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Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday said he will call a special session for Minnesota lawmakers to vote on a package of gun control measures, although passage seems unlikely in a closely divided Legislature. Walz, after welcoming Deerwood Elementary School students to their first day of school in Eagan, said Minnesota needs to take action following a mass shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis that killed 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski and wounded 21 others last week. “If Minnesota lets this moment slide and we determine that it’s okay for little ones to not be safe in a school...

A hidden city buried under Iraq’s desert may hold the key to a forgotten global civilization destroyed by a flood 20,000 years ago. Credit: Shutterstock | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel ================================================================================ In a recent investigation originally published by the Daily Mail and later echoed by Indy100, researchers at the ancient Sumerian site of Tell Fara revealed signs of a previously unknown, potentially advanced civilization buried beneath 5,000-year-old ruins. The findings, which combine geological anomalies with rare artifacts, suggest this early society may have been wiped out by a massive flood nearly 20,000 years ago, long before the emergence...

42-year-old Texas man is facing a murder charge in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy after the victim and his friends banged on the suspect's door late Saturday night in what police described as a "ding-dong-ditch" prank that has been trending on TikTok and other social media platforms, authorities said. The suspect, Leon Gonzalo Jr., was arrested and booked at the Harris County Jail on Tuesday morning, charged with one count of murder, according to Harris County court records.

Three-term Rep. Ashley Hinson will likely run for the open Senate seat. A former TV anchor and stalwart supporter of President Donald Trump, Hinson, 42, has long made no secret of her desire to run for the Senate in 2028, which is when veteran GOP incumbent Chuck Grassley is expected to retire at age 95.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated federal law in the use of National Guard troops amid Southern California immigration enforcement operations and accompanying protests. Judge Charles Breyer found President Donald Trump’s administration violated federal law by sending troops to the Los Angeles area. The judge in San Francisco did not require the remaining troops to be withdrawn, however. He set his order to go into effect on Friday. The order comes after California sued. *** Lawyers for the Republican administration have argued the Posse Comitatus Act doesn’t apply because the troops were protecting federal officers, not...

A groundbreaking study reveals that human activities have pushed Earth's biosphere to a critical tipping point, threatening the planet's ability to sustain life and prompting urgent calls for immediate global action. The integrity of Earth’s biosphere is under unprecedented threat, according to a recent study that sheds light on the planet’s declining ability to maintain ecological balance. Conducted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and BOKU University in Vienna, the research highlights critical challenges facing the plant kingdom’s capacity to regulate essential ecosystem functions. The study, published in the journal One Earth, examines the energy flows derived...

Award-winning Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan said that he was arrested in London over posts on social media criticising transgenderism. The creator of celebrated comedy programmes, including Father Ted and The IT Crowd, said on Tuesday that upon recently arriving at Heathrow Airport, he was met by five “armed police officers” who he says arrested him over “three tweets”. “In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet...

Maricopa County machine failure locations in 2022 election. Maricopa County officials are attempting to delete emails that potentially relate to the 2020 and 2022 elections, as well as irregularities in the 2024 elections, amid potential investigations by Trump Administration officials into the election fraud. In a letter to Maricopa County Manager Jen Pokorski, newly elected Republican County Recorder Justin Heap sounded the alarm on the Maricopa County Enterprise Technology and Innovation (ETI) department’s plans to delete archived emails from previous administrations. These documents are the subject of outstanding public records requests and may be of value in an official investigation....

The EFL Board, acting as the Management Committee of the Carabao Cup, has today fined Grimsby Town Football Club £20,000 - of which £10,000 will be suspended until the end of Season 2025/26 - for having breached the Rules of the competition. The breach relates to the Club fielding an ineligible player against Manchester United in a Round Two tie on 27 August 2025. Grimsby Town progressed to Round Three following a 12-11 penalty shoot-out win at Blundell Park. The circumstances leading to this transgression are that Grimsby Town submitted the registration of Clarke Oduor at 12:01 pm on the...

Guest post by Robert Bowes Will Too Late Jay Powell allow an illegitimate Fed meeting September 16-17, 2025? Cook’s false occupancy statements on mortgage applications are confirmed by her numerous errors and omissions in her signed U.S. Office of Government Ethics financial filings. But wait, there’s more. Did Cook exploit regulatory lapses at a free-wheeling DC credit union where they ignored risks and gave her two low-interest rate mortgages? Cook likely could not have tricked the underwriting systems at major banks, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, but was approved for two first mortgages from Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union (“BFSFCU”),...

A surge in Chicago gun violence led two Illinois state representatives to request that the National Guard help fight violent crime in the city. Critics call the plea misguided, but others argue that the Guard could help control the stem the wave of killings. Host Michel Martin talks with John Fritchey, one of the two representatives who made the request, and with Bill Bratton, former chief of police for New York and Los Angeles.

“I want to present some facts to the president of the United States, and I imagine this is alarming to the president to learn these facts.” – California Gov. Gavin Newsom. In one of his endless attempts to grab a headline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week taunted President Donald Trump, saying that if he’s serious about fighting crime, he should be sending the National Guard to red states such as Louisiana, which has a murder rate far higher than California. Newsom’s attempt to troll the president failed on Sunday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the attention-starved governor...

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The value of a college degree has been called into question lately — and for good reason. Parents might be shocked to learn what they’re paying for. At the New School in Manhattan, a four-year private university where the $60,240 tuition doesn’t cover housing, students at the university’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts can learn “How to Steal.” Noting the sociology seminar is not about “petty crime,” the course catalog explains it is an exploration of “the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of theft in a world where accumulation is sacred, dispossession is routine, and the line between private property...

You’ve got to hand it to her; no one in America has worked harder than Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to earn the title of the nation’s dirtiest election official. Benson UOCAVA Online Voting On September 22, 2024, we warned of a shocking plan by Democrats to steal the upcoming general election. In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency. On...

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Former “Meet The Press” moderator Chuck Todd on “The Chuck ToddCast” Monday made bold assertions about President Donald Trump’s health after previously defending journalists for not making similar claims about former President Joe Biden. Todd said on a June episode of his podcast that the “most difficult thing to report out on a politician is health” and that it was “easy to, frankly, get shamed out of doing it.” Yet on his Monday episode he had no issue concluding that Trump has “clearly got some health issues” after attacking the president and his allies for scrutinizing the health of former...

Zohran Mamdani’s father Mahmood is a postnationalist who advocates the dissolution of all nation states, which he views as intrinsically violent and unjust. On a humid June night in Queens, New York, Zohran Mamdani stood beside his mother and father, grinning as supporters chanted his name over and over again. He had just clinched the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City after defeating former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the primary—the first time a figure from the activist Left has come so close to leading America’s largest city. For many New Yorkers, Zohran Mamdani’s victory heralded the...

In Southeast Washington, advocates say a new batch of federal police are making unusual arrestsWhen U.S. President Donald Trump sent thousands of National Guard troops to Washington in early August, they weren't seen in the highest crime sections of the city. Residents mostly encountered them in tourist areas and subway stations. In Southeast Washington, away from the monuments and museums, advocates like Jawanna Hardy have seen a new batch of police making unusual arrests — but it's not the National Guard. Hardy is the founder of Guns Down Friday, an organization that helps youth affected by crime in one of...