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More than 1,000 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Friday, as the government confirmed two more migrants had been returned to France. According to the Home Office 1,072 people in 13 boats made the journey to Dover. It takes the number of people who have made the crossing so far in 2025 to 32,103, a record for this point in a year. A total of three men have now been sent back to France under a pilot "one in, one out" deal with the UK, intended to deter small boat crossings. An Eritrean man and an Iranian...

When Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses the media and the American people, the shadow of the room’s namesake looms over her shoulder. The White House Press Briefing Room is officially named the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.Brady, a former White House Press Secretary, was shot during the assassination attempt on President Reagan in 1981. But most Americans today are more likely to associate the name with the left-leaning gun control organization than with the man himself.Is that really how we want to represent the pro-American, pro-Constitution Trump White House?The connection between the name “Brady” and the White House press...

Through clever innuendo and seemingly noncommittal suggestion, Barack Obama has spent two decades subtly dividing America socially, racially, and politically. Obama is known for making his points with surgical precision. No one can deny that, armed with a sharpened teleprompter, an emotionally detached Barack Obama appears as a methodical, unemotional speaker skilled at disguising deep-seated hostility as civility. The former president’s detached eloquence bears resemblance to that of the fictional character, serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter. Hannibal had a complex psyche that could be hidden behind a refined manner of expressing rage, with his wrath concealed behind a façade...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear.” Luke 8:8This short line is, in a sense, a summary of the Parable of the Sower. This parable presents us with four different ways in which the Word of God is received. The seed that is sown is the Word of God. The four different categories of people are compared to seed sown on a path, rocky ground, among thorns and in good soil. Jesus explains that the seed sown on the path are those “who have heard, but the Devil comes and takes away the word from...

Polish defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has rejected a suggestion by Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky that Poland would not be able to protect its population from a mass Russian drone attack. He called the remarks “unnecessary and untrue”. During an interview this week with British broadcaster Sky, Zelensky was asked about drone defences in his own country and in Poland, which last week saw its airspace violated by around 20 Russian drones. He noted that, during one recent attack, Ukraine had faced 810 Russian drones and had shot down over 700 of them. By contrast, Poland “had I think 19 drones...

New Delhi: United States President Donald Trump hiking H-1B non-immigrant visa fees to a steep USD 100,000 would affect thousands of Indian students with the American dream. It will sharply reduce low and mid-paid H-1B hiring, concentrate approvals on senior and high-value roles, and force employers and employees to shift to alternative pathways, or restructure staffing models. Immediate effects are already visible in travel advisories and market reactions; medium-term effects will reshape sourcing strategies in tech, professional services, and higher education. The hike would mainly affect those aspiring for a middle or entry-level jobs, where the early career median wage...

My oldest brother who introduced me to Free Republic online back in 1997 while I was nursing my 3rd baby in the middle of the night ( I guess I was complaining about the isolation of the 3AM feeding) has died after a long struggle with Alzheimers. In his senior year of St. Mary's high school in Manhasset NY he was accepted to West Point, Annapolis and the AirForce Academy but chose Notre Dame. After graduation he was drafted into the army and sent to Germany as his younger brother was already fighting in Vietnam. They both came home -...

For the first time in this plot cycle, the government has finally issued a product warning about al-Qa‘ida’s threat to the homeland. Director @NCTCKent, who leads the National Counterterrorism Center, has released this report to support law enforcement and first responders. ... The greater Intelligence Community has far more it could be sharing beyond AQAP’s issued threats to help our communities prepare. But here’s the bottom line: don’t wait for Washington. State, county, and city officials—and law enforcement—have a duty to act now to prepare and protect the public. Here’s the report. Take it straight to your community leaders, city...

Iran is planning to grow legal opium poppies for medicinal use, for the first time in decades, after the Taliban government banned its supply amid a crackdown in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was the main source of illicit drugs for Iranian manufacturers of morphine and other opioids, before the Taliban banned poppy cultivation in 2022. Since then, the supply has dropped from 750 tonnes in 2021 to around 200 last year, as per government estimates. With the country’s Food and Drug Administration warning that ongoing supply shortages could threaten public health, Iran is now working to cultivate enough poppies to meet its...

An ABC affiliate in Sacramento was struck by gunfire Friday afternoon. The incident came one day after protesters gathered outside over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension. ..

“A substantial” number of Gen Z voters supporting socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner Zhoran Mamdani have been brainwashed by leftist ideology into an army of “nasty,” USA-hating radicals — who routinely accost rival Mayor Eric Adams on the campaign trail, Hizzoner revealed to The Post. “I have never witnessed a more mean and angry and nasty electoral season — and not all of Zohran’s voters are, but a substantial number of them,” Adams said during an exclusive 20-minute sitdown at Gracie Mansion. “You know, when you sit in a restaurant with a family, a family restaurant, children are there, and you’re...

A generational divide over workplace burnout has less to do with work intensity and more to do with diminished expectations for career rewards, according to business author and New York University professor Suzy Welch. The 66-year-old from Portland earned her MBA as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and spent seven years as a management consultant at Bain & Co. before joining Harvard Business Review in 2001, serving as editor-in-chief. Speaking on the July 24 episode of the Masters of Scale podcast, Welch argued younger workers face the same demanding schedules as previous generations, but lack the fundamental belief...

center>Please join Freepers throughout the world as we pray for AMERICA: All Levels of Government, Family, Military, Business, Farming, Technology, Education, Churches, Health Care Systems, the News, Media and Social Media, Citizen Keyboard Warriors, Right to Life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS, AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, THOU SHALT BE...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has ignited a cultural reckoning - and chilling new figures reveal a deep and widening gap in how Americans think about political violence. According to new YouGov polling, almost one in four Americans identifying as 'very liberal', 24 percent, believe it's acceptable to celebrate a political opponent's death. Among those who call themselves 'very conservative', just three percent find it acceptable to feel happy about the death of a public figure they disagree with. The chasm widens in the younger generation. Among liberals aged 18 to 44, a whopping 22 percent think it's acceptable to...

Yesterday, along with two excellent colleagues, I submitted a Comment to EPA on the subject of the proposed and pending repeal of the so-called Endangerment Finding of 2009. The Endangerment Finding (EF) is the absurd regulatory action by which the Obama-era EPA purported to find that the trace gas carbon dioxide (CO2) constitutes a “danger” to human health and welfare as it accumulates in the atmosphere from the current level of about 0.04%, to perhaps 0.05% or maybe even (the horror!) 0.06% by some time later this century. The EF is then the basis for all the subsequent regulatory initiatives...

WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Friday that the US military carried out a third strike against alleged drug traffickers affiliated with a terror organization — killing “3 male narcoterrorists.” “On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump posted on Truth Social. The president did not say which terror group was targeted or which nation the vessel originated from.

India’s top IT industry body, Nasscom, has raised alarm over the US’ decision to impose a steep USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, warning that the move could disrupt global operations of Indian technology services companies and unsettle thousands of skilled professionals working onshore in the US. The IT body added that what is even more concerning is that the order, which takes effect at 12:01 am on September 21, leaves just a one-day window for compliance. Nasscom said the abrupt rollout has created “considerable uncertainty for businesses, professionals, and students across the world.” Adjustments of this nature...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(9/20/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleEzekiel 24:1-6Jerusalem as a Cooking Pot 24 In the ninth year, in the tenth month on the tenth day, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, record this date, this very date, because the king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. 3 Tell this rebellious people a parable and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘Put on the cooking pot; put it on and pour water into it. 4 Put into it the pieces of...

Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., the far-left Democratic nominee for governor, called Charlie Kirk a Christian nationalist who wanted to roll back the rights of women and Black people after the passage of a House resolution honoring the conservative activist.

When Donald Trump landed in Britain this week, the air was thick with anticipation. Many hoped he would blow Starmer’s door down and expose him for the tyrant he is. Of course, the dreary MSM, led by the BBC and Guardian, made out that he’d come to a hostile nation, detested by the public and despised, barely tolerated, by the political class. Yet the reality was the opposite. Trump was greeted warmly, not only by the Royal Family, who laid on a display of pomp and ceremony unmatched in recent years, but also by most Britons, who received him with...