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Portnoy is fed up after he says an antisemitic sign was shown at his Barstool bar in Philadelphia. What they're saying: Dave Portnoy took to social media Sunday to address an antisemitic incident that occurred at Barstool Sansom Street Saturday night. According to Portnoy, when patrons order bottle service at the bar, signs are typically shown and displayed.

SAN DIEGO — (AP) — A small boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized early Monday off San Diego's coast and left three people dead and four injured, while U.S. Coast Guard crews were searching for nine others, officials said. U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Chris Sappey said it was unclear where the boat was coming from before it flipped shortly after sunrise about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of the Mexico border. He described the vessel as a panga, single or twin-engine open fishing boats commonly used by smugglers. “They were not tourists,” Sappey said. “They are believed...

Abbott’s statement: “(It is) a significant achievement (by Anthony Albanese) to be the first Prime Minister since John Howard and the first Labor Prime minister since Bob Hawke to be returned to government ……… What I really do want to say though is to reassure people who voted Liberal (in Australia that means conservative because the biggest conservative party is called the Liberal Party) today and people who normally vote for the coalition not to lose heart. At our best we are the freedom party. We are the tradition party. We are the patriot party and at our best I...

Dozens of Israeli warplanes have carried out airstrikes on targets in Yemen as the Arab nation’s military forces escalate operations in response to foreign aggression and Israeli atrocities.

Scott Pelley’s 60 Minutes segment on Sunday started with a disclaimer, as if he knew the segment critical of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at curtailing frivolous political lawsuits was a more than a tad biased. “It was nearly impossible to get anyone on camera for this story, because of the fear now running through our system of justice,” Pelley explained. What he actually meant is likely that CBS leadership didn’t insist that he offer a balanced segment by finding credible sources on both sides of the topic. When Pelley introduced Democrat operative Marc Elias, the disclaimer made sense....

Shauna Niequist's mom had spent almost all of her adult life being a pastor's wife, mother, and homemaker. She excelled in all of these roles. But 17 years in, she walked into a counselor's office and said, "I don't know who I am anymore. Something has to change." Through counseling, friendships, and prayer, says Niequist, her mother unearthed the gifts and passions that had drawn her to a social work degree. "I found my voice in my 40s and my vocation in my 50s..." Betty Friedan would have been proud. Surprised, too, perhaps, to see her ideas—dissected and debated for...

A Secret Service Agent violently pushed a man who appeared to get a little too close to Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner on Saturday night. The First Daughter and her husband were out in Miami on Saturday night attending and event at Carbone Beach. Bystanders surrounded the pair as they were leaving the event in South Beach. A suspicious man carrying a manila folder got too close to Ivanka and Jared so a bodyguard swiftly and forcefully pushed him away. The New York Post reported:

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu resigned on Monday, a day after a far-right opposition leader won the first round of the presidential election re-run and his own candidate crashed out of the race. Ciolacu said his centre-left Social Democrats would withdraw from the pro-Western coalition - effectively ending it - while cabinet ministers will stay on in an interim capacity until a new majority emerges after the presidential run-off. Hard-right eurosceptic George Simion decisively swept the ballot on Sunday, with some 41% of votes, and will face Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, an independent centrist, in a May 18 run-off. Coalition...

It’s vain and futile to suppose that the disordered minds of Western Civ’s entrenched Wokester Jacobins might ever be subject to polite persuasion about anything they believe. They believe only in the power of pushing their fellow citizens around, and so, alas, the only persuasion that might conceivably work to stop their infantile assaults on liberty, truth, and decency is to push back harder until they suffer and break.This is something that most parents with young children instinctively understand. You don’t negotiate with two-year-olds. You tell them how things are and what sort of behavior is required of them, as...

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who once described himself as “Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular,” announced Monday that he was running for Congress. “The entrenched interests are fighting President [Donald] Trump at every turn as he works to fix problems,” the former two-term Republican governor said on social media. “We need more straight talk to help take back Washington.” A former businessman turned outspoken and divisive political figure, LePage is seeking the 2nd District seat represented by Rep. Jared Golden, one of 13 House Democrats to hold seats that Trump carried last fall. In fact, voters in the...

Washington, D.C.—The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, led by Dr. John Eastman, submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in support of President Trump’s executive order, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, and related legal challenges disputing an expansive interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Birthright Citizenship Clause.Three separate activist judges have blocked this lawful executive order, their rulings resting on the premise that children born in the United States to parents here only temporarily or unlawfully are automatic citizens.Our brief demonstrates that the Fourteenth Amendment was understood to grant citizenship only to those born in...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of supporters of an Islamist group rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday to denounce proposed recommendations for ensuring equal rights, including ones related to property, for mainly Muslim women. Leaders of the Hefazat-e-Islam group said the proposed legal reforms are contradictory to the Sharia law. More than 20,000 followers of the group rallied near the Dhaka University, some carrying banners and placards reading “Say no to Western laws on our women, rise up Bangladesh.” The group threatened to organize rallies on May 23 across the country if the government didn’t meet their demands. Mamunul Haque,...

At least three people have died and five more were wounded Sunday after multiple shooters opened fire at an Arizona restaurant, police said. The shooting at El Camarón Gigante in downtown Glendale began as a fight between "at least two groups of people" near the restaurant's stage area, Glendale police said in a statement Monday. The people involved were told to go outside, spurring another altercation, which ended in gunfire, police said. The three victims were identified only as a 17-year-old male, a 21-year-old man and a 29-year-old, police said Monday. The 17- and 29-year-old males were brothers. Wounded were...

"For decades, policies overseeing gain-of-function research on pathogens, toxins, and potential pathogens have lacked adequate enforcement, transparency, and top-down oversight," the White House said in a fact sheet. "Researchers have not acknowledged the legitimate potential for societal harms that this kind of research poses." President Donald Trump on Monday kept a promise he made last year by signing an executive order that bans federal funding for gain-of-function research in countries like China and Iran, which is believed to be at the heart of the COVID-19 lab leak in Wuhan. Trump outlined his plan to deal with gain-of-function research to Just...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller: We need a ‘successor of Peter’ not of one man’s ‘private ideas’Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Cdl. Müller firmly rejected the notion of trying to 'change doctrine' since the Church's teaching is for the care of souls, stating, 'doctrine is also a medicine.' Cardinal Gerhard Müller has warned that cardinals are called to elect the “successor of Peter” rather than a man who will continue “the private ideas of any previous pope.”Addressing the congregation at his titular church of Sant’Agnese in Agone in Rome on Sunday, Müller delivered his final pre-conclave thoughts to the outside world.A conclave, he...

President Trump signs executive order banning federal funding for gain-of-function research

A fried piece of copper wire sparked a 90-second radar and communications blackout for air traffic controllers overseeing Newark Liberty International Airport last week, a source familiar with the incident told The Post — resulting in a snarl of delays and cancelations with no end in sight. After the April 28 failure — which left Federal Aviation Administration workers with no eyes or ears — many controllers at the Philadelphia-based center took trauma leave, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association union. United Airlines previously said 20% of FAA workers “walked off the job” following the equipment malfunction —...

The White House admitted it has “no specific timeline” for releasing the remaining Jeffrey Epstein files. .... Snip.... During last week’s White House press briefing, O’Handley directly questioned Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on when the remaining Epstein materials would be released or whether any arrests were imminent. O’Handley: My question is about the Epstein files. A couple of months ago, the DOJ released what they called Phase 1 of the Epstein files, and they announced that a lot of those files—the remaining files, probably the bulk of the files—were actually in the New York field office. They requested that they...

Byron York @ByronYork I know the winner is enormously deserving, but I still find it hard to believe that this photo did *not* win the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography. 2:58 PM · May 5, 2025

A former housing official recently made a shocking allegation that, if true, will prove the most wasteful and arguably sinister government expenditure of all. Catherine Austin Fitts, who served as the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing between 1989 and 1990, appeared on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s podcast last Tuesday to claim that the United States government has spent a whopping $21 TRILLION over several years building an underground city for the wealthiest and most powerful in the country. To help back up her allegation, the 74-year-old Fitts cited a report released by Michigan State...