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Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Israel on Monday, stopping in Jerusalem and making a visit to the City of David archaeological park in East Jerusalem. The visit was part of the inauguration of the fully excavated Pilgrimage Road, an ancient pathway used as Jerusalem's main thoroughfare and passage for pilgrims during the Second Temple Period.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee joined Secretary Rubio. Ambassador Huckabee called the excavation something that "lets the stones speak," according to the Jerusalem Post. Huckabee also reiterated Jerusalem is Israel's "undivided capital," saying, "the Jewish people never forgot that this...

Why isn’t this question being asked? Document at link. Text: From the documents (and no verification they are real yet): “The content of these messages included messages affiliated with the contact ‘Tyler’ stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush, messages related to visually watching the area where a rifle was left, a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel. The messages also refer to engraving bullets, and a mention of a scope and the rifle being unique. Messages from the contact Tyler also mention that he...

Police are hunting a woman who brutally shoved an elderly passenger off a Boston bus, leaving her with multiple injuries including broken bones. Disturbing video captured the moment the bully pushed the senior - not once, but twice - off the bus. The victim gripped onto the bus doors after the first push, but the second shove sent her face first into the concrete sidewalk. The footage also showed baffled passengers watching in horror, but apparently failing to intervene, as the elderly woman plummeted. MBTA Transit police said the assault happened at around 1pm on September 8, at the intersection...

If you look at many social media sites, such as Bluesky, it is not uncommon to see multitudes of unhinged leftists writing off Charley Kirk as a "Nazi" or "Hitler Youth," which could be an excuse for his brutal assassination. And where does this notion of Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump in particular as well as MAGA and conservatives in general as Nazis come from? Unfortunately much of it comes from media sources. One of the culprits is Vanity Fair magazine.On Thursday, just a day after the assassination, Vanity Fair published a story ostensibly about a documentary on the Nazi...

Ellison's most audacious move may be yet to come. Paramount's new chief executive is preparing a bid to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O), opens new tab, home to Warner Bros film and television studios, HBO, CNN, TNT and Warner Bros Games. The company is on the verge of breaking up, as its television business declines, but Ellison intends to go bigger, creating a media colossus combining Paramount's library of classics like "The Godfather" and "Star Trek" with Warner Bros' own extensive collection. Some observers see bigger ambitions in Ellison's media moves. In recent weeks, Ellison installed Kenneth Weinstein - a...

Screen legend Robert Redford has died at the age of 89. The Oscar-winner died in his sleep on Tuesday at his home in Utah, outside of Provo, The New York Times reported. The announcement of his death was made by Cindi Berger, the chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK. Redford was one of the top Hollywood leading men for decades, appearing in blockbusters such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men. His first big break came in 1963, when he starred on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, which...

The left and their media allies have taken to assassinate Kirk’s character, twisting his words, distorting his record, and in many cases, just making things up out of thin air. fter Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the left and their media allies have taken to assassinating his character, twisting his words, distorting his record, and in many cases, just making things up out of thin air. Here are some of the most egregious lies about Kirk. Claim: Charlie Kirk Said Black People Were Better Off In Slavery This claim has been circulated amongst several social media users and even outlets like BET,...

You can feel it, sense it, see it. It is palpable. The country seems different since the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Faith has been rekindled across the land. Patriotism, family, and traditional values are getting a fresh look. And leftists are shaking in their boots, understanding in no uncertain terms that their own vile rhetoric aimed at all who disagree with their relentlessly defiant deconstructionist narrative is going to cost them dearly. As the lovely and courageous widow Erika Kirk said in her emotional remarks over the weekend, leftists have no idea what they unleashed when one of their own...

A U.S. Air Force reservist's lawsuit alleging he was punished for giving a speech in which he said "men can't birth babies" can move forward, a court has ruled.U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division issued a memorandum opinion and order last week in the case of Jace Yarbough v. United States Space Force, et al.Mazzant, an Obama appointee, denied a motion to dismiss reservist Jace Yarbough's lawsuit, who has argued that he was unlawfully punished for giving a speech in uniform at a retirement ceremony in 2021 that some considered too political."Here, all...

PBS NewsHour, September 15, 2025 Issue #1Nick Schifrin: "But that is highly unlikely, suggesting little chance for a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, especially after Israel's strikes last Tuesday in Qatar, targeting Hamas' chief negotiators in the country that had been the mediators." To call Hamas leaders in Qatar "negotiators" is misleading and paints a false picture. These are not diplomats seeking peace but the very masterminds behind the horrific October 7th massacre. The men Israel targeted are not peacekeepers—they are terrorist leaders and have long been residing in Qatar, which has repeatedly played host to Hamas figures, offering...

Machines certainly can make businesses and people more efficient, but I have never believed that A.I. itself makes us more intelligent.Basically, Google AI, and I assume most A.I. programs, just regurgitate what they read. They do not appear to analyze or evaluate things to see how truthful they are. The great danger is that people, especially children and people posing as journalists, will believe whatever something called artificial intelligence spits out. I asked Google A.I. a simple math question. Have Trump’s tax rate cuts from 2017 cost the government trillions of dollars?Yes, most independent, non-partisan analyses of the 2017 Tax...

In 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, 613,349 Americans died of cancer. That number is projected to increase to over 618,000 this year. As a result, medical research has been focused on the development of cancer treatment protocols for decades for all types of cancer.The National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Trials Support Unit (CTSU) and the National Institute of Health’s ClinicalTrials.gov website list hundreds of active protocols, with 457 NCI-supported protocols noted in clinical trial databases for various cancer types and stages.For example, there are approximately a dozen known treatment protocols for Stage 4 prostate cancer that focus...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A wetsuit-clad robber swam away with at least $10,000 from a restaurant at Disney Springs. The Orange County Sheriff’s office said the Paddlefish, a restaurant that looks like a paddlewheel boat at the Disney entertainment district, was closed for the night and no guests were at the business at the time of the heist, but there were employees, WFTV reported. The alleged robber forced two employees into a corner of the room, telling them to close their eyes, WFTV reported. He then took between $10,000 and $20,000 and was gone within two minutes, putting on...

FBI Director Kash Patel faces questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning, during which Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed that whistleblower revelations showed that Joe Biden’s FBI targeted not just Donald Trump, but a wide swath of Republican organizations — including Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.Grassley reminded Patel of the FBI’s recent history of political weaponization, pointing directly to an operation known as “Arctic Frost.”“At your nomination hearing, I made public records that whistleblowers provide me about Arctic Frost,” Grassley said. “Arctic Frost was the FBI case opened and approved by anti-Trump FBI Agent Thibeau. Arctic Frost then...

@RandPaul Today I’ll be forcing the U.S. Senate to vote on my Penny Plan to cut spending and balance the Budget. Congress didn’t do its job. Neither the House nor the Senate produced a budget. Neither one did anything serious to cut spending. So I did it for them - and every single U.S. Senator will have a choice today: vote for my plan to cut spending and balance the budget, or keep the status quo, Biden-level spending. Call your Senators today and tell them to vote for the Penny Plan tonight.

In news that should not surprise anyone, the Biden regime had Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA squarely in its crosshairs. As Fox News reported, Patel appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an annual oversight hearing of the FBI on Tuesday morning. He has come under fire for his initial handling of the Kirk assassination by a radical left terrorist. During the hearing, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that an FBI whistleblower revealed to him an FBI project called “Arctic Frost” that targeted groups like Kirk’s TPUSA. “92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican-linked individuals, were placed under the...

Professionals across many industries have been terminated, suspended for gleeful social media posts.... The legacy media is slamming what many outlets have described as a "cancel culture" campaign from the right targeting those who've been fired for celebrating the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. However, several outlets are downplaying the callousness of the social media posts in question. "After Kirk’s killing[,] a growing chorus of conservatives wants his critics ostracized or fired," a headline from The Associated Press read Sunday. The AP wrote, "After years of complaints from the right about ‘cancel culture’ from the left, some conservatives are...

Tyler Robinson, the suspected gunman in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, may face a firing squad as a result of charges that prosecutors plan to unveil on Tuesday. The 22-year-old alleged assassin has so far refused to cooperate with investigators, who, regardless, believe they have enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he murdered Kirk, 31, during a political event on a Utah college campus last week. Sources close to the investigation said that Kirk is expected to be charged with one count of capital murder, a charge that carries the death penalty in the state of Utah. Prosecutors are...

Shared music ties help fundraising effort for Evergreen High School after tragedy by: Nate Belt Posted: Sep 15, 2025 EVERGREEN, Colo. (KDVR) — A new fundraiser launched for the students and families in Evergreen is earning money through a connection they say everyone shares: music. Greg Kuzma, Director of Education Programs for Ascend Performing Arts, says the marching band community is tight-knit all across the state of Colorado, which is why they are now all stepping up to help their fellow musicians at Evergreen High School. To Kuzma, music is the thread that binds us together. “There is absolutely a...

VIDEOSomething has happened in the wake of Charlie Kirk's brutal assassination. Normal people are no longer putting up with the nonsense spewed by the haters. The haters are finding out that even though they have the free speech right to spew hate, it also has CONSEQUENCES as you can see in this video.