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A postal worker was stabbed to death in a fight with a woman over a spot on line at a Harlem deli Thursday — marking at least the third murder in New York City in just the first two days of the new year. Ray Hodges, an on-duty USPS letter carrier assigned to Manhattan, was knifed multiple times inside the deli at 168 Lenox Ave. around 2:40 p.m., authorities said. Sources told The Post the knife-wielding suspect went crazy and gutted the victim in the stomach after he stepped in front of her in line, leaving his blood smeared all...

The movement of skilled professionals is an important part of India-U.S. ties and benefits both countries, New Delhi said on Friday amid a debate over H-1B visas on which President-elect Donald Trump and his backer Elon Musk commented recently. India, known for its massive pool of IT professionals, many of whom work across the world, accounts for the bulk of such visas issued by the United States. Late last month, Trump said he fully backed the H1B programme for foreign workers opposed by some of his supporters after Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab and SpaceX,...

Shortly before Christmas, two trappers snared a giant wolf and rushed to have it weighed on a certified scales Evans and Standley with their giant Alaskan wolf on the scale. Courtesy of Morgan Evans On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years. It included a photo of an enormous black wolf he and his trapping partner had just caught, as well as the scale it was hanging from. It displayed 152 pounds. “We’re taking it to get it weighed on a certified scale right now,” he wrote. I knew, as well...

Who exactly was the Biblical Esau, and how did he become “Edom”? What are the true origins of Amalek, the “eternal enemy” of Israel? Why is Edom associated with Rome and the Western world? And what is the role of Edom in the End of Days and the Messianic Age? Find out in this thrilling class as we begin a new series on the complex and controversial world of Esau and Edom. Also discussed: Baphomet and pagan symbolism in Hollywood and the music industry, a possible hidden Scriptural reference to Elon Musk, and Biblical blueprints for today’s conflict in the...

“John tried to prevent Him, saying, ‘I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?’” (Matthew 3:14). John the Baptist’s initial reluctance to baptize Jesus is a testimony to Jesus’ sinlessness—and John’s awareness of his own sinfulness. In effect, John said to Jesus, “I’m a sinner, just like everyone else I baptize, so why should You, the sinless Son of God, want me to baptize You?” In an indirect yet definite fashion, John agreed with the later description of Christ by the writer of Hebrews, “One who has been tempted in all things as we...

YouTube Video Description: Whoopi Goldberg is facing intense scrutiny after Elon Musk filed a staggering $80 million lawsuit against her and The View. The lawsuit alleges defamation and intentional misinformation following controversial comments made on the show about Musk's alleged plans with Senator JD Vance.

(Reuters) -The cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food producers, an official said on Thursday....The local energy company cut heating and hot water to households on Wednesday, and urged families to keep warm by gathering in a single room... Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has described the end of Russian gas transit as "one of Moscow's biggest defeats" and urged the United States to supply more gas to Europe.... Maria Zakharova said the loss of Russian gas was hurting Europe economically, and the U.S. was the beneficiary. "Responsibility...

Smartphone use among children has reached a critical moment. Many of us in the UK are increasingly aware of the dangers associated with them. I am witnessing at first hand the sheer devastation that smartphone use is wreaking on our young people’s mental health. The majority of children over 10 I see at my NHS clinic now have a smartphone. An increasingly large proportion of patients have difficulties that are related to, or exacerbated by, their use of technology. We are seeing profound mental illness stemming from excessive social media use, online bullying, screen addiction, or falling prey to online...

(Trigger Warning: The following essay addresses topics in a blunt and candid way that may make snowflakes cry.) The Democrat party mantra is that transgenderism is real. “Trans women are women! Trans men are men!” Denying that “lived” experience is a form of genocide. Hogwash. Both expert anecdotes and large-scale research establish that so-called transgenderism is either a mental disorder or, even worse, left-wing parents virtue-signaling through their children. The following meme, presumably an authentic screenshot of a post on X/Twitter, appeared on a small, private Facebook group, of which this writer is a member. It contains many conservatives and...

The man who murdered his 10-year-old British-Pakistani daughter, Sara Sharif, in a high-profile case that caused public revulsion has been attacked in prison, UK officials and media said today. Urfan Sharif, 43, was ambushed by two inmates at London’s Belmarsh Prison, where he is serving a life sentence for the killing, the Sun tabloid reported. Sharif suffered cuts to his neck and face and received medical treatment inside the jail after he was assaulted with the sharp lid of a tuna tin, the paper added. A spokesman for the prison service said police were “investigating an assault on a prisoner...

Despite nearly 1,000 cars being set ablaze, hundreds of thousands of people in France welcomed the New Year with largely peaceful celebrations, according to Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau. Retailleau announced late on Wednesday that 984 cars went up in flames across the country. Some 420 people were arrested, 310 of whom were taken into police custody. The minister called the figures unacceptable. "This violence is the product of a brutalization embodied by cowards and thugs who attack the property of often humble French people who do not have the means to protect their vehicles in private car parks." But the...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (1/3/25)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Spirit of Grace and Supplication) Zechariah 12:1010 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

The East German Stasi used a technique known as "Zersetzung," which translated to "decomposition," referring to the effect it was supposed to have on the mind and spirit of a target.In Zersetzung operations, the Stasi mobilized all of its civilian informants to follow targets obviously, with the goal of harassing them and making them feel under siege all the time.We maintain that today, the elites of the West have recreated the East German Stasi in all Western nations, hidden from most of the public, and one indictor of this is the existence of "gang stalking," which is really just the...

Proofs that Islam should be outlawed — that is, if the West was actually serious about its own laws — continue to pile up. In a recent article, we saw that, according to the UN’s own definitions of hate speech, the Koran should be banned not just for routinely hating others by name — Christians, Jews, polytheists, and “infidels” (kuffar) of every stripe — but openly calling for overt violence against them. As it happens, Islam is also inherently genocidal — again, according to the UN’s own definition:

The only ones who benefitted from the feds’ January 6 obsession were lethal clowns like Shamsud-Din Jabbar. So busy has the FBI been these past four years rounding up the “terrorists” who “stormed” the Capitol on January 6, 2021 -- nearly 1600 and counting -- that they have not had time to track guys like New Orleans lifetaker Shamsud-Din Jabbar. Make no mistake: From the Feds’ perspective, the J6ers were terrorists. To read the charging documents of those arrested shows just how much high-level time was frivolously spent identifying these citizens, charging them, arresting them, and making sure they were...

Honduras has threatened to shut down rent-free United States military bases in the country if President-elect Donald Trump carries out his mass deportation policy. President Xiomara Castro said officials would consider "a change in our policies of cooperation with the United States, especially in the military arena," in the face of "unnecessary reprisals against our migrants."... Honduran President Xiomara Castro has cautioned that she could consider ending military cooperation with the United States if President-elect Trump follows through on his proposals for mass deportations, rejecting asylum claims, and separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border....

President Biden has decided to block the $14 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel of Japan in an announcement expected as soon as Friday based on grounds that the sale poses a threat to national security, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision would be an extraordinary use of executive power, particularly for a president who is just weeks from leaving office. It is also a departure from America’s long-established culture of open investment, one that could have wide-ranging implications for the U.S. economy. Mr. Biden’s move to stop the transaction could cause foreign investors to...

House Republicans reveal stonewalling, major security lapses, and misrepresentations by top law enforcement officials related to the still at-large J6 pipe bomber. Four years after what the FBI describes as an act of domestic terror--the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021--federal authorities have not yet solved the most consequential crime of that day: the presence of two explosive devices within blocks of the U.S. Capitol. A report issued today by Representatives Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky), chairmen of House subcommittees examining the events of January 6 and the work of the January 6 Select Committee, details...

Around 1,700 Ukrainian troops equipped by the West have disappeared after being trained in France, leaving the remainder of their brigade to face Putin's wrath alone. The 155th Mechanised Brigade, one of Ukraine's few units equipped with advanced Leopard 2 battle tanks, was supposed to bolster the country's defences. Instead, at least 50 soldiers disappeared while the unit trained in France, and by the time it entered its first battle, 1,700 troops had gone absent without leave.

Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to break into the US — and have said they will attack border guards who try to stop them, according to a shocking Texas law enforcement memo leaked to The Post. Last week, 20 of the Venezuelan gangbangers — armed with blades, tire irons and broken liquor bottles — tried to force their way into the US at a border gate, the missive from the Texas Department of Public Safety read.... A Texas law enforcement source told The Post that “gunfire has picked...