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The story surrounding Caitlin Clark’s mysterious injury keeps evolving, yet Clark has been physically active while she’s supposedly in recovery. BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock believes that like other female sports stars before her, she may be suffering from a mental health decline. “Caitlin Clark has disappeared and vanished. She doesn’t talk to reporters. We’re getting no legitimate information from anybody in the Indiana Fever organization. This is the biggest star in sports, and other than a Sue Bird podcast, we hear nothing,” Whitlock says. “Caitlin Clark has disappeared and vanished. She doesn’t talk to reporters. We’re getting no legitimate information...

Texas has a long and proud tradition of rising to defend our homes, our freedom, and our communities. I’m running for Attorney General to carry on that legacy… unafraid to fight, unafraid to win, and unafraid to defend Texas at every turn.

- snip - Satan has taken up residence in the White House. This isn’t a play-by-play of the current news cycle in America, although it surely sounds like it. This is, in fact, the latest episode of “South Park,” once again scathingly calling out the Trump administration’s absurd antics in real time, and the show isn’t pulling any punches. - snip - The most glaring plot, though, involved the return of a beloved character, Towelie, heading to a militarized Washington, D.C., just as Trump has deployed hundreds of National Guard troops in real life to address the city’s “crime emergency”...

OCEANSIDE, CA — A family's beach trip ended in disaster after they were cited by a state official for building a sand castle together without prior authorization from the California Coastal Commission. Witnesses said that the Wilson family had just put the finishing touches on a cool little sand castle when an officer approached to notify them that his department had received a complaint from the California Coastal Commission. According to sources, the officer first approached the eight-year-old Wilson boy to question him about having the proper permits. "Hey, that's a cool sand castle, kid," the officer reportedly said as...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. The firing is the latest upheaval in military leadership and in the country’s intelligence agencies, and comes a few months after details of the preliminary assessment...

The world's leading authority on food insecurity has confirmed a famine in Gaza. In a report published Friday, the United Nations-backed group of experts finds that over half a million people parts of north Gaza are at risk of dying from starvation, and hundreds of thousands more people face catastrophic shortages as the famine spreads to other areas. "As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed. The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading," the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, report says. The images of skeletal children...

The late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, told Justice Department officials last month that President Trump was “never inappropriate with anybody” in the time the disgraced financier and future commander in chief were friends.

A forgotten amber nugget, used as a doorstop for decades, has been revealed as one of the largest and most valuable finds in Romania, worth €1 million. Image credit: Buzău County Museum | Indian Defence Review =================================================================== In an astonishing discovery first reported by El País on September 3, 2024, one of the largest known amber nuggets in the world has been found in the home of an elderly woman in a small village in Romania. Valued at an impressive €1 million, this 3.5-kilogram (7.7 lb) amber stone had been unknowingly used as a humble doorstop for decades. Unbeknownst to...

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a term used to discuss people who dislike Donald Trump so intensely that they are willing to abandon all logic and reason that goes against this criticism. It is a term used by Trump himself and other Republicans to negatively describe those who are against his politics in America, including Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, and other Democrats formerly in office. The term Trump Derangement Syndrome has been used to describe individuals who oppose Trump and larger organizations that speak against him, such as The Washington Post. It is a particularly polarizing topic today...

Attorney General Pam Bondi handed over to Congress thousands of pages related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In a bid to increase transparency after public backlash over her handling of the Epstein files review, Bondi gave the House Oversight Committee the first trove of files on Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Mail. Committee Chairman James Comer plans to make the documents public after review and redaction. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said that he's the one who told Bondi to give anything and everything to Congress because it would only prove that the Epstein saga is a...

A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls crashed Friday, killing and injuring multiple people, police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash on I-90 near Pembroke, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Buffalo. Photos taken by bystanders at the scene showed a bus rolled over on its side, just off the highway. “At this time, we have multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments and multiple injuries,” said Trooper James O’Callahan, a spokesperson for the New York State Police. Several ambulances and medical helicopters transported patients from the crash. “There was glass all...

It was one of many cool finds in a luxurious residence in Sicily. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A famed Roman villa offers a surprising find of a flip-flop-like sandal shown in ancient mosaics. Archaeologists continue to excavate what was once a luxurious residence in Sicily, Italy. The discovery comes alongside one of the most famous mosaic-filled Roman villas in the world. Discovering a fourth century A.D. mosaic of what appears to be modern-day flip-flops wasn’t what anyone expected during the excavation of a famed Roman villa in Sicily, Italy. But then again, this is the...

After 50 years of secrecy, scientists have finally opened Apollo 17’s Moon samples. The Apollo 17 mission, NASA’s final crewed expedition to the Moon in December 1972, returned with valuable lunar samples, including material from the “Light Mantle,” a bright and unusual deposit at the base of the South Massif in the Taurus-Littrow Valley. Though collected over 50 years ago, these samples have only recently been reopened for detailed analysis as part of the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) Program. This initiative utilizes modern technologies to explore lunar mysteries in preparation for future missions, such as NASA’s Artemis program,...

Liberal media bias and hypocrisy are on full display in Virginia. Winsome Earle-Sears, the current lieutenant governor of Virginia, is the Republican nominee for governor. It’s impossible to find a starker compare-and-contrast between the media and cultural “elites”’ treatment of Earle-Sears and Stacey Abrams, who shares key similarities with Earle-Sears. Both are black women from battleground states (Abrams from Georgia), who earned their respective party’s nomination for governor in America’s South. The difference: Abrams is a Democrat, and thus worthy of expansive, fawning media coverage—though Abrams checks fewer of the Left’s prized identity boxes than Earle-Sears, a Jamaican immigrant. The...

A high-flying real estate agent has been accused of biting a seven-year-old girl during a fight over a free t-shirt at a family-friendly concert in the Hamptons. Gail Bomze, 75, was arrested following the alleged incident at the Main Beach concert series on East Hampton's Main Beach Tuesday afternoon. According to an arrest report seen by Daily Mail , she was charged with third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The girl's parents told officers the attack unfolded when the seven-year-old tried to grab a t-shirt that was thrown from a balcony into the crowd of revelers below....

Explanation: This colorful telescopic view towards the musical northern constellation Lyra reveals the faint outer halos and brighter central ring-shaped region of M57, popularly known as the Ring Nebula. To modern astronomers M57 is a well-known planetary nebula. With a central ring about one light-year across, M57 is definitely not a planet though, but the gaseous shroud of one of the Milky Way's dying sun-like stars. Roughly the same apparent size as M57, the fainter and more often overlooked barred spiral galaxy at the left is IC 1296. In fact, over 100 years ago IC 1296 would have been known...

President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago will be the next city that his administration targets for a federal crackdown on crime and suggested a longer and more intense campaign in the nation’s capital. “We’ll straighten that one out, probably next, that will be our next one after this,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “I think Chicago will be our next and then we’ll help with New York.” The president has credited his federal takeover of Washington, DC’s police force and deployment of the National Guard there with driving down crime in the city — touting a weeklong stretch...

@RandPaul John Bolton has done a lot of damage to the life, liberty and treasure of so many Americans. If he also is found to have broken the law regarding national security, it will be some small form of justice for the evil he has perpetrated over the years.

An electrician working at the Port of Seattle has claimed he was passed over for a promotion because he is a white, straight male -and a gay Asian woman had also applied for the position. Lawyers representing Chris Linhardt, 50, argue in a lawsuit filed last month in King County Superior Court that he had been working in the port's electrical division and even served temporarily as its electrical foreman for several months in 2022. So when the Port sought to permanently fill the position the following year, Linhardt jumped at the opportunity. 'Plaintiff ranked highest in the first-round interview;...

MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from a Tennessee prison on Friday and headed back to Maryland to be with his family, according to his attorney. Fox 17 News reported: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News. This comes after a U.S. magistrate judge was expected to grant the release Friday as he awaits trial on federal human smuggling charges. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. He is presently en route to his family in Maryland,...