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EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination allegedly at the hands of a left-wing ideologue, a leftist gun club with ties to political violence posted recruiting flyers at Georgetown University with references to Kirk's death. "Hey fascist! Catch!" says a red flyer from the John Brown Gun Club posted on Georgetown's campus. The phrase is a nod to the same slogan which was allegedly written on a shell casing by Tyler Robinson, who stands accused of murdering Kirk at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University. "The only political group that celebrates when Nazis die,"...

More Americans believe Republicans have “a better plan” than Democrats when it comes to handling several key issues — including the economy, immigration, crime, gun control and political extremism, according to a new poll. The Reuters/Ipsos survey, released Wednesday, asked more than 1,000 US adults, “Which party has the better plan?” and found the GOP vision was favored over the Democrat approach in seven out of 11 policy areas. Republicans received their highest marks on crime and immigration, topping Democrats by 20 percentage points and 18 percentage points, respectively. The GOP also held a double-digit advantage over Dems on how...

@gc22gc BANNON: Lutnick is a blowhard. Worst performance of a sec of commerce. Nothing but phony numbers in the Oval. We’ve got 12M STEM-qualified Americans with no jobs. Send the foreign students and H1Bs home. Those jobs belong to American citizens, Hispanic, black, white, Asian, Muslim. If you want earlier families, earlier marriages, real opportunity, then stop crushing the next generation and give them the jobs.

Federal officials are making an example of a Santa Monica man arrested this week for allegedly doxxing and harassing an ICE attorney, with the architect of Los Angeles’ and Chicago’s raids warning any copycats. Gregory Curcio faces up to five years in prison if convicted, after the Justice Department said he allegedly published private or identifying information about an ICE attorney "with malicious intent."... Bill Essayli, the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Central California, took the message one step further. Essayli said Curcio’s arrest proves why ICE agents must be allowed to shield their identity, which now conflicts with a recently-passed...

@RandPaul Great turnout tonight in Northern Kentucky to support my friend @MassieforKY

Star Trek legend William Shatner was hospitalized for a medical emergency involving his blood sugar late Wednesday afternoon, sources with direct knowledge said. Shatner, 94, who is beloved by Trekkies as the show's lead character Captain Kirk, is said to have experienced the health downturn while at his home in Los Angeles. Insiders say that when the issue occurred, he called the emergency services and a Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance arrived on the scene. He was purportedly taken to a local hospital for evaluation, and is now 'resting comfortably' and doing 'good,' the sources informed TMZ. Shatner still has...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Russia is ready to continue to comply with the main quantitative restrictions of the New START treaty for one year after February 5, 2026 – announced Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin itself suspended its participation in the treaty in 2023, but promised not to violate limits imposed on the number of nuclear warheads and their so-called carriers, i.e. ballistic missiles, heavy bombers and submarines. ...During the war, the Kremlin canceled it. First, in 2022, it suspended mandatory inspections of its arsenals as stipulated in New START. A year later, it suspended participation altogether, despite promising to adhere to its numerical limitations...

Jimmy Kimmel’s comment about the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect was a mess, and a miss, which gets less clear the more you look at it.Never has a snarky, clumsily worded and insensitive-sounding aside caused so much trouble. Jimmy Kimmel’s comment about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson has sparked a cascading series of dramatic (and chilling) events that have resulted Disney suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely.” But many — if not most — are interpreting the comment in a way that its phrasing does not entirely support. Entirely being the operative word. Let’s look at his viral quote again:...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is urging citizens to “keep calm and carry cash.” The ominous message is a warning of trouble ahead. Bank runs, defaults, war, grid failures, pandemics—the current banking system cannot rely on what’s ahead. “Cash provides essential redundancy – a ‘spare tire’ – for the payment system,” the study’s authors write. “This redundancy is vital for any system, as no system is infallible.” Indeed, no system is infallible. I have been consistently warning for decades that tangible assets are a necessity. Cash is freedom, which is precisely the reason that governments want to transition to digital...

About a month ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference to announce that about “1.6 million illegal immigrants have left the United States population.”That’s a fraction of the number of people who arrived in the years that the Biden administration essentially opened the border. But it’s a lot of people, and it engendered much eye-rolling among journalists who compared Noem’s claim to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s declaration that President Trump’s drug interdiction policies had saved 258 million lives, roughly 75% of the U.S. total population.However, in the weeks since Noem’s announcement, several data points have...

We sure have seen a lot of really crazy things happen so far this year. But in the minds of most Americans, there is one crisis that far outweighs everything else. As I have been documenting for years, our standard of living has been collapsing as the cost of living has risen must faster than our incomes have.As a result, 67 percent of U.S. workers are now living paycheck to paycheck. We are in the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in modern history, and Statista has found that Americans consider it to be the biggest challenge that...

Great plan. It will -- and did -- get all of the golf claps from the international arena. Don't expect it to go anywhere, though, because Hamas will never agree to go anywhere else. It's still worth a shot, though, even just for the value of clarifying which side is the actual problem:The Trump administration has reportedly put forward a peace plan which would eventually lead to a complete end to the war in Gaza, a Western source told the Lebanese media site Elnashra on Wednesday, only a day after US President Donald Trump met with the leaders of Muslim...

President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Nations was marred by several “technical malfunctions.” An escalator stopped suddenly as he and First Lady Melania stepped on it, almost causing them to be pitched forward onto their faces, then his teleprompter suddenly wasn’t working, and then the sound in the auditorium was turned off so nobody without an earpiece could hear what he was saying. Hmm. That’s an awful lot of coincidences, especially considering that there were reports that U.N. staffers had "joked" beforehand about stopping the escalators and elevators so Trump would have to walk.Trump isn’t buying that all this...

Arizona’s Court of Appeals declined to take up AG Kris Mayes’ bid to revive the “fake electors” prosecution, dealing a major legal setback and leaving the case on precarious footing.

FIRST ON FOX — Eight federal inmates — once on death row for murders, including the killings of fellow prisoners, gang-related stabbings, and the slayings of two campers — have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital. The news comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration's sweeping clemency actions. The eight former death row inmates were transferred Tuesday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as "ADX," Justice Department officials confirmed. They were among the 37 death row...

Despite $30 to 40 billion in enterprise GenAI investment, a stunning 95% of organizations are achieving zero measurable return, according to a new report from MIT. The report argues that never before has a technology category attracted such massive investment while delivering such disappointing returns. This stark separation between a few AI winners and everyone else isn’t driven by model quality or regulation — it’s determined by approach. While tools like ChatGPT achieve 80% organizational adoption, enterprise-grade custom solutions face a brutal reality: only 5% successfully reach production deployment. The core barrier isn’t infrastructure or talent; it’s learning capability. Most...

Significant overlaps of interest in Philip Zelikow’s roles The overlap is glaring, and once you look past the media fog it becomes obvious that the same type of figure was installed in both cases to manage the narrative and pre-empt genuine investigation. Philip Zelikow was not just some neutral academic parachuted in to provide intellectual clarity. He was the manager of perception on 9/11, and two decades later he resurfaced to perform the exact same function during Covid. 1. Narrative Control as the Central Function9/11 Commission: Zelikow wasn’t merely the “executive director.” He effectively wrote the outline of the final...

Many professors in the US south, particularly in Florida, South Carolina and Texas, are considering leaving their state because of the impact the political climate is having on education, according to a new survey by the American Association of Professors. Of those interviewed in the survey, roughly a quarter of respondents said they applied for a job in higher education in another state since the start of 2023. Heather Houser worked as a professor in the English department, teaching American literature and environmental humanities, at the University of Texas at Austin for 14 years. Like the growing number of professors...

Justice Department officials are racing to obtain criminal charges this week against former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, according to people familiar with the matter The US Justice Department is pushing ahead with its investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James over mortgage fraud PMSNBC is not taking this well, thought you all would love to see this.