-old Edison Pena Angulo, Fox News reported on Friday. The NYPD’s gang task force and officials with Homeland Security arrested the pair following a major credit card scam and drug trafficking bust.

The Hamas terror group on Saturday published a video clip showing an additional sign of life from hostage Idan Alexander, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023 from the Kissufim Crossing. Alexander immigrated to Israel from New Jersey. The Hostages Families Forum responded to the video: "The shocking video of Idan, an American-Israeli citizen, is definite proof that despite all the rumors - there are living hostages and they are suffering greatly. One year after the first and only deal, it's clear to everyone: returning the hostages is only possible through a deal." "After more than 420 days of continuous...

White House reporters are already “exhausted” with President-elect Donald Trump’s second term before it even starts, members of the press corps told Vanity Fair on Wednesday. In the article, titled “Reporters Brace for the Frenzy of a Second Trump White House,” New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker said, “Anybody who went through it the last time remembers how nonstop it was.” “It ends up kind of becoming all-consuming and taking over your life. It wears you down,” he lamented

[Catholic Caucus] Chapter 4: Practice and BeliefEditor’s note: we continue our weekly serialisation of Dr. Edward Schaefer’s new book A Simple Man’s Case for Tradition. This book is an excellent introduction to Traditionalism and provides an easy way for Trads to introduce the movement to fellow Catholics who are seeking deeper answers to today’s questions. Proceeds from the book sale also help promote the Collegium Sanctorum Angelorum, one of only two traditional Catholic colleges in the United States. Read the IntroductionRead chapter 1: Equally Valid and HolyRead chapter 2: the New MassRead chapter 3: LatinThe year is 1966. It is...

Donald Trump announced Saturday he would impose a 100% tariff on BRICS nations if they try to replace the dollar in international trade, impacting a group of major developing economies whose members include Russia, India, China and Iran, among others, marking the latest threats by the president-elect to impose tariffs on imports from several countries. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the 100% tariff would affect all BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates—until they commit to not creating a new BRICS currency or back another currency that could replace...

The legacy media can’t help but make itself look foolish as it lurches toward its increasing irrelevance. Recently, 60 Minutes did a feature on abortion policies in Texas, hoping to make a case that abortion laws are scaring doctors and jeopardizing the well-being of pregnant women in Texas. To make its point, CBS enlisted the help of a doctor from New Mexico and a handful of physicians interested in scoring political points at the cost of misleading Texas women. Dr. Eve Espey claimed that residents in Texas “lack an opportunity to learn trauma-informed care, diagnosing pregnancy complications in the first...

New revelations about the lengths to which 41-year-old Liberal Party politician Paulina Brandberg, Sweden’s Minister for Gender Equality, has her aides go to protect her from bananas have emerged in Sweden. Brandberg admitted to the fear in 2020, but the revelation that she has her staff clear rooms and “secure” them before she enters them hit headlines earlier this month. Now, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet says it has seen no less than 44 emails from Brandberg’s office, where her staff have written ahead of very high-profile meetings to prevent fruit-based gaffes. Brandberg’s staff emailed EU summits, the Norwegian government, and the...

Ellen DeGeneres’s mansion in the United Kingdom has flooded just weeks after the former talk show host announced she left the United States following President Trump’s election victory. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi recently purchased a multi-million dollar property in Cotswolds, UK, and are determined to stay there through Trump’s second term. On Friday, the 43-acre property flooded after a tributary of the River of Thames flooded after Storm Bert hit the Cotswolds region. Images of Ellens’ property show her estate flooded with several feet of water.

Trump's legal team turns up the heat, demanding Letitia James dismiss a "crumbling" case or face backlash.

The New York Times and Bloomberg were set to publish stories reporting the results of a new study revealing the negative effects of DEI training — but both stories were scrubbed by high-level editors, the study’s researchers say. The study, Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias, published by The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Rutgers University Social Perception Lab examines how subjecting people to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) teachings affects their perceptions of bias towards three groups (race, religion, caste). In each case, exposure to mainstream DEI instruction actually makes people more paranoid, punitive and...

Progressive media personality Cenk Uygur signaled optimism following President-elect Trump’s win in the 2024 presidential election, saying his enemy was “the establishment,” which was “defeated.” “I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m more optimistic now than I was before the election, even though I was so against the guy who won,” Uygur wrote Friday in a post on social platform X. “I know now.”

President Biden took to social media to promote Small Business Saturday and his administration’s efforts to boost small businesses, including investing more than $50 billion into the space. “Every small business is an act of hope,” he wrote on social platform X. “This Small Business Saturday, we’re celebrating all small businesses, including the 20 million new business applications — 20 million acts of hope — since I took office,” he added.

In the wake of Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election, New York State Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) is now proposing that "our state and the abutting woke states of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut should secede and become part of Canada. None of these states' voters wanted Trump to become our president. Why should we have to suffer through a second term of misgovernment at his hands?" She brushed aside Trump's pledge "to help make New York safe, strong, beautiful, affordable and vibrant again," calling it "out-of-step with our progressive values. We are progressive Democrats who would fit in pretty...

President-Elect Donald Trump nominated his son-in-law Jared Kushner's father Charles Kushner for a key diplomatic role as he prepared to take office. Trump, 78, announced on Saturday afternoon that Charles will serve as the US Ambassador of France. 'He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, [and] dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests,' the businessman wrote on Truth Social. 'Congratulations to Charlie, his wonderful wife Seryl, their 4 children, & 14 grandchildren,' the family-first politician wrote. 'Together, we will strengthen America’s partnership with France, our oldest Ally, & one of our greatest!' Jared had...

President-elect Trump on Saturday threatened to impose 100% tariffs against emerging markets that try to shift away from the U.S. dollar in international trade. Why it matters: The threat against the BRICS nations (primarily Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is the latest escalation in Trump's campaign to use the specter of tariffs to achieve policy goals. Catch up quick: Trump, in a Truth Social post Saturday, demanded the BRICS countries fully support the dollar and not create their own competing currency. If not, he said, "they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling...

Actor George Clooney was a key participant in the coup to push Joe Biden out of the 2024 election. Radar Online reports that Clooney is now said to have expressed outrage at “being manipulated by former President Barack Obama into lobbying for Kamala Harris.” Following Biden’s disastrous June debate performance, Clooney kicked off the calls to put old Joe out to pasture with a column for the New York Times demanding that he step aside. He wrote for The Times, “We are not going to win in November with this president.”

If Google were a ship, it would be the Titanic in the hours before it struck an iceberg—riding high, supposedly unsinkable, and about to encounter a force of nature that could make its name synonymous with catastrophe.The trends moving against Google are so numerous and interrelated that the Justice Department’s attempt to dismantle the company—the specifics of which were unveiled Nov. 20—could be the least of its problems.The company’s core business is under siege. People are increasingly getting answers from artificial intelligence. Younger generations are using other platforms to gather information. And the quality of the results delivered by its...