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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has become a “problem,” adding she will try to put pressure on Israel over the Gaza war as her country currently holds the EU presidency. “Netanyahu is now a problem in himself,” Frederiksen says in an interview with the Jyllands-Posten daily, adding that the Israeli government is going “too far.” The center-right leader slams the “absolutely appalling and catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza and new settlement project in the West Bank. “We are one of the countries that wants to increase pressure on Israel, but we have not yet obtained...

Actress and conservative influencer Brett Cooper was just profiled in a lengthy piece in The New York Times. Once a star at the Daily Wire, Cooper has now been signed to Fox News. I have bad news for right-wingers waiting for a young messiah for the culture, however. Brett Cooper is not coming to save you. In fact, she will do what every other conservative on TV and social media does—the same thing Cooper, although only 23, has been doing for years. She’s going to sit behind a microphone and react to liberalism. What Brett Cooper will not be being...

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has canceled its screening of a documentary about Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, citing a lack of "legal clearance" for footage filmed by Hamas terrorists, according to a Tuesday report. The festival claims to have withdrawn its invitation for the Canadian documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue because the filmmakers did not meet its general requirements, "including legal clearance of all footage," a spokesperson told Deadline. The documentary, originally set to air at the festival next month, shows how retired Israel Defense Forces general Noam Tibon rescued his family...

Border czar Tom Homan on Wednesday said that President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., means that the city can no longer enforce its sanctuary status. Homan said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is working “hand-in-hand” with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), which has been federally taken over, to arrest and deport any illegal immigrant criminal in Washington. The border czar promised that any illegal immigrant who commits a crime will not be protected under any sanctuary law. “I think D.C., under federal control, is not gonna be a sanctuary city. We’re...

It was quite possibly Taylor Swift’s most intimate and organic interview—and it all happened on a sports podcast. Swift was the guest Aug. 13 on “New Heights,” hosted by Jason Kelce and his brother, Travis, who is, of course, Swift’s boyfriend. Attracting 13 million YouTube views within a day and another 400 million views from social media clips, the episode marked a milestone for video podcasting and showed the platform has transcended its conventional space. It was a power move from one of America’s most powerful celebrity couples. The rarely interviewed Swift broke major news about herself—from her upcoming album,...

A New York state man was arrested Wednesday and charged with leaving threatening voicemails for the widow of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson hours after Thompson was fatally shot on a Manhattan sidewalk in December. The suspect, Shane Daley, left Paulette Thompson profanity-laced voicemails calling her husband a “f------ capitalist pig” and declaring he died because he was “profiting off the backs of poor Americans,” according to a criminal complaint in Albany federal court charging Daley with cyberstalking. “This s--- is gonna keep happening to you f------ p-----,” Daley, 40, warned Paulette in one of three voicemails he left on her...

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced plans to meet on Monday to hammer out “all of the details” about how to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting in Washington, D.C., marks the next stage of reaching a ceasefire or a more sweeping and final peace deal, which the White House now hopes could be implemented. It is set to come three days after Trump held an Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin seeking to help negotiate an end to the war that ended with “no deal,” although the White House described the friendly encounter as “very...

President Donald Trump said he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Monday afternoon to discuss an agreement "which would end the war" between Russia and Ukraine.

“ Statement from President Donald J. Trump “ A great and very successful day in Alaska! The meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia went very well, as did a late night phone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and various European Leaders, including the highly respected Secretary General of NATO. It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up. President Zelenskyy will be coming...

- A Dane County judge on Friday ruled to increase the cash bond for a woman charged in a wrong-way crash that killed two teens last month, and ordered. Noelia Martinez-Avila, 30, saw her bond increased from $250,000 to $5 million following a ruling by Judge Diane Schlipper. Martinez-Avila is charged with two counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, two counts of homicide by use of a vehicle with a prohibited alcohol content, two counts of knowingly operating while revoked causing death, second-offense OWI, operating with a prohibited alcohol content and failure to install an ignition interlock...

There was a lot of news this week. Texas Democrats, emulating their brethren in Wisconsin and Minnesota, fled to greener pastures in hyper-gerrymandered Illinois. The battle over illegal immigration continued. As of this writing, President Trump and Vladimir Putin are conferring in Alaska. But the overwhelming favorite of meme-creators was President Trump’s effort to get crime in the District of Columbia under control. That seems like a laudable objective, but every Democrat, without exception as far as I know, has lined up on the side of the criminals. The District has sued to stop Trump from saving residents from violence...

ABSTRACT The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tickborne AGS is a moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to...

Daily Readings from the USCCBChildren were brought to Jesus that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them…” Matthew 19:13–14In the Catechism of the Council of Trent, which was promulgated by Pope Saint Pius V, this passage is linked with infant baptism. It states, “Besides, it is not to be supposed that Christ the Lord would have withheld the Sacrament and grace of Baptism from children, of whom He said: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to...

A Texas housing developer was forced to deny that a new community being built in the Dallas area will be exclusively for people from India. Sankalp Developer became infamous for the now-viral tweet that claimed they were building 'a development by INDIANS for the right INDIANS.' The tweet reads: 'INDIA FIRST!' The post does not specify where the supposed development would be located, however, Sanklap is based in Frisco - a wealthy suburb of Dallas. In recent years, Frisco and neighboring communities like Plano, Prosper and Celina have been flooded by Southeast Asians, in what used to be majority white...

Summer heat, outdoor fun ... and cold and flu symptoms? The three may not go together in many people's minds: partly owing to common myths about germs and partly because many viruses really do have lower activity levels in the summer. But it is possible to get the sniffles — or worse — in the summer. Federal data released Friday, for example, shows COVID-19 is trending up in most states, with emergency department visits up among people of all ages. Here's what to know about summer viruses. How much are colds and flu circulating right now? The number of people...

Some people wonder why Trump doesn’t just arrest all the coup plotters (starting at the top) and frog march them on TV for all the world to see. Well, there’s a logical reason for what he’s doing and the way he’s doing it....

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(8/16/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleEzekiel 47:1-12 The River From the Temple 47 The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side....

The Rev. Kenneth MacArthur of Cambridge, Mass., has been selected by the American Eugenics Society as secretary of the committee to cooperate with clergymen in an effort to link the Church with the movement to improve the human race from the eugenic standpoint. "The modern Church increasingly conceives as its purpose the production of a better humanity, in individual and social relations,” said Mr. MacArthur. "Child allowances for families of superior clergymen will be promoted. It is hoped to interest denominational organizations and wealthy individuals and foundations in this subject. Investigations of the ancestry of the clergy, the effect of...

Hurricane Erin is approaching Puerto Rico. So you know what that means, within 48 hours, Anderson Cooper and a trained elite CNN camera will walk ashore on a sandy beach in Puerto Rico to interview a local lefty official who will claim that because of Trump everyone is dead. Hurricanes usually devastate Puerto Rico because even a small leaf can take down the island’s entire electric grid which is made out of wishful thinking and money laundering (plus some solar panels) and despite nearly killing President Truman as part of a demand for the island’s independence, no one can figure...

For Victory over Japan day, Sky’s Events commentator Alastair Bruce unveils the stories ‘the Forgotten Army’ who fought in the Far East campaign. He interviews veteran Joseph Hammond, an Army Benevolent Fund supporter and founder of J.A.H. foundation, who fought in Burma, now known as Myanmar.