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An Indian man who was in the United States illegally is in custody after a stabbing that took place aboard an airliner on Saturday. Praneeth Kumar Usiripalli, 28, is charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm while traveling on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, according to a Department of Justice news release. The incident took place aboard a Lufthansa flight from Chicago that had been scheduled to land in Frankfurt, Germany. The incident took place while the plane was over the Atlantic, according to MassNewsLive....

A fan is “in critical condition” after falling “from the 200 level of PPG Paints Arena” during the Penguins’ game against the Blues last night. The incident happened “after the Penguins scored their second goal 55 seconds into the first period of their 6-3 victory.” Fans said they “saw the man in a Penguins jersey stumble down several stairs between sections 201 and 234 as he approached the bottom of the section before falling into and tumbling headfirst over the glass.” The fan “fell into the suite level and hit another person,” then “dropped another level into the walkway between...

The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats in a rare bipartisan rebuke of the president over trade policy. Sens. Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sided with Democrats in the 52 to 48 vote. McConnell has long been critical of Trump’s trade policy, and said in a statement ahead of the vote, “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule.” The...

“The U.S. has no obligation to host foreigners, like Sami Hamdi, who support terrorism and actively undermine the safety of Americans,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security wrote. Jessica Russak-Hoffman. (Oct. 28, 2025 / JNS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained British commentator Sami Hamdi at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated. Hamdi, who also serves as managing director of International Interest, a London-based political advisory group, was attempting to fly to Tampa to speak at the annual gala of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

At the last minute, Democrat leaders have jumped on the Mamdani bandwagon.Hakeem “Temu Obama” Jeffries, the House Minority Leader and a congressman from New York City, did not want to endorse Zohran Mamdani.Jeffries especially didn’t want to endorse Mamdani in the middle of a government shutdown that his party caused by filibustering a short-term budget continuing resolution that, in a few days, will result in missed paychecks for essential federal workers and a suspension of benefits for recipients of programs like SNAP, which is what the old food stamp program has become.To do so is to embrace a full...

The size and scope of the Biden-era Arctic Frost investigation continues to be revealed to be larger than known as more internal DOJ & FBI records are released.The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee disclosed Tuesday that more than 160 Republicans – including many closely connected to President Donald Trump – were targeted for possible investigation during the Biden Justice Department’s Arctic Frost investigation.The committee tweeted that recently reviewed documents show the Arctic Frost investigation appears more wide-ranging than initially believed in Biden's DOJ's effort to "take down President Trump and his supporters.” The nearly 200 pages of documents provide new...

Rioters then shot at agents with commercial artillery shell fireworks. A Border Patrol transport van carrying illegal aliens attempting to get to the safety of the perimeter was then attacked. Border Patrol agents were able to secure the van and get it into the perimeter. The mob of rioters grew more hostile and violent, advancing toward agents and began throwing rocks and other objects at agents, including one that struck Chief Greg Bovino in the head. Border Patrol agents repeated multiple warnings to back up and that chemical agents would be deployed if warnings were ignored. Riot control measures were...

Get all the facts without the spin.On Monday, October 27, President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a 111-page appeal of his New York conviction that followed a contentious prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The appeal was filed with the New York State Supreme Court. The appeal calls for the complete dismissal of the “most politically charged prosecution in our Nation’s history.”Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records after a trial in New York. The case was put on hold until 2029, when the 47th president leaves office.A spokesman for the president’s legal representative...

Talking about terror sleeper cells may seem kind of passé in 2025. Do we remember how the notion of these secret cells struck fear in American hearts during the post 9/11 era? Well, I don’t want to burst your bubble, but it appears sleeper cells are back. Over the past year, it appears that Western intelligence agencies have been quietly mobilizing their assets and warning local authorities about the prospect that their countries may be facing serious, new terror attacks from embedded terror sleeper cells – cells that currently live quiet lives in our societies. According to the highly regarded...

Pennsylvania State Police have charged a truck driver with ignoring height limit signs and causing damage to a historic covered bridge in Paradise Township. According to a report from state police, Dragan Markov, 53, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was operating a Volvo tractor-trailer that exceeded the 10½ feet of clearance of the Leaman Place Covered Bridge, which carries North Belmont Road over Pequea Creek on the Leacock-Paradise township line. Police say the truck caused significant structural damage to the bridge. Wooden struts on the inside of the bridge were damaged along with the bridge’s maximum clearance signs. Markov has been...

After years of delays, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum -- set to be the world's largest devoted to ancient Egypt -- will finally open its doors near the Giza pyramids.The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which has been more than twenty years in the making, had been slated to open its doors back in 2013.After countless delays -- from the Covid-19 pandemic to regional instability -- the grand unveiling is now set for 1 November.Located just a stone's throw from the pyramids of Giza, the museum will be the largest archaeological and antiquities museum in the world dedicated...

New York City’s mayoral election seems to have only reinforced John Rocker’s feelings about the Big Apple. The former Braves relief pitcher took to X on Tuesday to voice his opinion on the state of the race in which democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is favored to win. Rocker, who made headlines with his incendiary comments about New York during an interview for a Sports Illustrated feature in 1999, once again expressed his dislike of the city. “25 years ago I criticized New York for it’s rapid decline into a third world country,” Rocker started his post. “I was forced to...

House Republicans held a lawmaker-only conference call on Tuesday that grew tense when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., confronted Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on his strategy to navigate the ongoing government shutdown.

A truck hauling monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans flipped on a Mississippi highway, freeing several large, "aggressive" monkeys. After the wreck, which happened north of Heidelberg, multiple rhesus monkeys escaped into the community, according to the Jasper County Sheriff's Office. "The monkeys are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] to handle," the sheriff's office wrote in a Facebook post. The animals carry hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, deputies said.

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JERSEY CITY, NJ — Amid a rash of mail thefts from post offices in North Jersey, the federal government has offered a reward for a thief who they say actually dressed as a mailman to steal. "We're offering up to a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect who impersonated a USPS letter carrier to steal mail from apartment buildings in Jersey City, NJ," the U.S. Postal Inspection Service wrote in a post on Wednesday. Mail has been reported stolen this year including from public mailboxes in Glen Rock and Fort Lee. Several Glen...

A recent firmware update on my LG television revealed that the TV is taking audio samples of all content that is played through it. Other TVs are now taking audio and video samples and sending them off for analysis. Your Smart TV's HDMI Port Is Spying On You! | 23:43 Lon.TV | 389K subscribers | 62,195 views | October 27, 2025 VIDEO INDEX: 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Supporter Thank Yous 01:26 - ACR / Automatic Content Recognition 02:10 - LG Televisions 04:03 - Samsung TVs 04:57 - Amazon Fire TV Sets 06:33 - Roku TVs 09:04 - Google TVs...

"Dd any unelected official or family member of President Joe Biden execute the duties of the Presidency?"Pleading the Fifth means avoiding self-incrimination and while it’s routine under some circumstances it’s the correct thing to do, doing it when you’ve been asked…If Biden family members or other unelected officials wielded presidential powersIf they had been told to lie about Biden’s health… is obviously incriminating. The House Oversight Committee released its report on the ‘Autopen’ during which they talked to key White House figures.The first respondent in the video is Anthony Bernal, Former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to...

The House Oversight and Reform Committee has released a 100-page report [pdf HERE] highlighting how people around Joe Biden hid information about his cognitive incapacity and worked around the issue using his autopen signature to authorize presidential actions. The House committee has released the video and transcript of all the witnesses questioned during their investigation [SEE HERE] to support their contention and referral to the Dept of Justice for a criminal investigation of the events.WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a staff report titled “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House.”...

Within hours of her 2016 presidential campaign loss, a devastated Hillary Clinton attributed her defeat not to the American voters who rejected her, but to Russia, echoing a campaign theme she had been developing for months. “Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss” and “kept pointing her finger” at Russia, according to Shattered, a 2017 book about her campaign—“Her team coalesced around the idea that Russian hacking was the major unreported story of the campaign.”The corporate media were also devastated, as they had spent the entire campaign mocking the idea that Trump and his anti-establishment positions on foreign...