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Parts of U.S. Highway 1 in Martin County were shut down Thursday morning due to what officials are calling an "unsafe U-turn." A tractor-trailer became stalled at Southeast Osprey Street in Hobe Sound after making the turn. It's carrying at least five vehicles. lanes are shut down. In a social media post, the Martin County Sheriff's Office said to expect delays in the area. The driver was cited for making an unsafe U-turn.

Many of our readers will remember the funeral that the Democratic Party staged for Paul Wellstone after he died in a plane crash shortly before the 2002 election. Democrats from around the country attended, and the event quickly became a political rally. It was televised nationally, and most viewers were repelled by the crass partisanship on display. Wellstone’s campaign manager apologized, but the damage was done, and days after the funeral Norm Coleman was elected to the Senate over substitute candidate Walter Mondale. Last night, the City of Minneapolis–the Democratic Party–held a “vigil” for the victims of Robin Westman’s attack...

The UK Foreign Office tells Russia to "stop this senseless killing" after strikes on Kyiv kill at least 19 people, including four children It comes after the department summoned Russia's UK ambassador over the attacks which injured dozens, and damaged British Council and EU mission buildings Ukraine's President Zelensky accuses Moscow of choosing "ballistics instead of the negotiating table", while the White House says US President Trump is "not happy, but also not surprised" by the strikes "I'm scared, but I don't want to leave," a Kyiv resident who saw the explosions from her home tells the BBC Nobody in...

LONDON — In what political analysts described as a historic turning point for Western Civilization, Great Britain announced a "Reverse Crusade" where they invite Muslims to come and destroy England. With the original Crusades of the Britons journeying to the Middle East to free the Holy Land from Islamic rule long in the past, UK leaders said it was time to wipe the slate clean and turn the tables to allow Muslims to return the favor. "We're flipping the script," said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. "We can now look back and see the flaws in our approach to invading...

A mother whose 9-year-old daughter encountered a naked male trans-identified sex offender in a school locker room spoke out at a Virginia school board meeting last week. Jen McDougal was among several parents who spoke during the Arlington County School Board meeting last Thursday. The mother said that a year had passed since her family stopped registering for swim lessons at Washington Liberty High School in Arlington after an incident involving her then-9-year-old daughter. "Last September, my daughter and I walked into the locker room, and a biological male who identifies as transgender and who also happened to be a...

Transgender mass shooter Robin Westman confessed that he “was tired of being trans” and wished he “never brain-washed” himself in a manifesto posted online before he slaughtered two children and wounded dozens more at a Minneapolis church. In a twisted handwritten journal he shared on YouTube before the massacre — much of which is encrypted in a homespun code of Russian Cyrillic script and English words — Westman groaned about his long hair and his decision to transition. “I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being...

An Illinois man is facing homicide charges after allegedly slipping abortion pills to his girlfriend without her consent. WMBD-TV reported that 31-year-old Emerson Evans of the community of Normal appeared Monday in McLean County Circuit Court. Judge Amy McFarland agreed to prosecutors’ request to detain Evans pending a trial. Evans faces two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child, a felony comparable to first-degree murder. Emerson Evans pressured his girlfriend to abort — she refused. So he told the police he "made the decision for her." Evans bought abortion pills for $50. Then allegedly drugged his girlfriend without her...

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has revised travel rules and allowed men aged 18 to 22 to cross the border, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Telegram on Aug. 26. Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 have been prohibited from leaving the country since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, with some exceptions. Men aged 25 to 60 can be conscripted into the armed forces. On Aug. 12, Zelensky asked the Cabinet to relax border crossing rules for Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22. On Aug. 18, Svyrydenko announced that the Cabinet was working on rules that would permit...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign that the group is under stress from development. The sightings of members of Mashco Piro tribe come as a logging company is building a bridge that could give outsiders easier access to the tribe’s territory, a move that could raise the risk of disease and conflict, according to Survival International, which advocates for Indigenous rights. The Mashco Piro are among the world’s largest uncontacted groups,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a bold response to the recent shootings in left-leaning cities, Democratic leaders courageously stepped up to demand common-sense prayer control. Sources disclosed that the Democrat Party has decided to take a stand by calling for common-sense regulations on prayer in order to address the recent spate of transgender, leftist school shooters opening fire on innocents. "In these difficult times, it's important to reduce perpetrators' motivations to attempt mass murders," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. "That's why I support reasonable prayer restrictions — the only way to stop shooters from targeting little children is to abolish prayers....

Singer Gloria Gaynor‘s recent financial support for Republican politicians seemingly made her the perfect candidate for the upcoming Kennedy Center Honors hosted by President Donald Trump. According to Federal Election Commission records, the Grammy winner known for the disco anthem “I Will Survive” donated nearly $22,000 to right-wing politicians and groups from August 2023 to June of this year. The records show Gaynor — under her birth name Gloria Fowles — donated hundreds or thousands of dollars to the campaigns for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley,...

​Albuquerque, New Mexico- On Saturday August 16, Abortion Free New Mexico volunteers arrived at the Whole Woman's Health abortion center in Albuquerque to encourage moms with hope and help. Upon arrival the Water Authority was present and informed volunteers that the building had no running water. About an hour later one of the abortion center workers' husband arrived in a pickup truck with Texas license plates and began tinkering with the main water line for the building. Even though the building had no running water at least two couples went in for abortion procedures. One was dropped off by a...

The Energy Department projects that next year, data centers and other commercial facilities will use more electricity than households for the first time.Electricity costs continue to climb nationwide, and experts say infrastructure is a major factor. "I think it's important to understand that most of your electricity bill is infrastructure," said Mike O'Boyle, acting policy team director at Energy Innovation. "And you're paying for the infrastructure we have right now." O'Boyle said modernization of the nation's aging infrastructure is colliding with higher demand and rising natural gas costs, which account for about 40% of U.S. electricity production. "It's kind of...

Speaking with former CNN host Christ Cuomo on his “The Chris Cuomo Podcast,” veteran journalist Matt Taibbi commented on the “treasonous conspiracy” that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others in the Trump Administration have exposed, saying that arrests of those Obama officials involved could be coming. As background, Matt Taibbi is a longtime journalist who first rose to prominence for his reporting on Goldman Sachs’s involvement in the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, exposing the investment bank as a “vampire squid.” He then gained notoriety with his skeptical reporting regarding the “Russiagate” scandal, being one of the few leading...

NEW YORK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched on Wall Street to campaign for an array of issues, including economic justice, and diversity and inclusion, in downtown New York on Thursday. "We're coming to Wall Street instead of Washington this year," said Reverend Al Sharpton, one of the event's organizers. He accused Wall Street of benefiting from government tax cuts at the expense of programs such as Medicaid and food assistance. "Corporate elites are running America, and we want to try and do something about that," said Jackie Barham, a marcher who attended with other members of Brooklyn...

🚨 JUST IN: A Washington DC news reporter revealed a disturbing truth in Union Station for all Democrats who opposed President Trump deploying the National Guard across the nation's capital. "In my opinion? It looks cleaner than it has - in YEARS."

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday said she would ask the United States to share the $15 billion it expects to extract from convicted Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada with her country's poor. Sinaloa drug cartel co-founder Zambada pleaded guilty in a New York court on Monday to murder and drug trafficking, particularly of fentanyl — a powerful narcotic responsible for tens of thousands of US overdose deaths annually. In pleading guilty, the 77-year-old avoided the possibility of the death penalty but still faces life imprisonment at a sentencing hearing due at a later date. As part of...

A family has been award nearly a billion dollars after suing a Utah hospital for botching a mother's delivery and leaving the parents with a severely disabled baby.Anyssa Zancanella was awarded $951 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after a judge said her daughter, Azaylee, would have been safer being born in 'the bathroom of a gas station, or a hut somewhere in Africa.'Zancanella said her healthy pregnancy with her first daughter began to awry after her water broke while on a short trip to the Salt Lake City area in October 2019.Hours away from her doctor in her home...

As Michigan lawmakers debate next year’s budget, the Democratic lieutenant governor — who’s running for governor in 2026 — floated an idea to hit back at some of the Trump administration’s spending cuts and get more money into the state government’s coffers: raise taxes on the wealthiest Trump supporters. In a video obtained by The Daily Wire, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist told a group of Democrats earlier this month that the Trump administration has “attacked our people” by cutting funding to universities and “attacking those of us who are getting our health care from Medicaid.” Gilchrist made the remarks...

The BBC has defended its use of female pronouns to describe a transgender killer who stabbed their partner to death with a samurai sword. Joanna Rowland-Stuart, who was born male and was known as John Stuart, attacked Andrew Rowland-Stuart at their Brighton home in 2024... A number of people contacted the BBC to complain. One wrote: “Using female pronouns to refer to a man is not accurate.” Another said: “The suspect is a man. When the public see the words ‘wife’ and ‘woman’ they will assume you mean an adult human female.” However, the BBC rejected the complaints. Some complainants...