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t was as predictable as the sun’s rising in the east. After Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bagged two dozen illegal-alien, Asian sex criminals in Minnesota, the Minnesota Star Tribune sided with the criminals. All that sex abuse by the soon-to-be-deported Laotians and Hmong, the newspaper reported, was just a “cultural misunderstanding” because they often marry young back home. Not so, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported. Truth is, they are dangerous sex criminals.Newspaper StoryThe Star Tribune’s tale of woe begins predictably:Two dozen Hmong men who have lived in Minnesota for decades are being held in Minnesota and Iowa...

Thune and the Senate GOP’s slow-as-molasses confirmation of Trump’s executive appointments is a choice.A day after Donald Trump assumed the Oval Office for the second time, Senate Majority Leader John Thune went to the Senate floor to pledge that he would do whatever it takes to confirm the returning president’s executive appointments. “As I’ve repeatedly said, Senate Republicans are ready to work as long as needed to confirm President Trump’s nominees. Nights. Weekends. Recesses,” the South Dakota Republican wrote in an X post including his remarks. As it turns out, that was a load of horse manure. It is now...

The nation’s largest teachers union faced ridicule this week for misspelling “fascism” in a resolution opposing President Trump. The National Education Association (NEA), which represents more than 3 million teachers nationwide, approved the mangled proposal – aimed at defending “the survival of civilization itself” – on Sunday at the group’s annual convention. “NEA pledges to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions,” read the adopted agenda item, obtained by conservative education expert Corey A. DeAngelis, who shared it on X. “The members and...

Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise helped to gain an Iranian woman’s release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he advocated for her.Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian, 64, has been living in the U.S. for 47 years. Her husband, Russell Milne, and daughter, Kaitlynn Milne, are both U.S. citizens.

For decades, girls have flocked to Camp Mystic to spend their summer days canoeing and fishing the Guadalupe River before retreating to bunk beds in rustic cabins just steps from the glimmering water. Many of those cabins were built in designated flood zones, records show, and some were so close to the river’s edge that they were considered part of the river’s “floodway” — a corridor of such extreme hazard that many states and counties ban or severely restrict construction there. Texas’ Kerr County, where Camp Mystic is located, adopted its own stringent floodway rules, which required that construction in...

Elon Musk just learned a hard political truth: that even the richest man in the world cannot buy influence in Washington, at least not when it matters most. Musk can buy recognition in D.C., and he has, complete with a steady stream of free media every time he spars with Donald Trump. But despite pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into election-related causes, endorsing candidates, and even threatening to primary Republican lawmakers who supported the “Big Beautiful Bill,” Musk was left empty-handed. Congress passed the bloated spending package anyway. Republican members shrugged off his influence, ignored his warnings, and fell...

As reported by Blackout News and then Climate Depot, European nations like Germany, Norway, and Belgium are “spearheading new regulations designed to tax capital gains before individuals emigrate.”For context, these three nations already have some of the highest taxation rates in the world. When you look at personal income tax rates, Germany’s top bracket is 47.5%, Norway’s is 39.6%, and Belgium’s is 53.5%. (Out of 36 European nations, Germany ranks 12th highest, Norway 19th highest and Belgium fifth highest.) And, hitting those top tax brackets isn’t just for the jetset elites. In Belgium, once your income reaches €48,320, you’re in...

A confrontation erupted outside the San Francisco Immigration Court this week, as video shared by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured a tense altercation between agents and protesters. The clash, which took place Tuesday, is the latest in a growing series of confrontations with federal immigration officers. According to ICE, assaults on immigration agents have surged nearly 700% compared to last year. Footage posted by the agency on X shows masked protesters scuffling with ICE agents wielding batons. "Get back, get back," agents are heard repeatedly telling protesters. "Shame on you, shame on you," protesters are heard yelling, amid...

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Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has made history by performing the Gulf region’s first-ever robotic lung transplant, making it one of the five centres in the world to have performed this surgery. With this landmark complex surgery, two patients have now successfully undergone robotic lung transplants, marking a major milestone in the region’s advanced surgical and organ transplant capabilities. Both patients had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) as well as secondary pulmonary hypertension, a progressive condition that gradually scars the lungs and makes breathing increasingly difficult. These surgeries were quite complex due to pulmonary hypertension, a condition that puts extra strain on...

For Arlington Democrats, the number to beat on Nov. 4 is 51,465.That’s the difference between the number of votes cast in the county, in 2021, for Democrat Terry McAuliffe (73,013) over Republican Glenn Youngkin (21,548). McAuliffe lost that race, falling short by about 64,000 votes statewide.This year, the Arlington County Democratic Committee has started working overtime to provide as many votes as possible for the party’s 2025 nominee for governor ....“Everyone’s looking at us, and we have something to show,” said County Board Chair Takis Karantonis, speaking at the July 2 Democratic Committee meeting. “It’s here where we determine the...

With news that a new King Crimson album is in the works, Fripp's past comments highlight the left-field ideas that make him an originalNews that King Crimson are at work on a new album has generated a wave of excitement as fans and guitarists thrill to the prospect of fresh music coming from guitarist Robert Fripp. Rising to prominence in the late ‘60s, when Eric Clapton was deemed a deity and blues guitar was dominating the charts, Fripp separated himself from the pack with a left-field approach to songwriting and what could be achieved on guitar. His talents earned...

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In the city of Bochum, an accommodation housing migrants and homeless people is located directly next door to an AWO kindergarten at Höntroper Straße, sparking a major scandal that the city is trying to downplay. The situation is so bad that daycare workers are armed with whistles, with the children trained to run inside their kindergarten if there is another incident involving residents of the nearby asylum/homeless center. Daycare workers and children are terrified due to a range of incidents, including “massive verbal assaults,” stones being thrown at the kindergarten, and individuals climbing onto the daycare property. The homeless people...

Nov. 3, 2023 A Wall Street Journal investigation, using thousands of emails and schedules, uncovered new people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein for years after he was a convicted sex offender. The reporting revealed the kinds of favors he did—and threats he made—for those in his circle. Here are key articles from our investigation:

Everyone agrees: it's getting worse. The people of Kyiv have, like the citizens of other Ukrainian cities, been through a lot. After three and a half years of fluctuating fortunes, they are tough and extremely resilient. But in recent months, they have been experiencing something new: vast, coordinated waves of attacks from the air, involving hundreds of drones and missiles, often concentrated on a single city. Last night, it was Kyiv. And the week before too. In between, it was Lutsk in the far west. Three years ago, Iranian-supplied Shahed drones were a relative novelty. I remember hearing my first,...

"When will my trash get picked up?" was surely the top question on many Philadelphians' minds after hearing the DC 33 strike, including sanitation workers, was over on Wednesday morning. And now we know: regular trash pickup in the city of Philadelphia will resume Monday, July 14, Mayor Cherelle Parker and Director of Clean and Green Initiatives Carlton Williams said in a news conference. Here's more about what to know about trash disposal in the city now that the strike is over. Where do I drop off my trash in Philadelphia? Remember those 63 temporary drop-off sites? Williams says those...

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron will announce a “one in, one out” migration deal on Thursday that will involve the UK accepting some cross-Channel asylum seekers but returning others to France. The two leaders are expected to cap the French president’s three-day state visit to the UK with a press conference in London at which they will announce the new plan to tackle small boat crossings. Officials were still in talks over the details of the plan on Thursday morning, including when it would begin, but other hurdles such as the opposition of other European countries are understood to have...

Kamala Harris left an audience baffled as she laughed and talked about Playboy magazine covers. The former vice president also launched into a confusing 'word salad' after being asked about the importance of humility. Her bizarre comments were made on Sunday during a question and answer session at the Australian Real Estate Conference, where she shared a 'funny' story about her mother.(snip) She said: 'My mother was actually very funny because she would say, "You look at the cover of Playboy magazine, let me just tell you, the reason that people are looking at these things, understand what they were...

If California were its own country, its economy would now rank as fourth-largest of any nation across the globe, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, a new milestone that comes at a time of major economic turbulence. California has long been global powerhouse, fueled by a variety of sectors including technology, agriculture, tourism and entertainment. The new ranking comes as the state is facing challenges from a trade war with China and other nations that are key California trading partners. Newsom announced the state’s new economic ranking Wednesday after recently released data from the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Bureau of...