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A powerful storm off the East Coast with tropical winds and rains could develop into a nor’easter over the weekend into Monday. It’s forecast to bring heavy rain, gusty winds, rough surf and coastal flooding. The coast from North Carolina to near New York City will be significantly impacted, according to AccuWeather. On Friday afternoon, New Jersey declared a state of emergency ahead of the dangerous storm. The Staten Island Half Marathon, scheduled for Sunday, has also been canceled due to the storm. “A coastal low is expected to develop off the Southeast U.S. Coast early Saturday and strengthen through...

Mayor Brandon Johnson issued an executive order "banning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from entering any city property to enforce federal laws against illegal immigration. This includes streets and parking lots. Further, City Police are instructed to ignore any 911 calls from ICE personnel being attacked by protesters." Gov. JB Pritzker hailed this "strong response to the federal invasion of Chicago and our state. In support of Mayor Johnson I have filed a lawsuit seeking a court injunction to prevent Trump from using National Guard troops to fight crime in our state. We going to use every lever at...

A Democrat-led bid to force through a bill to pay the military during the government shutdown was blocked in the House on Friday. Democrats and some Republicans have been demanding a House vote on ensuring U.S. troops do not miss their coming Oct. 15 paycheck or any others as the government shutdown barrels into a third week. But GOP leaders have largely dismissed the request, panning it as a Democrat bid to save face after rejecting Republicans' funding bill that would have kept the military and other federal workers paid. Rep. Sarah Elfreth, D-Md., attempted to ask for unanimous consent...

Top of 15th inning in Seattle...Game 5...Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners...Winner will play Toronto Blue Jays...For the American League Championship... It is a long game...It is not on cable...It is on regular Fox channel...

(10-8-25) Massillon Washington (Ohio) and Cardinal Ritter (Missouri) football players scuffled during the handshake line at the end of the game leading to Massillon Police pepper spraying players from the Missouri school. The incident took place after Massillon Washington had just beat Cardinal Ritter 28-14. Cardinal Ritter College Prep President Tamiko Armestead said- “We are still working toward a satisfactory resolution to the absolutely unacceptable incident that happened at the high school football game in Massillon, OH, in which numerous Cardinal Ritter students and coaching staff were maced by police after the game.” “Neither the school where the game took...

The U.S. State Department issued a revised travel advisory pertaining to the Republic of the Maldives Oct. 7. "Exercise increased caution in [the Maldives] due to terrorism," the Level 2 travel warning notes. The advisory indicates that "terrorist groups may attack with little or no warning." Tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets, shopping malls and local government facilities are listed as possible targets. Officials warn that attacks may also occur on remote islands, lengthening the response time of authorities in the event of an emergency. Travelers who have trips planned are encouraged to monitor local and breaking news. While in the...

Everywhere I go, people ask me: What can we do about all the farms we’re losing?The truth is, our local farms cannot survive without us. Supporting them isn’t optional—it’s essential. Go to farm-to-table dinners. Visit your farmers’ market. Buy a meat box or a CSA (community supported agriculture) share. Drive out to the farm. Use farms as venues for weddings, baby showers, or birthday parties. Every single action matters.But let me be honest: individual support alone, while necessary, is not enough. Please don’t take that as an excuse not to support—that is still the most critical piece of the puzzle....

If there are two issues that dominate America’s online discourse, they’re the soaring cost of housing and the even steeper price of staying healthy.The U.S. pours almost $13,000 per person into healthcare, yet average life expectancy is below nearly every other high-income nation.It’s a study of contrasts.As Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao notes, the country boasts of state of the art facilities and cutting edge research, while nearly 10% of Americans can’t afford healthcare.This number comes from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data that lists the share of surveyed adults who skipped seeing a...

Central banks have crossed a symbolic line: their combined gold reserves now exceed their U.S. Treasury holdings for the first time in nearly three decades.The crossover underscores a gradual diversification away from dollar-denominated securities and toward hard assets.This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, tracks how these shares have evolved from the 1970s to today.The data comes from Crescat Capital macro strategist Tavi Costa.From Petrodollars to De-DollarizationAfter the end of Bretton Woods, soaring real interest rates and the rise of the petrodollar steered reserve managers toward U.S. Treasuries through the 1980s and 1990s.In the 2000s, the dollar’s depth and liquidity...

A migrant from Afghanistan who had been living in Stockholm entered the United Kingdom and was put on trial for threatening to kill Nigel Farage of the UK Reform Party. Today, he was found guilty by a jury. There's a long backstory to this one so let's start at the beginning. Last year, an Afghan named Fayaz Khan decided to travel from Stockholm, Sweden, where he'd been living for a few years, to England. Khan, who went by the name "Madapasa," had a large following on TikTok and so he created several videos depicting his journey from Sweden to the...

As RedState previously wrote, President Trump and the CEO of Pfizer, Dr. Albert Bourla spoke at a press conference at the White House about striking a new deal on lowering prescription drug prices for Americans. As my colleague Ward Clark wrote in late September, "President Trump announced that Pfizer will be discounting drugs sold on the American market by 50 to 100 percent." The president added that newer drugs from the pharmaceutical giant would be sold at a reduced rate through his Most Favored Nation policy: We're also announcing that, moving forward, all new medications introduced by Pfizer to the...

It will be the most high-security sports event in Norway since the Winter Olympics in 1994. Anti-terror measures are in place throughout Oslo; a no-fly zone will be implemented in the skies above Ullevaal Stadium and through all the tension it could be easy to forget that the national team are within touching distance of a first World Cup appearance for 27 years. Beating Israel would put them on the verge but the visitors’ presence has added multiple layers of complexity and controversy. That will be clear on Saturday afternoon, when a crowd of several thousand is expected to march...

Permanent firings of federal government workers are underway as Senate Democrats continue their refusal to vote for a clean continuing resolution that doesn't fund National Public Radio or healthcare for illegal aliens. "The RIFs have begun," Office of Budget and Management Director Russ Vought posted on X Friday. RIF is short for "reduction in force.".@PressSec, three days ago: “This conversation about layoffs would not be happening right now if the Democrats did not vote to shut the government down.”pic.twitter.com/gDSzIybCUF— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 10, 2025Before the shutdown, Vought explained what Democrats are demanding from Americans and at what cost....

Keir Starmer wants to expand the use of controversial digital IDs to cover Britons' everyday lives. The Prime Minister announced last month that a mandatory system would be introduced so people can prove they have the right to work here – in an attempt to curb illegal migration. But Sir Keir has now said the system could also be used on a voluntary basis by citizens to prove identity and make it easier to apply for public services, such as childcare and benefits. And he will press ahead with the radical policy despite tumbling public support. Sir Keir, during his...

FIRST ON FOX: An illegal immigrant carrying a New York state commercial driver’s license with "NO NAME GIVEN" listed as his name was arrested by ICE in Oklahoma, according to DHS. The agency said that it has been working in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation as well as state and local law enforcement to get illegal truck drivers off American highways following the high-profile accident involving Indian illegal Harjinder Singh. Working with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, ICE arrested another Indian illegal alien named Anmol Anmol. DHS said that Anmol was carrying a New York commercial driver’s license on...

A group of about 200 US soldiers will be in Israel as part of the ceasefire...Gaza... In North Korea Friday night a military parade unveiling a new ballistic missile... The US military establishing a joint task force to 'crush' drug cartels... President Trump described in 'excellent overall health'...medical evaluation... Amid the US federal government shutdown layoff notices sent to 4,100 employees... Power outages in at least two Ukrainian cities tonight following... A 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Drake Passage... A UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela amid fears of imminent US military action... President Trump leveling a 100 percent tariff...

President Donald Trump may soon designate Antifa a foreign terrorist organization, upgrading it from a domestic terrorist organization, which would provide a vast array of additional resources, funding and enforcement mechanisms. "A whole panoply of tools, a whole toolbox opens up with the FTO (foreign terrorist organization) designation for terrorist organizations — tools that sit under [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent's control at Treasury and under Marco [Rubio], dual-hatted as the Secretary of State," Dr. Sebastian Gorka told Just The News. Antifa's foreign roots, fundingTrump hinted at the designation change on Wednesday at the White House during a townhall discussion with...

Donald Trump began his promised mass purge of federal workers Friday, as more than 4,100 people were laid off as the government shutdown rolls on. The president previewed the pink slips in a press conference in the Oval Office earlier Friday, blaming them and the shutdown on the Democrats. 'It'll be a lot and it'll be Democrat-oriented because we figure they started this thing. It'll be a lot of people, all because of the Democrats,' Trump said. It's the biggest set of firings in government since Elon Musk's DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) purge early in Trump's second term. The...

The White House began conducting mass layoffs on Friday amid a prolonged government shutdown, including slashing an entire department under the U.S. Department of the Treasury.The entire staff at the Community Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) received a layoff notice on Friday, an administration official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The program’s elimination comes as White House officials repeatedly warned that the administration would pursue mass firings and budget cuts if Democrats did not reverse course and reopen the government. (RELATED: Democrats Are Terrified Of Trump’s Shutdown Slasher — And They Should Be) The agency employs 102 full-time staff,...

Trump’s bold Gaza peace plan achieves a historic first step—cease-fire, hostage release, and Arab-Israeli cooperation few thought possible.Yesterday, at noon Egypt time, Israel and Hamas agreed to implement the first stage of President Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan by implementing an immediate cease-fire, a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces, and the release by Hamas of 48 Israeli hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. Israel also agreed to release almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including about 250 who were serving life sentences, primarily for terrorism-related charges. As I explained in my October 3 American Greatness article, Trump’s peace plan...