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Despite all the media pseudo savants’s end-of-the-world predictions about the Trump economy falling flat on their faces, MSNBC is still out there banging pots and pans over an incoming Great Depression-era crash. MSNBC The 11th Hour host and economic dunce Stephanie Ruhle brought on CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin October 29 to hawk his new book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation. The book served as a pretext for Ruhle to get Sorkin to draw parallels between the speculative market euphoria of the 1920s before the disastrous October 29, 1929,...

Billionaire businessman Mark Walter was unanimously approved as the new majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers by the NBA Board of Governors on Thursday. Walter then immediately closed on the sale of the franchise from the Buss family at a $10 billion valuation, sources told ESPN. "The Los Angeles Lakers are one of the most iconic franchises in all of sports, defined by a history of excellence and the relentless pursuit of greatness," Walter said in a statement. "Few teams carry the legacy and global influence of the Lakers, and it's a privilege to work alongside Jeanie Buss as...

Scientists have pinpointed a single genetic alteration that transforms tomato pigmentation, revealing how a minute molecular shift can ripple through complex metabolic pathways. Credit: Shutterstock A single mutation in the YFT3 gene turns tomatoes yellow by disrupting a crucial pigment-producing enzyme. Researchers have discovered that a single genetic change in the YFT3 gene disrupts a vital enzyme involved in producing carotenoids, the pigments responsible for tomato coloration. The gene encodes the isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase enzyme, which maintains the delicate balance between IPP and DMAPP, two essential C5 molecules in isoprenoid synthesis. When one amino acid (Serine) is replaced by another...

The Left has spent years telling women two contradictory things: 1) all men are rapists, so trust your gut instincts and avoid them at all costs, and 2) you must let men who say they're women into your locker rooms, lest we label you a bigot.Those same Leftists insist that men would never abuse their laissez-faire locker room policies, and that only "trans women" would access private spaces, because they're really women. Now we have a case file of men cosplaying as women who have used these lax policies to abuse women.In Virginia, registered sex offender Richard Cox had the...

Kamala Harris says the voting age should be lowered to 16 because young people "fear they'll be wiped out by extreme weather & they fear having children”

We cannot win a war we aren’t even willing to acknowledge is being waged against us. It’s high time we do.Americans across the country usually have little reason to pay close attention to the politics of New York City — despite its size and status as the world’s financial capital — because it rarely affects them. However, as New Yorkers head to the ballot box next week to vote in the most significant mayoral race in decades, the eyes of the nation are fixated on the rise of a Marxist-Islamist as their likely choice in a city the nation rallied...

The country is gearing up for the 2026 midterms, and the stakes are especially high for both allies and opponents of President Donald Trump’s administration.In October, the Supreme Court heard two cases that may impact upcoming elections: one dealing with race-based congressional maps, and the other addressing whether federal candidates can challenge state laws that allow ballot counting after election day.Race-Based RedistrictingFollowing a lawsuit by minority voters, a federal court in Louisiana ordered the state to redraw its congressional map to add a second majority-black district, since that demographic made up one-third of the state’s population. After it did so,...

Millions of truly decent Americans are deeply concerned that Trump's immigration enforcement policies have crossed the line between "tough" and "cruel," and much of the blame for this misconception lies in the way that the issue is covered in Pravda Media. The rest of it lies with the Democrats. But let's face it, politicians for the most part have credibility outside the circle of their brainwashed acolytes only because the media treats them as if they are crusading truth-tellers and not craven power and money grubbers. Who, after all, would take a pencil-necked, greasy liar seriously if the media didn't...

His name is Derek Lopez and he's a 27-year-old teaching assistant at Illinois State University. Ten days ago we had him in our headlines after he was arrested for making an ass of himself by flipping a TPUSA table on campus.WATCH: A teacher assistant at Illinois State University flipped over a @tpusastudents table and tore down flyers promoting an upcoming @alexstein99 event.🎥 @jessburback @tpusastudents pic.twitter.com/ydhIfcEa24— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) October 17, 2025The university indicated he had actually done this twice, but it was only caught on video once. He was arrested for disorderly conduct and damage to propery.On October 17, 2025,...

Classy as usual from Trump.

As the Schumer shutdown drags on, the dam is starting to break against Democrats. Airline CEOs lined up on Thursday to demand the passage of a clean CR, citing the possibility of future delays and cancellations. Air traffic controllers are currently working without pay, and if the system shuts down, it's game over for commercial air travel. Over the past few weeks, ALPA and SWAPA, which represent most major airline pilots in the United States, publicly called for the passage of a clean CR. But while you'd expect pilots, who still tend to lean right, to take that position, having...

Even the greatest escape artists find there is one thing from which they cannot escape: death. Harry Houdini was no different. But what started as a seemingly clear-cut case of appendicitis evolved into a century-long mystery that is still argued over to this day. Was Houdini actually the victim of foul play? Houdini died nearly 99 years ago on Oct. 31, 1926. His death being on Halloween is the least mystical aspect of his case when you look at the many enemies he had made. Psychics, mediums, and spiritualists all had it out for Houdini, and there was plenty of...

Well, I didn't know that this was a thing. A United Airlines flight had to make a U-turn on a transatlantic flight because someone dropped their laptop. You'd think simply dropping your computer wouldn't create an air travel incident. But the fact that this passenger just so happened to drop the computer through a crack and into the cargo hold could have resulted in a midair disaster. Here's Business Insider: An audio recording published by LiveATC.net and uploaded to YouTube appears to show the reason for the diversion. 'We have a minor situation here with a passenger who has somehow...

The subject of refugees entering the United States has been one we've steadily covered on these pages over the past few years, especially during President Joe Biden's term in the White House, when people from around the world were allowed to stream across the border with Mexico - and take flights into the nation's interior - practically unhindered by authorities. On Thursday, the Trump administration announced that it will be making a major change to how immigration works regarding refugees who are allowed to enter the U.S., starting the end of Oct. through the end of the fiscal year (that...

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, it ends having given us all a small glimpse into the potential chaos that awaits us if hackers had their way. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage that took down websites, apps, payment systems, and smart-home devices across the globe. The culprit wasn’t a hack — it was a software automation bug in AWS’s internal DNS management. But that’s exactly what makes it terrifying. A simple misfire in one system cascaded through hospitals, banks, airlines, and retailers in minutes. Now imagine if it hadn’t been an...

LONDON (AP) – King Charles III on Thursday stripped his disgraced brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buckingham Palace said the king “initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew.” After the king´s rare move, Andrew will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince, and he will move from his Royal Lodge residence into “private accommodation.” It is almost unprecedented for a British prince or princess to be...

After weekly pro-Hamas demonstrations for the last two years, European cities from Dublin to Rome remained eerily quiet amid reports of a real genocide unfolding in Sudan. Videos posted on social media in recent days show the Arab militia, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), executing unarmed civilians while invoking the Islamic war cry of ‘Allahu Akbar.’ “Fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have executed a number of unarmed people after capturing the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, new videos analysed by BBC Verify show,” the UK-based broadcaster reported Thursday. “Several videos have since emerged showing men wearing military fatigues and...

Four Republican senators voted with Democrats on Thursday to approve a bipartisan resolution to repeal President Trump’s global tariffs, including steeper rates on long-time allies such as the European Union, Japan and South Korea. Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), the GOP sponsor of the resolution, and Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted for it. The same proposal failed in the Senate in late April on a 50-49 vote after Vice President Vance cast the tiebreaking vote to defeat it. Critically, McConnell and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.), who voted Thursday for the resolution, missed the...

A Democratic state senator from Maryland is accused of orchestrating a scheme to secretly record two critics — including a former campaign consultant — in bed together and then using the footage to threaten and silence them, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment. Federal prosecutors say Maryland State Senator Dalya Attar, her brother Joseph "Yossi" Attar, and Baltimore Police Officer Kalman Finkelstein secretly filmed the pair during an intimate encounter, then used the recording to intimidate them into silence. The 20-page indictment, unsealed Thursday, charges the trio with conspiracy, extortion, illegal wiretapping and violations of the Travel Act. Prosecutors...

CNBC host Joe Kernen, a conservative, did not mince words during a Wednesday segment with Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT). Asked if he was ready to vote to reopen the government yet, Welch replied, “You know, I’m not there yet. Because we have had literally, Joe, no discussion whatsoever about how we’re going to deal with the spikes in premiums.” Kernen, clearly exasperated, shut him down. “This is the right way to do it, senator? By people not getting paychecks at the TSA? This is extortion! … In your conscience, you think it’s the right way to do it?” WOW. When...