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President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning on meeting in Alaska, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Mr. Trump confirmed on Truth Social the meeting will take place in Alaska on Friday, August 15. One senior White House official told CBS News the planning for next Friday's summit is still fluid, and that it is still possible that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could end up being involved in some way. The White House said earlier this week that Mr. Trump is open to meeting with both Putin and Zelenskyy, but Mr. Trump suggested Friday he may...

Call it the twilight of the West. ... British police are facing heavy scrutiny after they threatened to arrest a Christian preacher after a group of Muslims heard him preach and threatened to stab him and punch his wife. The incident occurred in Bristol when Pastor Dia Moodley was preaching in the city center. Moodley was talking about the differences between Islam and Christianity and was holding a Quran as he did so. In response, he says a Muslim bystander threatened to stab him, while another tried to punch his wife. Moodley said he was then pinned to the ground...

William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, has died. He was 101. “The proud and loving family of the Honorable William H. Webster sadly announces the death of a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and patriot,” his family said in a statement Friday. At the time Webster was selected to lead the FBI in 1978 by then-President Jimmy Carter, the bureau’s reputation was badly damaged by congressional revelations that unearthed corruption and extrajudicial spying on Americans under longtime Director J. Edgar Hoover. Webster, who was previously a Republican-appointed federal judge from Missouri, sought to...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/mamdanis-plan-schools-draws-angry-backlash-new-york/New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani continues to make waves with his radical agenda. This time he’s targeting charter schools, producing some strong reactions from parents and residents.In an exclusive report by The New York Post, the newspaper wrote that Mamdani “plans to declare war on charter schools if he’s elected mayor,” according to a survey he answered June before the Democratic primary.The state assemblyman said he would “fight efforts to open more charters, which largely educate minority, working-class students, and even opposed the schools sharing space in city-owned buildings,” the article read.“I oppose efforts by the state to...

The Associated Press just made it clear where it stands on the terrorists’ war on Israel: With the terrorists. How else to read its bizarre puff piece Wednesday sympathizing with the poor, suffering Hezbollah goons injured in Israel’s pager attack last year? The Babylon Bee couldn’t have come up with a better parody than the 2,100-word feature, “Survivors of Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover” — though that’s not how AP’s Bassem Mroue and Sarah El Deeb meant it. The two recount their interviews with six people wounded in the attack, all “Hezbollah officials or fighters or members...

Trump Treasury Dept Quietly Sanctions Venezuela’s “Cartel del Sol” as Global Terrorists Cartel del Sol, led by @NicolasMaduro , has just been designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization by the @USTreasury . This isn’t just a drug cartel. It’s a narco-terrorist regime involved in drug and human trafficking, money laundering, election interference, and support for terror groups like Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel. @SecRubio didn’t hold back: “Maduro is not the president of Venezuela. He’s the head of Cartel del Sol, a narco-terror organization that’s taken possession of a country.” And now, sources say a scathing...

Nova Scotia has placed further restrictions on the public as the province faces a dry summer and heightened wildfire risk. With a burn-ban already in place, officials announced on Tuesday that they’ve shuttered access to forests across the province – including parks – as of 4 p.m. In an update Tuesday evening, HRM officials confirmed the provincial order includes municipal parks. “We are telling Nova Scotians to stay out of the woods,” said Premier Tim Houston during a press conference. The province-wide woods ban restricts the public from unnecessary travel into the forests and partake in activities including hiking, camping,...

A Portland jazz legend has died at the age of 85. Nancy King was known the world over, praised for her voice and her improvisational skills on stage. Words like “treasure” and “unique talent” are often spoken by those who knew King. Vegetation fire on Hwy 58 prompts ‘Go Now’ evacs “Nancy King, to many, was perhaps the best jazz vocalist to ever live. And she just so happened to live in Portland, Oregon,” said Portland State University Jazz Professor Sherry Alves. Officials pledge support for Army shooting that wounded five soldiers Alves knew King well, having interviewed King many...

Linked story details facts about final capture of Anaconda bar shooting suspect Michael Paul Brown today. Reports say he was in fact in the search area west of the town.

Academia’s self-image is crumbling. Beneath the slogans lies a fragile empire that can’t survive the sunlight of basic public scrutiny. It’s good to be back in the Advocate — the self-described “world’s leading source of LGBTQ+ news and information.” The last time it covered me, it involved a spat with a group of criminal, gay furry hackers. It never published the follow-up when one of those hackers was arrested, just as I promised. This time, I’ve committed an even greater sin in the Advocate's eyes: I asked a woke, gay professor at a public university to share his syllabus. That...

Blame New York’s progressive leaders for the horrific filmed murder of a 14-year-old boy on a Bronx playground this week. Late Tuesday, a mob of teens jumped ninth-grader Angel Mendoza at the Williamsbridge Oval Playground — pistol-whipping, beating and stabbing him to death while they recorded the stomach-churning ordeal on a cellphone camera. Angel was hanging out with a boy who’d been involved in a earlier fight with the group, and the sadistic teens killed him just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His stomach-churning death is an especially brutal one, but far from unique. These...

Five hundred years have passed since the Reformation began, and yet the influence of the Roman Catholic Church remains strong. I’m not referring to the mammoth oligarchy that seeks to dictate the lives of an estimated one billion people, but rather its continuing influence upon churches outside its realm, including many that adhere to the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture. While attending Talbot Seminary, I wrote my master’s thesis on Roman Catholic Justification in the Light of Scripture. In my study, I discovered that Catholicism’s key departure from Scripture was its firm insistence that God’s justification of sinners happens at...

There are not many people who have survived a nuclear attack. There is only one person who officially survived two. On this day, 80 years ago, young engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was telling his boss about the horrors he had seen in the Japanese city of Hiroshima when the room went blindingly white. "I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me from Hiroshima," he told UK Newspaper, The Independent. Yamaguchi was an engineer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yamaguchi, then 29, was in Hiroshima for a business trip...

The reaction of the far left to the infamous Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad campaign was, to say the least, absurd. . leftists know it .. they’re not desperately trying to rewrite history and claim they were never bothered by the ad in the first place, and the whole thing was a right-wing fabrication. This attempt at rewriting history comes courtesy of the New York Times, and it’s a perfect example of Orwellian revisionist history. The article begins by recounting conservatives mocking the left’s reaction to the ad campaign, insisting that they “claimed that progressives were up in arms over...

The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska. Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Several weeks ago, I had a serious health scare. The emergency appointment and ultrasound were attended alone. I did a ring-around of my friends and sisters, but they were away or otherwise occupied. All I wanted was someone to hold my hand and give me a bit of moral support, but on a sweltering hot day, I sat alone in the hospital waiting room – a solitary figure among a sea of cosy couples, with only my Kindle for company as I bounced off the walls with anxiety. While the scare turned out to be just that, the stark realisation...

[Catholic Caucus] Diocese of Charlotte backs school that expelled children after parents challenged woke, LGBT contentBishop Michael Martin’s diocese is supporting Charlotte Latin, a private school that expelled students whose parents opposed a sacrilegious image of Jesus, a ‘how-to-manual’ of homosexual activity, and other obscene content.CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — The Diocese of Charlotte – headed by Bishop Michael Martin, who notoriously banned the Latin Mass in his diocese – is siding with a school that expelled children after their parents complained about the school’s adoption of woke ideology, including graphic, sexually explicit LGBTQ+ books.The lawsuit by parents of the...

The Trump administration is targeting UCLA again for the second time in a week, seeking to force the school to pay a $1 billion fine for alleged antisemitism on campus. The news broke Friday, a week after grant funding to the university was frozen. The Los Angeles Times reports that the federal government’s proposal would restore that grant funding, worth more than $500 million, in exchange for the $1 billion fine. University of California System President James Milliken confirmed that they’ve “just received a document from the Department of Justice and [are] reviewing it.”

A police officer has been rushed to the hospital after they were shot while responding to an active-shooter situation at Emory University Atlanta campus near the main campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the Atlanta Police Department. An alert from Emory University went out around 4 p.m. advising there was an "active shooter" at the CVS on campus to "RUN, HIDE, FIGHT. Avoid the area" The CVS to which they are referring is located at Emory Point on Clifton Road. Emory University and Emory University Hospital have been placed on lockdown. According to Atlanta police,...

United States President Donald Trump has hosted his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the White House for the signing of a peace treaty between the two longtime rivals. The US president said during a ceremony on Friday that he believed the two men would have a “great relationship” and that the agreement would bring peace and new economic opportunities to the region. list “I want to congratulate these two great people, Prime Minister Pashinyan and President Aliyev, for coming to Washington to sign this momentous joint declaration,” Trump said. “The countries of Armenia and...