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— he aimed his wrath at God by trying to stop people with his bullets from praying to God. Now is a time for us to come together and join hands in prayer, for the children who were killed, their loved ones, and those who survived this horrific shooting.

The third-ranking House Republican called Thursday for Minnesota to repeal its “trans refuge” law in an exclusive interview with The Post following Wednesday’s deadly shooting targeting Catholic school students in Minneapolis. "We got to have compassion for everyone. But we got to understand that we’ve got some serious mental health issues that are being exacerbated by these types of messages by people like Tim Walz and everybody who supported that law,” said House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, whose district covers many of the Twin Cities’ outer northern and western suburbs. “They should immediately repeal it, but they won’t,” Emmer added....

Los Angeles, California — On July 13, 2025, around 9:10 a.m., Central Patrol Division uniformed officers responded to a radio call of an ADW suspect in the area of South Figueroa Street and West Olympic Boulevard. The comments of the call indicated that a male suspect stopped his vehicle in the middle of the intersection, exited, and was swinging a sword at pedestrians. Upon arrival, officers observed the suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Gurpreet Singh, standing in the intersection holding a machete. Officers gave multiple commands for Singh to drop the weapon; however, he failed to comply. Singh then returned...

President Trump has threatened to send National Guard troops into more American cities after deploying soldiers in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles this year. He’s highlighted Baltimore and Chicago as cities in particular need of help fighting crime, though Monday he appeared to back off his threat to unilaterally deploy the National Guard into cities uninvited.Baltimore has the third-highest rate of violent crime, while Chicago ranks 29th among cities with at least 500,000 residents, according to the latest FBI data.Trump’s focus on cities in blue states — those led by Democratic governors — with Black mayors has drawn criticism from...

Abraham Accord shtunk! (peaceful regional coexistence is odiferous) Free worshippen shtunk! (all unbelievers must be taught the error of their ways)...das Juden! Ohhhhhh das Juden! Snort! Shtunken shtanken shtinken shtunken sthink! (his excellency is speaking of the Jews) as the helicopters land in the Syrian Capitol to defend the Druze and Christians from the latest assaults, and Julani backs away from the Abraham Accord he was previously making kissy faces at. Lots of on-the-scene footage. Transcript linked below video.

Former national security adviser John Bolton had his home raided by federal agents last week. It caused a stir among those in the liberal media, who immediately ran with the narrative that this FBI visit was politically motivated. Bolton is one of President Trump’s most vocal critics. The authoritarian hysterics from the liberal pundit class were deafening, along with some gaslighting about how Barack Obama and Joe Biden never gave an order to go after their enemies. Now, we’ve learned that the momentum to initiate the eventual raid at the Bolton home started under the Biden administration, which also hindered...

New details have emerged surrounding the investigation into former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who may have allowed a foreign government to gain access to classified intelligence when publishing a memoir in 2020, according to a bombshell report from the New York Times. Despite constant allegations from Democrats and mainstream media pundits of political targeting on the part of the Trump Administration, The Times reported that the current investigation into Bolton “began to pick up steam” during the Biden presidency. Intelligence officials began to investigate after obtaining evidence that he may have mishandled classified information, according to unnamed sources familiar...

FRISCO, Texas -- The Dallas Cowboys have traded Pro Bowl edge rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, sources told ESPN. The Cowboys will receive defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round picks in return, sources told ESPN. Parsons agreed to four-year, $188 million deal with the Packers that includes $120 million fully guaranteed at signing and $136 million total guaranteed, making him the highest-paid non quarterback in NFL history.

A secretive dark money group tied to the Democratic Party is paying online influencers up to $8,000 a month to disseminate left-leaning talking points, according to a report. The “Chorus Creator Incubator Program” is said to be funded by the “Sixteen Thirty Fund,” a nonprofit sometimes portrayed as the left’s answer to the Koch network and which has funneled money to dozens of Democratic-friendly influencers, according to WIRED magazine. The names attached to the program span some of the most recognizable liberal voices online. They include Olivia Julianna, the Gen Z activist who spoke at the 2024 Democratic National Convention;...

Tommy Robinson speaks to Jesse Kelly about the viral video of a Scottish girl being prosecuted for brandishing a knife to defend herself in a park, and the tension boiling over in response to mass immigration to the U.K. "On the 13th of September, we’re expecting a million people to descend from every corner of Britain onto our capital to send a message to the world that we are remaining silent no longer," he said. "The country’s bubbling, it’s brewing for revolution. It’s happening. The cat’s out of the bag. They can’t put it back in." "They used to have...

The media’s willingness to indulge and promote transgenderism exposes their complicity in normalizing a sick and unnatural ideology.The pagan idol of “transgenderism” has become a destructive force in modern American culture. So leave it to the country’s propaganda media to keep pushing its many delusions. The media’s behavior following the deadly shooting by a trans-identifying man at a Minneapolis-based Catholic school that left two children dead and many others injured has been nothing short of horrific. Not only are many of these so-called “news” organizations attempting to whitewash the fact that the alleged shooter identified as transgender, but they’re also...

Monday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Trump deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller blasted the Democratic Party for its opposition to the Trump administration’s efforts to tackle crime in American cities. According to Miller, the opposition party was a “domestic extremist organization.” “You know, Stephen, — I’ve been running a scroll of the names of people that have been shot and shot and killed, you can predict with pinpoint accuracy how many people on any given weekend are going to be shot and shot and killed in Chicago,” host Sean Hannity said. “They haven’t lifted a finger to solve the problem. You...

We’ve seen the demonic advance throughout our culture over the past decade and more.On Wednesday morning, the students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were attending a Mass in the church next to the school when, suddenly, the stained-glass windows were shattered by a hail of gunfire.The fusillade didn’t stop immediately. Witnesses said that between 50 and 100 bullets were pumped into the church, injuring at least 15 of the students badly enough to send them to the hospital and killing an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old.The shooter, whose indiscriminate hosing-down of that place of worship was preceded by a...

A wildfire that broke out at Britain’s North York Moors National Park has burned for weeks, reaching a ground layer containing unexploded ordnance from World War II. The Langdale Moor fire started on Aug. 11, the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said. Crews from the North Yorkshire service and other local firefighting departments were still fighting the blaze Thursday.The fire is affecting an area of almost 10 square miles according to the BBC, and is fueled by wind, vegetation and now peat. The peat layer also contains decades-old unexploded bombs and other ordnance from World War II.“As the peat...

President Trump’s border advisor confirmed in an interview Thursday morning that ICE is considering using a naval base north of Chicago as its hub when potential enforcement raids take place in that city. President Trump’s border advisor told reporters Thursday that federal authorities planned to increase immigration raids in Los Angeles and other so-called “sanctuary cities,” with Chicago likely the next target. “You’re going to see a ramp up of operations in New York; you’re going to see a ramp up of operations continue in L.A., Portland, Seattle, all these sanctuary cities that refuse to work with ICE,” Tom...

This is my very first solo post after years on Free Republic. Please forgive me and let me know if I got some of the "must haves" wrong. I Just received this email from a family memberand it's content absolutely terrifies me. I can't believe that real US citizens believe this poop, nor that our military gives up their time and freedoms and put themselves in harms way to defend such opinions. When elections are stolen, history shows crowds flood the streets. Trump plans to crush the protests before they even begin… Monday night, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker came right...

In the months before director Susan Monarez was fired, the agency faced mass firings, changing vaccine advice and a shooting at its headquarters in Atlanta.The White House fired Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after she refused to resign amid pressure from the Trump administration to change vaccine policy. Her lawyers accused Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of “weaponizing public health for political gain” and “putting millions of American lives at risk” by purging health officials from government. Following her abrupt exit, weeks after the Senate confirmed her to lead...

In stark contrast to allegations leveled against the delayed first response to past school mass shooters in Parkland, Florida, and Uvalde, Texas – and the first assassination attempt of President Donald Trump – the first Minneapolis officer to go into the church Wednesday did so without hesitation. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara hailed the unnamed officer's bravery in an exclusive interview with Newsmax's "National Report" on Thursday morning, saying the officer acted fast with "nothing but a handgun and no special protection." "I had some parishioners who were present come up to me yesterday at the scene, very emotional, and...

Two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday morning while gathered for Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school to mark the first week of classes. Seventeen others were wounded, including 14 children between the ages of 6 and 15. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara identified 23-year-old Robin Westman as the shooter. Westman was later found dead in the back of the church from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities are still investigating her motive. The shooting is renewing debates over America's gun laws. And two of Minnesota's prominent leaders, both Democrats, are seizing the moment...

The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops has caused some Black parents to return to the days of “the talk” about policing that they had hoped was no longer needed to keep their children safe.Days after President Trump ordered a surge of federal law enforcement agents in Washington, D.C., Charlene Golphin told her 17-year-old son that his curfew was being cut short by two hours. Ms. Golphin feared that as a Black boy, her son would be caught in the dragnet set up by officers tasked by the president with cracking down on the “roving mobs of wild...