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There’s no doubt we have a fertility crisis. Currently, about 16% of married women in the U.S. struggle to get pregnant or avoid miscarriages, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Worldwide, about one in six people face infertility, according to the World Health Organization. “In the Trump administration, we want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children, and start the families they’ve always dreamed about,” President Donald Trump announced Thursday. That’s wonderful. The plummeting U.S. birth rate has concerning implications for our future economy and culture—and of course, it’s heartbreaking for couples...

Networks are planning coverage of the nationwide No Kings protests on Saturday, the second round of demonstrations against President Donald Trump‘s actions in the White House. Thousands of events are being planned across the country, but there will be a few differences from the last day of demonstration in June. This time, it is taking place amid a government shutdown, with few signs that it will end soon. And there is an official event being planned in Washington, D.C. at Pennsylvania Ave. and Third Street NW near the National Mall and the Capitol. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Chris...

A Polish court on Friday blocked the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines and ordered his release, a ruling that was welcomed by Poland’s prime minister. Volodymyr Zhuravlov, 46, was arrested near Warsaw Sept. 30 on a German warrant. German prosecutors have described him as a trained diver and allege that he was part of a group that placed explosives on the pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm three years ago. The Warsaw District Court rejected his extradition on Friday and ordered his immediate release....

Budget crises are nothing new for New York City. Though the city has come a long way since the 1970s, when it was over $400 million in debt and required state and federal intervention, New York has been in the red for the past three years. Current projections suggest a surplus for 2026, but it's going to require precise management of city funds to avoid squandering it. Is a far-left communist Muslim terrorist the answer to managing the city's money properly? Enter Zohran Mamdani, who can almost bench press 135 pounds. He plans to completely exhaust New York's $115.9 billion...

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To our dear Anglican brothers and sisters in Christ. Grace and peace to you in the name of our risen Lord Jesus Christ, on the Commemoration of the martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley. The first Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) gathered in 2008 in Jerusalem to prayerfully respond to the abandonment of the Scriptures by some of the most senior leaders of the Anglican Communion, and to seek their repentance. In the absence of such repentance, we have been prayerfully advancing towards a future for faithful Anglicans, where the Bible is restored to the heart of the Communion....

President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a tense meeting on Friday that he doesn't intend to provide long-range Tomahawk missiles, at least for now, two sources briefed on the meeting tell Axios. Behind the scenes: One of the sources said the meeting "was not easy," while the other simply said "it was bad." "Nobody shouted, but Trump was tough," according to the first source. "Trump gave several strong statements during meeting and at some points it got a bit emotional," the second source said.

Federal judges will continue their necessary work during the shutdown, but staff will only be allowed to perform certain protected activities on duty. The judges and their staff will not receive pay until the shutdown is over. The United States Supreme Court is expected to run out of government funding on Saturday, and other federal courts will be impacted by the government shutdown early next week.The Supreme Court is expected to remain in session during the shutdown but will need to close its doors to the public starting Monday, Supreme Court public information officer Patricia McCabe said in a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.

DONALD Trump has deployed 10,000 US troops, nuclear-capable bombers, and America’s most elite special operations unit — the “Night Stalkers” — to the waters off Venezuela. The Caribbean is now bracing for its most explosive showdown in decades as dictator Nicolás Maduro whips his country into a war footing and vows to repel any US attack. In a dramatic escalation, three B-52 bombers — the same heavy bombers used in Iraq and Syria — flew for hours off Venezuela’s coast this week. Meanwhile, MH-6 Little Birds and MH-60 Black Hawks from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known as the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was reportedly invited to an official meeting in the Oval Office today after President Trump spotted him climbing a sycamore tree outside the White House just to see him. According to sources, Zelenskyy was trying to see Trump, and he was unable to do so not only because of the press pool surrounding him, but also because he was short in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree in the South Lawn of the White House to see him, for he was to pass that way. Witnesses...

Jeffrey Epstein regularly boasted he could blackmail a powerful network of men using videos showing them abusing young women, according to Virginia Giuffre. The bombshell claim is made in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. The Telegraph has obtained a copy of the 367-page book which will be published next week by Alfred A. Knopf. It will reignite questions about whether the late paedophile maintained a “client list” after the federal authorities concluded in July that there was no blackmail operation. Giuffre finished writing the book six months before she took her...

KNews reports that a team of researchers led by Giorgos Vavouranakis of the University of Athens has completed an excavation at Erimi Pamboula, an archaeological site in southern Cyprus occupied between 3500 and 2900 B.C. The recent investigation uncovered the floor of a house with a pit and a platform, the wall of a circular structure, and a pit containing burned deer bones and antler fragments. Stone tools, unfinished jewelry pieces and a figurine made of the green or grey stone picrolite, and decorated pottery dated to the early third millennium B.C. were also recovered. To read about prosperous Bronze...

Appreciating the Hidden Consolations of Traditional Catholicism as the Crisis ContinuesIf we look at all of those who call themselves Catholic, it is clear that Traditional Catholics are the only ones persecuted by Rome for trying to seriously practice the Catholic religion. Thanks be to God that we are persecuted today for keeping the Faith! If the Modernists and Liberals trying to destroy the Church considered us their allies, we would surely be on the path to hell.One of the most astounding situations in the world today is the reality that the Vatican accepts and encourages essentially every widespread set...

A protester in an inflatable frog suit who has risen to notoriety over clashes with immigration officers is a self-identifying non-binary Antifa terrorist, The Telegraph can reveal. The “Portland frog” has become a symbol of resistance for Left-wing agitators in Portland, Oregon during nightly protests which have plagued the city for months. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were filmed pepper-spraying the anonymous figure through his inflatable disguise, with the video quickly going viral. The person in the costume can now be unmasked as Seth Todd, a non-binary 24-year-old who previously called for the murders of Donald Trump and police...

United States President Donald Trump shared via Truth Social on Friday that he "strongly suggested" to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their meeting earlier today "that it is time to stop the killing, and make a DEAL," adding that Russia and Ukraine "should stop where they are." The US president described his meeting with Zelensky as "interesting" and "cordial," stressing that he also urged Putin to bring the war to a close when they spoke over the phone on Thursday. "Enough blood has been shed, with property lines being defined by War and Guts," he wrote. "Let both claim Victory,...

When it comes to destroying your brand, Norwegian Nobel Committee is the Bud Lite of peace prizes. After all, back in 2009 they gave the Peace Prize to a President Barack Obama who then went on to bomb at least seven countries, set the Middle East on fire, and even conduct drone strikes on American citizens! Other awardees have had similarly suspicious records as peacemakers. They even gave a Peace Prize to the likes of Henry Kissinger. This year has proven to be no different. Last week the Nobel Committee announced that the 2025 Peace Prize would go to Venezuelan...

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The Albuquerque International Sunport has joined airports across the country in refusing to show a video of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown. Mayor Tim Keller said in a statement Tuesday that political rhetoric was not welcome at the Sunport. “Our nation’s airports are not an appropriate venue for political messages, especially statements that will lead to confusion for the traveling public,” Keller said. “Our focus at the Sunport remains where it should be: the safety, security and experience of all travelers.” Federal workers nationwide, including agents at the Transportation Security Administration,...

[H/T HoneysuckleTN]A Portland-area man has been federally charged for allegedly using a laser to try to blind a pilot flying a Customs and Border Protection helicopter. The pilot had to abort the planned landing.When law enforcement arrived at Brian Keith Kapileo Nepaial's home, they found meth and evidence of drug trafficking. He's been charged for that, too. He is now the third person in the Portland area federally charged for using a laser to try to crash a federal aircraft. pic.twitter.com/qyTprLNw2U— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 17, 2025