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The revamped leadership of CBS News, following the merger between Paramount and Skydance, has elevated a conservative journalist who has upset the legacy media with her own successful center-right career. Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press, will take the reins at CBS News in the coming days, say sources familiar with her selection. Her upstart news site, which has defied the trend of declining subscriptions across the industry, will also be acquired. Weiss, a 41-year-old former opinion writer for the New York Times, built The Free Press out of her own volition back in early 2021, riding a growing...

Russia’s war on Ukraine is a war on speed and scale: cheap drones by the hundreds; cruise and ballistic missiles by the scores; electronic warfare (EW) whose logic can mutate on quarterly cycles. That is the fight NATO must be ready for—not an elegant, unhurried campaign of exquisite platforms, but a drone-and-missile war where software changes faster than doctrine, where ammunition depth decides what survives.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is so confident he'll be released from jail on time served, he's already booked speaking engagements for next week, prosecutors revealed in court just now. “Even now at sentencing for his conviction for two federal crimes … he doesn’t fully grapple with how his actions got him here," federal prosecutor Mary Slavik said. "His respect for the law is just lip service.” “He has booked speaking engagements in Miami for next week. That is the height of hubris, your honor.”

As the country awaits a Supreme Court ruling on the legality of Donald Trump's global tariffs, the president said he's considering paying Americans a dividend with the revenue. Trump told One America News on Thursday he's contemplating giving Americans up to $2,000 in rebates derived from the tariffs. After saying the tariffs have generated enough money to cut the U.S. deficit in half, Trump was asked how the additional revenue would be used. "With the kind of growth we have now, the debt is very low relatively speaking," Trump said. "You grow yourself out of that debt. The numbers we...

FBI Director Kash Patel abruptly tossed out an agent in training on Wednesday for previously showing off a gay pride flag on his desk, according to a report. The trainee had displayed the emblem while serving in a field office in California last year during President Joe Biden's administration. Patel sent the trainee a signed letter dated October 1, claiming he had presented an improper 'political' message in the workplace while assigned in Golden State. The termination letter cited Donald Trump's constitutional power to fire bureaucrats serving in the executive branch. 'After reviewing the facts and circumstances and considering your...

MANCHESTER — The Crown Prosecution Service announced that charges had been filed against a Jewish synagogue on Thursday for provoking a violent terrorist attack against themselves by being openly Jewish. A synagogue located in Manchester was the site of a deadly attack last week in which two people were killed and three others were injured. Authorities were acting quickly to punish those involved, including the synagogue and its members, for being openly Jewish. "We have a zero tolerance policy for violent stabbing offenses," said Crown Prosecutor Henry Thomas. "That's why we have to punish these Jews for being so Jewish....

Recently declassified documents indicate leaks of classified information to reporters were designed to portray Trump as in league with Russia. ================================================================== Recently declassified documents indicate that people close to former FBI Director James Comey and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff were connected to leaks of classified information to prominent reporters designed to portray Donald Trump and his allies as being in league with Russia. Written in 2017, the FBI documents expose how selected Washington reporters, including Ellen Nakashima of The Washington Post and Michael Schmidt of The New York Times, scored a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning scoops in 2017 by repeating...

Munich Airport in Germany was forced to close for almost seven hours overnight after a wave of drone sightings, the latest European aviation hub to shutter over unexplained drone flights.A total of 17 flights were grounded shortly after 10 p.m. local time on Thursday, affecting nearly 3,000 passengers, the airport said in a statement.In addition, 15 arriving flights were diverted to the German cities of Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Frankfurt, as well as Vienna in neighboring Austria, the statement said. Flight tracking website Flightradar showed several planes circling the airport at around 11pm local time before heading to other destinations.The airport...

Hamas’ top military leader in Gaza wants the terror group to reject President Trump’s cease-fire proposal, urging negotiators to walk away from the deal, according to a new report.Ezz al-Din al-Hadad, who helped plan the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, slammed Trump’s 20-point peace deal as a way to eliminate Hamas without achieving any of its goals, the BBC reported. The terror chief, who holds the fate of the 48 hostages in his hands, called on negotiators in Qatar to reject the deal, reportedly telling the team that he plans to continue the war with Israel.

Sean "Diddy" Combs walked into the courtroom at 10:10 a.m. wearing an oatmeal-colored sweater over a white shirt under and dark slacks. The disgraced rapper, 55, is sporting a trimmed gray beard, his dark hair sprinkled with gray. Diddy put his glasses on and now is sitting at his defense table, reading from a document. He hugged his attorneys.

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian Islamists are outside Keir Starmer’s home, threatening him and his family. What exactly are they protesting? Starmer recognized a Palestinian state last week and is actively pushing for a ceasefire. No. 10 DOWNING STREET! VIDEO AT LINK.......................

Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport has opened new facilities for Muslim travelers and other people of faith. Bush is among the first U.S. airports to offer an ablution room, an amenity that many Muslim travelers prioritize. "It is very good to hear about the new ablution room at George Bush Intercontinental," said Fazal Bahardeen, founder and CEO of CrescentRating.com, a website focused on the worldwide market for halal travel. "Having these airport facilities is an important criterion when we rank destinations on the Mastercard-CrescentRating Global Muslim Travel Index." The group's 2023 report commends Singapore Changi Airport for best practices when...

Nigerian Christians say their communities are under attack by Islamist “predators” whose desire is nothing less than genocide. Often portrayed as small bands of criminals, the Fulani militants preying on these victims carry out kidnappings and murder; they have developed a vast, well-organized system of persecution through a network of villages. The Catholic News Agency (CNA) this week reported that Islamists have a strategy to “annihilate” Nigeria’s millions of Christians and “Islamize the country.” “We have documented the coordinated and systematic murder of an entire people; therefore, we are clearly talking about a Christian genocide,” said Criminologist Emeka Umeagbalasi, director...

Planes, trains and automobiles can be seen moving in AllianceTexas in north Fort Worth, but a start-up aviation company says making a "sky train" is starting to come to fruition in the area. The company, Aerolane, announced its headquarters at Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport in April. During an Oct. 1 event at the airport, a crowd that included Hillwood executives, investors and U.S. Congressman Jake Ellzey saw Aerolane's towed cargo glider technology in action as a plane took off with another plane tethered behind it. Aerolane, which consists of former executives from Prime Air and BNSF, envisions using...

A federal court has ruled in favor of free speech in a fight that was created by an attack by the city of Louisville, Kentucky, on a local photographer. The city had decided to impose its religious viewpoint and ordered the photographer, Chelsey Nelson, to use her artistic talents to promote anti-Christian same-sex wedding ceremonies "if she photographers and blogs about weddings between one man and one woman," the biblical standard. Leftist city officials even had tried to order her to be silent on such issues, claiming that they could forbid her and her studio from explaining to clients and...

If Christa Gail Pike's execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago. After attempted appeals by Pike's attorneys repeatedly failed, the Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for her to be executed. The order granted a scheduling request from the state for the death warrant to be carried out Sept. 30, 2026, at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, which houses a majority of Tennessee's death row inmates. Under the terms of this week's...

The Supreme Court took up its next Second Amendment case on Friday, agreeing to hear a challenge to Hawaii’s ban on carrying concealed weapons on private property without the owner’s express consent. Three Hawaii residents and a local gun rights group, backed by the Trump administration, urged the justices to review a lower ruling upholding the state’s law. * * * (More at link . . .)

Four Indian students were rejected for U.S. visas after undergoing a new Trump-era social media screening. All were told they had failed to prove ties to India. Kaushik Raj felt like his future was falling into place. He’d just won a $100,000 scholarship to pursue a graduate degree in journalism at Columbia University. A U.S. visa was the only thing that stood between him and a new life in New York. Raj, 27, wasn’t overly concerned. He had completed every stage of the traditional application process. As a last step, he had to allow American authorities to vet his “online...

n the wake of President Donald Trump designating Antifa a domestic terror organization, the corporate media have been quick to critique the move and question the feasibility and constitutionality of taking corresponding action. But an exploration of Antifa’s recent record of identity-obsessed violence and the dark history of its Marxist antecedents reveals an urgent need to counter the vicious left-wing movement. Antifaschistische Aktion The modern Antifa movement has its roots in the communist paramilitary arm that operated in Germany during the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic: Antifaschistische Aktion. The Soviet-directed Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands — KPD)...

A savage satire taking aim at London Mayor Sadiq Khan. This parody track exposes the lies, failures, and clownish behaviour behind the man in charge of the capital. From ULEZ lies and virtue signalling to globalist fanboying, this song pulls no punches. Think political comedy meets musical mockery — if you’re tired of censorship, weak leadership, and London’s decline, this one’s for you. 🔥 LYRICS HIGHLIGHTS: “I’m Sadiq Khan, snivel-snivel-snivel-um, I’m a horrible man, snivel-snivel-um…”