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“Chicago’s Worst Hoods at Night!”"Chicago Gangs, Alleys and Guns at Night""Top 10 US Cities With the Most Dangerous Nighttime Vibe While Walking That I Have Visited"I picked these titles at random from the popular YouTube channel of Charlie Moore, a former Detroit cop who films his drives through inner city urban areas. The Atlantic characterized these journeys as “hood safaris,” implying that it’s racist to document the unfathomable danger the residents of our most crime-ridden cities face every day, even though Moore himself is black. I challenge anyone to watch just one of these videos and not instead ask: How...

NEW YORK (AP) — As a child, Heidi Barley watched her family pay for groceries with food stamps. As a college student, she dropped out because she couldn’t afford tuition. In her twenties, already scraping by, she was forced to take a pay cut that shrunk her salary to just $34,000 a year. But this summer, the 41-year-old hit a milestone that long felt out of reach: She became a millionaire. A surging number of everyday Americans now boast a seven-figure net worth once the domain of celebrities and CEOs. But as the ranks of millionaires grow fatter, the significance...

I grew up in two separate households and in two different countries. My family is originally from Ecuador but we have Spanish ancestry and Jewish roots. For the first eight years of my life I lived with my maternal grandparents in Ecuador. My grandfather was originally Christian but converted to Judaism and my grandmother was Jewish though not particularly observant. Our Judaism consisted of occasional visits to the synagogue and the observance of a few holidays.

For decades, China’s advanced fighter jets, including the J-20 stealth fighter, were held back by a critical dependency on Russian-made engines. China has systematically overcome this weakness, evolving from copying Russia’s AL-31F engine to reverse-engineering Western commercial cores and finally developing its own powerful, indigenous designs like the WS-10 and WS-15.

Remember how, in recent years, nearly every high-profile “racist incident” that dominated the headlines eventually turned out to be a false flag or outright hoax? Well, nothing’s changed. The outrage-obsessed left has apparently run out of real things to be angry about, so now they’re inventing reasons to keep the mob frothing. Case in point: the latest American Eagle ad campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney. According to some perpetually offended leftists, it’s somehow Nazi propaganda. Yes, really. Yeah, I don’t get it either. In one spot, Sweeney says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like...

Police have launched an investigation after a man was left unconscious at a busy London railway station last night. Paramedics rushed to St Pancras Station, in central London, at around 8.40pm and the man was taken to a major trauma centre with 'serious injuries'.Footage circulating online shows hard-right activist Tommy Robinson pacing back and forth beside the unresponsive man lying face-down on the concourse.Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, had earlier posted footage of himself handing out flyers inside the station for an upcoming 'free speech' protest on September 13. He later appeared to be walking in the background...

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has suggested that the show won’t end until Donald Trump dies. The series has been running since 1989, becoming the longest-running animated TV show and sitcom ever. However, while speaking at San Diego Comic-Con, Groening said that there was “no end in sight” – though did make one prediction. “I honestly thought 36 was where we were going to end it,” he said (via Variety). “No, there’s no end in sight. We’re going to keep going. We’re going to go until somebody dies.” “When you-know-who dies, The Simpsons predicts the there will be dancing in...

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer -Sun Tzu President Donald Trump's endorsement of scandal-plagued RINO Lindsey Graham ahead of the 2026 Senate election came as an unpleasant surprise. How the leader and mastermind behind MAGA could support one of the most vocal opponents of its ideology has remained a mystery to many. However, one should not take Trump's words as pure truth and unconditionally follow his call. The art of the deal master and experienced politician, Trump is likely just following the ancient principle of "keep your friends close and your enemies even closer." Being well aware...

Today marks the first anniversary of the slaughter at Southport - at one of those summer-resort activities you sign your kids up for, with nary a thought. In this case, it was a Taylor Swift dance-class, from which three little girls never came home: Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine years old; Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven; and Bebe King six. As Lucy Connolly could tell us if she weren't rotting in Starmer's Lubyanka, nothing is more traumatising than the death of a child. So we remember Alice, Elsie and Bebe even as Britain's "mainstream" media has chosen mostly to memory-hole them,...

Credit: NSF NOIRLab/Int.Gemini Ob et al. / SWNS | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel ========================================================================= A team of astrophysicists has raised concerns about a recently discovered interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS, claiming it may not be a comet at all—but potentially a technological artifact of alien origin. Detected on July 1, the object is moving at an extraordinary speed of over 130,000 mph and is expected to reach its closest point to the Sun—its perihelion—later this year, with an arrival window near Earth projected for late November or early December 2025. Strange Features Hint At Alien Design The study, published...

President Trump’s former impeachment attorney David Schoen dropped a legal nuke on the legacy of Barack Obama — declaring that the 44th President of the United States can still be impeached, and if so, could lose his post-presidential immunity and face indictment for criminal conduct tied to the Russia Collusion hoax. This explosive revelation came just days after President Trump remarked that Obama owed him “big” for the recent Supreme Court decision affirming presidential immunity for official acts committed while in office. But Schoen isn’t letting Obama off the hook. Let’s not forget — during their second failed impeachment attempt...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMany of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother [Lazarus, who had died]. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” John 11:19–22Today’s memorial is relatively new within our Church. In the year 2021, Pope Francis replaced the Memorial of Saint Martha with this memorial in honor of all...

Biden’s broadband plan wasted billions, favored political allies, and failed rural voters. Trump scrapped it — and Democrats are furious. President Trump has consistently applied one simple litmus test to any government program: Does it work? If so — a rare occurrence — he keeps it. If not, he either ends it or reforms it. Intentions, noble or otherwise, count for nothing. Execution is everything. For Americans, this is good news. For bureaucrats who enjoy wasting taxpayer dollars while pretending to serve the public, it’s a nightmare. From zero to nowhere If you need an example, just look at the...

An anti-Trump judge who has stymied the president’s agenda with nationwide injunctions is now seeing the tables turned thanks to a newly filed complaint by the U.S. Justice Department. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in the complaint, accuses District Judge James Boasberg of displaying “improper” conduct when he accused President Donald Trump of stoking a “constitutional crisis” by levying personal attacks on judges who imposed nationwide injunctions halting parts of his agenda. Boasberg has been at the center of pausing mass deportation flights. In response, Trump has referred to Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic Judge” and “troublemaker” in various...

Saudi Arabia will not pursue normalization with Israel absent the creation of a Palestinian state, the kingdom’s top diplomat said on Monday, according to Bloomberg. Speaking at a joint press conference with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot at the United Nations, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan declared that normalization “can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state.” “That position remains the same, and it is based on a strong conviction that only through the establishment of a Palestinian state and only through addressing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination can we have sustainable...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is eyeing another key health panel to reform, apparently due to members’ past “woke” comments and recommendations. The panel in question is called the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which has 16 members. The task force helps determine which cancer screenings and other preventative measures should be covered by insurance. Sources told The Wall Street Journal that Kennedy is looking to oust all 16 members and replace them with his own appointments, as he did with a recent vaccine panel. RFK Jr. is reportedly motivated by past “woke” comments from...

Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling. This week, American Eagle, which brought us baby tees and low-rise denim in the aughts, debuted an advertisement campaign starring actor Sydney Sweeney. Sweeney, 27, is featured doing all sorts of Americana things in her American Eagle denim — like leaning over the hood of a white Mustang or lying on the floor holding a long-haired German shepherd puppy. At the end of each video, an off-screen voice speaks over blocky letters declaring that Sweeney — blonde, blue-eyed and white — “has great jeans.” The...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced legislation on Monday to provide Americans with tariff rebate checks of at least $600. The checks would be for each adult and child in American families. “Americans deserve a tax rebate after four years of Biden policies that have devastated families’ savings and livelihoods. Like President Trump proposed, my legislation would allow hard-working Americans to benefit from the wealth that Trump’s tariffs are returning to this country,” Hawley said in a statement. NBC News has more: Hawley, who championed stimulus check legislation with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during the Covid pandemic in 2020, put forward...

EPA employees staged a political stunt, tried to take it back when it bombed, and revealed just how deeply entitlement and arrogance run through the federal workforce. The Information Age brought rapid technological progress and unprecedented access to knowledge. But one rule still holds true: Once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever. Some EPA employees are now learning that the hard way. The signatories of the now-infamous “Stand Up for Science” declaration — an act of open defiance against the Trump administration — are scrambling to erase their names after their stunt blew up in their faces. The petition,...

Peru’s embattled president achieved the lowest ratings of her career this month, dropping to an abysmal 1.3% approval rating. President Dina Boluarte’s approval ratings have been steadily declining, starting the year with a dismal 4% approval rating and constantly decreasing each month by approximately 0.5%. Women approve of her slightly more than men — recording a 1.5% approval rate as opposed to the 1% of men that approve of her. Boluarte has the worst approval rating among those aged 30-59, with only 0.9% approving of her. The poll, conducted by El Centro de Investigación Territorial Peru, was conducted by interviewers...