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Efforts to remap red states before the midterms are hitting roadblocks from state-level Republicans. Efforts to remap red states before the midterms are hitting roadblocks from state-level Republicans. Protesters cheer during a rally against redistricting at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Aug. 7, 2025. | Michael Conroy/APA fiercely independent governor in New Hampshire, an octogenarian iconoclast in Nebraska and a Kansas Republican who bucked his party on transgender legislation have unwittingly formed a national bulwark against President Donald Trump’s aggressive redistricting push.Despite threats and force, Trump’s team is finding there are some state-level Republicans who simply won’t budge on...

We spoke to the Dogs of Chernobyl program to find out what's going on. Three blue dogs were pictured in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on October 6, 2025. Image courtesy of Clean Futures Fund Dogs with blue fur have been spotted snooping in Chernobyl, the restricted area surrounding the epicenter of the infamous nuclear disaster. Rest assured, the dogs have not changed color due to any freakish mutation from decades of radiation – the explanation is likely to be far more mundane, if not a little bit gross. Speaking to IFLScience, researchers from the Dogs of Chernobyl program confirmed that...

Tallahassee, FL — Over the last three or four weeks, Florida abortionist Kirk Brody has reportedly failed to show up and commit abortions at any of the usual All Women’s Health Center locations currently associated with him. When Michele Herzog of Pro-Life Action Ministries Central Florida took notice of this, she did a little digging and quickly found out why. Documents provided to Operation Rescue reveal Brody’s Florida license was suspended indefinitely in early September – a direct result of another suspension of his medical license in Tennessee. In September 2024, the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners ordered an immediate...

Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt to pressure Democrats to relent. The effort fell flat.Senate Democrats refused on Tuesday to budge after the largest federal workers’ union pleaded with lawmakers to reopen the government and Republicans moved to take advantage of the split.The day after the American Federation of Government Employees said it was “long past time” to end the government closure, which is entering its fifth week, all but three Democratic-aligned senators voted against taking up a Republican temporary spending bill.Republicans pounced on the statement...

On the heels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new generic abortion drug, a large national survey by McLaughlin & Associates made public today finds 7 in 10 likely voters – including 57% of liberal voters – approve of requiring a doctor visit to receive a prescription for abortion drugs. Similarly, 7 in 10 voters agree it “makes sense” to bring back safeguards that were removed by Biden’s FDA. Although the majority of voters in the survey identified as pro-choice, voters across the board also have “significant doubts” about the safety of the FDA’s current policy...

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A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school ignored multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher, an attorney for the teacher said Tuesday as trial opened in the woman’s $40 million lawsuit.Abby Zwerner, a first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, required six surgeries and does not have the full use of her left hand. A bullet remains in...

In a country of 41 million people, here is an astonishing statistic that highlights a shared viewing experience: Game 1 of the 2025 World Series was watched by an average of seven million Canadians. That’s more than one-sixth of the entire population of Canada. Game 2 clocked in at 6.6 million viewers. Per Sportsnet, the Canadian rights holder for all Blue Jays games, Game 1 of the 2025 World Series is now the most-watched Blue Jays game ever per average viewer. Game 2 ranks second. It’s another marker for astounding viewership numbers in Canada this postseason for the Blue Jays:...

UPS has since last year reduced its work force by 48,000 employees, the company said on Tuesday, in a cost-cutting drive aimed at bolstering profits and winning back investors.The Atlanta-based delivery company, which had nearly half a million employees at the start of the year, said 34,000 positions were cut this year among its drivers and warehouse workers, mostly in the United States. The other 14,000 came out of management's ranks in cuts that began last year.UPS's stock price has long lagged the wider stock market, putting pressure on its leaders to deliver stronger profits. News of the work force...

https://babylonbee.com/news/phil-vischer-releases-new-veggietales-episode-with-evil-orange-character-who-deports-mr-luntU.S. — Real-world current events spilled over into children's entertainment once again, as VeggieTales released a new episode with an evil orange character who deports Mr. Lunt. The episode, titled "Man, Orange Bad," depicts the VeggieTales world being thrown into chaos after the newly elected President Orange enacts aggressive immigration policies that result in the longtime character Mr. Lunt being detained and deported back to his home country. "It's like a part of the fabric of the community has been uprooted," says Bob the Tomato in the episode. "We had no idea, but Mr. Lunt, as it turns out, has...

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...