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Donald Trump’s future presidential library will be housed in downtown Miami at a location selected, in part, because of its proximity to the Freedom Tower, a landmark that played a significant role in helping Cuban refugees migrating to Florida. Trump’s team has for months been eyeing Florida, where the president is a resident, as the location for the library, which they also hope can be part of a larger development that will include an adjacent hotel. It would be the first presidential library to also be home to a hotel developmen

Seen from the sky, the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert resembles a futuristic dream. Viewed from the bottom line, however, Ivanpah is anything but. The solar power plant, which features three 459-foot towers and thousands of computer-controlled mirrors known as heliostats, cost some $2.2 billion to build. Construction began in 2010 and was completed in 2014. Now, it’s set to close in 2026 after failing to efficiently generate solar energy. In 2011, the US Department of Energy under former President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in three federal loan guarantees for the project and the Secretary of...

North Carolina Senate Republicans approved a measure Monday in honor of Iryana Zarutska, the Ukranian refugee stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail last month, that would revive the death penalty. House Bill 307 is called Iryana’s Law. Republicans say it makes several changes to remove roadblocks that have prevented the death penalty from being carried out in North Carolina. Under the proposal, instead of letting death penalty appeals sit indefinitely, they must now be heard within two years of filing, and continuances will not be granted unless the judge finds extenuating circumstances. The bill would establish lethal injection...

US President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York after blasting world leaders during his speech. Speaking to reporters before the bilateral talks, Trump hailed Zelenskyy as a courageous leader. "He’s a brave man, and he’s putting up one hell of a fight," Trump said. "We have about 30 meetings scheduled today, but this is an important one -- and we have great respect for the fight that Ukraine is putting up. It is pretty amazing."

Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations was one of the clearest expositions of the way he sees the world, his ideology in its rawest form. To his supporters, it will be seen as Trumpism unplugged; to his critics, Trumpism unhinged. Over almost an hour, he took aim at his opponents and their ideas, picking them off one by one as he toured the world. He began at home, praising the United States and himself. He said the US was living through a golden age and repeated his much-disputed claim that he had personally ended seven wars, something he argued...

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CNN data analyst Harry Enten is offering a rough outlook for Democrats as the midterm season approaches. Recent polling, he says, shows Republicans holding a surprisingly steady edge on the issues voters rank highest, leaving Democrats in a vulnerable position. According to surveys from The Washington Post and Ipsos, Republicans lead Democrats by seven points on the economy, thirteen points on immigration, and twenty-two points on crime. Those gaps are wider than they were in 2022, suggesting the GOP has gained ground on the topics that most often sway elections. Here’s the breathless Enten explaining it in his signature style:...

A notorious Arizona protester turned up outside Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on Sunday in Glendale, ignoring the solemn occasion to stage yet another bizarre spectacle. Sumayyah Dawud, a self-described transgender, Muslim Antifa activist infamous for his solo demonstrations, arrived early at State Farm Stadium with a handful of other protesters, brandishing signs that veered from pro-Palestinian slogans to insults aimed at President Trump, and even one labeling the group the “Satanic Society.” Dawud was previously arrested while protesting at a pro-Hamas encampment at Arizona State University. And made posts in the immediate aftermath of when Charlie Kirk was shot and...

Trump insisted that the opposition had threatened a shutdown unless Republicans approved more than $1 trillion in funds for illegal alien health care, taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for minors, and a multitude of other projects. Remaining Time -0:24 By Ben Whedon Published: September 23, 2025 9:57am Updated: September 23, 2025 12:26pm Article Dig Deeper President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he would not meet with congressional Democrats, citing what he called their "unserious and ridiculous demands" to avert a government shutdown. "After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats...

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 Military Power less than...

***Virginia’s election is no ordinary contest. It’s a clash of visions. Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears champions jobs, low taxes, and opportunity, while Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s progressive policies threaten to mirror Maryland’s high-tax, anti-business model. The outcome will shape the lives of young families struggling with rising costs, budding careers, and uncertain futures.Yet, year after year, Virginia’s off-year elections suffer from dismal turnout, especially among the young. ...Enter Project Charlie, a grassroots firestorm ignited by two Shenandoah Valley Virginians in just five days. Its mission is simple yet powerful: blanket every district and precinct in Virginia with Charlie Kirk posters...

President Trump has made it among his highest priorities to restore peace anywhere and everywhere—including the war between Russia and Ukraine. At the UN Security Council I made clear: This war needs to end. If it does not, the President will take the steps necessary to impose costs for continued aggression.

23 September 2025Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Priest on Tuesday of week 25 in Ordinary Timesanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio Church) in San Giovanni RotondoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEzra 6:7-8,12,14-20Darius king of Persia pays for the rebuilding of the Temple of GodKing Darius wrote to the satrap of Transeuphrates and his colleagues: ‘Leave the high commissioner of Judah and the elders of the Jews to work on this Temple of God; they are to rebuild this Temple of God on its...

“Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America,” Charlie Kirk tweeted. It was typical of the bold incisive rhetoric that terrified and infuriated the Left. And got him killed.It was also the kind of direct truth that few on the right were willing to speak out loud.Charlie Kirk continued to discuss our reporting on the Islamic genocide against Christians at a time when hardly anyone else would. And with his death, one of the most prominent voices still willing to challenge the Islamic invasion of America and its war on the world was silenced.“Did...

If U.S. President Donald Trump really wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, he needs to stop the war in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. Speaking to France's BFM TV from New York, Macron said that only Trump has the power to put pressure on Israel to end the war. "There is one person who can do something about it, and that is the U.S. president. And the reason he can do more than us, is because we do not supply weapons that allow the war in Gaza to be waged. We do not supply equipment that...

A former youth pastor has been arrested on child pornography charges weeks after leaving his role at a church. Law enforcement officials allege that he possessed and shared illicit material involving minors. Nathan Wayne Walker, 50, was taken into custody in Harris County, Texas, on Wednesday and charged with two counts of possession of child pornography, Fox 26 reported. Authorities said the arrest followed an investigation by the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which was initiated after receiving two cyber tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in July. Walker previously served at Crossbridge...

Angelina Jolie spoke up about the free speech debate going on in the United States. The Oscar-winning actress was asked at a film festival in Spain over the weekend, “What do you fear as an artist and an American?” “It is a very difficult question,” Jolie responded, according The Guardian, “I love my country, but at this time, I don’t recognize my country,” Jolie said. “I’ve always lived internationally, my family is international, my friends, my life.” She went on to say, “My worldview is equal, united and international. Anything anywhere that divides or limits personal expressions and freedoms from...

President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, Jeff Iorg, just gave Southern Baptists a masterclass in gaslighting. Standing before Southern Baptists, he literally wagged his finger at churches who refuse to hand over unrestricted Cooperative Program dollars and likened them to—brace yourself—children who think they can pick their own gender. That’s right. If your church dares to say, “We’re not funding the ERLC’s leftist lobbying,” Iorg believes you’re drinking from the same poisoned well as drag queen story hour. Watch: CEO of SBC, Jeff Iorg, Compares Churches That Withhold Funds From Certain SBC Entities to Transgender Children – Jeff...

Reverend Howard-John Wesley received a minute-long standing ovation from his congregants yesterday, a week after his nasty anti-Charlie Kirk sermon went viral. We previously wrote about him after he used used Proverbs 30 to argue in FAVOR of LGBTQ relationships. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Wesley, the senior pastor of the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Virginia, preached last week in a widely circulated message: “Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated, but I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an...