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North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un suggested his country can resume dialogue with the U.S. if Washington drops calls for Pyongyang to denuclearize, state media reported Monday morning local time. "If the United States shuts down its hollow denuclearization ideology and wants a true peaceful coexistence with us based on acceptance of reality, then we have no reason not to [sit down with] the United States," Kim said during his parliamentary speech, according to the post.

New Mexico’s National Guard Adjutant General announced Monday that Guardsmen will soon be deployed to Española, a town of roughly 10,000 people in northern New Mexico whose leaders recently asked for state help dealing with a crime, drug and housing crisis. Española will be the second New Mexico city to receive National Guard troops this year. Albuquerque, the state’s biggest city, has seen a monthslong troop deployment in support of the Albuquerque Police Department. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham authorized the deployments to both cities in emergency orders that cite rising crime and short-staffed law enforcement agencies. The governor’s Aug. 13...

For more than a decade, many NATO countries have prioritized welfare expansion over defense procurement, a miscalculation that directly contributed to Europe’s current security crisis. Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea should have been a wake-up call; instead, it was met with half-measures and delayed commitments from key allies. Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine shattered any remaining illusions about European security. NATO’s collective security is only as strong as each member’s willingness to invest in it. The issue is not whether key Allied spending should rise; it must rise, not as a future aspiration, but as a correction for years...

In the spring of 1968 I was a college senior about to graduate. It was a troubled but hopeful moment to be coming into adulthood. The civil rights movement and the peace movement were converging in the nonviolent fight for racial justice and to end the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most charismatic leader on both fronts, the poetic prose of his speeches soaring with critical idealism, his pacifism increasingly militant as he made the connections between domestic deprivation and foreign intervention. On April 4 King was murdered in Memphis. It was a brutal blow to the...

An escalator malfunction and frozen teleprompter disrupted President Trump’s marquee address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, prompting him to improvise. The escalator carrying Trump en route to deliver his remarks had abruptly stalled shortly after the president set foot on it, forcing him to walk up it. Then, after making his way to the podium, Trump revealed his teleprompter wasn’t working. “I don’t mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter is not working,” Trump began, looking a little irked, drawing laughter. “I feel very happy to be up here with you, nevertheless — and...

SANTA FE — New Mexico is planning a sequel to its “Breaking Bad”-themed anti-littering campaign. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office announced Monday a new Spanish-language installment of the campaign featuring the Salamanca brothers will be released this week. The Salamancas, twin brothers referred to on the show as The Cousins, are prolific hitmen for a drug cartel in “Breaking Bad,” which was filmed in New Mexico and generated a cult following over its five seasons before ending in 2013. Real-life brothers Daniel and Luis Moncada, who play the twin brothers on the TV show, teamed up with “Breaking Bad” producer...

Donald Trump humiliated Keir Starmer today with brutal swipes at Labour's Net Zero drive. The US President used a rambling speech at the UN to brand climate change 'the greatest con job ever'. The UK was singled out for particular criticism, despite Mr Trump being honoured with his second state visit to Britain just last week. Mr Trump also laid into Labour's London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan with an extraordinary allegation that he wanted to introduce Sharia law to the capital. The US President told the UN General Assembly in New York: 'I want to stop seeing them ruining that...

US President Donald Trump admitted Tuesday that his past relationship with Russia President Vladimir Putin failed to influence Russia's war in Ukraine. Speaking at a bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the 80th UN General Assembly, Trump said he once believed his personal connection with the Russian leader could ease tensions but "unfortunately, that relationship didn't mean anything." He criticized Moscow for prolonging the conflict, noting that after more than three years of fighting, "thousands are being killed weekly with no progress." Trump also praised France's role in helping address other regional disputes, saying Macron’s support had been...

The Rapture is upon us, according to TikTokers, some of whom have latched on to a prediction that on Tuesday, Sept. 23 — today — Jesus Christ will return to Earth and take true believers to Heaven.

During the early 1970s the greatest enemy to Israel was known as the Palestinian Liberation Organization who was known for waging terror attacks on Israeli civilians and targets all over the world. The PLO was known for being a Socialist organization whose sole purpose was the elimination of the state of Israel along with the establishment of a socialist state of Palestine where the constitution would be run by secular Marxism rather than Islam. Due to the short sidedness of the Rabin administration and later Begin there was an idea to bring about a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood into...

Monday on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle According to Homan, “close to 1.6 million illegal aliens” have self-deported. “Tom, when you think about it, I guess you guys have deported over 200,000 people now — I’m not sure the exact number, a couple weeks ago, it was 200,000,” host Laura Ingraham said. “We have 30 million or so illegals in the United States. Question for a lot of MAGA folks out there is — how do you possibly speed up this deportation? I know you’re trying to hire a lot more people, but given the protests, given all the lawsuits, 200,000...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem exploded in outrage over a cryptic and “menacing” tweet issued by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office this past weekend. “Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today. You’re welcome, America.” Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary at DHS, blasted Newsom’s team for crossing the line into dangerous rhetoric. McLaughlin wrote on X: “This reads like a threat. This is ugly, @GavinNewsom. Your keyboard warrior team may hide behind their laptops and spew this kind of vitriol, but you would never have the guts to say this to her face.” Acting U.S. Attorney for the...

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115255130298104593 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real...

Sir Ed Davey has vowed to lead the fight against Nigel Farage's Reform UK, as he accused him of wanting to turn the UK into "Trump's America" in a speech to the Liberal Democrat conference. Painting a nightmarish vision of what he claimed life would be like under a Farage government, he sought to portray the Lib Dems as the guardians of British values of "tolerance, decency, and respect". He argued that the Lib Dems had a "moral responsibility" to challenge Reform and urged his party to embrace patriotism to speak for "Britain's decent silent majority". He attacked Labour for...

This is a short video showing the final crowning! The beautiful Erika Frantzve now known as Erika Kirk aka Charlie Kirk's wife - takes home the title.

TAOS — The sidewalks along the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge are usually thronged with tourists every day of the week. Sightseers peer over the bridge’s 4-foot tall railings into the viridescent water coursing through the canyon 600 feet below. Couples and families stop to take selfies against some of the most dramatic backdrops New Mexico has to offer. But on Monday, the bridge was conspicuously empty — save for drivers thrumming across the 1,280-foot span, where a bundle of flowers and dozens of rosaries along the metal railings memorialized a local teen’s suspected suicide over the weekend. It is the...

Lisa Jeanine Findley was accused of posing as a bogus investor claiming rights to Elvis Presley's estate. She was sentenced to more than four years behind bars. A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison in a brazen and blundering attempt to steal Graceland from the family of Elvis Presley. Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was accused of posing as a bogus investor claiming rights to the historic landmark that draws more than half a million visitors a year. Presley lived...

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he believes Ukraine, with the support of the European Union and NATO, can win back all of the territory Russia has taken since its invasion. -snip- In the post, Trump criticized Russia's prosecution of the war, saying it had been fighting "aimlessly" in a war that a "real military power" would have won in "less than a week." "Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act," the post continues.

“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ Nicodemus said to Him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?’” (John 3:3–4). Jesus’ shocking statement was far more than Nicodemus had expected. Incredulous, Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” Nicodemus did not misinterpret Jesus’...

When police showed up at Westdale Middle School with a drug-sniffing dog for a surprise drug search, it wasn't a student who got busted. It was the math teacher with a wallet full of cocaine. According to WAFB news Virginia Somers swore the cocaine wasn't hers. Officials said that Somers told them that the cocaine belonged to a friend who gave it to her at the LSU football tailgate Saturday. But when officers searched her car, they also found a bunch of marijuana and pipes, so … Anyway, Somers faces charges of possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Somers has...