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Zohran Mamdani treads on dangerous ground by putting equity ahead of educational opportunity.Who could have guessed that Zohran Mamdani (D), the leading candidate to become the next New York mayor, would provoke a firestorm by announcing this week that he intends to phase out the city’s early elementary school programs for gifted students in the name of equity? Parents of bright children want access to schooling that meets their needs? Shocking.Mamdani’s plan, first revealed in response to a questionnaire from the New York Times, would eliminate gifted programs for all children in public schools until they enter third grade. Currently,...

Progressives’ whacky speech is a symptom of the disease. Remember when Vanilla Ice punctuated statements with “Word to your birthing person”? No? Okay, well, yes, his catchphrase sounded slightly catchier thirty-five years ago. But it’s 2025, and people use more words (to say less) than they did in the early 1990s. Back then, resident assistants with diplomas in sensitivity training monitored speech in academic enclaves. (At Cornell, they surveilled facial reactions to gay pornography, a test that did not, thankfully, catch on.) They graduated and took their experiments to scale. Anthony Comstock and Carrie A. Nation doppelgangers increasingly wielded...

Summary Army memo highlights security issues in NGC2 platform Anduril says memo reflects outdated program state Palantir stock drops over 7% WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir (PLTR.O) , opens new tab and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo. The two Silicon Valley companies, led by allies of U.S. President Donald Trump, have gained access to the Pentagon's lucrative flow of contracts on the promise of quickly...

While President Donald Trump has stopped short of sending National Guard troops into Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security is doing some major damage against illegal aliens being harbored in the area. DHS law enforcement has made OVER 900 ARRESTS during Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois.To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally. We will find you. pic.twitter.com/m9PxbuK5Ua— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 2, 2025The work has been dangerous for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who have been under siege by local activists and criminal aliens. "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were targets of two separate...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promoted Colonel Andriy Biletsky to the rank of Brigadier General. Biletsky has said the purpose of the Ukrainian right is to fight the “Semitic-led untermenschen [subhumans].” “To confer the military rank of brigadier general on Colonel Andriy Yevhenovych Biletsky, commander of the 3rd Army Corps of the ‘East’ Operational Command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the presidential decree signed Wednesday said. Biletsky is the commander of the Third Separate Assault Brigade and the founder of the Azov regiment. He is an outright white supremacist. “Ukrainians are part (and one of the...

With Zohran Mamdani emerging as the clear frontrunner to be the next mayor of New York, American conservatives have another Left-wing, Muslim, big city mayor in their sights: Sir Sadiq Khan. They see a warning from across the Atlantic, where they say progressive policies have accelerated crime rates and economic challenges in London. Then there is religion. “And we must ask ourselves the question and we have the courage to do this on our show,” as Charlie Kirk, the conservative campaigner put it on his podcast three months before being shot dead, “are you comfortable with both London and New...

Mamdani's Ivy League professor father added America was the 'genesis' for modern 'settler-colonialism'New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's father, a longtime academic and Ivy League professor, said during a 2022 panel discussion about one of his many books that Adolf Hitler drew his inspiration for the Holocaust from Abraham Lincoln.The younger Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist, has credited his parents with providing him a "privileged upbringing," one that included frequent discussions on politics and global affairs, according to a New York Times profile on the mayoral candidate and his parents. Mamdani's mother is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. During a 2022 panel...

Rep. Madeleine "Next Tuesday" Dean (D-Pa.) on Wednesday confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), urging the GOP leader to address comments made by the president during his address to generals in Quantico, Va. “The president is unhinged. He is unwell,” Dean told Johnson in front of a crowd and cameras. Johnson fired back by telling her, “A lot of folks on your side are, too.” Dean then pointed to President Trump’s remarks from the day prior, when he suggested Democratic-led cities be used as “training grounds” for the military. He and Hegseth also told service members that the days of...

Sanae Takaichi, who is likely to become Japan's first female prime minister, is a conservative politician who has hailed former U.K. premier Margaret Thatcher and once worked in the U.S. Congress. On Saturday, Takaichi was elected leader of the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) following a runoff vote. Why It Matters If confirmed by parliament, Takaichi will become Japan's fifth prime minister in five years and the first woman to hold the office in the country's history. Her policies have included a tough stance on immigration, and as the head of government, she would have to navigate domestic and economic...

Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was rushed to hospital with critical injuries in Indianapolis on Saturday morning after allegedly being stabbed in the chest during a dispute with a food delivery driver. Police were called to downtown Indianapolis at around 12:30am following reports of a disturbance before finding two injured people, one of whom was Sanchez. The 38-year-old, who was in town to cover Sunday's NFL game between the Colts and the Las Vegas Raiders as a commentator for Fox Sports, is now recovering at a local hospital in 'stable' condition, the network has announced.

The Trump administration plans to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard, Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker says. Pritzker, who called the move “absolutely outrageous and un-American,” said the Illinois National Guard received word from the Pentagon on Saturday morning that the troops would be called up. He did not specify when or where they would be deployed, but President Donald Trump has long threatened to send troops into Chicago.

U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman in Chicago Saturday after an angry mob apparently tried to attack the law enforcement officers. The gunfire erupted after a group of agents were “rammed in by 10 cars” and “boxed in” while patrolling the city’s South Side, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the Chicago Sun-Times. The agents fired “defensive shots,” then discovered the woman, who was driving in a vehicle, “was armed with a semi-automatic weapon,” McLaughlin told the outlet.

Former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez was stabbed during a brawl outside an Indianapolis bar Saturday morning, authorities said. Sanchez, 38, an analyst for Fox Sports who was in the city to broadcast the Colts’ game against the Raiders Sunday, was in stable condition after being rushed to a local hospital, the network said in a statement. The violence erupted after Sanchez and another man got into a squabble after midnight outside Loughmiller’s in downtown Indianapolis, cops said. Police responded around 12:30 a.m. to a report of one man suffering stab wounds — later confirmed to be Sanchez — and another...

Cardinal Koch congratulates Archbishop-designate of Canterbury Sarah MullallyKing Charles III has approved the nomination of the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London, as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. She will be the first woman to hold the office, with her installation scheduled for March 2026 at Canterbury Cathedral.In a letter addressed to Bishop Mullally, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, offered his congratulations and expressed the Catholic Church’s support for her new ministry. He wrote:“Having learned of your nomination… I write to congratulate you on your appointment and to express...

The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child stemming from incidents that date back to the 1980s. Robert Preston Morris, 64, appeared in court today in front of Osage County District Special Judge Cindy Pickerill. Morris, who resigned last summer as senior pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was indicted by a Multi-County Grand Jury earlier this year. The abuse began in December 1982 when Morris was a traveling evangelist visiting the family of the victim in Hominy. The victim was 12 years old at the time,...

Donald Trump had a warning to Democrats. Soon he will decide what "Democrat agencies" he would cut and whether those reductions would be temporary or permanent. He said the government shutdown, which began on Tuesday, had afforded him an "unprecedented opportunity". "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame," he posted on his Truth Social website on Thursday morning. Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, may not be a household name. But Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for governing put together primarily by former Trump officials like Vought when...

Pole Chandrashekar, 27, a student from LB Nagar area of Hyderabad, was shot dead Friday night while working at a fuel station in Denton, Texas. Chandrashekar’s family received the news on Saturday afternoon. Chandrashekar was on an F1 visa in the US. “He completed his Master’s degree in dental surgery in the US and was looking for a job for the past six months. He was working at the gas station part-time,” his brother Damodar said. “Our father passed away four years ago. Our mother is heartbroken that she has now lost my brother,” said Damodar. A family friend, Shivakumar,...

SALT LAKE CITY — A woman was taken into custody and arrested after she allegedly sexually assaulted a Delta employee on a flight out of Salt Lake City International Airport. Cody Sierra Marie Bryne, 31, faces numerous charges, including Sexual Battery, Assault and Public Intoxication. Bryne was boarding a flight from Salt Lake City to Portland on Wednesday when she refused to move from the aisle of the airplane after being directed to do so multiple times. When Bryne did move, she allegedly pushed a Delta employee into a seat with her shoulder. Following the incident, the pilot of the...

Explanation: The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the red emission nebula in the center of the above photograph. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright red emission nebula. Like clouds in Earth's atmosphere, this cosmic cloud has assumed a recognizable shape by chance. After many thousands of years, the internal motions of the cloud will alter its appearance. The emission nebula's red color is caused by electrons recombining with protons to form...

For months, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been under intense pressure from scores of its own members to demonstrate more robust support for Palestinians, especially in Gaza. But a terrorist attack at a synagogue on Thursday in Manchester, England, which led to the deaths of two people during prayer services on Yom Kippur, exposed a competing political reality for Mr. Starmer: the growing anger among Jews in Britain who believe his government is doing far too little to protect them from hate and antisemitism. The police have said the synagogue attack was carried out by Jihad al-Shamie, a...