Free Republic

The daughter of Hollywood bigwigs Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner delivered a speech to the United Nations about the importance of mask mandates in preventing the surge of COVID-19 — five years after the disease shut down the world. Violet Affleck, 19, made her emotional plea while wearing a KN95 mask as part of the “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action” at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday. The Yale University freshman, who contracted a post-viral condition in 2019, lectured world leaders about how the world is ignoring the “ongoing pandemic” and claimed mask mandates were...

A traumatized grandfather who was brutally assaulted by a 14-year-old boy at a rap concert in Kansas City has spoken out for the first time. Thomas Schlange, 66, was beaten while working inside the T-Mobile Center on Sunday night at a NBA YoungBoy concert after asking the violent teen to move to the correct seat. The bloodthirsty boy - who has not been named or charged over the attack - hurled Schlange to the floor and bludgeoned him with his fists - breaking his nose. Speaking with Fox4, Schlange said: 'I mean it is serious; I went down and had...

Nothing follows

Two sisters accused of trashing a Charlie Kirk memorial in Arkansas said they have been harassed and fired from their jobs as they asked for cash for their legal defense. Kerri, 23, and Kaylee Rollo, 22, were arrested last week in Bentonville, near the border with Missouri, and charged with vandalizing a makeshift Kirk shrine. Video of the incident taken by a witness appears to show Kerri ripping signs and kicking candles placed on the memorial whilst saying Kirk 'lived as he died - promoting violence.' 'Record all you want,' Kerri, who uses they pronouns, added and put up two...

Sleuths identified Sharon Jahn as the mother of alleged Dallas ICE facility gunman Joshua Jahn, 29, whose social media accounts appeared to show left leanings. According to a review of her publicly available Facebook profile, Jahn lists herself as a former school administrator and University of Kansas alum. Her account shows she follows a number of political and activist pages, including Call to Activism, The Resistance, and the U.S. Democratic Socialists, among others. A post by conservative activist Laura Loomer on X stated, ‘She is a Democrat who makes social media posts attacking elected Texas Republican lawmakers who support the...

A half-year ago in the Oval Office, President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that “you don’t have the cards” in the war with Russia. On Tuesday at the United Nations, Trump lauded the performance of Ukraine’s army and poured scorn on Russia’s military efforts. “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,” Trump said on Truth Social after meeting with Zelensky. “Why not?” U.S. officials said that Trump issued the statement in part to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to make...

The sniper who killed two migrants and wounded a third in a horror shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility has been pictured for the first time. Joshua Jahn, 29, was named as the gunman who opened fire on the ICE detention center around 7am Wednesday morning, before killing himself as cops descended on him. Law enforcement said that the sniper perched on a roof adjacent to the facility and rained bullets on the migrants as they were being transported in an unmarked ICE van. Investigators said that they are still establishing a motive, but believe the...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard responded to arguments that Hamas could simply end the war right now if it surrendered and released hostages by saying that “Hamas must release all hostages. They must do that. Humanity must win. But this will not happen as long as the Israeli government keeps playing games on the back of its own Israeli citizens.” …

Explanation: How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it one of the most massive stars known. This star is the brightest object located in the central cavity near the bottom center of the featured image taken with the Webb Space Telescope in infrared light. For comparison, a rollover image from the Hubble Space Telescope is also featured in visible light. Close inspection of the images, however, has shown that Pismis 24-1 derives...

(...) Kraus ran as a Democrat and declared he was running for president to dissolve the presidency. He proposed breaking the country up into four regions, "to break the control of the Deep State, British agents, Rhodes scholars, and the Jews," according to the Globe story. His campaign website was banjews.com, according to a short profile posted to the website of Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication. (...) "They had just planted tomatoes," Calabrese recalled of the last time she saw them about eight years ago. "And then they were gone the next day." (...)

Archaeologists are excavating an ancient Neolithic site in Turkey that is believed to represent one of the earliest found in the region, potentially even predating the famous site of Göbekli Tepe. The new site, dubbed Mendik Tepe, was discovered in the Eyyübiye area in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, and offers archaeologists an unprecedented look at the early human activities in the region, contrasting in many ways with its famous nearby counterpart, now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Excavations are currently being led by Professor Douglas Baird of the University of Liverpool, supported by the British Institute of Archaeology and the...

The Department of War will ask President Donald Trump for final approval to execute the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Hasan, a DOW official told the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively. The execution, if approved by Trump, would be the first carried out by the military since 1961. Hasan, a former Army Major and psychiatrist turned radical Islamic terrorist, killed 13 people and wounded 32 others during his notorious rampage on the Army base in 2009. “I am 100 percent committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan,” Hegseth exclusively told the DCNF. “This savage terrorist deserves...

The REAL Politically Savvy 🇺🇸 @patriot_savvy 🔥 RADICAL Abigail Spanberger 🔥 Calling for her supporters to “LET THE RAGE FUEL YOU” There is a wave of left wing violence hitting the country and the Democrat candidate for Governor is calling for RAGE?! Absolutely disgusting and irresponsible. The Democrats are the party of hate, rage, and violence

MIDLAND, Texas — The Midland Independent School District board voted unanimously on Thursday to terminate Midland High School teacher Lynette Fields after she made controversial comments in the classroom regarding the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. According to MISD Superintendent Dr. Stephanie Howard, Fields told students that Kirk “deserved what he got” and even stated she would celebrate his death. Dr. Howard emphasized that the district is taking the incident seriously and underscored that similar behavior will not be tolerated from district employees. "We have to be careful not to project our feelings, values, and beliefs onto students...

Russia plans to raise value-added tax (VAT) to help finance its war on Ukraine, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. Under the draft 2026 budget proposal, the VAT rate would increase to 22% from the current 20%. The government said it would continue to meet all social policy commitments, but listed defence, security and support for soldiers and their families as "strategic priorities." Military and security spending already accounts for about 40% of total government expenditure in the 2025 budget, according to government estimates. Large state orders for the defence industry and hefty payments to soldiers and their families have...

The staff member fired by Ball State University because of a Facebook post about the murder of Charlie Kirk is suing university president Geoffrey Mearns, alleging a violation of her First Amendment rights. Suzanne Swierc, formerly Ball State's director of health promotion and advocacy, is being represented by the Indiana American Civil Liberties Union. In a news conference Monday on Zoom, Swierc said she felt "violated" and filed a police report after a stranger called her cell phone, recited her full name, title, and home address, adding, "Maybe I deserve what Charlie got, is what the person said." A Ball...

One of the cruellest and most devastating diseases – Huntington's – has been successfully treated for the first time, say doctors. The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia, Parkinson's and motor neurone disease. An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients. It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of "good quality life", Prof Sarah Tabrizi told BBC News. The new treatment is a type of gene therapy...

SAN ANTONIO — A man is behind bars, accused of making threats on social media about a vigil planned for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Police say the 19-year-old posted comments on Facebook, threatening to turn the event into danger. Police say a Facebook post first tipped them off on September 15, just hours before a planned vigil for Charlie Kirk at UTSA’s main campus. The vigil went on as planned, but the suspect landed behind bars. The post appeared on the San Antonio Young Republicans’ Facebook page, the group organizing the vigil. Arrest paperwork says that 19-year-old Xaelyn Dunbar responded...

24,065 views Sep 23, 2025 A T-Mobile Center employee is speaking out after a brutal assault during a concert in Kansas City, an attack that was captured on video and has since gone viral.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Secretary reiterated President Trump’s call for the killing to stop and the need for Moscow to take meaningful steps toward a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war.