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I’d like to see [the nation] heal. But we’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair, and they never did,” President Donald Trump told NBC News.

Ukraine expects there will be around $3.5 billion by next month in a fund to buy weapons from the United States and help sustain its more than three-year fight against Russia’s all-out invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday. The financial arrangement known as the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL, pools contributions from NATO members, except the United States, to purchase American weapons, munitions and equipment. “We received more than $2 billion from our partners specifically for the PURL program," Zelenskyy said at a joint news conference in Kyiv with visiting European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. "We will receive...

"I don’t get no respect," said Rodney Dangerfield, thousands of times. It was one of the great taglines in show-business history. It was the basis of his act—the denial of respect. Whatever his protestations, Rodney was one of the most beloved entertainers of the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. There is now a biography, Nothin’ Comes Easy, by Michael Seth Starr. Mr. Starr has written many biographies of entertainers, and several of comedians such as Dangerfield. His other subjects include Joey Bishop, Redd Foxx, and Don Rickles. You may prefer to read a long magazine piece about Dangerfield. You may prefer...

I feel sorry that people under 65 years old won’t get a chuckle out of this. EC

President Trump praised Kate Middleton as “so beautiful” during a heart-warming exchange between the pair on the first full day of the commander-in-chief’s state visit to the United Kingdom. “You’re beautiful, so beautiful,” Trump told the Princess of Wales, 43, as he greeted Kate and Prince William on the grounds of Windsor Castle. Wearing a maroon dress with a matching hat and purse, Middleton smiled as she shook hands with the president alongside Prince William, who was dressed in a dark suit. The two-day trip by Trump and first lady Melania Trump at the invitation of King Charles III marks...

@HHSGov @SenRandPaul questions Susan Monarez on the efficacy of childhood COVID vaccines — and he brings the receipts:

VIDEOOne of the ways the Left had been trying to deflect blame for the tragic Charlie Kirk assassination was to claim that the assassin was MAGA. Someone on the right. That is what happened with the Shmoe in this video who not only claimed that the shooter was some crazed right-winger but somehow even blamed Charlie Kirk for his own assassination. After his boss was shown that video, he was FIRED from his job and is now whining about being deprived of his beloved Big Macs due to being no longer able to afford them. Of course, this fool weighed...

...Unlike their views on the city's affordability, voters are relatively more mixed in their assessments of crime. Many feel it's either held the same or decreased in recent years.

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — Two people were hospitalized after being injured during a fight on a cruise ship. WSVN reported that the fight happened on Monday aboard the Royal Caribbean's "Wonder of the Seas." According to WSVN, the altercation began with a verbal argument that escalated into a physical confrontation. Because of the situation, the cruise ship made an unscheduled return to port in Miami. The cruise line stated that they provided medical assistance to the injured passengers with minor injuries until they could be taken to a hospital. At this time, the cause of the fight is still unknown,...

The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah University has done more than rattle a nation-it has jolted thousands awake. Suddenly, questions of eternity, purpose, and truth are not just whispered-they’re shouted. And this Sunday, America saw something few expected: revival. Across the country, churches overflowed. Sanctuaries were bursting, parking lots jammed, pastors left astonished as people poured in. While no one can yet count how many new faces walked through those doors, social media painted a vivid picture: it was thousands. And they weren’t there out of curiosity alone. They came for something deeper. They came to honor Charlie...

CONEJOS COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) - A massive search is underway for a pair of hunters who were reportedly last heard from on Thursday, while hunting in Conejos County. According to the Conejos County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), on September 13, deputies responded to the Rio De Los Pinos Trailhead in an effort to make contact with two hunters, Andrew Porter, a 25-year-old man from Asheville, N.C., and Ian Stasko, a 25-year-old man from Salt Lake City, UT. The sheriff’s office said the pair was reported overdue while elk hunting in the San Juan Wilderness Area, west of Trujillo Meadows Reservoir, when...

Parents and online safety advocates on Tuesday urged Congress to push for more safeguards around artificial intelligence chatbots, claiming tech companies designed their products to “hook” children. “The truth is, AI companies and their investors have understood for years that capturing our children’s emotional dependence means market dominance,” said Megan Garcia, a Florida mom who last year sued the chatbot platform Character.AI, claiming one of its AI companions initiated sexual interactions with her teenage son and persuaded him to take his own life. “Indeed, they have intentionally designed their products to hook our children,” she told lawmakers. “The goal was...

Our experiences walking to and from school were similar to those of most of our classmates. Their parents did not drive them to school or put them on a bus. They let them walk. That was not unusual in America in the 1960s and early '70s. But it is today. An article published in 2011 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine noted that 47.7% of students in kindergarten through eighth grade walked or biked to school in 1969. By 2009, that had dropped to just 12.7% of students. A survey published in this same journal in 2019 reported that...

The organization previously called Charlie Kirk a 'professional provocateur' and encouraged campus resistance to his events The nation’s leading professors’ group defended faculty speech rights after the assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk, but stopped short of condemning his killing. Rather, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), founded in 1915, called for leaders of universities to avoid "political pressure" to fire faculty members over comments made about the conservative powerhouse in the aftermath of his death. "The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, and student speech in...

Rand Paul just grilled ousted CDC official Susan Monarez and exposed the truth about the COVID vaccine on the record. This was an EPIC moment on Capitol Hill. While Big Pharma Senators spent their time praising Monarez, Paul cornered her and demanded answers. And when she tried to dodge, he dropped the hammer. Paul: “Does the COVID vaccine prevent transmission?” Monarez: “The COVID vaccine can reduce viral load in individuals who are—” Paul: “Does it prevent transmission?” Monarez: “When you have reduced viral load… you will have reduced transmission.” Paul: “But in other words, it DOESN’T prevent transmission. You can...

Leopard tooth marks were found on this Homo habilis jawbone. Image credit: Vegara-Riquelme et al., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2025) Around 2 million years ago, prehistoric humans in East Africa turned the tables on the carnivores that had previously terrorized them, learning not only to fend off these predators but also steal their kills, thus replacing them at the very top of the food chain. Generally, the ancient species Homo habilis is credited with making this trophic leap, yet new research suggests that this extinct hominin was actually hunted by leopards and may therefore have been...

ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg · Follow Just one month before Charlie Kirk's assassination, a young cross-dressing man in Utah requested the death penalty for himself after confessing to murdering both his parents and attempting to murder his brother. This story received little media interest

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Leo XIV says synodality is key to unity in newly released interviewPope Leo XIV has spoken at length about the role of synodality in the life of the Church in a newly released interview published by Crux on 14 September.The remarks on synodality form part of a forthcoming biography, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, written by Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen and to be published in Spanish by Penguin Peru on 18 September. English and Portuguese editions will follow in 2026.In the video excerpts, Pope Leo is shown seated against a wall...

The bill to restore silencers/suppressors to legal status in Guam was introduced by William A. Parkinson on January 15, 2025. Senator Parkinson is a Democrat in Guam. Nine of the fifteen senators in Guam are Republicans. Ten votes are needed in the Guam legislature to override a governor’s veto. If all 9 Republican senators in the Guam legislature vote for the bill with Senator Parkinson, they could override Governor Guerrero’s veto. That is what happened on July 31, 2025. The legislature had previously passed legislation to restore legal status for suppressors/silencers in 2021, but Governor Guerrero had vetoed the bill....

ABC might want to get ready to look for a late-night show replacement and perhaps get ready to pony up millions more in damages after Jimmy Kimmel has been caught uttering a huge lie about the Charlie Kirk assassination. As The Gateway Pundit reported, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, last week. It was later revealed that the suspect was identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah. Robinson was reportedly turned in by his father, who contacted authorities through a minister connected to law enforcement. Utah authorities on Tuesday released the...