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New rule closes dangerous loopholes, holds states accountable, and launches immediate enforcement action against California for gross negligence

Chinese gangs are taking advantage of loose marijuana rules in Oklahoma to grow and transport marijuana to other states for sale on the black market, authorities say. Oklahoma narcotics officials told Congress $153 billion worth of marijuana is unaccounted for and likely leaving the state for the black market in other states. As many as 85 percent of licensed grow sites have connections with Chinese owners or operators, according to Mark Woodward, information officer with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. Since 2022, the state has shut down more than 6,000 illegal growing operations. Most U.S. states have made marijuana legally...

Taxpayers will pick up an additional $100 million tab for illegal migrants facing deportation, Democratic Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani pledges, calling it a “cornerstone” of his campaign. “Four hundred thousand of our residents are right now in urgent risk of deportation,” the socialist lamented on MSNBC “The Weekend,” adding fewer than 200 of them received access to free lawyers last year. The city’s 2026 budget, passed in June, already includes $54.5 million to fight deportation orders in court on the taxpayer’s dime – “more than any other major city in America,” Mayor Eric Adams has said.

President Trump says he is authorizing troop deployment in Portland

AUSTIN, Texas — More than three decades after four teen girls were found dead inside a burned-down yogurt shop in North Austin, investigators say they finally know who killed them. Law enforcement sources confirmed to KVUE Senior Reporter Tony Plohetski that the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders have been solved using genetic genealogy technology. The perpetrator has been identified as American serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999. Brashers’s DNA profile has previously been connected with a 1990 murder in Greenville, South Carolina; the 1997 rape of a 14-year-old in Memphis; and the 1998 double murder of...

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

President Trump is backing a White House plan to tap former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to run Gaza under a United Nations-backed transitional authority once the war ends, according to Arab and US officials familiar with the proposal. Under the draft, Blair, 72, would serve as interim administrator of a Gaza International Transition Authority (GITA) that would govern the enclave for several years with Palestinian technocrats and an Arab-led peacekeeping force before handing control to Palestinian leaders, officials told the Wall Street Journal. The blueprint is being circulated to Arab and Israeli counterparts and remains one of several options...

Dozens of Canadian-made aircraft imported into Russia since Ukraine war began, CBC visual investigation findsCBC News has found dozens of Canadian-made planes were imported to Russia, even following sanctions. This includes one imported by oligarch Igor Kesaev, left. The map, right, shows a route that plane flew after sanctions were put in place in February 2022. (CBC, Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters, ADS-B Exchange)Members of Russia's business elite are flying in Canadian-made luxury planes that were imported after sanctions targeting the country's aviation sector came into place, CBC's visual investigations unit has found. Russian import records obtained by CBC News show 34 business...

On August 29, 2025, Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, reintroduced the “Safe Students Act”. The Safe Students Act (H.R. 5066) repeals the Gun Free School Zone Act of 1990. From H.R. 5066: (3) The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 (18 U.S.C. 921 note, 922 note; section 1702 of Public Law 101-647; 104 Stat. 4844-4845) is repealed.Thomas Massie has issued a press release to notify people about the reintroduction of the bill. From the press release:The “Safe Students Act” (H.R. 5066) repeals the “Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990,” (GFSZA) eliminating GFSZA’s one-size-fits-all federal ban on guns in...

GORDO, Ala. — A photo in a Facebook post deemed racially insensitive that sparked an outrage in the community and resulted in the cancelation of the 101st edition of one of Alabama high school football's greatest rivalries originated not from a Gordo High School dress-up day, as the principal indicated in a statement, but rather came from the website of a faith-based camp more than 1,000 miles away, The Tuscaloosa News has learned. Gordo was scheduled to host Pickens County, its rival located 8 miles down the same country highway in rural West Alabama, on Friday, Sept. 26. The game...

In his resignation-by-tweet from the CDC, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Monkeypox Czar and LGBTQ+ advocate Demetre Daskalakis, made a telling comment: “Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world.”His words paralleled the words of fictional scientist Dr. Mann from the film Interstellar who, just seconds before his own recklessness sent him into the vacuum of space, declared: “This isn’t about my life, or Cooper’s life, this is about all mankind.”And President Biden made an eerily similar statement...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be handed over to men.” But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. Luke 9:44–45This is the second time that Jesus predicts His coming passion to His Apostles. After telling them that He will be handed over, the Gospel relates that “they did not understand this saying.” It also states that “they were afraid to ask him about this saying.”...

The KHive fan club showed up in force to cheer on a defeated presidential candidate who, in their eyes, could do no wrong. NEW YORK — Many Democrats are still mired in a state of low-level depression after Kamala Harris’ devastating defeat in the 2024 election. President Donald Trump has steamrolled Washington, and the party’s favorability has plunged to historic lows, including among Democrats, as the circular firing-squad continues over exactly why the party lost. Harris herself has come in for her share of blame, and in recent weeks, she has tumbled in the 2028 presidential polls; she now stands...

America needs more people like this lady. Let's welcome them.

(The Center Square) - Former Oklahoma schools Superintendent Ryan Walters announced this past week a partnership with Turning Point USA to initiate chapters at every high school in the state. Since the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, many have debated what this means for freedom of speech and freedom of religion in America. Schools and colleges across the country have started TPUSA chapters, growing the conservative movement in a matter of days. TPUSA posted on X that six days after Kirk’s killing, the organization received 54,000 requests from high school and college students nationwide to start...

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The Department of Justice has reportedly directed multiple top federal prosecutors to investigate George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) over its ties to left-wing violence. Aakash Singh, a senior official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, sent a directive to seven U.S. attorney’s offices, including those in California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and Maryland, to probe the organization’s alleged support for domestic terrorism, ABC News reported. The U.S. attorneys will reportedly look into the Open Society Foundations’ alleged links to arson attacks, wire fraud and racketeering. OSF, now chaired by George Soros’ son Alexander Soros, has poured over $80...

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been subpoenaed by the Department of Justice for records related to her travel history, the New York Times is reporting. It remains unclear at this time the scope of the DOJ investigation into Willis, but it comes just one day after the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, another one of President Donald Trump’s foes. Channel 2 Action News has reached out to Willis’ office, and their spokesman, Jeff DeSantis, said, “We have no comment beyond the fact we have no knowledge of any investigation.” [snip] After several appeals, the...

Multiple Trident II D5 ballistic missiles were fired off the coast of Florida and into the Atlantic The US Navy has launched multiple Trident II D5 ballistic missiles off the coast of Florida and into the Atlantic in the latest test of a system that can deliver thermonuclear warheads thousands of miles away. An Ohio-class submarine launched the unarmed weapons from a submerged position during tests, marking the 197th consecutive successful test flight of the Trident II system. One evening saw the skies light up as far away as Puerto Rico, as mariners and airmen were informed of the operation...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(9/27/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the Bible1 Kings 18:1-15Elijah and Obadiah 18 After a long time, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.” 2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria, 3 and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator. (Obadiah was a devout believer in the Lord. 4 While Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in...