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Microsoft has terminated a set of services for the Israeli military after an investigation suggested Israel was using the company’s cloud computing technology for mass surveillance of Palestinians. In a statement posted the company’s blog, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company had “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense.” The move comes after an investigation by The Guardian and Israel’s +972 Magazine in early-August reported that Israel’s military intelligence unit, known as 8200, relied on Microsoft Azure to store millions of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and...

Planned Parenthood is pausing abortions in Wisconsin because federal legislation preventing Medicaid from funding abortion services for one year goes into effect Oct. 1. Wisconsin Right to Life praised the news. “Taxpayer dollars should never fund the taking of innocent preborn lives,” Heather Weininger, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, said in a Sept. 25 WisPolitics article. “Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin has long centered its operations around abortion services, and this announcement only confirms that reality.” The Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law by President Donald Trump July 4, prevents Medicaid dollars from funding abortions. A federal judge initially...

In Episode 2 of UNSILENT, host Brandon Straka shares an inside looking into New York City's anti-socialist rebellion, including a town hall in Manhattan, with chaos, hecklers, and the plan to victory against Zohran Mamdani.

In a surprising twist, far-right figure Nick Fuentes condemns Tucker Carlson's inflammatory remarks at Charlie Kirk's funeral, calling them "too antisemitic even for me,"..

America loves to tally its billionaires and track the S&P’s every tick, but the millions struggling to cover rent or stock the fridge rarely make the headline scroll.Poverty is the country’s most persistent invisibility cloak, present in every zip code, yet ignored in a culture that equates success with worth.In this chart Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao breaks down where the poor in America actually live, ranked by each state.Data for this visualization is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau.It averages three years of Current Population Survey results (2021-2023) to estimate how many residents in each state live below the federal...

“Wicked” star Ariana Grande is going after President Trump’s supporters. The singer/actress, 32, reshared “A Bit Fruity” podcast host Matt Bernstein’s Instagram post on Sunday that called out the over 77 million people who voted for Trump, 79, over former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. “I want to check in with trump voters. I have one very genuine question: it’s been 250 days. now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That applies not only to Newtonian physics but also to markets, even in things like housing. Doral, Florida, is a suburb of Miami, peopled heavily with Venezuelan immigrants. Some of them are citizens, some are in the country legally, and some are not in the country legally. According to a piece in Monday's Wall Street Journal, some of these people are leaving Doral, in no small part due to President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, resulting in a spike in Doral's rental housing vacancy rate. That's a good thing. Here's...

* Stand with thousands of pro-life individuals throughout the USA and Canada in honor of millions of babies whose lives have been lost to abortion. Pray for people in crisis situations and for our nations. * You'll be a light in a darkened world as you help put an end to abortion through prayer! * Bring your whole family! * Water, lawn chairs, umbrellas and strollers are welcome and encouraged! * Rain or shine! * Signs proclaim "Abortion Kills Children," "Adoption the Loving Option," "Jesus Forgives & Heals," "Lord, Forgive Us and Our Nation," "Abortion Hurts Women," "Life - the...

Tucker Carlson's most current interview of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger (at https://x.com/i/status/1972716529608237173) brings up a nine-point list of Wikipedia policy reforms, of interest since the interview asserts that Wikipedia has a gargantuan influence, much greater than other media giants, on the total body of current knowledge--this in the information age. Question to ChatGPT: Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger maintains a 9-point list of reform measures for Wikipedia's policies at https://larrysanger.org/nine-theses/?utm_source=chatgpt.com#6-reveal-who-wikipedias-leaders-are. Presuming there will be no response from the Wikipedia governing body to item number 6, "Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are", is there a way for the identities of those anonymous leaders...

[Catholic Caucus] Three heroic Catholic priests were massacred by North Korean communists 75 years agoServants of God Msgr. Patrick Brennan, Fr. Tommie Cusack, and Fr. Jack O'Brien were imprisoned and murdered by North Korean forces after refusing to divulge the names of Korean Catholics. This week marked the 75th anniversary of the massacre of the Taejon Martyrs in the Korean War. Three priests – whose cause for sainthood has been opened by the Vatican – were executed by the North Korean communists after a heroic imprisonment where they spent their final days praying and ministering to others. The massacre at...

Blair has faced a similar task in the past – and did not succeed. The former British prime minister Tony Blair is a man for all seasons, a political operator who knows precisely on which side his bread is buttered, the side of the super-rich oil and gas sheikhs and the well-connected elites of the Middle East. It is no coincidence, then, that his name has emerged as a potential candidate for a role envisioned by President Donald Trump’s administration: effectively serving as governor of Gaza if, and when, the ongoing war there comes to an end. Driving his candidacy...

YouTube has agreed to pay $22 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after the company suspended his account over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, according to a court filing Monday. The online video platform, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, is the latest Big Tech firm to settle with Trump after he lodged legal cases challenging his broad deplatforming after January 6. The $22 million will go toward Trump's latest construction project at the White House, through a nonprofit called Trust for the National Mall, which is "dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating...

Elon Musk wants H-1B visas because he says America needs more tech workers. The real reason for these visas is our schools aren’t teaching math well enough. By law, H-1B visas go to foreigners who do specialized jobs, mostly in tech. Every year, 65,000 regular visas are handed out, plus 20,000 for advanced degrees. A 2023 federal report showed 65% of H-1B jobs are computer-related, but less than 1% go to social sciences. America’s math problem is getting worse. In 2024, a staggering 72% of eighth-graders failed to score at the proficient level in math, which is up from 66%...

President Donald Trump hosts a Rose Garden Club dinner, Wednesday, September 24, 2025, in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden.

Anti-Israel activism is neo-colonial arrogance in the drag of pacifism.I’m old enough to remember when being a peacenik meant you wanted less Western meddling overseas, not more. Seems things have changed. Exhibit A: the Gaza flotilla. These smug sea-farers pose as peace activists, like Mother Teresa in a keffiyeh. Yet behind the humanitarian pantomime there lurks a brutish neo-colonial urge to rally the mighty nations of the West against the uppity little state of Israel. Some on the flotilla are openly calling on powerful states to send their warships to help ‘break’ Israel’s blockade of Gaza. You can call that...

When a country runs hot, a single word can cool the air. Not the script cable news expected. In a week when headlines pulsed with anger, a young widow stood before a grieving crowd and chose mercy. Conservative leader Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10 during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Police arrested a 22-year-old, Tyler Robinson, who is accused in the shooting and faces aggravated murder and related charges. The details are grim; the reaction was not. At Charlie's Memorial, Erika Kirk spoke directly to the darkness with a clarity rooted...

As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping block. But even before Congress decides about the administration’s recommendations to slash its staff, the EPA’s political leaders have made even more significant cuts to the agency’s workforce. And a look at past efforts to cut EPA staff shows how rapidly those changes can affect Americans’ health and the environment. Using publicly available government databases and a collection of in-depth interviews with current and former EPA employees, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a...

A prominent computer science professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities says his graduates are struggling to find work — a far cry from just four years ago when they had their pick of high-paying jobs and “had the run of the place.” Hany Farid, a world-renowned expert in digital forensics and image analysis, told Nova’s “Particles of Thought” podcast that computer science is no longer the future-proof career that it once was. Farid was discussing the reasons that podcast host Hakeem Oluseyi’s son, a college senior who is studying computer science, is struggling to find work. “For...

Can we all agree yet that accepting “Gazan” refugees is a terrible idea? This is where we are in 2025: Palestinian Arab migrants, living in Sweden, make plans to behead their own daughter and sister, all because she’s willing to assimilate to Western ideals—like getting a normal job, paying her own way, and not being a jihadist. It was just too much for one family, with the woman’s father, mother, brother, and sister all (allegedly) playing a role in the woman’s kidnapping and near-murder(?). From a report by Thomas Brooke at Remix News: On April 30, police in Hallsberg were...

WASHINGTON — In recent months, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has hosted private virtual briefings with social media influencers, equipping them with information on key policy issues and Democratic messaging to disseminate on their large global platforms. On these calls, dubbed “creator briefings,” the senator and her staff answer questions from content creators on how to craft strategic messages that reach people outside of the political sphere. (snip) Since July 2024, Warren has hosted six creator briefings as part of a long-term initiative to reach audiences who don’t regularly consume political news or follow elected Democrats, like Warren, on social media....