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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday dared border czar Tom Homan to arrest her for what she claimed was legal advice she gave to migrants on how to avoid being deported. Homan responded to the congresswoman’s taunt by saying he was already exploring her arrest with the U.S. Justice Department.

The old politics is gone – and it’s not coming back. ‘Historic local elections’ are three words you don’t often see next to each other. But last night was surely the exception. While many of the counts are only really getting started, the picture is already crystal clear: the two-party cartel that has squatted over British politics for 100 years is crumbling – and Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform UK is the party rising from the rubble. There’s the Runcorn by-election, a Labour safe seat snatched by Reform by six votes – the first time a Faragist party has won a...

The Talk ShowsMay 4th, 2025 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.); Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio); Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova; retired Gen. H.R. McMaster; Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR; Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas); Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.); Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.); Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee. Panel: Olivia Beavers, Richard Fowler, Mollie Hemingway and Hans Nichols. MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: President Donald Trump. (MSDNC) Panel:...

The US has added two countries to its “do not travel” list. Last month, government officials added North Korea and Burkina Faso to the list of countries Americans are advised against visiting. The State Department has four travel advisory levels: exercise normal precautions, exercise normal precautions, reconsider travel, and do not travel. The threat level in North Korea and Burkina Faso has been upgraded to Level 4. It’s the highest of the US State Department’s safety ranking system. Travel to North Korea has been discouraged due to “the continuing serious risk of arrest, long-term detention, and the threat of wrongful...

The Roman Church now presents a fair front to the world, covering with apologies her record of horrible cruelties. She has clothed herself in Christlike garments; but she is unchanged. Every principle of the papacy that existed in past ages exists today. The doctrines devised in the darkest ages are still held. Let none deceive themselves. The papacy that Protestants are now so ready to honor is the same that ruled the world in the days of the Reformation, when men of God stood up, at the peril of their lives, to expose her iniquity. She possesses the same pride...

Every now and then, a self-published work makes its way from vanity-press oblivion into currency and actual social relevance. Off Course, a 188-page soft-cover read from the keyboard of seasoned newspaper scribe Judy Berkley, is one such gem — or at least should be. It’s a clear, fact-based glimpse inside the toney, insular world of equestrian competition riven by wokeness. Berkley, a long-time columnist with The Oakland Tribune and a nationally known horsewoman and author, offers her credible, first-person insight into how the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) succumbed to the DIE (or DEI)/CRT metastasis. USEF, which is the nation’s...

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The most outrageous tyrannies under the guise of preventing the spread of the disease appears to have been in Democrat-run jurisdictions and in response to major Democrat supporters. Like most of us, I suppose, the shock to our system and way of life during the government’s response to COVID-19 cannot easily be forgotten. It was our taste of ill-considered government tyranny, a public-health disaster. As more information about its origins and how the disease was handled is revealed, it always gets my attention. In sum, banking on helping defeat Trump, the public-health establishment and media suppressed more credible options for...

Just some fun for us old people who remember the special thing that happened for the Universe during summer 1977.

“‘Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect’” (Matthew 5:48). These words embody all the truths Jesus teaches in the Sermon on the Mount—in fact, they are the apex of all He teaches in the gospels. The ultimate goal of our redemption and the sincere, strong yearning of God’s heart is for all who would trust in His Son to be like Him. The word translated “perfect” essentially means arriving at an intended end or realizing a completion of something. The word elsewhere in the New Testament is often rendered “mature” (cf. 1 Cor. 2:6; 14:20;...

WASHINGTON – As many Americans across the nation are rushing to obtain their REAL ID license, some are choosing to opt out by either using their valid passport as their preferred form of ID for travel or waiting until their current driver’s license expires and then renewing it. The REAL ID requirement takes effect on May 7, when Americans must have a new form of identification in order to fly domestically. The costs of obtaining the identification vary from state to state. Costs also vary according to whether travelers are obtaining a first-time REAL ID or looking to renew their...

This socialist failed miserably at capitalism. NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams recently lost a two-family home he owned in Brooklyn to Bank of America after racking up nearly $1 million in debt over 15 years by refusing to pay his mortgage, The Post has learned. He took the loan on the property to help bankroll a business venture that capsized. A state judge in January sided with the bank by issuing a “final judgment of foreclosure” on the deadbeat’s property at 1392 E. 98th St. in Canarsie. Williams failed to make payments on a $389,600 mortgage he took out on...

A former State Department budget analyst has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $650,000 from the agency over a two-year span, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC. Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Maryland, admitted to abusing her signature authority over a State Department checking account between March 2022 and April 2024 in her capacity as a senior budget analyst in the department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol. She wrote 60 checks to herself and three checks to someone else she had a personal relationship with, prosecutors said. She printed and signed each check before depositing all...

Video Dramatic footage released this morning (Sunday) reveals the moments when a ballistic missile fired from Yemen struck Ben Gurion Airport. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit stated, "Following the sirens that sounded in a number of areas in Israel, several attempts were made to intercept the missile launched from Yemen. A fall was identified in the area of Ben-Gurion Airport. The incident is under review." Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that several civilians were slightly injured as a result of the fall near Terminal 3, the airport's main international terminal. The defense establishment estimates that the air defense systems missed the...

A Wisconsin woman who disappeared more than 60 years ago has been found alive by authorities. Audrey Backeberg left her Reedsburg home in July 1962 when she was 20 years old, a press release from the Sauk County Sheriff's Office said. During a review of cold cases earlier this year, a detective reassessed the initial evidence and re-interviewed several witnesses, Sheriff Chip Meister said in the release. Law enforcement departments across the country have been reviewing cold cases with the aid of new DNA technology, including the self-submit websites such as Ancestry.com. As such sites have expanded, so have the...

A former top advisor to ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is not meeting the moment in the current Trump era. “Trump is just giving us all this incredible red meat. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s like the biggest gift any party has been given by the opposition, and we’re just squandering it, to a degree,” former Pelosi advisor Ashley Etienne told Politico’s Deep Dive podcast. Etienne helped Pelosi oversee Democrats’ messaging during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment. She also previously worked for former Vice President Kamala Harris and former...

It's been a whirlwind couple of days for Reform UK after the party won 677 seats out of around 1,600 in local elections in pockets of England. But while party leader Nigel Farage is setting off fireworks and basking in the post-election success, both the Labour and Conservative parties are taking time to reflect. Both main parties suffered significant losses at the polling booths. The Tories shed 676 seats, most of which were scooped up by Reform or the Liberal Democrats. Meanwhile, Labour claimed just 99 seats - though the party has held on to three mayoralties.

A federal appeals court on Saturday blocked a ruling that had ordered the Trump administration to allow Voice of America (VOA) to go back on air. The publicly funded broadcaster fell silent in March after an executive order by US President Donald Trump effectively gutted the network. The US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the network's parent agency, placed over 1,000 employees on leave and terminated 600 contractors following Trump's directive. The broadcaster has been off air for almost two months. Trump's executive order was, however, challenged in court, and US District Judge Royce Lamberth on April 22 ordered the...

An MS-13 gangbanger will spend the next 17 years behind bars for orchestrating a transnational fentanyl trafficking ring while incarcerated at a Florida prison, according to federal prosecutors. Mario Clifford Rivera, 32, whose alias is “Chuky,” was sentenced Wednesday for using the US Postal Service to smuggle more than three kilograms of the deadly drug across the border from Mexico into the Sunshine State, according to the the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. Rivera’s legal status was not immediately clear. “Rivera’s 17-year federal prison sentence should serve as a warning to MS-13 and other terrorist gangs...

ALBAWABA - Two people were slightly injured after a missile was fired from Yemen targeting Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Sunday morning, Israeli media confirmed. Israel's The Jerusalem Post mentioned that a Houthi missile crashed in the area of Ben-Gurion Airport's Terminal 3 on Sunday morning after the Israeli defense forces failed to intercept it. Siren sounds were heard after the missile from Yemen, the IDF revealed on Sunday morning. The army attempted several times to intercept the missile, but it fell in the area of Ben Gurion Airport.