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“I have never seen anything like this in 30 years,” says Mrinalini Batra, a higher studies counsellor who has helped dozens of Indian students find their way into America’s most prestigious universities. Batra is referring to a slew of measures enacted by the US President Donald Trump administration in recent months, from time-limiting foreign student visas and hiking H1B visa fees to demanding a 15% cap on international students at US universities. Taken together, the measures seem to mark a concerted effort to restrict the number of foreign students entering America. -snip- “The US is just not an option for...

Most of us are glad to see the back of Joe Biden, but there are still a few little tidbits worth looking at that tell us so much about the incompetence and corruption of all his time in office. RealClearPolitics has a good one, by Philip Wegmann, indicating that U.S. intelligence sources knew all about Joe Biden's corrupt dealings with Ukraine as President Obama's point man, before the country was invaded by Russia, because Ukrainian officials told them all about it. It ended up in a CIA report ... and to no one's surprise, Biden deep-sixed it. According to Wegmann:...

A woman posed as a nurse, wrote fake prescriptions for diabetic children, and set up businesses without licenses, according to an arrest report obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators. Metro police arrested Crystal Scott, 44, on Wednesday. Scott faces 50 felony charges, including 24 counts of possession of a bogus prescription for a dangerous drug, 12 counts each of acting as a nurse without a license and furnishing a dangerous drug to a minor, and two counts of obtaining and using personal information to harm or for an unlawful purpose. Scott provided medical consultations, wrote care orders, and caused...

ENDERLIN, N.D. — A tornado that killed three people this summer in southeast North Dakota has been reclassified EF5, the most damaging level for a twister. The June 20 tornado that destroyed at least two homes, damaged other buildings and derailed a train near Enderlin reached speeds that exceeded 210 mph, the National Weather Service announced Monday, Oct. 6. The minimum speed for an EF5 tornado is 201 mph. "It is a significant part of North Dakota history, being one of three tornadoes now officially being rated as F5 or EF5," said Tyler Thomas, a National Weather Service meteorologist in...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(10/8/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleJob 6:14-1714 “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow 16 when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow, 17 but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

Does a day go by where some leftist politician, talking head, “entertainer,” “comedian,” or anchor person isn’t vilifying a conservative by using terms such as Nazi, fascist, Hitler, or even (hilariously) Stalinist? We know starkly from the murder of Charlie Kirk that these portrayals matter. After all, doesn’t demonization have a purpose? Is it not to invoke opprobrium on one’s opponent? Isn’t violence simply extreme opprobrium? Well, let’s dwell on 18 U.S. Code § 373: Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of...

From sagging jowls and sulfurous burps to deflated breasts and surprise pregnancies, the side effects of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs have ranged from subtle to strange. Now, new research suggests that these wildly popular medications may also be throwing off critical medical imaging scans, interfering with doctors’ ability to detect serious — even deadly — diseases. Experts say this could lead to delayed diagnoses and treatments for some patients, while others might undergo tests and procedures they didn’t need in the first place. Originally developed to treat Type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 meds have become a sensation due to their powerful weight-loss...

8 October 2025 Wednesday of week 27 in Ordinary TimeChurch of St. Pelagia, Novigrad, Istria County, Croatia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingJonah 4:1-11Jonah is angry at God's mercyJonah was very indignant; he fell into a rage. He prayed to the Lord and said, ‘Ah, Lord, is not this just as I said would happen when I was still at home? That was why I went and fled to Tarshish: I knew that you were a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in graciousness, relenting from evil. So now, Lord, please take away my...

How Democrats Bury Costs and Build a Voter Pipeline. This essay is a rebuttal to the Lincoln Square ad (see image), a viral deception flooding social media to hide the billions in healthcare benefits Democrats funnel to illegal immigrants. The Big Lie Exposed Note the political lie in this propaganda ad—parroted across social media by Democrats eager to believe anything that fuels their contempt for Trump, his supporters, and the GOP. The half-truth: “Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid or subsidies.” Democrats push it as proof of compassion without cost. The truth is starkly different. It’s not omission—it’s deliberate...

France’s government has collapsed -- again. With the resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, the fragility of European politics is once more on full display. Trapped between party deadlock, eco-socialist dogma, and a reform-weary public, France offers the blueprint for what could soon become the next Eurozone crisis. After Lecornu’s abrupt resignation Monday morning -- just hours after being sworn in -- President Emmanuel Macron must once again find a new head of government. By now, Macron is well-practiced at this ritual: this marks his third attempt in a single year to form a stable cabinet. Only a month earlier,...

Inhalers that provide fast-acting treatment for people with certain respiratory conditions are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, which can worsen both climate change and the conditions themselves, according to new research. In the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers found inhalers approved for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, generated an estimated 24.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in the United States from 2014 to 2024. This is equivalent to the emissions of about 530,000 gas-powered cars each year, according to the study. "Scaled across tens of millions of...

BREAKING: Secretary Kristi Noem tells arrested illegal pedophile from Portland that he will be prosecuted and deported to his FACE. The child molester was arrested just one hour ago. Team Trump is NOT messing around here. Watch this:

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.” That, Taher...

The nation of Georgia held local elections last weekend, and anti-E.U. candidates won roughly 80% of the votes. Pro-E.U. rioters immediately attempted to invade the presidential palace and overthrow the government. Militants waved brand-new E.U. flags as they set government buildings on fire. Security services located weapons and explosives hidden away for use during the insurrection. The Georgian government officially accused Brussels of inciting riots and attempting a coup d’état. Needless to say, this story is not getting much attention from corporate news media in the West. When it is addressed, Western sources describe the insurrectionists and saboteurs as “pro-democracy”...

BUENA VISTA TWP, MI — A roving party in Buena Vista Township ended in gun violence over the weekend, leaving one man dead and three people wounded. The party of 50 or more people began at the Liquor Basket, 3581 Dixie Highway, the night of Friday, Oct. 3, according to Buena Vista Township Police Detective Russ Pahssen. When the business closed at midnight, the revelers relocated to a park behind the Speedway gas station at 3357 E. Holland Road/M-46, Pahssen said. Among the attendees was a 32-year-old Saginaw man, who had a 9mm handgun with an extended 30-round magazine jutting...

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“So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, ‘Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?’ They went out of the city, and were coming to Him” (John 4:28–30). Leaving her jar at the well, the woman hurried back “into the city” and, gathering a crowd, excitedly said to the men, “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done.” A stranger who knew all about her past was no ordinary man. Jesus’ impact...

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Daniel Keene did not expect a post on X to derail his life. The small-business owner posted a video of an Indian block party taking over an entire street of his North Texas suburb and expressed his frustration at the rapid demographic and cultural changes sweeping through large swaths of the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. “We have to cancel the H-1Bs. I want my kids to grow up in America. Not India," he wrote in the since-deleted post. The post went viral on X, and all hell broke loose. As previously reported by Blaze News, Keene and his family were...

The notification pinged on smartphones across America on Friday, September 19, night. US President Donald Trump had signed a proclamation that would add a staggering $100,000 fee to H1B visa applications, sending shockwaves through the Indian Diaspora that forms the backbone of America's tech industry. For Priya and her husband Rajesh (names changed on request), the news arrived like a digital earthquake in their quiet suburban home. She, on an H4 dependent visa, watched helplessly as her husband -- an H1B holder with three years remaining on his current visa -- absorbed the implications of what seemed like a career-ending...